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Empress Em (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @empressem.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Pigeons in the bus lane A fuckery video clip by me while I waited.

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Empress Em (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @empressem.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Feels Like Home A KNOWNsf GROUP ART SHOW THURS, OCT 22, 6 pm - LATE MINI BAR 837 DIVISADERO ST, SF

A KNOWNsf GROUP ART SHOW
Feels Like Home
OPENING OCT 22,6 pm
FEATURED ARTISTS
Zoe Ani
Kiera Lofgreen
Christine August
Rick Lucey
Anita Beshirs
Kaeli Mcleod
Josh Blanaru
PAM!
Greta Boesel
Julie Peisner
Dan Bransfield
Rocio Perez
Michael Bruno
Desirée Pfeffer
Petry Campos
Barbara Pollak
Grace Chiang
Doug Rhodes
Ji Wook Choi
Joshua Richey
Tim Cohen
Jason Ryan
Hannah Elyse Cornthwaite
Marcella Sanchez
Yani Damian
Kurt Schwartzmann
Yvette Fagan
Faina Shpiler
Chris Farris
Keilyn Skaggs
Natalie Gabriel
Cole Skaggs
Chandra Gandolfo
Caroline Smith
Dawn Harmer
Samantha Tutone
Manti Henriquez
Jamie Urborg
Arshla Jindal
Lois Wang
Jack Keating
Sarah Beth Wiley
MINI BAR

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Empress Em (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @empressem.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Fureigh * DeeHana TwoSpirits CJ Lawrence • Nina Ruth Mir SOLIDARITY A BENEFIT SHOW FOR TRANS KANSANS SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2026 @ HAIRPIN & STROP DOORS 4, MUSIC 5 $5-20 PWYC Q 4121 BROADWAY, OAKLAND, CA

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Brandon T. Snider @brandontsnider.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Back on my bullsh

an image that has boxes and a flow chart- GET A NEW IDEA > START A NEW PROJECT > TELL EVERYONE. the pattern repeats circularly, ignoring the box that says FINISH PROJECT

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Empress Em (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @empressem.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I gotta be honest about BlueSky. Don’t really care for it. Tumblr is my standard for posting. Less crap, more my fun type of crazy. I plan to keep dropping in at times. Regular posting is not the plan here. 🤷‍♀️

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Empress Em (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @empressem.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Went to #ThrillhouseRecords today! Supporting Tifa Love and Deehana Twospirits 💜 I can recommend Needy O’Hare, everyone was energizing yet a chill vibe throughout. Photos are still on the Darktable waiting to get reviewed.

Cupcakes Crafts & Queers pride music show at Thrillhouse Records flyer.

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Mission Local @missionlocal.org · 27/06/2026

TONIGHT Several people were arrested at the end of the Trans March, the kick-off event for San Francisco Pride weekend. Police officers ran into the crowd & handcuffed people, allegedly for earlier acts of vandalism. People were heard yelling "Get off him!" & "What the fuck?!"

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butterflygirl24 @butterflygirl24.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Legal needs to get on this ASAP! Trans Pride March being terrorized by cops! #pridemonth #sanfrancisco

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Empress Em (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @empressem.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Last year I carried a #shibari tied #trans #brick to #Pride This year!!! 🏳️‍⚧️ #TransPride #leather and my favorite #flogger!

Standard length cowhide flogger! In classic black.

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Empress Em (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @empressem.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Would like to say hello and thank you in person if that could work out.

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Empress Em (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @empressem.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Today is Bay to Breakers in SF, drunk, naked rainbow butterflies are not a daily occurrence, usually.

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Empress Em (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @empressem.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Just a Sunday morning in #SanFrancisco the day of #BayToBreakers at the grocery. Happy Fun!

Two people dressed in costume shopping at the grocery for Bay to Breakers.

7 AM on a Sunday morning in line at the checkout. People in costume for Bay to Breakers.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 13/05/2026

Rep. Delia Ramirez has introduced a sweeping resolution that builds on her prior call to dismantle DHS and ICE. The resolution calls to redirect massive military spending toward pro-peace initiatives and create an unprecedented independent federal commission to monitor human rights violations.

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A New House Resolution Would Dismantle DHS and Defund Trump’s War Machine

Congress needs a new human rights mandate after deadly abuses by the Trump administration, progressives say.

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Empress Em (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @empressem.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

🤣🤣🤣 holy shit! I needed to laugh this hard 🤣🤣🤣

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Empress Em (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @empressem.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

A panoramic from a year+ ago. From the top of Delores Park before sunrise in #SanFrancisco #Photography #UrbanPhotography #panoramic The peace is greater than the chill in the air. Standing behind my camera near Gay Beach looking over the city is inspiring and humbling.

A panoramic from a year+ ago. From the top of Delores Park before sunrise in #SanFrancisco of the city skyline.

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sarah zedig 🐐 @hmsnofun.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

if you're trans and scared and exhausted and furious and lost at sea in this cruel and spiteful epoch, i love you and i'm sorry and i know. i know. i know. but you have to stay alive anyway. if they want you dead, make them kill you first. trans rights forever. solidarity forever. we will win.

