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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 13m

"“I hope you get a lot of flakey skin in your nose so it looks like you always have boogers [...] and it burns, you dumb bitch,” Cho concluded."

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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 14m

"Cho went on to reference Mace’s claims that she is a survivor of sexual assault, which Mace has often deployed to justify her opposition to trans rights. “You’re ‘a survivor’? Fuck you. Like, who isn’t at this point?” Cho said."

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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 14m

"But you are the worst predator of all [...] I don’t even believe that you think any of the things you say. You’re just doing it to further your career, and that is the worst kind of thing.”"

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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 16m

"Margaret Cho has had enough of anti-transgender South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace, calling her a “stupid bitch” who is “killing trans people” in a video posted to social media this week."

Margaret Cho Lets Loose on "Proud Transphobe" Nancy Mace: "You Are the Worst Predator of All"

Cho accused the lawmaker of “killing trans people” to progress her political career.

www.them.us

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1h

if you already didn’t have enough reasons to cancel spotify:

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 8h

Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE.

It’s time to cancel your account.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 1h

I can't stand people who continue to pretend it's not one party. Nobody can be that stupid. They understand it, but they benefit from it so they join the con

Axios @axios.com · 3h

Former Presidents Biden and Clinton praised President Trump today for the Gaza peace deal.

Biden, Clinton praise Trump for Gaza peace deal

Biden said he commends Trump and his team, and Clinton said they "deserve great credit."

www.axios.com

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.bsky.social · 4h

rest in power miss major. this is what it means to constantly be negotiating your existence!

The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 4h

"You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you."

- Miss Major, 2023 💔

One of the things I hear with some younger trans people I know is they feel, "I'm gonna get this surgery, and I'm gonna learn that way of speaking, and I'm gonna be done." You're never done. If you're a straight, cisgender person, you're never done. Things are always happening that have the potential to change you. So all I am today is not who I'm gonna be tomorrow, because of the things that happened to me today and later tonight. People forget that. "Oh, after I transition, I'm gonna be through." Well, good luck with that. 'Cause if you're through, then it's time to leave, you know, and I don't wanna go anywhere yet.
I'm in my seventies. Why didn't I stop? Number one is community. My gurls. I've had moments of thinking about stopping, but I didn't. I made sure I would step back, reju- venate myself, and then got back out there, and that's how you make a way. Our stories are not all the same, but the destination is: to get some place where we have some peace and harmony, and we can be at ease with ourselves and the people around us. You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you.

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 9h

thirty-four people have been arrested outside the broadview ice detention center since illinois state police + the cook county sheriff's office set up "unified command" on oct. 3.

charges range from misdemeanors, like resisting/obstruction, to felonies, like criminal damage to government property.

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 8h

"[T]he population of [Idaho's] imprisoned women increased by 50 times since 1980."

"[T]hey're kept there by guards — mostly men — who control every aspect of their lives; who can harass, grope, and sexually assault them with confidence that it will be kept quiet."
#Idaho #USA #Incarceration

In Idaho women’s prisons, guards get away with sex abuse

A yearlong investigation finds rampant sexual abuse by guards, systemic cover-ups, and punishment for victims

www.investigatewest.org

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Tahreer🇵🇸🍉🍉🇵🇸 @tahreerfamily.bsky.social · 22h

The war is not over yet. The bombing is still ongoing. The situation is still difficult.
I am still displaced. My city, Rafah, has not been liberated yet. It is under the control of the army.
The plane flies low and its sound is very scary

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𝕴𝖓𝖋𝖊𝖗𝖓𝖆𝖙𝖗𝖎𝖝 𝕾𝖔𝖕𝖍𝖎𝖆 @infernatrixsophia.bsky.social · 9h

Peter Thiel is literally financing the Fascist takeover of the world.

Anna Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️ @annatleigh.bsky.social · May 21

Also cis gay men who hold trans-negative views mostly mind their own business.
Lesbians who hold the same views organize international trans-eliminationist campaigns, organize to remove trans healthcare, and constantly monsterize us.
At least wrt the public face of the two groups.

Sophie Asimov @sophieasimov.bsky.social · May 19

Cis lesbians are often framed as "trans inclusive" because they think of their they/them butch friend.

I'm skeptical of there being a particularly wide gap if we narrowed to perspectives of specifically trans women.

Trans women really do exist outside the trans community in these things.

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Penny Webster @pennywebster.bsky.social · 9h

Blanchard, a gay man, created a hateful medical libel that formed the basis for most modern Anglosphere transmisogyny, Wes Streeting, a gay man, is spearheading the worst wave of anti-trans reactionary policy in Europe, gay men's orgs kicked Sylvia Riviera and STAR out of their movements,

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Penny Webster @pennywebster.bsky.social · 9h

It's fucking *wild* to act like transphobic gay/bi men leave us alone on a policy level, and deeply credulous to take TERF pinkwashing at face value, given that most of the OG 2nd wave transphobes were married to men!

