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queer/trans/mixed-race/Muslim/geek/punk
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- Reposted by روI really want people to check in with the organizations that have been pushing back on surveillance for 10+ years. Just to be blunt, there are a lot of folks who realized yesterday that surveillance is bad and many are suggesting well-intentioned but misguided strategies for fighting it talk to us
- Reposted by روMade an ice gnome the only kind of ICE I want around.
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- Reposted by روthis week's post is something i've been working on for a long time, and is a little guide to living the good life. Or it's early aughts punk nostalgia. Or it's my response to tradwife culture. margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/the-punk-r...
- Reposted by رو#TeaWitches 2025 edition. #art Day 19: Pu'erh I've only tried one variety of pu'erh, but the one I have smells and tastes so much like sun-warmed hay that every time I drink it I get launched back into being a 12 year old horse-nerd. It's a neat experience.
- Reposted by روIt's a good day to reshare this letter to trans teens
- Reposted by روPassing this on from folks who are not on Bluesky: If you're in NYC, Bluestockings is having a final closing sale. Come celebrate and grieve the closing of the store, and the sunset of Bluestockings Cooperative. Books, appliances, merchandise, furniture-- everything is going. Masks are required!
- What is happening to my friend Kyle's books is no small part of what inspired me to join my local library board of trustees. We need more of us in this fight.
- A library's entire board of trustees was fired and replaced because they refused to ban one of my books. It's so terrible. www.randolphhub.com/article/news...
- Reposted by روA library's entire board of trustees was fired and replaced because they refused to ban one of my books. It's so terrible. www.randolphhub.com/article/news...
- Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
- TIL that Tolkien's grandson wrote a novel set during the Spanish Civil War rusoffagency.com/fiction/the-...
- Paging @margaret.bsky.social
- Reposted by روEverything is happening so fast – our neighbor was taken by agents – they’re invalidating passports – I can’t afford my health insurance – everyone’s pretending there’s a ceasefire and people are still being massacred – and the poetry is insistent on my attention. www.kickstarter.com/projects/lty...
- Reposted by روA prayer for those who seek to rule us: I pray that your tools turn in your hands, that all your plans collapse in ruin and that everything slips from your grasp. I pray you witness our simple joy at your failure.
- Reposted by روLet this remind you that they will all die eventually. Hold each other close and hang on.
- Reposted by روmy name is Oz and wen the stone is broke to bits and all alone i lie in sand it stretches bare you read my words you pls despair
- Reposted by روI was interviewed for this Guardian piece about the new passport gender markers policy www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
- Reposted by روMY BOOK SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT PREORDER MY BOOK NOW www.kickstarter.com/projects/lty...
- Reposted by روI considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
- Reposted by روDear young artist, I've been doing this for forty years and here's the one piece of advice I have for you: be out in your work. Be as weird as you ever hope to be right from the start. That's what we need right now, and you'll get to meet the people who crave your weirdness. Love ya, Auntie
- Reposted by روI’m thrilled that Seven Stories Press is giving you a Pride gift: an absolutely free e-book of my shiny new edition of Hello Cruel World. Hurry, cuz the offer is only good thru June 25th. Click here, and it’s yours. www.sevenstories.com/blogs/381-fr...
- Reposted by روOur kids are depending on us to tell them the story they need to hear. Don't let your panic override that responsibility.
- Reposted by روThat we show them that we are trans adults and we almost invariably didn't have gender affirming care before puberty and we are loved and beautiful and happy. The story of trans joy and trans beloved community NEEDS to be louder than the story of trans suicidality today.
- Reposted by روIt is really important right now that we make sure our trans young people hear other stories than that. They hear "there is a future for you" & "there is community for you" & "you don't have to pass to be loved" & "not having access to gender affirming care before puberty IS NOT A DEATH SENTENCE."
- Reposted by روNot having access to gender affirming care before puberty is not a death sentence BUT if we all uncritically repeat the fear that it is, the young people will take their cue from us on how freaked out to be, and they will believe that all they can do in response to Skrmetti is die.
- Reposted by روAnd the non-profit industrial complex invariably describes gender-affirming care for young people as "life-saving" because the subtext is "if trans young people can't get puberty blockers they WILL kill themselves."
- Reposted by روIf a young person falls down the best response is not to go "oh no oh my god you're hurt," because then they go "oh no oh my god I'm hurt" and it makes everything worse -- the best response is to go "sick wipeout dude totally tubular" and high five them.
- Reposted by روI am not a parent but I have parents in my life and one thing I have learned from them is that young people will take their cue from you on how freaked out to be about things.
- Reposted by روSkrmetti just came down and obviously it didn't go our way, but listen to me. Listen.
- Reposted by روIf you couldn't make it to last week's Electronic Freedom Frontier Pride webinar, where I got to speak to my dear friends Daly and Rin from EFF and Mandy from Woodhull about how queer liberation and digital privacy are inseparably linked, you can watch the video here! www.youtube.com/live/CeueJ77...
- Reposted by روRegister here to join me and some dear friends for a conversation about the interplay of queer liberation and digital freedom! www.eff.org/event/effect...
- Reposted by روOn this day in 1886, Lucy Parsons, a Black anarchist born into slavery, marched with her children at the front of one of the largest labor marches in US history, as workers across the country demanded the eight hour day. Two days later, striking workers were shot.
