visibility without protection is punishment

trans day of visibility is such a quaint concept. remember back when we thought if everyone could just see trans people being normal human beings then *of course* they wouldn't want to hurt us anymore?

This is distressingly, horribly accurate. And now I have that siren sound playing in my head. (In case you were wondering: it’s an excerpt from Quincy Jones’s theme for the 1967-1975 TV series IRONSIDE. You’re welcome.)

My new books in 2026 have included… ❤️ a brilliant romantic time-travel fantasy, 🥵 an anthology of sword and sorcery romance stories, ☸️ a book on basic Buddhism, ⚔️ two books on pre-modern Japanese swordsmanship, 🪡 three books on Japanese fiber arts, and 💚 three books about the bodhisattva Tārā.

I can definitely assure you there are absolutely no politics in my series of sword-and-sorcery novellas about a witchy sword lesbian trans girl and her weird queer allies resisting a patriarchal necromantic cult bent on world domination in a fantasy version of the early Middle Ages. ⚔️ 😇🪄

Love the trans people in your life while we’re here. 🥰

Just a reminder that, in addition to being Trans Day of Visibility, tomorrow is ALSO the 4th Annual Mira Bellwether Buy a Trans Woman a Pizza Day. 😋🍕

Trans Day of Invoking Marishiten, Gender-Fluid Bodhisattva of the Dawn and Protector Goddess of Righteous Warriors, for Invisibility and Courage in Battle.

A pivotal moment in my life was when the director of one of the oldest trans support organizations in the country asked why I’d never come there before. I said I didn’t know if I was “trans enough.” She rested a hand in my shoulder, looked me in the eyes, and said, “Of COURSE you’re trans enough!”

Home from keiko, a.k.a. sword-swinging class. My everything is sore. Arms, wrists, knees, ankles, feet, calves... everything. Even my neck. Why is my neck sore? I didn't get hit in the neck!

Hey there, new folks! For those of you just tuning in, the attached intro thread might be useful. It's slightly out-of-date, but it's mostly still accurate, and should give a decent picture of what to expect from my timeline. If it's not to your taste, don't worry about dipping: no harm, no foul. 🥰

I was going to make a “Dorley Hall liked this post” joke, but the last few lines punched me in the gut a little too hard. It’s… thought-provoking.

hey y’all it’s this stuff again. so sorry to bug ya and thank you for being so lovely and for always boosting, donating, generally supporting me during these tough times. hope this month will be more gentle on all of us 🌸 #MutualAid #helpsky #bipocMA #transcrowdfund #helpfolkslive2026

oh my goddess i am such a useless lesbian about this

Sometimes, a t-shirt is just a t-shirt. Other times, it’s two shirts, two carabiners, four buttons, and several stickers. Thank you so, so much, @kallaipdx.com. 💕🌸🥰🌸💕

I do not care about football, and I had never heard of this before yesterday. I am now kinda obsessed with it. (The fiction, not football.)

Are you cis, I.e. not trans? You should read this thread.

❌ Studying Japanese to improve my ability to understand the culture. ❌ Studying Japanese to make training in koryū easier. ✅ Studying Japanese so I can listen to SHŌGUN while working. 🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️

This is your* intermittent reminder that there is nothing so bad that someone won’t love it, and nothing so good that someone won’t find a reason to hate it. *my

In what I'm sure is entirely unrelated news, I've been dealing with intermittent depression for the past few... weeks? Months? Something like that.

I have released the album (official release date is tomorrow) on bandcamp. Please buy if you'd like, share, comment, anything... tapes will come from Fiadh in a few weeks, and vinyl is available at the elasticstage link below aliciacordisco.bandcamp.com/album/my-res...

If you’re trans, you have to live.

REJECT MODERNITY EMBRACE TRADITION MAKE AMERICA 1950s AGAIN Because, y’know, we have no issues more pressing than TEACHING KIDS TO WRITE IN CURSIVE. 🤦‍♀️ This is just a performative attempt to roll back cultural trends to something boomers understand—and I say this as someone who ✨loves✨ penmanship.

Rushing in to defend transphobes and rapists from [checks notes] people not buying their books sure is A Choice™.

Okay, kids, drag up a stump, it's Storytime with Auntie Tamsin. So, back at the dawn of time when rocks were soft and dinosaurs ruled the earth, I was a nerdy kid who didn't know I was a girl, but definitely wasn't a boy, and I was hugely into a book series by this one author. You know how it is.

I love so many things about living in Weird New England, but I would commit a class B felony for sushi in Seattle, Mexican food in Sacramento, or literally anything on the specials menu board at Bucatini in Edmonds, Washington.

I literally have a degree in gender studies, but I have no idea what this graph is supposed to mean, and at this point I'm terrified to find out. (I know it's some sort of HOMESTUCK thing, but I was never into HOMESTUCK back when it was A Whole Thing, and it seems a bit late in the day to try now.)

Being trans in America in 2026.

Note to self: quick field trip for dinner tonight.

Begging cis people not to press the button that makes children kill themselves. “But it’s such a pretty button,” they protest, sweat pouring down their face from the effort of not pushing it. “It looks like so much fun to press.” Dead children, we remind them. “...what kind of children?” they ask.

“actually you’re the bad person for trying to cancel my emotional support genocide”

the isabel fall thing is bleak in a million ways. here are two: 1. it was personal. this was a person these new-guard SF authors were acquainted with personally & wanted to ensure they would not need to coexist with, pretty much exclusively for awful reasons 2. it didn't really do anything for them

Princess of the Pomegranate and its sequel, Tales of Elsinore, are sword-and-sorcery fantasies about a trans woman priestess in the far future wandering around because she's depressed, encountering various demons and skeletons and giant worms and what have you. She has a cat. linktr.ee/aemiliavind

Zoe nails it here. If you slurp this shit up, I'll know that active anti-trans hatred isn't a hard stop for you. And that's all I'll need to know about you.

It helps me to remember that not everything is terrible. For instance, the Lego barbarian girl mini-figure that arrived in today’s mail is pretty goddamn great.

I just read this infamous article for the first time in over a decade. In other words, for the first time since I realized that, y’know, I’m the tranny. I don’t know what makes me sadder: that this article is disgustingly dehumanizing, or that it’s nicer than >99% of “mainstream” journalism today.

a reminder all of the magical wonder, none of the transphobia plus there's trans lesbians and rock music

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Y’all. Y’ALL. Get in on this! Cameron Reed is a literary treasure, and her newest book is available as a preorder on a nice discount. The publisher is billing this as “a soaring novel of queer hope and transformation,” which sings exactly like what the present moment calls for. 🥰

This statement is nothing more than grotesque cruelty masquerading—poorly—as “unfortunate necessity, respect, and dignity.” Every adult responsible for this should be ashamed of themselves. They won’t be, but they should.

Well, then.

Someday... (Repost with monster alt text)

I’ve never seen this clip before, and it’s now my new favorite thing, in no small part because I’m now going to hear it in my head anytime I’m forced to remember that Moby exists.

I’m mildly ashamed of the extent to which hearing my cis female coworker repeatedly explain to the person on her phone that she isn’t a “sir”—or, indeed, any kind of man—makes me feel better about my phone voice.

Once again, my desire to be compassionate, loving, and kind is locked in a life-or-death struggle with my desire to call someone a complete dipshit and clout them upside the head with a heavy blunt object like, say, a Ford F-150. 😓

Me talking to every diviner I know, 1987-2019.

I am heartsick for the people who've been murdered by Trump's fascist regime, in Cuba and everywhere else.

My sabbath? Black. 🖤