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Helen Boyd (she/they)

@helenboydbooks.com
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Author/educator/activist; www.patreon.com/hbkramer; helenboydbooks.com; www.facebook.com/helenboydbooks; www.instagram.com/helenofboyd; www.tiktok.com/@helenofboyd

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Helen Boyd (she/they) @helenboydbooks.com · 28/09/2026
I still aspire to be Studs Terkel. Just saying. I'm made for it.
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Helen Boyd (she/they) @helenboydbooks.com · 26/09/2026
It's so retro to keep living a life of decency and intelligence.
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Helen Boyd (she/they) @helenboydbooks.com · 24/09/2026
I feel like I was born being sick of rich people, like it's in my DNA & No, I don't mean billionaires. I mean all of them. Anyone who doesn't worry about having a transaction denied in person. All of em.
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Helen Boyd (she/they) @helenboydbooks.com · 21/09/2026
there's a few up now. give us a listen. #engenderpod
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Jay Thurber Show 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @jaythurber.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Because I don't have enough to do, I've started a new podcast — this time with @helenboydbooks.com and Dylan Scholinski. We're all queer and Gen X, but if you're not either one of those, I hope you'll give it a listen anyway. The first two episodes have now dropped: engenderpod.podbean.com
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Engender | engenderpod
<strong>Co hosts Jay Thurber, Dylan Scholinski, and Helen Boyd talk about all things gender. Weekly. </strong><strong><a href="https://www.patreon.com/cw/EngenderPod?utm_source=campaign-search-results...
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Be like John & Krissy Scalzi! Here's a Google sheet to help you out! (Note that I AM AN UNPAID & SELF-APPOINTED VOLUNTEER & AM CAPABLE OF ERROR but if I got it wrong, the right answer is one click away, in the "MORE INFORMATION" column).
docs.google.com
Early / In-person Absentee Voting Dates
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Helen Boyd (she/they) @helenboydbooks.com · 11/09/2026
meredithbergmann.com/sculptures/r...
sculpture by Meredith Bergmann, titled September 11th: Response to Random Murder I: September 11, 2001 New York City, 2,996 dead
2001, bronze, edition of 9
18” x 10” x 12”
I made this allegorical figure of my city soon after the attack: a statue of a beautiful, strong, nude, maternal figure who could survive even this level of aggression. photo by John Bigelow Taylor
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Helen Boyd (she/they) @helenboydbooks.com · 11/09/2026
Fuck Rudy #Giuliani forever and ever. That is all.
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Helen Boyd (she/they) @helenboydbooks.com · 09/09/2026
I hate being mad about everything but I'm mad about everything. 25th anniversary of me being broken by how fucking mad I am about everything is on Friday. I'll work it out again, for another year. But fuck.
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Helen Boyd (she/they) @helenboydbooks.com · 03/09/2026
Sometimes I remember the person who stomped on my report card and then socially ostracized me and wonder if I'm living in a simulation of 7th grade. But no. This is just the world now. Don't give up on being smart, friends. Get smarter, instead.
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StuFalk @stufalk.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
(GIFT ARTICLE) Hochul Accuses Trump of Betraying 9/11 Victims by ‘Defunding the Police’ Gov. Kathy Hochul & Mayor Zohran Mamdani called on President Trump to free up $87 million in federal funds to pay for bomb squads and other counterterrorism measures in New York. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/n...
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Hochul Accuses Trump of Betraying 9/11 Victims by ‘Defunding the Police’ (Gift Article)
Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Zohran Mamdani called on President Trump to free up $87 million in federal funds to pay for bomb squads and other counterterrorism measures in New York.
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antonio pedro ruiz @antoniopedroruiz.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
They will stop at nothing to make your vote disappear. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/u...
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More Mail Ballots Are Arriving Late This Year, and They’re Getting Tossed (Gift Article)
State officials say they worry about the Postal Service’s ability to deliver votes this fall. They are urging voters to mail their ballots early or use drop boxes so their votes count.
