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“I am worried about violence against LGBTQ people. I also worry about legal repression, including the end of legal gay marriage and denial of healthcare and jobs. There is now a horrific backlash against LGBTQ people after what had been a great era of advances in civil rights.”

ok, cis folks—if you said you'd stand with trans folks, it's time. S.9 is the senate's sports ban bill—a big step to making trump’s executive order a federal law, which is much harder to undo. it can be stopped *monday.* short call scripts for dem & GOP senators ⬇️🧵 legiscan.com/US/bill/SB9/...

NEW: Iowa governor signs bill removing gender identity from state civil rights protections, making Iowa the first state to remove civil rights from a previously protected class. For @nbcnews.com: www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...

a cloture vote for the way-harder-to-undo-than-an-executive-order federal anti-trans sports ban is now set for monday. that means there's more time to make calls. no on cloture means it doesn't get a vote. the GOP needs 7 dems to advance it. please call. there is *so* much evil downstream of this.

Brief pause in our programming: call your D Senator TODAY and tell them they need to hold the line here (and tell us who you called below 👇) EVEN IF a ban does not affect your loved ones, the inevitable end to this is evil stuff like intimate checks on kids. Pls take the time! #LeopardsAteMyFace

None of us can be sure what will “work.” You try multiple things and find your way in. Read some histories of the Civil Rights Movement by those who participated. They were never “sure” of what would work. Some campaigns fizzled out. But persistence, creativity, determination, and focus were key.

"We're all so much alike... and yet we're all so different! I find myself rejoicing at the endless variety of human beings, and that's partly, I know, because your differences from one another tell me that it's alright for me to be different in many ways, too." - Fred Rogers 🧵 1/2

The fact that the USA has banned visas for trans people but welcomed rapist Andrew Tate shows how all this "defending women" stuff is total bullshit

ALERT! It just broke that tomorrow, the Senate will attempt a procedural vote on a transgender sports ban. It will take 7 Democrats breaking rank in order to have enough votes to pass cloture. Democrats held very strong in the House and only lost two votes. CALL YOUR DEMS! (info in next post)

They’re cutting Medicaid

i’m gonna do a thread about this tomorrow but just… do NOT at ALL trust the White House claim today that a poll showed the American people agree with their stance on trans people. the poll does not show that. fact check to come.

THEY'RE GOING TO ISSUE PERMANENT VISA BANS TO TRANS VISITORS TO THE US. This isn't just for athletes. The directive as stated applies to all visa applications made by trans folks and declare it material fraud to use a different gender marker on applications. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“I just wanna say trans people are beautiful. We are never going to stop existing. I’m never gonna stop being trans, a letter on a passport can’t change that, and fuck this administration.”

Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"

History teaches us that when governments begin persecuting a vulnerable minority group while simultaneously making it harder for members of that group to escape persecution by fleeing abroad... it doesn't end well for anyone. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

After publishing this story, which features a picture of the protest at Children's National in DC, I have been informed that moments ago, Childrens National in DC has resumed transgender care. The hospital protests worked! Keep doing them!

Don’t buy stuff on February 28. Money’s the only thing these dicks understand. #resist

It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

Protest at Stonewall tomorrow. You can’t spell Stonewall without the T.

This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument. (Scroll down.)

~ 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

1️⃣ There’s a reason everything feels like chaos right now. It’s not an accident—it’s a strategy. What Trump & his enablers are doing follows the Shock Doctrine: create relentless crises, overload people’s ability to process events, then exploit the confusion to consolidate power. #ShockDoctrine

If you’re anti porn, you’re anti queer

If you’re not wearing a mask, you’re literally on the side of people like this. Maybe at least think about this from time to time.

This is a data heist what is blessed by Trump

This is what revisionist history looks like, in real time. And this also is why it might appear that archaeologists and historians have to dig deep to discover the existence of powerful women and marginalized groups -- because their legacies are so often erased.

Trump just called for a *permanent* displacement of Gazans from their homeland. If you’re on the left and you didn’t vote for Harris, I don’t wanna hear a DAMN thing about how someone needs to do something.

It’s here now!

This is a 5 alarm fire. They're going to pull down all publicly available data, studies, guidance, etc that involves LGBTQ people so when the worst happens to us, no one will know. They're actively trying to erase us. gizmodo.com/cdc-ordered-...

All I can really say at this point is if everyone isn't watching how trans people have lost basic rights and protections on a scale that hasn't been seen in decades in the span of 72 hours and realizing that even if you aren't trans there's nothing stopping it from happening to you, you're a fool

This is my favorite picture of Stonewall. They knew they were getting arrested just for being LGBTQ+. Yet... they're still here, standing outside of the boarded up Stonewall Inn, smiling as the world was at a fever pitch of hatred against them. I think about it a lot in moments like this.

Milwaukee/Madison/Chicago: I’m co-teaching this class again at @thebinderymke.bsky.social on March 4 and it’s not one to be missed. People have made friends, met collaborators, and strengthened their Trans + Queer community bonds from these printing sessions! Sign up here: binderymke.ticketleap.com

“This is some alternate reality that they’re trying to impose on the world that’s counter to the lived experience of not only transgender people, but other people who know and love us.”

Trans kids are not a bargaining chip. Being trans isn’t a culture war. Not giving an inch in my support for trans and nonbinary people of all ages to live freely and openly, and neither should you. Gender is what we make of it, and that’s what they’re afraid of.

Trump doesn't care if the economy crashes and communities suffer. His goal is to force you and your family to accept a lower standard of living while he and his friends get richer. Cutting support for law enforcement, schools, small businesses and firefighters is chaos by design.

Not to be alarmist, but this is the most radical presidential action I've ever seen. He's straight up seizing Congress' budget power. What do laws matter if the mad king's whims dictate what gets enforced and where money goes? It's not a policy memo - it's a revolution. Don't let it be a quiet one.

I know there’s a lot right now. But folks need to understand what this means. A suspension this long would mean people living with HIV lose their medicine for months. People around the world lose their PrEP for months, putting millions at risk of getting HIV. Drug-resistant strains could emerge.

Thread: With the rise to power of fascism, in the US, & its persecution & criminalisation of LGBTQ people, I want to share the important story of a gay Dutch resistance martyr. He said: ‘Let it be known that homosexuals are not cowards.’

SARS-CoV-2 (COVID) damages brains, hearts, immune systems, blood vessels, and nearly every organ and organ system. It’s not mild & your risk goes up with each infection. #WearAnN95 and protect yourself and others.

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.