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Heather Hogan @heatherhogan.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Mask up, friends! And foes! I also want my foes to mask up! Everyone mask up! 😷

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Chalk Girl @chalkgirl.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

More than a month ago, a 24 year old transgender woman known only as OJM was arrested by ICE agents in #Portland #Oregon for no reason. After a month of community outcry and protests and occupations, a judge just ruled OJM must be freed. What we're doing matters. #ICEOutOfPortland #FuckICE #PDX

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

a little on the nose but well played, beaches, well played

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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I have heard around a dozen stories like this, and I don't know _that_ many people.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 28/06/2025

The world really does not have to be like this

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Bread and roses and hormones too

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Gwendolyn Ann Smith @gwensmith.com · 22/06/2025

A pinback button. It shows the transgender “trine” combining three sex symbols, with a “peace sign” in the middle. Around the edge it reads, “Money for hormones, not war.”

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Jeanna Kadlec @jeannakadlec.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

tl;dr you should be reading al jazeera

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

"I am excited to do this for the rest of my life and be terrified"

Having a Great Time Being Transgender in America Lately
BY JACKIE SABBAGH
It is day infinity
of everyone wanting me dead. People are having fun bringing lemon squares and automatic artillery to the anti-trans community meetings. Divorced legislators harangue about pedophile cults and surgeried infants and what ever happened to forever ago.
I am more beautiful than you and I would like to be loved.
I am getting concerned
about the monomaniacs who make their entire lives about deadnaming and transvestigations:
obviously it's working but aren't you exhausted, don't you remember
when someone loved you without knowing what you were? I am eating shortbread on a patio table overlooking the enormous green ocean.
Somewhere an octopus is being eaten by an octopus and not panicking.
Black dress to the floor, red acrylic nails, silver teardrop earrings, waterproof mascara.
I am excited to do this for the rest of my life and be terrified. I hear a noise behind me and I don't turn around.

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Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Down at #iceoutofpdx encampment demanding the immediate end of ICE’s contract in the city. A couple hundred here with permanent mutual aid and medical stations at all times, and growing as a 24/7 demo. #occupyice

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Ruwa Romman @ruwaromman.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Mahmoud should’ve never missed the birth of his child, or his first Father’s Day, or being with his wife during countless precious moments as a growing family. His release today underscores what so many of us have said. His detention was unjust. We need to end these disappearings.

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Raquel Willis @raquelwillis.com · 19/06/2025

It's been five years since Brooklyn Liberation / the March for Black Trans Lives. A seismic day that shifted the course of many lives. Let’s remember that we are battle-tested + ready. The fight will be long, but our history, our community, and our collective vision of liberation will win.

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secondlina // Lord of Crows @secondlina.com · 09/06/2025

New Crow Time update [1/3]

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19/06/2025

Could you imagine the New York Times writing an article saying women were asking for too much with abortion rights and that they went too far? That's effectively what they did here to trans people despite it being the same fight for bodily autonomy.

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Nirali @firewordsparkler.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Trans Lifeline has also linked to more community-based support, should you need it translifeline.org/resources/co...

The Fireside Project’s Psychedelic Support Line provides emotional support during and after psychedelic experiences. Call or text 1-62-FIRESIDE (1-623-473-7433) any day between 11 AM–11 PM PT.
Call Blackline is a peer-support hotline by and for Black, Black TLGBTQI+, Brown, Native, and Muslim communities. Call or text 1-800-604-5841 or download the app.
StrongHearts Native Helpline is a domestic and sexual violence helpline for Native Americans and Alaska Natives. Call 1-844-762-8483 or visit their website to chat with an advocate.
THRIVE Lifeline is a text line for underrepresented individuals (person of color, LGBTQ2S+, person living with disabilities, neurodivergent, and/or other marginalized identities). Text “THRIVE” to begin your conversation: 1-313-662-8209. THRIVE also moderates a discord server for Trans, Nonbinary, Agender, and Questioning people (13+) and co-hosts the Stronger Together discord server for multiply marginalized complex trauma survivors (open to all 18+).
Trans Lifeline is a peer support and crisis hotline run by Trans people for the Trans, Nonbinary, Agender, and Questioning community. Call 1-877-565-8860 in the US or 1-877-330-6366 in Canada.
Wildflower Alliance Peer Support Line: (888) 407-4515 (trained peer supporters)

