i made $50 busking this afternoon—a personal record! that's before i gave $5 to a fellow madwoman who later told me eunuchs could help balance the sexes, as god wishes! 😵‍💫 it's hard being trans & hard being an artist & i just wish people could be less creepy about me existing in public.

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i'm on here! i listened through the whole compilation this morning & it's deeply awesome—full of earnestness & groove & atmosphere & trans magic. highly recommend putting on some headphones & disappearing for a couple hours this weekend!

Whoa! Okay, let me catch my breath here... if you're gonna listen to only one of these, please let it be this one. It's absolutely fucking beautiful. It has some hauntingly beautiful guitars, a chill meandering drum beat and heartbreakingly beautiful vocals.

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is there a way (or is there another social media app) where i can post short audio recordings instead of text? like instead of reading these words i want you to press a button & hear me saying this without leaving the app.

Jesse Welles song reacting to last week's fascist infighting is disappointing. fundamental misunderstandings of the so-called right to free speech proliferate even on the "left."

or, disbelieving party lies of representation, we understand Dems' job is to sell & defend policies most likely to maintain the US settler colony's profitability. like the Union during the first US civil war—their concern isn't liberating the oppressed, it's maintaining concentrated state power.

all violence is political violence. focusing on any particular violent act is a political choice. i choose to offer my attention & care toward queer kin whose suffering & death is so ubiquitous in US culture that it's only considered notable when state powers adjust the rate of its proliferation.

i have a song on this wacky compilation! hear all manner of guitars & drums & beeps & boops gathered in agreement that fascism is bad & gay stuff is good actually!

i just sent along 3 tracks from a forthcoming project of mine called .breakup.w/empire! this fledgling radio station plays a bizarre flow of disparate genres from far & wide—& somehow the playlist still feels like an intimate collage of intersecting neighborhood scenes. earnest & refreshing!

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I'm curious to hear how other artists are surviving these times of fascist dominance. I'll share a cross-section of my experience below 🧵

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To the settler-colonial episteme, relating to others outside of the scientistic taxonomical categories applied to you is tantamount to "contagion." Or put more snappily: to white supremacy, relating is contagion.

so many similarities to the 19th century. this isn't solely a trump problem. this is a capitalist settler colonialism problem. surprise at this moment is an artifact of US genocide denialism.

it's never just about rewinding but about what we want to build today against both colonialism's consumption and annihilation of the planet and the parts of societies before it that we cannot or do not want to return to.

this thread raises some interesting points about what i'll call "originality" in art. i'm compelled by the critique of replicability with ai, & i also feel tension against the plagiarism framework in this context. no snark intended—read on if you're curious.

The US state was founded on crimes against humanity. Nothing it and its masked and unmasked kidnappers, rapists, thieves, genociders, and enslavers does is inconsistent with its founding acts. People must disassociate their identities and visions from the US entity. Alternative paths will emerge.

ELEMENTAL STASIS 7.19.2025 1. the State of Air those privileged to breathe wear masks to keep from coughing. the masks are shaped from faces long lost to the winds of thought, forgotten.

a lot of trans women are not actually socialized male but socialized doormat and some of them when accused of male privilege will instantly go into their trained cPTSD response of fawning and being apologetic for existing and taking up a modicum of space.

... I love this life, I whisper into my doctor’s stethoscope so she can hear my heart. My heart, an heirloom I didn’t inherit until I thought I could die. —Andrea Gibson, RIP

aimless longing

sodden sloth

We're not "descending into" fascism in the U.S. We are living under a fascist regime already. I wonder when most people will catch up to this reality and what that might portend.

Every single story you are hearing from the Everglades Concentration Camp has been and is already taking place in hundreds of prisons and jails in the U.S. That's what PIC abolitionists have been trying to get the public to understand for decades.

forgetful relief

Practically, this can start with rejecting religious-like ideas about the US state as a "promised land," or as redeemable. The US is not by nature the land nor the persons it occupies. That is an insult born of racist, patriarchal human arrogance to these life-sharing lands and waters.

fractured assuredness

vapid despair

bringing my whole self & contributing fully to a community is a hell of a lot easier & more fun when the members of the community make it very clear that my presence & my authentic contributions are not only welcome but appreciated & desired. ✌️👍

Israel bombing political dissidents to the Iranian regime in an effort to represent Israeli dissidence to the Iranian regime seems like the inevitable conclusion of a Zionist worldview which assumes nonexistence of progressive elements in Arab societies

"The units of survival are going to be local communities, so I’m urging local communities to get together."

so many voices on here casting individual celebrity politicians as villains & heroes, spinning snapshots into detailed narrative webs, & outlining psych profiles around imagined motivation, virtue, & deficiency. the real drama is closer to home, in our everyday relationships.

The Trump regime, like the pandemic, illuminates that those who feel distanced from historical responsibility--who inherited systemic benefits of enslavement, genocide, and invasion, now fear the predacious settler monster in their own homes. They want back the world based on our deaths, not theirs.

the US revolution was not a revolt against colonization but instead the (seemingly) permanent cementing of the colonial project. It's not like India or Ireland breaking free from the UK, it's like if the British colonists in India broke free from the UK's control.

it's easier not to lose yourself in moral injury every time the state makes choices against the interests of the people when you remember the US is, at its root, a genocidal settler colony (same as Israel, with a 200-year head start).

doggo is scared of the fireworks so i made her a pillow fort. here she is saying, "thank you. death to america."