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Author of "78 Acts of Liberation: Tarot to Transform Our World" (Sounds True, 2024) Tarot & Politics zine editor • they/he 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 Bi Trans GenX Anarchist in Baltimore City www.mxlanesmith.com

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Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · Nov 16

This #TransAwarenessWeek you can materially support a transgender author living below the poverty line by ordering my book – out now from Sounds True!

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#Trans #Transgender #Transmasc #Book #Queer #FreePalestine #TransAuthor #TransWriter #Writer #Tarot #TarotSky #Witch #Leftist #Activist

This Trans Awareness Week you can support a transgender author who has been fighting for a Free Palestine for over 20 years. 78 Acts of Liberation: Tarot to Transform Our World by Lane Smith available now!

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Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 4h

Don't wait for a flood, in these hard times it's more important than ever that we really get to know our neighbors and show up for each other 😏

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Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 4h

Day 13: In the Woods Somewhere – Hozier

When I awoke
The moon still hung
The night so black
That the darkness hums

I raised myself
My legs were weak
I prayed my mind
Be good to me

An awful noise
Filled the air
I heard a scream
In the woods somewhere

#HalloweenCountdownSongs

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In the Woods Somewhere

YouTube video by Hozier - Topic

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Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 4h

I have two sides:

Saturday was the Fall Harvest & Arts Festival with my kids 🏵️

Sunday was Subscape right after stick fighting class 🤘🏻

Fall Harvest & Arts Festival flyer for October 11, 2025

Brown paper wrapped dahlias bouquet on display at the Fall Festival

Subscape 2025 (all ages, free) Oct 10-12 flyer with a long list of bands playing and a scary green crab with claws that look like Venus flytraps

Glorian (a person with long hair and a mustache wearing a pink tank top showing snake tattoos on the shoulder with blue jeans and converse sneakers) performing in front of a red curtain under strings of twinkly lights at Mobtown Ballroom for Subscape

Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 14h

I think there was a group of them together. They were definitely spoiling for a fight, and I wasn't about to give them *anything* they wanted.

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Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 15h

Thank you! 🥰

Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 15h

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Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 17h

I'm having a beer, listening to some bands, and going back to my car without getting into any fights (so may it be). ✨

Photo of a can of Space Jellyfish IPA on a bar with strings of lights hung in the dark background.

Photo of Lane in a full length bathroom mirror wearing a black mask, black jeans and boots, and a "Protect Trans People" t-shirt.

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Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 17h

They were across four lanes of traffic and I figured I'd save my voice, but I like your approach! They were at least as offended by my mask, which is how I knew they were talking to me, lol.

Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 17h

First time in my life anyone has ever yelled at me on the street to call me a "fucking faggot" and I had to laugh, cuz I kinda felt seen. But I still flipped them off.

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Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 1d

Day 12: Final Girl by CHVRCHES

In the final cut (in the final cut)
In the final scene (in the final scene)
There's a final girl (there's a final girl)
And you know that she should be screaming 😱

#HalloweenCountdownSongs

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CHVRCHES - Final Girl

YouTube video by CHVRCHES

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Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 2d

Day 11: You're Somebody Else
by flora cash

I'm sure there are ways to interpret this song that have nothing to do with eldritch horror/body snatching/possession but nothing else comes to mind... as a trans person... no not at all...

#HalloweenCountdownSongs

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flora cash - You're Somebody Else (Lyric Video)

YouTube video by FloraCashVEVO

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Cat Fitzpatrick @catfitzpatrick.net · 2d

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 · 2d

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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Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 2d

Ah! I can't believe I missed wishing you a happy pub day! I plead Full Moon madness!

Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 2d

Hope is a hammer. "You can act as if there’s a tomorrow worth protecting – even when your deepest, most secret heart is convinced there is no hope to be found. The beautiful thing about being in community with others is that if your hammer breaks... you can still build new things..." ❤️‍🔥🥰

Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · Jun 22

Last night, I had the privilege of delivering a keynote speech at the Locus awards. You can view the speech and read the full text here.

stone-soup.ghost.io/hammer-speech/

Hammer Speech

Last night, I got to stand up in front of the audience at the Locus Awards ceremony. I wound up presenting the Locus Award for Best Short Story (congratulations, Isabel J. Kim!) – but first, I deliver...

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Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 2d

I mean, yeah, I'm with you!! Same!

Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 2d

The sci-fi/horror reading series I'm doing on 10/16 did an intro post for me on Instagram. I'm the only trans person AND the only one not on IG in the lineup, so if you can go like the post, that would help me feel like I'm not the loser of the bunch! Thanks! 🖤

www.instagram.com/p/DPoYhyike2f/

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Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 3d

"Devils, desire & disobedience" 😈

Fin and I had a chat on Signal that you can peek at here! 👀

Enjoy!

Tarot Interviews @tarotinterviews.com · 3d

New on Tarot DMs - an interview with Lane Smith @leftlanesmith.bsky.social

Finbarre chats with the author of 78 Acts of Liberation: Tarot to Transform Our World.

Devils, desire and disobedience.

#tarot #witchsky #booksky #occult #protest

Interview with Lane Smith

"Small acts of defiance are the seeds of change"

www.tarotdms.com

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 4d

Trans rights protect EVERY GENDER. Just like the rights black people fought for protect EVERY RACE. Including white people! Y'all are enjoying the spoils of someone else's hard work every damn day.

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Georgina Kiersten @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social · 3d

I need Hollywood to look at Ryan Coogler and Jordan Peele's success in horror and give opportunities to Black women directors to do the same.

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Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 3d

Day 10: Dearly Departed by Shakey Graves

You and I both know that the house is haunted. You and I both know that that ghost is me.

You used to bite, I used to moan.
But now I mumble & you choke.
Well I ain't so scary on my own...

#HalloweenCountdownSongs

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Shakey Graves "Dearly Departed" (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

YouTube video by Dualtone Music

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Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 3d

Awesome, so glad it helped!!

Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 3d

Does this video get you in the mood?
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From the chappellroan community on Reddit: The Giver was used as the song for the opening video for Hockey Night in Canada tonight!

Explore this post and more from the chappellroan community

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Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 3d

Please, you're too good to start ragebaiting. Don't go down this road.

Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 3d

They're already peeing their pants because they know that when they say "Antifa" they mean anarchists and there's no way to identify a "founder" or "leader" or "financier" with people who organize horizontally, so they have no targets. A total mystery to them, just like the location of the clitoris.

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Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 3d

I've tried to talk about the history of antifascism in the U.S. (here & in my book) & how most people considered the fight against fascism "over" at the end of WWII but anarchists didn't; we fight fascism no matter who the target is & so have always fought Israeli apartheid. Antifa = anarchists.

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