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She/her. achewood person. the move to bluesky will entail considerably less yelling at brands. It takes a smart girl to be this dumb.

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Lo, how a Maddie Rose e'er blooming 🏳️‍⚧️ @ogtolkienista.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
kittysneezes.com/made-whole/ Reposting my piece now that it is live "Transition is a sacrament. Transgender people are bottomlessly, deeply, undeniably sacred."
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Made Whole
Transition is a sacrament. Transgender people are deeply, undeniably sacred, and medical care is a way in which we experience the visible signs of the irresistible grace resting within our hearts.
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Lo, how a Maddie Rose e'er blooming 🏳️‍⚧️ @ogtolkienista.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I wrote this under a pseudonym. I'm not trying to be wholly anonymous, just to limit what parts of my personal life and story pop up immediately when you google my name. It goes live tomorrow. Of all the things in my life I've written to date, this is the one that I think is the most important.
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Matt Keeley, or the discovery of television among the bees @kittysneezes.com · 26/08/2026
New on Patreon www.patreon.com/ritegud/post... Made Whole by Rebecca Rose, an essay about transition, gender, religion, and more. (Live on the site on Thursday!)
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Made Whole by Rebecca Rose | Kittysneezes
Made Whole by Rebecca Rose by Kittysneezes on Patreon. Join Kittysneezes's community for exclusive content and updates.
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Lo, how a Maddie Rose e'er blooming 🏳️‍⚧️ @ogtolkienista.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I wrote another thing! A response to Matthew Vines's recent NYT piece. www.christiancitizen.us/articles/vin...
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Vines and the queer Christians: The calling we choose — Christian Citizen
With all these things, we love the Lord. And with all these things, we love ourselves. And with all these things, we love our neighbors; queer, gay, trans, and anything else. And we honor the choices ...
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Matt Keeley, or the discovery of television among the bees @kittysneezes.com · 03/07/2026
New at Kittysneezes! @ogtolkienista.bsky.social takes a look at the conservative arguments abut trans people in sports—and finds that it's devolved from a sharing of toothless faux-sympathy to just straight up bigotry. kittysneezes.com/trans-sports...
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Shifting the Goalposts: What Conservatives Say About Trans Sports When They Don’t Have to Hide
The argument that the right formerly proposed for trans women in sports had the form of a toothless confession of sympathy, followed by an appeal to fairness.
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Lo, how a Maddie Rose e'er blooming 🏳️‍⚧️ @ogtolkienista.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Hi! I wrote a thing
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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Los Angeles, CA - Bit of a false alarm; crowd isn’t marching yet though they are assembled in the street currently. Making speeches still.
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Lo, how a Maddie Rose e'er blooming 🏳️‍⚧️ @ogtolkienista.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Medically Blonde, a new movie where Elle Woods's trans bestie Maddie manipulates the medical system into actually giving her medical advice by pretending to be stupid.
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Lo, how a Maddie Rose e'er blooming 🏳️‍⚧️ @ogtolkienista.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Woke up this morning to a resounding crash and this was all in the floor. We're lucky nobody was working in the kitchen at the time.
A bunch of bottles smashed up on the kitchen floor with lots of glass and mess everywhere
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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 15/09/2025
as a member of the radical transgender terrorist movement, i will now close my september weekend by drinking trader joe’s fall harvest tea & eating a tiny pumpkin pie with my wife as we watch the great british bake off. you know, just like [checks gop talking points] al qaeda. worse than, really.
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Lo, how a Maddie Rose e'er blooming 🏳️‍⚧️ @ogtolkienista.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Looking for advice on how to be a Christian transfem writer holding down a day job and struggling with organization and focus in the era of dopamine boxes that we all keep in our pocketbooks
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Lo, how a Maddie Rose e'er blooming 🏳️‍⚧️ @ogtolkienista.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
check out my new piece about the very normal transfem dream of being a tradwife www.christiancitizen.us/articles/far...
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‘Far more precious than jewels’: A trans woman’s ordinary dream — Christian Citizen
My ordinary dream is a radical dream for a trans woman. And since Pride is a celebration that makes space for radical dreams, it also creates space for the ordinary ones.
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Lo, how a Maddie Rose e'er blooming 🏳️‍⚧️ @ogtolkienista.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
I just saw an ad for a fish and cheddar sandwich and it cemented my ideological commitment to communism
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
This probably isn’t the developers’ top priority (although it should be), but I’d love to see the Bluesky app have an option to switch to the Julian calendar for those of us who reject the lies of Pope Gregory XIII
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/01/2025
i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I am nonbinary. The gender that no longer officially exists in the United States. I was offered the chance to change my gender designation to "X" on my passport and driver's license in 2023. I decided not to and here's why.
