November 5th, 2028 My name is Rachel. I was a writer. I still have a keyboard and although they seemingly own the streets, the media and parliament too, they don’t own my thoughts. They never will. medium.com/prismnpen/t-... #LGBTQ #Fiction #QueerFiction #Terrorism

Last night on the train, I listened to Rachel Maddow interview former Vice President Kamala Harris about her forthcoming book “107 Days”. It was the first extended political interview I’ve listened to in many months. buff.ly/QrrcCPM #LGBTQ #USPolitcs #KamalaHarris #Gay

I was never again comfortable in that space. And they never knew their careless words had found a target in my heart. I left the church shortly after that. buff.ly/LPh5lvn #LGBTQ #Queer #Church #AffirmingChurch

Entry specialists are able to assess the condition of someone’s heart, not in a physical way, but in how they interact with the world. They decline entry to those who have a desire to hurt themselves or others. buff.ly/TUOgkIB #LGBTQ #QueerFiction #Fiction #Fantasy #Utopia

Two girls hide their love for each other; Wait and see what love will uncover. Wait and see if something will happen — Wait, waiting for love to kidnap them. Two girls melt under the starlight; Two girls find the hidden path before them — buff.ly/Yjbayt3 #LGBTQ #Poetry #SapphicPoetry #LovePoem

Caitlyn’s representation of the trans community, as it turned out, proved questionable. Yes, she’d changed the sex markers on her driver’s license and passport. But, she hadn’t changed the “R” on her political affiliation. buff.ly/UOQvikS #LGBTQ #Transgender #CaitlynJenner #USPolitics

Hi, my name is Kira. I'm a #transgender woman and counsellor specialising in transgender care. Today I want to talk about #pseudoscience and debunk some myths around transgender people. Of course, from the point of view of real #science. buff.ly/BpKM59R #LGBTQ #Debunking

Season 2 feels timely because America, too, is caught in its own whirlwind of lies — where comfort matters more than truth, and where protecting that comfort comes at the expense of other people’s safety and dignity. buff.ly/D5HnV7j #LGBTQ #TheHuntingWives #USPolitics

From all the conversations I’ve had with #transgender and cisgender people, there is always a part where the focus is on #empathy. “What would it be like if I had to wear that person’s shoes?” buff.ly/Wpt9XGM #LGBTQ #Relationships #Understanding

I first realised I was asexual back in 2021, and at that point I began to identify as such. I felt like asexual was the best way to describe myself. buff.ly/YoLuKY3 #LGBTQ #Asexuality #Identity

Fae, since you’ve likely never met my fiancée, is a hippie. She smiles all the time. She’s creative, always drawing Hello Kitty pics, including one that’s a mash up with Aliens. buff.ly/qXuiOje #LGBTQ #Transgender #PersonalStory

In light of a recent hoax that the bullets used by Tyler Robinson to assassinate Charlie Kirk had “transgender engravings” on them, some Republican lawmakers called for trans people to be “institutionalized.” buff.ly/WDDP4q9 #LGBTQ #Transgender #USPolitics #Ideology #Terrorists

Watch the news, read a newspaper, and, God forbid, go on the internet, and you find #transgender women being accused of assassinations, child grooming, molestations in the ladies’ room, and the collapse of Western Civilization as we know it. buff.ly/PrKIKes #LGBTQ #Politics #MentalHealth

I am a queer, gun-owning #communist. We, especially in the U.S., are in some really pressing sociopolitical times. Here are five reasons why #communism upholds queer lives, and supports #queer people. buff.ly/IMe6mmo #LGBTQ #USPolitics #Politics

I want to speak about a different kind of #utopia. One that could be within reach, one that requires only the most basic of things to exist: dignity, respect and compassion to those around us. buff.ly/QN4RMuV #LGBTQ #Hope #Queer #Future

Although he knows I’m queer, he’s never seen me like this. I’ve never had the nerve to present myself fully dressed to him. But too late now. buff.ly/jUaQseo #LGBTQ #Transgender #Family #Parenting

When I was a teenager, watching my parents laugh their heads off at Eddie Izzard’s Dress to Kill was a huge turning point in shedding my internalized homophobia. buff.ly/9asXP0K #LGBTQ #Comedy #Comedians #Queer

