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caïo la 🌱 @caio-is-a-plant.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I got asked to submit a piece of writing and I initially expressed interest, then never responded to the second email asking if I was still planning to write it. Today I got a cheerful check-in email asking if it will be done by next week.........halp

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caïo la 🌱 @caio-is-a-plant.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Me: what’s happening in town this weekend I need something to do Town: homecoming football game woooooo Me: no not like that

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The French History Podcast @fhp.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It never ends!

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Isobel Bess @echosequence.space · 25/09/2026

new from Other Spaces! Ian Lark Miller's debut poetry collection is a study in leaving and returning, full of shifting light and small surprises. 28 pages. Designed, printed and assembled by hand.

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Ian Lark Miller – Walking Palm from Other Spaces

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caïo la 🌱 @caio-is-a-plant.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

WAIT DID NORTH OF NORTH S2 JUST DROP????

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Isobel Bess @echosequence.space · 04/08/2026

if you want trans culture (e.g., trans literature, trans cinema, trans humor, trans music, trans art) you have to support the people doing the social reproduction work to make it possible. No one will create those conditions from the outside.

gofundme.com

Donate to Help Keep a Small Trans Zine Press Going, organized by Isobel Bess

Hi! I’m Isobel. I run a small trans zine press and tape label called Other Spaces… Isobel Bess needs your support for Help Keep a Small Trans Zine Press Going

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caïo la 🌱 @caio-is-a-plant.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

tbh I think performance art has the most potential for actually creating some kind of change in the world out of all the arts, but unfortunately very few people are actually doing it in a way that would produce that effect

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Isobel Bess @echosequence.space · 16/09/2026

Coming soon from Other Spaces: the debut poetry collection from Ian Lark Miller (@it-i4n.bsky.social). Walking Palm is a study in leaving and returning, full of small surprises.

cover mockup for Walking Palm by Ian Lark Miller. a botanical diagram depicts Socratea exorrhiza at different growth stages on a light orange background. The title is set in Reforma 1918.

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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

“When we were being stolen from our parents and experienced genocide in Indian Residential Schools, we wondered, ‘Who are the people that will help us?’ Today, we are those people. Today we offer our help, support, and jurisdiction to override these dehumanizing laws.”

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Isobel Bess @echosequence.space · 14/09/2026

25 films on this list now!

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caïo la 🌱 @caio-is-a-plant.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Variations On Your Body were THEE thing that got me into ttrpg for real, both as a player and an (aspiring) designer

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caïo la 🌱 @caio-is-a-plant.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

hate to discover that Lisa Macchia Ohliger republished Joseph Lobdell's memoir with a HARD transphobic edge AFTER Bambi Lobdell, a descendant of Lobdell's family, had already published an analysis of him as an explicitly transgender man six years befor Ohliger's book was published

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caïo la 🌱 @caio-is-a-plant.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I wish someone would write a book on the global phenomenon of "sex changes in the news" in the 1950s. Global history anything is challenging obvs but there's enough scholarship in English that I know examples from the US, China, Iran, Mexico, and Argentina off the top of my head.

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caïo la 🌱 @caio-is-a-plant.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

researching the history of trans men and transmasc people, most of the time I can compartmentalize wrt needing to read books and articles about "crossdressing women" and lesbians, bc ofc I recognize there's important historical overlap, and trans-focused scholarship is still pretty new. HOWEVER

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Cirice's Grave @ciricegray.itch.io · 06/09/2026

New study on transgender women hiring discrimination paints an incredibly bleak picture. If you can't stealth and don't pass your callbacks plummet 32% This is only at the resume stage, back when I was still trying I was getting callbacks all the time. I was ghosted or experienced death by panel

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The Cost of Being Seen: Identity, Non-Passing Appearance, and Hiring Discrimination Against Transgender Women

This paper examines whether hiring discrimination against transgender women arises from gender identity, non-cisnormative appearance, or their interaction. In a

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caïo la 🌱 @caio-is-a-plant.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I'm reading Rachel Pollack's 78 Degrees of Tarot book and I've decided The High Priestess (also known as the Papess) is the trans-est card bc originally it was inspired by the Pope Joan myth & is therefore transmasc, but also could be read as representing the gallae of Rome & therefore transfem. QED

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caïo la 🌱 @caio-is-a-plant.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

a trans woman was violently beaten and sexually assaulted by two men on a path near the student union at UW-Madison, four days before the first day of classes (today). note: article contains transphobic quotes from the attackers

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Two men charged in connection with attack on transgender woman at Memorial Union

According to the criminal complaint, the alleged attack happened early Saturday morning at Goodspeed Pier.

