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She/her/hers Bi, trans, poly. Me-first ideology withers in the light of wisdom. Mortal Kombat Kenshi specialist.
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Well, this seems like a pretty topical day to read this essential nonfiction cut from @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

Still proud of this one and all the work @kylejcrb.kngi.org and the musicians put into Around the World

I'm not a gold star lesbian, I'm a purple heart lesbian

talia, as usual, doesn't miss. anyone interested in modern transfeminism should read this immediately.

One of the first books burned by the Nazis.

I thought it was weird that my trans blog from 2014 evolved into a civil liberties and Social Security and data privacy blog this year, but it turns out the situation is compelling every one of us to necessarily pivot to addressing the fundamental and overarching threat to our basic way of life!

1. OPINION: Republicans are pushing an anti-trans genocide, and too many Democrats are happy to let them do it. Fortunately, queer history provides lessons about how to fight back. Our latest column, from David Forbes (@davidforbes.bsky.social) www.madycast.com/p/opinion-re...

I care less about Signal chats and more about the blacksite offshore concentration camps we're sending random people to without any semblance of a trial, so I'll be interested to see if the national media can rub their bellies and pat their heads at the same time this week. Historically they can't.

Humanity is getting a very quick refresher course in how evil, dangerous psychopaths can simultaneously be utterly pathetic losers. There is no contradiction!

cory booker whipping the catheter out of his penis like yanking a belt out of a pair of slacks

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH

NEW ESSAY! about last week's White Lotus episode & misconceptions about "autogynephilia," but mostly about GC/TERF rhetoric & their "grand unified theory" of transness! on Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/the-white-... or Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/the-white-lo...

It's not an either/or. One of the absolute best and most beautiful people I know absolutely revels in the knowledge that it's a genderfluid girlthing. And I remind it of that fact every chance I get because affirming people in who they are is beautiful.

Why, in the name of all that is sacred, is Steam's account recovery system the most dogshit and frustrating [blurry captcha/retrieval codes that don't arrive/not dictating whether it's pw or username that's incorrect] collection of nonsense that's ever been? Asking for a me

Detain him with plainclothes masked men, send him to a Louisiana jail and don’t tell his lawyers where he is or you’re not serious about stopping shit.

I doubt I'm followed by any university admins, but if so, please note that this is the *minimum* response we should expect to see when a student is gestapo'd.

Just had a fabulous sandwich for lunch and I'm heartbroken I didn't take a pic first 🙃

The reason Elon keeps doing these blatantly corrupt money giveaways to incentivize voting is because, again, no one is stopping him or holding him accountable. A democracy that refuses to do anything but assume everyone acts in good faith isn’t a democracy at all

Trump just signed an executive order banning vote by mail and ordering the defunding of any state that does not follow through with it as well as engage in massive voter roll purges. There won't be free and fair elections ever again. If you're waiting for 2026, it's already too late.

my takeaway from reading this is that i have to assume that every half-competent intelligence agency in the world has an almost real-time glimpse into what the white house and the pentagon are doing