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Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union.

They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.

More updates TK.

Radio, books, archives: Inside John Parker's growing queer storytelling network  - Windy City Times John Parker is building a media universe that’s helping queer people find each other through storytelling, whether that be on air, online or in the historical record. Windy City Times readers may know...

We would love to get new followers from Chicago. Windy City Times just published an online article about John Parker. We thank Jake Wittich (Chicago Journalist of the Year!) who is a great partner to our show as is all of the 40 year old Windy City Times team!!!!
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please take care & remember:

diet culture is a form of fascism.

they want you to self-hate - easy to control & influence

they want you physically weak - struggling to think, can’t fight back

they want you categorizing the worth of others by size - primed to hate in so many ways

don’t give in 🖤.

The Frieran angle thing is so great because *every* artist knows that angle is tough. They've all been through it, learning the hard way how to do it.

To a non-artist it doesn't seem like a hard problem. A non-artist who only wants to be seen as an artist, will use genAI instead of learning it.

YES!

Denying _community_ to transmasculine people is essential, after all. If we each of us think we are alone, then maybe we will never transition, and remain girls (and allowed to be, mandated to be beautiful rather than piecemeal monster).

Invisibility as preventative measure.

A podcast app interface displaying an episode of The Daily from The New York Times titled “The Autism Diagnosis Problem.” The screen shows the podcast artwork in blue and yellow gradients, the episode date (11/24/25), duration (29:23), and file size (34 MB). Below is text summarizing how autism diagnoses have broadened over time, mentions of public figures like Elon Musk and Bill Gates, and comments from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about rising autism rates. The description states that reporter Azeen Ghorayshi explains what is driving the increase in diagnoses.

It's absolutely disgusting what the New York Times, and particularly Azeen Ghorayshi, is doing with its coverage of autism. It's so deeply irresponsible.

It's the same playbook they ran on trans kids.

Reorganized my desk, shifted my monitor arms, and managed my cables. Now I have about two-thirds of my desk top clear for arts and activities while still having my work and gaming setups ready to go. Unfucking my enclosure one step at a time

At Barton Springs, Trans Existence Becomes Resistance Following a transphobic incident earlier this year, community members gathered to "protect trans joy."

Previously, a visit to the "Trans Takeover" of Barton Springs: All across the stone slab, LGBTQ+ folks sat in clusters, talking and dipping in and out of the water together. ... Happy people who use every pronoun and none at all.

Books Not Bars 2025 Holiday Campaign BOOKS NOT BARS FOR THE HOLIDAYS Haymarket Books is committed to making our books available for free to people who are incarcerated. In an effort to support those inside who are dealing with the imm...

Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program

Did you know that big studios monitor piracy? Don't you fucking dare pirate this shit. Do not hate watch through piracy. JK Rowling is a disgusting human being that funds and encourages the hurt, pain and death of my fellow trans peers.

Support media that actually deserves our time and money.

THEY ADDED NEW GARBAGE reblog to save a life

Preserving the data of LGBTQ+ history — Assigned An interview with Dr. Clair Kronk.

"So many queer resources are disappearing from the internet and are only partially preserved or completely lost." Assigned Media speaks with Dr. Clair Kronk about digital queer history preservation.

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Instead of "boots and suits" what history shows is that otg queer and trans folks are perfectly capable of organizing ourselves. That the most gets done, by far, when we also take the fight to the gentry within our own demographics, who would happily ditch us to secure their own positions.

In a pattern that will become familiar any actual action on the "suits" part came only after their attempts to gatekeep and shut down radical organizing failed. These were elites conceding out of fear, not sunny collaboration, because at heart liberation and assimilation are not the same goals...

while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.

Finally catching up with this insightful series, which tackles specific media and larger, related trends through the lenses of detailed, thoughtful narrative/thematic analysis and lived trans experience. Really enjoying it! (even the early entries focusing on stories with Serious Problems)

if youre trans and youre struggling to justify why you as a person should be allowed to take up space in the universe just consider that by your sheer existence you make a lot of the worst people on earth mad enough that they will die early deaths from stress. so thats a p good reason

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Hopefully, this trend continues. I'd love to be able to rough out some reference art for my fursona

I can tell my life is in a better place because the desire to make art and my enjoyment of reading are both returning. Its sometimes wild to remember I got a whole BA in Art... its been a long dry spell

Observing Trans Day of Remembrance 2025 Remembering those we’ve lost over the past year.

Good evening all. For this year's Trans Day of Remembrance (TDOR), TFR remembers three transfeminine authors who passed away this year: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy (78), Valerie Amelia Thompson (38), and Michelle Duff (85) 🖤

We also remember 367+ victims of anti-trans violence and suicide 🕯️

#tdor

"You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you."

- Miss Major, 2023 💔

Black Trans Folks Have Been Here Before A timely interview with Chastity Bowick, the new Executive Director of the Marsha P. Johnson Institute. This interview has been edited for clarity and may differ slightly from the audio version. I've...

Or read this recent interview with the new executive director of the Marsha P. Johnson Institute, which none of the white leftists quoting me today either read or shared when it came out. It's the least read thing on my whole newsletter.

www.burnsnotice.com/black-trans-...

the point of communism is to build power to make sure people can take care of themselves in that moment. your country doesn’t love you, but your neighbors might.

On this Transgender Day of Remembrance, we honor the trans people lost to violence in the U.S. this year.

Widespread poverty, homelessness, and discrimination makes trans people 4x more likely to experience violence than the average person.

We shouldn’t have to live in fear to be who we are.

The best time to boycott Xbox and Microsoft was when BDS called for it, the next best time is now. Focused, targeted boycotts work, this one is working, and all you got to do to support it is go play other games. Literally the least you could do in this moment in history

I’m howling.

So many gorgeous cocks of all genders on this app...Not a complaint, everyone keep up the good work! But sometimes the dysphoria makes me sick with envy