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she/they/🏳️‍🌈/🏔️/🌊 writer, photographer and artist new mexico + maine beccagrady.com

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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org
The gorgeous AI Resist List homepage
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becca grady @beccagrady.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
blowing up mountains to build a wall / important reporting from @cetracey.bsky.social @theborderchronicle.bsky.social
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Melissa Sevigny @melissasevigny.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Bought a new computer and spent the past week disabling AI features. Here's what I've figured out so far. I am not a tech person, so feel free to add -- and I'd love to see a guide for the #WritingCommunity all in one place! Here goes: 1/
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becca grady @beccagrady.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
5 questions with @elsewherejournal.bsky.social www.elsewhere-journal.com/blog/2026/1/...
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Five Questions for... Becca Grady — Elsewhere: A Journal of Place
We continue our series of occasional short interviews with contributors and friends of Elsewhere with Becca Grady, whose writing featured in our Twilight issue.  What does home mean to you? ...
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becca grady @beccagrady.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Great piece on the history of the sanctuary movement in Tucson! by @cetracey.bsky.social in @placesjournal.bsky.social placesjournal.org/article/a-th...
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A Theology of Smuggling
In the early 1980s, in Tucson, activists and religious leaders joined forces to protect refugees at the U.S.-Mexico border. Their collaboration galvanized the Sanctuary Movement.
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becca grady @beccagrady.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
beccagrady.substack.com/p/a-year-of-... California part two, a year in beaches and books:
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A Year of California Part 2
in beaches and reading...
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becca grady @beccagrady.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
A year of California in a few lists: open.substack.com/pub/beccagra...
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California Part 1
A year in a few lists
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Just another reason I subscribe to @propublica.org.
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Fernando Gros @fernandogros.com · 27/07/2025
Here's my first Starter Pack. This Starter Pack contains writers who completed Granta writing courses in memoir, nature writing, short fiction, and longform journalism. There's some amazing writers in here for you to follow and get to know.
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becca grady @beccagrady.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
The Public Comment period for Trump's State Department policy change to deny accurate passports to trans, intersex, and nonbinary people is open - please submit a comment! @aclu.org has put together all the links below: action.aclu.org/reg-action/h...
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Hands Off Our Passports: Stop Attacking Transgender Americans
The Trump administration is denying accurate passports to trans, intersex, and nonbinary people – so I’m joining the ACLU to fight back. Urge the State Department to reject this dangerous attack on ou...
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Marian Runk @marianrunk.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
"My favorite shade of blue is the sky at 6:15pm on March 1" Since yesterday was that day, I released a video I made for "Black and White Cookie," the last song on my album Two Wires and a Spark. Full video is on my website! Marianrunk.com #musiciansky #folkmusic #indiemusic
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 19/02/2025
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/...
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Public comment on US passport form changes related to trans
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/02/2025
DHS has removed manual guidance barring investigations solely based on sexual orientation and gender identity. This is a prerequisite to targeting the LGBTQ community with criminal investigations solely based on being LGBTQ. news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...
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DHS Scraps Ban on Surveillance Based on Sexual Orientation (1)
A Department of Homeland Security unit eliminated policies prohibiting personnel from conducting intelligence activities based solely on a person’s gender identity or sexual orientation.
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Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I don’t know who the showrunner is on 2025 and I know we’re not that far into the season, but the writing feels really heavy-handed and honestly barely plausible so far
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Alex Heard @aheard.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
As you may have heard, most (not all) of the people who produce Outside magazine (and the website) were laid off on Thursday. The ex-ME has a complete archive of issues going all the way back to the 1970s. If anybody knows of a library that might want to house these, lemme know.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 05/02/2025
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!
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Attorney General Neronha and 14 attorneys general issue joint statement on protecting access to gender-affirming care | Rhode Island Attorney General's Office
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Margaret Renkl @margaretrenkl.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
If we won’t make room for the wildness we live within, how can we possibly hope to save the wilderness? www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/o...
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Opinion | Let’s Hear It for the Coyote in Chicago Hiding in the Produce Aisle (Gift Article)
The wild creatures who have adapted to our ways are adept at remaining out of sight. But they are here, and they will always be with us.
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becca grady @beccagrady.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
after the rain at the San Diego creek, zoom in for flight and foam #runviews
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
With literally minutes left in his presidency, Joe Biden has granted clemency to Leonard Peltier
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Joe Biden Frees Leonard Peltier
The ailing Native American rights activist has been in prison for nearly 50 years after the U.S. government lied to put him there.
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becca grady @beccagrady.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
In case you need Zillow humor today courtesy of @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social rebeccamakkai.substack.com/p/its-zillow...
