Most surreal thing abt our current moment is that 2026 has trans medicine, culture, and community that would seem like utopian science fiction from the pov of 2016, yet at the same time it features an empowered antitrans movement that looks like the darkest nightmares of sadgirls I talked to in 2016

Tfw i slip in an anti-Biden joke and a lot of faith talk to make my "the FBI killed so many american citizens" civil rights lecture hopefully go down ok with my class of Texan 19 year olds

Seeing that the most recent transphobic Helen Lewis article in The Atlantic was prompted bc some fat cis white woman author and her black husband are poly. Conservatives really do just have a list of identities that act as triggers for them that make them just start shrieking

Of all the right wing and authoritarian figures turned into objects of celebrity worship by the nerdiest side of the online fascists, why have I never seen an Ezra Pound fanboy? Its always Evola, Franco, Mishima, but no Pound. Or am I just missing them?

That's Dallas' Commie Corridor

Its weird explaining to people that University of Illinois had worse far right politics on campus than any of the southern universities I've been at

Me @ Denton Trans Pride Fest

Denton Trans Pride Fest 2025 pt 3

Denton Trans Pride Fest 2025 pt 2

Denton Trans Pride Fest 2025 pt 1

Masha Gessen being one of the main characters in my dissertation about queer activism in 90s Russia and still being a major character in my life as a queer in 20s America is so wild

the fucking lee harvey oswald barbershop mural is killing me dude. fucking dallas

@lakshya.splitticket.org gunning for Mamdani is very odd given that the "Mamdani Model," if such a thing exists, could be described as doing what all the good centrists have been saying: focus on affordability/kitchen table issues, de-emphasize culture war stuff, make overtures to

Something I think abt a lot is how there is a specific genre of like, old school lib pollster (Ipsos, Gallup, YouGov to an extent) where the results for every poll on Trump approval is like "Everyone hates Trump" and every poll on trans people is like "Everyone hates trans people"

Tae at Dallas World Aquarium

Bishop Arts

Endless Texas highways

at Spacy

Evie (my roommate's dog)

“The here and now is a prison house. We must strive, in the face of the here and now’s totalising rendering of reality, to think and feel a then and there."

"Average Bushwick trans apartment" - my gf

@weard.moe help ever since i saw castration movie 2 every time i see a group of queer people in a bare, unfurnished space I think "they're in the fucking basement!!"

Gavin Newsom is out here moving like those anti-Putin opposition figureheads that crop up in Russia and that says awful things about him and also the potential fate of our democracy

Dyke March pt 5

Dyke March NYC pt 4

Dyke March NYC pt 3

Dyke March NYC pt 2

Dyke March NYC pt 1

Nice to see a least a few normie Dems and never Trumpers are finding their balls again

There's an endless amount of nuts bullshit in that NYT anti trans article from two days ago but one of the strangest is the guy argues "trans issues are more complicated and difficult than gay issues bc there's medical care involved."

Me a very smart genius: the transgender movement should have not chosen to have the Supreme Court as the final arbiter of law. They should have picked someone else! This is, I assume, a choice they made, and not how other people have treated the US government for decades.

gofund.me/e8ddcb5b I know a lot is going on right now, but please donate if you can <3

In 1993, SPID-info featured an article by Aron Belkin decrying the entire enterprise of sexual reassignment as pointless. He was a pioneer in the field of trans healthcare in the USSR, and for a long time he was the only specialist who issued permits to transsexuals for surgical correction of gender

"‘Shadow, know thy place!’ And your place was, and is, by the latrine.” Boris Kamianov wrote these words in response to other recent Russian immigrants to Israel who identified as queer, lesbian, and bisexual and who spoke against homophobia and demanded respect for same-sex relations.

One of the unique features of the Russian queer community is that trans men have seemingly outnumbered trans women for its entire history. There is a narrative in medical historiography of transness that trans women used to predominate and it was only recently that transmasc individuals appeared

When queers appeared in sensational crime journalism, it was always as threats to children. Moskovskii komsomolets , a newspaper that had previously suffered harassment from conservative groups for its positive depictions of gays, reported “Homosexuals Steal Children Straight from the Stroller.”

In 1984, Valery Klimov, a schoolteacher in Nizhny Tagil, was sentenced under Article 121 for sexual relations with an underaged boy. Klimov’s partner was seventeen at the time, above the age of consent for heterosexual relations (sixteen) but below the age of consent for homosexual sex (eighteen).

I really love this logo from the 1980s "peace movement" in the USSR. I believe it originated with the European ant-nuclear group END (European Nuclear Disarmament)

Partner (Sha!) is a completely unremarkable short lived queer paper from the 90s but I've been obsessed with this coverboy ever since I first saw him

anyway since im off topic already, heres selfies. i am in fact a real person and not a picture of a ukrainian transexual from 1994

Sorry to go off topic but my hot take is that the Republicans run high profile anti trans messaging not because it is super persuasive (always ranks as a bottom concern for voters) but because every time we do the entire liberal and left side of this country starts a struggle session with itself

MOLLI, the Moscow Society for Lesbian Literature and Art, was one of the less discussed but most valuable queer orgs in 90s Russia. Their correspondence service helped thousands of queer women in provincial Russia know that they were not alone.

Cover for the lesbian-centric sixth issue of the underground Soviet feminist journal Zhenskoe Chtenie (Women's Reading). Translations of Adrienne Rich pieces feature prominently within, along with the first published version of Olga Zhuk's historical project on lesbian culture in Soviet prisons

When western observers saw the budding queer rights movement in the collapsing USSR, they categorized its members in the familiar "radicals" vs "assimilationists" dichotomy found in the west. I have always questioned how relevant those categories were for the Russian context

"The first pride was a riot" well in Russia the first pride, if you could call it that, was a festival organized by college students on both sides of the iron curtain who were very excited about the possibilities of a new, post-communist world

Victor Putintsev was not a subtle artist

Short answer: no That being said, it is noteworthy that sodomy was decriminalized in the Russian Federation a full ten years before it was in the US

I've previously mentioned the preponderance of military costumes in Russian gay porn from the 90s, so rn I'll just mention that this dude always looked like Pete Davidson to me