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Lilith Ferreyra-Carroll @trasinscneach.bsky.social · 14h

Ireland has a population of 5m and we've a waiting list approaching 15 years. Why? Because their mandatory, archaic and traumatic psychiatric and psychological assessments are a deliberate bottleneck to ensure as few people as possible can access healthcare a nurse can do!

Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 20h

The ‘Transit’ gender clinic in Spain has a 3 WEEK waiting list! 😳😳😳

It covers a population of 8 million, (equivalent to the population of Scotland & Wales combined, or 1/7th of the population of England) It has a total of 43 staff, a majority of whom are part-time, working 6-7 hours per week!

Trans health waiting lists are a political choice

I’m just back from an awesome trans healthcare conference in Norway (blog on that to follow). Here I wanted to share information from a presentation by the founder of the transit trans health…

growinguptransgender.com

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Fae’rynn (Phantom Futch) @faerynnistired.itch.io · 3h

lesbians on this app will be like “here’s this great feminist thought” one second and then “here’s this great sicko lesbian idea about women disassembling one another” and i just think that’s so hot of us

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Public Universehell Girlfriend 🏳️‍⚧️ @girlfriend.bsky.social · 3h

I try to be especially vigilant about AIDS denialism because preventing AIDS deaths is in that mental space for me of a struggle that ties people together. If someone is denying AIDS then it's like, just on a practical level that isn't a person who can share community with me.

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Fae’rynn (Phantom Futch) @faerynnistired.itch.io · 50m

it’s not hard to add trans women into an animated show.

step one: you add a woman

step two: you say she’s trans

that’s it. that’s all you gotta do

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BT Bigelow @ chilltown @btbigelowart.bsky.social · 2d

Ah I just realized a cashapp link would be more effective I’m sorry. For my buddy who is homeless and desperately scraping funds together-

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Misha (not a girl) @mishacopyninja.bsky.social · 8h

Some people seem to think that those who wear masks out in the street and talk about COVID prevention in 2025 are "the left's equivalent to anti-vaxxers".

Which is actually very depressing considering how we're usually the only ones that care to read scientific studies and know how to.

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 2h

As a deaf person with a deaf kid, I'm the first to admit IDEA isn't perfect. I fight people's (often willful) misinterpretations of the Least Restrictive Environment every day. Just gave a lecture at BU about how change is needed. Deleting all legal oversight in the middle of the night isn't it.

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 1h

A woman asks her partner "what do you get up to for ninety minutes in the shower?" her partner replies "normal stuff." We cut to her in the shower. She hunches over, one hand against the wall, hair obscuring her face. She says "weak..." she pause for a bit. Then once again she says "weak..."

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ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 1h

an Indigenous Peoples Day reminder that borders are bullshit and every Indigenous person from across the Americas deserves to be in the US more than every person of European origin

fuck borders, fuck ICE, land back.

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Mhairi Forrest🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🤟🤟🤟 @mhairiforrest.bsky.social · 17h

More ASL signs for Fall & Halloween in the link (w Spanish vocabulary). I share these slides with families and schools wanting to learn ASL.

#ASL #Deaf #DeafEducation

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Mhairi Forrest🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🤟🤟🤟 @mhairiforrest.bsky.social · 18h

ASL AUTUMN or FALL
docs.google.com/presentation...
#ASL #Deaf

Picture with orange background and Fall leaves. Black cartoon girl signs ASL AUTUMN. White bald man signs the same. Autumn Otoño.

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Lite @litetheironman.bsky.social · 10h

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May “Bunny” Peterson 🦄 (Mostly Updates ) @goddessblade.bsky.social · 18d

Awwww 🥰🥰🥰

montyspiddr

every time a gay boy comes out as a straight girl an angel gains its wings and the sun shines a bit brighter in the sky

#mecore #tho it is fun to be a gay boy sometimes i won't lie :3 #transhet #trans

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Shannon McKinnion @shannonmck.bsky.social · 2d

Trying to make though my last quarter of graduate school, after the DoE yanked away my financial aid.

gofund.me/b179de574

Donate to Help Shannon Complete her Masters!!!, organized by Shannon McKinnion

Hello! My name is Shannon McKinnion. I'm a midlife geology graduate student fin… Shannon McKinnion needs your support for Help Shannon Complete her Masters!!!