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Helen Boyd (she/they) @helenboydbooks.com · 24/08/2026
Idk why we didn't riot after they denied black women in the military who deserved promotion, promotion.
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Helen Boyd (she/they) @helenboydbooks.com · 23/08/2026
#Spider-Man Brand New Day runs with the metaphor for #queer existence pretty hard. I cried, is what I'm saying.
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Helen Boyd (she/they) @helenboydbooks.com · 21/08/2026
@rachelcrowl.net is a badass. That is all.
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Helen Boyd (she/they) @helenboydbooks.com · 16/08/2026
The very real tension between my rights as a married (gay) person and my ideals as a Leftist... Please save me your soliloquies about the Dems until your existence is debated. No one who is in a state where this is a not a tension need comment.
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Helen Boyd (she/they) @helenboydbooks.com · 12/08/2026
Wisco is being more Wisco than usual tonight.
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Helen Boyd (she/they) @helenboydbooks.com · 11/08/2026
Every time I interview a #trans elder for my Shoulders of Giants series, the more angry I am about transphobia in general, and the more specifically angry I am about the current attacks. #trans people are fucking brilliant.
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Helen Boyd (she/they) @helenboydbooks.com · 10/08/2026
I'm gonna keep recommending *The Bombing of Pan Am 103* until everyone watches it. So so so good.
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Helen Boyd (she/they) @helenboydbooks.com · 08/08/2026
I'm never going to make fun of the current #president for being bald or fat or vain or old. I will excoriate him forever for not paying workers and for the grift he pulled on this whole country. May his children and seven generations of his ancestors live with that shame.
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Helen Boyd (she/they) @helenboydbooks.com · 06/08/2026
#queer people are the most beautiful people. That is all.
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Shawn "Smith" Peirce @silversmith1.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Nice of the MSM to catch up. Been sayin' this for some time now. - - - Bidenomics Was More Successful Than People Think www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
theatlantic.com
Bidenomics Was More Successful Than People Think
Conventional wisdom holds that Joe Biden’s bet on climate investment was a bust. The data suggest otherwise.
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Helen Boyd (she/they) @helenboydbooks.com · 05/08/2026
Ok so I'm starting a podcast and I'm fully aware of the redundancy but still
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 04/08/2026
"Liberal bubble" has only ever meant anywhere where right wing perspectives aren't artificially elevated and forced into everyone's feeds.
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Helen Boyd (she/they) @helenboydbooks.com · 04/08/2026
Someone asked me tonight if we're all a little bit gay and I said: we've known that for 75 years.
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Helen Boyd (she/they) @helenboydbooks.com · 28/07/2026
i don't ever need to be that close to a tornado again. like ever.
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Helen Boyd (she/they) @helenboydbooks.com · 26/07/2026
My wife @rachelcrowl.net is genuinely living on @tacobell.bsky.social 's enchiritos and nostalgia these days. But honestly we went there for one of our first dates so ...
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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
A petition is going viral demanding Gov. Beshear use his powers as governor of Kentucky to install a Democrat to Mitch McConnell's seat. Sign it to demand he uses it: petition.edwardswire.com/beshear
petition.edwardswire.com
Gov. Beshear: Appoint A Democrat To McConnell’s Seat
Trump won Kentucky by 30 points — a special election is an automatic Republican win. The Kentucky Constitution gives Gov. Beshear an untested power to appoint a Democrat instead.
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Helen Boyd (she/they) @helenboydbooks.com · 24/07/2026
If you like #podcasts, what's the ideal length of time for one? Should they expand/contract based on the topic? Enquiring minds want to know.
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Helen Boyd (she/they) @helenboydbooks.com · 24/07/2026
The whole beauty of being in your #50s is waking up and wondering why the fuck your knees decided not to work today. Like your whole body is quiet quitting but in relay. #old #genx #knees #aging
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Helen Boyd (she/they) @helenboydbooks.com · 22/07/2026
Diversity people are the best people and we are moving through the worst timeline. Be nice to us.
