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Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social · 1h

Anyways I watched this during a meeting of my undergrad’s queer club.

Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social · 1h

Remember that “Catfish” episode from like 2012 where this guy thinks he’s talking to a trans woman on like OkCupid or whatever and the producers show up at her house and she’s like “jk I’m not actually trans” and this chaser is clearly disappointed so the crew is like “bro just admit you’re gay?”

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Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social · 3h

Please do!

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 15h

Have you ever been so fucking delighted by a username/icon set that it made you follow a total stranger

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Lilly Wachowski @lillywachowski.bsky.social · 21h

A beautiful film!

Annalise Ophelian @dr-ophelian.bsky.social · 21h

The documentary I made with Miss Major 10 years ago is available to stream free on Vimeo. If you want to spend some time with her and her loved ones, and learn some abolitionist trans history while you're at it, updated streaming link is here: vimeo.com/whatdowewant...

MAJOR! (free streaming link)

The award-winning 2016 documentary "MAJOR!" follows the life and campaigns of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a Black transgender elder who has been fighting…

vimeo.com

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 21h

Transness is not bourgeois. This is a wedge idea dreamed up by some gleefully amoral think tank lobotomite to split trans people and make us fight each other. That we relay on modern medicine doesn't make us any more bourgeois than someone who needs antidepressants or cleft palate repair.

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Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social · 20h

I miss guitar solos. What happened to guitar solos?

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

signing a bunch of LGBTQ+ protections into law but then vetoing two other ones bc they would cost health insurance companies 0.00001% in yearly profits is just so Newsom

Trans News Network @transnews.network · 1d

CA UPDATE:

Newsom has signed these queer rights bills:
- AB 82 / SB 497 (Medical privacy)
- AB 1084 / SB 59 (Name/Gender changes)
- SB 450 (Adoption access)

And vetoed these bills:
- SB 418 (HRT stockpile)
- AB 554 (PreP)

Final total: 8 bills signed, 2 vetoed.

transnews.network/p/california...

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Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social · 1d

I just finished Saskia Nislow’s “Root Rot” and my brain feels like it’s on fire. Nislow mutates, twists, and refracts the DNA of classic horror literature and births something completely new and alien. A truly phenomenal work of trans horror.

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Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social · 1d

Introduced the gay girl groupchat to “Spider-Man: Reign” today. I won’t give the full context but the “death by radioactive ejaculate” plot point was very relevant to the discussion.

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Scream Kings Podcast @screamkings.bsky.social · 3d

One of the top tier opening scenes hands down

Text: Drew Barrymore dies at the start of this painting, doesn't she?

The Scream painting

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Wole Talabi @wtalabi.bsky.social · 1d

Genres aren't real. They are mental projections we impose on stories to simplify the way talk about and sell them but stories come unshaped from deep within us and writers shouldn't feel constrained by or even respect genres at all. The story comes first.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 1d

Rest in power, Miss Major.

www.advocate.com/news/miss-ma...

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, activist since Stonewall, has died

The LGBTQ+ community — and particularly the transgender community — has lost an iconic activist.

www.advocate.com

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Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social · 1d

I know this isn't necessarily fair, but I've encountered way too much bad fantasy where this is clearly the case.

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Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social · 1d

All good writers, regardless of genre, put thought into their settings. When I hear writers or readers praise a novel's "world building," I can't help but assume that an emphasis was placed on fantasy maps, imaginary politics, or magical power systems over narrative, character, or prose.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 2d

yeah man, trans reporters, whom the ny times derogatorily calls "trans activists" so that normies won't listen to them, have been reporting on ADF activity in the UK since 2018.

bigotry in journalism makes you late to the story.

Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · 2d

Really important NYT investigation finds that the ADF has been working with Reform, 'courting the party since at least 2024' and that the British arm 'orchestrated Mr Farage’s appearance in Congress, reaching out to ask if he would like to give evidence on censorship'
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.

www.nytimes.com

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Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social · 1d

Holy shit no that’s horrifying and incredible in equal measure. Also an uncanny representation of everything I despise about that song

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Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social · 1d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand

1. cereal. yes all cereal
2. Zoolander 2
3. "Chicken Fried" by Zac Brown Band

Jen (early transition arc) 🏳️‍⚧️ @transducer.bsky.social · 1d

not to be negative on the Monday morning TL, but…

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand.

1. shellfish. Any shellfish 😖
2. “Repo the genetic opera” 🤢
3. That pestilential “hey soul sister” song from the early 2010s

(dr.) asha @biochemandowls.bsky.social · 2d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand.

1. cheese
2. the murder on the orient express movie with kenneth branagh
3. fight song

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 2d

Bastion from X-Men 97, explaining why most people will happily go along with persecution and genocide: "Because when your skin's not in the game, apathy's your answer."

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Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social · 2d

Do you ever think about how we’re supposedly getting a Dave Filoni Star Wars movie that’s supposed to like satisfyingly conclude all of these mediocre shows? And how that’s like undoubtedly going to be the worst Star Wars movie?

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Dr. Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis @keeva.bsky.social · 3d

Besides Sleepaway Camp, this begins to articulate my feelings on Silence of the Lambs as well. You can't convince me that's not a movie about the triangulated relationship between a trans woman, a gay man, and a (possibly asexual) lesbian, in which the world outside is of no real consequence.

Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social · 4d

Yes, Sleepaway Camp is scared of queers but it kinda hates the cishets even more.

'Sleepaway Camp' Was Kinda Heterophobic if You Think About It

Sleepaway Camp depicts heterosexual desire, particularly from men, as being predatory, transactional, cruel, and destructive.

www.autostraddle.com

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Frankenstonk’s Monster @stonkers.bsky.social · 3d

this really gets at my complicated feelings about this movie that I love even as I cringe

Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social · 4d

Yes, Sleepaway Camp is scared of queers but it kinda hates the cishets even more.

'Sleepaway Camp' Was Kinda Heterophobic if You Think About It

Sleepaway Camp depicts heterosexual desire, particularly from men, as being predatory, transactional, cruel, and destructive.

www.autostraddle.com

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 4d

"Trans issues aren't this shameful thing that Democratic consultants suggest we hide from, it's the same fight undocumented immigrants are fighting, or those who can't access health care are fighting...Political issues aren't siloes, they're all connected, and Mamdani recognizes that." ✊

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 4d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Cat Fitzpatrick @catfitzpatrick.net · 4d

I have actually never seen a politician say anything even remotely like this. Whatever the follow-through, or not, even the fact he said this is really, really something

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social · 4d

Yes, Sleepaway Camp is scared of queers but it kinda hates the cishets even more.

'Sleepaway Camp' Was Kinda Heterophobic if You Think About It

Sleepaway Camp depicts heterosexual desire, particularly from men, as being predatory, transactional, cruel, and destructive.

www.autostraddle.com

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