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tuck woodstock @tuck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The 12th(!) Gender Reveal grant cycle is now open for applications! As always, these funds are for organizing / community projects led by trans people of color. We are particularly interested in funding existing projects that materially support trans folks, queer people of color, immigrants, etc.
Are you a trans person of color doing rad art or community organizing work? we want to give you $1000! applications for the gender reveal podcast's 2026 grant program are open now through October 31. apply and learn more at genderpodcast.com/grant.We are specifically looking for projects that materially support trans folks, queer people of color, and/or other marginalized communities, as well as projects that foster exploration and celebration of gender diversity and trans lives. 

We accept applications from anywhere in the world. Collectives/groups are welcome to apply.

Grant recipients are chosen by a paid panel of trans judges of color. Winners will be announced by December 31, 2026. 

AI-written applications will be deleted.
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Kiku @ SPX W15A @kikuhughes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Please help get this film about Kiyoshi Kuromiya to the finish line! Not only does it tell an important story in the history of gay rights, AIDS activism, Asian American and Black solidarity during the civil rights movement, but it also looks at his organizing strategies and gofund.me/5a1a75855
Black and white drawing of Kiyoshi Kuromiya, a Japanese American man, smiling from the screen of an old computer monitor.
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Kokoro @livelyprancing.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
💔 A message form Ahmed (1/2): I am Ahmed from Gaza. I lost my home, and my family and I live in a tent. Life is no longer the same, and every day has become a battle for food, water and basic needs. chuffed.org/project/1696...
Photo of Ahmed with a sea of tents behind him.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Liberation Library is about $7,500 away from their goal of raising $15,000 for their work. "Each month, Liberation Library hosts public packing days where volunteers fill book order requests directly from young people incarcerated throughout Illinois." mailchi.mp/4e86103d2b91...
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We’re falling behind
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
REBUILD needs funding to keep going and I am helping to raise $40,000 by December 31. if you can make a personal donation, please support here: www.mightycause.com/story/Rebuil...
Informational flyer for Darkness RISING REBUILD, detailing therapy services for justice-involved people of color, program benefits, contact info, and impact stats, with green and yellow accents and a woman giving a thumbs up.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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COVID hospitalizations are on the rise in NYC. Here's how to protect yourself.
More than 500 admissions were recorded in the five boroughs in the week ending Sept. 5.
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silas denver 🍎 @sweatermuppet.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
hello! i have one month left to pay off my top surgery!!! ive already received so much support and kindness and am immensely grateful :,) any shares are deeply appreciated <3 ko-fi.com/sweatermuppe...
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Support sweatermuppet
Support sweatermuppet
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Yves @yvesandthemoon.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Hi please share and give! I am supporting the team fundraising for RT. They are all off social media. RT a homeless SWer and survivor is currently fleeing a domestic violence situation and needs support. Goal: $6000 Zelle: mayishazn@gmail.com Paypal: mayishanakib Venmo: mayisha-nakib
Urgent Mutual Aid Request

Homeless SWer Survivor fleeing domestic violence

RT is a homeless SWer in community currently fleeing a domestic violence situation. An assault left them with a corneal injury resulting in partial blindness. We are asking for $600 so they can get off this years-long carousel of housing instability and violence

