I've been working soooooo hard on this next podcast series and I can't wait to share it with you all one day!! I'm very proud of myself for aiming so big with this one while also funding it entirely by myself (via grants and my amazing individual backers)

Must be the nasty company you’re keeping - fortunately I don’t surround myself with secretly transphobic gays!

The women with Koren were accused of shoplifting—they deny it. ➡️Multiple studies show cops/security are more likely to approach Black shoppers. ➡️Shoplifting is in the top 5 arrest charges for Black women. ➡️Corporate profits & criminalization of Black women are part of the same system! More here:

Mpls & beyond!

New @racketmn.com shirt arrived 😭

Minnesota: on Friday, July 10th I’ll be chatting with Nico Lang about their book AMERICAN TEENAGER: How Trans Kids Are Surviving Hate and Finding Joy in a Turbulent Era. We’ll be discussing how you can show up for and support trans youth in Minnesota and beyond.

An embarrassing and shameful oped in the NYT on the last day of pride month. These folks are gonna keep trying to split us up but their efforts are doomed to fail. We will not and cannot be separated

Pride with the nephews and niece :)

We had the most amazing time at Minneapolis People’s Pride today - thank you to everyone who stopped by our table to say hello, learn more about our project, and record a story on our phone! wehelpusmn.com

Lavender Magazine’s farewell letter was deranged. Grateful for this response

Good news! For more about why this is great, check out @chrisdstedman.bsky.social's article here: www.startribune.com/mpls-bathous...

Thank you @mspmag.bsky.social for asking what Pride means to me alongside local luminaries like Ann Bancroft, Isaac Ranson of @mnaurorafc.bsky.social, and others 🌈 mspmag.com/arts-and-cul...

The Minneapolis City Council takes a final vote on the Pride in Policy package tomorrow! I’m proud to author this alongside Council Member @aishaforward10.com and Council Member @aurinmpls.bsky.social. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 1/

Gonna be at Powderhorn this Saturday - come say hi and record a story for the archives!

30 years for moving some zines www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

We live in a time of brutal repression where going to a noise demo in North Texas and not knowing who else is there gets you 50 years in federal prison. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

New this year: for those who can’t or don’t wish to call our story hotline or attend one of our events, you can now submit a written version of your story of queer and trans mutual aid in Minnesota at wehelpusmn.com

very normal for a concert/sports venue to do this

The We Help Us hotline is open again to collect stories of queer and trans mutual aid! Call 1-844-WE-HLP-US to share your story for the @trettercollection archives and potential use in an audio series we’re making on LGBTQIA mutual aid in Minnesota.

Workers of world, unite!

Minneapolis is being given the opportunity to heal real tangible harms written into the laws of the city Seeing the community come together around this has been beautiful and i look forward to celebrating together 🧵

$10K in 1 day 👏 you all are amazing! Let’s keep it going ❤️

My dear friend Ollie has been diagnosed with a rare and complex cancer. If you have a little something to pitch in, please consider doing so ❤️ gofundme.com/f/ollie-support

invite me to your wedding :) i’ll dress up :) congrats again @chrisdstedman.bsky.social and eric—your fun as fuck gay wedding was my favorite kickoff to pride💗

Just testified at the public hearing & got to connect with my already supportive CM. Wards 3, 5, 7, 4, 6, & 13 - your reps need to hear from you! Here's a FAST & EASY way to make noise: linktr.ee/safersexspac... & a space to submit public comment online: www.minneapolismn.gov/government/c...

Attn Minneapolis queers + allies: our outdated bathhouse ban is up for a city council vote next week. Council members from Wards 3, 5, 7 (DOWNTOWN, NE & LORING PARK) are currently NOT supportive of repealing the ban. Wards 4, 6, 13 are on the fence (11 will be absent). They need to hear from you!!

Observing ICE activity is not a crime. This is another attempt from Trump’s authoritarian regime to try and suppress free speech and dissent. But we will never stop exercising our constitutional right to legally observe the federal government’s illegal activities.

Charges are being filed against multiple people “for conspiracy to impede or injure federal officers,” and for efforts to allegedly “violently oppose immigration law enforcement,” according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Minnesota. More details to come... www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

ALERT 🚨 Federal agents are being seen across our community as they arrest observers. Let me be clear, alerting our neighbors about ICE activity is not a crime, observing is not a crime, and loving your immigrant neighbors is not a crime. 1/

It’s a pride month miracle!! I’m extremely moved and grateful to have been selected for a MN Humanities Center 2025-2027 Cultural Heritage Grant to support the expansion of my @goodjudypods.bsky.social oral history project on LGBTQIA mutual aid 🌈 More info here: www.instagram.com/p/DZn4Q1xFmhq/

this is unsustainable

One of the best podcasts I've ever heard!

I am not being hyperbolic when I say (tech) capitalism is alienating (making strangers) of us at a staggering scale. Alienating us from ourselves, each other, touch, feeling, thoughts…from the intimacy and care of touch, bedtime stories, prayers, poems, drawings, community, love

It’s been 5 years since my podcast series Unread came out. Though today is the show’s anniversary, I’ve actually been thinking about it a lot for the last couple weeks. More on that here, if you’re interested: www.instagram.com/p/DZaRPRHFhji/

if you're not sure what to think about the proposal to finally lift Minneapolis' bathhouse ban, you'll want to read this commentary by infectious disease specialist Aditya Chandorkar and PFund board member @chrisdstedman.bsky.social | no paywall

Also I got gay married a week ago. Happy pride!!

I’m in print today with my good friend and brilliant infectious diseases specialist Aditya Chandorkar, writing for @startribune.com in support of efforts to repeal Minneapolis’s discriminatory bathhouse ban. www.startribune.com/mpls-bathous...

Thank you Morningside University for inviting me to speak for the first time about Nothing in Particular, my forthcoming book on what’s behind the explosive growth of nonreligious Americans. I’m now booking 2026-27 events via @blueflowerarts.bsky.social: blueflowerarts.com/artist/chris-stedman

Yesterday I got to share a bit of my next book NOTHING IN PARTICULAR with folks (other than my project advisers) for the very first time, and it was a truly special experience. Every seat in the auditorium was full and people asked really great questions that gave me a lot to think about!

This woman is a handpicked Trump supporter from Arkansas and she is less anti-trans than the median Atlantic columnist

transphobia is a luxury belief, which is why it’s so prevalent among beltway types who don’t have real problems

Tomorrow (4/9) is my birthday, and what I want this year is to help my friend Cody hit his fundraising goal! Cody is having top surgery next month and needs our support. Please pitch in if you can. Any extra money raised will go to Twin Cities Trans Mutual Aid. www.gofundme.com/f/support-co...

it's actually important that you don't watch this tv show!

ngl this one is pretty hard to swallow. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

this is interesting reporting but i think it’s worth pointing out that even if ai were to blame, humans would still be to blame www.semafor.com/article/03/1...

Absolutely gutting

I’m honored to be keynoting this year’s Palmer Student Research Symposium at Morningside University, an annual day dedicated to supporting undergraduate research. I believe I’m the first person from the humanities to give this keynote in the history of the symposium, which is very cool!

I have four long drives next month - any recommendations for good narrative podcast series?