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Eric Stanley

@stillhere415.bsky.social
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Author of Atmospheres of Violence, coeditor of Trap Door and Captive Genders. SF.CA

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AK Press @akpress.org · 16/09/2026
"We don’t go from being alone to being suddenly part of mass movements instantaneously. What we do is we find the people around us with whom we can build, and we slowly get to it." — @withmovements.bsky.social in an interview about his forthcoming book, 𝘍𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘏𝘢𝘶𝘭 mediacoop.ca/node/119372
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How to Stay in the Fight for a Better World, with Chris Dixon
In this difficult political moment, many of us are asking serious questions about how to get and stay involved in struggles for social justice and collective liberation. In his new book, For the Long ...
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.
But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.

Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened.

Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other
stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

Ed was in …What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me.

And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.

I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed.
Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation.

When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic:
لا شكر على واجب
"La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty.
That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human.

Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026
To ppl suggesting Stanford as an "independent Anthropic & OpenAI auditor" “The membrane between academia and industry...is practically nonexistent at Stanford, a school so entangled with tech that it can be hard to tell where the university ends and the businesses begin” nymag.com/intelligence...
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You Are Not a Parrot
And a chatbot is not a human. And a linguist named Emily M. Bender is very worried what will happen when we forget this.
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Firestorm Books @firestorm.coop · 03/09/2026
The Redstockings Women's Liberation Archives for Action has a collection of documents on Gloria Steinem's work for the CIA, including materials that Steinem succeeded in suppressing prior to publication by Random House in 1979. static1.squarespace.com/static/679fd...
A scan of a 1979 Village Voice article titled "Random Action: Whatever Happened to Feminist Revolution?". The article is by Nancy Borman and features photos of Gloria Steinem and Redstockings member Kathy Sarachild.
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Sad Francisco @sadfrancisco.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
San Francisco lets Lime & Spin e-scooters be strewn around the sidewalks but cops spend tons of resources enforcing the Sit/Lie ordinance on ppl who can’t afford $4K/mo for an apartment. Manissa Maharawal on ‘Anti-Eviction: The Fight against Tech-Led Gentrification in San Francisco’ on the new pod
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Stacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The American Historical Association hired a lobbying firm to help silence member advocacy on Palestine. In this essay, Adam Rzepka covers @historians.org's relationship w/ Thorn Run Partners, its deep ethical conflicts, & the advocacy crisis AHA has thrust upon us. www.chronicle.com/article/a-sc...
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Opinion | A Scholarly Association’s Secret Washington Playbook
Did the American Historical Association ask a corporate lobbying firm for advice on how to silence its members?
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 26/08/2026
A new exhibition at Poster House traces how graphic designers — many of whom were themselves affected — wrestled AIDS into the hearts and minds of America.
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How AIDS Activists Turned Graphic Design Into a Weapon
In the 1980s, a band of fed-up young men wheat-pasted New York with graphically stark flyers, posters, and stickers, demanding action.
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Eric Stanley @stillhere415.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Oh no!
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Truthout @truthout.org · 24/08/2026
Trump’s 50% tariffs on $20 billion in Canadian imports have triggered Canada’s planned dollar-for-dollar retaliation, escalating a trade war expected to raise costs and threaten workers in exposed industries on both sides.
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Workers Stand to Lose the Most in Trump’s New Tariff War on Canada
The US put 50 percent tariffs on around $20 billion worth of imports from Canada, which announced retaliatory tariffs.
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48 Hills @48hills.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
With correct low-end pressure intact, Black Rave Culture's tracks like “Geekin’ are full of dreamlike rizz and kick drum bass love. They star in this week's #UnderTheStars @padlife.bsky.social
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Under the Stars: Black Rave Culture locks in for the groove corrective - 48 hills
Plus: Cindy Blackman Santana bangs out the vibes, Pearl & the Oysters open their 'Monkey Mind,' Club DeLuxe reopens, more music
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Just 10 billionaires have already poured nearly $670 MILLION into this year's midterms. In the entire 2008 presidential cycle, the last election before Citizens United, total billionaire spending was $16 million. If you're wondering what the real threat to "election integrity" is, it's Big Money.
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Eric Stanley @stillhere415.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
You can’t change institutions but they can’t not change you.
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Eric Stanley @stillhere415.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
LA, Homotopia is having its 20th year anniversary screening along with its younger sister Criminal Queers on September 12th. www.h-r.la/event/crimin...
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Homotopia & Criminal Queers
20th anniversary screening of Homotopia (2006) with its sequel Criminal Queers (2015) directed by Eric A. Stanley & Chris E. Vargas Post-screening discussion with the directors and Silky Shah, author ...
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K R @kringelberg.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
if you are lucky enough to live in L.A., please go for all of the rest of us!
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Red @redpainter1.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I really hope the AI bubble bursts and all these data centers turn into empty shells and these rich techbros lose millions/billions
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Truthout @truthout.org · 18/08/2026
Last week, Trump’s DOJ announced a new grant program of $300 million to be split between up to four cities, to back aggressive surges in policing modeled on the Memphis Safe Task Force, an invasion of National Guard troops and federal forces that has left our city reeling.
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We’ve Spent a Year Fighting a Federal Assault on Memphis. Your City May Be Next.
Trump’s Department of Justice has introduced a program to bring Memphis-style policing surges to other cities.
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Eric Stanley @stillhere415.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
LA, Homotopia is having its 20th year anniversary screening along with its younger sister Criminal Queers on September 12th. www.h-r.la/event/crimin...
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Homotopia & Criminal Queers
20th anniversary screening of Homotopia (2006) with its sequel Criminal Queers (2015) directed by Eric A. Stanley & Chris E. Vargas Post-screening discussion with the directors and Silky Shah, author ...
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Sad Francisco @sadfrancisco.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Lots of Daniel Lurie’s SFPD officers make $800,000+ a year but their greed knows no bounds so they’re eyeing the affordable housing budget
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Truthout @truthout.org · 14/08/2026
Compton’s uprising predates Stonewall, and so many other notable milestones in LGBTQIA+ history, but it has received significantly less recognition. Now organizers are fighting to reclaim the site from GEO Group.
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Historic Site of Queer Resistance to Cops Is Now Owned by Private Prison Firm
Organizers in San Francisco are fighting to reclaim Gene Compton’s Cafeteria from GEO Group.