Goal: $6000
Zelle: mayishazn@gmail.com
Paypal: mayishanakib
Venmo: mayisha-nakib
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silas denver 🍎 @sweatermuppet.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
hello!! it is officially confirmed that i will be getting top surgery November 5th!! i have created a fundraiser to help cover the costs, which are due by Oct 15th ❣️ thank you for sharing and checking it out 🥹🏳️‍⚧️ ko-fi.com/sweatermuppe...
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Support sweatermuppet
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Ryan Twyford-Rigley @mtcasket.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This week is your last chance to support my upcoming feature film debut and snag some cool incentives!!! Head on over to goatswordmovie.com and make your pledge now! There are only 7 days left to meet our goal and we still need all the help we can get. 🐐 ⚔️
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Ryan Twyford-Rigley @mtcasket.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Please help me make my upcoming feature film debut! Only 13 days left to support GOAT SWORD at goatswordmovie.com 🐐 ⚔️
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Ryan Twyford-Rigley @mtcasket.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Wanna see Trick or Treat (1986) in person? We are hosting a fundraiser for our @goatswordmovie.bsky.social crowdfunding campaign at TV Eye in NYC on Monday, July 27th! 75% of all ticket proceeds go directly into helping us fund our heavy metal horror movie!!! 🐐 ⚔️ goatswordmovie.com
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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development
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Liz @schlockvalue.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
muscle will never sell itself to netflix, paramount, or sony and will never pivot to making content — i think that’s something worth supporting 🙂 www.kickstarter.com/projects/mus...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
”Juneteenth Has Always Been About Black Liberation” by Kaitlyn Greenidge for Harper’s Bazaar. An oral history, as told by members of the Winston-Salem Chapter of The Black Panther Party. www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...
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Juneteenth Has Always Been About Black Liberation
Power to the People, Y’all, a documentary about the Black Panther Party in North Carolina, explores what that means in practice
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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
it’s juneteenth but it’s also my birthday 💐 and i’d love it if people could share or donate to my friend maha, who’s still struggling to cover rent and medicine for her baby boy. thanks you all xoxo gofund.me/a99db1f39
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Donate to Help Maha (23) and Hamoud (1) Afford Rent and Medicine, organized by Meghan M
UPDATE 2/17 Hamoud's doctors have recommended they wait until he's… Meghan M needs your support for Help Maha (23) and Hamoud (1) Afford Rent and Medicine
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Mistress Amalia Valentine - NYC @servevalentine.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
The Decrim NY organizers have been hard at work setting up the giving circle for the org! This would allow us to do our work more sustainably + equitably, so if we have played over the years and you value the work I do, even a couple bucks a month is meaningful! Bit.ly/decrimnygivingcircle
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Liz @schlockvalue.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
We’re restoring not one but FOUR underground and indie films from the 70s/80s, including two that’ve NEVER been released on home video or digitally… and we’re about to launch a @kickstarter.com to raise the funding to get them done. Sign up for updates here: muscle-distribution.com/kickstarter
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
A young person who was part of the 2023 Youth Summer Public History Institute that I co-organized here in NYC has now opened their own radical bookstore and mutual aid space in Jersey City called Stelton Distro. steltondistro.com - please support them and their space if you can!
steltondistro.com
Stelton Distro
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Goat Sword @goatswordmovie.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
our crowdfunder for Goat Sword launches next month!!! 🐐 ⚔️
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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Young artists aged 16-24 who have been directly impacted by criminalization/policing/punishment can apply for this residency & get $2500 to work on a creative project! Visit bit.ly/diyresidency26 to learn more. Please help us spread the word!
2026 Stevie Wilson DIY Young Artists Residency Design your own creative residency get $2500 to work on a creative idea or project applications due May 11
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Mikisew Cree First Nation Billy-Joe Tuccaro spoke about the impact that toxic chemicals leaching and spilling from the oil sands is having on his people. Every Canadian should listen to what he has to say. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Trans day of screaming into the Void
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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Honestly, support the athletes in other ways, but ban the Olympics. We don’t need a sports war games that also does eugenics testing. www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/03/olym...
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Olympic committee will force all women to undergo genetic testing as part of new trans ban - LGBTQ Nation
The new policy requires mandatory genetic testing for all women who want to compete in the Olympics.
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Sheri’s Ranch responded to the petition for union recognition by firing workers Jupiter Jetson, Molly Wylder, Paloma Karr, Adalind Gray, Genevieve Dahl, and Gwen Bunny. The union will be fighting their unlawful terminations, but for now, they need our support: www.gofundme.com/f/support-sh...
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Donate to Support Sheri's Ranch Workers Terminated for Unionizing!, organized by Molly Wylder
Welcome to the GoFundMe for the United Brothel Workers (UBW) (A … Molly Wylder needs your support for Support Sheri's Ranch Workers Terminated for Unionizing!
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 19/02/2026
Hey, friends! @ziibiing.com and the awesome folks at StandWithMinnesota have launched #keepMNhoused! Check out keepMNhoused.com and kick in to help folks affected by ICE stay in their homes! ALSO, artists, please join the call for art to help spread the word! (art here by the great @trungles.com)
Keep Minnesota Housed!

Much of the media has left, but ICE is still in Minnesota and hundreds of families need help with rent in order to avoid eviction.