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Isobel Bess @echosequence.space · 02/09/2026

I'm working on getting things organized for trans film / trans space next friday. if you're wealthy and want to see me get paid, you can donate here. please only share if you have extra. www.gofundme.com/f/i-need-100...

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Donate to Help Keep a Small Trans Zine Press Going, organized by Isobel Bess

Hi! I’m Isobel. I run a small trans zine press and tape label called Other Spaces… Isobel Bess needs your support for Help Keep a Small Trans Zine Press Going

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Isobel Bess @echosequence.space · 02/09/2026

the stock market is about to collapse so probably the smartest thing you can do with your money is invest in transsexual art

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caïo la 🌱 @caio-is-a-plant.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Fuck, never mind that last reply, that user literally has lists of “people who say transandrobro and transmra unironically.” go ahead and put me on your list bc I am not on your side here. If anyone else wants to see the Alistair Houdayer video though it’s here with English subtitles

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TRANS MEN ARE TRASH ? | Transmasculinités, féminisme et patriarcat

YouTube video by Alistair Houdayer

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caïo la 🌱 @caio-is-a-plant.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Oh fuck, did I post the transfeminist reading list the same day some more trans discourse drama is going on? …then again when is it ever NOT that day tbh

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caïo la 🌱 @caio-is-a-plant.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

My transfeminist education in 13 texts here's a list of the pieces of nonfiction writing that I've found most influential on my thinking about what we might call transfeminism, in chronological order note: some of these people hate each other & contradict, I'm just saying what influenced me

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caïo la 🌱 @caio-is-a-plant.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

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caïo la 🌱 @caio-is-a-plant.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

30 page transfeminist bibliography published in 2026 that contains neither Jamie Berrout nor Nsambu Za Suekama....it's not how I'd do it, I guess

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caïo la 🌱 @caio-is-a-plant.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I guess I'm just gonna keep reading transmasc memoirs while failing to relate to them at all again and again until I give up and write my own memoir. which is a genre I despise btw

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caïo la 🌱 @caio-is-a-plant.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

ok maybe I just haven't been seeing the right places but jfc how many people are gonna talk about the Lake Ontario thing without talking about the fact that Ontario is an Indigenous (Wendat & Haudenosaunee) placename which even in European sources predates the province's naming by 200 years

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caïo la 🌱 @caio-is-a-plant.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Latin American trans archive projects run circles around the US and Canada. I guess last year they had a whole conference about it and you can watch some online www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Primer Congreso Latinoamericano de Archivos Trans - YouTube

Organizado por el Archivo de la Memoria Trans y el Museo Bajuba de Brasil, un evento único organizado por primera vez, para celebrar y fortalecer la memoria ...

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caïo la 🌱 @caio-is-a-plant.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

when I was practicing for my french exam I made an insta account just for french content. since then i've expanded it to include spanish language stuff too. it's honestly really refreshing to be able to scroll through a bunch of stuff and see almost no english content

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caïo la 🌱 @caio-is-a-plant.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I know it's an illusion but damn seems like a lot of people are dying lately

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Amelia Smith @nturavrgcistory.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I just learned that the UofT Homophile Association, Canada's first gay student organization, was founded after Jearld Moldenhauer and Charlie Hill, founder of Glad Day and National Gallery curator for 47 years respectively, had sex in a University College basement washroom. Absolutely iconic.

notchesblog.com

Canada’s First Gay Student Activist Group

The University of Toronto might have sacked Jearld Moldenhauer for being out, proud, and vocal, but they were fighting a losing battle.

