Find the helpers if you need them. Be the helpers if you can be.

so is the twin cities queer community ever going to start talking about LGBTQ+ serving non-profits firing qualified, well-achieved trans people (disproportionately trans femmes) without good reason and letting them fend for themselves through Collapse? I feel like I’m losing my mind 🧵 1/6

We honor the legacy of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a fierce protector of our collective freedom. Our hearts are with her loved ones and all who carry her vision forward. "We will honor Miss Major forever." - @imarajones.bsky.social

Keep connecting with your people. Yes, its exhausting / demoralizing to exist as an empathetic human with a sense of justice or morals at the current juncture, and, love & energy to keep going exists in connection. If theres only one thing you can do today, connect with someone 💖 don’t let them win.

The Supreme Court right now: ❌ Using race conscious admissions in colleges to account for systemic and societal racial discrimination. ✅ Using race explicitly to determine who masked federal agents will snatch off the street to throw into concentration camps.

Mon the hoops! 🍀

Spending as much time sitting with and congregating with friends as moving with the anxiety and turmoil in the world, feels about right. Not that you’re looking for advice but go help or listen to someone tomorrow 💖

It’s important to remember cisgender women getting hurt by this is a feature not a bug as it both makes trans women fearful of existing in public and signals to cis women how they must act to be protected by the state.

Tomorrow I get to see one of my favorite music acts of the last decade in person - then more music and motorcycle community for the rest of the weekend. Reprieve. 💖

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I met my doppelgänger tonight, she played the ocarina as she walked away from the pub.

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Can’t believe first matchday is this weekend. 🍀 where has the time gone

One more post of gratitude/reflection. After a weekend sharing some of the most meaningful connection and community grounded in shared ideals, love, and mutual accountability. It’s a reminder of the stakes, of what patience and resisting reactivity means, of what mutual safety and trust means.

Back to work and back to day-dreaming of days filled with tunes, safety, smiles, and an open road. Hope you’re finding some comfort in a thought or two.

I dunno about yall but I have a really difficult time trusting folks who amplify repackaged right wing prop for use on the left/their own communities. I know its often unintentional/internalized bias, but it feels like holding up a mirror and self-reflecting is THE daily practice. Im no exception. 💖

We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.

humming and whistling trad tunes and dance music while riding motorcycles with chosen family OR playing trad tunes and dance music while thinking about motorcycles/fam OR learning trad tunes and dance music and motorcycle things to pass along. Sharing it all and it’s all good. 💖

So stoked for DVD!!! Let’s gooooo!

Sure, this is late, but what an absolutely bonkers All-Ireland final for Tipperary. McCarthy 🤯

I don't know who needs to hear this, but now more than ever is the time to make geographical moves to be close to that child/loved one/friend/school district/support network. You have GOT to BE WITH your people & actively spend your time together.

You know that meme/post that’s like “you never know what people are going through?” Yeah… check in on your friends and loved ones. The flow is turbulent out there.

Generation Bb, amirite? #tradmusic #mysocialmediapresenceiscringe

There are currently more kids in Texas with measles than there are transgender collegiate athletes in all of America. Guess which one they want you to focus on.

Minneapolis, last summer, Liara was taken from our community far too soon. Please help amplify 2 needs: 1️⃣support for her loved ones during her murder trial 2️⃣ uplifting the music she left for us (each has a link in the posts below)

One of the best feelings is when new music comes out that HITS you like a bag of sun-filled, sparkly, rainbow bricks.

Toooooo much coffee. 😬

The Trump admin is suing California for "failing to protect girls" (by refusing to ban trans athletes) and every reply is calling them hypocrites for failing to release the Epstein client list

You tied for fifth. You were not denied a gold medal. This whole grift is built on a fifth place tie.

Stop demonizing trans women and girls.

It’s honestly so disrespectful and irresponsible that the national media has mostly ignored the DC33 city worker strike in Philly so far. It’s a huge story with massive implications for the 6th biggest city in the country. Hell, I’ll write about it for ya! Email me! www.inquirer.com/politics/phi...

Two Black trans women leaders in Chicago are rooted in resistance and building forward. Precious Brady-Davis and Channyn Lynne Parker are leading with care, strategy, and defiance. Read more via The Advocate: https://www.advocate.com/news/transgender-chicago-leaders

Sure glad 3M, Delta, Verizon etc. were welcomed with open arms to sponsor and pinkwash at TC Pride! 🙄 yay go rainbows!

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people: mamdani is going to turn NYC into a theocracy!!!! SCOTUS: it's ok if ur religion thinks being gay is evil and don't want ur kids to read about it in school

Happy Pride! For @racketmn.com, I gathered a group of Minnesotans who are passionate about community care and asked them why LGBTQIA mutual aid matters. Read their responses here: racketmn.com/we-help-us-1...

Nob Stewart

Cowards

Queer and trans art matters. It allows us to see ourselves, to feel and dream together, and that is worth everything.

Please help out 💖 www.gofundme.com/f/unite-for-...

Trans people in this country are now over the rubicon. We must hold on every line. Allies must hold on every line. Trans eradication is the policy objective of the Trump Administration. There is no question: COMPLIANCE EQUALS DEATH

Imagine being an athlete representing, or competing to represent, *this country* right now, without standing for pretty much anything. 🇺🇸 - sad.

the world is just better with trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer people in it full stop

Please help out 💖 www.gofundme.com/f/unite-for-...

This is fucked up, MN

I'm going to share this offering of knowledge & grounding here because things seem rather frenetic & this extremely knowledgeable trusted source has put it out there for us all, Minneapolis: 🧵1/4