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flurries-in-june.bsky.social
◇flurries◇ @ MFF
@flurries-in-june.bsky.social
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juniper!
sound artist, phd candidate
~writing on fur, voice, and tr/animality~

✨️trans {ΘΔ} border collie+fox✨️ she/it ◇ 27
18+(⚠️lesbianism⚠️) ◇ philly / lenapehoking

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my favorite purchase -- a gift for my wife -- from mff this weekend :) (four angles bc I am obsessed)
a little knit black cat plushie. scrunkly as fuck same thing, alternate angle 1 alternate angle 2 Alternate angle 3
December 8, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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waggin' my tail so hard
crowd shot @ MFF dance
December 7, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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saturday morning essentials
a cup of coffee and a vial of estradiol sitting on a side table
December 6, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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left my furry government ID at home but if u see this bitch come say hi 🖤
a selfie, tongue out a badge of me (in sona form), tongue out art by @kr00bs
December 5, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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☀️
ruckus, splayed out on my couch, napping in the sun (lens flares abound)
November 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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"So let us be tender with one another"
Essay excerpt: "Indeed, as Gill-Peterson and others have drawn attention to, the particular crises of temporality signaled by contemporary discourses around trans children and childhood (where the transgender child—and transness in general—is construed as a resolutely modern phenomenon and thus possesses no history to speak of) invites interrogations into the contested nature of futurity as it comes to bear on trans* life. Amidst a political landscape that has turned increasingly hostile toward trans existence (especially in the United States), the imagination of trans* futures has arguably never been a more urgent project. This is not because trans* communities are somehow newly at risk of annihilation—trans* life has always persisted and will continue to exist, regardless of the medico-juridical dialects and legal whims of the state—but rather because trans* futurities intervene, as Jian Neo Chen and micha cárdenas remind us, in “what can be captured in the other natural, universal order of time considered dialectically opposed to the rational modernity of the heteropatriarchal settler colonial state, liberal civil society, and territorial national body” (Chen and cárdenas 2019, citing Mbembe 2003, Bruyneel 2007, and Derrida 1992). Transness, like Jose Muñoz has written of queerness, is “not yet here,” yet remains warmly illuminated against horizons imbued with potentiality (Muñoz 2009). Transness, too, often requires agonizing wagers be made in the face of uncertainty, evident in the cruel optimism(s) (Berlant 2011) of transition and its existential waiting games (Malatino 2019) and in the gravity of atmospheres all too heavy with wanton violence and trans death (Stanley 2021). To be trans* carries with it the weight of fraught historicities and the levity of utopian hopes; even the mundane (magical!) act of renaming oneself participates in imagining the radical possibilities of change, ushered in by poetry: giving “name to the nameless so it can be thought” (Lor… excerpt, cont.: "If the trans* subject has so often been construed as a rupture in history, rendered, as Rita Felski has written, as “either apocalyptic or redemptive metaphor” (Felski 2006, 566), then the collective task of imagining trans* futures is imperative to the “now”; the fleeting, the ephemeral, the interstices of the has-been and the as-yet-to-come. Trans* life and its futurity thus fly in the face of what Elizabeth Freeman has called “chrononormativity,” as the social patterning of time in accordance with normative sociopolitical frameworks that, in turn, represents “a mode of implantation, a technique by which institutional forces come to seem like somatic facts” (Freeman 2010, 3). At the same time as trans* (/gender, /sexual, /whatever else) resonates sympathetically with (and thus amplifies and generates) questions of radical transformation—of gender transcendence or abolition, of post-, trans-, non-, in- and more-than-humanisms, of biomedical and technological revolution—trans* life, ever-fantastically, ever-modestly, as-ever, hangs in the balance. In the words of Juana María Rodríguez (2014, 187): “So let us be tender with one another.”
November 20, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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POV u caught her doing "important" "work"
a blurry picture of me sitting at my desk, slightly amused
November 19, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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another juniper for your consideration....:3
juniper ref sheet! by @scwambledeggs headshot comm by @corbeauverie fullbody comm by @thorn_paw a little hot and steamy comm by @kr00bs
November 18, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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he's my angel
ruckus: eyes closed, bathed in sunlight, relaxing on my messy desk
November 17, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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mmhmmm
November 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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old comm of me from @piles0fpeaches.bsky.social 🖤✨️🤍
art (by @piles0fpeaches) of me with my paws up, sticking my tongue out :3
November 15, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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cozy mood 2day
mirror selfie (i am in an oversized shirt and sweatpants)
November 13, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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voilà !!
November 10, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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ok so vcd soccer spinoff when??? (ty @sonokido.bsky.social 🖤)
art (by @sonokido) of juniper (in a blue and white soccer uniform) sliding and fist pumping in celebration
November 9, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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hanging out
pic of me and ruckus (who is perched on the couch I am sitting on)
November 8, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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obligatory
"I voted" sticker selfie
November 4, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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furry studies rocked so hard it's unreal. boundless love and gratitude to everyone involved ♥️
pic of me with minerva, the furry studies owl pic of our lovely panel !
November 1, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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furry studies! today! tune in! @furrystudies.org
furry studies conference crowd shot!!
October 31, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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absolutely exhausted but tacoma I am HERE
i am laying on a hotel bed. my feet hurt so badly
October 30, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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muse
cheese, sitting amidst houseplants, a feline silhouette against an evening sky
October 25, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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we won :) this puppy scored the game winner ☺️
gay ass panel of blue lock. isagi jumping into hiori's sweet little lap, celebrating a goal. They are holding each other face to face and have their mouths open with excitement, gazing deep into each other's eyes. The text: "Let's meet each other...Beyond our dreams!!!"
October 19, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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guarding my sunbeam, scaring off intruders
I am lounging in the sun, resting my snout on my paw
October 16, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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on an all-trans team for the queer soccer tourney this weekend
blue lock manga panel: chigiri sliding in and meowing like a little snack. barou in shambles
October 16, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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very excited to be giving a talk at this year's Furry Studies conference :3

