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Rikki De La Vega

@rikkidelavega.bsky.social
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Writer of smart smut, author of "Prudery and the War on Sex" and the Free Spirits series; ally to sex work & trans communities, left-libertarian feminist

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Coryn Noble @corynnoble.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Trans myth #5 of 5 #TransRightsAreHumanRights #TransWomenAreWomen #TransMenAreMen #NonbinaryPeopleAreValid #TransAlly
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Coryn Noble @corynnoble.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Trans myth #4 of 5 #TransRightsAreHumanRights #TransWomenAreWomen #TransMenAreMen #NonbinaryPeopleAreValid #TransAlly
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Coryn Noble @corynnoble.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Trans myth #3 of 5 #TransRightsAreHumanRights #TransWomenAreWomen #TransMenAreMen #NonbinaryPeopleAreValid #TransAlly
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Coryn Noble @corynnoble.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Trans myth #2 of 5 #TransRightsAreHumanRights #TransWomenAreWomen #TransMenAreMen #NonbinaryPeopleAreValid #TransAlly
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Coryn Noble @corynnoble.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Trans myth #1 of 5 #TransRightsAreHumanRights #TransWomenAreWomen #TransMenAreMen #NonbinaryPeopleAreValid #TransAlly
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Coryn Noble @corynnoble.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In case anyone needs to know where I stand ... #TransRightsAreHumanRights #TransWomenAreWomen #TransMenAreMen #NonbinaryPeopleAreValid #TransAlly
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Coryn Noble @corynnoble.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
This is how low MAGA will go. Someone fabricates a false r*pe allegation against a progressive vlogger by stealing the identity of a 13 year old girl. www.youtube.com/watch?v=COC7...
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MAGA Tried To RUIN HIS LIFE With FAKE R*PE ALLEGATIONS!! | The Kyle Kulinski Show
YouTube video by Secular Talk
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Coryn Noble @corynnoble.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Now on YouTube! Vesper Glen featured on Sean Rourke's The Vampire's Castle. Yes, I look and sound rather stiff (due to my Moebius Syndrome) but it was a thrill to hear part of the story read aloud by another ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsA1...
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VESPER GLEN Vampire Chapter Reading - with Coryn Noble
YouTube video by The Vampire's Castle
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 18/09/2026
In a new memo, the American Principles Project, chief architect of the anti-trans ads you have seen Republicans running for years, announces that such ads "may not be sufficient" for Republicans to win in 2026. There is growing consensus these ads are failing. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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American Principles Project Warns Republicans That Targeting Trans People “May Not Be Sufficient” To Win 2026
The organization is one of the leading anti-trans political organizations in the United States.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
A teenager in North Carolina has been arrested for assault with a "deadly weapon" after taking abortion medication. @kylietcheung.bsky.social has been doing such an incredible job with these pieces on post-Dobbs criminalization
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North Carolina Teen Arrested for Using Abortion Pills As “Deadly Weapon”
The 18-year-old faces criminal charges for trying to self-manage an abortion
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Rikki De La Vega @rikkidelavega.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Grace Morrison: Hallelujah All Y'all Weirdos-at Onset Beach www.youtube.com/watch?v=7G34prztQMg&list=RD7G34prztQMg&start_radio=1
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Hallelujah All Y'all Weirdos-at Onset Beach
YouTube video by Grace Morrison
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Hemant Mehta @friendlyatheist.com · 27/07/2026
The Justice Department is supposed to defend the rights of all Americans. Instead, Todd Blanche's new “religious liberty” memo manufactures legal arguments for Christian privilege. This is what Christian Nationalism looks like as federal policy. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/the-justic...
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The Justice Dept's new “religious liberty” memo gives Christians more power to discriminate
Todd Blanche's 2026 guidance expands religious exemptions, weakens safeguards, and treats faith as a trump card over other Americans’ rights