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Anna @notsureaboutthis.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Any republicans have anything to say about this? Cowards.
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Times Journalists Subpoenaed as Trump Escalates Pressure on Media (Gift Article)
The Justice Department is seeking to compel testimony from reporters who wrote about the new Air Force One. The Times called the move a “brazen act.”
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Helen Boyd (she/they) @helenboydbooks.com · 10/07/2026
There is a hammock in my hotel room. I may not leave.
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Helen Boyd (she/they) @helenboydbooks.com · 09/07/2026
Is Mitch dead? Did Platner quit? Are we supporting Ukraine? Who the fuck knows. I used to live in a world where there was actual news.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
ICE is engaged in a very large escalation nationwide, with the agency claiming to be hitting record arrest numbers amid the return of quotas. This has gotten very little attention from the media because ICE learned lessons from the chaotic disasters of Kristi Noem’s tenure. Keep a watch.
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Helen Boyd (she/they) @helenboydbooks.com · 08/07/2026
hilariously written but also informative. ifloz.substack.com/p/memory-lan...
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MEMORY LANE IS A CRIME SCENE: A GUIDED TOUR OF THE FAMILY PHOTOS DONALD PROBABLY SHOULDN'T HAVE POSTED
His grandfather begged a Bavarian prince not to deport him. The prince said no. That rejected asylum plea is the only reason Donald Trump is American. He posted the evidence himself. Colourised.
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Helen Boyd (she/they) @helenboydbooks.com · 07/07/2026
how many of us have cut off friends or family because they voted for the orange menace? hartmannreport.com/p/theyre-sho...?
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They're Shocked We Won't Pretend Anymore
The real divide isn't political:?it's between those willing to normalize modern fascism's cruelty and those who refuse…
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Helen Boyd (she/they) @helenboydbooks.com · 02/07/2026
just fucking horrifying.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 30/06/2026
there is no group of people who deserve quasi-suspect class status more than trans people. I swear to god, people need to read Carolene Products. They are a discrete and insular minority with zero political power as evidenced by the fact that they're being attacked left right and center.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Trans rights are human rights always and forever.
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Helen Boyd (she/they) @helenboydbooks.com · 30/06/2026
but Biden was too old...
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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH
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Asher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The 5/4 vote for Birthright citizenship alone is enough to tear the court down to the studs and start over. The text of the 14th amendment is absolutely, undeniably clear!
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Black Guy Does Sociology @blackmanbeyond.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Every Democratic primary candidate should be asked if they support expanding the Supreme Court to 13 justices to match the current 13 federal court districts. And if the answer is no they should be asked how they plan to overcome a clearly corrupt Supreme Court in that case.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The breakdown isn't the law, it's not even really the institutions, it's that we have filled the institutions with people who feel no qualm about operating in extreme bad faith, because they are ensconced inside an ideological bubble that affirms any idea that advances the reactionary project
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 30/06/2026
Going after LGBTQ+ kids isn't leadership — it's bullying. Today's decision is a setback for equality in this nation where every student deserves to learn and belong, no matter their gender. To those in the LGBTQ+ community, know that there's a place for you in Illinois.
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Helen Boyd (she/they) @helenboydbooks.com · 30/06/2026
Fuck SCOTUS. Again.
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Name a movie that flopped at the box office but is actually great
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Gif from CHILDREN OF MEN (2007). Clive Owen reacts to a street explosion in London.
Alt: Gif from CHILDREN OF MEN (2007). Clive Owen reacts to a street explosion in London.
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Helen Boyd (she/they) @helenboydbooks.com · 25/06/2026
I'm 'McDonald's got rid of their tiny spoon stirrers because coke' years old
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Helen Boyd (she/they) @helenboydbooks.com · 23/06/2026
SCOTUS, maaan. What a piece of shit.
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