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If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
As an Indian, as someone who lived in Egypt, and who has, modestly, remained committed to my politics despite that, here are my rules for living under fascist regimes: 1) Focus on organizational structure. 1/
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Lo, how a Maddie Rose e'er blooming 🏳️‍⚧️ @ogtolkienista.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Porn bots, stop following me. I'm just gonna block you. Creepy weirdos.
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Lo, how a Maddie Rose e'er blooming 🏳️‍⚧️ @ogtolkienista.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
I had a special conversation tonight with someone I used to love as a lover and now love as a friend. It was healing to me in critical ways, after a week of some difficult things. I was able to talk with him and share with him and he helped me find perspective and we played cards together. (1/x)
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May “Bunny” Peterson 🦄 @goddessblade.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
This is something that’s become very important to me and I hope to see positive development about this. My sense is that both “camps” here have a lot of fear about rejection and judgment from the other side and that makes it feel like this mythical divide might be real
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
DO THE RIGHT THING is notable for examining and exposing an anticipated comfortable audience. "Sometimes when people talk about art, the art starts talking about them." My Review: www.the-reframe.com/always-do-th...
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Always Do The Right Thing
Art that critiques its critics, cowardly pacifisms, and the violence that makes so many of us feel safe.
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Lo, how a Maddie Rose e'er blooming 🏳️‍⚧️ @ogtolkienista.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Recent unexpected euphoria: couldn't fit into a space I used to be able to shimmy into (at least to the mid torso) because my boobs have become honkin bazongas
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Rachel Pollack's 1995 TransSisters interview reads like it came out yesterday
To describe transsexual people as dupes of the medical
profession, or slaves to social conditioning, or trapped in rigid
ideas about gender roles, is precisely to take away our power, a
power so intense that it terrifies people. Sometimes we can see
the question in their faces. "What would make someone do — or
want to do -- such a thing?” And because the dual acts of
changing gender and altering the body frighten them they try to
think of an explanation. "He must hate himself so much." "She
can't accept the role society has given her.” "Her parents must
have abused her.” Each of these statements, and all the others,
assume that the transsexual man or woman doesn't really know
what he or she is doing. And more, they shift the focus from
transsexuality itself to some external concept or ideology. All
explanations, even friendly ones, drain away the passion of the
experience.
It is ti
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 22/11/2024
With trans panic everywhere these days, resurfacing my tribute to my Aunt Rachel Pollack, who I only learned later in life was trans and a hero to many other people theracket.news/p/my-aunt-ra...
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My Aunt Rachel
1945–2023
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Rep. Leigh Finke @leighfinke.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Friends, we do not have time for lateral violence. There is an emergency facing trans people and we need each other. I know Sarah McBride. Sarah my friend. I see in her a powerful voice in the most hostile circumstances imaginable, a Republican trifecta led by an authoritarian madman...
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Lo, how a Maddie Rose e'er blooming 🏳️‍⚧️ @ogtolkienista.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Instead of spending our time attacking Sarah McBride, let's talk about the vast majority of Democratic lawmakers who have done nothing to protect her. Stonewall riots succeed because there are COLLECTIVES there, not single heroic individuals. Stop denying McBride her backup when she needs it most.
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Lo, how a Maddie Rose e'er blooming 🏳️‍⚧️ @ogtolkienista.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I'd like McBride to throw a brick at Mike Johnson too, but I'm far less confident than some that this will accomplish anything other than feeling self-satisfied as I'm being escorted to a men's prison for walking down the street. I will never decide what resistance has to look like for other people.
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Lo, how a Maddie Rose e'er blooming 🏳️‍⚧️ @ogtolkienista.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Dear friend @wamiq.bsky.social posted this recently and it sat on me in a way that made me feel awful. Finally resolved for myself what bothers me about it as I watch many of my friends ripping into Sarah McBride.
A post image that says "another curmudgeonly thread for the many of you who will be entering organizing spaces.

All other things being equal, when confronted by one team of people recruiting you to Be a Thing and another team recruiting you to Do a Thing, please give serious thought to joining the second."
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Lo, how a Maddie Rose e'er blooming 🏳️‍⚧️ @ogtolkienista.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I don't understand the pressures Sarah McBride must be under. I sympathize with folks wanting her to be more forceful. But I also remember the number of times I've been lectured not to debate tactics when someone is promoting a more aggressive solution than I prefer.
