You're watching the intro and think "wow, those are the best splits I've ever seen on stage" just wait, those are the 3rd best splits in this video alone. RIP Tandi Iman Dupree

They're trying it again. The #BookBanBill has made it out of committee & they're probably going to try to sneak it through this summer. Don't let them hold education funds hostage to their obsession with gender & "lewd or lascivious dancing" Thx for this graphic @authorsabb.bsky.social

Why did Greenwich Village become the heart of New York City's bohemia? Because it was home to a woman's court and prison, which brought gender non-conforming women - many of them queer and/or trans - to the Village from every other corner of the city www.gothamcenter.org/blog/village...

poets.org/poem/contemp... "They are killing us & we are all just going to the office, watching tv & ordering out."

The new Pornstar Martini is out! Grateful to have two poems in the Pride issue! Fabulous folx to work with as well! You can purchase the Pride issue here... pornstarmartinimagazine.squarespace.com

It's not appropriate for cis people to say that trans people are too alarmed, or that certain trans writers are irresponsibly causing trans people to think the sky is falling. I want to take some time in this 🧵 to write personally about how my skies have fallen.

The White House is openly saying they want to eliminate a minority group and people still want to say this is about sports.

Trans rights have been litigated vis a vis an intentional, choreographed strategy designed at every turn to look like an organic reaction to progress. Never forget that, especially not in the coming weeks.

Last month, I had the pleasure of speaking about inverting school rivalries into school communities at MSEA’s Racial Social Justice Summit. Four years ago, three high schools began hosting inter-school, student-led conferences, collaborative field trips & socials for LGBTQ youth and their friends.

BREAKING: On the 39th anniversary of the founding of ACT UP, protestors have shut down traffic outside Grand Central demanding “Money for AIDS and healthcare, not for ICE and warfare.”

God, it's frustrating how many people will watch an undeniably trans narrative and simply refuse to acknowledge it as textual canon because "they never say the word trans so that's just headcanon" Literally had people trying to tell me the same about I Saw The TV Glow lol

Turns out “It is journalism’s sacred duty to endanger the lives of as many trans people as possible” was a literally accurate description of their motivations.

A major scandal has broken out in Norway at NBTK, the national gender clinic that has notoriously limited access to care. Researchers, including SEGM affiliate Anne Wæhre, engaged in substantial misconduct and ethical violations in their research on trans people. www.aftenposten.no/norge/i/43RE...

Thanks to the Advocate for helping to cover my analysis of the New York Times coverage over the last 12 years. www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

Gil Scott-Heron.

I've spent the last two months putting together this exhaustive analysis of the New York Times coverage of trans people. It covers 3,242 articles over 12 years. In 2022, the NYT shifted towards a hostile stance towards trans people in their framing. www.thedissident.news/exclusive-ho...

NPR is comparing a trans woman fleeing Texas for her personal safety with a conservative fleeing Seattle because he was annoyed with his neighbors. This is honestly insane both sides framing to a degree that is just blatant lying by omission.

Dyeing seeds The dye is to protect them from pests and fungus and to help the seeds germinate. The dye is also used to differentiate the seeds from standard seeds so that it is not eaten by people or fed to animals.

Anti-trans group ‘Democrats for an Informed Approach to Gender’ is trying to weaponize my anti-trans Dems tracker. So I took it down. To them, I say this: you—and all other supporters of the gender-affirming care ban that nearly killed me—don’t get to value my work if you don’t value my life.

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Damn. Pour one out for Giles. BBC News - Buffy and Ted Lasso star Anthony Head dies at 72 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Happy pride from Frank O'Hara

Grateful to the South Dakota Review for including two poems in their latest. TY Lee Ann Roripaugh and staff! Dear Sobriety is one of two pieces.

“I just happened to be out walking and I saw some steps and I thought: let’s see what’s up there,” he says. “There were a lot of pillars and abutments back then, where I could find spaces where people couldn’t see me, though they could hear me." RIP Sonny Rollins. www.theguardian.com/music/2022/j...

It would be bad enough if this was all she voted for, but the bill literally also has a provision to strip school funding from any school that has books with trans characters, has policies protecting trans students, performs shakespeare’s 12th night, or even has a trans teacher.

In previous drafts you would appear in front of the draft board, they would find a diagnosis (or previous arrest) for homosexuality/transvestism/etc (classified as 4-F back in the day), then send you home. I suspect they would just do the same with anyone with a gender dysphoria diagnosis

Virginia has a special election on April 21. If the referendum is approved, Virginia will temporarily redraw its congressional map to fight back against GOP gerrymandering in Texas, Florida, Missouri and North Carolina that is stealing House seats. VOTE YES to fight back! 👊 #StopTrumpVoteYesVA

This seems bad.

Conversation on Artemis right now on the relative age of Orientale compared to other lunar basins. I wrote about that a while back: www.planetary.org/articles/092...

At this stage of the game, it is crystal clear that the internet, as a whole, was a huge mistake. But every now and then, we find incredible uses for it, like this photo gallery of Artemis II pictures. www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2...

even funnier now I've seen the headline the increasingly apparent truth is: they're just dipshits

😡 Only Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented. "Justice Jackson warned of the broader implications for medical care that she said could be “catastrophic” if states cannot regulate some kinds of speech by licensed professionals." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/u...

How can therapy be regulated as an evidence based therapeutic intervention if therapists have a First Amendment right to say anything to any client? If therapy can't be regulated as a therapeutic intervention, why would insurance pay for it any more than it pays for newspaper subscriptions?

happy tdov, "visibility" without protection is a threat

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Camilla bush is in flower! Plus Flapjack the cat fishing for cheese.

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New: The legal attacks on transgender Americans are moving fast beyond questions of school sports and youth gender medicine. Democrats are getting caught flatfooted, as they're still debating how to respond to the wedge issues @vox.com gift link: www.vox.com/policy/48276...

To make it even more clear: The NYT doesn't report like this on anything else Trump's HHS does. It's all treated as sketchy and politically motivated except when they want to eliminate trans care (which the NYT has led the campaign on for over a decade).

Right after he says "we don't want transgender people." He admits it right there in the open.

Cis people need to pay attention to the way they communicate this. They freely admit that after all of their research, they came up with zero evidence that HRT was harmful. Then they banned it anyway, claiming their inability to find a reason is a reason in of itself.

A member of ACT UP said that during the peak years of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s: “We went to funerals and buried our friends in the morning, protested in the afternoon and then fucked danced and partied all night.” Because the world is on fire, it’s on us to live out loud. We need to do it all.

🚨BREAKING: The White House confirmed Friday that President Donald Trump is pressing Congress to add new provisions targeting transgender people to the SAVE America Act — a sweeping anti-voting bill that could disenfranchise millions. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

I don't post personal stuff often, at AWP with LGBTQIA high school writers and readers. We're having a blast

The next gender non-conforming grave is in Vivallen. Grave 9 from the 12-13th C.; osteologically male, artifactually female*, this Sami individual was wealthy, with goods which indicate far travels or a strong trade network *more in alt txt An excellent thesis: uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/di...

"It isn’t a stretch to see a bill like this used to outright ban all books by or about LGBTQ+ people under the guise of it being ‘sexually oriented.’” The bill has the ignominious distinction of being the very first national-level attempt to ban books"

How a bill targeting trans literature could ban all LGBTQ+ books from American public schools (and why you should care).

The question is always "what if a kid is wrongfully transitioned" and never "what if a trans kid is denied the ability to transition and endures years of excruciating dysphoria and has to have multiple surgeries later in life to fix the issues caused by going through the wrong puberty."