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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

o hai did you know that the first Jew in Canada (18th c.) was a trans man? and did you know that the very brilliant @sbearbergman.bsky.social has a piece on Jacques LaFargue and many other things in his latest, which you should preorder:

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The Fresh End of a Long Thread / The First Jew in Canada

From legendary storyteller and activist S. Bear Bergman: a remarkable head-to-tail book combining a play and a long essay bridging trans history and trans futuresFor some thirty years, S. Bear Bergman ...

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I don’t like to ask people on social media to explain things I don’t recognize/understand, because I too am holding a supercomputer and can look them up myself without taking someone’s time. In this rare case, I wish I had just asked.

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Jessica BOOOOlin: Preorder Getting Hairy, out October 31! @olinj.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just watched @sbearbergman.bsky.social give a performance of The First Jew in Canada. Beautiful and moving and funny and resonant. I cried by the end.

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The First Jew in Canada - Tickets and Shows - Show - Rochester Fringe Festival

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

So uh. I just announced my new book and it’s my first narrative book in 13 years and it turns out that a medium number of people… had no idea I was trans? Anyway, whether or not this is new news to you, you should celebrate my birthday by pre-ordering one: arsenalpulp.com/Books/T/The-...

Cover of The Fresh End of a Long Thread, a book by S Bear Bergman. The cover is red, blue, and pink with a motif of a string running in and out of doors and windows, connecting them.

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Pokemon Go has joined in the trolling of Mitch McConnell, I see.

A purple aerodactyl pokemon, mouth open and wings akimbo, bearing a striking resemblance to Senator Mitch McConnell especially around the uh jaws.

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We are all trying to get over colds here and it’s chilly and raining. I do not feel this should legally be allowed.

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Kiona N. Smith @kionasmith07.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I also desperately want the answer to this question.

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Ant @antporter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This kind of question is why the Internet is still amazing at times. That and the cuneiform tablet.

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Hey, uh, is anybody a paleoecologist? My husband needs to know if Pygmy wooly mammoths might have swum out to eat kelp? Help.

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

When the cat’s away, the mice order pizza delivery and eat on the couch while watching the Hadestown proshot.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 23/08/2026

Will anyone acknowledge how revealing it is about the underpinnings of "gender critical" ideology that they're all coming out to bat for the self-described "race realist"?

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Every year as people are going back to school I think of this absolutely sensational essay by Tasbeeh Herwees about names. I think every teacher should read it, and also everyone who isn’t a teacher. I cannot recommend it enough. the-toast.net/2014/01/15/t...

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The Names They Gave Me - The Toast

Tasbeeh Herwees on her name.

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I’m right on the edge of writing an essay about what I wish someone had told Harry Jowsey about marriage on Let’s Marry Harry (as I sit here yelling at the screen like straight men yell at sports).

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

If you start trying to preach the gospel on my flight I will be leading the rest of the passengers in a round of Row, Row, Row Your Boat and I too have been practicing.

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Today I learned that Notre Dame Cathedral has held one wedding since the 2019 fire, and it was for the guy who spent 3+ years leading the carpenters fixing the roof, using 800-year-old methods down to cutting the new timbers with an ax, so now I have agreed with the pope twice in a year? Wild times.

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Nerdily, I think think this is because Mamdani’s team conducted strength-based research - they also asked people what they’d LOVE to see happen, not just what was aggravating. Then a team went and figured out which ones of them could be accomplished within the current budget and: win after win.

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Perfect timing as ever Your Grace; I just turned in my manuscript and now it’s my editor’s problem, best of luck to her.

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

From what I hear, he hired that out to femme boy tops.

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I’m sick of people acting like this is some whim of librarians or schoolteachers, to never have enough money for everything they need, like they’re blowing it all on beer and snack cakes so they can’t buy crayons in bulk. Meanwhile, you’re paying retail to make up the difference.

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

My new little hobby is that every time I see someone on social media complaining about their library being closed Sunday or having to buy 14 glue sticks I remind them that this happens when the city/town cuts the school or library budget, again, so they can give more money to police for equipment.