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It's Zillow Toilet Day
yes, it is.
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Mike Brown @plutokiller.com · 17/01/2025
Just had a sample of the Eaton Fire ash that is in my driveway run on the department XRF. Is there titanium (new house paint)? Yup. Lead (old house paint)? You betcha. Heavy metals? Check. Treat that ash like it's toxic folks (because it is)
A computer screen with a display showing output from an xray diffraction spectrometer. Close up view showing fraction of metals. Fun stuff.
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Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
If you’re in the US, what’s your plan for maintaining your sanity through the incoming administration? My favorite ideas so far: novels and poetry instead of doomscrolling, daily exercise (even 15 minutes is better than nothing), and maybe we don’t need to check the news more than 1x/day
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becca grady @beccagrady.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
congrats @sypgrant.bsky.social on your great piece in @antipodeonline.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉
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Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
tfw you love your job at the Bird Naming Factory
Stuffed bird labelled SPLENDID WRENStuffed bird labelled LOVELY WRENStuffed bird labelled SUPERB BLUE WREN
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Source New Mexico @sourcenm.com · 26/12/2024
Local government policies to make the experience of living on the streets a crime are worsening the problem and depleting the limited resources to help homeless people said advocates and experts. The third and final installment in the Camping Out series: buff.ly/409HpGX
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Camping ban enforcement in Maine highlights patchwork of solutions to homelessness • Source New Mexico
Police across the U.S. are enforcing ordinances that advocates say will worsen homelessness and further deplete limited resources to help.
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becca grady @beccagrady.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
LiLo 🎄 x @sabs.bsky.social @defector.bsky.social = 💫💫💫
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11/12/2024
Incredible news! Montana’s Supreme Court just affirmed that the state’s gender affirming care ban is likely unconstitutional. This makes the state the first state Supreme Court to rule that trans medical care is protected. This applies REGARDLESS of what the US Supreme Court does.
targets, the District Court reasonably concluded that the balance of the equities tips toward
preliminary relief pending full consideration of the merits. Its analysis of the last two
preliminary injunction factors was not arbitrary or unreasonable. The court did not
manifestly abuse its discretion, and its injunction was not overbroad.
156 Finally, both parties have submitted notices of supplemental authority, citing recent
cases considering challenges to various laws regarding gender-affirming care. Without
exception, the additional authority pertains to claims grounded in the equal protection
clause or otherwise based on alleged unlawful discrimination. Some of the authorities also
reference new developments in research and evidence that was not part of the record
presented to the District Court in the preliminary injunction proceedings. Because, on the
record here, the District Court's conclusions on Montana's express privacy protections are
sufficient to uphold its preliminary injunction, we affirm on that basis. The parties will
have the opportunity during the merits proceeding for full development of the record, where their experts may offer insight on any new research, and for briefing on the current case law relative to their claims.
CONCLUSION
157 The District Court made no error of law and did not manifestly abuse its discretion.
We affirm its grant of a preliminary injunction on the basis of Plaintiffs' right to privacy claim. The case will proceed to trial, at which point the District Court will finally resolve the disputed facts and issue a final determination on the constitutional issues presented.
/S/ BETH BAKER
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/S/ MIKE McGRATH
/S/ LAURIE MCKINNON
/S/ INGRID GUSTAFSON /S/ DIRK M. SANDEFUR
/S/ JAMES JEREMIAH SHEA
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Silas Grant @sypgrant.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Grateful for this read today: Understanding What's at Stake (It's Always Been Transition) open.substack.com/pub/sadbrown...
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Understanding What's at Stake (It's Always Been Transition)
What history brings to the Supreme Court for today's oral arguments.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 04/12/2024
Chase Strangio, first trans attorney to argue at SCOTUS, walks out to cheers.
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becca grady @beccagrady.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
snack or hat? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
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Scientists baffled as orcas seem to revive an 80s trend: dead salmon hats
At least one of the marine mammals was recently spotted in Washington wearing the multipurpose fishy accessory
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becca grady @beccagrady.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Here's a great roundup of writing and art residencies and calls for submissions from #adrianshirk 's catalog if anyone is in the market for such things. #amwriting adrianshirk.substack.com/p/december-o...
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December Opportunities
Vol. 1; Issue 10
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Marc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Between Kim and Steve’s widow Heather, this was surely the most profanity – laced street naming ceremony in Chicago’s history.
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becca grady @beccagrady.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
echo mountain ruins w/ @sypgrant.bsky.social
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becca grady @beccagrady.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
reading, lately ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #dinukamckenzie @rosannaxia.bsky.social #katherinebrabon #shzehuitjoa @lizmoorebooks.bsky.social
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Coco Picard @cocolarolo.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
New comics-based interview with #vanessagerman about her solo show is now live! chicagoreader.com/visual-arts-...
