Reposted by *winnie was herehikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 08/09/2026they're not made of cognitive science they're made of narrative they're weird little demonic fucks (affectionate) that we carved into archetypes like "User" and "Assistant" and "Developer" and gave the ability to reach out of their self-writing stories and take actions in the world 520815
Reposted by *winnie was hereIsobel Bess @echosequence.space · 17/08/2026my zine of experimental poems and images, Distance Montage, is back in stock. 10 copies only. note that the covers are a bit weathered due to the toner not fusing fully to the cardstock, but it looks cool. last ever batch with these covers! otherspaces.bandcamp.com/merch/isobel...otherspaces.bandcamp.comIsobel Bess – Distance Montage from Other SpacesIsobel Bess – Distance Montage from Other Spaces 0134
Reposted by *winnie was herebites u @snuffbait.bsky.social · 12/07/2026let go of your fears and accept loss before it even arrives, and there will be nothing that you cannot accomplish, no love that you will not feel for humanity. this is what it means to be transsexual 2327
Reposted by *winnie was hereTalia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 30/06/2026The patriarchal world is tearing itself to bits in order to cling to fictions it can no longer reasonably maintain. 247787
*winnie was here @berenexia.website · 29/06/2026I’ve started rereading LOTE for the first time since 2020 and it’s still a masterpiece. 020
Reposted by *winnie was hereBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Out: Better things are possible In (laser eyes etc): Better things are inevitable 292984567
Reposted by *winnie was hereJana H-S (she, like a knife) @jana-aych-ess.bsky.social · 26/06/2026there's only one conversation and it's the one we are having with our past and future selves we quote ourselves constantly or, I do. maybe that's my curse to fit so cleanly into the textbox that it all sounds like aphorism old sayings from distant futures when the words of some tranny actually count 1144
*winnie was here @berenexia.website · 26/06/2026i've mentioned this before but it's also a sobering adjustment to consider that i must reduce my risk tolerance down to basically nil for medical reasons since surgery 020
*winnie was here @berenexia.website · 26/06/2026I keep thinking about that home-printed copy of Faggots & Friends being displayed as evidence in the prairieland trials. And the luxury of being able to treat that book as a quirky aesthetic instead of actual survival strategies We take turns reading it aloud at house parties: for good reason 040
Reposted by *winnie was herekyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 26/06/2026My not-so-hot take is that what Mamdani is doing *IS* incrementalism, and the bar is so deeply in hell that a politician just doing *anything* good consistently is a total anomaly for people. And I think for now that is good and fine, because it is restoring people’s faith that better is possible. 789211535
Reposted by *winnie was heresynapsid (Scary) @synapsid.wtf · 24/06/2026telling the "estrogen would've saved her" girls that taking hrt is the easy part. finally figuring out how to live is the hard part 311010223
Reposted by *winnie was hereKatie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 24/06/2026this is in line with my frustrations about how every trans movie is an egg crack movie. i want a movie where a woman's transness is not the core of the story because trans women are women and are subject to regular woman issues on top of trans issues. this really should not be a radical suggestion. 611057135
Reposted by *winnie was hereAlina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Let your language be for you what the body is for lovers. It alone separates beings and unite them. - Motto of literary magazine founded by Schiller and Goethe 04312
*winnie was here @berenexia.website · 20/06/2026Very relevant is this fantastic essay from Emma Heaney, another from that great Mediations issue —thinking cisness as a component of the colonial “human” category (Sylvia Wynter style) mediationsjournal.org/articles/cis...mediationsjournal.orgOn the Cisness of the Bourgeoisie | Mediations | Journal of the Marxist Literary GroupEmma Heaney argues that recognizing cisness as a crucial credential in the development of bourgeois cultural supremacy clarifies the class and racial politics… 010
*winnie was here @berenexia.website · 17/06/2026This from Kay Gabriel is one of the most compelling pieces of trans theory i’ve read in recent memory mediationsjournal.org/articles/gen...mediationsjournal.org"Gender Is the Extent We Go to in Order to Be Loved" | Mediations | Journal of the Marxist Literary GroupKay Gabriel thinks about what it means to change sex, reframes trans politics in terms of sexual liberation, and fits the fight over the right to change sex i… 0101
Reposted by *winnie was here👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.plus · 16/06/2026there is a massive gap between what passes for feminist discourse online vs the cutting edge feminist thinking happening right now so here's something really lovely that just dropped mediationsjournal.org/toc/volume-3... 122871
Reposted by *winnie was hereVicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Be reasonable, demand the impossible! 😘✌️ 1817
Reposted by *winnie was hereviolet allen @blipstress.bsky.social · 12/06/2026I created this short-form promotional video for TikTok and elsewhere, but I thought you busted oldheads might also enjoy it. 14724
*winnie was here @berenexia.website · 12/06/2026Who’s written a good critical/materialist analysis of global logistics & container shipping? 010
