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Nora 🐝
@elanorjb.bsky.social
PDX, some kind of forest gremlin.

also a trans femme mom lawyer writer.

2023 Literary Arts Fellow, words at Slate, Rumpus, Catapult (RIP), etc. More charming irl
“Awakening from the Dream: a trans woman reads Wheel of Time” fuck it somebody’s got to commission me
November 26, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The elementary school fall party was weird this year like, there were still a few potters, most with parents matching, and like the parents had this leer about them like yes they know and this is on purpose
November 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
5th Circuit stay before it even gets to SCOTUS
November 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Not all Trump I district judges are fully terrible. Some are (he’d be in prison but for a couple!) but others were just like, the available Republican in a blue city/ state

But then that’s what Trump appeals judges are there for, uniformly awful hatchet people primed to slap down things like this
November 18, 2025 at 7:41 PM
it's not true! it's not true physically. it's not true biologically. it's also not true socially, or legally within all the most authoritative demarcations of "legal sex." it's just a giant middle finger to every level of practical tangible real life, behind a "we mean facts not feelings" smirk
November 7, 2025 at 12:00 AM
YES
November 5, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Gen X may still see us as a dinner party thought experiment but for young people, you’re coming after their friends
November 5, 2025 at 6:40 PM
One of the reasons that the anti-trans attacks are so ferocious is that Gen Z and younger have grown up in a world where trans people exist as real legible members of their social worlds and these mvmts see it as the last chance to stomp that out. But it’s likely too late
November 5, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I'd like to meet those 6% "trans rights haven't gone far enough... and that's why I'm voting Republican" voters
November 5, 2025 at 12:58 AM