$18/$100! 🥰

I’m going on my Pride vacation, beginning tomorrow! I need $100 to cover my luggage fees, flight comforts, & food. I currently have $5. My airport arrival time is 4:15 am. If you can help, please give to CA: $KiiXeeExplorer Ven: @KiiXeeExplorer PP: venusselenitexo Anything helps!! Thanks! 😊

On the 1st day of Pride, I pranced and gyrated all over my house to a remix of Whitney Houston’s “I’m Every Woman” and remembered indeed I am every woman. ✊🏾🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🩵🩷🖤🩷🩵

pride for me is an amalgamation of everything i am with my sexuality and gender in the forefront hosting the party. we each get to decide how pride makes us happy, not the machine and not the projections. #HappyPride 🌈 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️⚧️

In order to make my first payout, I must sell at least 4 books; already sold 1! If you’re interested in some Black trans femme poems, here’s an option to support you as the world makes itself anew! 🌱

Blessed birthday Goddess Venus 🖤🖤🖤

Happy Birthday! 🎂

Happy belated birthday 🎉💕✨

In order to make my first payout, I must sell at least 4 books; already sold 1! If you’re interested in some Black trans femme poems, here’s an option to support you as the world makes itself anew! 🌱

ICYMI! 🤗 My work continues!

Today is my 36th birthday! 🎂 Life gets better as I get older & I’m happy to begin another revolution! If you’d like to help me celebrate, I could use your support with a bday meal, my upcoming vacation, & personal + living expenses! ❤️ CA: $KiiXeeExplorer Ven: @KiiXeeExplorer PP: venusselenitexo

Give birthday praises to the queen y’all!!!

Today is my 36th birthday! 🎂 Life gets better as I get older & I’m happy to begin another revolution! If you’d like to help me celebrate, I could use your support with a bday meal, my upcoming vacation, & personal + living expenses! ❤️ CA: $KiiXeeExplorer Ven: @KiiXeeExplorer PP: venusselenitexo

It is Venus's birthday and xe can use your celebration for groceries. If you like poetry, you can also help a la buying a poetry book!

I have hundreds of white people - who are #TeamBlue, who followed me in quick succession and have never engaged with me. Um. What are y’all doing here?

Groceries for tomorrow’s brunch received, but don’t have energy to make dinner. Fighting a headache. Need support to eat, so I can rest, please. ❤️

I MADE MY FIRST SALE 12 MINUTES AGO! 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

Good afternoon good people of Bluesky. I'm in the need of $700 to cover medical bills and some living expenses. So I'm opening up my commissions indefinitely. If you know of anyone that is in the market for artwork, please send them my way. My menu can be found below

IT’S PUBLISHED!!! 🥹 THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF “TRIGGER” IS PUBLISHED!!! 🥰 Visit venuskiithomas.gumroad.com to get your digital copy!!

Boosting! If you can, please help Venus get groceries!

Donate to Venus here.

Please boost so that Venus may eat well. @161bklyn.bsky.social @alsvid.bsky.social

5 - for Venus: bsky.app/profile/venu...

Before I hit the publish button, I really need to get a grocery order for the weekend + food for today ($50) CA: $KiiXeeExplorer Ven: @KiiXeeExplorer ❤️

I’M HITTING THE PUBLISH BUTTON TODAY. IT’S COMING. 😍

I did it. 🙂 I brought my book back, newer and better, resurrected and revived. Back in relationship with my first child. THIS TOOK SO MUCH WORK, Y’ALL. YET I DID IT.

I think it’s a beautiful thing that I’m surrendering to figuring out how to use Bluesky as an artist. As a SWer, I got it down. Artist? We still taking baby steps. All I’ve written tonight thus far? Gigantic baby steps. 🙂🥲

If you need a refresher, I wrote the original version of “trigger” as Venus Selenite, which remains my legal name. Venus Kii Thomas has been my artist name for 4 years now. Maybe I’ll explain further one day the meaning of this name. 🙂

I’m rarely here on this account speaking. I’m always on my SW account, but right now, I need to be here, and I need to speak, no matter who is, or isn’t listening, or pausing from scrolling.

It’s uploaded and I’m adding finishing touches before publication tomorrow. 😍

“OF COURSE, YOUR DADDY HERE AIN’T NOTHING BUT SOME DEAD HORSESHIT!!!”

It’s truly sad how The Color Purple (the film adaptation) has been turned into humor. Because there’s nothing… absolutely nothing… funny about this story. And if you do (Tyler Perry), you are the problem.

The Color Purple is a story of Black women working through, exploring, and taking the actions to arrive to their freedom, rising out of the debris of the abuse they’ve experienced, and teaching others how to do it.

In the 80s, she wrote a lifestyle column for R-18 trans tabloid The Transvestian. In the 90s, her ground-breaking novellas defined Black trans indie publishing. In the early 00s, she helped organize the TWOC community, inspiring Monica Roberts to write. This is the story of Roberta Angela Dee.

After all the years of watching The Color Purple, I finally see the motif of pointing the finger. It’s a motif that represents the reclaiming of power in the midst of, or the response to, abuse. In this instance, the abuses that come with patriarchy, misogyny, and sexism.

Watching The Color Purple while folding my laundry. 💜

May I remind you folks that Bex is at their most vulnerable right now? May I point out that their requests are rarely FULLY met? May I enlighten you on how bad things are in the healthcare space for Black queer folks? How we often get denied healthcare and pain medication? HELP BEX!! See links!

✨ MUTUAL AID POST ✨ I’m sharing a new mutual aid/36th birthday graphic tomorrow, but I’m going to push this one a little bit longer with updated information! I’m still in need of covering my bill balances for May and June, coming out to nearly $5,000!

Gladys Knight vs. Patti LaBelle hands down.

But at this time, I still need your help! If you can give, repost, share, like it up, I appreciate all of it! Thank you! 😊

Between revamping up my SW, the re-release of “trigger,” and detailing my creativity systems, I’m positive the coin that’s about to come in is going to launch me into the stratosphere because a girl has a plan!

This clip made me angry and I applaud those black women for not knocking all that shit over

Uuuggghhh I wanna cry now I got to see him live on my birthday once He could barely walk and had to be helped onto the stage, but his actual playing was EXCELLENT Rest in POWER to the Saxophone Colossus

Marlon, if that’s really your friend, take him to task on his transphobia.

I can’t stop smiling. 🙂

✨ MUTUAL AID POST ✨ I’m sharing a new mutual aid/36th birthday graphic tomorrow, but I’m going to push this one a little bit longer with updated information! I’m still in need of covering my bill balances for May and June, coming out to nearly $5,000!

I’M RE-RELEASING MY BOOK ON FRIDAY AND I TURN 36 ON SUNDAY!! 😍