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Can’t believe that was 20 years ago. Phew. But I’m so glad.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Y'ALL 👀 Register for this NEW training series w/ @prisonculture.bsky.social, @snarkbat.bsky.social, Priya Parker & Graie Hagans, from Life is a Sacred Text co-sponsored by @educateusaction.bsky.social-- to get the tools, skills & vision we all need NOW. More: www.lifeisasacredtext.com/learntodo

Learn, To Do: A training series to meet this moment. Tools and tactics for collective liberation from the grassroots on up! Online for everyone! Mariame Kaba July 8! Elsa Sjunneson August 5! Priya Parker September 2! Graie Hagans October 7! Hosted by Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg! To see all the trainings and to register go to LifeIsASacredText.com/LearnToDo !

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I think people are getting meaner because life is getting harder and there’s nowhere to put it.

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Okay, dads, let’s be better than our fathers again tomorrow. (Even if you had a great dad. Every father wants his kids to do better than he did; that’s the dream, right? And if you didn’t, do it for your kids.)

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Show me a guy grilling in the parking lot of the auto parts store I have my money out before the drool starts.

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

So tired of all this “When’s veterans month? When’s mental health month?” THEY ALL EXIST. We just do a better job with ours, and that’s on queer audacity and craft supplies.

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Ah yes, the ::checks notes:: pro-life party.

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I watch this video of Lin Manuel Miranda at the Obama White House (when they had poetry, not cage fighting ::sigh::) on hard days so I can enjoy everyone’s rising excitement and delight as they all see the very fresh damp beginning of something great. youtu.be/WNFf7nMIGnE?...

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Lin-Manuel Miranda Performs at the White House Poetry Jam: (8 of 8)

YouTube video by The Obama White House

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I need the internet to know that this morning someone corrected me *incorrectly* and since it doesn’t affect anything I have chosen to let it go; please clap for my maturity, however fleeting it may prove to be.

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

If I had some funding to come to people’s homes and tell queer stories for an hour to whoever they invited, would you invite me? If so, where do you live? (I would not stay over; I’d appear and tell stories and maybe eat and then go.) What would you want to know to decide if you could host this?

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

if we're all lucky and if I've done my job right, they bloom back into feelings within you, right now, marveling at what a wild undertaking it is to tell a story.”

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Every day until this book is done, if I get 1k words written, I get to post a snippet to sustain the dopamine. Today’s: “I have leaned into the alchemy of just plain storytelling: the frank magic of hosteling my feelings into words on the page and sending them out to seek their fortunes where,”

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

What do you mean “do I like you?” I bought the fancy bread and TWO cheeses, and I turned the heat up.

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I’m not sure they’re for sale, but I will ask!

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

As state terror amps up, here's a list of actions you can take now-- a lot of resources and a list of upcoming virtual trainings on a number of topics:

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actions to take as ICE intensifies

ways to support MN and your own community

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

I’m married to the artist; he’s not on Blue Sky but he would love to send you one if you’d like it. It’s hand-set wooden type on nice paper.

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

No, but I also have a few of these? I feel like we should consider some sort of clearinghouse of free dissertation ideas people (you, me, other nerds) want to read but don’t want to write themselves.

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Your Thursday reminder that when you meet a baby you DON’T actually have to guess their gender. Just say “And who is this tiny perfect person?” Guaranteed no one will ever, ever object.

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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Right? I felt very upgraded by association.

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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Today I read a review of my new show that described it as, among other very nice compliments: “…if Spalding Gray were alive, and happy.” I’ll take that any day. gender-defiant.ghost.io/the-first-je...

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The First Jew in Canada: A Trans Tale

Three lines from this hilarious, tender solo play beamed out to me as the mom of a trans teen

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Lisa Eckstein @lisaeckstein.com · 28/10/2025

Boston friends, check out Bear's show! I was lucky enough to see it last year, and it was such a great evening of storytelling!

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wendell the sweetbitter unmanageable creature @wendellwrites.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

this is an amazing storytelling experience, i was just talking it up the other day.

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