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vanessa german on her Logan Center exhibition - Chicago Reader
Works by artist vanessa german on view at the Logan Center aim to transport viewers into a space of vulnerability, curiosity, and courage.
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Elsewhere. A Journal of Place @elsewherejournal.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
From 2019, an interview with the wonderful @jessicajlee.bsky.social. "It’s taken me a really long time to realise that home didn’t have to be singular, that I didn’t need to pick one place to call home." www.elsewhere-journal.com/blog/2019/9/...
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becca grady @beccagrady.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
An excerpt from a larger book project I've been working on is up on @elsewherejournal.bsky.social (welcome to @bsky.app Elsewhere!) This piece is from a sliver of time @sypgrant.bsky.social and I spent in Wyoming and Montana on a residency moon. www.elsewhere-journal.com/twilight-pos...
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Attention — Elsewhere: A Journal of Place
By Becca Grady Wind and water have whittled hoodoos and buttes over time, drawing and sculpting with sandstone, mudstone, volcanic ash, and shale. This geological strata is on display for miles. S...
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becca grady @beccagrady.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
many days I am jealous of the dog. cc @sypgrant.bsky.social
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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
CIS WOMEN we need you. SIGN THIS NOW.
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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
it’s Trans Day of Remembrance, where we honor those we’ve lost to violence which is some 350 of us worldwide but there’s something i need you to know the numbers are much higher 1/ www.thepinknews.com/2024/11/20/t...
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At least 350 trans people killed globally in 2024 alone
More than 350 trans and gender-diverse people have been killed in 2024, a report coinciding with Trans Day of Remembrance shows.
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becca grady @beccagrady.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Love these illustrated notebooks from Orhan Pamuk in @vqr.bsky.social on the push and pull of writing versus painting. And there are mountains and the sea! www.vqronline.org/fall-2024/ar...
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Memories of Distant Mountains
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becca grady @beccagrady.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
therapy
mountain view in the angeles national forest
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becca grady @beccagrady.bsky.social · 10/03/2024
excited to see my mountain manuscript on the Santa Fe Writers Project long list, judged this year by @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social
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David Anaxagoras @davidanaxagoras.com · 03/03/2024
We never ask this about bombs.
WaPo Headline: Dropping aid from planes is expensive and inefficient. Why do it?
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 10/02/2024
A queer teenager from Nebraska, where lawmakers passed a ban on gender-affirming care last year, responds to Pamela Paul. "I fear for my future. I fear for my friends and their future."
To the Editor:
Re "Gender Dysphoric Kids Deserve Better Care" by Pamela Paul
(column, Feb. 4):
I'm an L.G.B.T.Q.+ teenager. Ms. Paul cites stories of
detransitioners as if they are damning to the practice of gender-
affirming care as a whole. Not all detransitioners regret their
transition, and not all transgender people will medically transition
An overwhelming 98 percent of people who started their transition
care as youths continue into adulthood, per a 2022 study from the
Netherlands published in The Lancet.
Speaking from experience, my peers and friends who have
undergone medical transitions have never "regretted" it, and after
beginning care, their quality of life greatly improved. If Ms. Paul
wants to demonize a procedure with a high rate of regret, she
should look toward knee replacement, where one in five people end
updissatisfied.
By writing this article, Ms. Paul further stigmatizes health care for
transgender people. Transition care may be good for some people.
It may not b
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becca grady @beccagrady.bsky.social · 07/12/2023
my first poem out in the world! ✨✨✨✨✨
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perversemag @perversemag.bsky.social · 04/12/2023
The eighth part of PERVERSE issue 7 is out now, with poems by Kat Payne Ware, C.P. Nield, Heidi Williamson, Becca Grady and Jo Colley. Read them here: perverse.substack.com/p/perverse-7h
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becca grady @beccagrady.bsky.social · 28/11/2023
very best writing companion, this one gets me through the toughest of edits 💕
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becca grady @beccagrady.bsky.social · 22/10/2023
tough week in news, but good in book mail, excited to read these from @dorothyproject.bsky.social @pipadam.bsky.social Kate Briggs @aminamemory.bsky.social and Marguerite Duras 💕💕💕💕
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becca grady @beccagrady.bsky.social · 15/10/2023
my fall resolution is to send more letters so here goes: wrote about catching up and losing the sky and reading Annie Dillard beccagrady.substack.com/p/eclipsing
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Eclipsing
Catching up and losing the sky
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