Cassandra Whitaker
Poet, Writer, Educator 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ (She/they/Mx). NBCC, Wolf Devouring A Wolf Devouring A Wolf available from Jackleg Press. wolfs-den.page
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- Reposted by Cassandra WhitakerThere's a Toni Morrison quote I reference a lot: "We cannot be optimistic, but we can be clear." A problem I have with many historical parallels is they are inherently fatalistic and often obscure possibilities for redirection
- I wrote about some recent historical parallels. What's good and bad in them.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/historical...
- Reposted by Cassandra WhitakerIt is really infuriating to see how misogyny really does unite men across the sociopolitical spectrum. And, in so far as the Epstein files go, they sort women into two categories: fuckable or irrelevant. When they near a hint of accountability they complain about not being able to make women prey.
- Reposted by Cassandra WhitakerIan McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.
- Reposted by Cassandra WhitakerSir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
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- Reposted by Cassandra WhitakerTrans people were the proving grounds to normalize the made up term "biological sex"to roll back decades of progress on gender equality. When you get bioessentialist language, suddenly everything from gender roles to marriage becomes an argument about "biology." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
- Reposted by Cassandra WhitakerThe president of the ASPS is a huge Trump supporter if you're wondering why they shifted positions now to align with the Trump Administration. He's donated substantially to Trump and Ted Cruz. This was a political decision. www.fec.gov/data/receipt...
- The American society of plastic surgeons has no issue with the tend of thousands of minors getting nose jobs and other cosmetic surgery but they decided that they want to support bans on trans youth care and align with Trump's EO rather actual medical science www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...
- Reposted by Cassandra WhitakerFor the first time ever, a state AG has filed a lawsuit to force a hospital back into providing gender affirming care for transgender youth. Our writer, S. Baum, dove deep and spoke with families that helped make this happen. You're going to want to read our latest, incredible story.
- Reposted by Cassandra Whitakerthis post is gettin a lot of love! just wanna remind folks that Black trans history never ended! u can support black trans lives TODAY! THEM has this rad list of trans orgs by state, many of which specifically serve Black queer folks. i urge u to donate + follow! www.them.us/story/orgs-f...
- It's black history month, and so our writer S. Baum decided to cover black trans people you may not hear about in your history classes. Go read their latest piece, and don't forget to subscribe to support our journalism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/black-tran...
- Reposted by Cassandra WhitakerThey want us working earlier and til we die to pay for their tax cuts for the rich. Supervillains.
- Reposted by Cassandra WhitakerHey everyone! Huge news! Our trans girl scout list has sold a total of 146,000 boxes as of today! But MANY trans girl scouts only have 20, 30, 40 boxes sold. I just resorted our list to put those on the top. Go get your girl scout cookies and make a trans kid's day!
- Reposted by Cassandra WhitakerO cool The hypothesis that the elite were trying to segrigate trans people from society purely to keep us as sex slaves was real, but only for trans women since they see trans men as undesirable for sex and want them eliminated which is EXACTLY THE POLICIES AND RHETORIC WE'RE SEEING HAPPEN RIGHT NOW
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- Reposted by Cassandra WhitakerCatherine O’Hara died today, at 71. In an interview from 2019, the actor talked about her early days in comedy, why dating Eugene Levy didn't work out, and her approach to improv (“when in doubt, play insane”). Revisit their conversation: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/L9Xdws
- Reposted by Cassandra WhitakerIf you see this, don't participate. It's a rigged study by Lisa Littman and unethical researcher J. Michael Bailey meant to undermine access to care. Spread the word.
- Catherine O'Hara! RIP...
- Reposted by Cassandra WhitakerKansas just passed a monstrous bill enabling criminal penalties and vigilante lawsuits for trans people using the bathroom according to their gender identity and requires them to surrender their current drivers licenses and birth certificates if it does not match their sex assigned at birth.
- Reposted by Cassandra WhitakerJust started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.