Visit keepMNhoused.com to adopt a rent or donate to rent funds!
#keepMNhoused

Drawing by Trung Le Nguyen features a bundled up boy holding a sign reading "Thank you!" in front of a cozy purple house.
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
HELLO, FRIENDS! The women's shelter where I volunteer lost almost all of their art and craft supplies last year. I can't fix everything, but I have a big network here, and so do a lot of you, and I'm pretty sure that together, we can fix this. www.thingstogetme.com/2169641a9c163
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Craft Supplies for Park Slope Women's Shelter
The Park Slope Women's Shelter serves unhoused women with mental health and/or substance-use disorder diagnoses in NYC. Due to an incident this past year, the shelter is attempting to rebuild and re...
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
It’s once again Girl Scout cookie season so it’s time for me remind everyone to please consider buying from NYC’s Girl Scout Troop 6000, which is entirely made up of girls living in NYC homeless shelters 🙏❤️
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Troop 6000
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Sign the petition to support these workers as they fight back against union-busting and relation! unitedbrothelworkers.org
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United Brothel Workers | CWA Local 9413
A historic fight is underway at Sheri's Ranch. Courtesans are standing together to demand safety, better working conditions, and control over their own futures.
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
🚨 Led by the Free Alabama Movement, incarcerated workers across Alabama are ON STRIKE to protest brutal labor exploitation and inhumane conditions behind the walls 🚨 Watch ‘The Alabama Solution” doc and read on for ways to support their strike: docs.proton.me/doc?mode=ope...
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SUPPORT
THE STRIKERS
The Free Alabama Movement has announced a work strike, set to begin on Sunday, February 8. Incarcerated people across Alabama are answering the call and refusing to participate in their exploitation and oppression. "This nonviolent comes in response to decades of unconstitutional sentencing practices, forced prison labor, and the ongoing humanitarian crisis throughout Alabama's prison system," FAM leaders said in a statement.
Read the list of demands below and stand in solidarity with the strikers of the Free Alabama Movement.

DEMANDS
1. REPEAL ALABAMA'S HABITUAL FELONY OFFENDER ACT (HOA)
2. MAKE THE PRESUMPTIVE SENTENCING GUIDELINES RETROACTIVE
3. MAKE HJR 575 RETROACTIVE (DRIVE-BY-SHOOTING STATUE REFORM)
4. FIRST-TIME OFFENDER/CAPITAL MURDER
REFORM BILL
5. PAROLE BOARD REFORM AND CRITERIA
6. MEDICAL FURLOUGH/COMPASSIONATE
RELEASE EXPANSION
7. STATEWIDE CONVICTION REVIEW UNIT
8. ABOLISH FORCED PRISON LABOR
9. STRENGTHENING FAMILIES ACT (INCLUDING CONJUGAL VISITS)
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
ICE has been holding a disabled Black man for a year! Rodney Taylor is a double amputee who was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE took him. He’s been denied his prosthetics & placed in solitary. His health is declining. Public outrage might save his life. Say his name:
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Sign the Petition
Demand the Release of Rodney Taylor from ICE Detention
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crimson.smear @crimson-smear.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
This entire thread
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NYSNA @nynurses.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Nearly 15,000 NYSNA nurses from Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai Morningside and West, Montefiore, and NewYork-Presbyterian are on strike today because greedy hospital management have given frontline nurses no other choice.
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General Strike Los Angeles @generalstrikela.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
You have heard of Renee Good, but may not have heard of Keith Porter, who was shot & killed by an off duty ICE agent an NYE. Our hearts are with his family & anyone impacted by ICE. Below is a GoFundMe for Keith’s daughters so please donate/share around. ICE needs to go Link: gofund.me/c2aea3587
A photo of Keith Porter and his 2 daughters. Keith Porter was shot and killed by an off duty ICE agent on 12/31/25. Link for GoFundMe - https://gofund.me/c2aea3587
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Carta Monir @cartamonir.com · 06/01/2026
We're in the final month of this fundraiser and desperately need more donations! Please donate, please share! This is a terrifying and horrible situation that's unfortunately not uncommon. Trans people deserve families! People who do sex work or have done sex work in the past deserve families!
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Transness is not bourgeois. This is a wedge idea dreamed up by some gleefully amoral think tank lobotomite to split trans people and make us fight each other. That we relay on modern medicine doesn't make us any more bourgeois than someone who needs antidepressants or cleft palate repair.
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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 16/10/2025
we have got to start killing billionaires. is the first line that the villain speaks in the novel im writing. really though, in the real world, we have to kill these people. he continues
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