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Xander Odell 🍉
@writerodell.bsky.social
Transman Queer crafter, writer, chocoholic
Trans rights are human rights
Black lives matter
Kink at Pride!
Disabled parent of two wonderful disabled men
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Hey you can support some trans folks on the Trans Day of Remembrance!

Donate to the Trans Lifeline if you can. Or to someone's gofundme. It's a rough time out there.

translifeline.org
Home - Trans Lifeline
Radicalcommunity care Trans Lifeline provides trans peer support for our community that’s been divested from police since day one. We’re run by and for
translifeline.org
November 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Today is the Transgender Day of Remembrance. Trans people have literally always been here; every time I see someone sneering "oh but there were no trans people when I was in high school," well. I dated a trans girl in high school, and was close friends with a trans guy.
November 20, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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I don't know if there are any trans kids living in Alberta on bluesky but if there are, I need to beg something of you:

Stay with us. Survive. Live. Please stay.

It is going to be hard, I know. I'm so sorry. The government doesn't want you to exist, but I do.

I will fight for you.
November 19, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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I've now heard from 3 authors targeted on X by a scammer impersonating Lois McMaster Bujold. Bujold impersonator refers author to "Eleanor Wood at Spectrum Literary", also an impersonation. Goal: to sell editing svcs. Scam is impersonating multiple authors & agents writerbeware.blog/2025/11/14/i...
If a Famous Author Calls, Hang Up: Anatomy of an Impersonation Scam - Writer Beware
You open your email program one morning. The usual work stuff. Some spam (annoying that it got past your filters!). A couple of newsletters (maybe later). You sip your coffee, scroll down. Wait. What’...
writerbeware.blog
November 16, 2025 at 6:22 PM
America, it's your turn next.
holy shit: “Among the 2,000 UK adults surveyed, 85% were unaware that Britain forcibly transported more than 3 million Africans to the Caribbean, 89% did not know that Britain enslaved people in the Caribbean for more than 300 years” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Caribbean reparations leaders in ‘historic’ first UK visit to press for justice
CRC mission will seek to deepen public understanding of Britain’s colonial legacy and its lasting impact
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Strega Nona fanart! I think more of us should draw fanart of our childhood faves. What were the kids’ books that you remember fondly?
November 16, 2025 at 10:26 PM
HUZZAH!
Sssssooooo... yeah. (Wow!) 😳🤗
✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨

Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
November 16, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Hi. Could at least 40 people buy a Life of Sharks 2026 Calendar? For a project I’m working on*

thelifeofsharks.com

*my overdraft
November 15, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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And this is the essence of pedocon theory and why bodily autonomy is The Fight

People who aren’t them are not fully human and don’t possess any right to bodily autonomy; after that, sexual predation is an utter inevitability
Okay real talk? I kind of don’t even care about what Epstein was or wasn’t attracted to, what matters is what he fucking did and what people participated in and enabled

There’s what gets you horny and then there’s deciding that satisfying your horniness is important enough to ruin someone’s life
November 14, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Art is resistance.
As always, today is a great day to support artists, writers, creators of all sorts. If you have the means, buy a book, sign up for someone's Patreon, commission an art piece. It's also a lovely day to leave a nice comment, post a short review, spread the word about someone's work. Everything helps.
November 14, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Are you located in the DC-Baltimore-Philadelphia-New York corridor?

Have you always wanted to have your very own 11 foot long papier-mâché hammerhead shark?

Now available for free!

Perfect for museums, community centers, or your living room!

Save this lovely creature from imminent destruction!
November 14, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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We built a team of young Black, Asian, queer, and trans staffers at Teen Vogue, and they deserve the world. They are passionate, whip smart, and incredibly talented. Many of them are now without jobs — please consider donating to their GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/help-laido...
Donate to Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover, organized by Lex McMenamin
More than half the team at Teen Vogue was laid off this week by our parent com… Lex McMenamin needs your support for Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover
www.gofundme.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:45 PM
*gentle hugs*
Be safe, lovely one.
November 11, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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I understand why we shut down American airspace for a few days after 9-11 to avoid a repeat attack but imagine shutting down American airspace to avoid releasing the Epstein files.
November 7, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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"The average voter believes a SNAP recipient gets $20/day, more than 3 times the actual amount of $6."
November 8, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Andrew Mountbatten Windsor losing all of his titles over just the possibility of the Epstein files coming out tells me all I need to know about just how bad the contents are, and why the Republicans are so desperate to never let it out.
The thing that’s so fucked up about the Epstein files is that if they’re bad bad for Trump, it’s gonna come out, and every Republican who knew what they were doing protecting him is gonna get flayed for it. And if they weren’t bad for him at all, they’d be out already.
November 8, 2025 at 1:34 AM
For the day crowd, the first batches of cards have gone out but there are plenty left. We can't make it on my disability alone so I'm selling greeting cards to make up for our SNAP benefits. Be the reason someone smiles when they open the envelope. Pls share & much thankiness.
We lost our SNAP benefits and are struggling to get by on just my disability, let alone with food costs. I'm selling handmade cards to help make ends meet, $4.00 each, take your pick, first come first serve. All designs in the comments. Msg me and we can make it happen. Pls share & thnx!

North Pole
November 6, 2025 at 8:55 PM
We lost our SNAP benefits and are struggling to get by on just my disability, let alone with food costs. I'm selling handmade cards to help make ends meet, $4.00 each, take your pick, first come first serve. All designs in the comments. Msg me and we can make it happen. Pls share & thnx!

North Pole
November 6, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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Transgender for everyone, motherfuckers 🏳️‍⚧️
November 5, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Fuck.
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.

now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
November 4, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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November 4, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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October 30, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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I think 🤔 I see the problem.
October 30, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Sharing because I hope this pattern will spread.
Yoooo ABQ! Burqueños 505 #NMTrue . Share these around if you have the cash go spend money and make sure they know you are there because they are feeding people!
October 29, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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Everyone needs to read this thread.

Everyone.
🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style.

Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.
October 28, 2025 at 4:00 AM