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Slide 1: Pink, white, and blue text over a background image of a trans flag. Text Reads: The 2025 Trans Rights Readathon: A decentralized grassroots event that focuses on UPLIFTING trans books, AMPLIFYING trans stories, and SUPPORTING trans organizations and communities. March 21-31, 2025.

Slide 2: Text Reads: The #TRR Isn’t Just Reading, It’s Action! The Trans Rights Readathon encourages readers to seek out works by and/or about trans, nonbinary, 2Spirit, and gender non-conforming authors and characters. Along with taking action on the mutual, local, and national level! Image includes a blue box with the word UPLIFT, a white box with the word AMPLIFY, and a pink box with the word SUPPORT with a dollar sign in place of the S.

Slide 3: Text Reads: It’s not too late to sign up! You can find resources, graphics, and more information via our website. We also encourage you to sign up and so we can communicate with you throughout the readathon. This effort is decentralized. We encourage you to get involved and support your local community directly!

Slide 4: Text Reads: Get Loud, Stay Loud. Trans people, trans voices, trans stories have always been here, and will always remain. If this is your first or third readathon, you’re an author or a reader, an accomplice, young or old—let’s always remain loud for Trans Rights!

SHE’S HERE! The Trans Rights Readathon has officially begun! ✨🥳🎊🎉📚 #booksky #trr25 #transrightreadathon

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yes absolutely!!

Four Wings Of Movement Collaboration - Leah Penniman A butterfly is drawn with four segments of its wings, each labeled RESIST, BUILD, REFORM, and HEAL. Within each winglet, examples are written, and they’re described in detail along the edges of the illustration. RESISTING oppression via direct action—think Occupy, protests, boycotts, marches, treesitting, etc. BUILDING new worlds and systems—think co-ops, community ownership models, land trusts, social networks, food hubs, organic farms, etc. REFORMING existing systems to shift power and resources—think holding elected office, advocacy, institutional leadership, etc. HEALING individual and collective trauma—think art and experience-making, storytelling, medicine-making, therapy, music, etc.

Many folks want to organize right now but aren’t sure how.

There are many ways; that’s the hard part AND the beauty of it.

This model by Leah Penniman, illustrated by Christine Tyler Hill, shows how comprehensive social change requires many strategies.

We need all of us.
Find your role and begin.

I've been able to put all kinds of epubs on my kobo so i think that should work!

"Two barbecue pits, both alike in dignity
(In fair Lockhart Texas, where we lay our scene),
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil sauce makes civil hands unclean."

excerpt from my adaptation of Romeo & Juliet, the setting moved to the feud between Black's and Terry Black's BBQ

Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores. An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.

you can also get ebooks from bookshop.org!

come back i am normal and and can be trusted to know what kind of treat it was

noosa yogurt, allergy meds, and the fancy butter, honestly

Also, of course he is an Aquarius 👑

an orange cat and a brown tabby cat squished together in a cat bed on a carpeted floor next to a central heat vent

two of them

break a leg juni!!

that sounds so fun!!

Zine Library Find our various zines here, ready to download and distribute! Trans Liberation Beak Zine Trans Liberation beakzineDownload Running Safer Sessions safer_sessionsDownload Don’t Panic! Zine Don…

Love zines? Love the Black Trowel Collective? We've added many of our zines to our webpage for you to download and distribute. 🏺

blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/zine-library/

Absolution — Jeff VanderMeer

www.jeffvandermeer.com/book/absolut... the cover is super cool!

And abandoned and empty two lane roadway, the asphalt almost entirely covered by leaflittwr and moss except for a narrow strip down the very center. Trees cluster thickly on both sides of it.

Good Morning, World.

I was just thinking about reading these! did you see he just published a fourth book in this series last year?

Graffiti in dark blue marker on a white utility box that reads "Have you tried oat milk?" next to an abstracted doodle of a human face. the utility box is next to a coffee shop

street art/graffiti outside of a coffee shop I like in St Paul :^)

Protesters in North Texas rally against new Trump immigration policies Hundreds gathered in Dallas and Fort Worth to protest President Donald Trump's new immigration policies on Sunday.

“Hundreds gathered in Dallas and Fort Worth on Sunday to protest President Donald Trump's new immigration policies.

News of the protest spread across social media over the weekend, with posts inviting people to ‘show up & speak up for those who can't.'"

www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/d...

i really enjoyed reading about this, thanks for sharing!

Pittsburgh’s first queer history landmark is up for review Efforts to preserve the shuttered Donny’s Place in Polish Hill will go to the Pittsburgh Historic Review Commission in February.

For almost 50 years, Donny's Place was a hub of LGBTQ culture in Pittsburgh. The former bar could become the first officially recognized queer historic site Western Pennsylvania. My new @publicsource.org story digs into the history & the preservation advocacy. 🗃️ www.publicsource.org/pittsburgh-q...

related but opposite fun fact: if you click on any google ad for an etsy item and buy anything from that store in the next 30 days, it costs the creator 12-15% on top of standard fees. so if you see something cool..... don't click, type it in

These are the good guys supporting DEI. Reward them with your business.

Costco
Meijer
Kroger
Giant Grocery
Ben & Jerry’s
Ulta, Macy’s
Old Navy
Nordstrom’s
TJ Maxx
GoTo Foods ( Moe’s Southwest Grill, Mcalister’s, Auntie Anne’s, Jamba, Cinnabon…)
Dollar Tree
Walgreens
Wegmans

The first 2 lines of Mary Oliver's poem 'Wild Geese' changed to read "You do not have to like the IPBES infographic. You do not have to dig through the source material for a hundred pages repenting.

my main problem with this is it feels like they want to thematically link these 2 images in the same frame, so the one on the left should have all the same referential colors in it for it to feel balanced. where's the pink??

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Yup. Microsoft automatically switched me to the $99.99/year version with Spicy Autocomplete. You have to go all the way through "cancel subscription" to be presented these options and get the $69.99/year one you actually chose.

Do not fucking do this, do not open your phone for the police, you will be giving them the right to look at everything on your phone.

yessss

round sourdough boule in a cast iron dutch oven

ramona* giveth and ramona taketh away

*my sourdough starter