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Discordia Lain⚢ @discordialain.bsky.social · 8h

Imagine going to bat for cis gay men over cis lesbians, cuz what? They're not executing cis lesbians in as many countries? Like forced marriage, less opportunity to make money & escape or being "corrective" raped and murdered means you're oppressed less than the gay men? What kinda logic is that...

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𝕴𝖓𝖋𝖊𝖗𝖓𝖆𝖙𝖗𝖎𝖝 𝕾𝖔𝖕𝖍𝖎𝖆 @infernatrixsophia.bsky.social · 9h

This is vibes based analysis predicated on a reactionary resentiment for your sisters because you refuse to actually even attempt to establish community with them and not actually any kind of real analysis. The actual history has been that gay men regularly throw gay women under the bus and when

Anna Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️ @annatleigh.bsky.social · 11h

Cis lesbians are often framed as "trans inclusive" because they think of their they/them butch friend, in polls.

But besides misleading "wholesome" polls, look around you.
Which LGBT demographic seems to always be involved in stirring up anti-transfem hatred?

Not all of them, but many of them.

Anna Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️ @annatleigh.bsky.social · May 21

Also cis gay men who hold trans-negative views mostly mind their own business.
Lesbians who hold the same views organize international trans-eliminationist campaigns, organize to remove trans healthcare, and constantly monsterize us.
At least wrt the public face of the two groups.

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𝕴𝖓𝖋𝖊𝖗𝖓𝖆𝖙𝖗𝖎𝖝 𝕾𝖔𝖕𝖍𝖎𝖆 @infernatrixsophia.bsky.social · 9h

queer women have had to organize for themselves it is in those spaces where trans women were able to seek some measure of community. Oftentimes putting their own bodies on the line to protect trans women, this only stopped because we often chose to leave rather than see them hurt for us.

Radical Inclusion | TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly | Duke University Press

read.dukeupress.edu

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𝕴𝖓𝖋𝖊𝖗𝖓𝖆𝖙𝖗𝖎𝖝 𝕾𝖔𝖕𝖍𝖎𝖆 @infernatrixsophia.bsky.social · 9h

I'm gonna need anyone claiming lesbians are "the most privileged" as gay men throw them under the bus to shut the fuck up. The entire reason organizations like Gay Liberation Army fell apart was because gay men were deprioritizing the struggles of queer women, cis lesbian and trans woman together.

Daisy @daisygeekytgirl.bsky.social · 17h

They’ve always been the least persecuted. Far more countries criminalise gay men than lesbians. Also in Iran, lesbians go to prison but gay men get stoned to death. Cis lesbians are the most privileged group and I’m sick of them acting like they’re not.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 11h

Turns out most people don't really like being invaded

lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 15h

soooo my Chicagoans, has anyone else's neighborhood facebook group gone from desperately apolitical (regarding federal politics) to at least 40% about ICE/DHS activity and organizing against it? like it's hard to overstate this shift

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Discordia Lain⚢ @discordialain.bsky.social · 9h

This is approaching Emilia Chavez levels of atrocious trans "representation"

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Discordia Lain⚢ @discordialain.bsky.social · 9h

Look at this reaction and read the context and tell me that's not a trans woman

I question the competency or the motives of anyone involved in the writing of this, or who watched this scene while they were still working on it, and who didn't call this for what it clearly is...

Benjanun Sriduangkaew @benjanun.bsky.social · 10h

The drag queen bursts into tears when it seems like the womb symbol (that she's been desperate to possess for some time) is going to disappear. She says 'you bitch!' then the protagonist re-manifests the labrys and beheads her.

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Nicole DeWitt @catastro-v.bsky.social · 10h

–trans woman of color tries to steal your labrys after helping you summon it? kill that disgusting womb envying pervert

–straight white men kidnap a woman to blackmail you into giving them your labrys so they can abuse more women? show those poor boys the error of their ways so they form a throuple

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Benjanun Sriduangkaew @benjanun.bsky.social · 16h

Somebody pirated and uploaded this entire shitshow and lol 'let mama help you find your labrys' wow it's bad.

Benjanun Sriduangkaew @benjanun.bsky.social · 19h

Wait what? In the middle of her space quest she makes a stop to behead a trans woman?

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Benjanun Sriduangkaew @benjanun.bsky.social · 10h

Oh and this sequence happens in the context of the drag queen offering her help and luring her into a sense of false security while hypnotizing her into a psychiatric trance. 'Man in drag is predatory and wants to steal cis womb' lol.

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Benjanun Sriduangkaew @benjanun.bsky.social · 10h

The drag queen bursts into tears when it seems like the womb symbol (that she's been desperate to possess for some time) is going to disappear. She says 'you bitch!' then the protagonist re-manifests the labrys and beheads her.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 13h

While Israelis celebrated the return of captives from Gaza, Israel warned Palestinian families against holding celebrations over the return of prisoners – some who had been held for decades. Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh explains.

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