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emily nagoski @enagoski.bsky.social · Dec 4

I think we all deserve a third season of Schmigadoon.

This has been my first skeet.

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Dr. Donna Oriowo @drdonnaoriowo.bsky.social · May 13

My book baby is born! 🙌🏾

Serendipity Literary Agency @serendipitylit.bsky.social · May 13

Happy Book Birthday to #SerendipityLit author and sex & relationship therapist @drdonnaoriowo.bsky.social for DRINK WATER & MIND YOUR BUSINESS!

You can use this link to order a copy: bookshop.org/a/10902/9781...

DRINK WATER & MIND YOUR BUSINESS is available now from Sourcebooks.

emily nagoski @enagoski.bsky.social · Apr 4

Oh if you don't have Hulu but you do have four hours, may I recommend the audiobook of Harriet Tubman Live In Concert, the new novel by Bob the Drag Queen, narrated by the author, including two original songs. Not sexy but very funny and moving.

emily nagoski @enagoski.bsky.social · Apr 4

This has been your doomscroll interruption moment, celebrating femme sexual pleasure and power.

If you watch nothing else, watch Robby Hoffman as she lovingly tops Michelle Williams. It'll make your life better.

emily nagoski @enagoski.bsky.social · Apr 4

I may be the only person on earth to cry with joy at hearing sex described as a "nonlinear emergent phenomenon" on tv but, Esco Jouléy, if you're listening, fucking thank you.

emily nagoski @enagoski.bsky.social · Apr 4

Deep in the lockdown I consulted with the writers on some of the sexuality aspects of the story, and I am very proud and moved by the way they integrated my bits of science into the story to make it feminist and true to the experience of a trauma survivor.

emily nagoski @enagoski.bsky.social · Apr 4

Hello, I'm popping my head up into the BlueSkies to say: if you have Hulu and 4 hours, I hope you'll watch Dying for Sex starring Michelle Williams and Jenny Slate.

emily nagoski @enagoski.bsky.social · Mar 5

HOLY SHIT I WON!!!!

SOMETIMES GOOD THINGS HAPPEN YAY

emily nagoski @enagoski.bsky.social · Jan 22

HOLY SHIT SOME GOOD NEWS Come Together was nominated for an Audience!

Narrating my own audiobook is the only thing I ever ask for in my book contracts. I prize them not merely because I love listening to audiobooks, but because they make books accessible to more and different readers.

Cover of Come Together by Emily Nagoski, with graphics announcing it as an Audie finalist in the Business/Personal Development category

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · Mar 5

Good morning friends ❤️ Rise and Resist ✊Time to break out the poster board and markers!

@standupforscience.bsky.social is this friday!

Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Mar 2

WHERE WILL YOU BE ON MARCH 7TH!?

Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one!

#standupforscience2025

Map of Stand Up for Science events, with official SUFS events in Red and solidarity events in Blue

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WordsToVoteBy @wordstovoteby.bsky.social · Mar 3

Please watch this interview with brilliant messaging mind @anatosaurus.bsky.social and share it widely. And give her a follow.

Anand Giridharadas @anandwrites.bsky.social · Feb 20

The month of moping ends now.

Here is an incredibly practical plan for fighting fascism. And it involves you acting, not waiting for Democratic spinal growth.

Let’s go. Watch and share Anat Shenker-Osorio’s brilliance.

open.substack.com/pub/anandwri...

WATCH: An *actual* plan to beat fascism

A masterclass from political sage Anat Shenker-Osorio on how you can fight back against Trump II, create "social proof," mobilize your community, stop waiting for Democrats, and start getting it DONE

open.substack.com

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · Feb 26

Republicans no longer pretending to staff customer (voters) service hotline. Keep having town halls, speak to empty chair or make paper mache puppet of your MAGA Rep - you can burn in effigy after you record constituents yelling that we demand an end to the hostile takeover of our government.

Amanda Terkel @aterkel.bsky.social · Feb 26

NEW — House Republicans are putting the brakes on town halls after blowback over the Trump administration's cuts.

One GOP aide said House Republican leaders are urging lawmakers to stop engaging in them altogether.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

House Republicans hit the brakes on town halls after blowback over Trump's cuts

A number of Republican lawmakers faced significant pushback in their home districts over Trump and Elon Musk's slashing of the federal government.

www.nbcnews.com

emily nagoski @enagoski.bsky.social · Feb 26

Hi hello are you a sex educator on the blue skies? TELL ME WHO YOU ARE and what your specialty is. I have to decline many podcasts etc this year bc: writing, and I'd love to make a list of people to recommend instead of me!

Please spread the word!

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · Feb 24

a lot to process but great news overall

text says: when you get to the part in TURNED GAY BY THE EXISTENTIAL DREAD THAT I MAY ACTUALLY BE A CHARACTER IN A CHUCK TINGLE BOOK where its revealed that we are all, in fact, characters in a chuck tingle book. image is wiiam dafoe looking skyward with dread

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Depresh Mode with John Moe @depreshmode.bsky.social · Feb 24

Opening of this week's episode...

