Jon is in NYC this Monday! Music, poetry, prose and more! #trans #spirituality

We have no idea…

Spain will not recognize US intervention in Venezuela, PM says reut.rs/4ppZOJb

RIP Sir Tom www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/t...

Looking for some Transgender Day of Remembrance reading? @sbrodriguez.bsky.social, editor of CrossCurrents, talks about their new special issue TRANS-SPIRITUALITIES and how you can read some of the articles for free now through December 19th 🏳️‍⚧️ uncpressblog.com/2025/11/20/t...

WHAT IF? Maddow, Colbert, & Kimmel joined NPR …

These are the stories of affirmation and activism and joy that we need to lean in toward yes, it’s tragic, but just listen to how powerful the voices sound in the podcast. People taking active goals in the lives of their family. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

At the #VeniceFilmFestival. Jim Jarmusch’s new film “Father Mother Sister Brother” with Charlotte Rampling, Cate Blanchet, and more. Wonderful film

Dancer, author, and playwright, Kimerer LaMothe, discusses “Nietzsche, A New Musical,” running Oct. 10th–12th, 2025 at A.R.T./New York Mezzanine Theater. Tickets at: OFFBRANDOPERA.ORG/Nietzsche Link in below: www.aprilonline.org/a-musical-ab... #nietzsche #musical #musicaltheater #dance #theater

VOL. 68, NO. 3: Interreligious Aesthetics Link below: www.aprilonline.org/project/vol-...

Professor Rachel Wagner on the attempted mass shooting at CrossPointe Community Church, Michigan, and all the ways we label things “good” and “evil.” Link in below: www.aprilonline.org/does-god-kil... #assault #guns #massshooting #mentalillness #guncontrol #crosspointechurch #good #bad

Courtney Thomas on the role of religion in the Tony-nominated play “John Proctor is the Villain.” Now on Broadway through Sept. 7 at the Booth Theater 222 W 45th St NYC Link below: www.aprilonline.org/a-baptist-se...

Junyu Ke on the ethics and aesthetics of urban art in NYC’s Freeman Alley. www.aprilonline.org/the-senses-o...

Have we considered paying educators more? Is this a thing that has been tried yet? If not, maybe we should give it a whirl.

EDITOR’S NOTE: In light of the recent tragic murder of Imam Muhsin Hendricks, we are reposting this interview with him from 2011, conducted by APRIL President Björn Krondorfer. Link to post: www.aprilonline.org/diversity-of...

Check out this review by Dantaé Garee Elliott of The Blackout Poetry Event with Afro-Dominican poet and performance artist Yaissa Jimenez  in collaboration with Caribbean art journal Forgotten Lands and the Museum of Modern Art’s Creativity Lab, at MoMA. www.aprilonline.org/diasporic-al...

New CrossCurrents Special Issue Vol.74.No.4 out now: 200 Years of Johnson v. M’Intosh: Indigenous Responses to the Religious Foundations of Racism via @indigenousvalues.org @april-cc-commons.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/issue/55074

Check out Tiffany Thompson’s latest piece on showing up and tells the story of her latest single, “The Reason” as a harbinger of hope to come, the prelude to the story. Link Below: www.aprilonline.org/when-stillne...

Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf shares a piece prompted by the first episode of South Park’s 27th season and its depiction of Jesus and the state of American Christian nationalism. Link below: www.aprilonline.org/south-parks-... #christiannationalism #southpark #southparkjesus #jesus #parody #parody

New national caption: “USA, the Spirit Airline of the world’s nations.”

Logic 101: A) I liked the new Superman, more than I thought I would.; B) I am a longtime fan of Iggy Pop and love the song “Punk rocker”; C) that does not make Iggy Pop’s song relevant to the end of the Superman movie #Superman #IggyPop #PunkRock

Beware of Dog

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

1. In a troubling development, multiple transgender rights court cases have been reopened following the Skrmetti decision, even ones the decision didn't touch. They range from health insurance to bathrooms and birth certificates. Subscribe to support our journalism. Lets dig in.

What a headline!

That army parade was straight outta Spinal Tap.

Rest in peace, Sly Stone.

If anyone you know is 13-24, in the US, and is LGBTQ+, please have them complete the Trevor Project survey this year. Their last survey has been integral to protecting LGBTQ+ rights globally. I can't understate how big an impact it has. Multiple publications come from the data. Share widely.

Mother Gaia to celebrate Pride Month tonight after sunset

Dammit. Looks like the new season of the Sex and the City spinoff has arrived. And now I guess I have to watch it. It’s like a mediocre relationship that I feel I have to just keep pushing through with. Or like having Apple products and you wanna get rid of them, but your life is too embedded in it.

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Our next “Pride Tales” is Friday, May 23: “Queer journeys through religion and spirituality” Join us at the Tram Cafe in Utica! #lgbtq

Seriously?! My AutoCorrect just changed the word, “film,” to “gum.” And then, as I was writing this out, it wanted to change “film“ to “fun”

For anyone thinking about the #CaminodeSantiago Here’s a little guidebook for the soul #pilgrimage

Thank you #JFKAirport for having clean and safe spaces for some of us #translife #allgender

Five bottle caps worth of plastic in our brains?! Yikes

when people say "this isn't what I voted for" they should be forced to list what they DID vote for

Holy crap. WTF is wrong with these conservatives? How is this set of lies even gaining traction?

Right now in Forman Park, Syracuse. 4000 people on a cold wet Saturday protesting the lunacy of 47 and his stooge billionaire-crammed clown car of secretaries. This is what democracy looks like. #8647 #handsoff

I’m so glad we have @teenvogue.com in our mediascape to keep things real!

As @columbiaup.bsky.social (Columbia University) capitulates to Trump’s demands, I will no longer advise my students to apply to that school for graduate studies.

In the “I cant believe I’m that old” department: Tina Louise (“Ginger” in Gilligan’s Island) is the show’s last living cast member www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/n...

Making people fear that: - They’re gonna lose their healthcare - Their families & friends are gonna be deported - They’re gonna lose their Social Security - Their kids are gonna lose their education IS RADICAL DOMESTIC TERRORISM Pass it on…

The average American newspaper will spend more time today talking about the intemperate comment that some student activist at Columbia said than about the fact that the president of the United States explicitly threatened to send political dissenters to overseas gulags for ideological reeducation.