Ask The Gender Doula is coming Friday am! 🤔 I’m interested in top surgery…what do I do? 😞 I don’t see my identity reflected around me. How do I process this grief? 🕊️ How can I connect to spirituality as a trans person? 🏳️‍⚧️ My facial hair gives me dysphoria, but I don’t wanna stop T. What do I do?

Surgeons should be required to label BMI requirements as unverified personal gnosis (UPG)

This whole post hit so deep for me. I appreciate Amaya's coeurage and willingness to put this into the world.

Transphobia in any form is absolute loser behavior.

It's about to be the first of two New Moons in Virgo. Two #Virgo New Moons during a #Tarot Hermit year is significant. Tune out the noise, listen to your body. Virgo is an Earth sign. Mercurial yes, but still an Earth sign. Reality is tangible but not fixed. Whatcha gonna do with a flexible reality?

hey guys check this out A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO FEMINIZING HRT (15.9k words) pghrt.diy

What I love most about long-form tarot readings is the opportunity to feel into the story that the cards are telling...pulling on various threads but making sure to also weave the tapestry such that the querent received the medicine they need.

Damn I didn't realize how much I miss reading tarot.

Breathwork for Trans Liberation - where trans folks can gather to breathe, connect to their bodies and one another, and be held in a container of love and support. Happening tomorrow at 5:30 pm PT. bit.ly/TransBreath

"devotion is [...] about knowing the heartbeat of a thing, so that we can still recognize it even as it adapts or adjusts, through different timelines and lifetimes." — @megjoneswall.bsky.social YES and we really aren't taught to understand this double-vision reality of devotion, culturally

Anywho, many things in my life shifted when I realized that so much of what I assumed I "should just know" how to do were actually skill sets that no one had yet taken the time to teach me. After I left my abusive relationship, I learned that "being okay" was actually a skill set. (1/7)

2 weeks into marketing Snake Medicine and I JUST remembered it needs to go on my actual website 🥲 payhip.com/b/n5vVp

@amayarourke.bsky.social is putting out the most incredible info/work right now and I bet you wanna read it!

So earlier this year I danced with death more intimately than I have in awhile. It was unexpected, in that my surgery was "totally routine" and "the easiest abdominal surgery" and etc. But while I laid in a hospital bed with ice cold blood dripping into my arm, I remember thinking...

Today is both exciting, generating, fascinating, AND maddening, frustrating, and shitty. I know all the astrology and I expected it to be a rough ride but 😮‍💨!!!!! It's a lot to hold in one squishy body.

For all of my classes and workshops, I offer scholarships. This is because 1) I want my classes to be financially accessible and 2) I have benefitted from receiving many scholarships, and have used them for most of my education, traditional and non. But I do things a little different. Here's why.

I have been gone but 1) I finished my book (rough draft)!!!!! 2) Snake Medicine is back!!! payhip.com/b/n5vVp

As I continue working on my Gender Rituals book, its starting to feel more and more like a transition grimoire. Which is...making me want to write an actual transition grimoire. 👀

My mutual aid raffle for Jail Support LA raised $426.10!!! I sent the final donation today and notified the winner 🥰 So grateful I could support my community this way, and so grateful for all who donated!!

8 chapters written, 7 to go. 41K words down, out of a projected 80k total. I plan to finish the rest by the end of July, with the help of the transcestors and the gods! Draft is due to publisher at the end of August. 🪽🙏🏻

Well, this seems like a pretty topical day to read this essential nonfiction cut from @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

Here's our rapid response list of orgs to reach out to if you're trans and in need of aid right now (or if you're cis and want an org to support): www.them.us/story/scotus... Not exhaustive, but Quispe, @sal.gay, and I hope you still find it useful

Breathwork for Trans Liberation is tomorrow night! Sliding scale starts at $12 but if you need a scholarship DM or email me. www.tickettailor.com/events/thege...

Today in the newsletter, part one of my new series, "What Trans People (and Everyone) in 2025 Can Learn From 'Andor'." Part one is: The Methods of Empire Are Both Terrifying & Predictable. With Los Angeles as an object lesson, not only this week, but beginning with colonization.

$261.10 donated so far for Jail Support LA!!!! You can join the mutual aid raffle - when we hit $300 I will add another winner!!! Winners get 90 minutes of any service I offer. I'll put details below.

hello!! 🚨 I'm raffling off THREE Birth Chart readings for our local bail fund post or dm me a screenshot of your $5 and up donation to the Maine Direct Action Solidarity Fund for every $20 spent I enter your name twice venmo: @mainedasf (no hyphen) First drawing Sunday night 🖤 in just 3 days

Sent my first $115.55 to Jail Support LA!!! I plan to donate every time I hit around $100 because the work is time sensitive! You can enter the raffle today 🥰 I will post details below!