How many out-and-proud educators did you have in K-12, trade school, or university? If you’re like me, the answer is zero. medium.com/prismnpen/wh... #LGBTQ #Education #Teachers #Educators #School

all pieces in a three-dimensional box closed tightly open only to the picture on top doesn’t make sense twisted pieces straight ones too spread out on the table separated and assigned with one purpose, to fit in... buff.ly/aAIBvHb #LGBTQ #Poetry #QueerPoetry #FittingIn

The same outrage machine chews through wildly different events — petty, tacky, catastrophic — and spits out the same flattened roles: hero, villain, hashtag. buff.ly/6vuRDS1 #LGBTQ #Transgender #USPolitics #Voting #Outrage

I honestly, truly do believe that inside every adult in our modern society is a terrified little child, abused by authoritarian systems in our lives until we learned to behave to survive. That abuse is highly gendered. medium.com/prismnpen/wh... #LGBTQ #Transgender #Society #GenderRoles

Over the years, conservatives have refined a special expertise at co-opting language, altering its meaning, and turning the redefined word or phrase against their perceived enemies. buff.ly/U0Z6uJI #LGBTQ #USPolitics #HateSpeech #FreeSpeech

Me: Mom, do you remember when I told you I was gay? Mom: Yes, we were in the car. Me: Yeah, remember, I had written you that letter, but you never got it. Mom: I remember. Where were we going? Me: You came to visit and we were driving home. buff.ly/IcKeNLq #LGBTQ #Gay #Memoir #ComingOut

Zack has, crucially, been incredibly supportive of trans rights. In an interview with The Canary, he reiterated his and the Green Party’s strong commitment to trans rights. buff.ly/ZSduVM9 #LGBTQ #Transgender #TransRights #UKPolitics

If there’s been a more frightening time to be a U.S. #queer person, I’ve not experienced it during my 63 years, not even during the AIDS era, when we could count on at least a semblance of democratic norms.This week in Prism & Pen, we speak our minds! #LGBTQ #transgender medium.com/prismnpen/wh...

I grew up with a great deal of respect for laborers, and yet it’s with those same people I’ve felt so unwelcome. The disdain for emotionality. The casual sexism. The judgement for those deemed “lazy”. The anger at immigrants and “outsiders.” buff.ly/0U9nRui #LGBTQ #USPolitics #Equality #Solidarity

his sky is clouded thickly. Last Thursday happened quickly; I can’t flirt but you do slickly, mix words with pheromonic trembling static air, your hair resembling sunset’s pinkish flare, your eyes like skies... buff.ly/EPoXgqH #LGBTQ #Poetry #QueerPoetry #SapphicPoetry #wlw

As we move forward through our harmful political climate (as an understatement), one thing is clear, especially among marginalized people: Our liberation is interconnected. buff.ly/8yBRfvL #LGBTQ #Queer #Equality #Liberation #Solidarity

When I think of utopia, I don’t imagine the absence of struggle I imagine the presence of belonging. To know that even with our differences, no one is pushed to fit into a box or left standing on the margins. To live free, like wildflowers. buff.ly/UqAxHmU #LGBTQ #Freedom #Utopia #Dreaming

I am trying to re-contextualize the cause and effect here, placing the anti-Left backlash Charlie Kirk’s assassination has engendered into a wider genocidal movement that was already building to this moment, and would have been regardless. buff.ly/rw2lHTT #LGBTQ #USPolitics #CultureWar

I guess, if I’d thought of everything through to the Nth degree, I’d have been so paralyzed by the enormity of the project I would never have embarked upon it. Maybe I’m still using man brain. buff.ly/l5X8vwE #LGBTQ #Transgender #Self #Identity

On its own, weight-loss advice from a doctor isn’t unreasonable. But paired with judgment and offered as the only solution, it lands like dismissal. buff.ly/GXs763h #LGBTQ #FatShaming #Medical #DietCulture

It was purely a question of being seen as myself. I didn’t want it to be about sexuality at all. I just wanted somewhere I could go where I could be myself, where I felt safe. buff.ly/ptovt6L #LGBTQ #Transgender #Reality #Self #Identity

