The religious right is steadily expanding its definition of what is sexual — and restricting what it deems acceptable in public spaces. Tech companies, in want of less oversight, are taking the hint. The deplatforming that started with sex workers / kink / trans has come for gay bars.

I think when we hem and haw about people going no-contact with their families and what it says about society, what we're often doing is revealing our own discomfort with seeing others starting to pull blocks out of the Jenga tower of Empire and refusing to suffer Just Because.

This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.

I'm under no illusions about how things are or what the trajectory is. But I'm also excited for the future because that is where I will hang out with the people I care about and do the things I like doing, or haven't done before. Weird but telling that this holds less appeal for much richer people.

The Why Cheap Art? Manifesto, Bread & Puppet Theater, 1984

Payment processors, banks, & politicians knew we would slow down to a halt eventually if they held out long enough. If you're not still calling, writing, emailing, @ ing on socials, what-have-you (though calls are best), now is as good of a time as any to start back up.

it feels like a dark joke about transmasculine invisibility that i saw a million snarky tweets about there being no trans folks in CAMP MIASMA, and now I am seeing a video of the underappreciated transmasculine actor from CAMP MIASMA literally begging for work to keep their SAG health insurance

"What’s true is true, and what’s right is right, and if someone was a human being yesterday, they’re still human today, and their life still has value, even if nobody wants to hear it."

2) Trans people are overwhelmingly working class. The act of transition is an assertion of power and autonomy over our own bodies and lives. The gentry believe that they should hold sway over how those below them in the hierarchies live our lives. Transition defies that, so they viscerally hate it

I think it's so fascinating to take all the grottiest, gnarliest stuff in trash horror specifically oriented toward trans women and show it as a tool for liberation and accessing desire.

it is a travesty that the brilliant Indrapramit Das is not more widely known in fantasy and horror fandom. The way Indra pulled South Asian history, politics, monstrosity, and queer love together in one book is a thing to behold

ooh, I like this take - all the elements are present, so call it what it is: not liminal (which was never quite right, tbh), but gothic for a new generation of people who don’t remember why we built that shit in the first place, or what it was supposed to be *for*

People get too rich and forget they’re made of meat.

And if the way you fight against concentration camps is to yell at trans people to stop caring about their own personal safety? Literally go do anything else. Go protest an ICE facility. Go organize mutual aid for impacted communities. Go make whistle kits and go distribute them.

i will succeed because i am a pervert 🥳🫡

You don't get to argue that the number of trans people is so small that our rights can't be a major priority, while also claiming there are so many of us that we are going to destroy the whole country by withholding votes.

It really hasn't dawned on liberals that for trans people in some races, there is no meaningful difference between who wins. Kansas and North Carolina have Dem governors and they're some of the worst for trans people in the country. So why bother to vote for a transphobic Dem?