Good morning! I need ONE more entry into my raffle and I can donate a solid $100 to Jail Support LA today!! To enter: venmo @TheGenderDoula with your IG or bluesky handle. Each entry is $5 and you can get multiple entries at once! Winner gets 90 minutes of any service I provide!

Hey ya'll I'm doing a mutual aid raffle for Jail Support LA! Each entry = $5 Prize is 90 minutes of gender doula services, tarot, or breathwork Venmo me @TheGenderDoula with as many entries as you want and your handle (specify if its BlueSky or IG). Random drawing 6/24

If you want a certain kind of grassroots resistance to Trumpism, what you do is encourage and participate in that kind of resistance. What you don't do is sit on your hands until people come up with something without you, and then say "no, not that."

ABOLISH BORDERS AND BINARIES

Hey I get why people are pushing the, "it wasn't a riot, it was calm, people had their kids there" narrative rn but it's wrongheaded and I'll tell you why. First of all, yes it was calm in many parts of LA this weekend. LA is a massive city. But that's not the point! (1/5)

So proud of my city, Los Angeles, and everyone who is helping or supporting the people in any way today. If you live somewhere else I hope you’re preparing right now. Watch the tactics that work and iterate on them. Liberation requires all of us pushing from all sides.

POWER. DOESN’T. PANIC.

On hold with my dental insurance and the hold music is giving David Lynch circa Twin Peaks and its really changing the vibe of this whole interaction...

Venus is moving into Taurus and Friday's newsletter is all about pleasure as a means of survival. bit.ly/TGDList

For my folks who read tarot (or want to) but aren't into things like "the divine masculine" or "the divine feminine" and believe that there's more to these archetypes than our toxic gender conditioning! Early Access tickets end 6/7! www.eventbrite.com/e/gender-exp...

I truly cannot stress enough how different I feel after having my drain removed. It feels a little too on-the-nose that an abdominal drain was quite literally draining me...my energy, my resources, etc. That thing literally saved my life, and I'm grateful, but good riddance!!!

just tried the live chat function for Covered CA since the phone number wasn't working and spent many minutes of my one wild and precious life trying to argue that it had, in fact, been more than 5 business days since 5/19. 😐 (I did eventually get through on the phone, things improved.)

This week in the newsletter: I’ve been having a lot of thoughts lately about how much, as a whole, trans and queer folks have been constrained by the cis/het imagination. Even now, what might it look like for us to imagine something more than fear, pain, and terror? bit.ly/TGDList

One more chapter done on my *current project*. What project? I told that mailing list already 👀 And the signal group 👀 I'll probably keep being coy on here for a bit tho. bit.ly/TGDList

STOP: Don’t panic–organize! @thefreeradical.org and I consulted for weeks with experts about the bill attacking Medicaid for trans people. We find that advocates can still kill the bill or mitigate its impacts through direct action and community solidarity. 🧵👇🏽 www.madycast.com/p/dont-panic...

Nothing like an afternoon nap in a soft pink bed 🥰

I can feel the stress in the air. If you're struggling today, please reach for community. Turn off your phone and read a trans book. Call your reps. Talk to family, friends, anyone and everyone who can lift their voice for us. We'll still be here tomorrow.

Since 3/27: one surgery, one internal bleed, 3 ER visits, 2 multi-day hospitalizations, 5 CT scans, 2 blood transfusions, 3 iron transfusions, countless blood draws, three IVs, one midline, 15 days of IV antibiotics, and SIX WEEKS of having a big ol' abdominal drain attached to my body...

TODAY IS THE DAYYYY!!!!! So proud of @thewordwitch.bsky.social for this!!! This book is absolutely wonderful and you need it in your library!

Hey friends! 2 more days to grab your Trans People are Magic and Transness is a Gift shirts, tanks, or totes! Orders from this batch ship May 30th, so you should get them in time for Pride festivities 🥳🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ www.bonfire.com/store/the-ge...

🏳️‍⚧️ "Trans people are constantly told that we are a recent invention – a 21st Century ‘fad’. But, when we look to the ancient, ever-evolving, world of folklore, that accusation doesn’t hold up." https://www.wearequeeraf.com/trans-happily-ever-after-the-forgotten-folktales-of-trans-joy/