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@pinkfoid.bsky.social
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political theorist, grad student, photographer she/they

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
this is a crazy thing for a top official *OVERSEEING COUNTERTERRORISM STRATEGY* to say!
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rhea @pinkfoid.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
KPI? Dont you mean Katie Performance Indicator?
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rhea @pinkfoid.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Two astronauts are looking at earth from space. One exclaims, “wait it’s all freud?!?” the other, gun to their fellow explorer of the cosmos’s head coldly replies, “always has been”
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 14/07/2026
Magdalene Visaggio was once in seminary, training to become a Catholic priest. Now she's a snarky online trans girl like the rest of us. In a challenging new essay for Assigned, she writes about the toll being hated for who she is has taken on her psyche. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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I Am Not Sorry Lindsey Graham is Dead - Assigned Media
How a decade of hate made me a worse person
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 02/06/2026
This is great, because I've been meaning to discuss the various fallacies and pitfalls that come with lumping together these things cis people do with trans healthcare and calling it all "gender-affirming". Starting with the idea that "it's okay when cis people do it but not trans people".
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rhea @pinkfoid.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Just turned 24 and i can already feel my frontal lobe developing to its maximum potential, ill be unstoppable next year for sure 🎉🎉🎉
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rhea @pinkfoid.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
it’s so horrible, like i think it was just a couple months ago when a driver hit a cyclist and then literally careened off the road into the 99 ranch across from my apartment and killed 3 people inside. there was maybe a bit of local media coverage and then bam it’s like no one remembers
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rhea @pinkfoid.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
happy birthday!
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rhea @pinkfoid.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
to wrap it up, i argued that if the many self-described liberals in the world want to actually commit to their own ideas, they are obliged to fight for trans childrens rights and recognize that children have autonomy that needs to be respected. otherwise your principles are incoherent/hollow 12/12
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rhea @pinkfoid.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
if children are not also allowed to have their own autonomous experiments in living, including but not limited to transitioning, then any society claiming Liberalism as a guiding theoretical framework has failed. 11/12
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rhea @pinkfoid.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Yet there are passages in "On Liberty" where Mill makes analogies using children as examples as to why society/governments might sometimes need to intervene in expression/liberty. this to me is inherently contradictory to his own argument, as a society cannot flourish long if it squashes kids 10/12
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rhea @pinkfoid.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
One of Mill's guiding beliefs is that "Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing." 9/12
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rhea @pinkfoid.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
this notion that children are not autonomous beings with wants and desires but rather copies of their parents has a long history, as we can look back to the English legal system of coverture for its origins in the American context. Even Mill makes the mistake of not recognizing children 8/12
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rhea @pinkfoid.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
the kernel linking this all together is that both arguments ultimately come from the same place that Katie pointed out. "my child is my property and i will do what I want with them" governs the parents rights crowd in its religious origin as well as its evolved terf-ified language 7/12
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rhea @pinkfoid.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
what stood out to me with the legal battles was how the case argumentation for parents rights evolved, as it often began with attempts to contest trans children on religious grounds before evolving into bioessentialism mixed with agnostic "wont someone think of the children" wording 6/12
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rhea @pinkfoid.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
as both a policy-based and theoretical paper, I focused in on the legal struggle to protect trans children from 2015-24 and fortified it with J.S. Mill's "On Liberty" to expose that the convictions of many self-proclaimed liberals and opinion columnists are rotten to the core 5/12
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rhea @pinkfoid.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
though I am not a Liberal, I believe that in order for trans people to live their lives as they choose it is worth engaging with Liberal theory in order to show that if one does subscribe to such an ideology, there follows an imperative to support and protect trans children in particular 4/12
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rhea @pinkfoid.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
to be brief, i wrote the paper with the intent of proving why it is theoretically inconsistent to claim Liberal convictions without also supporting the rights of children. to ground the example I looked at trans children's rights and their biggest opponent, the parents rights movement. 3/12
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rhea @pinkfoid.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
worth noting that I wrote this from 2023-24 and have not really edited it since other than to cut it down for my phd writing sample, so bear with me as I summarize my argument 2/12
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rhea @pinkfoid.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
feeling extra motivated today so i’m going to make a thread going through the research i did on this very subject in undergrad! 1/12
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rhea @pinkfoid.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
trust that i will be finding a way to cite your work so that the tightpussy citation index goes up 🫡
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rhea @pinkfoid.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
this is essentially the core of what i wrote my undergraduate thesis about and what my phd will likely cover as well! i think it’s at its most blatant in your face “i own you” with trans children in particular
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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 14/04/2026
i really wish "children are people and people are not property" was not a radical opinion but unfortunately it's the central question up for debate with much of politics
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🎃 Norah “Cabin in the” Woodsey 🎃 @norahwoodsey.com · 05/04/2026
Eleanor Roosevelt’s gun permit (which she got it around the time the klan put a $25k bounty on her head). What a vibe
Eleanor Roosevelt’s new york state gun permit from August 5th 1957. She is elderly with a fur stole, listed as writer and lecturer
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francis @dilfkink.kindboys.online · 31/03/2026
i need allies to understand that a man having a cross-dressing fetish and being anti-LGBT is not hypocritical or contradictory, it is in fact very congruent. in particular, this fetish is not in contradiction with anti-trans bias, as these men predate upon trans women.
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tpwrtrdmn @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
You will need it by the end regardless, but the fact that you want to do a PhD in itself raises questions worth examining in therapy
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tpwrtrdmn @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
My advice for anyone wishing to pursue a PhD is to get a head start on therapy as an undergrad
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rhea @pinkfoid.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
some wines are actually made this way, particularly rosé champagnes where red grapes are vinified with skin contact and white grapes are also vinified w/o skin contact and the two are combined! that said it’s not the case for most rosé, which is made by vinifying red grapes with skin briefly
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rhea @pinkfoid.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
is this the way to convert america to the metric system?
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KIMBLY NOT HERE TRY VENMO @k1m.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
that’s my type
IKEA new hot dog 
Fully wa past the bun 