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Raquel Willis @raquelwillis.com · 18/06/2025

The SCOTUS ruling in U.S. v. Skrmetti confirms what we know: this government is crooked and ignorant. Trans kids deserve care, safety, and bodily autonomy. We must remind them of their history, the sacredness of community, and that no government gave them their power—and no court can take it away.

teenvogue.com

Dear Trans Kids, You Don't Need the Government's Permission to Exist

Activist and journalist Raquel Willis offers crucial advice to trans and nonbinary youth.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 17/06/2025

"The only choice, then, is how we live within it. We must bear witness. . .We must refuse to be broken. We must find each other in the dark and hold on. This is not hope. It is the grim, defiant, and necessary work of survival." www.thedissident.news/the-static-o...

thedissident.news

The Static of a Collapsing State: On Being Trapped in the American Nightmare

There are nights you wake from a nightmare and the relief is a physical thing, a gasp of air in a silent room. But what do you do when the nightmare is the room? When the country you live in has becom...

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

This week, I talked with @silkys13.bsky.social about immigration raids, rising authoritarianism, mass protest, innocence narratives, and what it means to organize effectively in this moment. Given everything that's happening, I highly recommend checking this one out.

truthout.org

The Authoritarian Machine Is Growing — and It Won’t Stop at Immigrants

“Fascism and authoritarianism are deployed through law enforcement,” says Silky Shah.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11/06/2025

2. A report on the largest survey ever of trans Americans’ health was released on Wednesday, June 11, and its findings reaffirmed what many academics, health care providers and trans people already know: gender-affirming care saves and improves lives. ustranssurvey.org

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US Trans Survey

The  U.S. Transgender Survey (USTS) is the largest survey devoted to the lives and experiences of transgender people across the United States. The USTS was created by trans people, for trans people.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 11/06/2025

ICE is abducting US citizens out in the open to provoke a response. They're doing this on purpose to escalate and then play the victim when people protest.

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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

This 10 year old holding a Mexican flag was among those who were tear gassed by the National Guard outside the MDC in downtown Los Angeles today

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Gwendolyn Ann Smith @gwensmith.com · 04/06/2025

Hey, trans and nonbinary folks reading this, and those of all various gender-y persuasions: remember that you have value and worth. Your lives have meaning. I'm very proud of you.

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Jooli-AHH! Boolia 👻🍂🎃 @jooliaghoulia.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

You don't care

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colin feral @sal.gay · 02/06/2025

Pride was invented by hallmark to sell more genders

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Emily McLongstreet 🍉 @emilymclongst.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

It’s been a weird couple days 😅 No great cinema here, but you have to appreciate the symmetry of it 📼🍿

Screenshot of last four watched from my Letterboxd account. 2 movie posters with plain blue backgrounds and 3 90’s celebrities posing in the lower half (Mickey Blue Eyes & Mrs. Winterbourne) bookended by 2 posters with monsters hulking from right to left (20 Million Miles to Earth & Shark Side of the Moon)

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N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Finally saw "Sinners." GotDAMN that was good. It's so beautiful to see a Black creative, in the fullness of his power, ignore all the "shoulds" and conventions and just COOK. That movie was so good it made me come home and write.

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Gwendolyn Ann Smith @gwensmith.com · 07/05/2025

You know the rules!

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Jooli-AHH! Boolia 👻🍂🎃 @jooliaghoulia.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

How are we doing?

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Morpheus Ravenna @morpheusravenna.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

This is full of good stuff.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Look at this video: a *huge* crowd of Vermonters swaying alongside Mohsen right after he was freed, singing "We Shall Overcome" Signs reading "Hands off our students" & "free speech" are peppered in between large Palestine flags

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Good Boy @goodboy.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

A horrible story but god bless this woman so accurately reading the ICE goons for filth here

Marisa said she is eft with nothing BUt questions.
"What if I would have been armed," she 2 said. "You're breaking in. What am 1 supposed to think? My initial thought was we were being robbed-that my daughters, being females, were being kidnapped. You have guns pointed in our faces. Can you just reprogram yourself and see us as humans, as women? A little bit of mercy. Care a little bit about your fellow human, about your fellow citizen, fellow resident. We bleed too. We vork. We pleed justlike anybody else bleeds. We're scared. You could see our faces that we were terrified. What makes you so much more worthier of your peace? What makes you so much more worthier of protecting your children? What makes you so much more worthy of your citizenship? What makes you more worthy of safety? Of being given
the ight t that they took from me to protect my daughters?"

