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Ben Passmore @benpassmore.bsky.social · 8d

today is the day my book Black Arms To Hold You Up officially comes out. about 5-7 years of hard ass work finally in the world. i’m mfing terrified 😂

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 19h

absolutely one of the most incandescent talents of his generation. made music for all time. a heavy loss.

FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 19h

R.I.P. ICON D’Angelo 🙏🏾🕊️

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 19h

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNcO...

Trans Oral History: Miss Major "Everybody Transitions"

YouTube video by transhistory

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 19h

I guess adding "How Does It Feel" to the syllabus since D'Angelo's adonis belt is canon queer history. 😮‍💨 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V2X...

D'Angelo — Untitled (How Does It Feel) (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by Simple Music

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 19h

Miss Major's interview with the Trans Oral History Project was already on my syllabus for today. nyctransoralhistory.org/interview/mi...

Miss Major – NYC Trans Oral History Project

Archive of interviews with trans-identified people who have called New York City their home.

nyctransoralhistory.org

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ACLU @aclu.org · 1d

The trailblazing transgender rights activist Miss Major has passed away at the age of 78.

Miss Major was a lifelong organizer and participant in the ballroom scene. She took part in the 1969 Stonewall Riots and was injured by the police — but she kept fighting.

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 1d

See what he’s doing here? Beware, you’re going to see a lot of this shit in the coming days: the conflation of the colonizers and the colonized, of the perpetrators and victims of genocide. Insidious—a beer summit of genocide denial. A flattening of the “daily experiences” of killers & killed.

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Dr Rebecca Hall I’m Spartacus! @wakerevolt.bsky.social · 8d

I’ve been working on this for 2 years. There have bumps along the way, crazy drama that could be in a soap, but the time is now. Help me build a freedom school. Help me fight fascism:

Dr Rebecca Hall I’m Spartacus! @wakerevolt.bsky.social · 8d

www.kickstarter.com/projects/wak...

Wake Productions

An AfroFuturist Education Project in the Black Radical Tradition

www.kickstarter.com

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 1d

fair enough 😂

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 1d

sign me up!

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 1d

Not defending the original critique but just pointing out that wars result in massive carbon output and release thousands of tons of toxins into the atmosphere in addition to causing mass death which is… different than not adding to the current population.

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 3d

As I get deeper into working on my new book project, I will be posting more about it on Patreon-- any amount of money pledged per month gives you access to things like in-process thumbnails, sketches, side quests, etc. and helps me do the work. www.patreon.com/c/solomonbra...

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Muscle Distribution @muscledistribution.bsky.social · 3d

FEMALE MISBEHAVIOR: THE FILMS OF MONIKA TREUT opens at @anthologyfilm.bsky.social today! Seven films that have all been out circulation in the US for years, including the queer classics SEDUCTION: THE CRUEL WOMAN and GENDERNAUTS.

Tickets and info:
www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screeni...

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LittlePuss Press @littlepuss.net · 4d

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DELUXE PACK PRE-ORDER | Persona by Aoife Josie Clements (Paperback) — LittlePuss Press

A trans woman discovers pornography of herself she has no memory of making, only to find herself led to an unimaginably deeper evil. “The year’s great work of literary horror.” —Gretchen Felker-Mar...

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 5d

And who is the author of this op-ed? The billionaire CEO of an asset management firm who helped author the compact.

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 4d

What… is the homeless industrial complex? Because they can’t mean real estate speculators…

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 4d

I think it’s totally fine to be historically inaccurate if your fiction is good but historically inaccurate Holocaust narrative in schlocky, somehow saccharine horror is just unreadable.

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 6d

You mean “please ignore the hill of dead trans people we’re standing on”

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 6d

At this point im starting to wonder if hearing the words “purity test” are a dogwhistle because the most shit opinions in the universe will almost always immediately follow it

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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 6d

The flotilla carrying Jewish Currents reporter Emily Wilder has been captured by the Israeli military. Please contact Emily's senators and representatives—Adam Schiff, Alex Padilla, and Jimmy Gomez—and urge them to advocate for her safe release from Israeli detention

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 6d

Every single time a decision about K-12 or college education is made with "career readiness" at the forefront, we are doing harm to students, our mission, and society at large.