Reposted by *winnie was herelottie "frog k" lovely ⚧️🏴☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 02/09/2025part of the advertising pitch for both AI and all modern social media is encouraging delusions of reference. reality is not a story and you are not the protagonist. anyone telling you otherwise is trying to harm you to make money 27918
*winnie was here @berenexia.website · 07/06/2026Made myself a cheat sheet for plastic prism void. Honestly i can’t remember the last time i did this for any kind of book, let alone a novel. Brava Also i definitely know how to spell hydrangea 4215
Reposted by *winnie was hereThey Call Me Doctor Mae @dr-maeforrest.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Being trans is a blessing, and transition is a prayer. All of it is animated by truth and hope. 06919
Reposted by *winnie was hereTalia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 02/05/2026Writing a book that's 80% complete: wow, everything's really coming together, I'm so excited to share this with my readers! Writing a book that's 95% complete: Time is a prison of eternal echoes that refuse to fade. Words bleed off the page and melt into meaninglessness. I need a latte. 539447
Reposted by *winnie was hereThe Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 24/04/2026⭐⭐ Isabel Pabán Freed's sophomore novel It's the Characters! is the most challenging novel to come out of the transfeminine publishing sphere in 2025. It's also the most underread. Come for the weird psychadelic vignettes and the dry humor, stay for prose that'll put you through your paces.thetransfemininereview.comBook Review: It’s The Characters! by Isabel Pabán FreedIsabel Pabán Freed’s sophomore novel is a mind-bending tour de force in metamodern storytelling. But prepare yourself for a challenging read. 14611
Reposted by *winnie was hereellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 28/04/2026like, the conservatives are completely right: education challenges the family. it says "you are not the property of the people who violently manufactured your through biological domination. your teachers can show you that humans can be better than our base instincts," and men HATE that 612418
Reposted by *winnie was hereGhostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 20/04/2026a lot of the quote posts of this are in the "don't get your hopes up/don't be delusional" genre which, I think, miss the point. the GOP is gonna be losing a lot more sleep at night if it's starting to look like they might have to fight to keep Mississippi. we don't have to win there to fuck 'em up 24670139
Reposted by *winnie was herebree bird 🇨🇦 @goose.ski · 14/04/2026they don’t want you to know this but the hope down at the park is free. you can just take it home with you. i have so much hope 0197
Reposted by *winnie was hereCat Fitzpatrick @catfitzpatrick.net · 18/04/2026I promised a second thread on Plastic, Prism, Void & here it is! This time I want to talk about it as writing, not as typesetting. And I want to talk about it as writing about love, specifically about trying to be loved as a trans woman. (remembering to put the pre-order link at the top this time!)littlepuss.netPlastic, Prism, Void by Violet Allen — Debut trans romantasy — LittlePuss PressA time-skipping quick-quipping trans romantasy supernova! "An utterly essential, astounding new voice." —Charlie Jane Anders 37322
Reposted by *winnie was hereSpooky Poltergeist Ghouls 🎃 @sandypuggames.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Absolute peak of web based storytelling, imho. Nobodies done it like Jon did. 0155
*winnie was here @berenexia.website · 28/02/2026I think it’s time for a bluesky break. I’ll be in NY recovering for most of March! DM if you want to visit <3 052
*winnie was here @berenexia.website · 26/02/2026There's no answer to this but with SRS coming up in 1.5 weeks, I am pondering the over/under odds that I will experience some level of early menopause in my life due to involuntary confinement, access/supply chain issues, or both 031
*winnie was here @berenexia.website · 21/02/2026it's interesting that one of the most explicitly antifascist pieces of mass media in recent years endorses sabotage of military facilities as one of the only effective means of resistance while also recognizing that such acts equally function as signal flares in a long-term culture war 080
Reposted by *winnie was hereCosta Samaras @costasamaras.com · 20/02/2026There is so much pent up demand for joy and to believe in the future. 312375363
*winnie was here @berenexia.website · 03/02/2026it bears repeating that CSA is fundamentally about power, it is not some innate perversion but a conscious choice made by real people who willingly let themselves become monsters in pursuit of a fantasy of total domination 151
*winnie was here @berenexia.website · 03/02/2026This is true on the level of ideology, but the other thing shown clearly in the emails is that powerful abusers IRL have an interest in preserving trans women as an underclass of permanently available sex slaves Hence courting Ting 060
Reposted by *winnie was herelegalized gamboling @ohtazer.goblinmo.de · 03/02/2026genuinely a great thread, i think a lot about china's last emperor puyi and his post-revolution life 1136
Reposted by *winnie was hereBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 02/02/2026I fully believe Trump will smash the authoritarianism button harder and harder as he feels the midterms wipe out approaching, I'm less sure that doing so will prevent or mitigate said wipe out 603588330
*winnie was here @berenexia.website · 02/02/2026We need a left whose critique of this tactic leaves room to recognize that it is not without some effect 110
*winnie was here @berenexia.website · 02/02/2026SURPRISE my book is also partially about addiction oops 010
Reposted by *winnie was hereOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 02/02/2026dark times ahead. but we are going to win 122151347