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Catesby Holmes @catesby.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

"Artificial intelligence has reached a new frontier: conversion therapy for trans people." If you read one thing today, read @madisyn-writes.bsky.social 's explosive investigation into Detrans.ai, a chatbot that claims to help ppl explore gender identity but which spouts anti-trans misinformation

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This AI Chatbot Is Targeting Trans Users With Conversion Therapy

Detrans.ai says it helps users explore gender dysphoria in a balanced way, but it promotes anti-LGBTQ+ messages and relies on discredited science. Here is what this AI therapy chatbot actually told ou...

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Rewire News Group @rewirenewsgroup.com · 14/07/2026

Join us in Denver on July 22 for our Repro Fund-Rager! Get your tickets today for an evening of community, live entertainment, LGBTQ+ vendors, and a chance to celebrate the people who work every day to protect reproductive freedom. www.eventbrite.com/e/repro-fund...

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Catesby Holmes @catesby.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Edited @cuteflesh.bsky.social is such a delight. Emily Post doesn't cover communal sex toys. "As an intrepid sex writer, I feel it is my job to bring etiquette into the modern era and ask: Is it okay to put a butt plug in multiple anuses?"

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Can You Share Sex Toys?

Used vibrators, butt plugs, and dildos can spread infection. And some partners may find it sketchy to be offered a pre-loved toy. But there are safe and sexy ways to open the collective treasure chest.

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LittlePuss Press @littlepuss.net · 11/02/2026

🫵 YO 🫵 💫 BALTIMORE 💫 💃 AWP-GOERS 💃 We're throwing a rager on the Thurs! March 5! Free! There will be DJs! Tons of readers! including 💪 GWEN AUBE 💪 📗 with her new book 📗 🏀 MISSED CONNECTIONS WITH TALL GIRLS 🏀 DID WE MENTION IT'S FUCKING FREE March 5, 7 PM readers, 9 pm dancing ☠️ BE THERE ☠️

the Norman Rockwell guy standing up to talk painting but he has the trans shark for a head

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Baltimore's Big Trans and 'Hon'-Binary Reading 7 pm Reading 9 pm Dancing Vera Blossom Tyler Vile TT Madden Tonee Mae Moll Nic Anstett M.K. Thekkumkattil Megan Milks KM Szpara Gwen Aube Alice Stoehr DJ Abject Relations DJ Kotic Couture Hosted by Rahne Alexander Vendors Feminist Press LittlePuss Press

An AWP Off-site Event at the Club Car 12 W North Ave

Thurs 5 March / 7 pm Reading / 9 pm Dancing / Free

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Catesby Holmes @catesby.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Even if you’re not on TikTok you’ve seen this trend: “unalive” for dead; “segs” for sex. It’s cutesy and a little clever, but research shows it might also be bad for free expression—and self-censorship around sex and the body can harm girls and young women the most.

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Sex Educators Are Self-Censoring Online to Avoid Content Bans. Does it Work?

It's called 'algospeak,' and it looks like 's3x,' 'le$bian,' and 'c00chie.' Some creators swear by it, but experts say it may increase stigma.

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vera blossom @cuteflesh.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

I wrote a BDSM 101 guide for @rewirenewsgroup.com ❤️‍🔥⛓️‍💥💥Writing this was a doozy but I was surprised by how much evidence there is for the power of BDSM to heal—especially for survivors, neurodivergent folks, and marginalized people of all kinds rewirenewsgroup.com/2026/01/06/w...

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BDSM: A Beginner's Guide to Consensual Erotic Violence

How to get kinky in 2026.

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Catesby Holmes @catesby.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Before Thanksgiving comes for Blackout Wednesday, when singles mingle at their hometown bars. @cuteflesh.bsky.social's latest sex column for @rewirenewsgroup.com. includes describes life IRL as the "meaty fleshspace"& features some Carrie Bradshaw-esque anthropological dating observations. Enjoy!

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Gen Z Wants To Ditch Tinder. But Can They Find Love IRL?

Young singles have dating app burnout, but still rely on them to meet lovers. What comes next for the iPad generation?

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vera blossom @cuteflesh.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Whats the difference between a chaser and someone who happens to be into trans women? www.howtofucklikeagirl.com/how-to-spot-...

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vera blossom @cuteflesh.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

you’re allowed to be a cis man playing a trans woman in a movie if you look as good as Lee Pace did in A Soldier’s Girl (2003)

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

“Our stories are not all the same, but the destination is: to get some place where we have some peace and harmony, and we can be at ease with ourselves and the people around us.”

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vera blossom @cuteflesh.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

in the upcoming great anti-corporation revolution i hope to see a couple pennies in recompense when we forcibly liquidate all the billionaires' assets

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vera blossom @cuteflesh.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

idk if nicholas is on here yet but he wrote about his rosary and going to catholic school in las vegas and it's nicholas so of course its good yalereview.org/article/nich...

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My rosary: pitch-black beads, each puzzlingly slick, like greasy fingers have handled it, held together by an intricately woven silver chain, a lovingly sculpted silver crucifix trailing the end. It has heft, not like one of those cheap ones, with craft beads that could as easily be from promise bracelets or animal toys. It feels like it was made before mass production—before trash. When I first saw it in the parish gift shop, my hunger for it was almost sinful. That was before I knew what religion had to do with money. Before I knew some people grip their faith so tightly because what lives in their hearts exceeds their or anyone’s grasp.

In Catholic school, you had to look the part. Our dress was uniform, obligatory, without much room for personality. Perhaps that’s not surprising. Private schools, religious or not, make you carry the weight of expectation, of isolation from the rest of the world. My school was in an upscale neighborhood in Las Vegas and one of the largest Roman Catholic congregations in Nevada. For most of its history, the church’s parishioners were almost entirely white. It was a place where you could still buy your way into heaven.

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vera blossom @cuteflesh.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

predictably eating this book up. well written gossip about artists i'm obsessed with — how could I resist buying it off the display table in W&CF? Sometimes gets so into the weeds of minutiae that it becomes boring but then it sucks me back in with a snappy sentence or juicy revelation

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vera blossom @cuteflesh.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I forgot how to be a good tweeter so i'm just going to use this place to talk about what i'm reading and loving (and — if i'm feeling brave — reading and hating)

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Carta Monir @cartamonir.com · 08/10/2024

I wrote a new foreword for the 2024 SPX reprint of my zine "Napkin (Thank you for having sex with Carta Monir)" (2019).

Because of bluesky's character limit, I can't effectively include alt text for these screenshotted pages of the new introduction to Napkin. If you would like to read the introduction, you can download the book for free from the link below this tweet.

In brief summary, I am reflecting on the Success of napkin and musing about the prudishness I showed at the time towards using terms like "Mommy" during sex, and how much things have changed now.

I sometimes worry that the gimmick of the comment cards overshadows Napkin's vulnerability. I don't want you to remember this only as 'that book where someone handed out comment cards after sex.' Napkin is a time capsule, a self-portrait created just as I began to explore the potentials of my own desire. Be kind to this tiny baby. She had a lot ahead of her.

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There's a cropped selfie of Carta partially covering her face with her arm. She is very beautiful and staring intensely right at you.

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vera blossom @cuteflesh.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

where do i find all the porn on here?

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