Everybody should read this. Gives you a really good idea of the types of questions trans people have to ask ourselves almost every day just to do normal things that others don’t even need to think about.

This whole section really.

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

Trump is asking us to start choosing groups we're willing to abandon, and the only way to make him stop is to be clear we're not fucking abandoning ANYONE. Call your reps. Call your fucking reps. Especially in red states. Use the @5calls.org app, it's easy and free.

Fantastic essay by Roxane Gay: Civility Is a Fantasy. “Calling for civility is about exerting power. It is a way of reminding the powerless that they exist at the will of those in power and should act accordingly. It is a demand for control.” [nytimes.com]

Call Gavin Newsom's office like you called ABC/Disney/Sinclair/Nexstar

All this, also when censorship is on the rise, BIPOC and Queer work is being attacked, banned and erased, humanities programs are being shuttered. And attacking is not like valid critique or social commentary. You don't have to read things you don't like but you can read the room.

Visit... War-Ravaged Portland

It's pretty wild to me that investigators have uncovered that anti-trans campaigns are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry, and that the presumed motivations are pretty directly to redirect the public conversation away from climate change... and that this isn't bigger news.

Coming up online this Sunday! Tickets are compliments of the PLA, just RSVP.

Trans Requiem. It's beautiful, moving, and cathartic.

this is fucking epic, and i do not use that word lightly. holy shit. @sadqueer4life.bsky.social

We can actually confirm this. An anonymous (verified) Stripe employee told me last month that Stripe does not permit *any* sale of adult content, regardless of whether it is delisted. Stripe explained this to Itch in August, while Itch was continuously misleading their community (and harassing us).

Medicaid work requirements are just bad. But, as I wrote for @motherjones.com, there’s an extra level of vileness going on with them being implemented as more work-from-home jobs disappear. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I am begging people to start thinking critically when you hear rumors that queer and trans people are rapists and pedos and that their places of work are their hunting grounds. Actual rapist pedos are threatening us with violence. This is textbook. We gotta call it out! We can't be shy about this.

I'm getting ready to unplug for a few days, & that means looking at my TBR pile to see what I'm going to read. I picked up What it Takes To Heal by @prentishemphill.bsky.social emphill because of how much I've appreciated hearing them talk about moving through the world. #BookSky #HealingJustice

I'm so moved by Rob Maslen's long, deep reading of THE RIVER HAS ROOTS. Pleased to be read through Rosemary Jackson, who "famously described fantasy itself as a kind of engine driven by desire", & I love insights like "Every aspect of El-Mohtar’s story looks two ways." Many thanks.

Happy autumn equinox to all, but especially to my fellow spooky bisexuals, who begin their rise to peak power today.

Long, and very worthwhile thread. The protocol they outline has been making a major difference in my health (can't imagine where I would be without it)

This month's class with @wickedgrounds.bsky.social is The Invisible Toybox: The Energy of Kink. More information and sliding scale tickets available here: forbiddentickets.com/events/wicke... #KinkEducation #RelationshipSkills

Happy Equinox, my friends. Gebo. I stepped outside yesterday to see this laying on the deck. A call to remember rights and responsibilities. An invitation to review my oaths and what I've given them to. To assess where I can show up with integrity. #InclusiveHeathenry

This tea is one of my all time favorites.

Finished spread! The lives of different types of stars, the various ways they give back all they had taken in changed, and the new forms they give rise to! This took me some time to say the least! It's a lively place out there! On to the next spread (finale of this chapter!!) #Nostos #Unflattening 2

I went to Canada earlier this week for a brief visit. On my way back across the border the agent started asking questions about where my income came from. I'm home now and ok. Content warning for below: harassment by an armed official.

Here's what I am presenting in September. There is so much going on behind the scenes, I am really excited that I will get to share more of that soon. www.HGWyndell.com/links #InclusiveHeathenry #OnlineClass #PaganEducation #KinkEducation

It was a +3 naps kind of day. For every 45-60 minutes of "work" (including things like checking email) I had to power down and be flat for 45-90 minutes. Trying to not be too frustrated

This timeline requires some creative thinking, and this is a pretty good example

Wohoo, migraine day 🫠

Currently being amused by the adolescent cardinals chasing each other around the yard.

I am not obligated to mourn, nor welcome into my home anyone who advocates for my eradication. I have worked very hard on my self-harming tendencies, I'm not about to give up that work.

every kid that grew up in the closet learned this young every trans kid learned this young Stick with your queer community; we've been through this shit, we know how to cope, we'll teach you

I am not obligated to mourn, nor welcome into my home anyone who advocates for my eradication. I have worked very hard on my self-harming tendencies, I'm not about to give up that work.

this is the most iconic stage entrance I have ever seen

This is really cool

Buy cheap #ebooks and help an author eat dumplings! (For RESEARCH.) 🙂 www.tumblr.com/dduane/79424...

They're actively targeting creators who call in & banning them, making it even more important to call if you're a customer & not a creator Tell them they shouldn't be dictating how you get to spend the money you put your blood, sweat, and tears into earning

Nice

Y'all, I am *thrilled* to have none other than the illustrious @longtalljodie.com join me and @ryehickman.bsky.social on Team GALAXY: AS THE WORLD FALLS DOWN! To have an all-trans team on this extremely trans book fills me with such joy!

So a group of trans folks in Portland are trying to secure funds for a property they can use to house homeless bipoc trans women and femmes as well as providing meals to the growing homeless population. Literally anything helps so please donate or spread the word! Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

It’s funny because promoting and marketing a book in any way, shape, or form is actually NOT the author’s job. At all. It is unpaid labor we’ve been forced to do for so long the expectation has mutated like a virus into “okay now you also have to be a TikTok sensation to do this as a job.”

wat?!?

There is a lot for disabled people to be enraged about. I partnered with artist Finnegan Shannon on #DisabledRage public art. All graphics are downloadable & feel free to share and wheatpaste all over your community disabilityvisibilityproject.com/disabled-rage/

“…too many people look at human history and despair of our ability to change.” My latest newsletter ponders our ability to choose nurturing change instead of being trapped in cycles of doom: thorncoyle.kit.com/posts/the-ab... Thanks for reading. #photography #change

Don't dream it, be it. HAPPY SUNDAY, WITCHES! Don't get bogged down by the bullshit. (Sorry- could not resist a bog joke)

This is trans rights, too. There is no viable position for the Democrats other than “trans rights are human rights.” Trying to triangulate a position where you throw trans people under the bus “just a little” to woo swing voters only feeds the right’s argument that trans people are a threat 1/x

"Discussions with gods might be very impressive, he thought grumpily, but they seemed to offer far less guidance than all the tales insisted." (Oath Of Swords by David Weber) RELATABLE. I'm just going to go grumble at some folks now. #SpiritWorkProblems

🎵 it's the i of the tiger, with a g to the right Risin' up to the challenge of a vowel And the last two letters are an e and an r And a t is in the front of the iiiiii of the tiger🎵