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Lo, how a Maddie Rose e'er blooming 🏳️‍⚧️ @ogtolkienista.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
The true reason behind banning transgender women from women's restrooms is not the protection or care of women. It is ensuring a permanent category of women who will be perpetually subject to the threat of male assault and violence.
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⳽ⳑⲇⳕⲛⲉ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 19/11/2024
trans ppl flee’ing twitter to get away from terfs should serve as evidence that we mean it when we say we just wanna be left alone. terfs organising to come over here and harass us should serve as evidence that they are aggressive and predatory abusers.
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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Yes, I’ve written some about this. It’s really troubling. And you’re quite correct about the way they twist “human dignity” under so-called natural law theology religiondispatches.org/us-catholic-...
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US Catholic Bishops Jump on Anti-Trans Bandwagon With Gratuitous Vote to Amend Healthcare Directives
In recent years, the market share of Catholic hospitals—which unconscionably restrict healthcare options for all patients in accordance with Catholic dogma, which many patients don’t share—has grown t...
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
If they can do this to a member of Congress, they can do this to anyone.
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Lo, how a Maddie Rose e'er blooming 🏳️‍⚧️ @ogtolkienista.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I know @jaedarising.bsky.social and don't know @floralashes.bsky.social but from reading the latter's posts and such about trans rabbinics I think I can safely say that an introduction should be made between you two.
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Lo, how a Maddie Rose e'er blooming 🏳️‍⚧️ @ogtolkienista.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I went to Sidetrack in Chicago. It was my first time in a space like this that I had been told was a space that would be for me. But I felt wrong. Turns out it was because I was actually not gay: I am a woman. I can be there now with perfect precision and poise; all it takes is authenticity.
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Jaclyn Friedman @jaclynf.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Heads up everyone - this means they hate how well the blocklists work, which is amazing. But also time to be discerning about which lists you subscribe to.
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Lo, how a Maddie Rose e'er blooming 🏳️‍⚧️ @ogtolkienista.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
t4t vibes
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Hannah Who @notablyuncool.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
To those trying to make an argument about the whole “echo chamber” thing: In real life, I surround myself with people I enjoy spending time with and who don’t yell at me and argue every little thing and even about my very existence. So why would I do anything different here?
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Lo, how a Maddie Rose e'er blooming 🏳️‍⚧️ @ogtolkienista.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
New top surgery just dropped
An advertisement for a geometric cloth contraption placed over a light source on the ceiling to diffuse the light, with the caption "magnetic boob light solution!"
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Lo, how a Maddie Rose e'er blooming 🏳️‍⚧️ @ogtolkienista.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Oh no oh no. It's not even Thanksgiving and Messiah is playing in my home. The season creeps earlier and earlier into my heart!
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 17/11/2024
He isn’t walking it back. Note what he says: “start with,” “begin there.” They’re going to start by rounding up cases who it will be hard for liberals, the media, etc, to defend. Then they’ll start testing to see how far they can go.
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Lo, how a Maddie Rose e'er blooming 🏳️‍⚧️ @ogtolkienista.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
At the urging of @einsofasectional.bsky.social today I came up with a Sindarin phrase for "heavy handed metaphor." I present "Laerlung maethagaug," or "ponderous poem, handled clumsily."
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Lo, how a Maddie Rose e'er blooming 🏳️‍⚧️ @ogtolkienista.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
My friends came over and continued my sewing lessons. Should have a new circle skirt by tomorrow!
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Mx Maddison Stoff @thedescenters.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
wanna know why we don't do chromosomal testing on everybody in the first place? it's because the rates of chromosomal variation on otherwise cis-appearing people turned out to be inconveniently high. so not only is this policy expensive and ridiculous? it won't have the outcome they expect either.
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Lo, how a Maddie Rose e'er blooming 🏳️‍⚧️ @ogtolkienista.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I said like 2 funny things on here yesterday. Worried I've peaked.
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Lo, how a Maddie Rose e'er blooming 🏳️‍⚧️ @ogtolkienista.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Upper lip electrolysis today, every time I do this they should give me a parade. Key to the city. Gift certificate to Chili's. Instead all I get is insurance paperwork I later have to call someone about to complain.
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museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Invalid Handel
Upside-down portrait of the composer Handel.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
This might be sort of a scattered thread, but I want to write a little about where my thinking is currently, the sort of work I'm doing, and the rough direction I'm taking Assigned Media.
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