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M-son

@masoninky.bsky.social

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Proud Kentuckian. 🏳️‍⚧️Doing my best to make my state a better place to live for everyone. He/him

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M-son

@masoninky.bsky.social

My last point of the year of the year on #tdor: I wish I could do this over and over and over again.

I could not imagine being in a tomb with my deadname on it and buried in a dress. I wish there was justice in the world.

A page of a graphic novel.
In the first panel, a white woman with blond hair reaches into her bag and says "oh yeah and here..."
In the second she holds out a pink lipstick.
In the third she holds it towards a gravestone and says "I thought you'd like it. It's tacky flamingo or whatever it's called. Your favorite color."
In the fourth we see the face of the gravestone. The name on it is Alvin. In pink lipstick that name is crossed out and Wanda is written above.
In the fifth the woman puts the lipstick back in the bag. She says "Hey no problem. Least I could do."
In the sixth panel she is walking away from the gravestone and the open grave with the coffin inside.

November 21, 2025 at 11:59 PM

M-son

@masoninky.bsky.social

Also for TDOR I want to remember Henry Berg-Brousseau, a young man I got to work with at the Fairness Campaign. He testified against a bathroom ban in 2015, when he was still in high school. He was forced to use the wrong bathroom and bullied because of it.

A picture of Henry, a young trans man with partially bleached hair, testifying in front of the KY Senate Education committee. He is wearing a suit. People are sitting behind him in rows of chairs. Weirdly all of them have their eyes closed but it looks like theyre just blinking.

November 21, 2025 at 5:55 PM

M-son

@masoninky.bsky.social

Trying to piece together Arty and Hope and Blair's lives to give them a decent memorial really took a toll on me. My girlfriend wrote a poem about the experience that really captures my feelings.
#tdor

Piecing together a life
From friends
Lovers
Kindergarten teachers
Anyone who will respond.

Why does it have to be this way?

Why did they deny your funeral?

I'm a stranger;
Why am I the one to care?

Who were you?

Why do they hate us?

November 21, 2025 at 5:21 PM

M-son

@masoninky.bsky.social

We also lost a sister from Louisville this year. I don't have as much information on her, especially beyond what is already online.
She died when she was hit by a car on her bike at a neighborhood intersection.

An image of Blair in a bar. She has shoulder length brown hair and glasses. She has a black shirt on.

November 21, 2025 at 5:19 PM

M-son

@masoninky.bsky.social

Kentucky lost a sister from Mayfield (western KY) this year.

Hope Youngblood was an advocate for the LGBTQ community and a filmmaker who moved to LA slightly before her death to pursue her dreams of filmmaking.

#tdor

A picture of Hope Youngblood. She is sitting in front of an easel (like she's painting it). She has glasses and a shirt that says "let me overthink". She has shoulder length brown hair in an undercut

November 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM

M-son

@masoninky.bsky.social

This year we lost one of our siblings from Lexington. Arty Gibson was a young trans man from Lexington. He liked Pokemon and anime and was loved by his community. He and his financee Juli moved to Portland shortly before he took his life in June.
#tdor

A small memorial for Arty made by his former GSA. There is a painting by a tattoo artist who tattooed him and pictures of him in a collage. There are (fake) candles and flowers.

November 21, 2025 at 4:39 PM

M-son

@masoninky.bsky.social

Unfortunately I am breaking the #1 role of the Internet which is I am responding to Facebook comments again.

Jeremiah Johnson: Lexington has went to hell... If someone wants to be gay or trans that's fine ,, its you're life but it doesn't need forced on everyone else

Mason Kalinsky (me): We're not forcing it on anyone. We gathered together to remember a 23 year old from Lexington who took their own life. We invited people who knew him and grew up with him to share stories about his life because he didn't have a memorial service in Lexington.

Sean Fowler: No one is attacking transgender people, we just don't agree with the thought that someone can transform from a man to a woman and vice versa. No one has the right to force their beliefs on someone else.

Mason Kalinsky: Hi Sean. Actually that isn't true. Most of the people on this list we remembered this year got murdered for being trans. That very much is attacking trans people.

Wes Overton: what are they remembering their life prior to hallucinating

Mason Kalinsky: Hey Wes. Great question. We had this gathering to remember all the people who were murdered or killed themselves for being trans, including one trans 23 year old from Lexington. We invited his teachers and friends to speak because he didn't have a funeral because his parents didn't accept him

James Bramel: what exactly is a transgender day of remembrance (thinking emoji) Are they remembering the genitals they got rid of (different thinking emoji)

Mason Kalinsky: [a copy/paste of the previous message but with Hey James instead of Hey Wes]

November 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM

M-son

@masoninky.bsky.social

This has permanently altered my vocabulary

An old tweet from @awesomonster with a screenshot of a app permission screen from Peggle Blast where it is asking "Allow Peggle Blast to make and manage phone calls?" The tweet reads "you know what, sure, Peggle, make phone calls who gives a shit anymore

November 16, 2025 at 6:46 PM

M-son

@masoninky.bsky.social

The girls are fightingggggggg

A picture of a TV screen with the Blue Jays/Dodgers game where all the players are on the field after a Blue Jays batter got hit in the bottom of the fourth and they are ready to brawl

November 2, 2025 at 1:35 AM

M-son

@masoninky.bsky.social

Happy Halloween!

Mason and Lucy dressed up as Daredevil and Jessica Jones. Both are in fighting stances.

November 1, 2025 at 12:08 AM

M-son

@masoninky.bsky.social

Went to the 50th anniversary midnight showing of Rocky Horror Picture Show.

I'm very happy that this year I got to dress as Rocky. I feel more comfortable in my body than I ever have before.

Also I'm proud to report that one thing has not changed in my transition: hoes still don't get cold.