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antifa’s sleepiest soldier @emilydwarfield.bsky.social · 9h

I’m 30 or 40 years old and all I want is to get paid enough money to want to be alive so I can help other people want to be alive

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Mattslew Batberg-Mothfit (any/all) @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social · 13h

Explain to me why “conversion therapy” is banned in 28 countries and ABA is not, when they have the same creator (O. Ivar Lovaas) and utilize similar if not identical principles, techniques, and goals (forced assimilation).

Mattslew Batberg-Mothfit (any/all) @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social · 13h

Autism $peaks is the largest and most popular Autism organization (among allistics), who continues to be 100% in support of ABA. They have lobbyists who push ABA as the “gold standard Autism treatment.” It utilizes same practices as “conversion therapy,” which is currently banned in 28 countries.

Mattslew Batberg-Mothfit (any/all) @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social · 14h

ABA (Applied Behavioral Analysis) is the “gold standard” of “treatment” for Autism, and was created by the person as “Conversion therapy” (see Lovaas) with similar techniques and goals. It’s torture that continues to have widespread support and acceptance.

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Fae’rynn (Phantom Futch) @faerynnistired.itch.io · 8h

lesbians

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museo_ghosts @noahangell.bsky.social · 19h

The Benin Bronzes have *always* belonged to the Oba of Benin Kingdom - that's been the case for centuries. That Europeans are still confused about this speaks to their own ignorance.

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Restitution row: how Nigeria’s new home for the Benin bronzes ended up with clay replicas

The public display of artefacts looted by British colonial forces at the new Museum of West African Art was supposed to be the crowning glory of a decades-long restitution effort. What went wrong?

www.theguardian.com

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Alyssa Returns @astralexistence.bsky.social · 15h

It’s wild how much trans women are stigmatized for engaging in behavior that’s seen as completely normal in cis women

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

Vaccinate your kids. Christ almighty.

NBC News @nbcnews.com · 2d

A bubbling measles outbreak in the upstate of South Carolina has forced 153 unvaccinated children out of the classroom and into quarantine for a minimum of 21 days.

Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks

At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.

nbcnews.to

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Autumn @alpacawax.bsky.social · 2d

autumnalpaca.carrd.co
Venmo: AlpacaWax

Thank you <3

Immediate need is 10-20 for food tonight, 125 for shelter tomorrow. 130 after instant transfer fees between Kofi/Paypal. 550 gets us a week, dad can pay another Wed. Anything helps, needed before 11am EST

Where to Help

Trying Hard to Survive

autumnalpaca.carrd.co

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♡ Kate's haunted emporium 👻 🎃 🇬🇹~ FREE 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 @katespeace.bsky.social · 1d

Please PLEASE read this. Be there for Black trans youth, too. Don't forget about them.

Black Trans Lives Matter.

Capital B @capitalb.bsky.social · 1d

“In this environment that we’re in right now, it feels like an understatement to say that there’s misinformation being spread about this community. People really forget that we’re human beings.”

No One Was Helping Black Transgender Youth. So These Parents Stepped In.

A new nonprofit provides resources to Black families of transgender and nonbinary youth at a moment of heightened political hostility.

capitalbnews.org

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History is What's Happening @historyiswhat.bsky.social · 23h

Do you remember?

old photo of a wall with graffiti reading: Marijana Matters it wuz Legal befor Bitchstopher Colombitch CAME HERE

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Sylvia Wrath @wyrdwulf-online.bsky.social · 23h

listening 2 the same song on repeat for 3 hours is fine and normal actually

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 20h

The ‘Transit’ gender clinic in Spain has a 3 WEEK waiting list! 😳😳😳

It covers a population of 8 million, (equivalent to the population of Scotland & Wales combined, or 1/7th of the population of England) It has a total of 43 staff, a majority of whom are part-time, working 6-7 hours per week!

Trans health waiting lists are a political choice

I’m just back from an awesome trans healthcare conference in Norway (blog on that to follow). Here I wanted to share information from a presentation by the founder of the transit trans health…

growinguptransgender.com

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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 8h

Canada - Around 30 Atikamekw women come forward in Quebec class action alleging forced sterilizations

Lawsuit led by 2 Atikamekw women who claim they were sterilized without their free or informed consent www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Around 30 Atikamekw women come forward in class action alleging forced sterilizations | CBC News

Around Atikamekw 30 women have come forward as part of a class-action lawsuit against the Lanaudière regional health authority, for forced or non-consensual sterilizations. The lawsuit covers patients...

www.cbc.ca

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