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Kiya Nicoll

@kiyanicoll.bsky.social

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Still trying to write a holy litany despite America's silly mood. Only knows how to do one thing well; would rather be whistling in the dark. Now accepting all major pronouns (and 'thon'). May contain cats and echolalia. https://linktr.ee/kiyanicoll

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Kiya Nicoll @kiyanicoll.bsky.social · Apr 8

Gonna do a short pinned thread because I was talking about my Philosophy Of Social Media and it seems the sort of thing a body might want to put in a pinned thread.

I am a human being who is doing human being things here. Social media is my workplace water cooler, and I am just some guy.

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Kiya Nicoll @kiyanicoll.bsky.social · 2h

Got a text from Seth Moulton asking me to donate to his senate campaign.

My reply included the phrase "lot of gall" and then "STOP" as a separate message.

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Kiya Nicoll @kiyanicoll.bsky.social · 5h

Me too!

Kiya Nicoll @kiyanicoll.bsky.social · 13h

They don't give a shit that nonbinary identity is not infrequently a stepping stone on the way to medical transition.

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Kiya Nicoll @kiyanicoll.bsky.social · 1d

Today in random shuffle:

"Losing my Religion"

followed by

"No More Fucks To Give".

Kiya Nicoll @kiyanicoll.bsky.social · 1d

A profoundly ironic amount of very mediocre behavior is perpetrated by guys with “husband, father” in their bios.

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Kiya Nicoll @kiyanicoll.bsky.social · 1d

Ha, I was just coming into the comments to note that the husbandfathers are attacking again.

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Kiya Nicoll @kiyanicoll.bsky.social · 1d

I keep coming back to this and thinking about how, while my experiences are very different (and of a very different flavor due to polarity differences) I find myself thinking that the 'aspects of the same thing' is true for me as well.

It's just also a tangled mess.

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 1d

"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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Kiya Nicoll @kiyanicoll.bsky.social · 1d

Today I wound up explaining the setup of Othello to spouseperson, who didn't read it in high school, so that he could understand how brilliant Grace Petrie's song "Iago" is.

It's a great framework for having those interactions with kids. "What art or history or other thing is this talking with?"

Kiya Nicoll @kiyanicoll.bsky.social · 1d

And pooling medical advice among people who are attempting to jailbreak, hotwire, and/or repair their own bodies.

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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 1d

Breaking: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, the legendary transgender activist and veteran of the Stonewall uprising who dedicated her life to the liberation of trans people, especially Black trans women, has died at 78.

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Kiya Nicoll @kiyanicoll.bsky.social · 1d

I tell my kids that art is a conversation with other art. This means of course that when one can only hear one half of the conversation it makes a lot less sense.

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Kiya Nicoll @kiyanicoll.bsky.social · 1d

I have seen another trans woman talk about her experiences through the hyper-gay lens as well, regarding how hard it was to make sense of herself with that understanding messing things up for her.

Kiya Nicoll @kiyanicoll.bsky.social · 2d

It's great. (A couple of the kids are doing costumes from it this year so I need to get my act together.)

Kiya Nicoll @kiyanicoll.bsky.social · 2d

Both horrifying and exhausting. I'm sorry.

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A Crumbling Marriage @bustronaut.bsky.social · 2d

This is too good a joke to be lost to Sunday afternoon

A Crumbling Marriage @bustronaut.bsky.social · 2d

As vampire movies have shown us repeatedly, self reflection is the easiest way to know you don't suck.

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Kiya Nicoll @kiyanicoll.bsky.social · 3d

Happy birthday!

Kiya Nicoll @kiyanicoll.bsky.social · 3d

That should've had a nonbinary note in there somewhere but I think it's implied adequately, I'm just also running on four hours of sleep, four hours of walking around on hills (well, one large hill maybe), and probably insufficient vitamin beef so not at my best.

Kiya Nicoll @kiyanicoll.bsky.social · 3d

Yesterday was apparently World Mental Health Day and today is National Coming Out Day and I am sure nobody is fuckin surprised if I say I'm an asexual-spec, demiromantic gay transmasc gremlin and/or werewolf being with C-PTSD and a history of depression but hell, I might as well say it anyway.

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Kiya Nicoll @kiyanicoll.bsky.social · 3d

I have to say I am looking at the world and going, "Okay, who knew in advance that we were gonna need a Chicago Pope to handle this shit."

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Kiya Nicoll @kiyanicoll.bsky.social · 3d

Mmm, especially with the good shoulders on 'em.

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🦇🤘 Rigg-or mortis 🔶️🏳️‍🌈 @rigg.lgbt · 4d

Really interesting thread here

Philip Purser-Hallard @purserhallard.com · 5d

It occurs to me that the Doctor's polyethnic identity in recent times recontextualises Peter Davison's casting in quite an interesting way.
(For context, although you'd be unlikely to guess it by looking at him, Davison's paternal family is Guyanese. He has close relatives who are visibly Black.)

Peter Davison, a fair-skinned blond man, as the fifth Doctor, circa 1982.

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Kiya Nicoll @kiyanicoll.bsky.social · 4d

Baseball is like life. As long as you don’t die, you’re technically immortal.

Kiya Nicoll @kiyanicoll.bsky.social · 4d

Man, trying to deduce what baseball did last night while I was on the road from my bsky feed is hilarious.

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