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Transphobia is a cancer of the heart and mind. It is a useless fear, based on ignorance and cruelty. Trans people are not responsible for a single one of the problems we face. Do the world a favor and grow the fuck up.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Welcome to the age of model collapse.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

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@IlainME Vote Blue-your vote matters! NO ARCH @ilainme.bsky.social · 19/07/2024

Question I was asked: You have 1 minute to make 1 wish that would benefit yourself and the world. What is your wish?

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Empress Em (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @empressem.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

When I begin to miss the conversation that goes something like… Me: What do you wanna do? You: I duknow, what do you wanna do? Me: Don’t look at me, I asked you. You: Well, like I know. {awkward silence in the form of a question} You know things could be better.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 11/05/2026

Maybe Something Beautiful Will Happen Today

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Empress Em (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @empressem.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

A spot of color in the gloom. Searching for hope, have you seen her lately? #SanFrancisco ##Photography

Part of a brightly colored frisbee (I guess?) on a sidewalk.

A water bottle in a bright hue covered in stickers on a stone bench.

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Indivisible SF @indivisiblesf.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Tell Mayor Lurie to stop cutting critical community services from the budget! Tues, May 12, meet at noon in front of City Hall, then deliver 1000s of community stories to the Board of Supervisors. RSVP on Mobilize to let the team know you’re coming and receive day-of details. buff.ly/GcLK7q9

Black and white poster with graphic scissors telling viewers that Lurie is cutting community services instead of taking billionaires and reforming police overtime and asking them to show up at City Hall from noon to 1:30 on Tuesday, May 12.

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MC Squared @mcsquared.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

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Empress Em (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @empressem.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

This photo made immensely creepy by how much it resembles waking up on a data center floor between rows of racks on a (2002ish tape) major data disaster recovery effort when time to reload the DLT auto loader😱

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Empress Em (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @empressem.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

The first thing to come to my mind, well… The Dead Milkmen song Cousin Earl. I might be making a statement of the world I see around me with this, and so… songmeanings.com/songs/view/3... “A look that still chills me to this day.”

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The Dead Milkmen - Cousin Earl Lyrics & Meanings | SongMeanings

Cousin Earl Lyrics & Meanings: Now, you wanna talk about bladder problems, then the man you wanna talk to will probably be my cousin Earl. / I guess y...

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Empress Em (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @empressem.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Some who see me, hate me. I have no time for such hollow pageantry. Are they jealous or angry I do not sell my soul to be the stereotype? #StyleNotFasion #Self #Punk #GiveDoNotTake #Human

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Empress Em (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @empressem.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

stereotype: There are those who strive with intense effort to portray and enact the norms of society. The way they dress, how they act and in fact, any outwardly observable trait. Plagiarist echos of expectations is all they appear to be. #Poetry I guess #Verse maybe #Mood definitely

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Empress Em (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @empressem.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

My sanity is salvaged by my {clutching in my hands} D850 with a decent 50. Life is raw, shoot in raw!

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Empress Em (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @empressem.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

I walk back. Long hard Walk. To the shelter. To be annoyed By the other Unhoused outcasts. At least I can walk In the dark, In the cold, In the Fog and mist. At least I Can still walk In the uncomfortable.

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Empress Em (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @empressem.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Wondered the aisles Unsure. Not really hungry. I should be. Scraps for The past three Days at best. My stomach Turned into Another row Of shelves. Undecided. A sports drink, Might as well. Nothing looks As good as My emptiness Demands it to.

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Empress Em (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @empressem.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Still Walk: It was windy And I have no jacket. It was dark, Wet and whipping, No coat to wear. I was hungry Or just bored. Put my EBT card in my pant pocket. Walked to the nearest Open grocery. At that hour, Not many options. Each block Felt longer than The last. #Poetry #Verse #Unhoused #Mood

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Empress Em (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @empressem.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Slate: Sometimes, I like the color often stated as slate. Neither organic nor synthetic. It rests on the precipice of birth and death, in synchronicity. #Poetry #Verse #Mood

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Empress Em (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @empressem.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

I lack the energy to edit when the sun starts to reveal the true shit in the world. I guess the knowledge of this pushes me to be an ‘in camera’ photographer. #SanFrancisco #NightPhotography #UrbanPhotography

Looking into The Bay off the Embarcadero in San Francisco near the floating fire station as Oakland lights up the shipping yards.

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Empress Em (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @empressem.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

The light reflects my mood in the chilled air as I walk about this city. The day shows too much I would rather not see and hides all that I feel. #SanFrancisco #NightPhotography #UrbanPhotography

Looking into a pier along the Embarcadero one morning in San Francisco.

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Empress Em (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @empressem.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Under the 80 in #SanFrancisco with diffused light. Feels more real and relatable at 2:30AM on the streets with the other #homeless people than anywhere in the day. #Photography #NightPhotography #UrbanPhotography

Strong diffusion of red traffic lights as headlights wait for the green under the 80 in San Francisco early one morning.

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Empress Em (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @empressem.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

I am still breathing. A recent early morning photo walk. DIY diffusion filter. In a world such as it is, being out in the city at these hours holds a calmness that eludes me in the daylight. #SanFrancisco #Photography #NightPhotography #UrbanPhotography

Bus stop in San Francisco about 3am. Dark exposure for the red lights and signage + the vibe.

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