OPINION: International Women’s Day Must Be a Welcome Space for Trans Women - Bucks County Beacon Bucks County Beacon reporter Pat LaMarche shares her thoughts on what solidarity and inclusiveness ought to look like on this important day – and year-round.

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Fortunately I made made plans with friends for later today so that'll help.

A week or so ago I decided that today was going to be a mental health day and that I'd take the entire day off. It's taking every ounce of self control to not go sit at my desk and work.

Dire

Personally, I love it!

My heart is with you.💜

There are times when you must speak, not because you are going to change the other person, but because if you don't speak, they have changed you.

FFS! This level of stupidity. . . I can't even conceive of a way to communicate with people that lost to ignorance and paranoid conspiracy.

Social media post by Brandon Friedman ( @brandonfried ...) on X, posted 1 hour ago, with the text: 'All the folks who exited NBC today. Seen together, hoo boy. Message received.' The post includes a grid of six headshot photos of individuals who reportedly left NBC, arranged in two rows of three.

Put all the “DEI” folks who got let go onto a new network and I’d watch the shit out of it.

Pomh: Person of my heart Back in 2017/2018, as my identity panromantic, asexual, polyamorous, transwoman was coming into focus I was struggling with the traditional labels of romantic or sexual relationships. They felt too constrained, too tied to gender and expectations of monogamy and societal norms that didn't align with my own experiences and emotions. Truth be told, way back in 2009 I'd spoken with brother about this exploration of what love means, how it's defined, the different ways it shows up in life, and the w

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YouTube video by ghostb13 Office Space the Bob's Interview Typical Day

I kind of feel like every single federal employee should reply to the "5 things you did last week email" with this video.

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A Limerick: A mathematical equation. Doesn't look like a limerick to you? Try this: A dozen, a gross, and a score Plus three times the square root of four Divided by seven Plus five times eleven Is nine squared and not a bit more The heck heck heck heccckkkkk Nonbinary- thnikkaman Poetry was not meant to be used like this

Shooting Stars and Origami Swans: Sharing My Transgender Experience As An Act of Resistance This collection is my attempt to offer a window into the emotional reality of the trans experience, specifically my trans experience.

Shooting Stars and Origami Swans is a raw, unfiltered look at my trans experience. At a time when trans voices are under attack, our stories must be heard.

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I will be joining Amer Al Fayadh, Dr. Karen Rice, and Rebecca Saner on a panel discussing Trauma Resilient Communities as part of the United Way of Lancaster County, PA Voices United series.

You should join us!

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Glass Hearts & Broken Pedestals: Love Unbound "Glass Hearts & Broken Pedestals" emerged from my desire to explore my romantic experiences as a panromantic, asexual, transwoman.

Love is vast. Love is infinite.

Glass Hearts & Broken Pedestals explores love beyond labels—emotional connection, intimacy, and the courage to love on our own terms.

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#LoveBeyondLabels #Asexual #QueerRomance #Poetry #LGBTQVoices #QueerPoetry #LGBTQ

Tantrums and Tempests: Poetry as Activism "Tantrums and Tempests" remains tragically relevant. It reminds us that progress is never guaranteed, that rights once won can be lost.

Some poems whisper. Some scream.

Published in 2017, Tantrums and Tempests was born from frustration—watching hard-won rights threatened, seeing injustice ignored. Poetry is power, and this collection is my call to action.

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#PoliticalPoetry #Poetry #LGBTQVoices

Captured Moments: Moments of Peace and Joy This collection represents a point in my life when my depression and despair began to lift when I finally began to forgive and accept myself

Healing isn’t just about big transformations—it’s about small, quiet moments where magic, joy, and peace are rediscovered. The poetry in Captured Moments is about those moments.


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This is so cool!

Dive Bars & Empty Glasses: Finding Light in the Darkness As an activist, I recognize that breaking the silence around mental health and addiction is a necessary part of creating change.

Some books demand to be written. Dive Bars & Empty Glasses wasn’t planned—it emerged from raw necessity.

This collection captures moments of addiction, despair, and longing. It's a reminder that survival is possible.

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#MentalHealthMatters #Poetry #LGBTQVoices

The role of poetry in Jessica Jaymes Purdy's activism. My poetry serves as both a mirror reflecting my personal experiences and truths and a window through which others can glimpse perspectives

As a Queer author and activist, my poetry is many things.

A celebration of Queerness
A reminder that joy can be found every
A celebration of love

A form of resistance and defiance
A calling in
A call to action

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This should be exceedingly obvious, but when Stonewall stays up while references to trans people come down, they will measure the silence of cisgender people as concurrence for whatever they plan next, and it still won't protect you in the end. So please get loud. Our mutual survival depends on it.

First report of incorrect name of Gulf of Mexico made.

Google has blocked the ability to add or fix the location information for the Gulf of Mexico so the report was made as a technical issue.

Going to keep reporting it until it's fixed.

Stay strong of spirit, stay true to your heart, resist as you must, rest as you need. - Jessica Jaymes Purdy | Jessicajaymespurdy.com | Image of a butterfly

Stay strong of spirit, stay true to your heart, resist as you must, rest as you need.

I love this about you as well. I think it's why we so quickly became friends.

Right on! Just because he ordered it doesn't mean he can legally enforce it. Make every illegal, unconstitutional, order he gives a fight. Resist!

Just because he ordered it doesn't mean he can legally enforce it. Make every illegal, unconstitutional, order he gives a fight. Resist!

Yikes! That whole "we don't want our kids to learn critical thinking because they will form opinions we don't like" is so troubling and yet it's clearly a primary source of the hate of education.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Is Rolling Back Trans Protections
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Graphic from Fox News Channel showing the results of a German survey titled 'Greatest Threat to World Peace' which ranks world leaders. The graphic lists five leaders with their respective percentages: President Trump at 41%, Kim Jong Un at 17%, Ali Khamenei at 8%, Vladimir Putin at 8%, and Xi Jinping at 7%. The source of the survey is YouGov. The background includes the Fox News logo and a ticker at the bottom with news updates.

Germans know fascist wannabes when they see them.