Just once in my life, I'd like to read a message from my college's administration that involved a plan that wasn't outright hostile to faculty. God, being a teacher sucks so much now. It wasn't like this even 10 years ago.

@awkwardturtlefish.bsky.social from 2020 to 2023:

I was leftist before I was trans. The only reason I even figured out I was trans is because I read “Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue” written by Leslie Feinberg, who was an outspoken communist.

My original motivation for picking it up was to learn better solidarity with my queer friends.

look! consequences!! people still care about this stuff no matter how much the oligarchs try to tell us its a brave new racist world

ChatGPT wrote the IEP

go the fuck outside. find a goth club. go there on a kink / queer night. go even if you think “you won’t fit in” (cheat code: just wear black).

be friendly. give yourself time. repeat as necessary. you will make exceptional friends.

life is for the living. do it scared.

🏳️‍⚧️🖤🏳️‍🌈

Zohran said all the gay letters, he’s the one.

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.

Chiitan has a dream.
I hope that one day the term LGBT will become a thing of the past.
I will continue to spread my message until we live in a world where everyone can love freely and is free from persecution and discrimination.
Until then, let's all support each other🤍

"Every trans person who doesn't leave the country has no hope and neither does their resistance" buys into assumptions about the state's invincibility and the weakness of trans communities that are not just false but actively damaging.

Sadly, I'm seeing it a lot more lately. So, this thread...

if you work for a publication that does this and have any idea how much $$$ your outlet makes from affiliate sale commissions on prime day, DM or signal me: jason.404

also interested if you are a journalist who is asked to do these deal roundups as part of your job

It's not that I won't vote for Gavin Newsom if he's the presidential candidate. It's that if the Democratic Party chooses him, then they are communicating to me that they actively do not want my vote, and believe they don't need it. I will simply honor their wishes

IS THIS YOUR FRIEND, LIBERALS? YOU WANT THIS MAN???

hi, cis folks in california!

this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out.

he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841

want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

Me too. I hope we’re thinking about them similarly

"99.97 percent of families, even when given the option, chose to let their children learn about LGBTQ+ people."
Nice result, and it reinforces everything Montgomery County said to SCOTUS before its theocrats made their dehumanizing ruling. open.substack.com/pub/erininth...

"Solar energy is anticipated to be the world’s main source of energy by 2050" hell yeah

I teach community college in Oklahoma, and our literacy rates are so abysmal that much of what I teach is dev ed reading. And the college (due to the state) is trying to phase out dev ed entirely, so pretty much any composition or lit course has needed dev ed instruction by default. It's awful.

i think he might be dead

BNUUY

may i offer you a bnuuy in these trying times…?

#dnd #dndoc #harengon #…fuzzy

anyway, reminder that Brando Sando is a mormon in good standing aka he tithes 10% of his income to a church that just announced they filed a brief saying that protecting trans rights infringes on their religious freedom ✌️

Ah so now we are in History 2, got it.