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Vera Drew @veradrew22.bsky.social · 9h

yea

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 10h

Coffee is the ultimate former alcoholic drink. You can pay a guy $18 to make a fancy version of it right in front of your bloodshot eyes, or you can buy one in a gas station for a buck and a half while slowly crying to "Night Moves" because you just need to feel something again

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Rebecca Kling @rebeccakling.bsky.social · 16h

May Miss Major’s memory be a blessing and a revolution

Lilly Wachowski @lillywachowski.bsky.social · 20h

it is disorienting when you lose someone who you navigate your life to, like a star blinking out of the night sky.
a life lived in fearlessness, she carved out space for so many of us.
an amazing woman.
check out this doc by some of my pals.

Watch MAJOR! Online | Vimeo On Demand

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

vimeo.com

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Kassandra Jo Tomaras @raconteuse.bsky.social · 1d

When a trans woman dies of natural causes, at an age greater than 75, having lived more than half her life as herself, that is cause for celebration, not mourning.

Thank you, Miss Major.

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 1d

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

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Jacob Oller @jacoboller.bsky.social · 20h

good movie! www.avclub.com/heightened-s...

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Lilly Wachowski @lillywachowski.bsky.social · 20h

join me and my pals at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social where i'll be bringing my patented run-on sentences and cul-de-sac musings to this panel for new doc by the brilliant @samfeder.bsky.social
tickets are limited!

One sheet for documentary film "Heightened Scrutiny." An upside down supreme court building hangs guillotine-like above the thumbnails of filmmaker Sam Feder and the guest speakers Lilly Wachowski (me,) Crispin Torres, Mickey R Mahoney and AllienSteve Mullen.

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Vera Drew @veradrew22.bsky.social · 19h

all through the night by cyndi lauper

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

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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Vera Drew @veradrew22.bsky.social · 2d

the winner takes it all by abba

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Leah 🖤 @leahoverthinks.bsky.social · 4d

The People’s Joker… I genuinely think that might be one of the best movies I have ever watched

Just wow

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ari @toxicmetalexpo.bsky.social · 3d

it's national coming out day. I first came out as trans 10 years ago, and this monday I'm finally getting top surgery after fighting so hard for it. I'm still in need of financial assistance while I am recovering, please consider sharing or donating to my gofundme www.gofundme.com/f/help-ari-g...

Donate to Help Ari Access Gender Affirming Care: Top Surgery, organized by Ari Mulch

Hello everyone, I am Ari. Some of you may know me from my comic books, ca… Ari Mulch needs your support for Help Ari Access Gender Affirming Care: Top Surgery

www.gofundme.com

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Will Weldon @oldmanweldon.bsky.social · 2d

This is one of the most perfect couples in the world (non complimentary)

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3d

chat it's happening

uk.news.yahoo.com/katy-perry-j...

Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau appear to confirm romance - report

After months of rumours, proof seems to be in that Katy Perry is dating former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The loved-up couple were spotted kissing and cuddling on board Perry's 24-metre y...

uk.news.yahoo.com

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Tucker Wooley @tuckerwooley.bsky.social · 3d

LA people please share! my friend needs housing starting 10/14!

ktown area preferred, reasonable access to public transit a must

QTBIPOC+ preferred, QTBIPOC friendly a must

transitioning out of full-time pet/house sitting and co-op living/couchsurfing

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Vera Drew @veradrew22.bsky.social · 2d

say yes by elliot smith

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Vera Drew @veradrew22.bsky.social · 4d

don’t skip out on this beautiful fucked up book

LittlePuss Press @littlepuss.net · 4d

NEW 📗!

PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements (@ravineangel.bsky.social)

In which a trans woman discovers porn of herself she has no memory of making, only to find herself led to an unimaginably deeper evil

"The year's great work of literary horror."
—Gretchen Felker-Martin (@scumbelievable.bsky.social)

PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements — Debut trans horror — LittlePuss Press

"The best book I've read in years." —Gretchen Felker-Martin

www.littlepuss.net

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Louise Weard @weard.moe · 4d

ITS THE BOOK OF THE YEAR - PRE ORDER NOWWW

LittlePuss Press @littlepuss.net · 4d

NEW 📗!

PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements (@ravineangel.bsky.social)

In which a trans woman discovers porn of herself she has no memory of making, only to find herself led to an unimaginably deeper evil

"The year's great work of literary horror."
—Gretchen Felker-Martin (@scumbelievable.bsky.social)

PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements — Debut trans horror — LittlePuss Press

"The best book I've read in years." —Gretchen Felker-Martin

www.littlepuss.net

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Casey Plett @caseyplett.com · 4d

Oh no oh no oh NO

this book is coming it is finally out for pre-order and let me be very clear: It is going to swallow you whole and destroy your life, soul, and the entire universe, and I could still not be prouder of publishing it. I have never worked on anything like this ever, like EVER.

LittlePuss Press @littlepuss.net · 4d

NEW 📗!

PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements (@ravineangel.bsky.social)

In which a trans woman discovers porn of herself she has no memory of making, only to find herself led to an unimaginably deeper evil

"The year's great work of literary horror."
—Gretchen Felker-Martin (@scumbelievable.bsky.social)

PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements — Debut trans horror — LittlePuss Press

"The best book I've read in years." —Gretchen Felker-Martin

www.littlepuss.net

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Carta Monir @cartamonir.com · 4d

I'm so excited to read this book

LittlePuss Press @littlepuss.net · 4d

NEW 📗!

PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements (@ravineangel.bsky.social)

In which a trans woman discovers porn of herself she has no memory of making, only to find herself led to an unimaginably deeper evil

"The year's great work of literary horror."
—Gretchen Felker-Martin (@scumbelievable.bsky.social)

PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements — Debut trans horror — LittlePuss Press

"The best book I've read in years." —Gretchen Felker-Martin

www.littlepuss.net

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aoife josie clements @ravineangel.bsky.social · 4d

preorder PERSONA now, either through the link below or your local bookseller. guaranteed to ruin your life and drain what little joy remains from your frail body.

LittlePuss Press @littlepuss.net · 4d

NEW 📗!

PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements (@ravineangel.bsky.social)

In which a trans woman discovers porn of herself she has no memory of making, only to find herself led to an unimaginably deeper evil

"The year's great work of literary horror."
—Gretchen Felker-Martin (@scumbelievable.bsky.social)

PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements — Debut trans horror — LittlePuss Press

"The best book I've read in years." —Gretchen Felker-Martin

www.littlepuss.net

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 4d

you guys if you only listen to me once this year: this is the book

LittlePuss Press @littlepuss.net · 4d

NEW 📗!

PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements (@ravineangel.bsky.social)

In which a trans woman discovers porn of herself she has no memory of making, only to find herself led to an unimaginably deeper evil

"The year's great work of literary horror."
—Gretchen Felker-Martin (@scumbelievable.bsky.social)

PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements — Debut trans horror — LittlePuss Press

"The best book I've read in years." —Gretchen Felker-Martin

www.littlepuss.net

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LittlePuss Press @littlepuss.net · 4d

NEW 📗!

PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements (@ravineangel.bsky.social)

In which a trans woman discovers porn of herself she has no memory of making, only to find herself led to an unimaginably deeper evil

"The year's great work of literary horror."
—Gretchen Felker-Martin (@scumbelievable.bsky.social)

PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements — Debut trans horror — LittlePuss Press

"The best book I've read in years." —Gretchen Felker-Martin

www.littlepuss.net

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quinn hills 🏳️‍⚧️ @quinnhills.bsky.social · 5d

so proud of our queer little crew :)
@jshawhan.bsky.social
@belcourttheatre.bsky.social
@nashvillescene.com

Nashville Scene
Best Repertory Series Queer Qlassics
ANNIE PARNELL
4 HRS AGO

Illustration of a person painting a mural that reads “Nashville Scene”

When The People's Joker screened in the Belcourt's Queer Qlassics series, director Vera Drew handed out stickers on the sidewalk — and my partner and I ran into Grammy nominee Aaron Lee Tasjan (whose latest album explores coming out) in the popcorn line. That's just the surface of the community and happy chaos of this July series, which featured a Q&A with Drew, a local queer film history seminar, and screenings of tearjerkers (Brokeback Mountain) and camp oddities (D.E.B.S.) alike. Its focus on "stability in hostile times" is especially important now — and so was its revolutionary sense of joy.

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💛 Pippin 🔞 @wetbookworm.bsky.social · 8d

Gave my new The People's Joker shirt DIY top surgery

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 12d

You can rent The People’s Joker here if you live in the UK, and you absolutely should because it’s one of the best films I’ve seen in the last few years, hands down

Rob Stanley @rjstanley.bsky.social · 16d

watch.eventive.org/matchboxcine...

The People's Joker |

watch.eventive.org

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