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Shauna

@hellinpastels.bsky.social
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A nerd through and through, a Lifelong Cleveland sports fan who just happens to be trans, bi, and poly

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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 02/09/2026
I know of myself and like 15 other trans writers who would die for this assignment
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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 26/08/2026
This could have been a moment to let people know that we support people who declare their gender identity before starting medically transitioning, and that there’s a pathway in that transition to continue activities such as playing sports but to play at an elite level some criteria must be met.
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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 25/08/2026
For @xtramagazine.com, I spoke to organizers of the trans joy rally outside Barclays before the Liberty/Fever game, as well as the organizers of the “Trans People Belong in Sports” sign distribution inside the arena: “We believe that fans made this league, so fans can lead the way.”
xtramagazine.com
Anti-trans hate came to the WNBA. Fans are fighting back | Xtra Magazine
From organizing a “Trans Joy Rally” to handing out supportive signs at games, fans aren't letting anti-trans discourse define the league
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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 24/08/2026
I've placed this! Stay tuned.
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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 22/08/2026
We do not need a more respectful dialogue about how transgender female athletes can best compete alongside their cisgender peers in elite sport we need a conversation about how one major party in America wants us to not exist and are slowly taking away our rights to enforce that.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Food companies wanted deregulation. Now there are dozens of recalls across the country. Mining companies wanted deregulation. Now the black lung rate is at a 45-year high. Financial companies wanted deregulation. Now financial losses to fraud are the highest on record. Noticing a pattern?
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Katie Heindl @wtevs.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
i think the first and main issue is framing this as a conversation, when it’s entirely one-sided and has only been in bad, bad faith
“Cunningham's popularity has skyrocketed this season amid a national conversation
about transgender athlete inclusion.”
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Casey Plett @caseyplett.com · 13/08/2026
Every single piece of trans history is a blaring klaxon telling us: We can't rip ourselves apart, we must put our preternatural prickliness aside, we can and should disagree greatly but our futures are linked and the stakes are too great, we must figure that out no matter the emotions it raises.
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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 07/08/2026
Going on ESPN to debate Stephen A Smith about why Enes Freedom won't be drafted in the WNBA first round because her ability to set screens and not drift outside the paint to defend is such a red flag for front offices.
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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 04/08/2026
We all still do it. Gladly. To advocate for our dignity. Because to get people who are not affected to advocate for us to someone has to have done that work. But we still find ourselves with the same talking about trans people instead of to them discourse.
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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 04/08/2026
I need people to understand that for the last half decade that there’s been an ecosystem of trans folks in sports media who have worked unpaid to serve as experts for context, sources and educators on what it’s like for trans athletes, in hopes of potential bylines and contacts. That’s dried up.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
i don't believe anyone has "good-faith" concerns about trans women in sports in 2026. there's been too much time to hear the actual evidence, the actual people affected, and the role the debate plays in attempts to purge trans people from American life. anybody picking that side has made a choice
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Shauna @hellinpastels.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
As a trans Ohioan, the former is absolutely going to be worse and it's not even close. Ohio Republicans have made making our lives hell their primary political agenda, and this kind of 'question' is nothing but intellectual dishonesty I implore you: please hold your nose and vote for Acton, I will
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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 30/06/2026
You have to play. You have to live. We are not going away.
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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 30/06/2026
If you are trans and you want to play sports I want you to know there will always be spaces for you even if this government tries to tell you at school you are not welcome. Sports are for everyone. I promise.
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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 28/06/2026
I currently have 454 paid subscribers. Getting to 500 would enable me to reliably fund travel for stories & to purchase media insurance so I could pursue investigative journalism at my newsletter.
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Shauna @hellinpastels.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
As a Cavs fan, I'm grateful that the Spurs have now blown a much more culturally egregious lead which will be remembered instead because Game 1 of the ecf felt AWFUL
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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
This is not how politics has to work if you have the simple moral clarity to say “fuck you, why do you care about trans healthcare if you aren’t a trans person trying to get healthcare? What are you going to do next, wipe my ass for me? Tell me what I should read? I thought we were Americans here”
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Veerender Singh Jubbal @veerenderjubbal.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Feel as though people will truly never understand his death. He was killed for being an Indigenous Queer Man with a Transgender Partner. Every single one of those signifiers on axis/intersections/marginalizations is extremely important, but it is in tandem all at once not just because he “Gay”.