It’s pretty clear that the right is desperate for “trans” to be linked to the murder of Charlie Kirk. They just want to rationalize their persecution of trans people buff.ly/Rn9ePsj #LGBTQ #Transgender #CharlieKirk

Are we really gonna recycle the same tired-ass excuses used against us to justify oppression against them? Or are we gonna stand on the side of justice, even when it’s inconvenient, even when it asks more of us? buff.ly/Gi901Gt #LGBTQ #Justice #Animals #Veganism

They tell you who you are, not the other way around. They say you’re mentally ill for feeling like you’re in the wrong body. But you know you’re a man. It’s a living nightmare. buff.ly/OFRGvev #LGBTQ #Transgender #Gender #ThoughtExperiment

Feeling intoxicated by a murderous rage, Nyx took a deep breath before using one of the entrances. She emerged into what looked like a massive ballroom, and there stood a human-sized cage with her fated mate trapped inside. buff.ly/ufZgh1g #LGBTQ #Fiction #QueerFiction #SerialFiction

Captain’s Journal, October 15th, 2225: While on a shakedown cruise of the CSS Harvey Milk in the Alpha Centauri system, my science officer Bi’nari has alerted me to a fascinating discovery… buff.ly/IYNrYEc #LGBTQ #Fiction #QueerFiction #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Future

I was a sophomore in high school — and a year out of the closet — when the planes hit the World Trade Center on 9/11. When the second plane hit, the news anchors declared it a terrorist attack. buff.ly/66AX4Kg #LGBTQ #Gay #QueerHistory #September11

The rent in my brain is expensive, and the inflation of carnage is raising the price of my thoughts and prayers every month. My wife and I are both trans, & believe me, I’d rather not write about Charlie Kirk’s death. buff.ly/f0Nv2gX #LGBTQ #Transgender #CharlieKirk #GunViolence #Empathy

Everyone is very quick to yell that we should be “respectful” and “empathetic” towards the dead. To be clear, I am not condoning the use of violence, and I do not celebrate his death, but I will not mourn it either. buff.ly/H7pvziD #LGBTQ #CharlieKirk #Empathy #GunViolence

As I approach my 40th birthday, I find myself more uncertain than ever before about the world and my place in it. And it has almost nothing to do with the marquee date looming in the not-too-distant future. medium.com/prismnpen/th... #LGBTQ #HumanRights #Aging #Acceptance #Politics

I wasn’t in Montreal when that happened. I was in Europe, extending a trip in search of inspiration for stories I still hadn’t written, swept up in a side romance that would eventually peak dramatically before collapsing. medium.com/prismnpen/me... #LGBTQ #Gay #Relationships #Polyamory

Senese-Grossberg’s play has nothing to do with promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in contemporary America, but rather intends to capture and dramatize a slice of English history. buff.ly/YbANU2D #LGBTQ #USPolitics #Oklahoma #Shakespeare

Being a #transgender man meant walking through life with fear, rejection, and doubt stacked on my back, and there were times when the weight felt too heavy to carry another day. buff.ly/Pl5wXwn #LGBTQ #MentalHealth #SuicideIdeation

bad as things obviously are at the moment with the rising transphobia in places like the US and Britain, if I were to guess where #queer rights will be in 20 years’ time, I’d say we will have made progress. buff.ly/4rJHU2Z #LGBTQ #Transgender #HumanRights #Future

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What is my sin I must confess? What wrong refutes my faithfulness? Is my fault youth or wantonness? My self is not enough suppressed? Am I a tarnished murky gem, Cast off from the King’s diadem? ... buff.ly/O9COnxt #LGBTQ #Poetry #Queer #ReligiousTrauma #SelfWorth

‘Medical tattoo artist’ wasn’t a common title, and Tamara was determined to fill the gap. She took private lessons, paid a lot, with the hope that it would eventually pay off. buff.ly/MNnVeCt #LGBTQ #Transgender #Tattoos #Artist #TattooArtist

You’ll end up living in Miami and South Beach as a Secret Service Agent months after that birthday, with your first boyfriend. You can reread that last part if you need to, but it’s real and it happens. buff.ly/iSDXabv #LGBTQ #Gay #LetterToSelf #GrowingUp #ItGetsBetter