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Harper

@harperiswriting.bsky.social
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Pronouns: They/he. Hi I'm Harper or H. Recent grad, writer, and queer/trans. Talk to me about dragons, Balatro, and gamification

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hoots @hoots.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Since so much of it is out there at the moment…

I’ve seen the take that rape is “a fate worse than death” a lot. This is usually from well-meaning people who want SA to be taken as seriously as it should be in a society that regularly sacrifices victims at the altars of Men With Bright Futures.

But it’s wrong. And it’s damaging and dangerous for victims to hear. You are not better off dead than raped. 

After your assault, you’ll navigate the feelings of betrayal and anger and hurt. You may experience suicidal ideation. You probably will. But you are not better off dead than raped.

There is a whole life you will live after SA. It may be different than the life you once saw stretch out before you, but it’s no less valuable. You will heal and grow and change. You will know more happiness than you could ever imagine from that dark, angry, fearful place you once inhabited. 

Your life has beauty and value and it is bigger than what SA took from you.
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Mxnty 🍉🍉🍉 @hearts4mxnty.bsky.social · 7h
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Maggie Mae Fish 🐟 @maggiemaefish.bsky.social · 9h
I think what I resent the most is that all of us, especially the women who worked with him, were a part of his rehabilitation (at least image-wise) without us ever getting to choose if that was something we wanted to participate in. He didn't let us or his audience make a choice. How ironic.
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X-nimator @x-nimator.bsky.social · 10h
bsky.app/profile/coug... It was machine translated it seems and it misunderstood what capcom was saying. Which is... not surprising given IGN's..... reputation
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Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 22h
“It was a long time ago” “it was a one time thing” “it’s clear he feels remorse” “it’s not worth ruining his whole life over something like this” “what if what he did wasn’t even that bad” “people deserve second chances” these are the same defenses every victim hears about their abuser. every time
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Jen Howard @jen-howard.bsky.social · 23h
This is Barbara (Babsy for short). We get her a Christmas bow tie every year.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 02/10/2026
"We understand that it is our responsibility to teach Cornell collegiates what a good Rape Essay looks like. Rape Essays 101 is the best manifestation of this commitment that our most tenured minds could come up with." buff.ly/5na4oMY
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Announcing Cornell University’s Newest Writing Course: Rape Essays 101
“Can a rapist’s prose effectively elicit remorse for sexual assault? What word count best equates to appropriate jail time? In this class, we will dissect wh...
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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
he is made other to be shown as a victim.
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Harper @harperiswriting.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Try testosterone
Harper pre testosterone smiling awkwardlyHarper 2 1/2 years on testosterone, posing for the camera, chin resting on hand.
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Andrew Craig @blackngreen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
My boy Morgana doesn’t wear a bow tie but he does always lay like that too!
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Scott (from NerdSync) @scottniswander.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
FYI it’s super fucking easy to not rape someone
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John "Johnnyd2" Dolan @johnnyd2.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
no posting like Catposting! Bartleys a good zoomie boi!
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Jennie @onelawnwrangler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I have one of those!
A tuxedo cat leaning toward the camera. She is wearing a dark blue bow tie that has stars printed on it.
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Them @them.us · 02/10/2026
Actor Elliot Page is in lockstep with the Gender Liberation Movement to stand up and fight for transgender youth.
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Elliot Page Has a Scathing Message for Hospitals That Abandon Trans Kids
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You Call Yourself a Film Critic @filmcriticmaybe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Jacob Geller being removed from his rather large platform is not removing him from society Lads what the fuck are we doing?
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Eliel Cruz @elielcruz.com · 03/10/2026
As hospitals make deals with Trump ending trans care, protesters warn NewYork-Presbyterian: Don’t follow them www.advocate.com/politics/sta...
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As hospitals make deals with Trump ending trans care, protesters warn NewYork-Presbyterian: Don’t follow them
ACT UP and the Gender Liberation Movement accuse the hospital of turning away new minor patients as federal pressure reshapes access to gender-affirming care.
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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I think it is evidence of how so much we have been made to think that gaining an audience is the goal of life in this attention-seeking economy that saying "a rapist shouldn't seek a public persona that is available for consumption" is taken as equivalent to saying they "can never rejoin society."
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Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Repost this if trans people should have access to dark magic...
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Nicole is a leading expert on the issue of campus sexual violence. I am floored that USA Today would do this to her. I find this kind of journalistic behavior unethical and morally reprehensible, twisting an interview with a renowned advocate for survivors into a hit piece against a survivor.
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Todd in the Shadows @shadowtodd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We here at the newsdesk are getting reports that the leaked Eminem song may indeed be a fake. We will keep you updated with further developments as they come in.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
All of this. I also want to add that, in my research, I found that a lot of “inconsistencies” in a victim’s story actually came from gender bias affecting investigators’ record keeping and interview methods.
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
when i mention "claude" you can assume i'm talking about the albino alligator not the llm
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Most of the commentary about this concentrates on how it's just an asshole move. And it definitely is. But it's also a violation of ADA
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De-Katie and Cat-Boo!-ger @katieandcatburger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
there are some things about the statement that I find hard to trust, but even taking him at his word… i just dont see exactly how the reparations he feel he has made/is making have manifested. and i dont have all the info here, so maybe i just cant see it, but
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Katana "The Bastard" Squirrel @katanasquirrel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Aside from my thoughts obviously being with the victim, and I hope that no further identification happens for the sake of her privacy, I've said it before, and I will say it again. Actual remorse involves being upfront about your past BEFORE it gets dug up by others.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just a reminder that people don’t always realize they were raped in the immediate aftermath. It can take hours, days, months, and even years to realize you were raped, and it doesn’t make it any less true. There are many kinds of responses, including fawning and trying to appease your rapist
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
This is why state and local elections matter!!! www.advocate.com/politics/nat...
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Lambda Legal’s new LGBTQ+ Bill of Rights goes on offense by using tactics perfected by the right
The civil rights legal organization will adopt a conservative playbook by pushing model legislation, starting in 20 states whose leaders support equality, CEO Kevin Jennings tells The Advocate.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
your response to “I was raped” should not be “I was right”
4 panel comic

