Hi folks! A Black trans individual needs emergency help. Please give to Jazz if you can: Cashapp: $JCSCO26 Venmo: jassmittys Apple Pay: 214-783-9245 And please share widely. We keep us safe, housed, and resourced!

Excited to share that my essay was featured in issue four of volume sixteen of The B'K Magazine (@thebkmagazine.bsky.social) Read it for free on their website: www.talbot-heindl.com/the-bk-archi... A thank you to EiC @mxchristalbot.bsky.social! #PublishingNews #WritingCommunity #SWANA #MENA

I love this image.

Heritage Foundation has released an absolutely insane policy proposal to label all trans people as domestic terrorists. It uses completely made up instances of terrorism and made up statistics but facts don't matter to them. They want us all eradicated.

The other day, I told my partner the story of how everything changed in 5th grade, how I was exiled from the friend group for being a dictator... Read more of "Wounds of Gold" by Victoria Derr Valencia in The B'K Mag, Vol 16, Issue 3: www.talbot-heindl.com/bitchin_kitsch

This is the only way this "story" should be reported. I have to amend my bias and concede that it isn't just white people who weaponize their faux "fear." But it is shameful that a Black man would do so, considering how much he's probably experienced it from white people himself.

The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025! survey.gendercensus.com It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.

DEADLINE EXTENDED: The deadline for Summit for Action's Toolkit for Tough Conversations around Environmental Justice has been extended to Oct 17! Check out the guidelines and send your work on navigating challenging climate, enviro, & social justice convos: www.summitforaction.org/submissions-...

Hi friends! There's another trans neighbor who needs emergency housing starting before July 25. They are also disabled and meeting with the DVR to find a job that works for their disabilities, but currently cannot pay rent. 1/

SUBS OPEN: There's a new zine project I'm editing hosted by Summit for Action's Community of Practice! The zine is called Toolkit for Tough Conversations and will feature a mix of art, storytelling, and accessible resources to help folks navigate challenging climate, environmental, and...

So, uh, Kevin Spacey is getting a lifetime achievement award at Cannes…in case you were concerned about how #MeToo is ruining abusive people’s lives.

Thrilled and grateful to announce that my poem "advice for self-introductions in final fantasy xiv, when you play with a disability" has been picked up for publication by @mxchristalbot.bsky.social of @thebkmagazine.bsky.social!

It also appears this could be a site-killing hack - it appears nobody updated anything since 2016, and the leaks are basically showing the security holes were security canyons. Almost every user is now compromised. 4Chan is fucked.

Long story short - the hackers are a group of shithead former Channers with an axe to grind against the current 4Chan. There are no heroes in this story - just a slap fight between awful people.

4Chan was hacked, its source code was leaked, admin emails were leaked, AND a lot of registered users used their real names and .edu email addresses. Lotta CHUDs getting exposed to sunlight today.

starting to think top surgery is a scam, too many of you guys got it and are still bottoms

Rep. Zooey Zephyr - My Wife - just gave an incredible speech against a drag ban in Montana. It was so strong that a Republican rose to speak passionately against the bill, chastising the sponsor. The drag ban dies in Montana, flips 10+ Republican votes! This is the power of representation.

For a lot of people, it's a lack of access and consideration that disables them. It's about the physical and cultural environment of a space in relation to a person/persons lead to disenfranchisement. To quote them directly "it's not about numbers, but about power and equity"

@mxchristalbot.bsky.social's latest CCF article mentioned shifting their language from minority to minoritized to distinguish between systemic marginalization of a group rather than being in a group where their identity is not the most represented. It made me think of the social model of disability

I just mailed my paperwork for an updated birth certificate with my updated name and gender marker! I'm glad my birth state has this as an option now. It didn't when I first changed my gender marker. And it's important when the federal chain of paperwork is fucked up.

MAGA GOOFS: if we eliminate government jobs those departments will become more efficient so we have fired thousands of park rangers. EVERYONE: okay what about police officers? MAGA GOOFS: how dare you

After publishing this story, which features a picture of the protest at Children's National in DC, I have been informed that moments ago, Childrens National in DC has resumed transgender care. The hospital protests worked! Keep doing them!

That they see these as mere symptoms or provisional distractions and not as primary contradictions is a failure of their thinking that has left them unequipped to confront this historical moment.

That so many left intellectuals are not morally offended by racism or sexism is a problem.