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caïo la 🌱 @caio-is-a-plant.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

How many fun mocktail/refresher type fun drinkydrinks in a day is too many? Asking for a friend…

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caïo la 🌱 @caio-is-a-plant.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Had to explain to my dad today that the names of both the state of Michigan and the province of Ontario were named AFTER the lakes, not the other way around…

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caïo la 🌱 @caio-is-a-plant.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I just found a syllabus for a course on lesbian history—it’s cool but also gave me the sad realization that I don’t think I’ve ever really seen a class specifically on lesbians before

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caïo la 🌱 @caio-is-a-plant.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Concept: a class on 20th century lgbtq history that would spend an actually roughly proportional amount of time on each decade rather than doing like two weeks on the pre-stonewall period and the rest on post-1969 to 2000

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caïo la 🌱 @caio-is-a-plant.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

gonna try to make this a nicer thread later maybe but these are some of my recommendations for these topics btw

Topics
- The 1920s-30s “pansy craze,” the queer Harlem Renaissance, and basically just that not
all of pre-Stonewall America involved total closeting/invisibility
o T’ain’t Nobody’s Business (documentary)
o The Famous Lady Lovers (nonfiction history book)
o Brother to Brother (film)
o “Smoke, Lilies and Jade” (short story)
o The Pansy Craze (Dig: A History Podcast episode
https://digpodcast.org/2025/07/20/the-pansy-craze/)
- What life in the postwar period before Stonewall was actually like (purges, but also
subcultural life)
o P.S. Burn This Letter Please (documentary or nonfiction book)
o Buffalo Women’s Oral History Project, 1978-1990 (interview audio)
o Our Dyke Histories (podcast)
o Framing Agnes (documentary)
o The Evening Crowd at Kirmser’s (memoir)
o The Women’s House of Detention (nonfiction history book)
o Casa Susanna (documentary)
- Why you should not chuck every piece of LGBTQ literature in the garbage just because it
doesn’t have a happy ending
o Sick and Dirty (nonfiction history book)
o Pulp Friction (nonfiction history book with excerpts from pulps)
o The Well of Loneliness (novel)
o The Price of Salt (novel)
- Many queer and trans figures were extremely important and also extremely #Problematic
and we have to understand both aspects
o One From the Vault #5 on Reed Erickson (podcast episode)
o Aino Pihlak, “A Movable Closet” (dissertation)
o Radically Gay by Harry Hay (essays)
- AIDS did not literally eliminate the entire adult LGTBQ population and acting like that’s
true does a disservice to those who died and those who survived
o Let the Record Show (nonfiction book)
o United in Anger: A History of ACT UP (documentary)
o Making Gay History season 9 (podcast episodes)

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caïo la 🌱 @caio-is-a-plant.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

some things I personally wish more people would understand about queer and trans history specifically in the US

- The 1920s-30s “pansy craze,” the queer Harlem Renaissance, and basically just that not all of pre-Stonewall America involved total closeting/invisibility
- What life in the postwar period before Stonewall was actually like (purges, but also subcultural life)
- Why you should not chuck every piece of LGBTQ literature in the garbage just because it doesn’t have a happy ending
- Many queer and trans figures were extremely important and also extremely #Problematic and we have to understand both aspects
- AIDS did not literally eliminate the entire adult LGTBQ population and acting like that’s true does a disservice to those who died and those who survived
- There was no happy prehistory when trans and cis queer people all got along great before some great Betrayal, because LGBTQ people have always been divided and united in different ways by factors like race, class, gender, etc.

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caïo la 🌱 @caio-is-a-plant.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

wow, who could have predicted this, other than literally every trans person who has been saying this for the past four years

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caïo la 🌱 @caio-is-a-plant.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

lgbtq history is frustrating bc it feels like no matter how much work we do to educate young queer and trans people beyond the extreme basics (e.g. ancient greece, oscar wilde, 1950s butchfemme bars, stonewall), we never actually make any serious advances. I feel like fckn sisiphus with his boulder

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caïo la 🌱 @caio-is-a-plant.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

HI EVERYONE BREAKING NEWS did you know that last month archaeologists discovered the first ever known name of a Maya mathematician and astronomer??? His name is Sak Tahn Waax and he wrote a “really elegant complex formula”

smithsonianmag.com

Meet Sak Tahn Waax, a Maya Math Whiz Who Lived More Than 1,000 Years Ago and Left Behind a ‘Really Elegant, Complex’ Formula

For the first time, archaeologists identified one of the culture’s famed Classic era mathematicians and astronomers

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Xtra @xtramagazine.com · 16/08/2026

Some parts of Canada have resisted the pull of anti-trans hate better than others. Here’s what it’s like to live in these places. xtramagazine.com/power/politi...