Panel 1:
A Purple Woman looks distraught, on the verge of breaking down. She says “that man raped me”
Orange Guy standing next to her is absent-mindedly checking his nails. He says “Wellll, I’ve always disliked him and his work.”

Panel 2:
Purple Woman begins to cry. Orange Guy adopts an incredibly smug expression and says “Guess I must just be a good judge of character”

Panel 3: 
Purple Woman dissolves into sobs. Orange  Guy notices, puts his hand on her shoulder and says “Aw”

Panel 4:
Purple Woman crumples to the floor. Orange Guy, looking bemused, asks “Are you crying because you’re jealous of how smart I am?”
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Maggie Mae Fish 🐟 @maggiemaefish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If you are more angry at HOW you learned someone committed SA then you are at the perpetrator, I don't know what to say
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Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 02/10/2026
I want a world where women can exist without constantly worrying about the violence their peers can inflict on them. It hurts every time this happens
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Harper @harperiswriting.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ever so often, I think back to these two litrary analyses I read at different points in college. They're just stuck in my brain permanently as the weirdest things I've naturally stumbled on trying to research for writing an essay.
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Harper @harperiswriting.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's my birthday next week, I'll be 27
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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.
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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
apnews.com
Newsom vetoes measure that would have penalized the use of smart glasses to secretly record people
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill that would have penalized people for using smart glasses to record people without their permission in changing rooms, doctor’s offices and other spaces p...
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Gender Liberation Movement @genderlib.com · 01/10/2026
As hospitals across the country cave to the Trump administration’s threats to cut federal funding and abandon trans youth, actor Elliot Page speaks out. In New York City, NYU Langone, Mount Sinai, and NewYork-Presbyterian abruptly ended care for trans kids in response to these threats.
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Mark - LateWander @latewander.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is such a desperately sad situation. Obvs first thoughts are with the victim, having to sit with this for years while your abuser lived his dream and became hugely successful must have been awful. I’m sure a lot of people (including me) who have followed him for years, feel complete betrayed.
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You Call Yourself a Film Critic @filmcriticmaybe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I just want to point out that Geller saying he told his "close friends" what he did he just implicated like everyone who collaborated or knew him socially cause people have this warped idea that YouTubers who know each other even causally are BFFs behind the scenes
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 01/10/2026
Video essayist and YouTuber Jacob Geller removed from MinnMax following sexual assault allegations aftermath.site/jacob-geller-m...
Jacob Geller
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 01/10/2026
Graham Linehan is calling the people who murdered a trans man in cold blood, heroes.
Screenshot of an X post by Graham Linehan (@Glinner) commenting, "It looks like these two are heroes who may have saved some kids".
Linehan quotes a post by Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) that reads: "Damn. According to a witness of the shooting homicide of the trans New York Times executive in Dublin, Calif., the elderly Chinese grandparents calmly walked away after the exec was dropped to the ground".
Below the text are two police mugshot photos side by side: on the left is an elderly Asian woman with short, wavy gray hair wearing a white shirt, and on the right is an elderly Asian man with short dark hair, slight facial stubble, and a white shirt.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One of the main reasons that the student loan crisis disproportionately affects women is because victims who can’t complete their educations still have the debt from it—even if they never get the degrees that unlock careers that can pay that debt back.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
bsky.app/profile/ruem...
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Buzbee @buzbee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
As an FYI as well, for those who think the use of genAI in the art may be speculative, the devs behind Aniimo have announced that they're adding genAI driven interactions into the creatures in the game. www.aniimo.com/newslist/det...
aniimo.com
A New Way to Connect with Your Aniimo
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Harper @harperiswriting.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Something that lives rent free in my brain is the person at my old apartment complex that had a "I lost my virginity to the Fresno Nightcrawler" bumper sticker
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 24/09/2026
This is what happens when you get loud and demand Dems not drop trans people. We CAN get orgs to realize this. But we can’t stop with Kaptur. She’s the worst but not the only one. There is NO acceptable anti-trans vote or statement or ad from a Democrat. None. GET LOUDER!
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The vast majority of creatives are struggling. Writers are leaving LA in droves. Directors are driving Uber when they aren't lucky enough to get gigs directing dubs or subs for foreign films. Recognizable actors are finding jobs they won't be recognized in. The whole industry is shitty right now.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 23/09/2026
Five cops in Indianapolis were just criminally charged with abusing Flock to spy on their ex-wives, their wives' ex-partners and women they met on duty. Audit was triggered by us at the @washingtonpost.com, the prosecutor said. From last month: wapo.st/4yfNHng
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 23/09/2026
Now do Amy Acton. I want to also say, Equality Ohio and other progressive dem orgs weakness on holding Amy Acton’s feet to the fire is what lead to Marcy Kaptur feeling emboldened to proceed with her own anti-trans ad.
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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 23/09/2026
Tobias is good people. Please consider helping to the extent you can? I
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