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Davi Gray (she/they)

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Queer, trans, nonbinary poet, writer, performer, artist, activist, & abolitionist. 🌐 davigray.com. 18+ 🙏🏼 Work published in Poetry, Water~Stone Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, et al. First collection "This Body, This Fruit" @ Feb 2027 (Trio House Press).

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Davi Gray (she/they) @davigray.bsky.social · Apr 28

If you’re a cisgender ally (especially over 50), you should know that you can access hormones through your medical care provider - e.g., estrogen “to treat symptoms related to menopause” or testosterone “to treat symptoms of low libido.”

Your trans friends’ lives may soon depend on your access.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Apr 28

1. The White House has just released a "fact sheet" where it announces that 8 fake "experts" are about to release a federal report opposing transgender care.

It also announces investigations on manufacturers has begun.

Subscribe to support my journalism.

www.erininthemorning.com/p/white-hous...

White House Teases Fake Anti-Trans "Report," Announces Investigations Have Begun

A new fact sheet released by the White House Monday morning confirms the imminent release of a "Cass review" type report. It also announces investigations have begun.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Kyle Tran Myhre @guante.info · 19h

...POSSIBILITIES: Poets get together to write cooler chants for the next protest. Visual artists collaborate on a yard sign campaign. A group of emcees and songwriters compete to see who can write the most vicious, withering takedowns of ICE. Add your own ideas at padlet.com/elguante/crushICE

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Kyle Tran Myhre @guante.info · 19h

...Sometimes, there’s an assumption that art and culture work is always about “changing minds.” It can be, but this work can also be about bringing issues into new spaces, inviting more people in, creating a permission structure to care and get involved.

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 16h

I know I am not a nymph in exhumation

but would you please explain
this half-remembered light

Donika Kelly

#poetry #booksky
@graywolfpress.bsky.social

I mean

I push the wet dirt with my mandible

I mean jaw

Jaw

Y'all

I know I am not a nymph in exhumation

but would you please explain
this half-remembered light

Donika Kelly, The Natural Order of Things

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Michael Kleber-Diggs @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social · 9d

Our daughter, Elinor, is raising money for an artist’s residency. Money raised will cover: pay for two dancers, travel expenses, and meals and miscellaneous expenses. Please support with a gift or a share if you are so inclined. TY

www.gofundme.com/f/support-el...

Donate to Support Elinor's Residency at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park, organized by Elinor Kleber Diggs

Hello friends, family, and friends of friends! My name is… Elinor Kleber Diggs needs your support for Support Elinor's Residency at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park

www.gofundme.com

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Davi Gray (she/they) @davigray.bsky.social · 22h

That doesn't mean you didn't address the issue 😀

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Kyle Tran Myhre @guante.info · 1d

...if there's anyone out there just hearing about him now that he's passed, two recommendations:

1. The Charade live: youtu.be/IRCLjK5OWjU?...

2. Devil's Pie live: youtu.be/95Aes_r98sY?...

So many other great songs, but these two performances really stuck with me over the years.

D'Angelo, The Vanguard - The Charade (Live on SNL)

YouTube video by DAngeloVEVO

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Davi Gray (she/they) @davigray.bsky.social · 1d

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TEN DEMANDS (The Abolitionists) @tendemands.bsky.social · 1d

The Ten Demands for Justice provides the roadmap to abolition — with each action chipping away at an inherently, intentionally unjust system.

Read all 10 here, and print this PDF to bring to your city council members.

drive.google.com/file/d/1MKG3...

web.archive.org/web/20240622...

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Davi Gray (she/they) @davigray.bsky.social · 1d

"Let other people determine what you sell, never what you make.”

herbertlui.net/start-with-y...

Start with you - Herbert Lui

People don’t buy what you think they want, they buy what you want. When David Chang started Momofuku’s Noodle Bar, it nearly fell apart because he let himself get pulled in “every direction but the mo...

herbertlui.net

Davi Gray (she/they) @davigray.bsky.social · 1d

Far from the prompt, but remarkable: a Google image search shows many similar photos. *Every* hand is white. Some combo of generational wealth, family traditions, cultural practice, sure. Also, these days, possible to ask: do many pics have nonwhite hands & Google hides them? Fascism rides in white.

Quill of Mnemosyne @sonnetsmith.bsky.social · 2d

Hello Wild walk writers

A big beautiful apple, taken from the tree in my garden. Red, juicy, and perfectly tart.