A half meter hot dog

Hej!
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
🚨 ICE is creating a watchlist of anyone and everyone who films them, DHS sources tell me: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-making...
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ICE Making List of Anyone Who Films Them
“We have a nice little database and now you’re considered a domestic terrorist.”
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Tess Scilipoti @scilipoti.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
dolls to watch out for
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Uncut Femmes @juliagiantrat.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
Voices from another self? Voices from *a deeper self*? Voices from... *early gender dysphoria*?
Disco Elysium dialogue between the MC and Kim Kitsuragi where the MC tries to learn more about the Transgender Experience.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 11/12/2025
what do you mean you hate black licorice? do you also hate picking at that itchy little bit of skin around your fingernail? do you also hate walking in the rain when a cold breeze cuts through you? do you also hate the feeling of knowing you've let down a loved one?
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
A very, very important peer-reviewed empirical study published in the academic journal Pediatrics shows that hormone treatment of young trans people decreases suicidality very significantly. Doubtless it will be ignored by Simonoff et al, who are not even measuring this in the “Pathways” study.
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Changes in Suicidality among Transgender Adolescents Following Hormone Therapy: An Extended Study
To examine changes in suicidality following hormone therapy (HT) among transgender and gender-diverse adolescents and young adults.A retrospective cha…
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
On this Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember the bright and courageous trans people whose lives were stolen by hatred. Their absence is felt across our city. We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.
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rhea @pinkfoid.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
i’ve been transitioning all wrong, should’ve taken a note from tiresias and just hit some snakes fucking for free srs
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 15/11/2025
WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
These are the Trump Administration’s demands on UCLA, in addition to a 1.2 billion dollar fine, as reported by the LA Times today. I must note again that the Trump Administration’s attempt to use title vi to enforce conservative agenda items is flagrantly illegal.
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• Make five years of payments — $200
million annually - and set up a $172 million fund for people with claims of civil rights violations.
• Ensure foreign students who are "anti-Western" will not be admitted.
• Pay for all costs of the settlement, including the fee for an outside monitor.
• Annually release demographic data for hires as well as students who have applied or have been admitted, broken down by "race, color, grade point average, and performance on standardized tests."
• Make a public statement declaring that transgender people's identities are no longer recognized.
• End gender-affirming care for minors at medical facilities.
• Give the government access to "all
UCLA staff, employees, facilities, documents, and data related to the agreement" not protected by attorney-client privilege.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
A joy to march in NYC Pride with the people's champ Tish James 🏳️‍🌈
Zohran and Attorney General Tish James marching together in NYC Pride.
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rhea @pinkfoid.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
therapist: the /tttt/ tesla isn’t real, it can’t hurt you. /tttt/ tesla:
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 12/02/2025
I'm both humbled and honored by @susanstryker.bsky.social 's endorsement of my work. I hope only that my work can in turn honor her contributions to our cause.
"Talia Bhatt's incisive prose is a hot knife applied to the soft butter of so much contemporary discourse around transness and feminism.  Her unabashed embrace of truly radical elements in a radical feminist tradition that is at this point half a century old gives her perspective a paradoxical freshness at a time when so many conversations on these topics feel like they've reached dead ends."

--Susan Stryker
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rhea @pinkfoid.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
deciding on phd programs based on how cool their doctoral regalia looks
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rhea @pinkfoid.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
got my first phd offer (unofficially) today and it is just barely enough to keep me from breaking down over everything going on in the world 🎉🙃🎉
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