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Rikki De La Vega @rikkidelavega.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
This reflects Victorian-era beliefs that the "exertion" of competitive sports somehow damages women's childbearing capacities ... which Christian Nationalists value more than treating women like human beings. 😡
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Rikki De La Vega @rikkidelavega.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
FYI you can find all of my smart smut on my Amazon storefront ... #writerslift #erotica #writerslife www.amazon.com/stores/autho...
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Rikki De La Vega: books, biography, latest update
Follow Rikki De La Vega and explore their bibliography from Amazon's Rikki De La Vega Author Page.
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Rikki De La Vega @rikkidelavega.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 29/04/2026
Hospitals dodge questions on restoring trans youth care despite judge ruling they can keep providing it www.advocate.com/hea... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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Hospitals dodge questions on restoring trans youth care despite judge ruling they can keep providing it
Several hospitals cut trans youth care under Trump administration pressure and still won’t say if those programs will return.
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Rikki De La Vega @rikkidelavega.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
I just published The Question (Almost) Nobody Raises in the Great Bathroom Debate medium.com/p/the-questi...
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The Question (Almost) Nobody Raises in the Great Bathroom Debate
One of the ways I pay the bills is doing medical billing and coding. Most of the time, I can do this at home; occasionally I have to go on…
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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Three Years Ago Today: @rikkidelavega.bsky.social on the "free love" movement: maggiemcneill.com/2023/03/06/g...
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Guest Columnist: Rikki de la Vega
Rikki de la Vega is a writer and activist in Boston. She has written 17 books of erotica and erotic science fiction through Sizzler Editions. Her nonfiction book Prudery and the War on Sex (from wh…
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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
This is terrifying www.advocate.com/news/crime/b...
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Many alleged suicides of Black trans women are in fact modern-day lynchings, report finds
Jill Collen Jefferson, the founder of JULIAN, explains what happens when a transgender woman’s death is ruled a suicide and a community calls it something else.
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Rikki De La Vega @rikkidelavega.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
#writerslife All of my books, re-published by @newessexhouse.bsky.social, are now back on Amazon, including the new addition to my Free Spirits series: "Andrea's Miracle"! rikkidelavega.wordpress.com/free-spirits...
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Andrea’s Miracle
Dr. Andrea Gerson, a compassionate pediatrician, has spent her life navigating the complexities of her own transition while caring for the smallest patients. After fleeing the increasingly restrict…
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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
The most confusing part
4 frame comic. Stephie is babysitting at a snowy park. A woman, sitting on the same bench as her, asks : are you that kid's sister? stephie replies : their babysitter, actually! the woman says : "their"? is it a boy or a girl? Stephie answers : we don't know yet, they haven't told us. The woman continues, upset : but won't that confuse the kid?! they must have been born as something! Stephie says : the most confusing part of it is actually the amount of strangers who feel entitled to ask whats in that kid's pants. in the last frame, Stephie stares at the woman silently while the kid's face pops up in the corner of the frame.
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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Legitimate reasons
4 frame comic. A guy with a shirt with Rando written on it tells the author : so tired of hearing the
left talk about fascism. it
feels so disrespectful to
compARE WHAT'S HAPPEning
in the u.s. to the millions of
victims of Nazi Germany.
She replies : 
you seem to think that
the death camps happened
overnight, but it was a multi-
decades long crescendo, filled
with people telling the regime
critics to stop overreacting.
by its nature, the only
moment you can call out
fascist rhetoric is before
fascism is fully up and
running. 
I'd rather
speak up early
and be wrong
than not
saying anything
and my silence
be complicit.

