There was a scared girl in 2000 who read a book about a boy kissing his elbow and experiencing the joys of girlhood, and another about how boys play girls for Shakespeare plays until they fell apart. It took her another 20 years to come out. It shouldn't take so long.

Have I become Minnesota yet?

Officials in Tennessee aren't just banning books, they're now demanding information on who checked out contested (largely LGBTQ+) books, including names, addresses, and "household composition." A librarian who was given the directive has come forward asking for whistleblower protections.

Tag yourselves.

One more word about the fines thing. When my aunt was seven - SEVEN!!! - she lost a library book. She told the librarian who yelled at her until she cried and her son, a classmate of my aunt's, told her she would go to jail. She was terrified. Then the fines came and her mom paid them...

It's my favorite day of the year: happy public domain day! web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicd... Including an Agatha Christie, King of Jazz, an assortment of sound recordings, AND one of my all time favorite paintings. ♥️💙💛

Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction In undergrad, I volunteered to work a film festival and ended up as serving staff for Ian McKellen one night. I brought him crab cakes, he asked to get them warmed up. Somewhere there's a very awkward picture of us together about 9 years pre-E

over 30 selfie thread Honestly I look younger at 33 than I did at 23

I have done some truly excellent librarianing today. If anyone needs me, I'll be under as many cats and blankets as I can find.

I still don't get why people pay attention to literary awards. The Nobel Prize for Literature. The Pulitzer Prize for fiction. The Man Booker Prize. Not one of these have ever honored a book with an illustrated cutaway that tells you what all the parts of a castle are.

Regarding The Essay: If you have not yet figured out in Dec. 2025 that an appeal to a strict and fair adherence to the First Amendment is a rigged game, I would like to inspect your wallet for just a moment. The Essay was a trap designed to do just this - fail and then gin up far-right grifting 1/

If you’re lucky enough to have a trans person at your table this week, some advice: - Use their name! We picked our names because they’re what we wanted to be called, we love to hear them. - Ask their pronouns and use them. I know you think defaulting to they/them is avoiding misgendering, but no.

My wokest opinion is that everyone should get a free name and gender change if they want it. Make it a bat mitzvah type thing. When you feel ready, you announce to the world your true name and gender. Everyone throws a big party and gives you $. Whether you’re making a change or not!

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

It's come to my attention that this is the second time I've gone as a Vulcan. Exactly 10 years apart. Estrogen is neat.

Live fast, and prosper.

Fun fact, my makeup for Rocky Horror this year was an attempt at redoing the makeup I wore "as a joke" to Rocky in 2018. I've somehow gotten worse at eye shadow?

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

@miamurphy.net is definitely not being held hostage at this moment, and has the free will to make her own dining choices.

Andy said trans rights, y’all pretty decent chance we will have the Governor of Kentucky running to the left of the Governor of California on this issue in 2028. it’s a wacky world, folks

You don't have to judge Columbus by the standards of today. His tenure as governor of Hispaniola was so horrific that he was dragged back to Spain in chains to answer for his many crimes. Plus he never set foot on any land that would ever be a part of the United States of America.

It does feel like I only post on here when it's a timeline. But it's important to share the changes, not just physically but everything else too. It's hard to even say I'm the same person from before I felt comfortable enough to come out, but I get to be me because of the people who went before me.

Just gonna keep tapping the sign* *𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦

"Democrats want transgender operations for everybody" is something the president says frequently and that no mainstream media source (to my knowledge) really highlights or presses him on even though it's batshit.

IT IS TIME.

It's not *me* who made my very existence in the world a matter of political controversy. They're the ones who don't want me to exist or to suffocate in the closet. No matter how empathetic I try to be, I can't put myself in the shoes of someone who is so needlessly cruel to harmless people. Why?

Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜 The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization. Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵

Passports didn't have a gender marker before 1978 when the UN made them mandatory because of "the rise of unisex fashion and hairstyles." Removing them would require a change in rules from the UN's International Civic Aviation Organization.

post your timeline to bring some trans joy to yourself

remember stuff like this when they tell you that diversity means a lowering of standards

The "he's not gonna listen to her" reactions are missing many points. Lots of other people are also hearing it. Lots of people can see him hearing it, then weigh what she's said with what he'll do. Lots of people can see her refusal to surrender these ancient teachings to the latest face of empire