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The Verge @theverge.com · 3d

Private corporations have the power to de facto censor content with no accountability, a fact that leaves trans and queer creators in a precarious spot.

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Bæddelzebub 😈 @cassiesandwich.bsky.social · 9d

Hello everyone! I'm excited to announce an all new anthology from the Secret Trans Writing Lair! Inspired by the month of masquerade, this seasonal bundle includes seven all-new stories of devilish disguises and macabre delights-

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Cover of the STWL Presents: Costumes and Masks

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Beedok/Fern 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 @beedokfern.bsky.social · 6d

Reminder, if you want some sapphics with swords, I do have some. Have art of a few of them and links to where you can buy the stories they're in.
beedok.itch.io
www.amazon.com/stores/Fern-...

Being Not Afraid: a story staring a trans lesbian spell-sword adventurer.

Her Lady of Steel and Fire with a lesbian knight who mostly uses a sword, but will grab a poleaxe or spear when available.

Ne'avo from Waking Up A Goddess, disaster trans lesbian butch with her massive magic blade that's the only thing keeping her alive in battle.

Auguste, modern day fencer from the Harem Protagonist + Sequel, genderfluid lesbian who has to work through a lot of repression.

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Erin Elkin @shadell.itch.io · 7d

My “do not invest hope in specific politicians” plan is under a lot of stress here…:

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 8d

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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alyson “october” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 9d

put trans women in your fiction. don’t be a fucking coward.

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Erin Elkin @shadell.itch.io · 9d

Both tbh, but it’s a lot easier to mine the nostalgia toward magical girls for themes.

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🔞AnemoneArt @anemoneart.bsky.social · May 21

I've had this pose for Hades (The Hades Calculus) in mind for a while, but it never materialized quite as clearly until last night. A goddess so somber as the lord of the machine dead should stand as a statue, a monolith, so that even the cracks on her facade may speak more of power than frailty.

A woman seen from the front, wearing heavy black robes that cover all but her arms and a long v neck down to the navel. Her body and robes bear glowing golden cracks, breaking into spots of light and smoke. On the background, a stylized pomegranate tree with unfeasibly large fruit.

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Erin Elkin @shadell.itch.io · 11d

The one has giant crosses and queen also has exactly one arms on each side of her body and a pair of legs, QED.

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Erin Elkin @shadell.itch.io · 11d

I swear, 9/10 times I try to come up with an on the nose evil corporate or research group; I give it the perfunctory search and an org with that name already exists.

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Typewriter Skeleton @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 12d

Oslo University Hospital caught using trans patients' journals for research purposes:
- Without the patients' consent to participate in research
- Affecting minors
- 1700 of them
- Taking highly sensitive information from said journals

This is a HUGE breach.

Anine Hartmann @aninehartmann.bsky.social · 12d

Tidligere i år meldte vi et forskningsprosjekt til redelighetsutvalget ved OUS og UiO.

Nå er forskerne felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.

Oslo universitetssykehus felt for ulovlig forskning på transpersoner

Forskere ved Oslo universitetssykehus har forsket på transpersoner uten godkjenning. Nå er de felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.

www.forskning.no

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Erin Elkin @shadell.itch.io · 12d

Mei is, to the enlightened, parodixally somehow less obviously a lady than Gero; which kinda highlights a strength of the scale centered on who can see it, I think.

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.bsky.social · 12d

the Mizuki Coefficient. 0.0 mizu indicates that the character in question is not a tgirl and nobody believes them to be one. ~0.25 is just the tgirls see it. ~0.5 is that queer/trans ppl as a whole see it but the straights dont. ~0.75 is that everyone except the straight guys see it. ~0.95 is that shes basically canon but it hasnt been told to the viewer directly yet. ~1.0 is that she is confirmed and the transness is relevant to her character

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Erin Elkin @shadell.itch.io · 12d

Would Mei Marriagetoxin fall closer to .75 or .5? Gero is obviously somewhere .15-.25…

Mei’s fandom wiki talk page lacks years of back and forth sniping over whether you can call Mei a girl; which feels like the definitive sign of a score over .75, but that might also be a popularity thing.

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Velvette @velvette.bsky.social · 15d

Since some people are discovering Ranked Competitive Breast Growth reminder that I have made a free amateur audiobook reading (with some acting) of the public chapters and side stories!

ether.aetherial.xyz/ranked-compe...

Ranked Competitive Breast Growth audiobook

My amateur audiobook for the public chapters of Ranked Competitive Breast Growth by Beth and Talia totalling over 15 hours of narration.

ether.aetherial.xyz

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Erin Elkin @shadell.itch.io · 12d

Finally sat down to read this last night and it really is every bit as fun as people say. Brainworms for days with a surprising amount of heart and sincerity in the relationships beneath it all.

Highly recommend!

Talia "AFAB" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 13d

The compiled RCBG web-serial is now available as a singular work on Itch! Lightly edited for the medium, with some side content now incorporated into the main canon, and an amazing cover by @hdthorn.bsky.social!

Ranked Competitive Breast Growth: The Complete Serial by Talia Bhatt

All chapters of the web serial RCBG, in one convenient location!

taliabhatt.itch.io

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 13d

once again encouraging you all to support independent, worker owned, billionaire free News media when and how you are able

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 13d

Installing someone like Bari Weiss as the head of a major news organization isn’t even about profit or longevity. In effect it’s about continuing to shrink the traditional news industry smaller and smaller and weaker and weaker and less and less journalism based until it ceases to exist

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Erin Elkin @shadell.itch.io · 13d

I find them mildly annoying, but they do stop slowdown with long pieces of prose or a ton of comments/suggestions

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Erin Elkin @shadell.itch.io · 13d

Tabs can solve the issue two if you 1. Prefer single files for organization and 2. Don’t hate tabs

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Talia "AFAB" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 13d

The compiled RCBG web-serial is now available as a singular work on Itch! Lightly edited for the medium, with some side content now incorporated into the main canon, and an amazing cover by @hdthorn.bsky.social!

Ranked Competitive Breast Growth: The Complete Serial by Talia Bhatt

All chapters of the web serial RCBG, in one convenient location!

taliabhatt.itch.io

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Erin Elkin @shadell.itch.io · 13d

Like, I don’t think that’s what you intend. I respect you a lot as an advocate.

But this seems to offer a model of volition that demands a lot out of people who are often the most structurally disadvantaged in their industry.

Erin Elkin @shadell.itch.io · 13d

More, the idea that there is always a choice to say no to, in this context, being the subject of misogynistic abuse, is itself a supposition that leads much more quickly to much more immediately horrifying positions.

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Erin Elkin @shadell.itch.io · 13d

Like, I dislike “given” as a term there too, but it’s an off the cuff skeet and at the point where you’re suggesting saying capitalist institutions coerce people, particularly women, but using imperfect language is just mirroring fascism, you may be somewhat missing the forest for the trees.

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Erin Elkin @shadell.itch.io · 13d

It is fundamentally ridiculous to say that “actors are often coerced into doing things and we should acknowledge this is bad,” is a fascist take.

If we think in these terms, the initial critique critique, in suggesting AI can’t choose and humans adopts a liberal-individualist idea of consent.

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nemo @nemolimo.bsky.social · 14d

Hey friends, I need help with vet costs for my cats. I've spent all my savings on Daleks dental surgery &recent bloodwork, xrays & ultrasounds. He needs more care and Hannibal needs dental surgery now too. Please help if you can, I'm losing my shit over this www.paypal.com/pool/9iONKYl...

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Benjanun Sriduangkaew @benjanun.bsky.social · 14d

Live reading Keeping the Peace by @trishusband.itch.io. While this cyberpunk trans lesbian noir is set in Gunmetal Olympus, it can be read entirely as a standalone.

trishusband.itch.io/keeping-the-...

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