We are up to 688 LoCITT participants! If we could enroll all 1,000 participants within a month of launch (by 11/30), it would send a powerful message about the demand for remote Long COVID clinical trials. We appreciate the community's help to spread the word: longcovid.scripps.edu/locitt-t/?ut...

It cannot be made clearer. If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

And it’s going to ruin the internet 👉 www.stoponlineidchecks.org

“We’re going to end up shooting some of them.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

We are at a red-alert moment with queer stories right now. Literally this morning, I was chatting with a seasoned Hollywood producer who just had a project halted b/c executives were skittish about it being too gay. Not only is a mass-erasure of queer characters plausible... it's already begun.

Don't "thots & prayers" trans* and queer people this month, much less today. Instead, give money directly to trans* people and/or Trans-led orgs who are directly supporting people in need. Queer people need material and practical support to stay safe and alive, not mouth-words-only "allies".

Point of Pride is the real deal. I volunteer to read applications and see first hand the number of people who need small amounts of money for application fees etc. We really do make sure the money is used incredibly well. Please donate if you are able! If you need money for GAC, check out PoP!

“KAMALA HASN’T EARNED MY VOTE.” How about all those trans kids who are about to lose decades of hard-won rights? Did they also fail to “earn your vote”? Voting wasn’t something you owed Kamala Harris. It was something you owed all the people Trump was going to hurt. You fucking dilettante.

Georgia voter turnout was 3% yesterday. You all can show up to protest, but you can't fucking show up where it really counts at the polls to vote. You are not serious people.

And for the "they'll just ignore the court order" crowd--the original plaintiffs in this case already received their new passports www.instagram.com/p/DJ715AkSjFZ/

QUEER ART IS REVOLUTION. The paintings I have in this Pride month joint show at Cambium Gallery are in-your-face queer. I get into just a little of what it means to be visible and invisible as a queer person. (Spoiler: both equally suck these days.) There's a lot to behold and discuss.

I'm currently reading Malinda Lo's 'Last Night at the Telegraph Club' and I can't help but feel like this book made its way to me when I MOST needed the nightly refuge. Grateful to Lo's craft and the heart put into dynamic and delightful characters.

I just wrote my Dem senators & thanked them for standing by Trans people. This is important to do, period. Also, if we all fight for the civil rights and liberties of Trans* people, we fight for ALL humans. If they decide they can sacrifice the ~1.3% of the pop. that is Trans*, we are all doomed.

~ QRP your portrait art ~ Portrait of Frida by Amie Pascal. Quote on portrait: "Gracias a mi misma y a mi voluntad enorme de vivir entre todas las que me quieren y para todos los que yo quias Que viva la alegria, la vida ..." ~Frida Kahlo

What Michael said. Everything I paint and everything I write is directly and defiantly queer—and I will be purposefully bringing my very expansive thinking and outsider perspective to the challenges we face.

Justice for Heklina #Heklina

People hate confident and (more than) competent women so much that we have to survive the worst of the worst vile, dangerous weaponized incompetence instead of thrive under her. I will never forget or forgive this.

THIS. Unless you mask in public, you are preventing MANY people like David Lynch from leaving their homes. We are all worthy of being safe. Think on that next time you think about what "showing up" as a "good" community member looks like.

My WIP painting 'Fireweed' is all too relevant for the many thousands of people rebuilding lives after devastation, from Palestine to LA. Fireweed is a wildflower that blooms after fire has devastated an ecosystem. May everyone experiencing loss have restoration & beauty once again. #art #painting

When apparent stability disintegrates, As it must- God is Change - People tend to give in To fear and depression, To need and greed. When no influence is strong enough To unify people They divide. ... (Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower)

How I'm ending 2024

the four genders

KNEEL BEFORE TOPSEY. Postcard from my collection, 1907.

'Dirty Dancing' is a truly great film. Teaches that abortion rights (& safe access!) are important and men who read Ayn Rand are bad news, AND that young women can be independent thinkers (breaking from conservative, normy family) and be class traitors. Plus a hot love story w/ a banger soundtrack!

“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (18/20) #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (17/20) #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (16/20) #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (15/20) #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (14/20) #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (13/20) #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (12/20) #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (11/20) #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (10/20) #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge

Offering // Acrylic on 16x20 stretched canvas // March 2024 // In private collection #art #painting #surrealart @bsky.art

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (9/20) #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (8/20) #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge

What remains // Acrylic on 16x20 stretched canvas // 2023 // Commission - In private collection #abodyapart #painting #art #queerartist #surrealart #bodyhorrorart #chronicillness #longcovid @bsky.art

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (7/20) #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (6/20) #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge

Four Xmas movies to know me by. #FilmSky #MovieSky

Hollow // acrylic on 16x20 stretched canvas // 2023 // In private collection #abodyapart #painting #art #queerartist #surrealart #bodyhorrorart #chronicillness #longcovid @bsky.art

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (5/20) #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge