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Monica

@monicaberry.bsky.social
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Homeschooling mom, AFOL, VP of a local nonprofit that supports and advocates for people with disabilities, disabled person... Idk, me.

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PacoOnPause @pacoonpause.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I think it's weird how fixated a lot of you are on people who are covid conscious..
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Dustin Poppendieck @poppendieck.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
CR box air cleaners reduce particles in classrooms by 61%. pubs.acs.org/aeacd5/artic...
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Performance and Practical Considerations of Deploying Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Air Purifiers in Occupied Classrooms
Abstract. Poor classroom ventilation allows airborne particles to build up, leading to suboptimal indoor air quality (IAQ) and increased risk of airborne v
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Monica @monicaberry.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My household wears KN95s. We only ask other people to mask around us in our own house or vehicle and medical professionals. In six years, two of the four of us have caught something transmissible by air a total of 3x since 2019 and AFAIK it's never been Covid.
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greys 🐰 @greys.is · 01/10/2026
Finally, there are LIMITED EDITION PRINTS of this piece!! ✨ And 100% of proceeds will be donated to three trans-focused charities/organisations in the UK! 🏳️‍⚧️ Check it out at my @inprnt.com shop: www.inprnt.com/gallery/grey... #art #prints #trans
Mock-up of an art print. The print is a digital painting of the back view of a person in a yellowish light. They are holding a large Transgender Pride flag behind them.
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Monica @monicaberry.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You've heard of Elf on a Shelf, General Tom Foolery would like to introduce you to...
A grey cat lays on the leg rest of a recliner mid-yawn with an expression that could be interpreted as a big "do you get it? Eh? Eh?" grin. 
On the floor is a LEGO minifig. A close-up view of the minifig reveals it to be Thor holding Mjolnir.
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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#MinCup26 Quarterfinals 3 It's a pair of dissolvable beauties as rare and complicated #Julienite is against ubiquitous and straightforward #Halite. VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...
Split photo of close-ups of minerals bright blue julienite in radiating fan shapes within a dark rock and clear perfect cubes of halite suspended in clear liquid, tiny bubbles hanging onto some of the crystals
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Monica @monicaberry.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
100% better!
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The truth is, you can belittle maskers, shrug off disabled people, and call us all crazy a million times, but you’re going to have to live in the world you’re building with these choices, and outcomes don’t care that your views are popular right now. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/mor...
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More than 1 in 10 US healthcare workers report ongoing long-COVID symptoms, study finds
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Hazie @hazie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
SARS-CoV-2 was detected 98.3% of air samples at airports! ITS COVID. MASK UP WITH AN N95 OR BETTER! “Airports, as major international travel hubs with dense, enclosed populations, are high-risk settings for disease transmission and potential pathogens” journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
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Multimodal genomic surveillance for respiratory pathogens at four U.S. international airports: A comparison of air, wastewater, clinical, and national surveillance data
Early detection of outbreaks and emerging pathogens is critical for public health and global biosecurity. Airports, as major international travel hubs with dense, enclosed populations, are high-risk s...
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is genuinely disinformation. Vaccines are great are reducing severity, they do not greatly reduce your risk of getting sick, and even that effect wanes within a few months. Masking with n95s or kn95s and cleaning the air are the best protections against getting sick.
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👻 Saavik ‘Spooky Season’ Ford 🎃 @saavikford.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Ok, I’ve been swayed: Vote #Skutterudite because it is more fun to say! Also: it is a thermoelectric material, can turn into the other contender, & there’s a Norwegian campaign for it as the only mineral in the cup with a Norwegian locality name… #MinCup26 Go vote!!!
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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
#MinCup26 Round 1 Match 1: It's carbonate-vs-carbonate with copper-rich #Azurite against zinc-rich #Smithsonite. Which has your vote? VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...
Split photo of bright blue azurite and peach-colored smithsonite crystals.

The azurite forms clusters of round nodules with a matte, almost velvety-looking texture.

