Listening to What You Own and I wonder what Jonathan Larson’s commentary would be on modern-day America…

It’s World AIDS Day. Fuck Trump and any enabler in our government that retracted the US’ participation in marking this particular memorial day.

it took upwards of FIVE YEARS for reagan to even publicly say the name of the virus

Sutter Healthcare is the latest institution to capitulate in advance and cease pediatric gender affirming care in CA.

i’ve gotten through trans day of remembrance only by losing myself in work every time i stop to think about it the grief threatens to overwhelm me this day is so important, but it shouldn’t need to exist we need YOU to make a better world and celebrate and protect us while we’re still here

Give us our roses while we're still alive.

Cannot be stressed enough that Black trans women were immediately sidelined in the early 2020s. Just pushed out of the convo immediately, even though transmisogynoir has always been an emergency and Black trans women are disproportionately targeted

We do not need trans holidays that use words like resilience and visibility and awareness. We need trans liberation and trans bodily autonomy. That means equal rights across the board. Class protection, access to medical care, the ability to update our documents, participation in sport.

I really needed to read this today

Hi! I wrote a thing about swimming and trans athletes and [*checks notes*] Santana for @defector.com, would mean a lot if you give it a read

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

Buckle up. The crowd that brought you "Fifteen is too young to transition" and "Fifteen is too young to terminate a rape baby" is about to bring you "Well, now, actually, fifteen year olds, historically, were married with children by now, so you know, it's not really pedophilia..." (Some were 13.)

all the time people tell me they’re angry at trans people yelling at them on the internet. these people, mostly cis but even some who are trans, tell me: “this is why they hate you.” if only any of those people stopped to consider the internet is one of the few spaces we have any power at all.

"Are there even any-" it doesn't matter. Banning the few trans athletes isn't the point. The point, from Trump's ban on trans people in government to Britain's bathroom ban to Newsom's sports ban, is to make sure everyone knows trans women are OTHER and to act accordingly to us in their daily lives.

Democrats in office need to know: all of us with very few exceptions want all of you with very few exception to lose your god damn jobs because you refuse to do them.

The shutdown put incredible strain on so many families and dedicated civil servants, but at least it was all for fucking nothing.

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

As a graduate student from Gaza studying in Wyoming, I live in two dimensions: one where life moves peacefully forward, and another where everything I love is collapsing. I live in both worlds at once, holding grief and strength in the same breath. mondoweiss.net/2025/11/how-... #Palestine #Israel

This brilliant, biting piece nails why anyone who considers themselves a liberal has zero business reading the racist, transphobic, misogynistic NYT.

I don't want trans kids to be told that they're valid. I want trans kids to survive the literal warzone many of them face every single day. I want them to grow up. I want them to find joy, and I want them to thrive. Even in the midst of this hellish society.

I think we all understand what it means when "minority has any sort of facial expression" becomes evidence of guilt right?

Fuck Trump, the SCOTUS majority, and their bullshit shadow docket. We will still be trans; you cannot disappear us even if you take away our dignity in this way.

This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.

Mamdani’s acceptance speech was absolute fire. I haven’t felt like this since Obama in 2008.

I need to break up this garish timeline so just dropping this here.

This. Trans people are not inherently depressed or anxious or suicidal, but if you get treated like a disposable or negotiable human for long enough, you’ll start to feel desperate, too. Promise. All these cis bigots demonizing trans folks have the blood of real, live trans people on their hands.

I’m 5.5 weeks into 12 weeks of being on crutches. Tonight the people I live with all went out, so I ate cheesy popcorn for dinner and crutched around the house for 20 min singing along to my fave Taylor playlist at the top of my lungs. I think I’ve concerned the cat.

Bingo. The only problem I have with being trans is the way cis people treat me. I would never go back and I regret absolutely nothing besides not doing it sooner.

These older women activists are the FAFO energy we all need. I almost spit my drink out over the one at the end.

when trans people take HRT to feel normal: “look at these depraved sex freaks performing their sick fetish in public, we should bully them out of existence” when cis ppl take HRT so they can fuck real good:

all of these federal judicial decisions feel like stopgaps until the supreme court declares us unpeople but they are good to see and any roadblocks we can put up in front of the regime are worthwhile open.substack.com/pub/erininth...

Them: “no one had pronouns in my day” A TV Character from their day:

We just got the White House East Wing job. Maybe we should ask for the money up front, T.

"Some audiences struggle with a singular they." "Looks like they're struggling with a singular audience!"

A critical perspective on authoritarianism - everyone who’s marching today should read this.

Tell me again how the left has gone too far

Oh noes, it would be just terrible if everyone blocked these new White House and related gov’t Bsky accounts. Takes all of 2 minutes. bsky.app/profile/did:...

A cis person that I love made this as his sign for the protest tomorrow. It made me tear. Please, show up for trans people in whatever ways you can right now, big or small. It really matters.

We elected one (1) Black president and SCOTUS said fine, I guess racism is over now. You won't be needing *any* of these legal protections against the discrimination of marginalized people.

A post has been going around about signage inspo for the upcoming No Kings protest and there isn’t a word on it re trans rights. This is the kind of thing that makes it feel as if trans people are utterly on our own. Where is the outrage? Where is the recognition of what is happening to us?

We lost an elder and icon today. RIP Miss Major.

Newsom waited until the 11th hour to veto two LGBTQ bills that have been on his desk for almost a month: SB 418 & AB 554. One would have allowed HRT stockpiling, the other expanded PrEP access and protections. Newsom made his legacy on the backs of queer people and this is how he meets this moment?

UNC just removed their long-standing space for the Black Student Movement to gather, in yet another stunning capitulation to the toddler-man’s anti-DEI demands.

I’m glad Newsom signed this but it feels like the least he could do after siding with Charlie Kirk & allowing CIF’s transphobic policy to go into place without a single word - both of which caused marked, significant distress to queer and trans youth. Really hoping for no more vetoes this weekend.

Here are the real-life consequences of putting law behind transphobia. I’m sick. They call the trans woman’s consenting partner A VICTIM.

“Dismissing this discourse around Swift as frivolous pop culture drama would be a mistake; it would repeat the same old pattern of treating women/queer people’s cultural spaces as trivial & unworthy of serious analysis precisely because they’re associated with feminized forms of emotion & community”

yeah, trump has made very clear that he doesn’t think black people deserve to be in jobs of influence! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

A fringe group wants the field of psychiatry to regress back to the days when stereotypes and prejudices resulted in mental illness diagnoses for marginalized populations. In a new reported piece, @evanurquhart.bsky.social examines Genspect's call for the re-psychopathologization of trans identity.