This weekend was one of the best derby tournaments I've ever had the privilege to be a part of. I'm so proud of Denver B for winning the first upset in the first game and beating the ratio in our other two and so so proud of Denver A for taking gold. Happy and exhausted.

Good morning to everyone whose bracket is intact because you ✨believe in B teams✨💖

Unnecessarily contrite take I might delete: If a team's goal is making champs, I don't want them there. I think the teams whose goal is winning champs should go and we should get that one competitive event in the sport.

15/10 would watch

I'm well rounded because my hobbies are hitting people on roller skates but also working out so I can hit people on roller skates harder.

People INCLUDING TRANS FRIENDLY MEDIA keep writing news stories on exclusions of trans people from women's sport while never talking to trans women athletes involved in women's sports.

Best day I have had in a long time: got to meet a puppy and scrimmage. Thank you, witches!

I scrimmaged this week and it was so much fun!

Honestly very cosmically unfair that I have a really cool opportunity to do a thing I really want to do a couple weeks before I probably safely could and no universal forces seem to be stepping up to change any part of that so I have to do emotional self management again.

Nothing brings out my well actually more than implications that crocodiles, etc. are more dinosaurs than birds are. It is spiritually important to me that dinosaurs looked nothing like Godzilla and were feathered dorks that head tilted.

Recovery is on track but the RDWC and rollercon fomo is real.

There are definitely more important things happening rn, but it's important to me that everyone knows that running up stairs doesn't actually make you much better at roller derby.

Montreal is really cool!

Skated for the first time since surgery this week (like 5-10 mins on Wednesday and an hour and a half last night) It felt so good and was just kinda weird knowing I can't do hockey stops rn but it will come back! I am very sore haha

In an epic showdown of brain vs brawn, I scheduled physical therapy and regular therapy for the same time today

I got to do squat jumps in PT today!!! Yayyy!

If I have to dig through your derby team's website for more than 5 minutes to figure out where you are... why?

Playing through injury is bad, and listening to doctors is good. Sometimes people in derby go a little too hard on the "even if your doctor says it's fine, if you ever do anything athletic with mild discomfort you are a danger to yourself and others and a terrible person" side and it isn't helpful.

I'd love a lil less visibility and a lil more Pad Thai rn.

Tomorrow is the last day to comment on the passport service's updated process requiring gender markers to match the filer's birth certificate: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

In basic courses toward my gender studies BA 15 years ago, I learned gender has biological implications and sex has cultural implications and the two are socially intertwined. I'm tired of cis allies pretending that separating the two in all cases is the answer even when it gets to transphobia.

Free Mahmoud Khalil and all who stand against injustice and genocide

Rewatching House because it's terrible but nostalgic and I was prepared for it to have aged poorly but not prepared for it to look like a medical utopia where 4 doctors treat a patient without checking insurance and only one of them calls them a slur.

Got a new roommate all signed and official and deactivated FB

If you're not watching the No Borders Derby tournament this weekend what are you even doing?

I'm not having super intense fomo about playing derby yet because I think my brain knows there is no way I can do that but I'd probably sell a kidney to put on roller skates and drill some plow stops lol.

Growth mindset is a very powerful thing but if you actually think sports performance is just a measure of who works the hardest and wants it the most from a given group of people, you might be stupid.

1. This morning, California Governor said he was in "complete alignment" with anti-LGBTQ+ hate-influencer Charlie Kirk of TPUSA on transgender sports. He also conceded on trans inmates and gender affirming care for youth. It's so much worse than being reported. Subscribe to support my journalism.

Hope everyone but Gavin Newsom has a great day today! 💖

Not to be dramatic, but if I see another "they're attacking trans people to distract us from the real issues" take, I will solve global warming by throwing every cis person on this planet into the sun.

Kinda wild and hilarious that the NYT thinks my doing my weird lil hobby remains a cool thing for them to publicly debate

People who know football things: are the Eagles winning because they have better little dances? Do they practice them?

A big part of my problem with anxiety and depression is the nagging feeling I have that being anxious and depressed is correct

I know history is full of cultural shifts between progressive social attitudes and regressive ones, but does it feel like they swing back and forth more frequently than they used to (possibly due to social media) or am I just comparing lived experience to written history?

Went up and down stairs with both legs today! (poorly, but I did it!)

Shit's just like really bad and I feel like I can only handle peeking out at bits at a time like watching a gory scene in a horror movie through half of my fingers.

Hi FB friends! I love you! Fascism is scary and it's also a little bit funny how obsessed they are with us doing our weird lil hobbies right?

I've received so much support and well wishes and I'm so grateful! My head has also been pretty fuzzy and if I haven't gotten back to anyone I am sorry! I appreciate you so much ❤️

Knee surgery recovery is going well! Relearning walking mechanics is a trip (feels like life size qwop) and something about the meniscectomy feels like there is a marble inside the back of my knee that if I bend it "catches"on painfully but otherwise the pain is not too bad!

Guess I'm moving from Meta stuff more urgently - yikes. Also, my ACL surgery went well! Got a meniscus trip because the tissue was too damaged to repair there but recovery will be quicker at least.

Hello! Here for vibes and roller derby discourse I guess.