See you tonight, DC folks! Doors at 5pm, program at 6pm. RSVP: tinyurl.com/TRANSMUTATIONDC

I’ll be in DC next Tuesday to co-host @mirrormemoirs.bsky.social ‘s film screening with our DC-based board members @queenadesuyi.bsky.social @ahmadgreene.com @its-mbwende.bsky.social at @festivalcenter.bsky.social - I hope to see our DMV community members there!

Our deepest gratitude to everyone who has donated to Transmutation: A Ceremony since 2021. Please help this sacred production cross the finish line 🖤 You can become a sponsor via the RSVP pages or by emailing us. Please spread the word!

We still need to raise $65,000 to produce this film screening and live performance series! If you or your workplace are interested and able to support, we have sponsor levels ranging from $500 to $25,000. Seats are free, donations are encouraged and welcome.

In 2025, we celebrate 4 years of our theater project, “Transmutation: A Ceremony,” supporting 4 Black & Afro Latina trans women sharing their survivorship, resistance & resilience. We’re taking this show on the road! 🎥 DC: May 20 🎥 Oakland: June 5 🎥 Long Beach CA: June 11 🎭 NYC: October 10 & 11

NYPD officers attended a training telling them that Palestinian symbols like the watermelon & the keffiyeh, as well as phrases such as “settler colonialism” & “all eyes on Rafah," were antisemitic. Shameful that so many pushed the IHRA definition of "antisemitism," which was used in this training.

For a lot of trans Catholics, Pope Francis offered hope for acceptance and at a minimum, dignity for us. He was a good man in a deeply flawed institution and it was clear he was always trying his best to move the church in a better direction. www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/pos...

DO NOT RANK CUOMO, WHO WILL LET ICE KIDNAP YOUR FRIENDS, NEIGHBORS, AND MAYBE YOU OFF THE STREET. DO RANK: 1. Zohran Mamdani 2. Brad Lander 3. Jessica Ramos 4. Zellnor Myrie 5. Adrienne Adams

In April 1983, Reagan declared the first Child Abuse Prevention Month as he slashed social programs & expanded the family policing system that itself abuses children. 42 yrs later, the gov is STILL using this playbook. So let’s be clear about what child abuse prevention really IS & what it IS NOT ⬇️

Engineers in Chicago have created carbon-negative building materials using seawater, electricity, and CO2. The technique mimics how corals build reefs, and generates substances similar to concrete while permanently sequestering carbon dioxide. buff.ly/Dn8EiXA #ShareGoodNewsToo

we’re so grateful for the strong reaction people are having to Vivian Wilson’s convo w Ella Yurman ❤️‍🔥 @teenvogue.com it feels worth noting that Elon Musk spent a chunk of the day of his daughter’s first cover story tweeting anti-trans propaganda mixed with anti-journalist memes

Musk ran with the fact that some of the people charged with the Tesla vandalism may be gender non-conforming, suggesting that it pointed to a larger phenomenon of violence perpetrated by trans people.

New research confirming what was anticipated: abortion bans have been more likely to force Black, Hispanic, and poor people to give birth www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/u...

The US military just purged their website of mentions of the Holocaust, 9/11 remembrance, cancer awareness, sexual assault, and suicide prevention to align with their new “anti-DEI” policies.

#OtD 20 Mar 1927 2500 Dalits (sometimes called "untouchables") marched in Mahad, India, to claim their right to use public water tanks. The protesters drank from the tank and left. In response to this peaceful protest, a mob of caste Hindus attacked them stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9...

This case should be a wake up call. Our client has been disappeared and locked up solely based on his tattoos. It is naive to think this kind of incarceration with no chance to refute the charges against you will be limited to asylum seekers. If this goes unchallenged, who could be next?

#Druids survived the Christianization of #Ireland & the notion that #StPatrick driving snakes out of Ireland represents the violent suppression of #paganism is among many other myths that need to be debunked & #StPatricksDay is actually an Irish American creation... irishpagan.school/saint-patric...

The second @genderlib.com mass call is tonight at 7pm ET. If you’re interested in our work, what we’re hearing about the state of gender-based threats, and what’s ahead for Trans Week of Visibility & Action. Register and join us at bit.ly/GLMCALL2

The Trump administration deported Brown University assistant professor and surgeon Rasha Alawieh to Lebanon, despite a Massachusetts court having ordered the administration not to remove her from the state that same day. Alawieh has a valid H-1B visa and has lived in the U.S. since 2018.

