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Proud transman 🏳️‍⚧️ | Writer & aspiring speaker | Coaching individuals and leaders to tap into authenticity and thrive through connection ✨ | Addiction & Trauma-informed | LGBTQ+ advocate | Hooked on waves, words, & growth 🌊 www.nikgoodyear.com
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you get to be joyous now.

My current obsession. I’d love to hear what connects you to strength in the spirit of resisting these days.

it’s true!

Substack rebranding & relaunch | "Goodyear to Rise and Resist". As a transman, I’ve spent my life pushing toward visibility. As a writer, I’m still learning to find my voice. This space is a place to speak truth, challenge, connect—and rise. Subscribe and share! substack.com/@nikgoodyear...

Misgendering cis folks as an act of resistance. Dig.

đź’Ş lets go!

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

Weak leaders fear trans power.

LGB- T ... History cannot and will not be erased and we will not go back. Trans people exist. Trans humans are human. Folks on the other side of this conversation are showing their own limitations of mind, heart and spirit.

On Abraham Lincoln's 216th birthday, it's worth listening to this important warning he gave us back in 1838. Does any of this sound familiar to you? www.youtube.com/shorts/s2WcV...

A coalition of news organizations said in a court filing that video exhibits from a Jan. 6 riot case had "disappeared" from a government platform that provided access to evidence used in court.

Riddle me this: Why is the supposedly richest man on the planet so obsessed with defunding so many federal programs that help humanity? He is the one person who could shift the trajectory of the world for the best, yet he chooses to play with kids half his age and destroy our nation? Do better Bro.

This one was complicated so took a minute. Have a read, subscribe, pass along if you please and share your thoughts. Thank you in advance.

This one was complicated so took a minute. Have a read, subscribe, pass along if you please and share your thoughts. Thank you in advance.

mood. on repeat.

"Europeans who witnessed democracy crumble before their eyes have some words of advice for Americans now entering the second Trump era.... stay united, safeguard your civic institutions and never, never give up." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

Indivisible is urging people to visit their senators' local offices between now and Thursday to demand that they use every tool—including denying a quorum and blocking unanimous consent—to fight the confirmation of Project 2025 architect Russell Vought for head of OMB docs.google.com/document/d/1...

“I came out as transgender on the day the military first allowed trans men and women to serve openly, in 2016,” writes Bree Fram, a colonel in the U.S. Space Force. “I became a better leader when I no longer had to expend energy hiding who I was.”

Read, share, act.

Today’s show was my last at CNN. My closing message: It’s never a good time to bow down to a tyrant… don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to fear. Hold on to the truth… and hope.

An important read in light of the current administration's claims that “biological” gender is binary. This scientist breaks down the complexities quote succinctly.

ter·ror·ist noun: a person who uses unlawful violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims. adjective: unlawfully using violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims. ¡ why are we not talking about this !

'Hitler Pardoned His Goons Too' A breathtaking must-read piece from former DOJ prosecutor Harry Litman.

The darkest moment can only birth the first step toward light. Connect, resist, focus on the dream, repeat.

Tomorrow noon east-coast time, 9am Pacific: we'll be here to talk about beloved community, power, storytelling, and enter this next era of US history together, heads held high, friends held close. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf_y...

Remember: no mandate, no majority. 37.75% of the electorate didn't vote; 31.5% voted for him; 30.6% voted for her.

Not going back. I’ll wait for a replacement borne from the genius of the marginalized populations.

“One of the most recent actions that Zuckerberg’s supposedly emboldened company took was to banish tampons from office men’s rooms,” Zeynep Tufekci writes about Meta. “That is the most snowflake move I’ve heard of in a long time.”