"What I have come to understand is that refusal is not about defiance. It is abt devotion. It is a practice rooted in sustaining presence in the face of erasure. It lives in the tension between what is legal & what is just, what is mandated & what remains possible…" www.advocate.com/opinion/teac...

“I thought I would be able to be safe here... But with all these things that are happening now, I’m so confused about my future...” truthout.org/articles/she...

Vote Liberal, get a conservative. "It's pretty outrageous … what you've got is cabinet overruling science…" www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

"It pushes for requirements for metadata retention, expands information sharing with foreign governments, and establishes a mechanism that allows Canada’s Ministry of Public Safety to demand that companies create backdoors, effectively breaking encryption…" www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

It is Pride Month. Throughout this month, I will be sharing the stories of how Canadians fought for equality. Today it is the story of Michael Phair.

Notably, many of these procedures require nurses and anesthesiologists, who are already in short supply in public hospitals. Severe workforce shortages in the public hospital system will worsen as for-profit facilities siphon more public resources.

The Alberta government announced the list of surgical procedures that will be included in its plan to build an U.S.-style two-tier system.

"On Tuesday, the Trump administration filed a motion to join a lawsuit attempting to block the U.S.’s first and only reparations program…" truthout.org/articles/tru...

That headline again, 'Wait times in Alberta to grow exponentially starting this fall.' www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This is a weaponized lawsuit. Organizations like WPATH don't have massive budgets for prolonged court fights, but Trump has the entire US Treasury. And that sends a strong message to everyone else who might help or serve trans people.

"The Trump administration opened a new legal front against transgender healthcare on Wednesday, suing the world’s leading transgender health organization and accusing it of misleading families, doctors, and insurers about gender-affirming care for minors…" www.them.us/story/nation...

Strange how that works. And doesn’t

"There are queer adults alive today because they had the lifeline of social media. And yes, while there are plenty of people who have harmed themselves because of online content and users, there are just as many who have been saved…" www.thepinknews.com/2026/06/16/b...

Only Donald Trump could make Iran's religious fundamentalist regime look good by comparison. But he did more than that. He taught Iran how to defeat America.

"The government is planning to shut down hearings into Bill C-22, the lawful access bill, with no further debate or discussion… the [government's] amendments will remain secret and will not even be disclosed to the public…" www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/06/gove...

NPR is comparing a trans woman fleeing Texas for her personal safety with a conservative fleeing Seattle because he was annoyed with his neighbors. This is honestly insane both sides framing to a degree that is just blatant lying by omission.

as someone with friends, family, and colleagues who are trans - the reality they face is so much f*cking harder than some well off a**hole whining he can't display his overtly racist and classist opinions openly in public anymore. grow tf up.

Mark Carney eat shit forever

Canada has abruptly halted a program that was allowing LGBTQIA+ people & others with ancestral ties here to flee Trump's US. "Immigration lawyers say it appears to be a mass suspension, but just how many have been suspended is not yet known…" www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

A Catholic hospital refused to treat an Illinois woman's ectopic pregnancy until her condition became more dangerous. She later lost her ability to get pregnant naturally. Then the doctor sued HER for talking about it. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/a-catholic...

"deter innovation" is smoke and mirrors to cover obscene greed. #inequality

"If you cannot use the restroom at work, you cannot be employed. If you cannot use the restroom at school, you cannot go to school. If you cannot use your driver’s license without fear of being outed as transgender… you really can’t go about your life…" www.salon.com/2026/06/14/t...

X banned the word “cis” while permitting transphobia and the Guardian headline was pretty much: “Behold the field in which I grow my fucks. Lay thine eyes upon it and see that it is barren.” Which is why solidarity is the answer. No hate is acceptable. This racism stinks. Oh, and this:

In the end, parents will merely have one more tool to assert control & limit what their kids can know, & in the meantime we will all need ID to access anything, giving data that can br used for marketing or stolen, & ISPs will build the infrastructure to gate everything. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Emi cofounded Aileen’s Space, a peer-led org for women who work on the Pacific Highway. It’s heartbreaking that this GFM is to support Aileen’s while Emi took a break for treatment. If you care about sex workers, trans people, unhoused ppl, please donate and share. www.gofundme.com/f/support-ai...

Combatting toxic masculinity begins with combatting toxic preachers. "First, the co-hosts discuss how feminine men don’t go to heaven…. You will not inherit the kingdom of God if you are [gay], that’s true, but also if you are effeminate'…" www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/06/hate...

