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What drives me crazy about the anti-DEI rhetoric is everyone wants to be judged on merit. But you can't be judged on merit if you can't even get in the door because you don't fit some prejudiced definition of who is capable and who isn't

submitted 17 days ago • 602 comments

Courage and honor come in many forms.

submitted 16 days ago • 598 comments

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...

submitted 16 days ago • 249 comments

An important piece about how the cruelty is the point….

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Federal workers are being asked to report on colleagues who are involved in after-work groups for LGBTQ employees: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 17 days ago • 71 comments

When I landed in SLC, I used the bathroom despite an anti-trans bathroom ban. Nobody cared. Nobody ever does. The truth is, whatever anti-trans laws they keep passing, nobody actually gives a damn or wants to be the bathroom police. This is the ultimate reason anti-trans hysteria will fail.

submitted 18 days ago • 173 comments

Today's extract from Serving the Reich. What makes it worse is that I don't even need to add any explanatory comment, do I?

submitted 20 days ago • 5 comments

Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes. You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment. My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc. www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...

submitted 22 days ago • 135 comments

As this article spells out, one tiny problem with "it's the wokeness!" is how Democrats crushed it when they were at their most woke. This was all in 2020 before the election. Then in 2024 they backed away from it and lost to a bunch of the same people they beat in 2020.

submitted 23 days ago • 45 comments

From Playwrights Center in MN: “What they call ‘DEI’ is what we call our values. We identify and uplift artists who have been historically marginalized, and we materially support their ability to create their world-changing work, full stop.”

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

So many awful things are happening. Therefore, it is more important than ever to know that mummies smell nice. It brightens the day. 🤩 www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

This is what erasing history looks like. #TransRightsAreHumanRights #Stonewall

submitted 28 days ago • 3 comments

Getting word that a few hospitals are offering trans care again after the EO was blocked by a federal judge. Please send the decision to your hospital, and PLEASE send me a message if your hospital has resumed care, as I’m doing a story on this.

submitted 28 days ago • 20 comments

A historic graphic of corruption. The 11 federal agencies so far targeted for firings or dismantling by Elon Musk have more than 30 ongoing investigations into his companies. (📸 Malika Khurana for NYT)

submitted 30 days ago • 62 comments

Now more than ever.

submitted 35 days ago • 445 comments

whatever bespoke hypothetical thing you mean by "end social justice practices in the workplace", this version that they mean is the actual, concrete political project confronting labor and the left right now. move accordingly

submitted 35 days ago • 73 comments

Fucking despicable

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Guess we should all go back to writing white plays about white men’s white problems only? Because the fascists say we can’t make art about women, poc, queer or trans people? Fuck that! Make queer art!!! 🖼️ 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

the OTHER thing about the white house’s anti-diversity push is that like old fashioned segregation it is explicitly an effort to undermine unions! like c’mon! don’t be stupid!

submitted 36 days ago • 574 comments

This is not a U.S. Marshal, Federal Protective Service, or any other federal law enforcement officer. This is a private security guard from Triple Canopy. He has no authority to block members of Congress who have oversight of the EPA from entering the building.

submitted 35 days ago • 758 comments

My latest. As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality. I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI. Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 36 days ago • 228 comments

"That's what happened" meaning it's a historical fact. Here, look, I wrote about it in 2015, back before I'd even publicly come out: slate.com/human-intere...

submitted 35 days ago • 4 comments

Just wait until Trump uses the same mechanism he is using to attempt a national trans ban to do the same with a national abortion ban, mifepristone ban, etc.

submitted 36 days ago • 61 comments

Charlie Baker salivating at the prospect of ripping away the scholarships of all 10 trans women in college sports, a national issue of such critical importance the president devoted time to it in his first 15 days in office.

submitted 36 days ago • 17 comments

In light of today's new EO it seems like a good time to reshare this episode of @reprosfightback.bsky.social with the always amazing @katelynburns.com I mean come on just let trans girls play sports! www.reprosfightback.com/episodes-blo...

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

A/P [con't.] The E/O depends on Dept of Ed. investigating schools charged with allowing women/girls in female sports altho Trump has advocated dismantling it. In signing the E/O, he offered as 1 example of men in women's sports Algerian boxer Imane Khalif, a cis female. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social‬

submitted 36 days ago • 14 comments

Breaking news: State attorneys general from California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Nevada, Vermont, and Wisconsin advise Trump's EO banning trans care is unlawful, hospitals should provide care. Big counter salvo!

submitted 36 days ago • 251 comments

Trump has signed 10 executive orders attacking trans people in his first 16 days in office. Do not ever let anyone tell you that it's Democrats who are obsessed with trans people.

submitted 37 days ago • 34 comments

NASA workers were told to "drop everything" and spend their time scrubbing mentions of women in leadership, indigenous people, and environmental justice from the web: www.404media.co/nasa-dei-dro...

submitted 38 days ago • 232 comments

Love seeing the protests at NYU Langone for complying with an illegal executive order from President Trump meant to intimidate hospitals from providing care to trans youth. More to come?

submitted 38 days ago • 31 comments

The New York attorney general, Letitia James, has warned New York hospitals that complying with the White House’s executive order to end gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth could well violate state law.

submitted 38 days ago • 238 comments

submitted 40 days ago • 43 comments

California DOE fires back against Trump's executive order: "It does nothing" "It is against federal law for the White House to dictate what educators can and cannot teach" Will not comply.

submitted 41 days ago • 177 comments

The mask is off with these fucking fascists. Trump is calling trans military members dishonorable liars, is shutting down gov't funded programs to try to root out trans people, and red states across the country are following suit. There's barely any pretense to their hateful policy anymore.

submitted 44 days ago • 31 comments

1. Breaking News: Donald Trump has signed an executive order targeting trans youth and teachers in schools who teach for them. It goes after "social transition" and threatens arrests. I will go through line by line, as I have the last 3 nights. Find the EO here: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 43 days ago • 232 comments

Huh, yeah, that must really suck for someone to use your work without your permission to profit from your work… 🤔🤔 Maybe you shouldn’t have stolen the intellectual copyright of writers and artists in the first place??!? www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

Donald Trump has just released a national under 18 trans care ban executive order. I am working through specifically how it tries to do this, and will live tweet here section by section as I read through it. It is not yet on the website, but has been released via press release.

submitted 44 days ago • 216 comments

Two shows currently up and running that you should go see! 7th Voyage of Egon Tichy [redux] at NYTW Beckett Briefs at Irish Rep NYC

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

Giving Bluesky another go… 😁

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

First preview for “Philadelphia Here I Come” at Irish Rep. Drinking, emotionally unavailable parents, awkward social interactions. A good Irish play 😁

submitted 362 days ago • 0 comments

Newsies with middle schoolers this week. The kids are pretty great. 😊

submitted 410 days ago • 0 comments

Aristocrats opened at Irish Rep last night. Previous weekend saw the 7th Voyage of Egon Tichy. Really hope we get funding to do more Tichy voyages!!!

submitted 416 days ago • 0 comments