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Marissa Anne @misstablescraps.bsky.social Cordy Aly Byrd @cordybyrd.bsky.social Jack Carenza Ronita Chattopadhyay @ronita.bsky.social Shannon Vare Christine Michelle Fern Cohen Melody Derrick John Digby Christiana Doucette @doucette515.bsky.social alice f.z @faith2fleurs.bsky.social ⬇️

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Very thankful for this letter to Becky Pepper-Jackson (the 16 year-old trans girl SCOTUS ruled against yesterday) from James Dale, a gay man whose expulsion from the Boy Scouts was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2000.

This is more than people get for rape and murder

Looks promising. Attn @martin65.bsky.social @catfitzpatrick.net

ko-fi.com/s/96ba5729f2 Hi trans, poetry and medieval bsky! I got a new microchapbook out at @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social ’s 2026 pride series entitled “the book of dame ærney”. It’s my tribute to trans girlhood and medieval romance, as an anachronistic genre. Please download and donate tips!

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I lowkey have a microchapbook coming out next week :)))))

imagine drawing a crowd in the middle of the night to watch them remove your name from a building

I have to be the first educator whose students have written about Thomas Hoccleve and the Perks of Being a Wallflower in the same assignment

im on the @pw.org directory :) www.pw.org/directory/wr...

Links here where you can donate to support a trans woman who is facing felony charges for defending herself against fascists.

today brings us poetry by @selizabeth.bsky.social ko-fi.com/s/355705ee1a

more poems today! from @jonikt.bsky.social ko-fi.com/s/acd113e7cd

starting it off with @lowermelody.bsky.social ko-fi.com/s/daad61f731

People love historical what if scenarios. What if JFK was never assassinated? What if the Nazis won in WW2? A scenario I never see discussed is what if the aids crisis didnt decimate the gay men of America in the 80s-90s? Its easy to forget 1 in 15 gay boomer men died. An estimated 300,000 deaths-

2 things can be true: -it's pretty satisfying watching Hunter Biden go after Jake Tapper -we don't need to start saying Hunter should run for president in 2028

check out my talented friend’s work!!!!!!!!

Treating trans kids like real people is a radical and brave act for a politician in America these days—even in California. It shouldn't be.

I have about 6 to 7 new poetry publications coming out over the next few months :)

movies that emotionally devastated me lately but also were very healing for my inner child: phoebe in wonderland (2008), thirteen (2003), and where the wild things are (2009). pure poetry, all of these

DOJ Launches Criminal Investigation Into All Women

Self-styled "non-woke" {their terme} approaches to literature often drag literary studyes back ynto the 19th centurye: allegorical readinges, basic brute-force applicacioun of biography to texte, aesthetic good/bad judgment done verye hastilye, observaciouns about style. Nuance nowhere to be founde.

“crystals are just gentrified pet rocks"

Our latest episode presents a deep dive into the gnarly tomb of Alice Chaucer! #medievalsky Find wherever you get your podcasts.

For all the endless hoopla about "Democrats connecting with ordinary people," 99% of which is "Democrats must rigidly adhere to the directives of elite reactionary centrists," Steyer here is talking about an issue in the same way that actual people who vote for Democrats do. Good stuff.

The most unrealistic part of the Mothman prophecies movie is that a Washington Post journalist does good

thank you to everyone who sent this to me

"Meetings are held, emails are sent, phone calls are made, and something like 520,000 children die of malnutrition, diarrhea, tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV." prospect.org/2026/05/22/w...

Your Imaginary Friend is destroying people's lives. When you use AI, you're not only signing up for hallucinations, stolen writing, and the atrophy of your critical reason and creativity, you're also making rural families have to bulk order bottled water because data centres wrecked the water supply

A Path to Justice — A cartoon by Nick Anderson

This image is seared in my mind

poetry exists so our hearts can breathe lung-like gasping with beauty

BREAKING: SB 2471 has been signed into law! It’s the first of its kind in the nation and renders the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision irrelevant in Hawaii. This is a win for the movement to get big money, especially dark money, out of politics.

I’m not ashamed of my Green Party vote in 2024 — but man Butch Ware has fumbled every chance he had to prove himself. Astounding.

i am embarrassed to be late in alerting people to this book’s stunning significance for political theology, critical secularism studies, and gender studies, queer theory, and transgender studies excellent, excellent and cannot recommend enough this text by @badinfinity2.bsky.social

Turns out socialism works.

Four new poetry pubs in a week let’s fucking go

Poetrye ys the technologye of hope.

hi, as some of you know Them was sold last month and i was laid off as a result. this is a gofundme for myself and my colleagues who have been impacted, pls share and donate if you feel called <3 www.gofundme.com/f/support-la...

in ten thousand years, “skibidi” will be a number

#OtD 6 May 1933 Nazis raided the Institute of Sex Research in Berlin. It was a pioneering org which supported LGBT rights, and equality for women. It employed numerous trans workers and pioneered gender affirmation surgery. Its library was then burned stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1064...

I want cis Americans to sit uncomfortably with the fact that most of these restrictions were ushered in through the liberal act of "just asking questions" about trans people.

honestly if some venture capitalist /tech mogul can remake an entire university in a matter of a year or two in exchange for around 2 days of Bezos’s salary(USC founded 1880), it means that any rich person can do anything to any of our institutions at any time unless we take them back systematically

happy to announce that one of my best friends, Cade Miller, and I wrote a poem together, “Stroads”, and it's going to be in the next volume of @the-engine-idling.bsky.social !