- Reposted by روHere’s “Basket Case” except it’s about why you shouldn’t use Face ID or a thumbprint to unlock your phone
- Reposted by روIncredible new bug just dropped on #neopets. Apparently a ton of users are getting a message that they're missing their gender and it's preventing them from using the website. r/neopets discord is currently up in arms about "The Neopets Team stole my gender and now I can't play"
- Reposted by روA lot of people are telling me that listening to my interview on Live Like The World Is Dying is calming them down. I hope it helps you too.
- This week on Live Like the World is Dying, Miriam talks with Andy from Chosen Family Law Center about legal stuff including executive orders, gender markers, how studying law is terrifying but despite the terror, practicing law is all about providing information and care @andyeyeballs.bsky.social
- Reposted by روThis week on Live Like the World is Dying, Miriam talks with Andy from Chosen Family Law Center about legal stuff including executive orders, gender markers, how studying law is terrifying but despite the terror, practicing law is all about providing information and care @andyeyeballs.bsky.social
- The intentional community I am part of is building a structure for short term guests, and could use some funds. I know things are tight for many, but if you have spare and want to support trans sanctuary here's our gofundme. #trans #sanctuary #mutualaid www.gofundme.com/f/accessible...
- Reposted by روHi you, if you're reading this please make the choice to stick around. I want us to celebrate together when this shit is over.
- Reposted by روWrote about the NEA and The Kennedy Center and how these moves might be bad for trans art, but they certainly won't be the end aftermath.site/kennedy-cent...
- Reposted by روWhen a suspect in a crime has a gaming history, folks often look for meaning in it, but there's no big mystery surrounding the United Healthcare shooting aftermath.site/united-healt...
- Reposted by روWith no loyalty to any platform controlled by capital and not by workers, we have moved over here.
- Reposted by روOur friends at Manhattan Alternative are hosting this workshop on protecting ourselves and each other from transphobic attacks of various kinds -- please join me and pass on to practitioners you think need to know! www.eventbrite.com/e/personal-p...
- Reposted by روThe people who are running a lot of states and, soon, the country, want to live in a world without us, but they are assholes and we’re not going to give them what they want. We’re going to stay alive, and not only that, we’re going to live the most beautiful lives we can imagine.
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- Every June 12th, The Memory Palace podcast by @natedimeo.bsky.social re-releases the episode A White Horse, in memory of the Pulse Massacre. Every year, I set aside time to listen, remember, and mourn. play.prx.org/listen?uf=ht...
- Reposted by رو“Should we as a society be investing tens of billions of dollars, our precious electricity that could be used toward moving away from fossil fuels, and a generation of the brightest math and science minds on incremental improvements in mediocre email writing?” www.nytimes.com/2024/05/15/o...
- 10 second exposure of #aurora, in Northwest Arkansas, 10:40pm UTC-5
- Reposted by روWe study the history of protest movements because it teaches us how to fight a long fight.
- Reposted by روNo one owes AI a participation trophy aftermath.site/humane-ai-ma...
- @margaret.bsky.social you mentioned Ada's poem The Rainbow in your recent episode about her, thank you for that! Did you mean this one, and if so do you know if there is any more known about the context in which she wrote it? en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Rai...
- Today my paternal grandmother passed away, she was 89 years old. She lived quite an eventful life. I know without a doubt that some of the best parts of who I am are because of her love and her teaching.
- Reposted by روI just … we might be about to have a trump presidency and some liberals think it’s a good idea to set the precedent we can ban entire apps that millions use to communicate because of vague, unproven threats of “foreign interference” ? Do people literally not understand the stakes? The moment?
- Reposted by روI can assure you Cecilia--an immigrant who fought for the safety and humanity of sex workers, the poor, and the least among us--was closer to Christ than any career official for the Archdiocese of New York
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- Reposted by رو“Peace is not simply the absence of conflict, but the existence of justice for all people.”
- Reposted by روme: yeah my 2024 goal is to travel by train if I can swing it my in-laws: but it's faster & cheaper to fly! why take trains? me: [bc the world has been destabilized for our convenience and since I can't make others' lives better, all I feel empowered to do is make my life worse] I have time to read
- Every border cuts through peoples, tribes, families, or individuals. Every border is inherently violent. So many borders were created to keep out or keep separate people like me.
- Deporting families back to Taliban controlled areas is a horrific violene. The Taliban’s own spokesman asked other countries “to stop forcefully deporting Afghan refugees” and practice “tolerance based on Islamic and neighborly manners." I abhor that I agree with him.
- As a queer Pashtun, I hate the Taliban, and what they have done to the lands of my ancestors. I blame both them and the US government for the militant hardening of a border that runs down the middle of where Pashtuns asks many others have lived and crossed for centuries.
- Several other nation state borders and refugees are getting more attention right now, so I only just learned there are two million Afghans in Pakistan now threatened with deportation. apnews.com/article/p…
- Reposted by رو"Any gender that can be destroyed by the presence of a trans person deserves to be destroyed by the presence of a trans person." - Cal
- Reposted by روLike many of my comrades I have been heartbroken by the nationalist fervor coming at me from all directions over the last week.
- Reposted by روthis week's substack post is free, "In Defense of Hope." It's me defending the idea of hope. Pretty literal title. I... hope... you like it margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/in-defense...
