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Emory Echo Trans Historian 🏳️‍⚧️ @emoryecho.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Svensk Trans folk : finns det mer hopp för folk som us i era land än har i USA? Jag vet att det är fruktansvärt svårt att gå igenom vårdcentraler för att få hormon, men när det gäller era dagliga liv, är cis folk så ovänliga till er som amerikanske cis folk är till oss här? #transsverige #trans

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Emory Echo Trans Historian 🏳️‍⚧️ @emoryecho.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

What I wish I could help cis allies understand about the lives of their trans loved ones: you cannot afford to wait for the trans people in your lives to ask you for help. So many of us are already scared of being too much, too loud, or too needy. Too many trans people suffer in silence out of fear.

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revolutionary girl erin @kvuzet.net · 21/07/2026

step 1. adopt an anti-trans position step 2. get criticized for that position step 3. lose election step 4. blame trans people for the loss then just repeat forever i guess?

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May “Bunny” Peterson 🦄 @goddessblade.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

It's always troubling to see how little trans girls and women get centered in transphobic rulings and patterns that directly target us. "The problem is this will affect cis women" is the usual refrain, which reflects a lack of certainty about defending trans girls and women AS girls and women.

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Emory Echo Trans Historian 🏳️‍⚧️ @emoryecho.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

While I absolutely agree with you, we also don’t need to look to the theoretical consequences to cis women in order to see the harm this bill causes. This WILL result in worsening mental health conditions for trans children, who are already one of the vulnerable groups in the country today.

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Emory Echo Trans Historian 🏳️‍⚧️ @emoryecho.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The violence of epistemology and power through discourse, am I right?

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 30/06/2026

Kavanaugh's decision on trans people in sports contains a footnote saying it applies only to trans women, by the way. So trans women can be legally segregated (and his reasoning isn't limited to sports), but he explicitly says it doesn't apply to trans men in any gendered spaces at all.

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Emory Echo Trans Historian 🏳️‍⚧️ @emoryecho.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

It is simultaneously sad and beautiful that -both historically and today- the support of trans people falls to the shoulders of other trans people. Beautiful because it shows the way marginality can drive people to rise to the occasion; sad that only the marginalized consistently step up to help.

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Emory Echo Trans Historian 🏳️‍⚧️ @emoryecho.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Almost every trans person I know -myself included- has either been unhoused themselves or has a close friend who was or is unhoused. Places like Portland or Seattle are “safe” spaces for trans people, but the PNW hates to do anything to meet our material realities.

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revolutionary girl erin @kvuzet.net · 24/06/2026

this was a political show-trial. the judge hand-picked the jury himself. guilt was presumed from the start they are all victims of state violence, and they deserve whatever support we as a community can give them

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Emory Echo Trans Historian 🏳️‍⚧️ @emoryecho.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I mean, Islamophobia is bad, transphobia is bad, and I can simultaneously hate that they were treated this way while also hating how much they hate me.

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revolutionary girl erin @kvuzet.net · 30/05/2026

my body is a machine that turns monster energy zero ultra into emotional labor

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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

“Trans people should flee red states,” has more or less been the liberal response to the years long legal oppression and elimination of rights for trans folks. Okay, cool, so you’re funding relocation programs? You’ll provide transitional housing? You’ll pay our rent? Give us jobs? Yeah, right.

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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.

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Emory Echo Trans Historian 🏳️‍⚧️ @emoryecho.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

My girlfriend while we wait at the Valvoline: “That’s the job I want: oil gremlin.”

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Emory Echo Trans Historian 🏳️‍⚧️ @emoryecho.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

I mean, PLEASE connect me with the Danish historians!

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Emory Echo Trans Historian 🏳️‍⚧️ @emoryecho.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

In discussing with coworkers today how English seems to lack language to describe hoe persistently and utterly exhausted the last 3 months have left me in all aspects, we finally came up with a term that captures it. I am bleached. Divested of color and vibrancy through caustic outside influence.

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Emory Echo Trans Historian 🏳️‍⚧️ @emoryecho.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Otroligt att, som en historiker, jag tänkte aldrig på just den här punkten! I vissa sett så är det ju mycket bättre nu än förut. Det är ju synd att det kommer med så mycket hat mot oss transpersoner, men ändå är det någonting att fira!

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Emory Echo Trans Historian 🏳️‍⚧️ @emoryecho.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Even beyond the massive impact that this fundraiser has in supporting trans rights, the fact that my favorite MTG creator has chosen to use his platform to support people like me overwhelms me in ways I cannot begin to articulate. I am so grateful to the MTG community for being my home for so long.

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Emory Echo Trans Historian 🏳️‍⚧️ @emoryecho.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Thank you for doing this. This fundraiser will help so many in my community, myself included.

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Emory Echo Trans Historian 🏳️‍⚧️ @emoryecho.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I have a little micro library in my home, and every time a guest checks out one of my trans* studies books, my heart gets a little lighter.

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Emory Echo Trans Historian 🏳️‍⚧️ @emoryecho.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

In using this quote I want to also acknowledge that Marilyn Frye is in many ways deeply problematic in her takes of transness. At the same time, I do appreciate this quote for the way it highlights some of the roots of trans misogyny.