- Reposted by Cassandra WhitakerThis was an invented moral panic. The NYT and Fox News ran more stories about trans people than the Advocate, an explicitly LGBTQ publication. It was the exact same story in the UK. The media fanned the flames of a moral panic.
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- Reposted by Cassandra WhitakerBlistering piece on ed tech in @economist.com. ‘Although ed-tech companies tout huge learning gains, independent research has made clear that technology rarely boosts learning in schools—and often impairs it.’ economist.com/united-state...
- Reposted by Cassandra WhitakerThey are telling us in unequivocal terms that if you show solidarity with immigrants who are in the literal crosshairs of Trump/MAGA, you're risking a death sentence. newrepublic.com/article/2055...
- The Bangles, Concrete Blonde, X, Pylon, B-52s
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- Reposted by Cassandra WhitakerIt's incredible how effective transphobia is as a litmus test for SO many issues. Every time I find a new pro-surveillance tech stooge, they're transphobic. I think people need to understand how tightly the belief that the internet is turning everyone trans is bound up w mass surveillance efforts
- Reposted by Cassandra WhitakerTikTok is now under “US” ownership. Lots of red flags in the terms of service and privacy policy.
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- Reposted by Cassandra Whitaker"When the fruits decay, I must leave you again." Lake Angela www.broadkillreview.com/post/childho...
- Reposted by Cassandra WhitakerIf anyone was still pretending this isn’t just about excluding trans kids from public life, the Trump administration just opened a Title IX investigation into a Maine school district because a trans student is on a *co-ed* cheerleading squad.
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- A lie.
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- Reposted by Cassandra WhitakerOn my way to the Supreme Court where I'll be proud to support 15-year-old Becky Pepper-Jackson, West Virginia's only transgender athlete, as she opposes the state's effort to ban her from playing as herself. Win or lose, Becky and her family are heroes for standing up for what's right
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- Reposted by Cassandra WhitakerOn Tuesday, the Supreme Court is going to hear West Virginia's effort to ban the state's only transgender athlete, 15-year-old Becky Pepper-Jackson. Win or lose, I need your help making sure Becky knows she's a hero for standing up for what's right
- Reposted by Cassandra WhitakerThings are grim right now but as a reminder of who we are and why we fight, this is the US Women’s figuring skating champion.
- Lost now on the country miles in his cadillac I can tell by the way you smile he's rolling back Come wash the nighttime clean Come grow this scorched ground green Blow the horn, tap the tambourine Close the gap of the dark years in between You and me Cassidy...
- Grateful I saw Bob Weir both before and after Jerry's death. Always appreciated when the Dead had touring guests Hornsby, Yoakum, Sting, Mayer,Joan Osbourne, Winwood. Lots of fun.
- RIP...
- Farewell to the great Bob Weir, a founding member of the Grateful Dead who kept the long, strange trip rolling long after the death of Jerry Garcia. variety.com/2026/music/n...
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- Reposted by Cassandra Whitaker🚨 NEW VIDEO 👇🏽This puts an end to all the lies. Horrific. They were having a calm exchange seconds before he murdered Renee Good, and she was barely moving and clearly avoiding him. Stop the lies.
- Reposted by Cassandra WhitakerThe New York Times described a harrassment campaign that helped drive a young trans woman to suicide as "online criticisms." Today on Assigned, @evanurquhart.bsky.social responds with contained fury to New York Times piece on the suicide of Lia Smith. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
- Reposted by Cassandra WhitakerWe've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.
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- Reposted by Cassandra Whitaker“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...” A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today. lithub.com/renee-nicole...
- Many thanks to the poetry shop for the feature! www.instagram.com/p/DTI5LGkkjW...
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- Reposted by Cassandra Whitaker‘This Is Our Time’: Acclaimed Poet to Honor Mamdani With Inaugural Poem Cornelius Eady, a National Book Award finalist, shared an excerpt from “Proof,” an original poem he has written for Zohran Mamdani’s inauguration as mayor of New York City. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/n...
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