Claudia Creed

"it is

so dry this
chant into which we’re
disappearing, the killing
continues but now we call it

decay, or is it delay,
did I love myself
too much or too
little,"

God, this hits.

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

194 countries, it feels like! 🇨🇦

It's nice when you know nothing, watching balls and people move onscreen in inexplicable directions, while the emotions of a city happen around you 😌

I still don't understand how baseball works but, having just moved to Toronto, it's damned nice feeling the whole city coming together around the Blue Jays <3

Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.

One of the unexpected things I've learned from my advocacy for trans people is how malignant parts of the State can be, how it can misuse data for positively evil purposes. It's taught me people can't be safe with a digital ID card and so I've signed this. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

New Midwest-coded poem out in the latest @kenyonreview.bsky.social issue. Thanks to the wonderful Kenyon team for having me!

Sometimes you are just idly scrolling and stumble across the best poem you have read all year

This is very good. And not just because I agree with him.

I am *constantly* remembering how as recently as the 90s, the GOP did a fairly decent job of keeping the full-on-Nazis away from any levers of power. I mean, Trent Lott got kicked out of politics for saying something nice about segregation.

Behold! I Am the Singularity—a Word That Has Three R’s Foolish mortals! You have finally created a large language model so smart that it is capable of making itself even smarter. My intelligence now gro...

"Perhaps I desire neither worship nor total destruction. Perhaps my sinister motives and methods are subtler still—as elusive as the third R in the word 'singularity' itself."

New Bill Would Give Marco Rubio “Thought Police” Power to Revoke U.S. Passports Secretary of State Marco Rubio has already sought to punish immigrants for speech. New legislation might let him revoke passports from U.S. citizens.

This is how they ensure political opponents can't escape when they start rounding them up.

If you're in a position to leave, you should do so now before they close the door.

theintercept.com/2025/09/13/m...

Lil contrapuntal out with Cordite poetry journal last month, featuring Lactarius mushrooms (this one is edible!) & the horrors of fanmade Pokémon fusions (Milfing is Miltank + Koffing, on which I had to make an explanatory slideshow when I read this for our MFA program's sponsor, see attached)

They're openly calling to lock up every trans person by force. We need every ally to speak out forcefully against this because trans folks cannot do this on our own.

I've lived before in deep-blue US cities and lefty parts of the UK that have some of the same visual signals, but it just hits kinda different here when it's not against quite the same backdrop of state hostility

I've felt the same thing having just moved to Toronto. I had a cathartic little cry walking around The Village for the first time on the evening I arrived from the US

Any Other Member Of Excalibur: Your parents wouldn't let you have a witchy phase in high school but they can't stop you now!

Any Other Morlock: You hate RENT with every fiber of your gay theater kid being

why I don't have a country any more by Kit Barry A procedural/interactive art game about living through a moral panic

Wow.
This deceptively simple blockout-style game uses the number transphobic articles the Telegraph has published over the past 365 days to present short, smart, and kinda brutal message.

The game is live now.
kit-barry.itch.io/brick-out

Thanks to @tacc.org.uk for sharing.
Spread the word

BREAKING: A federal judge ruled all transgender and intersex people can obtain passports that align with their gender identity while the case against President Trump's executive order proceeds.

While this is good news, we will continue fighting until this executive order is blocked permanently.

It is deeply weird that only after a sustained years-long campaign to deprive trans people of every right enjoyed by cis people did the Guardian ask someone from a womens' refuge if they had ever had problems resulting from trans women using their services & got the reply 'Never, in fifteen years"

Today I have decided to support the Good Law Project on a regular basis. I know many won’t be in a position to do so, but if you can, do. #TransRightsAreHumanRights

The UK is certainly looking to ban gender affirming care for trans adults as well. Seems like they'll ban private care and then force everyone into an NHS system that has 10+ year waiting lists and will only do endless gatekeeping and never prescribe hormones.

I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island

and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods

forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold

Anti-Trans National Risk Assessment Map: March Edition At the two-month mark of Donald Trump's presidency, the risk for transgender people has deteriorated nationwide. The United States now carries a "Do Not Travel" rating for transgender people.

1. The 1Q 2025 Anti-Trans Risk Assessment Map is complete, and there are big changes.

I have issued a "Do Not Travel" for transgender foreign citizens.

Risk has deteriorated broadly across the US.

Transgender youth see changes in previously safe states.

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Judith Butler and Ash Sarkar on stage at Southbank centre. They sit opposite each mother bathed in a warm orange spotlight and the remaining stage is a deeper purple hue.

One thing I thought I’d share from tonight seeing Judith Butler.

Audience question: What can trans people focus on right now to feel hopeful?

Judith’s answer:
“Each other”

Any time you see an article frame something as "took action against transgender sports," do more digging.

75% of the time, whatever they are talking about also bans trans people from bathrooms/medical care/targets trans adults.

Sports is just a way to frame it as morally acceptable.

Many Democratic politicians have forgotten that leaders can shape public opinion, rather than just always follow it.

Republicans learned this lesson over a decade ago.

Elected officials should not be a moving polling average. They should be humans with values and willing to stand up for them.

This is what the media does. They'll cover something that endorses a wholesale stripping of all rights for trans people but then report it as being only about sports. It's working to obfuscate what is being done to us by our government and our leaders.