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I have to record a podcast episode this afternoon which means I will be sitting here in freeze-frame mode unable to do a single thing for the next 8 hours

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i NEED marginalized genders, women, & queers to let go of the imagined prelapsarian golden age of non-patriarchal sexual freedom when we were once the ruling class bc "primitive matriarchy" or athenian boy love or whatever. we are building a world that has never existed before, and that's good.

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Somehow the "We need to support policies that are popular" crowd never land on the very popular polices like "taxing big corporation more," "making health care more affordable," or "paying teachers more." It's always just "be 10% more racist."

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👇👇👇👇👇

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The fact that cops refuse to acknowledge this as a hate crime would be farcical were it not so devastating. Jonathan Joss deserves justice.

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Suitably for the anniversary of Kit Marlowe’s death and for Pride Month, I’m reading (and loving) @hessephillips.com LIGHTBORNE Not only is the story good, the structure & use of quotes make it even more clever and compelling #Booksky 📚💙

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I'm happy to report the reason why 30th May slipped by me this year is bc I'm working on a new book that has nothing to do with Marlowe, and things are going well at the moment. But yeah, RIP to a real one; you would've loved arguing with anti-kink-at-Pride dumbasses on Bluesky.

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Fucking exhausting.

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Despite the fact that i literally have a degree in this stuff I feel the worst impostor syndrome I've ever felt in my life when I sign up for seminars like this, but I might just have to ignore the voices in my head this time around. Too many good ones!

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Ah, the majestic greyhound, most ancient and venerable of breeds, swift hunter, silent stalker, of piercing stare and long le-

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“While States debate terminology – is it or is it not genocide? – Israel continues its relentless destruction of life in Gaza, through attacks by land, air and sea, displacing and massacring the surviving population with impunity.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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Newsom, like many establishment Dems, is and always was a wolf in sheep's clothing. If living in Europe has taught me anything it's that the US needs an actual honest-to-god Left, but USians are so red-pilled across the board they don't even know what Left looks like. They just know it's "bad."🙃

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There’s a lot happening right now (duh) but please consider helping our venerable genre mainstay Locus Magazine

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Also, please specify that you want to protect trans care for ALL AGES! They need to hear that there is popular support for trans youth care, and that sacrificing them is totally unacceptable and unforgivable. We need to be louder than an entire consultant industry complex telling them otherwise.

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We were hoping that this letter to @bsky.app could first be shared by a Gazan, but we were too worried that doing so would get their account deleted so we are sharing first. You can sign on to the letter about the unfair treatment of Gazans on Bluesky here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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STAHP. CALLING. BIGOTS. "FEMINISTS."

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At the risk of giving people attention they may not want: the responses to this thread are so eloquent, so deeply considered, that I kind of wish it were required reading for everyone. (But it's a scary world, so if anybody in this thread wants me to take down this repost lmk.)

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Indie, small-press, and self-pubbed trans authors take note!

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For the 5,000th time, most sex crimes are not about sex; they are about power, so chemical castration isn't going to do a damn thing to prevent them. It will, however, almost inevitably be used to torture and punish innocent people as queer sexualities/identities become increasingly criminalized.

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I'm in a love/hate relationship with this thread. I want to love its body-positive, "no wrong way to do masculine" attitude, but I hate that after reading it 5 times I'm still thinking, "But HOW do I hide my massive birthing hips, Derek?? Please just tell me how to hide them!"

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This is something I tried very hard to get people to understand around the time I blew up my life in order to withdraw from a certain literary festival. There's such a thing as a Professional Transphobe; many people make bucketloads of cash doing it. We're witnessing a bigotry gold rush.

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Just think of the real books whose champions are desperately trying to get word out for them & would die just to have that kind of platforming that was given to books that don't exist.

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Ahmad and Samar are still alive, which is great to hear, but the situation in Gaza is now worse than ever. Please help if you can, share if you can't.

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My parents are coming to visit me in Spain for the first time in 5 years. The catch? I have to meet them in Barcelona. Kind of hate them for this. (Seriously, don't go to Barcelona.)

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If you don't want to be compared to the Gestapo, consider not engaging in these activities: • campaigns of terror • kidnapping • separating families • rounding up and imprisoning people for having the wrong opinions • sending people to foreign gulags with no due process • concentration camps

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Joseph O'Connor summing up all the thoughts I have to offer on Eurovision, now and forever:

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I will be forever grateful I get to inhabit this earth as a pronouns-in-bio queer and not some shrieking crusader for every kind of normativity. I get to go thru life never giving a shit about making myself appealing to my own oppressors. Many people never get that. Don't take it for granted. 🩵

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For anyone who ever thought there was Nottoway to stop the glorification and commodification of Anerica's racist past, may I humbly suggest fire?

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"Seasoning with gracious voice" optional.

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Trolling is the back-foot tactic of cowards who know they've already lost. If trolling is the best the Dems can do against Trump then we need a new opposition with the will to fight to the bitter end and we need it yesterday.

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We have some practical guidance available for trans people and service providers! Share widely!

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If your electeds are on this list, looks like you have one more thing to bring up in your regular calls/emails.

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Last week I made the BIG mistake of deciding to reread Mrs. Dalloway and now all other literature is, once again, ruined for me until further notice. I'll just be here rereading it over and over again till the heat death of the universe.

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And yet, for some reason, Labour, the Lib Dems, Alliance and Sinn Fein are angry at the queer community for being banned from Pride...

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Seems like a good time to plug the audiobook of LIGHTBORNE, if only to celebrate the utter genius of Will Watt, who took my words and gave them a real human voice and soul. Accept no imitations - buy audiobooks narrated by humans! books.apple.com/ie/audiobook...

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