This morning in the studio

Pricing my pottery is fine, but trying to price my paintings was stressful! Basically just priced things based on how much it would take for me to part with them

Just learned that Connecticut had a law requiring blood tests for syphilis before getting a marriage license until 2003

We are disappointed @nycpride.bsky.social did not taken a stronger stance in line with community demands and the families of trans youth. Allowing them to march provides cover for the harm they’ve caused and fails to hold them accountable.

Rich, cis gay collaborators continue doing what they always have -- bowing to power and fucking over trans people. Fuck Heritage of Pride. All out for the eighth annual Queer Liberation March!

During rush hour on June 24, the Gender Liberation Movement and ACT UP NY held protests outside three New York City health care monopolies that cut off gender-affirming care to transgender youth earlier this year: Mount Sinai, NYU Langone and NewYork-Presbyterian.

Fuck me. Guess where Kirkland Signature minoxidil is manufactured

My legal name has been changed for over a year and I'm still finding my old name in work systems. Today it was my adobe account.

Today Gender Liberation Movement, ACT UP New York and others held protests outside three New York healthcare monopolies that have cut off gender-affirming care to transgender youth: Mount Sinai, NYU Langone and Columbia-Presbyterian. (My photos are from the action at Mount Sinai in Chelsea.) 🧵

TKDB: Trans kids hang pride flags from Havering Town Hall transkidsdeservebetter.org/trans-kids-hang-pride-flags-from-havering-town-hall

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social [Outing con't] IANAL but it appears the anti-trans legal backlash has now reached a point of hysteria where jurists have located an affirmative Constitutional right to know about a six-year-old's pronouns in the Founder's vision of the Constitution.

Some new chubby cuties 😈 #ceramic #clay #handmade #figurine #ceramicfigurine #creatures #clayart

My first market application was accepted! Guess I'm having a busy July 4

Bought a cheap wig and unlocked a new aspect of gender dysphoria 🫠

Ugh, colleagues want to sign up to do showings of the Sarah McBride documentary and I get to be like, um no, let's not show a film about a Zionist who wouldn't even stand up for her own identity in Congress

Back on a surgeon's calendar

Occasionally the sleep specialist recommending a GLP-1 as a way to avoid having to use a CPAP machine just pops back into my head

Probably some of the last pots that will be ready for the market I applied for

Found out yesterday that our new collective bargaining agreement includes retroactive pay increases and that is fantastic

Definitely not excited about my first laser hair removal appointment since the start of the year. Love the results, but damn, every provider lies about the pain

Just applied to my first market

I had some time and finally got around to taking photos of every pot I made in the last couple months

All the pottery I've made since I first opened my online shop

Started booking laser hair removal for my face again. Every time they've billed my insurance, the claim was denied but then approved on appeal after like two months

In the midst of the surgeon search, our health insurance system has basically gone down. Today I found out that the surgeon with Epstein connections is in-network

Just started the process of contacting two new surgeons 🤞

Some pride related pots are still available on my website ada-em.com

My plastic surgeon is leaving her practice a week before my next scheduled appointment which was supposed to be my consult for revision surgery. So personally sucks, but also is likely leaving CT without a bottom surgery provider

Clay supplier error has left me with one weirdly shaped lump

Definitely don't feel like I should have to be at commencement every year when I dont have a student-facing position

Day old pots

Please share: Transgender people and allies gathered on a street corner outside a dollar store in Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood on Wednesday night for a vigil held in honor of Eryka Caldwell, a 41-year-old trans woman who was fatally stabbed in a nearby apartment on May 17.

Getting to the point where glazing pottery feels as gratifying as throwing it

Took longer than it should have to install and get sound working, but I've been able to play around with Tidal Cycles for a bit

I learned to sew 4 years ago, started watercolor painting 3 years ago, began leaning pottery 1.5 years ago. Now I've spent multiple hours researching pocket synths, sequencers, and samplers

Recently trimmed pot

Introduce yourself with ten bands you’ve seen live: Eevie Echoes and the Locations Deerhoof Dan Deacon Magnolia Electric Co. Nat Baldwin Chris Bathgate Mason Proper Neko Case Wolf Parade Meredith Monk

A middle school punk band doing an anti-AI song would make me feel better about the future for the whole day even if the song wasn't an absolute banger. Since this one IS an absolute banger it more or less restored me to full HP.

One of my favorite varieties of pots to make is memes

Made something for myself. This pot is my new tool cup, hand built with coils. Might be my favorite thing I've made 🩷

New form, new textures

good morning trans people you do not have to forgive your mother

Inspired by an episode of @deathpanel.bsky.social

More pottery in progress and one finished piece. Jars are currently a thing for me and I've been trying out some carving tools

Seeing a specialist today for hypermobility and am stuck waiting in an exam room with no chairs with backs on them

It's so strange that my partner is on vacation with a 7 hour time difference. I'm getting goodnight texts at 3PM lol

My partner is on a 14 day trip to eastern Europe with his best friend and just sent me a photo of them together. They'd be such a cute couple lol

Saw a group of 4 bears today while driving between pottery studios. Shock of my life

Anti-trans extremists are trying to undermine the science of trans healthcare, but in Boston this weekend the passionate activists at Protect Trans Futures made it clear they couldn't get away with posing as experts without pushback. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...