The smithsonite crystals are mostly discs with parallelogram faces. There are some black and gold-colores minerals mixed in.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I am begging healthcare workers to stop doing this. You should be masking by default. With everything we know about how COVID is transmitted it’s ridiculous we don’t have mandatory masking in healthcare. At the bare minimum, you should mask mirror.
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justdawesome.bsky.social @justdawesome.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The seat belts and airbags in my car will never guarantee that I won’t be hurt in an accident but they help to protect me. I view vaccines the same way.
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Clockwork Creature @clockworkcreature.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Hey, so our workshop got broken into over the weekend. Most of what was stolen was just replaceable stuff, but one very precious mask was taken. Tierney's head has been stolen. If anyone sees this head anywhere, let us know immediately. Hoping against hope that we can bring her home.
A brown-colored gryphon mask modeled after a female northern cardinal, with an orange beak and orange crest. Its eyes are green, slitted like a housecat's.A golden-brown gryphon fullsuit based on a female northern cardinal, with dark stripes and orange beak, crest, and feather accents; in a dynamic pose.
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Monica @monicaberry.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Reposting with alt text
At the top is a photo of pale-skinned hands holding a syringe with an out-of focus pale-skinned baby behind them. The baby's expression could be concerned or neutral. 
White text with a few words highlighted in yellow reads "STUDY: Denmark tracked over 1,000,000 children for 21 years, and found those who had aluminum-adjuvanted vaccines were linked to a SHOCKING number of cases of autism, asthma, and 48 other chronic conditions.
THAT SHOCKING NUMBER WAS ZERO. threads.com/@bluehivemind"
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
N95 Masks Nearly Perfect at Blocking COVID, UMD Study Shows Researchers Found Even Lower-Performing Masks Were Protective Maskswork today.umd.edu/n95-masks-ne...
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Maryland Today | N95 Masks Nearly Perfect at Blocking COVID, UMD…
Researchers Found Even Lower-Performing Masks Were Protective
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DisMoviePod @dismoviepod.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Healthcare settings are another place you really want to be masked. People there are unwell! Do not catch their viruses or pass on your illnesses to others. 😷
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Monica @monicaberry.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Come build with us - it's a party!
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Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) @autisticadvocacy.org · 17/07/2026
ASAN made the exciting move to a new donor platform that lets us put more of our time and your gifts toward advocacy. But there’s been one snag — a technical issue means we’ve lost some of our monthly members, and we need your help to find everyone! autisticadvocacy.org/donate/join/
Purple and orange textured background. There's a silhouette of a person with a magnifying glass. Text reads: ASAN is searching for our missing members!  Could you be one of them? ASAN made a big move to a new donation platform that will allow us to put more of our time and your generous gifts towards the work that matters. But during the move, a technical error deleted some of our monthly members and we’re trying to get them back! Orange and purple textured background. Text reads: When we moved platforms, a technical issue deleted a bunch of our members from our monthly membership program.
We need your help to find everyone! 

The support of our monthly members makes our work possible! From our Cat Comrades all the way up to our Whale Well-Wishers, our members' generosity each month gives ASAN a stable base to build our advocacy work on. 

If you are a current ASAN member, but did not get charged for July, you may be one of our missing members! Sign up again at the link below: 

autisticadvocacy.org/donate/joinPurple and orange background. There's a diagonal line of older ASAN t-shirts including a train and a dinosaur shirt. Text reads: Everyone, new or old, who signs up to become a member during July and August gets a free entry into a raffle to win one of ASAN’s vintage shirt designs! Become a member today: autisticadvocacy.org/donate/join/
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Monica @monicaberry.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I made a necklace yesterday for PrideFest.
A beaded 3-strand necklace made of a wild variety of beads that gradually work their way through the whole rainbow. It's hanging on a door that's robin's egg blue.
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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I mask in public still because no one has given me any convincing scientific evidence that getting repeat COVID infections is safe or sustainable for health, especially brain health 🧠
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Monica @monicaberry.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
This, but the feelings of dread about climate change go back a lot further.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I firmly believe that if people all across the political spectrum had not leaned into ableism to make wearing masks so unpopular we would have seen many more people using this vital tool during the recent wildfire smoke emergencies
Two people in KN95s (one is me) on the lakeshore with the Chicago skyline in the background
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Monica @monicaberry.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Come build with us! Anyone can join in the fun!
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Monica @monicaberry.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
ditto
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Night of the Abigail @popeguilty.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I looked up the full text of 4834 and Illinois is straight up refusing to acknowledge testosterone as a controlled substance or track prescriptions of it and will destroy any such existing records. This is really great!
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greys 🐰 @greys.is · 26/06/2026
Commission of Sugar, a 11/10 pup that is very dearly missed. ❤️‍🩹 Her howls in the office I used to work in SF will forever be in my heart.
Digital painting of a white poodle mix dog sitting very primly against a colourful paint splatter background.
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Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Buster Keaton didn't stand still while a two-ton housefront collapsed on top of him with a window cut out to barely clear his shoulders on each side so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."
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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.
Hi, thanks for posting! We do appreciate you thinking of us even though we have to moderate.

