My comrades and I @ the NSU SWer Call put together this open letter against the still-carceral policies promoted in lieu of real sw decrim. You may see these called End Demand or the "Equality Model". In reality, this model is not only inequitable, but actively anti-equity.

Any texts on the relationship (or lack thereof) between mad pride/mad liberation movements and neurodiversity/ autistic self-advocacy movements? Asking for a me

okay this is the best one

Join us for Lunch Time Learning: Prison and Mental Health for Deaf/Disabled Communities on November 17th at 12:30pm ET. HEARD and My Deaf Therapy are collaborating on an event you won't want to miss! Link to register: bit.ly/heard-reentry25

Phobes say queer and trans people are attention-seeking, but jesus, I haven't thought about this woman since I was in high school, why is she still here abcnews.go.com/Politics/sup...

i love reading first hand accounts of old timey people encountering animals for the first time

Liberals dismiss antifa as just an idea — instead of acting to defend the activists, researchers, and organizers facing persecution.

if Dave Chappelle is such a brave truth teller that he can't help punching down on trans people, am looking forward to him making jokes about dismembering journalists right to MBS's face

Sarah Decker, staff attorney at RFK Human Rights, told Newsweek that [Asst Warden] Reyes targeted trans men & masc presenting LGBTQ+ people. "If someone complained about abusive conditions, the response was always 'If you wanna be a man, I'll treat you like a man'" www.newsweek.com/ice-detentio...

#EndDemandIsAntiEquity #ListenToSexWorkers #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs

Today, we are remembering David Graeber, who passed away five years ago. “Nothing could conceivably be more violent than to tell us—and particularly our young people—we are forbidden to even dream of a peaceful, caring, world.” crimethinc.com/ShockofVictory 🧵⬇️

If you’re looking to update your U.S. passport to accurately reflect your gender, the window may soon be closing. For many, an accurate passport is more than just a confirmation of identity, it’s necessary to travel safely.

On this fine morning I think its time to bring up the insane time last year I confronted the grandchild of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss, Kai Höss, about becoming a Christian Evangelical antisemite. This story is somehow even more twisted than it seems & I'll write an "off topic" piece sometime

This is an incredible and thorough resource, thank you @thetransfemininereview.com! Desperately infuriating that we need it.

passing my hat again - this is frog k / silver vk / lottie l, trans poster illuminatus, occasional author. itch has been real slow about paying out from sales so if you can pitch in otherwise, plz do; i'm poor as a church mouse & have been kiting shit. cash.app/$asimplefrog ko-fi.com/frogk thankz

www.psypost.org/secret-chang... Out of 232 datasets, 106 switched the term “gender” to “sex.” Four files replaced the phrase “social determinants of health” with “non‑medical factors”...and [one] clinical trial listing rewrote its title so that “gender diverse” became “include men and women.”

Health care workers can REFUSE to participate in harm and the criminalization of care. If you're a health care worker or provider who is committed to your oath to do no harm, and you want to connect with others for strategy and support, check out our Beyond Do No Harm network: bit.ly/BDNHLaunch

MAHA + austerity = health fascism. For the first time in decades, as @avierkant.bsky.social said at @socialismconference.org, the Right (via Dr Oz, RFK, etc) has managed to create an ideology around health that has allowed it to seize the narrative on care: blindarchive.substack.com/p/where-is-t...

"What is a skill I have that I can offer outside of the system as it exists, even if it means taking on risk? .. Can I learn to do home care to keep just 1 comrade alive? .. We must provide care to each other by any means necessary." @avierkant.bsky.social blindarchive.substack.com/p/where-is-t...

Finally figured out my myers briggs type :-)

Mamdani turned up at BAYO at Barclay Center yesterday and said he was going to fight to get Haiti off the travel ban and he said Haiti correctly

This is Bella. She's thinking about this morning when she could have eaten the pizza crust on the sidewalk but didn't. Was a good girl, but good for who? 13/10 (IG: buddy_bella_birdie)

State violence is disabling. Even if these folks aren’t arrested or deported — this violence has long term psychological and physical affects. Disability justice and immigration justice are one fight: abolish ICE.

the wrong beach boy died

Serious answer: The Coup, Boots Riley in particular Answer from the heart: Kreayshawn ("Oakland City represent address me as your majesty")

Started testosterone seven years ago to this day. Three cities, three orgs, one global pandemic. It's a hard time to be trans in the U.S. right now but we are going to win. Death before detransition 💀🧿🌹

Pete Davidson is blushing while Yuenelle talks about him "pull[ing] bad bitches" on Everybody's Live... I wasn't "*that* attracted to him before but now I'm like...this kills the Noah

🏳️‍🌈 PRIDE is coming to Tesla Takedowns! June 7th is Pride Day at #TeslaTakedown rally in Rockville MD and at other Tesla locations in the DMV. RSVP: tinyurl.com/3pzftaxb Wear your Pride gear and wave your Pride flag for LGBTQ rights at this powerful, joyful protest against Trump/MAGA regime + Musk.