considering how in its
first year, this u.s. admin has
already caused 625k+ public man-
made deaths* by terminating
USAID progams and disappeared
thousands of migrants, I'd say
their contempt for human life
should give anyone legitimate
reasons to be worried.
Source :
*impactcounter.com, by Boston u.
researcher Brooke nichols
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 01/11/2025
WHAT DO YOU THINK WE'VE BEEN TRYING TO TELL YOU???!!!
Alt text: A post on X by Brianna Wu reads: “Trans sisters. I’m pretty sure I was wrong. I am sorry. I genuinely thought that as a trans woman, if I ceded some points with the gender critical crowd we could have a healthier conversation and arrive at better public policy. The problem is, they are getting crazier and more extreme. If you admit ‘trans women don’t belong in women’s sports,’ they agree, but call you a man the whole time. If you admit, ‘I understand I am a biological man, but this is how I want to live my life and talking about me like this is degrading,’ they scream about free speech. If you admit that hurtful language is part of free speech but you don’t have to associate with people that degrade you, they act like the victim and call you a man and then say you should be thrown in an insane asylum. It’s like this on everything. They are incapable of looking for a middle ground on bathrooms. They want maximalist policies on everything. They’d throw a fully transitioned, fully passing trans woman in male prison genpop and laugh as she got aids from being raped. I want a middle ground on so many of these policies. BUT THE FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM IS THEY DO NOT. They enjoy degrading us, it’s fun for them. So, sisters. I genuinely don’t know what to do. I think many of our most extreme ideas are bad. But theirs are worse. So if I have to pick, I choose us. I wish there were a political vehicle for compromise and medical safeguarding. But that just simply does not exist.” The post timestamp reads 6:52 AM, Nov 1, 2025, with 39.6K views.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
I have a very bad feeling about this...
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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
"What does antifa do?" My personal experience with antifa.
4 frame comic. 1st frame shows the silhouette of a protest. text reads : 
anti-fascism isn't just about
wearing cool scarves and ski
goggles. when terfs* announced
that they were organizing a
protest at a library I was
speaking at, they showed up and
outnumbered the terfs.
2nd frame shows the silhouette of someone at a computer. text reads :
it's antifa geeks
monitoring alt-right online
groups who told me that they
found my address, 8 years ago.
I could get to safety and make
sure nothing happened,
thanks to them.
3rd frame shows the antifa logo. text reads :
it's an undercover
antifa who told me Proud
boys were planning to crash
a library talk I was giving.
they still did it, but we could
prepare accordingly and the
talk went as planned.
4th frame shows a protest with a "good night white pride" banner. text reads : 
it's a whole squad of anti-
fascists who showed up to keep
a neo-nazi group at bay from
a family event I was speaking at.
they stayed until the end to
accompany participants to their
car or all the way to their
home. the police was aware of
the threat but didn't do sh*t.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 14/10/2025
Rest in peace, Miss Major. We will carry the bricks forward.
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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Who is Carl Schmitt, the authoritarian political theorist that the New Right and the Neocons are obsessed with?
before being the obsession of
peter thiel and every favourite
podcaster of your incel cousin,
schmitt was the jurist who
came up with the theoretical
legal foundation for the
nazi party's power grab and
subsequent atrocities.
he wrote: "sovereign is he who
decides on the exception." he
believed that constitutional
democracies were facades for
the total power of the execu-
tive, since the legislative was
powerless during exceptional
times.
schmitt also wrote about
the friend-enemy distinction,
which he saw as the basis of
the politic. people are sorted
into groups, either with you or
against you, in a struggle for
survival. big incel vibes, I know.
in his view, liberalism
challenged that "natural order"
by restricting the power of
the executive and by easing
the distinctions with enemy
groups, which he thought led
to social paralysis and
racial decay.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 22/09/2025
Under pressure from Texas government officials, Angelo State University in Texas is banning all discussion or mention of the existence of trans people along with banning the LGBTQ pride flag from campus and forced misgendering of trans people. conchoobserver.com/2025/09/19/a...
Alt text: Screenshot of a document outlining a new university policy. The bullet points state:

