I finally visited Ripped Bodice, the incredible romance bookstore in Brooklyn, and it was a feast for the eyes and mind, but this sign especially 🌷💃🏼👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩🌸🧞‍♀️💘🧚🏾‍♀️

"Whitey on the Moon" is also, yes, about racism, but Glover's take and the historical context provided here (I didn't know about the Abernathy protest) is interesting and worth pondering.

Happy Transgender Day of Visibility. Remember that not being visible today doesn't make you any less trans, especially if it's not safe for you to be out. #TDoV

It’s Trans Day of Visibility! I don’t think I’ve shared a pretransition photo here before. Might delete later. #tdov #transgender

61 is all right with me!

The question that broke America fundamentally was ‘do all people deserve basic rights?’ This question was too hard for us. Too hard for our leadership. It still is. So now all of our rights are in jeopardy.

The New York Times coverage of trans issues has repeatedly resulted in experts and others complaining that their words were twisted and misrepresented... but only those quoted from on trans supportive side have that complaint. Coincidence or eliminationism? @billiejsweeney.bsky.social dives in.

Chicken Pot Pie for dinner. Yes, I suck at shaping pie dough.

If you’ve arrived at the “doctors do medicine for money and therefore can’t be trusted” stage of your theory, they should take the sharp objects out of your house

"NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb has apologised to the families of gay hate crime victims after a damning report found officers were "indifferent, negligent, dismissive or hostile"."

Interesting insight into this ruling. Parental rights are paramount when it gives the conservatives a chance to hurt trans kids, but when supportive parents want to be trusted to manage their child’s transition, their rights don’t count.

TRANS APPRECIATION FRIDAY is here!!!!! Let's spread some joy & build community, shall we? How this works: Tell us your name, pronouns & a bit about you. THEN- repost this post, say hi to those that join in & make new friends! I'm Alyssa(she/her): Racer, hiker, climber, wifey. Your turn!💜

“In other words, there hasn’t been an organic shift in public opinion on trans people but rather a massive astroturfing campaign against us.” — @juliaserano.bsky.social

It's that time again! TRANS APPRECIATION FRIDAY is here! How it works: Tell us your name, pronouns, a bit about you & post a pic, if comfy doing so. Then, repost THIS post, say hi to those that join in & make new friends! I'm Alyssa(she/her). Coffee & racing aficionado, among other things. 💜

This is a great list of books by trans authors: everything from traditionally published series to self-published debut novels. And nothing links to Amazon!

Anything less than abolishing ICE is unacceptable. I don't want to hear people talk about training these motherfuckers or throwing more money at them. The entire institution needs to be permanently disbanded. Do not let politicians sell you on anything less.

Had a lovely anniversary (40) dinner tonight at Urdaneta!

The best way to cook salmon (or steelhead trout). The skin is crispy and delicious!

Now I’m wondering if “Soylent Green” was actually about transubstantiation.

the logo looks like a tapeworm crawling out of an asshole

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate consolidation is everywhere. It means more power for them and less freedom for you.

I’ve read the essay and the professor’s critique of it, and I agree with this.

Altavista was peak. Unfortunately, it was always just a hardware demonstration project.

me: congrats when’s the baby due pregnant librarian: oh it's mine i get to keep it

Good morning, all! I’m Daisy. She/her. I’m a 60 year old trans woman now living in Portland, OR. This tradition is one of the only things I’ve missed about the other place.

One of my favorite things!

wild to realize that Ghost In The Shell is 30 years old, we are only 4 years away from the year it is set in, and think about how real life tech dystopia is so much more banal and terrible than anything we could have imagined so many years ago

Here we go with further attacks on trans people. If nothing else, it has a chilling effect on international travel. If I can’t count on my passport being valid when I make my plans, is it worth going?

Can we timeskip ahead to the point where we all realize the race scientist eugenicists, the white birthrate obsessives, the silicon valley scamsters, and the Epstein circle are all just the same people?

Worth watching the whole video. This is why I won’t be supporting Newsom.

I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong. Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.

Just finished “Atmosphere” by Taylor Jenkins Reid, which is amazing and everyone should read it. It has occurred to me that it’s basically historical fiction. That’s set when I was 15-20. In a place I worked when I was in my 20s. I feel old.

Yes your taxes should support disabled people. They should support homeless people. They should support those living in poverty, children and the elderly. This is literally the purpose of taxes, and I would far rather support those who need it than continue to enrich the elite.

You can take the girl out of the south, but apparently you can’t take the (culinary) South out of the girl. A yummy bowl of cheese grits for breakfast.

100%! As a school librarian, I didn’t restrict books by age based on my experience as an early reader (as well as the experience and research of others). So much of what I read young gave me the chance to be who I am today.

Newsom has shown repeatedly that he will throw trans people under the bus at the first opportunity. I can speak personally to the impacts of not being able to source hormones and the benefits of knowing I have enough to allow me options for access. There is no valid reason to veto this bill.

Anti-conversion therapy laws DO NOT infringe upon one’s “right to free speech”; dismantling them WILL lead to gross infringements upon one’s human rights - especially children’s. Conversion camps aren’t just breeding grounds for torture and abuse; they ARE torture and abuse. SCOTUS KNOWS this.

We were told over and over again that this would not happen, just like Project 2025. LGBTQ+ people exist. Attempting to remove their existence from cultural references and calling them ‘demonic’ is a violation of our American freedoms. They’re attacking everything they said they’d attack.

Eight months after the Department of Government Efficiency effort to shrink the federal workforce began, some agencies are hiring workers back – and spending more money than before.

"That's all anybody can do right now. Live. Hold out. Survive. I don't know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won't matter if we don't survive these times." Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)

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RFK Jr. is objectively pro-disease, pro-illness and pro-child death.

There's no excuse for the Vice President of the United States to use a heinous killing as an occasion to baselessly frame political opponents as accomplices to murder while threatening to use the power of the government to attack them. This dangerous rhetoric will only fan the flames.

It needs to be said that by rebranding Charlie Kirk's views as moderate by both right wingers and liberal cowards resets the extremist views he held as normal and pushes the Overton window to the far right

The last 48 hours have shown why people have stopped relying on legacy journalism and have migrated to independent journalists in droves. The benefit of legacy journalism is supposed to be “editors” and “factchecking” and they can’t even get that right in a rush to blame trans people.

Western media has completely ignored this story. Israel’s Supreme Court just ruled that the Israeli Govt is intentionally depriving thousands of Palestinian prisoners of even a minimum amount of food for daily subsistence. These are war crimes. This is genocide. 1/2

It’s never “don’t tell marginalized people that they have to vote for candidates who will actively threaten their safety” and always “don’t make me feel bad for voting for a candidate who is actively threatening your safety”

Folks spend way too much time lecturing trans people and Palestinians about what they gotta say and do to be treated like people with human rights

I will remind folks those images of Nazi book burnings aren't burning just any books. They're burning the library of Magnus Hirschfeld; a gay, Jewish doctor who created an institute dedicated to LGBTQ sex education and healthcare. And a man who pioneered gender affirming care surgeries.