Our stance on all AI generated content (Images, Video, Voiceovers, and whatever else LLM based AI gets up to in the future):

At best, they are approximations of street fighter characters as the AI has no clue what it is trying to create. Because of this, there is no street fighter content so they are not allowed. (rule 1)

Also, they aren't allowed per our source rule. As AI sources cannot be tracked, we must assume that they use uncredited sources in the learning data. (rule 5)

Finally, AI images, video, text, and voiceovers are barely any different than posting a screenshot of a google search. The level of effort is so low that we consider it spam (rule 3).

Because of these reasons, AI art and other AI content is not allowed.

If you would like to contact the moderators about this removal, you can do so here.
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Monica @monicaberry.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
May need to give this gift early. Hopefully my other son's gift I recently ordered will arrive soon!
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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Signed onto the petition of "WIRED Magazine, Retract "The Painful Truth About Long Covid" ✔️✔️✔️✔️ www.change.org/p/wired-maga...
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Sign the Petition
WIRED Magazine, Retract "The Painful Truth About Long Covid"
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Monica @monicaberry.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Introduce yourself w/bands you've seen live: The Beach Boys Amy Grant The Gin Blossoms & Goo Goo Dolls The Blue Man Group Mannheim Steamroller The Walt Andrus Band Evanescence (this was in Vienna!) Marina V. Then, about 20yrs ago, I realized I don't enjoy going to concerts all that much. 😅
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Monica @monicaberry.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I've been using Ecosia and it keeps turning the AI back on. I'm open to hearing about other options.
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Sunnie Larsen (she/her) @solcita.sunnie.org · 15/05/2026
All of this. For always.
alexdawcreates
Toronto, Ontario