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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 03/06/2026
All you have to say is “all kids deserve free and fair access to school sports and sporting bodies make the rule for who’s eligible. My opponent would like to have the government inspect your kids bodies personally in a way to help defund your public schools.”
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
After a Wisconsin town did this, the mayor said: “The fact that they didn’t take the cameras down shows that we are the product. They were never really selling to us in the first place. They're selling to much bigger agencies the ability to spy on a ton of people.” (via boltsmag.org/verona-wisco...)
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
"We’ve locked ourselves in the stupidest possible version of Plato’s cave...what looks like the spontaneous consensus of the hive mind is often just shadows on the wall, put there by marketers, political operatives, foreign-influence campaigns, or anyone else with a few hundred bucks"
vulture.com
The Feed Is Fake
What if every viral song, movie, meme, influencer, and celebrity drama you’ve scrolled by recently was the result of a stealth marketing campaign?
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Saraarrgh Clarke @damselindystopia.northsky.social · 14/05/2026
Oh Christ are we doing this one again? Serano said it best. juliaserano.medium.com/why-are-amab...
Imagine the following scenario: You’re talking with a cisgender gay acquaintance, and they start opening up about their past. They share an anecdote that begins, “Well, back when I was still in the closet . . .” and you immediately interrupt them by saying: “Don’t you mean back when you were enjoying heterosexual privilege?”

How do you think your acquaintance might react to that? They’d probably find your comment to be crass and dismissive, wouldn’t they? And it wouldn’t be because they doubt heterosexual privilege exists, but rather because this singularly focused framing erases the complex reality of what “being closeted” entails. For many of us, our closeted years are some of our most difficult — if not the most difficult. They tend to be times of secrecy: pretending to be “normal” and suppressing our true selves for fear of the stigma and ostracization we’d likely experience if we “came out.” Being in the closet is typically an isolating and traumatic period, during which we may be exposed to and internalize all sorts of queerphobic sentiments, often resulting in feelings of shame and self-loathing that may take us years to eventually overcome.In response to your comment, your cis gay friend would likely retort: “I wasn’t ‘enjoying’ heterosexual privilege. Going along with other people’s presumption that I must be straight was simply what I had to do in order to survive. And you couldn’t pay me enough to go back to that!”

While most of us would be inclined to side with the cis gay person’s perspective on this, many trans people — especially those of us who were assigned male at birth (AMAB) — find that we are denied the closet. Instead of garnering expressions of sympathy and understanding for that period of our lives, we are often mischaracterized as having “had it easy” during our pre-transition years, with some imagining that we must have been “basking” or “reveling” in “male privilege” all along the way.
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Shauna @hellinpastels.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
While I understand that this likely dates me as being distinctively elder millennial, I will always love a good reaction gif and I firmly believe that conveying one's mood/response accurately is its own kind of skill. (I relatedly also mourn how many gifs we've lost over the years)
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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 14/05/2026
THANK YOU CHUCK 📣📣📣
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Christina Kahrl @christinakahrl.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Jason Collins was an inspiration. His work in the world we live in went far beyond what we all saw him achieve on the floor. And because he didn't stick to sports, he didn't just make sports better, he bettered the lives of all who had the good fortune to know him. #RIP
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onion person @junlper.beer · 11/05/2026
the tech world has genuinely not grappled with how many people despise them and what they make
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
If we actually want to appreciate moms, we should be providing free childcare, healthcare, and guaranteed income for stay-at-home parents to put more money in families’ pockets and ensure no SAHP is reliant on a partner for their economic security. Idk I think that’s better than 15% off a vacuum.
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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 09/05/2026
The introduction of the phrase “trans identifying” being normalized in media standards is one of the most insidious things the media campaign against trans people has ever done.