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Emory Echo Trans Historian 🏳️‍⚧️ @emoryecho.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

They see themselves in us, and our objectification makes them fear it could happen to them if they fall outside the borders of masculinity. Rather than deal with that fear, they hate us all the louder in public, while craving us all the more behind closed doors. 2/2

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Emory Echo Trans Historian 🏳️‍⚧️ @emoryecho.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

This is why trans misogyny is so violent: we are viewed as feminine sex objects that can be fetishized, while simultaneously rejecting our place in the male homo-romantic patriarchy. In the eyes of cishet men, we transform into that which they use, while reminding them of that which they love. 1/2

Quote saying “To say that straight men are heterosexual is only to say that they engage in sex (fucking exclusively with the other sex, i.e., women). All or almost all of that which pertains to love, most straight men reserve exclusively for other men. The people whom they admire, respect, adore, revere, honor, whom they imitate, idolize, and form profound attachments to, whom they are willing to teach and from whom they are willing to learn, and whose respect, admiration, recognition, honor, reverence and love they desire… those are, overwhelmingly, other men. In their relations with women, what passes for respect is kindness, generosity or paternalism; what passes for honor is removal to the pedestal. From women they want devotion, service and sex.

Heterosexual male culture is homoerotic; it is man-loving.”

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Emory Echo Trans Historian 🏳️‍⚧️ @emoryecho.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

We can’t know the future, or if things will be as bad as they were in Nazi Germany, or during the Lavender Panic, but if so, make it impossible to erase you. Make it so future generations know your story. Make your ghost haunt the legacies of the monsters who worked to destroy you.

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Emory Echo Trans Historian 🏳️‍⚧️ @emoryecho.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

If you don’t already, start a journal, be it written, typed, drawn or audio. Honestly document your experiences, feelings, and the world around you. Let loved ones know where you keep your story and their backups —side note: if you can, back shit up!— so if the worst happens, they will survive. 2/?

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Emory Echo Trans Historian 🏳️‍⚧️ @emoryecho.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

A reminder to trans folks: with the ramp up of government erasure of trans documents and data, it’s SO important to remember that one thing they can’t easily erase is your story. I don’t mean that in a metaphorical, “you’re valid” kind of way. I mean it literally. Record your experiences. 1/?

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Emory Echo Trans Historian 🏳️‍⚧️ @emoryecho.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

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Emory Echo Trans Historian 🏳️‍⚧️ @emoryecho.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

If you don’t already, start a journal, be it written, typed, drawn or audio. Honestly record your experiences, your feelings, and the world around you. Let loved ones know where you keep your story and their backups —side note: if you can, back shit up!— so if the worst happens, they will survive.

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Emory Echo Trans Historian 🏳️‍⚧️ @emoryecho.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

No matter how many times I do it, I always get so excited and nervous before conducting an oral history interview. There’s something beautifully sacred about facilitating someone sharing their life experiences. #oralhistory #transhistory #queerhistory #history #historian

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 28/01/2025

As familiar as I am with how craven, honorless, and self-serving she is, even I didn't expect Brianna Wu to agitate for locking up trans activists. I'd spit on her name, but it'd be a waste of spit. This is just plain evil.

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Emory Echo Trans Historian 🏳️‍⚧️ @emoryecho.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

My friend to me: “the fear of your [ttrpg] players may feed you, but it will not help you grow tits. Go eat something.”

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Emory Echo Trans Historian 🏳️‍⚧️ @emoryecho.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

You own books because you think they look pretty on your shelf, and because you like the feel of paper. I own books because I have a compulsive need to write notes in the margins that I will likely never refer back to. We are not the same.

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Emory Echo Trans Historian 🏳️‍⚧️ @emoryecho.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Your tireless work to summarize the bills has kept me from anxiously and compulsively scanning the legislation listings all month. You are my hero.

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Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social · 30/08/2024

Ecstatic to share my newest (& fav!) pub: "Trans Sex Work in Colonial North America: A Herstory" 💗 It traces the phenomenological link between trans femininity & sex work across time, zooming in on three micro-histories of trans women from 1650 to 1840. You can find it here: t.co/569TBIXXQl

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Emory Echo Trans Historian 🏳️‍⚧️ @emoryecho.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Cannot recommend highly enough. It is a fantastic agreed, and easily one of the strongest pieces of trans and/or internet history I’ve read to date. Plus, on a completely unrelated note, Avery is an absolute pleasure of a human being, so there’s also that.

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Emory Echo Trans Historian 🏳️‍⚧️ @emoryecho.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

There’s nothing better than when your job asks “hey, how would you feel about spending three or four days pouring through records at the Oregon historical Society archives?” Truly my happy place. 🥰

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Emory Echo Trans Historian 🏳️‍⚧️ @emoryecho.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I know the feeling. This week has been monstrous for that. May we both be able to change out of our dysphoria hoodies sometime soon.

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Emory Echo Trans Historian 🏳️‍⚧️ @emoryecho.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I am SO happy to hear about the progress on book three, I’ve been dying to know what happens next!

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Emory Echo Trans Historian 🏳️‍⚧️ @emoryecho.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Pet peeve of mine is when writers —especially comic writers— create an innocent or inherently good character and then either kill them to drive the narrative forward, or else the character will inevitably trade their hope and sincerity for cynicism. Like, let kind people exist in fiction, FFS.

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Emory Echo Trans Historian 🏳️‍⚧️ @emoryecho.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

I wanted my first post to be something clever, or at least something, reflecting my work as a trans historian and scholar. Instead, tonight I’m posting that break ups are hard, dysphoria is a bitch, and the fact that hyperbolic time chambers don’t exist is blatantly transphobic.

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