Under fascism, no one is safe. Universities stayed quiet as the admin targeted DEI & foreign aid, censored research, etc. Now, they face devastating cuts to indirect cost rates, threatening research & operations. Silence won’t protect institutions. It won’t protect people; it never does.

Some folks would rather have national prestige than provide a safe and inclusive environment for their community, and that's sad shit. Even sadder when this person is elevated in the community. I hope others decide to prioritize safety and inclusion instead, especially in the years ahead of us.

King Soopers sent an email to everyone who's done pick-up, offering free delivery in my area. They're doing this because if you went to the actual store, you'd see the union is picketing! Do NOT cross the picket line by taking them up on this. It's dirty, sneaky, and shameful.

"We can have debate and policy discussion without offending..." A debate on trans rights and policy discussion on how to restrict those rights is inherently offensive. Whatever limited vocabulary Mace can conjure is less offensive than how inherently degrading saying offense can be avoided is.

Old enough to remember when they kicked my wife out for "decorum" for stating that anti-trans laws harm trans kids. Now you got Nancy Mace out there yelling "tranny tranny tranny" into the microphone.

Something I wrote elsewhere but is relevant here, as we start this first full week of February 2025:

Okay, I was getting worked up, but I've decided to lean back on humor because this is what's gonna get me through it. I present to you: Sometimes you have to TAME your BRAT (or how to notice and deal with disruptive behavior from individuals in an equity training who don't want to do the work).

So if I’m understanding today correctly, the world’s richest person Elon Musk, whom no one elected, is taking over federal payment systems and employee data while the federal employees who investigate and prosecute public corruption are being fired en masse.

Sometimes something is so appalling, you have to double check to make sure it's really true. But yes. In the face of disaster, this is what the president asked.

Keep it up. He should not know peace until he gets his act together or resigns leadership. archive.is/Rv504

We learned something: They will rescind fucked up things if we all hound him! They've rescinded two EOs already. Which means, y'all who got the thing that was fucking up your life rescinded, don't leave the rest of us behind. Help us with the critical mass, file lawsuits, etc.

Providers can still provide gender-affirming care to transgender people under the age of 19, but this order directs federal agencies to take steps toward withholding funds from providers who do. This is a dangerous and sweeping attempt to control our bodies, our families, and our lives.

BREAKING: President Trump signed an executive order threatening to override families with transgender youth and shut down access to gender-affirming care for trans people under the age of 19 nationwide. This order will not take immediate effect, and we will not allow this policy to stand.

Hell yeah! I just got out of my court hearing, and my name is now officially, legally Chris Talbot! They granted my Motion for Expedition of Name Change so that I can try and get my documents in order.

Do you know why a president would do all the most evil and heinous shit via Executive Order? Because his party can't easily make it law. And if they can't make it law, they can't make it last. Don't let anyone make you feel like this is The End. Do not let them demoralize you. Live to see them die.

Your regular reminder that the first known clinic to offer gender-affirming surgeries was … destroyed by Nazis. In 1933. (Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institut für Sexualwissenschaft.) They always come for trans people first.

The lowest hanging Jewish fruit, but I'm glad the community is showing up on this. I hope the community actually hides people at risk-- reviving the sanctuary networks we had built last time around. I hope the community stands in solidarity with trans people and everyone else targeted today.

New White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt did her first press briefing today and told a number of demonstrable lies (about condoms for Gaza, the criminal records of undocumented migrants, and more). This is how the New York Times covered it.

Sucks when people take your stuff and use it to make their stuff and don’t pay for it, eh?

I keep thinking about what might have happened if people had listened to Patricia Williams, Charles Lawrence, Mari Matsuda, Gary Peller, Jonathan Kahn, and other actual critical race theorists about the shift away from racial justice towards diversity as a framework medium.com/space-anthro...

Diversity was a conservative compromise that liberals decided to accept and now we are here

Bold AF to internet stalk someone, find things to be offended about in their socials, make it a workplace issue tying their livelihood to it, and then claim *you* feel psychologically unsafe. You could just not stalk me on the internet and it'll solve both our problems. 🤷🏻

If you want to ask if a post I write is about you, that's something you should reflect on instead of emailing me to have a private conversation. I won't answer because this is classic white people behavior I've experienced hundreds of times, and I know from experience that it's not worth my time.

I admit I did not have "OpenAI gets Temu'd" as a pale horse but if this is what does it, lol