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kaylanimis.bsky.social
Chicago-based gamer and cat enthusiast.
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As the transgender community continues to fight for civil rights in the U.S., one of the most common arguments against progress is that transgender people are a recent phenomenon. But it’s a fight that’s been happening here for decades and around the world for centuries. ⤵️

submitted 38 days ago • 89 comments

The House GOP this week is going to bring to the floor, and likely pass on a partisan basis a law that will protect child predators at the expense of every female athlete in our country Let's dive in.

submitted 45 days ago • 9 comments

Nearly 70% of rural Illinois residents live in a child care desert. One parent drove 100 miles a day to drop her son at child care, head to her classes in the opposite direction, then do it again in reverse. She spent $600 a month on gas alone. w/ Capitol News Illinois

submitted 48 days ago • 33 comments

Happening now, the first anti-trans hearing of 2025 in the United States. HB121 in Montana is a full adult bathroom ban in publicly owned buildings. It targets all trans adults and the trans reps Zooey Zephyr/SJ Howell. I am covering it live. Watch with me: sg001-harmony.sliq.net/00309/Harmon...

submitted 49 days ago • 139 comments

Had a game day today and was able to get Agency to the table. The walls and shared hands were a fun twist. Looking forward to breaking it out again.

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

Maybe we should hold off on awarding men awards for being nice to women for a while.

submitted 65 days ago • 17 comments

Presidents usually issue most of their grants of clemency in their final days in office, but this year of all years I do not know what Joe Biden is waiting for. The incoming admin is planning to carry out the executions you promised to stop. Do your job, man! www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 79 days ago • 44 comments

Trump has nominated Harmeet Dhillon, an aggressively anti-trans pick, for assistant AG for civil rights. She has already gone after transgender refugee laws in safe states.

submitted 81 days ago • 111 comments

#DisabilityTax “The reality is that it is expensive to be disabled. Research shows that disabled people need at least 28% more income, at least $17,690, to achieve a standard of living similar to that of non-disabled people.” www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...

submitted 101 days ago • 18 comments

I guess it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to endorse Harris for president wapo.st/3UqHWRM

submitted 125 days ago • 251 comments

Odessa Texas has passed the nation's first complete bathroom ban for trans people. It includes a bounty lawsuit provision allowing people to sue if a trans person is in the bathroom.

submitted 128 days ago • 59 comments

Hi new Bluesky users. Semi-annual reminder to follow my favorite part of this website: the Gift Links feed. It shows any free link to an otherwise paywalled article that’s shared by anyone on Bluesky. It has legit changed how I read the news. bsky.app/profile/did:...

submitted 131 days ago • 157 comments

Gift link: Polio Threatens Gaza Today. Tomorrow, It Could Be Cholera. www.nytimes.com/2024/10/14/o...

submitted 137 days ago • 0 comments

As ever, @polgreen.bsky.social gets the moral balance precisely right; while this is an op-ed, it contains real reporting that punctures some of the reactionary mythologising about these protests. Her final words are haunting.

submitted 308 days ago • 3 comments

i wrote about the way the christian right envisions masculinity https://theswordandthesandwich.substack.com/p/the-christian-rights-masculinity

submitted 549 days ago • 6 comments

Wow: SELF magazine has published a series called “Let Them Play,” featuring stories about trans youth and sports, written and edited entirely by queer and trans people. This is how you change media. www.self.com/package/let-...

submitted 553 days ago • 14 comments