From @dapowell.bsky.social’s exquisitely saucy new chapbook “Tricks”: www.cutbankonline.org/2026-chapbooks #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

#sotd Soul Cafe by Savoire Faire, ATL based designer, Chris Classic. Dynamic, well blended, warm, sexy, unisex. Blood orange is aces at the top, creamy tobacco firewood lavender heart, sexy musk base.

They have now removed the Pride flag from the Stonewall Inn. Erasure. Just like the Nazis. gaycitynews.com/trump-rainbo...

Book haul book haul book haul! I was extremely excited to find @ravineangel.bsky.social's new book on the shelf at my local indie book store. Plus some poetry from CD Eskilson and @casswhit.bsky.social 👀

They're not even trying to mask that they to strip us of our vote. The so called MEGA Bill - in Congress now - would disenfranchise millions of women. Hard pass. Join @representwomen.bsky.social for this critical workshop on what's in the "Show Me Your Papers Bill" + how to fight back.

unfortunately my second book launched immediately before I was sent to the mental hospital which means I wasn't really able to follow up on giving it momentum. if you've connected with my poetry, especially my trans poetry, consider picking up my newest collection!

There's a Toni Morrison quote I reference a lot: "We cannot be optimistic, but we can be clear." A problem I have with many historical parallels is they are inherently fatalistic and often obscure possibilities for redirection

It is really infuriating to see how misogyny really does unite men across the sociopolitical spectrum. And, in so far as the Epstein files go, they sort women into two categories: fuckable or irrelevant. When they near a hint of accountability they complain about not being able to make women prey.

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

DHS should be abolished. Visiting high schools where people vote has nothing to do with its mandate.Suppressing the vote improves the security of no one. www.daytondailynews.com/local/homela...

Trans people were the proving grounds to normalize the made up term "biological sex"to roll back decades of progress on gender equality. When you get bioessentialist language, suddenly everything from gender roles to marriage becomes an argument about "biology." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The president of the ASPS is a huge Trump supporter if you're wondering why they shifted positions now to align with the Trump Administration. He's donated substantially to Trump and Ted Cruz. This was a political decision. www.fec.gov/data/receipt...

For the first time ever, a state AG has filed a lawsuit to force a hospital back into providing gender affirming care for transgender youth. Our writer, S. Baum, dove deep and spoke with families that helped make this happen. You're going to want to read our latest, incredible story.

this post is gettin a lot of love! just wanna remind folks that Black trans history never ended! u can support black trans lives TODAY! THEM has this rad list of trans orgs by state, many of which specifically serve Black queer folks. i urge u to donate + follow! www.them.us/story/orgs-f...

They want us working earlier and til we die to pay for their tax cuts for the rich. Supervillains.

Hey everyone! Huge news! Our trans girl scout list has sold a total of 146,000 boxes as of today! But MANY trans girl scouts only have 20, 30, 40 boxes sold. I just resorted our list to put those on the top. Go get your girl scout cookies and make a trans kid's day!

O cool The hypothesis that the elite were trying to segrigate trans people from society purely to keep us as sex slaves was real, but only for trans women since they see trans men as undesirable for sex and want them eliminated which is EXACTLY THE POLICIES AND RHETORIC WE'RE SEEING HAPPEN RIGHT NOW

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Catherine O’Hara died today, at 71. In an interview from 2019, the actor talked about her early days in comedy, why dating Eugene Levy didn't work out, and her approach to improv (“when in doubt, play insane”). Revisit their conversation: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/L9Xdws

If you see this, don't participate. It's a rigged study by Lisa Littman and unethical researcher J. Michael Bailey meant to undermine access to care. Spread the word.

Catherine O'Hara! RIP...

Kansas just passed a monstrous bill enabling criminal penalties and vigilante lawsuits for trans people using the bathroom according to their gender identity and requires them to surrender their current drivers licenses and birth certificates if it does not match their sex assigned at birth.

Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.

This was an invented moral panic. The NYT and Fox News ran more stories about trans people than the Advocate, an explicitly LGBTQ publication. It was the exact same story in the UK. The media fanned the flames of a moral panic.

‘In major assessments for maths, science and reading from 2011 to 2019, greater in-school computer use for learning correlates with lower scores. In contrast, students in classes with rare or no computer use at all typically score highest’

Blistering piece on ed tech in @economist.com. ‘Although ed-tech companies tout huge learning gains, independent research has made clear that technology rarely boosts learning in schools—and often impairs it.’ economist.com/united-state...

They are telling us in unequivocal terms that if you show solidarity with immigrants who are in the literal crosshairs of Trump/MAGA, you're risking a death sentence. newrepublic.com/article/2055...

The Bangles, Concrete Blonde, X, Pylon, B-52s

Happy Birthday to Emperor Hadrian! 24 January 76 Roman emperor whose love for Antinous remains one of the most famous same-sex relationships of the ancient world. Their story, immortalized in art and myth, stands as an early testament to queer love recorded in history. #Hadrian #Antinous

I think the only room Dems are reading is the one their donors are in

It's incredible how effective transphobia is as a litmus test for SO many issues. Every time I find a new pro-surveillance tech stooge, they're transphobic. I think people need to understand how tightly the belief that the internet is turning everyone trans is bound up w mass surveillance efforts

TikTok is now under “US” ownership. Lots of red flags in the terms of service and privacy policy.

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[email protected] - Damn it, with all the other nonsense today, I hadn’t heard. RIP, Rob Hirst, Midnight Oil drummer. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...

"When the fruits decay, I must leave you again." Lake Angela www.broadkillreview.com/post/childho...

If anyone was still pretending this isn’t just about excluding trans kids from public life, the Trump administration just opened a Title IX investigation into a Maine school district because a trans student is on a *co-ed* cheerleading squad.

Your regular reminder that there is no legal path from martial law to suspending elections in this country. That doesn't mean there is no path. It just means that we need to reject the framing that the federal government has any legal authority to cease elections.

A lie.

My friends at @acluwv.bsky.social are collecting (and moderating) messages of gratitude to Becky if you'd like to submit them here padlet.com/mkennedy243/...

Want to do something *good* today? Send a note of support to Becky Pepper-Jackson from WV, who's standing up to anti-trans bigotry in school sports at SCOTUS today. All messages are approved by my friend Mollie of WV ACLU, so only positive messages will get through! padlet.com/mkennedy243/...

On my way to the Supreme Court where I'll be proud to support 15-year-old Becky Pepper-Jackson, West Virginia's only transgender athlete, as she opposes the state's effort to ban her from playing as herself. Win or lose, Becky and her family are heroes for standing up for what's right

Trans youth like Becky Pepper-Jackson deserve the right to participate in school sports without facing discrimination. Tuesday, we'll be at the Supreme Court defending Becky and other trans kids' right to play.

Wrote about the use of misogyny and homophobia to diminish Renee Good's life and excuse her death open.substack.com/pub/autonomy...

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court is going to hear West Virginia's effort to ban the state's only transgender athlete, 15-year-old Becky Pepper-Jackson. Win or lose, I need your help making sure Becky knows she's a hero for standing up for what's right

Things are grim right now but as a reminder of who we are and why we fight, this is the US Women’s figuring skating champion.

Lost now on the country miles in his cadillac I can tell by the way you smile he's rolling back Come wash the nighttime clean Come grow this scorched ground green Blow the horn, tap the tambourine Close the gap of the dark years in between You and me Cassidy...

Grateful I saw Bob Weir both before and after Jerry's death. Always appreciated when the Dead had touring guests Hornsby, Yoakum, Sting, Mayer,Joan Osbourne, Winwood. Lots of fun.

RIP...

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