Devastated to hear about Emi Koyama's passing. Her essays, especially The Transfeminist Manifesto and Who's Feminism Is It Anyway, were foundational in my teens shaping the way I thought about being trans and having a set of ideas as a starting point when it came to dealing with the shit we face.

Don't worry: this regurgitation machine that industry and employers are investing in massively in hopes of significantly reducing (or, in their creamiest fantasies, eliminating) their labour costs is good for you, actually. We're not going to explain how right now, but you just need to be educated.

"Instead, the government is positioning the disconnect over the exuberance of industry — not to mention Carney himself and Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon — and the public’s skepticism as the product of a knowledge gap…" thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

Q: how can "bathroom ban" enforcement become even more invasive? A: "Zarian went on to tell the judge that a person would not necessarily need to consent before [DNA] testing could occur…" www.advocate.com/politics/sta...

"Pokémon Go players spent years filming the streets, parks, and buildings… Those roughly 30 billion environmental scans… helped train a camera-based navigation model that a U.S. defense contractor is preparing to put into drones and other military robots…" dronexl.co/2026/06/09/p...

"Tyrie is the executive director of the Dominion Society of Canada, a group that advocates… to remove up to nine million people — as much as 21 per cent of Canada’s current population — by deporting immigrants as well as revoking birthright citizenship…" thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

"Paramount executives are said to have held preliminary discussions with several candidates who would come in and run the business-side operations next to Weiss while she continues to oversee editorial..." nypost.com/2026/06/09/m...

cis people are scared trans people will gently correct them trans people are scared cis people will legislate our rights out of existence, make it impossible to exist publicly, deny we are who we say we are, and straight up murder us so, u know, pronouns are hard i guess, sure

"So when [NYC announced a]… direct-care clinic… it seemed like the administration was… delivering. It isn't… Mayor Mamdani's new clinic will deny care to anyone under 19 years of age—adopting the exact age cutoff from Trump's anti-trans executive orders…" www.erininthemorning.com/p/mamdanis-n...

"The initiative would require students… to provide 'a health examination… signed by the… [Dr.] that verifies the student’s biological sex, relying only on… The student’s reproductive anatomy, genetic makeup, or normal endogenously produced testosterone levels'…" www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/06/girl...

Poilievre's plan to unite Canada & fight separatism is a call on all provinces to join Alberta & revolt against the federal government. He's one of the most disgusting politicians in Canada. He is not fit to serve as Prime Minister. All he cares about is himself. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

recall Dallas Brodie now exists: recallbrodie.com

"But just hours before the broadcast… Weiss sent 'an email to my boss… ‘Can we make the protesters look more violent?’… And the other thing, Renee Good’s car. ‘You need to describe her as driving toward the officer'…" nymag.com/intelligence...

"A federal judge… temporarily blocked an attempt by the US Department of Agriculture to force state governments to comply with President Donald Trump’s positions on gender and immigration or lose out on billions of dollars in funding, including for food assistance…" truthout.org/articles/jud...

these are getting weird

"Schofield said a DOGE employee told him… that they wanted to add 2.7 million living people to SSA’s 'Death Master File,' cutting them off from essential financial services… "… the list… included some US citizens and lawful permanent residents…" www.alternet.org/trump-social...

That time when Hitler was too woke for MAGA. "Gruber's evidence? '[Hitler was] a vegan. He liked soy milk'…" www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

"The about-face by Smith is whiplash inducing… for more than a year her incessant grievance rhetoric, policies and legislative agenda have promoted and normalized the ideology underpinning the province’s separatist movement…" thetyee.ca/News/2026/06...

Yes, that's really his name. "… Batman claims that having to see a Progress Pride flag… effectively forces him to 'celebrate, recognize, and solemnize conduct and actions that he views as sin'…" www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/06/chri...

Just under 5 years ago, The Guardian censored these words of non-binary academic Judith Butler arguing that transphobia is fascism. Butler has quite obviously been proved right. A good day to share this widely.

Nothing reveals the "parents' rights" movement as being about ownership and control of kids like Christian Nationalists screaming that it's literal ownership of kids when LGBTQ+ people are parents. www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/06/unhi...

"another APP document… states 'promoting the teaching of transgenderism to children'… [contributes] to the 'fracturing of society'… "… Alberta 51 Project… [stated] transgender people 'are responsible for 95% of mass killings & violence against [cis] women'…" www.unclosetedmedia.com/p/what-do-ca...

Something that *must* be considered with the prospect of a referendum on (having a referendum on) Alberta separation is the ballot candy factor.

That the media so clearly likes him and wants him to win should be your biggest sign he's Fetterman 2.0 except without the convenient Flintstones style head injury that absolves his supporters of any responsibility for putting him in office.