Radically protransgender

Guilty as charged. I want trans people
on our streets, at the grocery store, in

my classroom, safe from the persecution
that they fled, I even want them in our

bathrooms, guess what, they also need
to pee! I want trans people in the open

sun of another tomorrow. their faces
turned toward the light of their own

becoming. I want trans people to be
unafraid, celebrated, celebrating

who they are. Is it too much to ask?
I want trans people all the way alive

Alex Dawson (@alexdawcreates)
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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Another reason to keep cats indoors… www.iflscience.com/for-the-firs...
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For The First Time, H5N1 Bird Flu Has Been Documented Jumping From Pet Cat To Human
Experts blamed the cat's raw meat and milk diet for the infection.
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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
A new RCT of ~2,000 household contacts published today in NEJM found the oral antiviral ensitrelvir (Xocova) reduced symptomatic Covid after household exposure by ~67% compared to placebo (2.9% vs 9.0%) www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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At last, a pill that can prevent COVID after exposure to infected people
Drug arrives years after pandemic’s peak, but could still offer protection to vulnerable populations.
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Monica @monicaberry.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Please build with us!
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Star Trek Minus Context @nocontexttrek1.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Star Trek Voyager scene. We see a small, lone shuttlecraft fllying through a cloudy sky. Closed caption reads, "(screaming)"
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
"CORONAVIRUS IS AIRBORNE" #MaskUp 😷
An edited image from the animated series The Simpsons featuring Bart Simpson standing at a large green chalkboard while wearing a white N95 respirator mask. Bart, with his yellow skin and spiky hair, is in his classic red shirt and blue shorts, holding a piece of chalk. On the left side of the chalkboard, the sentence "CORONAVIRUS IS AIRBORNE" is repeated ten times in white, handwritten lettering. Bart has a slingshot tucked into his back pocket, and a chalkboard eraser sits on the ledge below him. The entire scene is framed by a brown wooden border.
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poorly drawn cats @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
not even a single thought
a poorly drawn baby corn (the cat) with his famous flat top baby corn the cat curled in a loaf position on a light-colored bed. he has very large, round, eyes and a tiny body!
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🃏Sky🃏 @queerbluesky.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
lady wearing a shirt that has been badly edited to say "I joined BlueSky and all I got was blocked by the technical advisor who tried to cool his phone off in a pool and also this jpeg of a t-shirt"
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Monica @monicaberry.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Wow, I'm nobody on here. How did I end up on a block list? 😂
Screenshot of the Why account @why.bsky.team showing that the user has blocked me and all posts are hidden.
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Star Trek Corrected Captions @startrekcc.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Day 16 of inserting "Weird Al" Yankovic into a Star Trek screenshot #WeirdTrek #StarTrek #StarTrekVoyager #WeirdAlYankovic
In a scene from the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Live Fast and Prosper" we see a trio of imposters approaching a miner on Telsius Prime. From right to left, there is an alien named Mobar impersonating Tuvok, an alien named Dala impersonating Captain Janeway, and an alien named Daniel Radcliffe impersonating "Weird Al" Yankovic (with his Hawaiian shirt wide open exposing his hairy chest and a necklace with five platinum records on it).
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Monica @monicaberry.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Still struggling over here.
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Monica @monicaberry.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Come build with us!
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Aaron Alexovich @aaronalexovich.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Thank you for doing this! My new graphic novel is about a monster kid and her human pal humiliating some giant, pink-faced authoritarian jerks over and over again. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/711869...
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Shock City Punks: A Graphic Novel by Aaron Alexovich: 9780593528259 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
The follow-up to the Tim-Burton-esque middle grade graphic novel that Max Brallier calls “Equal parts nightmarish and outrageously funny!" Milo and Sunny may have saved Shock City and its citizens...
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I 💙 Dogs @dogs100.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Happy CaturHorseDay
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Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) @autisticadvocacy.org · 02/04/2026
Very little money donated to Autism Speaks goes toward helping autistic people and families. This #AutismAcceptanceMonth, considering supporting groups by and for autistic people! autisticadvocacy.org/considerthef...
White background. There’s a blue puzzle piece with an orange circle crossing it out. Text reads: Before you donate to Autism Speaks, Consider the facts. 
White background. Text reads: Very little money donated to Autism Speaks goes toward helping autistic people and families. Only 1/10 of 1% of Autism Speaks’ budget goes towards the “Family Service” grants that are the organization’s means of funding services. Autism Speaks spent more than 188x as much on fundraising. They spent 16x as much on Facebook/ Instagram ads alone. Although Autism Speaks has not prioritized services with a practical impact for families and individuals in its budget, its rates of executive pay are the highest in the autism world: some salaries exceed $415,000 a year.
Autism Speaks talks about us without us. Autism Speaks has only 2 autistic people out of a total of 27 individuals on its Board of Directors. By contrast, 16 out of 27 board members represent major corporations, including current and former CEOs and senior executives of AutoZone, Goldman Sachs, SoundCloud, White Castle, MasterCard, and S.C. Johnson & Johnson.
White background. Text at the top reads: Autism Speaks’ Budget. Source: Autism Speaks 990 Non-Profit Tax Exemption Form, 2024* There’s a pie chart with the following sections: 49.4% “Awareness” & Lobbying, 22% Fundraising, 19.4% Research, 9.1% Misc., and 0.1% Family Services. Text at the bottom reads: *“Awareness & Lobbying” figure derived from reported program service expenses on Part III, 4a & 4c less the total amount awarded in family service grants (“Family Services”) and misclassified research grants as reported in Part III, Line 4A; “Research” figure derived from reported program service expenses in Part III, 4b plus the misclassified research grant amount; “Fundraising” figure derived from reported expenses, line 25(D) in Part IX. Blue background with white text that reads: Instead, donate to organizations
that help autistic people:
Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) provides support, community, and public policy advocacy, by and for people on the autism spectrum.
autisticadvocacy.org
Autistic Women and Nonbinary Network (AWN) seeks to share information which works to build
acceptance and understanding of disability, while dispelling stereotypes and misinformation which perpetuate unnecessary fears surrounding an autism diagnosis.
awnnetwork.org
Self Advocates Becoming Empowered (SABE) works to ensure that people with disabilities are treated as equals and are given the same decisions, choices, rights, responsibilities, and chance to speak up to empower themselves as everyone else.
sabeusa.org
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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
"I believe in a future in which trans people aren't forced to live in fear, shame and secrecy." My strip for TDOV.
4 frame comic. first frame shows a swimmer with a one piece bathing suit. 2nd frame shows an enthusiastic kid with a shirt written waterpolo on it. 3rd shows a man with a shirt that reads "someone I love is trans". 4th frame shows a girl with a trans flag. text reads, across the frames : 
Being visible or outspoken as a trans person will make you a target of violence and hatred. but it will also show every other trans person that it's possible to exist in their space. visibility empowers and changes heart. I believe in a future in which trans people aren't forced to live in fear, shame and secrecy.
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