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The Provost / سيدة الفتنة @msentropy.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This is one of my all-time favorite episodes of Posting Through It with @jaredlholt.bsky.social & @michaelehayden.bsky.social (featuring @socialistdogmom.bsky.social)— for many reasons, including: 1/3 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1...
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126: Who the Hell is Andy Ngo? feat. Molly Conger
Podcast Episode · Posting Through It · July 27 · 3h 1m
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AK Press @akpress.org · 11/08/2026
"As a Panther, and as someone who went underground as an urban guerrilla, I have put my life on the line. I have watched my comrades die and spent most of my adult life in prison. But I still believe that we can win." —Ashanti Alston, 𝘈𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘗𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘞𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪 𝘖. 𝘈𝘭𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘯
A photo of the cover of Anarchist Panther: The Selected Writings of Ashanti O. Alston, centered over a rug with floral deep purple and blue tones. "Anarchist Panther" is in sharp, slightly right diagonal upward orange text, almost like a comic book, and stands out on top of the green - black photo portrait of Ashanti. A scan of a black and white collaged page from one of Ashanti Alston's zines he made in the '90s. There are two columns of photobooth photos of Ashanti with a drawing of a black panther in a cage between them. Below them is a narrow grey portait rectangular column that reads (in Western-style font) "ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE!"
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Truthout @truthout.org · 10/08/2026
Hundreds of local police departments are preparing to deploy autonomous, AI-driven surveillance drones. The drones are capable of following a single vehicle across an entire city, capturing footage through apartment windows, and generally recording daily life from the sky without being noticed.
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First Came the Flock Cameras. Now Local Cops Want Autonomous Drones.
Hundreds of local police departments have received waivers to fly surveillance drones that navigate with AI.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Aug 20 - 6:30 to 8:30 pm. Join Sojourners for Justice Press & Dr. @lehelton.bsky.social for a wonderful conversation about Early Black bibliophiles in NY - Free and open to the public. Register here: bit.ly/NYblackbibli... You can also see the Black Reading Room at the Center for Art & Advocacy.
Event flyer with outline of a face and an open book. Text: “Early Black Bibliophiles in New York: A Conversation,” with event details for August 20, 2026, in Brooklyn. Website link at bottom.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
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Trump’s Crackdown on Dissent Comes for Minnesota Anti-ICE Organizers
Federal prosecutors charged 15 people with conspiracy, painting their political speech, protest activity, and alleged antifa ties as evidence of criminal wrongdoing.
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Esther @mahoniaaquifolium.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
An incredibly formative book for me. You should read it!
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AK Press @akpress.org · 25/06/2026
Happy 15 years of 𝘊𝘢𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴: 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘌𝘮𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘹! Trans, gender non-conforming and queer folks have always struggled against the prison industrial complex, and been at the heart of the resistance to state tyranny. Happy Pride 🔥❤️‍🔥🔥
The book cover of Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex, expanded second edition. The title is written in bright green letters and stands against a black background. There is a photo of a burning cop car dating back to the '50s or '60s, overlaid in with light purple, giving the appearance of purple flumes. The bottom right corner shares the names of the editors: Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith, editors; Foreword by Cece McDonaldA portrait photo of Eric Stanley (right) with friends at a public library event for the original Captive Genders in Olympia, WA. Top photo: Cece McDonald, Miss Major, Eric Stanley, and Tourmaline (left to right) at a book event at ONE Archive in Los Angeles. Bottom photo: Bluestockings event in New York City with Eric Stanley holding the microphone. Ruth Wilson Gilmore is seated to Eric's right and Tourmaline to the left.
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Kenji @elementaleucology.com · 26/06/2026
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Eric Stanley @stillhere415.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Been thinking a lot about the incredible Gavin Grimm, then 16, who wrote this about his fight against the Gloucester County School Board: “I hope that I will be one of the last kids that has to go through something like this, and I am going to do what I can to ensure that.” That was ten years ago.
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Please send job links (see pinned post) 🌎 Thanks! @100onbooks.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
7 titles* #BookSky *borrowed 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ CAPTIVE GENDERS: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex, edited by Eric A. Stanley & Nat Smith (📘 e-book & 🎧 audiobook narrated by Adi Cabral) on Monday (18/5) < picked this up because of the Queer Your Year Discord www.akpress.org/captivegende...
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Captive Genders
<p><em>Captive Genders </em>was the first book of its kind. It remains the touchstone for studies of trans and gender-queer people in prison. It has been revamped to appeal to recent broadened interes...
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Eric Stanley @stillhere415.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Berlin come 🎉 Criminal Queers Screening and q&a with Chris Vargas and Eric Stanley Saturday May 30, 20:00h Casino for Social Medicine Berlin
Criminals queers Sat may 30 20 casino for social medicine
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K R @kringelberg.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The dream event, people, and location combination! DO IT
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Eric Stanley @stillhere415.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Berlin come 🎉 Criminal Queers Screening and q&a with Chris Vargas and Eric Stanley Saturday May 30, 20:00h Casino for Social Medicine Berlin
Criminals queers Sat may 30 20 casino for social medicine
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Remember when the Supreme Court said a president lacked the power to forgive $20,000 of student debt for Pell Grant recipients and the White House just said "Oh, okay"
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Sad Francisco @sadfrancisco.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Driver of a white Escalade with a message to Charlie Kirk did the expected on Saturday (5/16) to the Chartreuse by Roje shop in the Castro
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Eric Stanley @stillhere415.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
The war on abolition might kill us all.
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Gay Shame @gay-shame.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
TONIGHT in SF Not 2006 😂
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Gay Shame @gay-shame.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
TONIGHT in SF
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Sad Francisco @sadfrancisco.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Imagine being a gay Catholic addict who does PR for the police like Matt Dorsey
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Sad Francisco @sadfrancisco.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
May 1, 7PM, 16th BART Station, @gay-shame.bsky.social presents…
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Sad Francisco @sadfrancisco.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
it’s: www.patreon.com/sadfrancisco
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Sad Francisco @sadfrancisco.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
—screening of CRIMINAL QUEERS starring Ralowe (on the last episode); the movie responsible for the song that plays at the start of every episode
“Dubois saw the way in which”  audience at screening of Criminal Queersagainst signal culture with jemma and Ralowe on the new Sad Francisco episode
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Cathy Brennan @towntattle.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Check out my picks for this. Thank you for including me Mattie
Cathy Brennan top 10 films