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 08/05/2026
Mute word screen on Bluesky showing I am muting any mention of will stancil forever
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Zack Zwiezen @zackzwiezen.com · 07/05/2026
This needs to be the way this always works. And if you really can't keep the servers up or let players do it themselves, at the very least you need to add in some way to let people play offline. Even being able to run around empty maps or fight bots and flick through the game's menus/etc
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
If you saw this happening in another country, what would you call it? newrepublic.com/post/210013/fbi-inv…
newrepublic.com
FBI Launches Probe Into Reporter Who Covered Kash Patel’s Drinking
The investigation is highly unusual, and some FBI officials expressed concern over the probe.
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Shauna @hellinpastels.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
I was thinking of a way to write this all because it's much more nuanced than how most people are portraying it*, and unsurprisingly Frankie was able to convey that sentiment in such a clear end concise way *Even my own initial feelings were negative because of how so many articles framed it
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Shauna @hellinpastels.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only— Legends of Tomorrow Buffy the Vampire Slayer Gravity Falls The Venture Bros Futurama The Dragon Prince The Sopranos Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Wynonna Earp The Good Place The Simpsons Avatar the Last Airbender Blue Mountain State Angel Breaking Bad
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
The John Roberts Court has done more to reduce the political power of poor people and Black people while enlarging the voting rights of rich people and corporations than has any court since Roger Taney was Chief Justice in the 1800s. I opposed his nomination in 2005, and I stand by that.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 27/04/2026
notably he didn't deny being a traitor in this clip
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...
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Shauna @hellinpastels.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
I wasn't allowed to watch the Simpsons growing up because my parents were worried Bart Simpson would be a bad influence on me. They really should have realized I was always much more of a Lisa!
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Shauna @hellinpastels.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
What a weird, wild, and wholly unexpected intersection between my degrees in political science and religious studies.
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Annie Less Than Three @trebbble.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
(An edited calvin and hobbes strip.)
Calvin's dad: on social media? I'll show you something interesting.
Calvin's dad: The two types of social media are twitter and tumblr. All websites fall into these two categories. Instagram? Twitter. Pinterest? Tumblr.
Calvin: Yeah.
Calvin's dad: Gacha life? Tumblr. Linkedin? Twitter. 
Calvin's dad: Despite being a twitter clone, bluesky is tumblr.
(The last panel shows calvin awake in his bed at night, with a troubled look on his face.)
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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 03/04/2026
Given there’s a good jobs report this month that will almost certainly be revised down significantly I would like to remind people I am actively looking for work and am available to help your organization TOMORROW.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 30/03/2026
it looks from the outside like the NYT adopted an advocacy position on the anti-trans side. anti-trans people rarely have issue getting a byline or a story-defining quote in the Times when no trans person is ever given that chance? I don't want advocacy from the NYT, I want fairness.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 30/03/2026
over and over again, outright paid anti-trans activists are quoted in the Times as "concerned parents" or "concerned doctors". these are people who are paid to advocate against trans rights, and they are constantly white-washed by NYT news reporters.
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Nancy Armour @nrarmour.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Imagine telling an 11-year-old girl she can’t compete b/c she has a condition called DSD. Or making accepting discrimination the price all women must pay to compete. When people say transphobia hurts all women, this is what is meant. And the IOC did it willingly.
usatoday.com
Olympic ban on transgender women stems from fear and feelings, not facts | Opinion
The International Olympic Committee has refused to make public the science that led to its ban of transgender women athletes.
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Mel Woods @melwoods.me · 26/03/2026
Anyone who claims to be a feminist must call the IOC trans exclusion/mandatory sex-testing policy out for what it is: a massive blow to fairness in women’s sports. It is literally harder for women compared to men today than it was yesterday. That's textbook gender discrimination, baby!!
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Anarchy Goose @anarchygoose.northsky.social · 08/11/2025
I wish cis people understood how it feels to see Harry Potter every-fucking-where constantly.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
me when the son of a retired NFL/NBA player shows up in college sports: my time has passed, my flesh is decaying, googling coffin prices me when they show a former NFL/NBA player supporting their daughter at a college hoops/volleyball game: HELL YEAH! LET'S GO NFL/NBA PLAYER'S DAUGHTER
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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 12/03/2026
Oh my god my book is on here 😭😭😭
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