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Badly Licked Bear @badlylickedbear.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We must imagine the Mineshaft as a place of daily life. Having finally put my thoughts on Cruising into some order, all I can think about is wanting to write about die-ins.

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Cruising Is A Memorial

Bodies - live, dead, and imagined. Notes on Cruising and Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders

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Badly Licked Bear @badlylickedbear.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

With Mary Harron's 1996 I Shot Andy Warhol back in theatres after three decades in distribution hell, I have questions, particularly about the use of Candy Darling as a human crowbar to access the life of the 20th century's most radical feminist and TERF.

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Hot Take: I Shot Andy Warhol

The biopic of the RadFem saint and SCUM Manifesto author Valerie Salonas as bullshit, Lily Talyor's performance of a lifetime, and Candy Darling as a human crowbar.

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Badly Licked Bear @badlylickedbear.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

From On Our Backs, Fall 1986, a full-page ad taken out by the AIDS Project of the East Bay and the Pacific Center for Human Growth, the oldest operating LGBTQ+ center in the Bay Area, thanking the lesbian community for their support during the AIDS crisis.

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Badly Licked Bear @badlylickedbear.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

(Jonathan Frakes Voice) Have you ever transported an entire castle to the top of a New York skyscraper?

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Badly Licked Bear @badlylickedbear.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

This one has everything: A dissolving strap-on, talking shit on Neil Gaiman, SEX GHOSTS, a divinatrix-turned-sci-fi-legend, TRANSSEXUAL REALISM, a vertical slice of 1993 Queer life, a wormhole of footnotes, a severed head...you know, Doom Patrol shit. Hope you like it. 💋

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Doom Patrol, Kate Godwin, and the Birth of Trans Realism

In 1993, Rachel Pollack gave birth to Kate Godwin, aka Coagula, the first trans character in superhero comics written by a trans person. Why? How? Into what universe? Who was Kate Godwin?

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Badly Licked Bear @badlylickedbear.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I suppose I should share this rant-not-rant based on my many, many, thousands, even of recent interactions with TERFs, transphobes, and anti-trans activists on other platforms. My conclusion: They all hate women and have found the one outlet that lets them do so, publicly, and without consequence.

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Why Be A TERF? Why Be Transphobic? Why Be Anti-Trans, Anyways?

Or, how to hate women and fantasize about their pain, suffering, and death in a socially acceptable way.

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Badly Licked Bear @badlylickedbear.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Look also upon this absolute unit, who is definitely one of the cooler people in my neighborhood.

An ABSOLUTE UNIT of a pig, living their best life in East LA.

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Badly Licked Bear @badlylickedbear.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Back in my day, when we went to the Moon, we didn't have toilets!

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Badly Licked Bear @badlylickedbear.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

It was the best of Transgender Days of Visibility, it was the worst of Transgender Days of Visibility....

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Badly Licked Bear @badlylickedbear.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Once Again, I Wish My Superpower Were Invisibility: Another Year, Another Transgender Day of Visibility "To be To be transsexual is to be invisible and hyper-visible at the same time." My annual thoughts on my relationship to invisibility as a transsexual on our Day of Visibility.

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Once Again, I Wish My Superpower Were Invisibility

Another Year, Another Transgender Day of Visibility

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Badly Licked Bear @badlylickedbear.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Post your favorite Lord of the Rings character, wrong answers only.

Gandalf the White, returning after his battle with the Balrog in Lord of The Rings.

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Badly Licked Bear @badlylickedbear.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

The Post-Patriot Act Era has been living hell and everyone knows it. The death of empire is never fast, never pretty, and never kind to everyday people.

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Badly Licked Bear @badlylickedbear.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Everyone seems mildly concerned that movie about a gear fetish biker in a 24/7 D/s relationship with a naive twink doesn't have a comprehensive consent negotiation. Meanwhile, as a BIPOC in wearing her domme hat, I have things to say about race in Pillion.

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Pillion, Divided

In which I cannot envision myself reading Min Kamp (My Struggle) while my submissive begs for attention.

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Badly Licked Bear @badlylickedbear.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.

The Cast of Friends in the episode "The One With The Thing"

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Badly Licked Bear @badlylickedbear.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Tom Noonan echoed of the Downtown LA actors and poets I crawled around with as a wayward teen in the 1990s, someone you'd know from that one movie, but was much more. He's not here, now, but here he is being incredibly present, in the short film "They're Made Out Of Meat." Rest easy, big man.

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They're Made Out Of Meat

YouTube video by Stephen O'Regan

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Badly Licked Bear @badlylickedbear.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Soooo, has everybody figured out what their street gang's theming is going to be after The Event?

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Badly Licked Bear @badlylickedbear.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Brewster McCloud is the best film ever made about a twink-trickster who transcends a psychologically (at mimimum) incestuous relationship with his mother, The Devil, via an infatuation with an emotionally dissociative Shelly Duvall and her spectacular eyelashes. Rest in Perversity, Bud Cort.

