it's rough being a physicist who works with liquid crystals bc every time i mention my specialty people assume i'm basically this guy

“On Wednesday morning, the Justice Department went to court to advance an argument that, if accepted, would all but erase the existence of transgender people in the law.” Read my report at Law Dork:

New — I talked with @katmabu.bsky.social the morning after a judge dismissed all charges against her and her co-defendants thanks to extreme government fuckery about what comes next, the crazy rumor mill and setting a precedent for telling ICE to fuck off. Our convo here:

I jerked him now

Rest in peace Erykah Caldwell Another trans sister of ours who was fatally stabbed and taken before she was supposed to leave this world The tragedies keep happening and it’s really hard to witness nothing changing www.them.us/story/trans-...

There are levels to the fuckery of Trump investigating Yale for having Black medical students People of color are often better-served by doctors who are also POC, & there already aren't enough doctors of color to meet community needs This'll worsen the crisis ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

NEW — Alabama native, son of a civil rights movement pastor, and veteran journalist @solcrenshawjr.bsky.social attended the marches in Selma and Montgomery on Saturday to see up close the resurrected fight for Black rights. Read his moving and illuminating report:

Donald Trump has intertwined his wealth so fully with our government that the only solution is to nationalize his companies and assets, along with those of his entire family. In the interests of fairness, we can provide them a one bedroom apartment in public housing and minimum wage jobs.

Exclusive: Last year, she was demonized for grading a poorly written psychology paper. Now, Mel Curth is speaking out about being targeted by Christian conservatives and to correct misinformation she believes the University of Oklahoma allowed to spread. www.advocate.com/news/people/...

New — I spoke to parents whose kids are former patients of NYU Langone's trans youth health care program about the Texas criminal subpoena for their private health records. "I was furious. I was in disbelief. I was scared for my child's well-being." Read my full report:

her name was juniper blessing, and a blessing is what she was.

💿🐎 Put simply: trans women are not "socialised male" - they are socialised specifically as trans girls and then trans women. There is a very specific form of gendered discipline which occurs (transmisogyny). Is a continuing, lifelong, dialectical process between self-concept and social structures.

NEW: Seattle might declare a civil emergency to help LGBTQ (mostly trans) people fleeing red states, so I looked for a Texas angle. An organizer told me that Texas is #1 among trans people looking to relocate: "The baseline hostility to their existence is unbearable." www.chron.com/culture/arti...

Really makes you think……..

The rent is too damn high! And this billionaire is a major factor in that

It was a queer sort of place

On this day in 1866, white police officers in Memphis, Tennessee, assaulted Black soldiers, setting off a wave of horrific violence against Black people that lasted several days.

12 missing/dead US military science adjacent ppl 9 missing/dead Chinese scientists in China which does have a population of 1.4 billion people and everyone puts it in a new headline every few hours but hundreds if not thousands of Indigenous girls and women go missing or are murdered every year and

Call me when the Catholic Church thinks women are people

the level of islamophobia across the west is genuinely astounding. like, we're bigoted against everyone obviously, but with muslim/arab/arab-looking people it's truly next level. and for no good reason, people act like they're all terrorists who may come bomb us, while we literally go bomb *them*

you don't know me at all but i promise your life will be better if you hire me

dysphoria sucks but the experience of being trans actually fucking rules. i have significantly more control over my body, my mind, and my future than almost any cis person does. it's very liberating

Hello! I still badly need work in narrative design or game writing etc. I’ve been in games for 20 years and I’m responsible for the mobile smash hit Lily’s Garden. I will take on full-time or contract work but I really need to pick something up soon. Please get in touch if you have/know of something

if you could detect transness in the womb couldn't you simply assign the baby the correct gender once it's born

My cousin Shawn took weed to impress a girl when we were teenagers and his asshole & penis switched places. All the doctors at the (real) Pitt threw up when they saw it. Be my guest and Get “high” if you want this to happen to you

Evergreen reminder this 420: No one should be in prison for weed.

it's cool that the one thing both of them agree on is that transgender people should be denied healthcare. both those ghouls can go to hell

I like bluesky because it feels so much like tumblr 1. barely works 2. userbase is annoying (affectionate)(not that affectionate) 3. being queer on here feels like I’m actively participating in ruining some tech company’s investment

This is the first website built entirely on the purity of the user's soul. I'm having no trouble accessing it. If you are then you must look within

as a lesbian, as a feminist, as a trans woman, my motivating force in life is loving and uplifting other women as a woman and i invite you to to join me women!

i am in fact encouraging trans kids to get on hrt asap. im so sorry it's been made difficult, but if you're young enough you don't have to go through the trauma of an endogenous puberty that doesn't align with you. please fight for yourselves and try to convince a sympathetic adult to fight for you

I have a fair number of male colleagues who pride themselves on being Good Ones but basically end up in all-male circles of trust & peers & support & cannot see how this is ALSO harmful to their non-male peers — and pervasively so. They can’t even see it at a certain point.

walks away as soon as a white guy says it's fine, good god above

In Feb. 2025 when a USAID worker asked if their “lifesaving care” for “two of the leading causes of pregnancy-related deaths” would be considered a number one priority for programs to save, a Trump official responded “I’d say that’s more of a number two.” www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...

women still have to deal with the pink tax, wage gap that widens over span of career, lack of medical studies that work for girls' & women's health, safety, ergonomic & industrial design that favors men, algorithmic bias against women, lack of representation in media, femicide and more.

New — I wrote about the terror and loss of the last few days, mostly so we don’t forget. www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-iran...

actually all ethnostates are bad. no ethnicity or religion or racial group has a right to an ethnostate. certainly states themselves don't have rights, so asking if a state has a right to exist as a specific ethnostate isn't even a meaningful or relevant question. no state has any rights. people do

Let me say this plainly: Iranian children have as much of a right to live and thrive as American children. Their babies MUST be as precious to me as my 6 niblings and my baby grandnib are IF I want them to have a future. If I want a future for my kin AND humanity, I MUST act like it. So must you.

I'm seeing a lot of people saying "no US president has ever threatened genocide before," and I would like to please remind those people of the existence of Andrew Jackson.

If you have any information at all on these plans, now is the time to share it. Reach me on Signal at marisakabas.04

trump: we're gonna bomb those children. they'll all be dead, and we'll kill their fuckin' families too media: can you BELIEVE he said the F word?? he is UNHINGED

if 'military aged male within three km of military personnel' are acceptable targets of war then i think all of my male friends could justifiably be drone striked. is this a world we want to live in

Actually we should just give citizenship to every undocumented person in the United States who wants it. Walking over an imaginary line isn't some great moral atrocity. Making people live in the shadows as a permanent underclass absolutely IS.

News from today confirms NYU Langone has still not started care. Mayor Mamdani has yet to push for enforcement of NYC Human rights law against the hospital, which is in his power. He has yet to direct H+H to absorb trans youth patients. He has maintained radio silence.

i feel like it's obviously bad for women to be pressured by society into thinking it would be good to have our collarbones removed in order to be more sexually appealing to men

Trans Women: *sees womanhood as empowering and exists as a woman privately and publicly* Conservative men into bimbofication: *sees womanhood as demeaning and deploys it it solely for sexual gratification* Cis people: Ah yes, these two are exactly the same!

I hate the ballroom and this is clearly the correct result. With that said, it’s a perfect example of how fucking broken this country is that he was able to tear down the East Wing without interference from anyone or anything but he can’t build anything in its place due to a court order.