No discussion of transgender topics or anything suggesting more than two genders.

All information in syllabi about transgender topics must be removed.

Instructors must use students’ given names, not preferred names.

Safe-space stickers, LGBTQ flags, etc. are banned and must be removed.

Employees must remove pronouns from email signatures.

The university will not support faculty who teach or discuss these topics in class.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
OLIVER: “In Russia, when Putin rose to power, TV satirists were among his first targets… Putin was driven to madness by how he was mocked on a puppet show… the lesson is it’s not safe to let one show slide because there are currently others.”
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 22/09/2025
This isn't about antifa, this is about the NGO's. The goal here is to eliminate philanthropic support to major liberal groups through intimidation. They're going to starve liberal groups of funding while hitting them with millions in legal fees from investigations. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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Trump to sign order designating antifa a terrorist organization
U.S. President Donald Trump will sign an executive order as soon as Monday designating the antifa movement a "terrorist organization," the White House said, after promising actions targeting left-wing groups following Charlie Kirk's assassination.
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Coryn Noble @corynnoble.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
This Wednesday 9/24 I'll be joining @danklefstad.bsky.social and Eva Vertrice on their #vampchat podcast to talk about my novel "Vesper Glen" ... vampchatwithdanandeva.podbean.com
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Rikki De La Vega @rikkidelavega.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Proud to live in a city where hospitals care enough about patients to stand up to bigotry & bullying!!
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
It has come to my attention that many of you have been sharing this photo of Streeting and Mandelson widely. Please remember that Wes Streeting does not like it being shared widely. So please do not share it widely and on every possible occasion. We wouldn’t want to upset him would we?
Mandelson and Streeting
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 13/09/2025
The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social "There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”
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Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning
The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division
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Rikki De La Vega @rikkidelavega.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
If you had any doubt about the anti-trans movement being fascist & genocidal ... READ THIS!!!
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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 18/07/2025
New Hampshire’s Republican Governor Kelly Ayotte vetoed several high-profile bills this week that would have negatively affected LGBTQ residents, especially transgender people and students. gomag.com/article/ne... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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New Hampshire’s Republican Governor Vetoes Her Own Party's Anti-LGBTQ Bills - GO Magazine
Governor Kelly Ayotte defied GOP lawmakers by rejecting legislation targeting transgender rights, LGBTQ books, and student privacy.
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Rikki De La Vega @rikkidelavega.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Narrator of “Harry Potter” audiobooks calls transphobic JK Rowling “a lost cause” www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/06/narr...
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Narrator of "Harry Potter" audiobooks calls transphobic JK Rowling "a lost cause" - LGBTQ Nation
“She has been radicalised, I fear," renowned gay actor Stephen Fry said of the children's author.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
The New York Times covers trans issues the way Fox News covers ICE protests. Both lead the country to believe there is a conflagration by highlighting a few fires over and over, while ignoring the fact that most people just want to live their lives without the government in their faces.
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Rikki De La Vega @rikkidelavega.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
The first five of my Free Spirits books have just been re-released on Amazon!!
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 29/05/2025
More on how this will likely play out: bsky.app/profile/eric...
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 29/05/2025
I have a huge request for my readers: Trump's tax and spending bill will be moving through the Senate. Senators can invoke the Byrd Rule to try to remove the anti-trans Medicaid ban and EHB changes. You can find and call your senator here and ask them to do that. Please share as well.
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U.S. Senate: Contacting U.S. Senators
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Rikki De La Vega @rikkidelavega.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Maine wins major court victory about trans rights against president - LGBTQ Nation www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/05/main...
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Maine wins major court victory about trans rights against president - LGBTQ Nation
Maine's governor told the president she'd see him in court. And she just won.
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Claire Mitchell @clairemitchell.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Have signed, and if you're a writer of theatre, film, TV, radio, prose, poetry, comedy, or journalism based in the UK, you can too - docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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An Open Letter of Solidarity With the Trans Community from UK Writers
The UK Supreme Court ruling of 17th April 2025 was the result of a coordinated and privately funded attack on the human rights and dignity of trans and non-binary people in the UK. We call upon our in...
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Jenny Maguire @jennymaguire.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
If my rights as a trans woman are able to be removed in an instant, yours can too In today’s independent: m.independent.ie/opinion/comm...
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Rikki De La Vega @rikkidelavega.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
#writerslift I recently read an Advance Review Copy of this book & gave it 5 stars on Goodreads ... CHECK IT OUT!!
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Coryn Noble @corynnoble.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
My vampire novel "Vesper Glen" is now available as an ebook thru Amazon Kindle, as well as Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, and many other ebook retailers ... and coming out soon as paperback! www.amazon.com/dp/B0F5NT7B3D/
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Vesper Glen
Vesper Glen - Kindle edition by Noble, Coryn. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Vesper Glen.
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Rikki De La Vega @rikkidelavega.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
UPDATE: @elierlick.bsky.social has recently revealed that Stephanie Turner - the anti-trans fencer who refused to compete against a trans opponent for being "a man" - in fact competed against & beat several cis men in a tournament a week before. bsky.app/profile/elie...
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Rikki De La Vega @rikkidelavega.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
My latest missive on Medium, addressing the dubious actions of an anti-trans fencer ... My latest missive on Medium, dealing with an anti-trans protest in fencing. medium.com/@rikkidelave...
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A Riposte to Stephanie Turner
Why a fencer forfeited a bout against a transgender competitor — and why it exposes the lunacy of anti-trans politics.
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Coryn Noble @corynnoble.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
They do not want to "protect children" ... They don't care about that ... They want to impose conformity, no matter who gets hurt.
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Rikki De La Vega @rikkidelavega.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
#writerslift Three of my books have now been re-released by New Essex Media on Amazon!! #1 ~ "Even the Stars Shall Rejoice" ~ erotic sci-fi in the rollicking taboo-breaking tradition of Theodore Sturgeon & Robert Heinlein!! www.amazon.com/dp/B0DY59WWY8/
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Even the Stars Shall Rejoice
Even the Stars Shall Rejoice - Kindle edition by De La Vega, Rikki. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Even the Stars Shall Rejoice.
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