the first step of organizing is hanging out

did you get 'overshare everything about you kinks and relationships with everyone' trauma or 'never talk about sex ever with anyone including yourself' trauma?

cannot express how much you need to be normal and talk to your friends. everything is always worse if you don't. everything.

i'm a bad leftist because i'm married.

We love seeing hot girls in dresses qtp with you being a hot girl in a dress 🔥💃🏻

i would love a job if anyone has one.

For all the anglophones who don't keep track of Mexican politics: -Yes, MORENA (the ruling party right now) sucks. -This protest is organized by a lot of right wingers and outright fascists who want to capitalize on the "Gen Z" movement that has shaken Nepal, Philippines, Morocco, etc.

If you want to learn about Wendy Carlos, maybe explore the wealth of resources on her website, including this list of good interviews, instead of a piece she has since disavowed over and over again

if you find yourself trapped in a prison of your own shame and insecurity, you should at least *try* to do something about it. HRT is a great thing to do about it.

some of you have never been saved by the power of love and friendship and it shows

"my favorite band is the beatles"

every person who attends games in that stadium is a bad person, unfortunately

writing "you're an adult, figure it out" in an orchestra part

never post unless you're right, then always post

composers when a game dev posts an open call for a lead composer for their new quirky indie game

IOC funding a study a year ago that showed trans women do not have an advantage over cis women in sports and may in fact have a disadvantage due to T suppression and now moving to ban trans women & intersex women while keeping israel around and starting the genital inspections anyway

Since getting involved in music academia, not a single year has passed without me finding out that a male superior or colleague has been involved in some sort sexual impropriety or harassment. I started in 2008. EVERY FUCKING YEAR. THE FIELD IS NOT SAFE FOR WOMEN AND GAY MEN.

democrats were too worried that people might like them after tuesday

shoutout to cabbage. top tier green

i made it like a day before posting about it lmao

SCOTUS has granted a stay in Trump v. Orr, the trans passport case, meaning that the government will be able to once again deny gender marker changes to trans passport applicants. This is a terrible decision with horrifying consequences for trans folks. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

local "friend" of mine who i made music with, made a film with, went to protests with, and had deep personal conversations with on each other's bedroom floors came out as a terf today. sad. i'm taking my "maxd-out-looks" drugs (as she called them) and enjoying life instead of posting anything else.

Okay, now we push him to the left.

voting Zohran Mamdani for Iowa City City Council District B

jays lost. Yuri does not exist.

i love doing literally the same thing again and again forever iot's so cool

last time i did this i said 2 and apparently my guess was high...

wow, which common vaccine was it?

Fenway Health just sent this message to all of their patients. They are lying to their patients telling them that cessation of gender affirming care to trans youth was due to a change in federal regulations. This is a lie. No such change was made to regulations. This was Fenway complying in advance.

recession indicator?

Transness is not bourgeois. This is a wedge idea dreamed up by some gleefully amoral think tank lobotomite to split trans people and make us fight each other. That we relay on modern medicine doesn't make us any more bourgeois than someone who needs antidepressants or cleft palate repair.

seeing the phrase “since 2009” crop up a lot these days

show happening saturday in the only city in the entire world

never voting for this fucking rat. ever.

The New York Times exists at this point to launder hatred for trans people. Today's coverage includes a citation to this law review article that says conversion therapy bans are anti-religious discrimination and it's not illegal to ban queer behavior, only queer identity. 🙃

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

this is a relatively new and bizarre argument in the history of book bans btw—conservatives have rarely if ever operated from the position that libraries are “government speech” (?) they’ve almost always argued on the grounds of obscenity and the public good

I just got a VERY interesting email that allies in congress were upset that so many of my readers were calling about the anti-trans provisions. I'm here to say: good. I won't let them throw our rights under the bus by cover of night. All's that to say, keep up the calls. They're hearing you.

trans friends in academia: how do you even apply for jobs? I get so anxious looking at some of these places, and I feel like it's impossible to balance safety and access to healthcare and community with the availability and expectations of jobs. i'd appreciate any insight anyone has on this.

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

hey, cis people. we need you to call every single elected official you've got, now.

The lesson is not that trans liberation is a matter of linguistic “inclusion,” as even trans philosophers now seem to think. It’s how little you need to have such that the word ‘daughter’ stands out as the greatest gift from cis parents. Anyway, read @autoanon.bsky.social ’s riveting new novel!!

ICE is doing forced labor and sexual assault of transgender people in their detention centers, reads a new complaint.

i would rather vote for Jon Green than Rob Sand.

one day we'll talk about how the presence of ultraviolence in games relative to the constant controversy and repression of queer & trans life (and also like, women) is in part because simulations of killing guys is the most reliable sublimated fantasy to distance from the feminization of intimacy

The way the NYT covers this, while they helped to create a similar moral panic that preceded Skrmetti, might be the thing that drives me mad.

putting she/her/hers in a job application so they think i'm cis

This is *stunningly* disingenuous, and the fact that Singal continues to enjoy a career writing at the highest levels about a topic that he either unwilling or incapable of discussing honestly is such an indictment of the Anglo-American prestige media.

many ppl highlighting flaws in this article. but having fought in the "80% desistance" wars of the mid-2010s, I remember asking anti-trans activists if they'd be ok if 80% of youth were helped by gender-affirming care (flipping their argument). & they *never* answered. b/c they want *zero* trans ppl