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · Feb 24

if you are the kind of guy who thinks a lot of big thoughts about how you would TOTALLY punch a Nazi if you ever got the chance, I have great (meaning, terrible) news for you about how many public places you can go now where that’s a genuinely useful attitude to have

Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social · Feb 24

If you're a white dude with some flexibility in your life, get a group of your like-minded bros together & go to these events to act as counterbalance to these "private security forces." Get in their way. Occupy space. Ask for their IDs. Outnumber them. Make their fascism difficult.

Kaye Thornbrugh @kayethornbrugh.bsky.social · Feb 23

UPDATE: The Coeur d’Alene Press spoke with the woman who was dragged out of a town hall for heckling legislators, confirmed which security firm worked the event and spoke with Kootenai County Sheriff Bob Norris and Coeur d’Alene Police Chief Lee White about the events.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Feb 23

being obsessed with IQ is a good sign that you have nothing in your life to give you actual meaning. (also a good sign you have bell curve-esque beliefs about human equality)

Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · Feb 22

Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.

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rstevens 👻💨 @rstevens.bsky.social · Feb 23

your outie lives in a functioning democracy

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Scarleteen @scarleteen.com · Feb 23

Reposting our comprehensive list of FREE resources and direct services (that’s us too) that don’t call the police. Share widely!

Scarleteen @scarleteen.com · Nov 18

We want to make sure that you know about -- and share -- some more safe direct help resources available on Scarleteen and elsewhere, as well as some content on our site that might now or soon be particularly relevant to you if you live in the United States. (1/9)

List of resources all of which are available in plain text in this post thread.

List of resources all of which are available in plain text in this post thread.

List of resources all of which are available in plain text in this post thread.

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“Fast Lain to Hell” Kaplan 🏳️‍🌈💗🏳️‍⚧️ @lainkaplan.bsky.social · Feb 23

Become ungovernable and live your truth. That is the only way to survive and build a new society for all.

How are queer people seen as political? Judith Butler writes in Undoing Gender,

“Queer people, through their bodies, style and relationships, make us question what is real and show us that the existing social order is not absolute.

They demonstrate that our gendered beliefs about the world, which also shape our cultural customs and rituals, are not set in stone and that a different life is possible.”

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🤖ScottsRobots🤖 @scottsrobots.bsky.social · Feb 13

One of my dearest friend's wonderful daughter has been diagnosed with a rare brain tumor and need financial help.

If you can spare anything it would mean a lot to me personally.

Please share!

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

Donate to Support Edie Hedges through Cancer Treatments, organized by Alexandra Orton

This past Halloween, Mellissa Betts and Jared Hedges received a call fro… Alexandra Orton needs your support for Support Edie Hedges through Cancer Treatments

www.gofundme.com

emily nagoski @enagoski.bsky.social · Feb 20

Today in Working Hard to Prove What Everyone Already Knew But Thanks for Documenting It for the Future, Assuming We Have One

Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · Feb 20

Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion in 2021, ProPublica found in a first-of-its-kind data analysis.

Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.

ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.

www.propublica.org

emily nagoski @enagoski.bsky.social · Feb 20

Why is it so hard for cis journalists to write about trans people in a way that assumes trans people exist and are people?

That's a rhetorical question, I know why, please don't explain it, I'm just enraged.

emily nagoski @enagoski.bsky.social · Feb 20

We need a phase when all stories about trans people can only be written by trans people, so we don't get garbage like this over and over. Cisgender journalists, please decline these stories and refer your editor to a trans journalist. FFS.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · Feb 19

The Washington Post's treatment of the Trump administration's anti-trans eliminationist language and policy here is appalling.

What *is* that second paragraph, in particular, and for what other groups would the Post consider it acceptable to just describe as a "philosophy"?

By Fenit Nirappil and Dan Diamond
The federal health department escalated the Trump administration’s campaign against transgender protections Wednesday, releasing public guidance that asserts a person’s sex is “unchangeable” and launching a website that promotes orders aimed at transgender people.

The moves by the Department of Health and Human Services represent a substantial shift in the government’s philosophy on transgender and nonbinary issues, toward one that rejects the idea that Americans can identify with a gender other than their sex at birth. The new information aligns with President Donald Trump’s executive orders on the subject.

The new website and guidance are among HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s first policy moves since he assumed his new role last week. Kennedy has emphasized that chronic disease would be his top focus, but he has previously criticized gender transition care for minors and the presence of transgender girls in female sports.

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · Feb 20

This is how the hostile takeover of our government and armed robbery of our money is going. One month in and they're completed 1/3rd of the Project 2025 agenda.

www.project2025.observer?utm_source=w...

Project 2025 Tracker

Track the progress on Project 2025

www.project2025.observer

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Gin @ginjones.bsky.social · Feb 19

#DidThisToday Ordered free covid tests, partly to show there is an ongoing demand for them, before they decide to cancel the program (again). special.usps.com/testkits

COVID Home Tests | USPS

COVID Home Tests | USPS

special.usps.com

emily nagoski @enagoski.bsky.social · Feb 20

"biological truth" as understood by ::checks notes:: a lawyer without credential or expertise. Cool.

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · Feb 20

I hope whoever voted for MAHA chokes

Citing ‘Biological Truth,’ Kennedy Issues Guidance Recognizing Only Two Sexes

The new guidance follows President Trump’s demand that the Health and Human Services Department align with his executive order barring transgender athletes from women’s sports.