Researchers have reported a link between cardiovascular issues and hot weather, forecasting that heart disease could double or triple in the next 25 years if current climate trends continue ⤵️

Help us make the upcoming congressional recess one for the history books. We’ve put together a detailed toolkit to help you plan events in your districts, make the most of town halls, and put Members of Congress on blast if they try to hide from constituents: indivisible.org/muskorus

I made a #TeslaTakedown flyer you can put on put on any parked Tesla you see micahflee.com/fight-fascis...

Indigenous & rural organizers in Minnesota prioritize clean water over ‘green’ nickel mine, Joseph Mogul reports. With the Trump administration back in office, local organizing to protect water & uphold the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe’s treaty rights is paramount. prismreports.org/2025/03/03/m...

Agreed with Gillian here. If you called your Senator (or didn't) to tell them to vote against a trans sports ban, it's important that you also call them and thank them for their vote. NO Democrat broke on this. myreps.datamade.us

Indigenous Food Reciprocity as a Model for Mutual Aid. For centuries, Native communities have focused on the collective rather than the individual. civileats.com/2025/03/03/i...

"It could result in genital exams and more." I've long wondered how people will react when they realize that is what will be required to play little league sports should shit like this pass. I am sure the kind parents who have been my kids coaches over the years did not sign up for that

Time to teach our children that no one has a right to touch them. Bodily autonomy means your body is yours. Privacy is sacred.

1. Happening now, the United States Senate is considering S9, a bill that would ban transgender people from playing sports of their gender identity from chess to darts and everything in between. It could result in genital exams and more. I'm covering live. Watch: www.senate.gov/legislative/...

1. Reports this week revealed that DHS has rescinded guidance banning surveillance based on someone's gender identity or sexual orientation. We have confirmed those reports. The latest from S. Baum, who goes over steps you can take to protect yourself. Subscribe to support our journalism.

I learned that around 3 million military connected kids- largely children of veterans who have left the service are dependent on Medicaid. This breaks my heart both at the threat to their healthcare access and the fact that we clearly need to do more to help veterans make this transition

Proposed budget cuts focused on medicaid cuts would directly impact the 37 million children covered by Medicaid (almost half of US kids)

Headed home from the meeting of medical school pediatric chairs - many of them also Chief Medical Officers for children’s hospitals. so much at stake for the health of children- all children

Black Studies and the Fight Against Fascism Join us for a timely conversation with @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social, @jfernandez1202.bsky.social, Sarah Haley, Robin D.G. Kelley, Barbara Ransby, & Robyn Spencer-Antoine Tuesday, March 4 at 6:00 pm ET RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

“Transgender people need champions and voices and not people voting against people because they’re afraid—they need somebody willing to take it on the chin, and I’m willing to do that,” Iowa State Sen. Tony Bisignano told me. www.advocate.com/politics/ton...

ok, cis folks—if you said you'd stand with trans folks, it's time. S.9 is the senate's sports ban bill—a big step to making trump’s executive order a federal law, which is much harder to undo. it can be stopped *monday.* short call scripts for dem & GOP senators ⬇️🧵 legiscan.com/US/bill/SB9/...

Finally. A major media outlet has finally reported on Trump’s total travel ban for transgender visa applicants seeking the United States. I had to scream for two days to get someone else to report on it. It is NOT just for athletes. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

LGBTQ+ Americans are more likely to experience domestic violence, partner abuse or dating violence. They're more vulnerable to losing housing and jobs because of their identity. Now, the organizations that help them expect their federal funding to dry up under the Trump administration.

#Erasure If you are silent I'm the face of this, it will not save or spare you. Whether we count them or not trans people have always existed and will always exist. www.statnews.com/2025/02/25/c...

#OtD 27 Feb 1973 armed Native American activists occupied Wounded Knee, South Dakota, in protest at corruption and US treaty breaches with Native Americans. Despite state violence and killings they held out for 71 days and galvanised huge support stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9...

Last year I had an enlivening conversation about #PracticingNewWorlds w/ @amitaswadhin.bsky.social & Mirror Memoirs & hope to join the good folks @upendmovement.org who are are reading it in April. If you are reading #PracticingNewWorlds w/ others I will happily join a convo about it if I am able!

A very useful resource www.eater.com/24364171/ice...

Trans liberation and disability justice are one fight.

I can’t stop thinking about Sam Nordquist: how his mother described him as a kind & generous young man, how he was tortured, murdered, how media’s erased his race, youth, sometimes even trans-ness, and are sharing pre-transition photos of him. BLACK TRANS LIVES MATTER. www.them.us/story/sam-no...