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Like, i'm getting tattooed this March for the first time since I began transition five years ago, and I know it's gonna hurt so much more and I'm... excited about it?
That transformation of art to flesh is something I'll truly be able to experience for the first time again! It rocks.
Speaking for myself here:
The visceral qualities of life stop being something you experience solely through the static haze of the person you previously held up as a filter between you and the world.
Food tastes better, Pain hurts more, everything is just *more* than it was, or could have been.
Reminder that the only time Mastercard has flinched is when outrage was directed at them. Attacking platforms like SubscribeStar for Visa/Mastercard's extralegal censorship is exactly the deflection they want.
1. Horrifying ruling out of the 4th Circuit.
An all-Republican 4th Circuit panel has just ruled that states can compel trans adults to "appreciate their sex" by enacting care bans.
It even directly says that trans adult care bans are legal in the ruling.
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The government is asking for public comments on whether banks should be able to deny you from buying legal goods at their own whim (i.e. how they're cracking down on art)
Tell them you don't want to be told how to spend your money
www.federalreserve.gov/apps/proposa...
The Substar TOS looks extremely similar to Patreon's now. Call your reps or we will lose everything
Tell them to stop the payment processor power grab, tell them to vote no on child online safety bills/ID verification. We need everyone
Bugs Bunny in a tux saying "I wish all trans children a very live long enough to get revenge"
“Social murder” is a term created by Friedrich Engels to describe the premature death of marginalized people due to political, social, or economic oppression.
What is happening right now in America is the premeditated, calculated, & planned extermination of children who are trans. This is genocide.
New horrors on the way for trans adults in the UK... (When they did a similar review for trans teens, they threw out 97% of all studies and then basically went "wow, there's not any research to demonstrate this if effective; guess we gotta ban it.") Now it looks like they're doing same for adults.
cannot stress enough that "separate the art from the artist" was meant for private individuals reconciling the art they love with its flawed creators and not meant for the ceo of a company driving a dump truck of money up to a bigot's front porch
www.theverge.com/podcast/8914...
I know I see to just be constantly yelling about different projects or books or Magnus things at the moment, but if you've still got any money left and like to spend some time cracking mysteries...
Cis people need to pay attention to the way they communicate this. They freely admit that after all of their research, they came up with zero evidence that HRT was harmful.
Then they banned it anyway, claiming their inability to find a reason is a reason in of itself.
no amount of propaganda should convince you that some children don’t deserve to grow up
Submissions close tomorrow! We just crossed 500 submissions, the most we've ever had!!!
If you're wondering how bad things were at Pixar for women, the answer is pretty horrifyingly bad.
I will do everything possible to protect my trans siblings from the heinous evil of Indiana Republicans when I'm elected, up to and including my promise to seek the impeachment of Governor Braun, Lt Governor Becwith and Attorney General Rokita for their many crimes against Hoosiers.
Image 1 All slides have a dark background, with a variety of pink, blue, and white doodles as accents. Text reads: Trans Rights Readathon 2026 Storygraph Challenge The prompt: A Book About Trans+ Youth or That Imagines Trans Futures The text repeats on the top of every slide
6 book covers are shown, listed below top left first, row by row. Too Bright to See by Kyle Lukoff Lunar Boy by Jes and Cin Wibowo And They Were Roommates by Page Powars Everything for Everyone - An Oral History of the New York Commune 2052-2072 by M.E. O’Brien ad Eman Abdelhadi Boys Run the Riot by Keito Gaku Lake Lore by Anna-Marie McLemore
6 book covers are shown, listed below top left first, row by row. American Teenages by Nico Lang The Witch Boy by Molly Ostertag Growing Up Trans In Our Own Words by Dr. Lindsay Herriot and Kate Fry Generation Queer by Kimm Topping Pet by Akwaeke Emezi Stay Gold by Tobly McSmith
6 book covers are shown, listed below top left first, row by row. Magical Boy by The Kao Zenobia July by Lisa Bunker Sir Callie and the Champions of Helston by Esme Symes-Smith The Deep and Dark Blue by Niki Smith Marley’s Pride by Joelle Retener and DeAnn Wiley Bianca Torre is Afraid of Everything by Justine Pucella Winans
We honor our trans elders, but we also encourage readers to honor and listen to the young people in their lives, and to open our imaginations to better, more inclusive futures. 💙💗🤍
BTW, if you haven’t called your reps about H.R. 7761, apps like 5Calls make it easy.
#trr26 #transrightsreadathon
I think this is a great argument, beautifully constructed
Why comics creators must fight the proposed censorship of H.R. 7661
blender piece/comic depicting an introspective mole
mole's thought
if i had to pick The Most Star Wars scene in all of Star Wars, it's the imperial officers meeting in the death star in a new hope
a bunch of military guys are talking about politics, and also a wizard is there
that's it that's the franchise
orders men to shoot, immediately tells them to stop because two of the people they shot at matter too much.
Simmons is the best idiot that turns into the worst-looking final boss of the series.
An investigation from Transitics has discovered something highly alarming: Indiana AG Todd Rokita has been making a list of trans people. Following in Kansas’ footsteps, he’s preparing to revoke trans people’s documents by declaring them “falsified records.”
transitics.substack.com/p/indianas-a...
Carney dragging Canada into a war it doesn’t want on the side of the US which Canadians view as a bigger threat to world peace than Russia and China COMBINED would be a death sentence for his government. The fact he’s even considering it is appalling.
Yep! She's a swarm, but when she's embodied in an individual form she appears to look like this:
I'm forever enamored with Grist, not just because I think insect kindred is fun as hell, but because lore-wise, she represents an aspect of Planeswalkers that I feel gets touched on less and less.
Namely the inherently mythic and otherworldly nature of planeswalkers & how they're seen by others!
Jesse Singal: “I don’t understand why all these experts with degrees keep disagreeing with me. So demoralizing. What could the explanation be??”
The question is always "what if a kid is wrongfully transitioned" and never "what if a trans kid is denied the ability to transition and endures years of excruciating dysphoria and has to have multiple surgeries later in life to fix the issues caused by going through the wrong puberty."
a black and white edit that reads "the future includes trans people". around the text is a floral pattern. the image is grainy
the future is for trans people
In an exclusive interview with @thetyee.ca, an educator who testified against Neufled during the tribunal said his posts made LGBTQ2S(IA)+ students scared to go to school because of increased bullying, and pushed teachers back into the closet. My piece today. thetyee.ca/News/2026/03...