Transgender History in a Nutshell Episode 2: Sex and gender are not the same thing. We've known this for decades.

Had a chance to try Dave's Hot Chicken for lunch this afternoon. Here's my review and thoughts on the place. vt.tiktok.com/ZSQ969...

Trans History in a Nutshell Episode 1. The word transgender has been around since the 1960's, but trans and gender nonconforming peoples are much older than that. #transgenderhistory #MxBlazewing #LGBT #pronounsandpolitics #transhistorymatters

Here's a quick sneak peek of something I've been tinkering with over the last month or so. One of many projects on the go. Still lots more to streamline and figure out with this one, but it's an idea at least.

If you're looking for character sheet ideas for a VTM V5 NPC, don't worry. I've got you. You are a vampire. Your clan is Tzimisce. Your attributes are: Strength 1, Dexterity 2, Stamina 5, Charisma 1, Manipulation 4, Composure 3, Intelligence 4, Wits 1, Resolve 4. Your Skills are as follows:

Pete Hegseth gave a lecture using white supremacist rhetoric on the anniversary of D-Day. We were warned that this would happen. Fascism has come for America wrapped in the flag and holding a bible. vt.tiktok.com/ZSQjDN...

This thread is a pre-generated VTM V5 character sheet. They show up on this account 4 times a week. It's all listed in the schedule. Why build an NPC from scratch when you can have it already done for you? If this sees a lot of use, I could see possibly just making a stand-along generator.

From the shelves of the nocturnal library: I've got something for you to add to your bookshelf: Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897). Feed wisely.

The night has teeth tonight. I've got something for you to add to your bookshelf: Varney the Vampire by James Malcolm Rymer (1845). Try not to fall too hard for it.

Welcome, moonlit souls. Today's recommendation brings a movie: What We Do in the Shadows (2014) As always, I'm open to recommendations. Want something added to the lists? Drop a comment, and I'll check it out.

The night calls, and so do I. I've got something animated for you: Castlevania: Nocturne. Be well, darkling.

I sont care how much you hate Gen AI. Noting gives you the right to demonize or dehumanize people, or tell them to end their lives because they use it. We've been down that road before. We know where it leads.

So a friend of mine's doing something kinda cool. <3

Well played, NASA. Well played.

Subway has Ghost Pepper bread. I have made a delicious mistake.

The colonialist mindsets need to be tossed out with the rest of the refuse. All it does is cause pain and suffering when we could be doing so much more.

I've started digging into legislation using a corpus of over 37,000 documents from US state legislative assemblies. I apparently decided my data set wasn't large enough, and decided what the hell. I cannot wait to dig into the juicy meat of everything I've got so far. pronounsandpolitics....

US Legislation documents downloaded so far: 21,000. Only about 8,000 more or so to go.

If you're curious what I've been up to, I've been wrapping up the semester and prepping for a summer of research. I'm working on learning a new tool, and learning it in depth, and I'm also questioning if I have enough information through which to study the legislation properly at the moment.

Social media has ruined saying the words "PDF File" in reference to the text document. We need an alternative frame of reference.

We just finished reviewing Dracula from 1979 with [Frank Langella](www.imdb.com/name/nm00014...). On Wednesday, the Masquerade Breach crew is getting ready to watch Blade 2. If you're interested in joining us to watch vampire movies, let me know. I can get you an invite code.

I'm wondering if I should start putting out recommendations for vampire-themed media over here, along with academic updates. Threads is... *Sigh*

Oh look. The LDS Church is attempting to argue that trans people existing violates their religious freedom. www.supremecourt.gov...

Over at #DiHuCon This morning. Gave my first academic lightning talk.

When governments say they’re erasing “ideas” and not people, history tells us otherwise. This piece traces a century of anti-queer rhetoric, from Nazi Germany to Project 2025, and why “eradication from public life” is never just theoretical.

House Republicans in the US have tabled a federal bill that will label trans people simply just existing as sexually explicit. We told you this was going to happen. How are we supposed to exist when you keep trying to legislate us out of existance?

Gender is unstable, unsustainable, and any attempts to legally enforce gender on people based on assumed sex characteristics is doomed to eventually fail.

Medical experimentation and forced conversion therapy along with attempts to "cure" gender dysphoria while refusing transition-related care and torturing Trans people in US prisons is taking off.

Lol. Notorious transmedicalist attacks my appearance, insults me, and then blocks me after I call out her BS and wont bend over and kiss her plastic surgery because she's able to afford procedures and has 100% passing privilege. Transmedicalist rhetoric harms.

Content note: state violence, homophobia/transphobia. Paragraph 175 shows how legal language can be turned into a weapon—used to erase queer lives while claiming to target “behavior, not people.” This post examines how that worked then, and why it still matters now.

Magnus Hirschfeld was a pioneer of sexology and LGBTQ+ rights whose Institute challenged fear-based laws—until it was destroyed by the Nazis. His story is a reminder that progress is real, fragile, and worth defending.

Those of you blaming trans people for what happened in Tumbler Ridge are fucking disgusting. Cruelty is the point.

Something weird happens when I dig through queer archival records and documentation: I'm transported to another time and place. Yesterday, I was standing in the middle of the Institute for Sexual Sciences in 1920's Germany, and then the El Dorado. I feel like I'm among kin. This, I understand.

Language matters.

This vampire just sank their fangs into academic shit. It's been a hell of a ride...

Gender panic doesnt serve a purpose other than to enforce strict and rigid gendwr "norms" that dont actually exist.

Fucking coward.

“Protect the children” is recycled fear. From Anita Bryant in the 1970s to today’s anti-trans laws, it’s the same moral panic aimed at new targets. Different decade. Same playbook. pronounsandpolitics....

I think I just talked my way into having an academic supervisor.

Never Again.

“Protect the children” is recycled fear. From Anita Bryant in the 1970s to today’s anti-trans laws, it’s the same moral panic aimed at new targets. Different decade. Same playbook. www.patreon.com/c/mx...

So...the Germans are kind of the world's leading experts on this...

Oh no. How will we ever get on with our... I wonder what's for breakfast....

Status update: My nose hairs are frozen

I'm also looking for titles and publications I can add to my ever-growing list. If you're knowledgeable about queer history, I'd love to chat with you.

*sips tea with pinky out*

The first installment of what I hope is a long-needed series. Welcome to my academic research, and what I've been working on for the last 4 months. I hope to use this as a way of documenting everything I'm working on so you can follow along! pronounsandpolitics....

I'm not even 3 pages in and I'm already falling asleep. Like....gods damned.

Oof.

Damn. They went from "Don't tread on me" to "Dominate Me, Daddy" in record time...