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Inside Canada’s most trans-friendly jurisdictions | Xtra Magazine

Some parts of Canada have resisted the pull of anti-trans hate better than others. Here’s what it’s like to live in these places

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caïo la 🌱 @caio-is-a-plant.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

nsambu za suekama anti-transmasculinity as trojan horse theory vindicated yet again

In the midst of this, transmisogyny decorates the air waves, the media, the tongues of the citizenry, with trans womanhood made the hypervisible quintessence of a violence and threat to the nation because of how transfeminism unveils the basis of the Family-Marital nexus, the network of the household and gendered labor divisions, the patriarchy and all its imbrication of dominant (colonial and neocolonial) material/power relations. To protect the latter from the former, then, racial-class paternalism must begin misgendering trans men and transmascs. If transmisogynoir is the fulcrum of the West’s patriarchal warfare, anti-transmasculinity is the wheels of the West’s racial-class paternalism, still a form of warfare but not as visible and very secretive about its inner workings.

There is a dualist conception of victimhood and violence built into racial-class paternalism. The victim is almost always female, the violator almost always male; and if not, the violator is painted as masculine or unfeminine (as in the case of the Jezebel trope in the US under chattel slavery).

Paternalism works against trans men and transmasculine people, not on their behalf. Paternalism keeps trans men and transmascs from becoming conscious of themselves as such. Gender paternalism requires that anti-transmasculinity be an invisibilized mode of subjection and coercion. To acknowledge the existence of anti-transmasculinity would upset the “body-reasoning” built into how Paternalism constructs gendered violence (in contradistinction to gendered victimhood), which is about the imbrication of State power and the colonial-class system.

Many trans men and masculine people are abused by the false notion of innate victimhood projected against them. Paternalism will also invert the position of those subjected to anti-transmasculinity within its logics of victim versus violator. In those instances, the act of being a man or being masculine is framed as in and of itself “treachery” to the so-called “female” sex, thus a collaboration with the violent so-called “male” sex.

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caïo la 🌱 @caio-is-a-plant.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

ngl as I've spent the week looking at Argentinian and Brazilian travesti writing, activism and art, I'm kinda like, ok North American trans ppl need to get it tf together and do some real shit

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caïo la 🌱 @caio-is-a-plant.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

From a handwritten draft of a letter from Lou Sullivan to Virginia Prince in 1979 and her response. In which Prince makes a point of "correcting" Sullivan on several points that read pretty yikes from the vantage point of 2026. Just a reminder not to look for unproblematicness in trans history!

Virginia—
I had to smile when I received your letter: I have received so many similar reactions when I reveal myself and I think that feeling of oddity is what keeps the few women like myself in hiding.
Yes, I am truly heterosexual. I have had the same male lover for over 10 years and have never had the desire for a sexual encounter with another female. I mentioned wanting to contact other women with “gay male identities,” because I feel I am a gay man—just as the MF TV sees herself and her lover/wife as lesbians. I like to think of myself and my male lover as gay men.

Virginia Prince (3-9-79)
Chevalier Publications | Box 36091 | Los Angeles 90036
Dea Lou:
Thanks ;for your recent letter and sorry I was slow in replying but a) I have too much correspondence, b) I have too many other committments to keep up with the correspondence I have, and c) I have been out of town for 4 days one week to a convention in San Diego and 3 days the next week with lectures and working at the lab, so I'm way behind. Thus this will not be long but it will be a note.
Have to correct you in one point--TVs are not male to female but man to woman. The difference between sex and gender IS important.1 Additionally TVs do NOT consider themselves to be lesbians with their partners since in sex they are heterosexual and perform as such. That's just to clear you up on a point not to make an issue of it. But you see you refer to "alternating between your male and female identities". You are ALWAYS a female since you donot change your sex with your wardrobe. You meant between your masculine and feminine identity. Idendity in the sense you use it is a cultural, i.e genderal matter, the sense of being a man or a woman. But your sense of being a female--an anatomical matter which you cant deny is your sexual identity and you cant shift it back and forth

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caïo la 🌱 @caio-is-a-plant.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Memoria, literature, & transmasculinidad--"Marcas sobre el mundo: las autobiografias trans de Anderson Herzer y Joao W. Nery" de Caio Jade. !!!!!!!

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Memoria, literatura y transmasculinidad. Presentación de "Marcas sobre el mundo...", de Caio Jade

YouTube video by CeDInCI - Centro de Documentación

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Amelia Smith @nturavrgcistory.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Resharing this obscure video from CTV in 1973 featuring Dianna Boileau, the first patient at the Clarke Institute's gender clinic, and Dr. Betty Steiner, who headed that clinic.

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