Asked about CM Vickie Paladino saying @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social should be deported, Mayor Adams says he is not going to specifically condemn her comments and that we all need to tone down the rhetoric.

usually I advise against long covid scaremongering but today I sincerely argued to a friend that west virginia is east of virginia so perhaps there *are* literal holes in my brain

I think we’ve reached a boiling point when it comes to ICE. Today in Minneapolis, a militarized task force raided the beloved Lake Street taqueria, Las Cuatro Milpas—and the community was not having it. Agents from ICE, the DEA, FBI, ATF, IRS and HHS rolled up looking like they were ready for war.

Join us. Learn how to be part of our network of community members watching ICE in the courts, in the streets, and wherever else they are! Tinyurl.com/NCRJune10 on Zoom at 7pm June 10

The Lou Sullivan diaries are now public at the DTA, courtesy of the GLBT Historical Society, of which Lou was a cofounder! www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/catalog?f%5B...

i am frog k, trans internet creature, broke and injured and having an increasingly difficult time. apparently cashapp is the only way i can do things at present. i need about a hundred dollars on hand for bills to clear, and i'm short even that. cash.app/$asimplefrog any donations/rbs appreciated

Until recently I hadn't read "Scapegoat," a book that is never mentioned in the now 6-year-long Dworkin revival going on (even though it seems in many ways to be her magnum opus). It's the book where Dworkin finally says what she thinks women should do. The answer she comes up with may surprise you.

There has not so far been a Brownmiller revival this decade to go with the Dworkin one, much as some have tried to rehabilitate Brownmiller too; but since there will now be obituaries, please know that she was an unrepentant apologist for the lynching of Emmett Till even after the Bryant recantation

Here comes a special boy!!!!!

Columbia University Acting President Claire Shipman welcomed to Columbia College's graduation ceremony with sustained jeers and boos. Minutes later, students break out in loud chants of "Free Mahmoud":

I'm always saying this but online organizing (writing to incarcerated people, zoom teach-ins and skillshares, planning phone zaps, coalition-building with other mainly-online orgs) is crucial! But so often this convo is just about posting, which yes, is very limited in its effectiveness.

Brb getting banned from the Berlin Folsom Street Fair for (famously illegal) antizionist signage

a 20yo trans woman washed her hands in the FL capitol women’s room. she spent 25 hours in men’s jail &, pending a trial, she may face 60 days in men’s jail. so far van hollen flew to el salvador & newark’s mayor got arrested. electeds need to be at least as brave as trans people using bathrooms.

So I was typing about some internecine left org drama while getting my blood pressure taken Keep in mind that I have multiple medical issues tied to *low* blood pressure and have never been told I had high BP in any doctor's appointment ever. Anyway, 153/74 🤡

This constant use of "little girls dolls" as a placeholder for all of world trade, is doing a lot of really weird work here...

Anecdotally, I've noticed people with Long COVID sometimes get symptoms of Ehlers-Danlos and Hypermobility Spectrum Disorders. Both are generally considered to be exclusively genetic, but 🤷🏻 I think it's a mistake to not include connective tissue in this tissue bank! www.ucsf.edu/news/2024/02...

gay men's chorus has been fun! a little bit of a culture clash. but fun. I am concerned that some of my neighbors could be hearing me sign elton john songs, which would be fucked up bc I have great taste actually

Alright because this is popping up more and more- the situation in Gaza (and I don’t say this lightly) is the worst it’s been. People are being constantly displaced, no aid has gotten in for weeks and I’ve known more people have relatives die this week than any other week since it started.

I have a new short story in The Hopkins Review. You can read it here if you want: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Oakland Gay Men's Chorus is going roller skating! I used to love roller skating and wanted to do roller derby But every time I went roller skating I sprained my wrist. Haven't skated since my EDS diagnosis so I'm thinking like "am I okay with spraining my wrist again? As an adult with tasks to do?"