1.Superdyke Meets Madame X

2. Criminal Queers

3. Bad Girls Go to Hell

4. HELLO PERFORMANCE!

5. Finding Christa

6. Scrubbers

7. Girls of the Night

8. Marianne and Juliane

9. Matzo Maidels

10. Safe is Desire
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Gay Shame @gay-shame.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
MAY DAY 🌺 GAY DAY May 1. 2006 7PM (sharp) 16th St Bart Plaza SF 🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴
Queer and trans non/workers of the world unite. calling all hookers, loiterers, shoplifters, street sellers, truants, 1099 queens, gig workers, students, time theft recidivists, hustlers, welfare fags, & ssdi dykes

join gay shame for a tour of technofascist anti-worker terror, ending in an autonomous anti-boss extravaganza featuring drag performances, screen printing, zines, stickers, piñatas,
and whatever you're bringing?

for a labor day where no one* is left behind!
*landlords, police, day traders, claude code corralers, and their friends will be left behind

visit gayshame.net for further updates

MAY DAY!! GAY DAY!!
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Gay Shame @gay-shame.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
May 1, 2026 7PM (sharp) 🏴 16th Street BART Plaza in SF 🌉 Mask Up 😷 👚 Bring a light colored shirt (or something else) if you want it screen printed at the post-tour autonomous extravaganza. 🎨
May gay
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Truthout @truthout.org · 12/04/2026
The strike killed 21 people, including children as young as 2 years old.
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Evidence Challenges US Account of Deadly Strike in Iran
The strike killed 21 people, including children as young as 2 years old.
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Aren Aizura @incommensurati.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Finally, whatever organizing power you have, please put it into fighting the DoJ policy ending access to hormones and “social transition” for trans people in federal prisons. www.documentcloud.org/documents/27...
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BOP - 5260.01 Management of Inmates with Gender Dysphoria
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 02/03/2026
Seen in Minneapolis
A house at night with Christmas decor still up. Window has a huge NO ICE lights display (red cross out circle in lights over the word ice in blue lights)
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