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Badly Licked Bear @badlylickedbear.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Just noting the emphasis on defining transgender identity as a mental health disorder, "gender dysphoria," which serves only one purpose - relegating trans and gender diverse people to the category of sick, ill, diseased, crazy, insane, undesirable, vermin, subhuman, and otherwise less than.

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Badly Licked Bear @badlylickedbear.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

She has finally arrived, my custom #titleholder strap as America's first Mx. Strap Sucker. Made by Pup Dume in Los Angeles. This thing is a monster, built for the monsterfuckers. You know who you (we) are. 🕳️

The custom strap-on belonging to Badly Licked Bear, Mx. Strap Sucker 2025. Oxblood leather with brass hardware, made by Pup Dume.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 30/01/2026

If you see this, don't participate. It's a rigged study by Lisa Littman and unethical researcher J. Michael Bailey meant to undermine access to care. Spread the word.

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Thomas [DARK MODE], DO @tom.medsky.social · 27/01/2026

Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 27/01/2026

"You know Bovino leaving won't st..." Yes I fucking know. I shipped 800 whistles across the country today. I'll ship another 500 tomorrow. I will not stop until they are stopped and also I will take the fucking W when one of their top fash fucks gets the boot.

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Badly Licked Bear @badlylickedbear.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Trans and enby Vancouver folks, I'll be teaching a free workshop, Accomodation & Self-Accommodation, for O Collective, on January 18. This is one of my fave workshops, and I offer it in service to my community. If you're new to going to play or sex parties or kink/BDSM/leather events, it's for you.

Poster image for a workshop on January 18.

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Vera Drew @veradrew22.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

🥹🙏 thank u lmaooooo let’s all manifest this

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Badly Licked Bear @badlylickedbear.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Belatedly...I'm not sure what it says about me that my two, personal remembrances for Rob Reiner are his small role in his father's black comedy, Where's Poppa?, and the fact that #JuneJones' "Goblin Mindset" is my favorite reference to Spinal Tap. youtu.be/xiXWnizyLgw?...

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June Jones – Goblin Mindset

YouTube video by June Jones

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Badly Licked Bear @badlylickedbear.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

The canceled TV show you'll never stop thinking about:

I might have just been very into Rebecca De Morney as a fucking powerful creep?

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Badly Licked Bear @badlylickedbear.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

HRT should be available over-the-counter, and without prescription, period.

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Badly Licked Bear @badlylickedbear.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

I cannot wait to talk about death with you!

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Badly Licked Bear @badlylickedbear.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

PKD also wrote the same book twice, and did that at least twice, and had he done it thrice and thrice, that would have yet another battle towards the inevitable victory of drugs in the War on Drugs.

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Badly Licked Bear @badlylickedbear.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Confused as to which paramilitary, white supremacist fascist is beating you or your neighbor, today? The NYT is here to help!

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Badly Licked Bear @badlylickedbear.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

I'm trans. I fly. I fly a lot. It sucks. It's starting to suck a lot more. This is what it's like to fly for one trans person, and what it's been like for me for a while. I wonder what it's like for you? I wonder when my next detainment will be. I wonder what surprises lie in store for you and me.

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Notes on Flying While Trans in MAGA America

The decline of empires is a helluva drug, isn't it?

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Badly Licked Bear @badlylickedbear.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

THIS. Get your heads out of the sand, folks.

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Badly Licked Bear @badlylickedbear.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

"I confess! It's me, I'm the girlfriend of Antifa."

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Badly Licked Bear @badlylickedbear.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

If you're still not sure about what's going down, I'd, like, really appreciate it if you acknowledged that transgender Americans are in the process of witnessing our own genocide, and act accordingly, okay?

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Badly Licked Bear @badlylickedbear.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Post a cartoon character you most relate to.

The Marvelous, Magnificent, Mad Madam Mim!

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Badly Licked Bear @badlylickedbear.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Newsom has one job, being termed out of his office in California and positioning himself to be the next Republican President of the United States. He's already made it clear that he's willing to sit down with and have a cordial conversation with a fucking fascist, what more do you need to know?

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Badly Licked Bear @badlylickedbear.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Okay, y'all.... This political theatre had two functions: 1. To demonstrate that when Hesgeth says "Jump," these folks jump. 2. To generate imagery of two losers in bad suits telling ALL of the career military officers "how it's gonna be." Does no one understand dominance politics?

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Badly Licked Bear @badlylickedbear.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

They're sending Full Force to Portland?

The most feared unit of the American military, the special house party operations group, Full Force.

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Badly Licked Bear @badlylickedbear.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

BRB, gotta go transcribe the entire text of Susan Stryker's "Dungeon intimacies: The Poetics of Transsexual Sadomasochism" into a belt of 7.62mm NATO, in ink made with an Estradiol Valerate mixed with black lipstick.

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