if you need something to do this Halloween consider tuning in 🎃

the program is wonderfully stacked and I'm honored to be a part of it!! furrystudies.org @furrystudies.org
"Meet the presenters" poster for the upcoming Furry Studies conference: Juniper Clark Presenting: "Chasing our Tails: (Trans)Species Critique and Coalitional Politics" Reserve tickets for virtual or in person conference attendance at https://furrystudies.org/ Friday October 31st at Pacific Lutheran University Q: What first interested you in “furry” anthropomorphic animal characters? A: As a young (and very confused) queer person, the online furry/therian art ecosystem allowed me to explore my gender and sexuality in a way I really couldn’t have had I not stumbled onto it. Even before that point though, I very fondly remember RP-ing on those early Warrior Cats forums… Q: What does furry mean to you personally? A: Alongside providing meaningful community (important for me, as a trans critter), furry lets me imagine a queer transspecies politics in resistance to the shallow premises of humanism and its exclusionary logics. To be an animal, in this sense, is to feel, glimpse, and hear otherwise worlds, bodily configurations, and more-than-human communities. Q: Who or what inspired your fursona? A: She is me and I am her – a muddling of species as playfully speculative as it is reflective of those I consider kin. Among other things, she pays homage to home and habitat (red fox) and speaks to the broader processes of domestication I find myself embedded within (border collie).
October 14, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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the straights are not okay
excerpt from article: "Chat GPT is a large language model (LMM), and the way LLMs work is by spotting patterns in language – the bot was picking up on keywords and themes in his match’s answers and weaving them into jokes, compliments or echoes of shared interests. Where Jamil might have left an awkward “nice” or “cool”, the bot would spin his match’s love of Bali into a playful, if somewhat unimaginative, line about coconut cocktails. It made him seem, at the very least, attentive. Jamil says he doesn’t feel he tricked anyone, he sees it more as hacking the apps themselves. “Dating apps put everyone at a disadvantage – you’re competing with hundreds of other people for attention, and half the time the chats die after two or three messages. If ChatGPT helps me stand out, why wouldn’t I use it?” Still, there was one date that pricked his conscience. He was doing the usual copy-and-paste, letting ChatGPT do the heavy lifting, “when a girl started talking about how she’d had a bereavement in her family”. ChatGPT navigated her grief with composure, synthesising the kind of sympathy that made Jamil seem like a model of emotional literacy. “It said something like, ‘I’m so sorry you’re going through this, it must be really difficult – thank you for trusting me with it,’” Jamil recalls. When he met the girl in real life, she noted how supportive he’d been in his messages. “I felt bad – I think that was the only time I thought it was kind of dishonest. I didn’t tell her I’d used ChatGPT but I really tried to message her myself after that.” excerpt: "Jamil, 25, from Leicester, admits he’s a prolific Chatfisher but argues that AI is simply a workaround for what he sees as the coded jargon of modern dating. “Like, what do you mean ‘What’s my attachment style?’” he balks. “Every girl on the apps has this thing about ‘love languages’ – it’s just gibberish, but if you don’t talk about it, people are like, ‘Oh you’re a red flag.’” At first, he turned to ChatGPT in desperation. “It was just a quick thing,” he says. He works on an IT help desk and found himself trying to continue a conversation with a girl he wanted to impress while also swamped with work. “I asked ChatGPT what ‘avoidant style attachment’ meant because a girl was saying she’d been told this was her, and it explained, then added this prompt at the end like, ‘Do you want me to craft a reply?’ So I said yeah. I felt out of my depth and was also just really busy that day. I thought she was fit so I wanted to keep the momentum going.” The reply – “I think mine is ‘clingy but with snacks’, so maybe we’ll balance each other out” – proved effective. “She sent a few skull emojis, meaning she was dying laughing. I said I’d have to message her later because of work, and she replied asking if I wanted to meet – so yeah, it was, like, ‘Wow, this works.’”" excerpt: "After that she found herself checking with the bot between every message, and requesting five variations before choosing the one that sounded most like her. “Over the course of a week, I realised I was relying on it quite a lot,” she says. “And I was like, you know what, that’s fine – why not outsource my love life to ChatGPT?”" excerpt: "By the time they’d been on their third date, though, “I was using ChatGPT for our entire communication,” says Francesca. “I wasn’t even replying any more – he was basically just dating ChatGPT.” In person, their dates still lacked spark. “I was very aware that I’d taken it too far but I felt like I was in too deep by that point. I didn’t know how to get out of it, I didn’t know how to talk to this person as myself any more.”"
October 12, 2025 at 3:27 PM