When you are translating Salome and messaging about cats

You know when I advocated for funding to go towards music and not weapons this is not quite what I meant

absolutely dying to investigate this piano purchase

Hey cis allies: could you do us trans folks a favor? The next time you hear someone talk "mutilating surgeries on kids" as a talking point about trans health care- please- loudly call that shit out. Trans minors almost never receive gender affirming surgeries, and for the most part, never have. 🧵

Spent far to much of today Sorting Out The Broadband. A series of happenstances took me as far as the o2 shop in the Hammersmith King Street mall, where I met possibly the most competent phoneperson in the world. Fully expect her to be CEO in six months. New broadband/phone contract achieved!

“We are forced to stay despite the danger, when we defend our land, and we do so peacefully. None of us carries weapons. All of us carry peace and goodness and love.” These were the words of Father Pierre al-Rahi one day before Israel killed him in Lebanon today on March 9.

weird how the mass risings stop when the streets are being bombed and the skies have darkened with toxic smoke because some fascist across the world wanted some people to die so he could get hard

I’m a nurse and I do gender affirming care. I take care of women in their 60s and 70s who tell me their life stories, many with tremendous fallout in jobs, families, etc when they were finally able to transition as older adults. early transition saves lives & so, so much heartache & suffering

Medical transition for trans kids is now banned for new referrals on the NHS. Trans kids in the UK can still go private or DIY (for now). This means the new clinics that replaced GIDS are close to useless at best, conversion therapy at worst. 1/5

There are two things you can do right now to support young trans people in England. 1) Engage in political advocacy and community support. I've got *loads* of advice on this in my blog post and zine "But what can I do? How to fight the trans panic".

Eyy doing this one again this time for HRT

for me “doom scrolling” is actually just the pathological hunt for the first piece of news that indicates this whole unbearable moment is about to unravel

This International Women's Day, please remember that trans women are women. Full stop. No qualifiers.

“EXCLUSIVE: I’m the Palestinian Who Has Been in ICE Detention for Almost a Year” Writing for Zeteo from inside of prison on International Women’s Day, Leqaa Kordia asks us not to forget the female detainees being held and mistreated in ICE detention camps.

Hey, WQXR is playing music by women composers all day today. www.wqxr.org

I think a lot of us millennials & older really take it for granted that we were the last of only a couple generations where there was an all-encompassing campaign to encourage literacy. Everyone used to agree upon it. There were commercials with your favorite celebrities just being like, "READ!"

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I guess the thing about currently niche art forms like classical music/opera/ballet/etc. is that you can punch up or punch down at them, and a lot of people who think they're punching up are actually punching down

I highly recommend this book!

the very wealthiest people are remaining so in part by throttling any competition and suppressing any content that does not serve their purposes, and that damn well includes things like opera which not only has narrative content but brings people together in community

i have an idea for fixing the met's money problems: what if we let someone besides Peter Gelb try (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/a...

Happy International women's day to folks who are only kind of women, or only sometimes women, or who had to fight for their womanhood, or are only just discovering and embracing their womanhood, or are trying to ascend beyond a mere human body to something more terrible, or cis women too

Yesterday I: - translated more supertitles for Salome - made a first pass at a cut version of a Jacobean play - coached a baritone on some G&S dialogue - went to an excellent friend's excellent birthday party Translation, dramaturgy, text work. This is what I do. (Also partying)

I think what they're really trying to say is "How do I explain that queer people are bad when more and more of the world is saying they're good? How can I claim queer people are base animals when they're walking around openly being regular human beings?"

I love learning about Svalbard from this guy!

😀Team sheets for next weeks Exploring sessions have gone out, but there's always more room at the inn if you want to join us. Afternoons we're reading Bonduca by John Fletcher, and in the evening we're completing Hannibal and Scipio by Thomas Nabbes. Quite Roman this week! forms.gle/P47R4H4Z3NTZ...

my first poem of the year? certainly my first sonnet... & definitely my first rhyming sonnet — ever!

Would watch.

Avril Coleridge-Taylor today!

“The 312-foot Dena and its 130-member crew, many of them musicians in the Iranian navy band, had just finished participating in an Indian government naval exercise and cultural exchange that the U.S. Navy had also participated in and were on the way home on Wednesday.”

scientifically speaking, pretty much any opera singer could snap Timothée Chalamet like a twig

ten years ago, it was wonderfully commonplace to go to the Kennedy Center to watch a guy on a baseball bat turned violin and a beatboxer with an electric cello cutting it up with the National Symphony Orchestra

Proceeding with caution because I don't know much about this candidate. But she once drove Susan Collins into a frenzy using only sidewalk chalk, so she's got that going for her.

Do listen to Kate’s stylings

i feel like mullin is gonna use teamsters to undermine the largely hispanic, united farm workers union — we dont need the new face of ICE being chummy with any labor union president. not a single union should be in support (or have the appearance of supporting) of ICE.

they knew they could get away with it because they practiced all those times on the “narco-terrorist” boats, where they also killed the survivors, and nobody sent them to The Hague about it so they are running completely unchecked right now with full use of the arsenal. I do not know how this ends

Every time we see this Marty Feldman book it reminds us of that time we stuck googly eyes on it but all that happened was it looked even more like Marty Feldman. 👀

*through gritted teeth* I am once again unfortunately going to have to hand it to the House of Lords

I wept my heart out watching De La’s tiny desk gig. Because Petra had been there since the Daisy Age, we played them in her shitbag Plymouth Neon in the heat of DC summers from ‘89 onwards. Seeing them remember Dave (Plug2, Trugoy the Dove) made me think how we all sing in the shadow of grief.

The thing about the Chalamet quote is that it's not worth getting upset about. It's not new that there are people who get into the arts because they care deeply about a particular art form, and people who get into the arts as a vehicle for becoming as famous as possible.

Interrupting the horrors of the world to tell you that the new Mary Queen of Scots ballet by Scottish Ballet brings to stunning new life the horrors of the world past - challenges all the old tropes of her story and is so HUMAN and embodied and high-stakes that I bawled in the end. Just stunning.

I loved this show very very much a long time ago it is long past time to let it (and certainly Whedon and Baldwin) fade away

That clip of Timothee Chalamet being like “no one watches the opera or ballet” is wild and I am dying over every ballet and opera acct (correctly) being like “we’ve been here for hundreds of years before you and we’ll be here for hundreds of years after you” lmao

you need to understand that Platner is not just a candidate , he is a canary in the coalmine to a certain kind of man that the world has not changed and they still can get plush gigs and pole position in society and life with zero qualification and even less aptitude for the work .

Shouts to the Zamboni riders at tonight's Sirens game!

kind of crazy that if you have enough money and don't like what you see in the media, you can just buy up every film studio, news station, and social media app and change it

Please share - and donate if you can! I'm helping to raise money for Isaac - a Black trans kid seeking vital healthcare in England. Isaac is lucky enough to have a very supportive family, but they have all been screwed time and time again by the NHS and UK authorities. Any contribution will help!

wishing a very SLEEP WITH ONE EYE OPEN to all other anti-trans Democrats nervously looking ahead to their own primaries

Oh hey, I used to do a ton of Regency dance and the recital dance in this season of Bridgerton is an actual real historically accurate dance I’ve done. Which is not usually how watching this show goes.