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Michaela Haas @michaelahaas.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I wrote about the revival of Indigenous cultural burns and how they benefit Indigenous culture, the environment, and everybody else.

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Emily McLongstreet 🍉 @emilymclongst.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Unintentionally fantastic double feature yesterday as I listened to @kevinsur.bsky.social's Native Roots episode of The Roadhouse on KEXP on my way to see Sinners. Strong recommend for both!! 📻🎥🔥 www.kexp.org/shows/The-Ro...

Side by side photos of two men with guitars on their lap, Joseph Kekuku (Hawaiian inventor of the steel guitar) and Charley Patton (Black and Native godfather of the delta blues), with text advertising a special episode of The Roadhouse on KEXP called "Native Roots"

Text reading: This Sunday on The Roadhouse on @kexp , tune in for a special episode spotlighting two powerful (and often overlooked) stories of how Native people helped shape the music you know and love today.

We’ll begin with the story of Joseph Kekuku, who, at just 11 years old, invented the steel guitar (Kīkā Kila) and pioneered a sound that took over America in the early 20th century. His innovation left a permanent mark on country, delta blues, and American music as a whole.

From there, we’ll trace a line to the Black and Native American legend, Charley Patton, the godfather of the delta blues. On a small Mississippi plantation, Patton not only became a legend in his own right, but mentored the future icons who would go on to define entire genres.

Tune in 9am - 12pm PST
90.3 Seattle / 92.7 Bay Area / KEXP.org or the KEXP app worldwide.

Movie poster for the 2025 film Sinners, featuring characters dancing within the shape of a steel guitar. The background glows in a fiery motif while a blurred face with glowing red eyes peers over the top of the scene.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

more TERFs need to be reminded that they’re heinous losers

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meg jones wall // 3am.tarot @megjoneswall.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

if you weren't already boycotting starbucks, today is a great time to start.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

From my new interview with Kelly Hayes, this is for everyone who felt abandoned over the last few months and years. And a plea not to abandon each other or consider anyone's humanity negotiable! organizingmythoughts.org/sarah-kendzi...

Text from free article https://organizingmythoughts.org/sarah-kendzior-dont-give-up-on-other-people/

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Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 19/04/2025

The Oscar-winning documentary, No Other Land, is available to rent and screen at nootherland.com from now until May 9. All of the proceeds will support the Masafer Yatta communities featured in the documentary.

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Petty Lobster 🦂🏳️‍⚧️ @pettylobster.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

You all need to treat Harry Potter IP like we’re treating the Tesla brand.

Twitter post/pohoto from JK Rowling who sits on what looks like yacht, taking a puff of what looks like a cigar. She holds a cocktail close to her face and looks smug as fuck. Text on tweet: I love it when a plan comes together. #SupremeCourt #WomensRights.

Text on screen: our.moral.imperative British billionaire JK Rowling has posted several gloating tweets today after the UK
Supreme Court ruled that only 'biological women' legally count as women, excluding trans women from legal protections and safeguards.
Rowling's vicious smear campaign against trans people in Britain has been going on for several years now and has played a major role in cultivating the extremely hostile and toxic environment that exists in the country towards trans people, particularly in the name of liberal 'feminism'.
@fight_for_a_future @rowllingofficial

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Emily McLongstreet 🍉 @emilymclongst.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Put something lovely in your ears 🏳️‍⚧️📻✨ March 24 episode of Sounds of Survivance : "Trans Native" on KEXP's Archives for 2 weeks only, don't wait! www.kexp.org/archive/

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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

NOTUS is not a site I trust generally, and I should have stuck to my gut on that yesterday. I do not agree with many of McBride’s tactics, but it’s clear her quote was badly manipulated to present its exact opposite. This was bad journalism, not a representative selling us out.

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