Ren "No More Bombs" Jender

the big queer/trans creators still on substack ... and cisheteros who are my allies ... what are you doing folks

MFA programs ruined most fiction. It is kind of a chicken and egg situation though, because fiction writers couldn't make a living solely from their writing and started teaching it, and boy do they suck at it.

i hope that he’s not dead and this is just a long con. the day after the election, he emerges from the sea like aquaman, ready to claim his election certificate.

Too bad Biden didn't have any leverage at all and just had to take "no" for an answer

The new season of Anti-Trans Hate Machine is here. From anti-trans laws to book bans to “school choice” schemes, the far right is using fear to dismantle public education and democracy itself.

@imarajones.bsky.social exposes how anti-trans hate fuels it.

🎧 translash.org/antitranshatemachine

When people say, "I don't care about politics," it isn't the flex they think it is. Especially now.

hey it's a great day to leave substack ... like every day

This is what someone looks like when queer and trans people refuse to do your makeup and styling because you want queer and trans people eradicated.

Quemuel Arroyo, in a wheelchair holding a microphone, on stage with "Our Time Has Come" projected behind him.

"For too long, our leaders have forgotten New Yorkers with disabilities. We have been failed by those with their own agendas, those who care only about holding on to power to remain relevant and serve their own egos." - Quemuel Arroyo

🚨The absence of media coverage of this natural disaster in Alaska, the lost/missing people, and the destruction of the aftermath is up to us to share. Please help if you can - even if it is just spreading awareness. There is no FEMA going to help them. 1/2

Newsom vetoes both the PreP access and the HRT stockpile bill because he is worried it would increase healthcare costs...

He claims to support the aims of these bills. But the vetoes deny access to medical care for queer people.

(Context: He vetoed these 2 while signing 8 other queer rights bills)

By their own teachers, professors, schools and universities.

So are right wingers just fine with this proposed national gun registry??? Cause it looks like Kirk got shot and now there's federal gun control... This could have been done years ago if that's what it took

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy passed away today according to the House of GG. She was a veteran of the Stonewall rebellion and a lifelong organizer for the safety and dignity of trans people, sex workers, and the incarcerated. She came from the same generation and milieu as Marsha and Sylvia. She was 78.

Kimberly Vega @caligurlluv Replying to @MrAndyNgo and @patrioticmouse Interesting same pink gas mask as those whose them in Portland, Oregon!!!!! Who's supplying them?!!!

3M is antifa now

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If you were affected by this, please let me know. I may be able to help you file a discrimination claim with Massachusetts state.

Fenway was under no legal obligation to stop providing care. This was cowardly capitulation.

This is truly outrageous: Fenway Health (formerly the Fenway Community Health Center) has a long history (over 50 years!) of offering the most queer and trans affirming healthcare in Boston. It was founded specifically by and for the queer community!

telling that the reaction to this has been overwhelmingly positive, and that his detractors aren't really pushing this as an attack vector. maybe it's because trans rights are overwhelmingly popular in polling! could be!

When a trans woman dies of natural causes, at an age greater than 75, having lived more than half her life as herself, that is cause for celebration, not mourning.

Thank you, Miss Major.

Trans leader Miss Major Griffin-Gracy dies Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a Black transgender woman and longtime activist who once lived in the Bay Area, died October 13.

Rest in Power Miss Major. We all owe you so much. Thank you for everything.

Sewing Patterns Rise from DGA Bankruptcy Ashes - Craft Industry Alliance The “Big 4” sewing patterns are saved. Simplicity, McCall’s, Vogue & Butterick get new life under Rubelmann Capital.

Good news for sewists: the paper pattern company feared lost to bankruptcy has been saved as an independent company.

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Since NoKings 2.0 is this weekend, I thought I’d reup what I was seeing earlier this year…

She lived a long life and I'm glad she was surrounded by her loved ones at the end of it. RIP. 🏳️‍⚧️

Obviously I am most excited by the Outlast Film Program:

www.outlastartsedu.com/pineridgesum...

film festival organisers slipped an ai film into the international shorts showing and it was the most bland soft music 2015 instagram filtered series of images of classically beautiful white or asian women alternating with shiny sad robots piece of drivel you could imagine

This is why all the "record ICE interactions citizen!" coming from Pritzker is such bullshit. ICE is kidnapping people off the street without due process and recording them doing it so far has done fuck all. Cops have bodycams and the ability to intervene when someone is breaking the law, we don't.

I don’t understand (I mean, I do) why book coverage keeps shrinking while a huge number of books are still published every week.

Today seems like a good day to remind folks that the Christian school lobby was one of the biggest opponents of the ADA. They fought hard for (and won) exemptions for religious institutions from the law. Private schools are also not required to accept or accommodate disabled students.

This first essay in my Diane Keaton series can also be read over here, but if you like what I do, then please consider subscribing to my patreon. Love y'all. <3

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