#Harvest

Use the image/word to inspire your writing, then post using #WildWalkPrompt

#prompt #writesky #blueskypoets #writingprompt #nature #5amwritersclub

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Davi Gray (she/they) @davigray.bsky.social · 1d

Or are you more likely to be aware of weird writers... because they write? 🤔

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Davi Gray (she/they) @davigray.bsky.social · 1d

"Any art that excludes the irreparable excludes the possibility of genuine affirmation, as I’m trying to articulate it here; such art can only ever be propaganda for life, which can’t offer us any help at all."

harpers.org/archive/2025...

Enamored of the Abyss, by Garth Greenwell

On the place of affirmation in art

harpers.org

Davi Gray (she/they) @davigray.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe a couple reasons. Living regular everyday life as a trans person can take a lot of energy, either resisting or determinedly ignoring the news etc. And one's gender is more or less visibly apparent; who a person goes to bed with much less so, unless they choose otherwise.

Davi Gray (she/they) @davigray.bsky.social · 1d

I feel your pain! And absolutely agree. The hard part is...building a mailing list? No. Regular updates? No. Sending out requests? No. The hard part is sitting around after all that thinking, Why is this so f**king hard? (And then sometimes just doing the thing myself. Rest is an unrealized ideal.)

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

Everyone should experience the humbling effect of sending out a small request to an organizing listserve [of people who have self-selected to be on said list] and getting zero responses. It will help you to understand how hard it is to organize anything.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 2d

“These findings follow previous research which concluded that the more people learn about how AI works, the less they trust it. The opposite was also true — AI’s biggest fanboys tended to be those who understood the least about the tech.”

The More Scientists Work With AI, the Less They Trust It

A preliminary report shows that researchers' confidence in AI software dropped off a cliff over the last year.

futurism.com

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 2d

Today is Indigenous Peoples Day – a time to honor the 11 sovereign Tribal Nations and robust urban Native communities that continue to enrich our state’s cultural landscape, economy, and heritage.

It was a beautiful morning to celebrate on the shore of Bde Maka Ska.

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 2d

How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”

Federal agents invaded even the offices of The Crisis and the National Association for the advancement of colored people and asked searching questions: " just what, after all, were our objects and activities?” I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, “We are seeking to have the constitution of the United states thoroughly and completely enforced.” It took some ingenuity, even for Southerners, to make treason out of that.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t think a long book is even primarily about plot, or character, or any of the patterned information on its pages. A long book is practicing over time a way of being in the world. Reading even a very good summary is not the same as giving over some portion of your own life to that practice.

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Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · 1d

Rest in Power, Miss Major.💔

On solidarity: “We can’t go it alone… I mean, you can try, and get knocked down and get up and try again, and get knocked down and get up and try again. But that’s how it’ll be, until somebody helps you up and says, let me stand with you.”
truthout.org/articles/a-m...

A Mother’s Day Chat With Revolutionary Trans Activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

Janet Mock has called Miss Major, who has nurtured generations of queer and trans youth, “the mother we all deserve.”…

truthout.org

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Kyle Tran Myhre @guante.info · 2d

"Because the history of the American Indian Boarding School era was not even written into history books, Indigenous Peoples Day can do much to bring that history to the forefront." - Denise Lajimodiere, Turtle Mountain Ojibwe

Indigenous Peoples Day has come a long way - ICT

Three elders reflect on Indigenous Peoples Day

ictnews.org

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 2d

Organizing is essential. Courage is contagious. Social proof is persuasive.
People do the thing they think people like them do.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2d

My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."

They Came for Our Neighbors. We Showed Up.

Before long, there were dozens, and then hundreds of people in the streets, watching and responding.

organizingmythoughts.org

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Kyle Tran Myhre @guante.info · 2d

So much of what this country is... is contained in this story.

Read it, be angry, and donate.

(via @releasemn8.bsky.social over on IG)

Donate to Urgent Support Needed for a Hmong Family in Threat of ICE!, organized by MN8 Team

Calling for support towards a Hmong community leader and his famil… MN8 Team needs your support for Urgent Support Needed for a Hmong Family in Threat of ICE!

www.gofundme.com

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 2d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 2d

I watched The Alabama Solution on HBO tonight. An amazing piece of documentary filmmaking that needs to be seen far and wide.

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

‘How is this possible?’: a new film looks inside the appalling abuses of the Alabama prison system

In the year’s most shocking documentary The Alabama Solution, prisoners share astonishing footage in a plea for help

www.theguardian.com

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