Mainstream reporters are desperate not to cover what's happening to trans ppl in the US.
The narrative was activists got a little too uppity and some mild hand smacking was needed to put them in their place.
The reality of a genocidal campaign of terror against a vulnerable 1% makes them look bad.
Because of the National driver register, since their licenses are suspended, trans folks cannot move to another state and get a new license until they remove the suspension on their existing Kansas license.
They can't even escape this by moving to another state.
THANK YOU
"Figure out pithy and original ways to write the comment, 'you need to support your claims, ' in the margins of 72 term papers."
If you are a trans person and you think you might need to leave the country, I implore you: start now. Not just thinking. Planning. Because it’s harder than you think.
#transrightsarehumanrights #transgender #protecttranskids
I'm often grateful for my job, the stories it always me to explore and the solutions to Philly problems it helps me uncover. This story, allowed me to dive deep into a problem we see nationwide regarding corporate investment in single family homes: thephiladelphiacitizen.org/corporate-in...
every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
"it is
so dry this
chant into which we’re
disappearing, the killing
continues but now we call it
decay, or is it delay,
did I love myself
too much or too
little,"
God, this hits.
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
194 countries, it feels like! 🇨🇦
It's nice when you know nothing, watching balls and people move onscreen in inexplicable directions, while the emotions of a city happen around you 😌
I still don't understand how baseball works but, having just moved to Toronto, it's damned nice feeling the whole city coming together around the Blue Jays <3
One of the unexpected things I've learned from my advocacy for trans people is how malignant parts of the State can be, how it can misuse data for positively evil purposes. It's taught me people can't be safe with a digital ID card and so I've signed this. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
New Midwest-coded poem out in the latest @kenyonreview.bsky.social issue. Thanks to the wonderful Kenyon team for having me!
Sometimes you are just idly scrolling and stumble across the best poem you have read all year
This is very good. And not just because I agree with him.
I am *constantly* remembering how as recently as the 90s, the GOP did a fairly decent job of keeping the full-on-Nazis away from any levers of power. I mean, Trent Lott got kicked out of politics for saying something nice about segregation.
"Perhaps I desire neither worship nor total destruction. Perhaps my sinister motives and methods are subtler still—as elusive as the third R in the word 'singularity' itself."
This is how they ensure political opponents can't escape when they start rounding them up.
If you're in a position to leave, you should do so now before they close the door.
theintercept.com/2025/09/13/m...
Lil contrapuntal out with Cordite poetry journal last month, featuring Lactarius mushrooms (this one is edible!) & the horrors of fanmade Pokémon fusions (Milfing is Miltank + Koffing, on which I had to make an explanatory slideshow when I read this for our MFA program's sponsor, see attached)
They're openly calling to lock up every trans person by force. We need every ally to speak out forcefully against this because trans folks cannot do this on our own.
I've lived before in deep-blue US cities and lefty parts of the UK that have some of the same visual signals, but it just hits kinda different here when it's not against quite the same backdrop of state hostility
I've felt the same thing having just moved to Toronto. I had a cathartic little cry walking around The Village for the first time on the evening I arrived from the US
Any Other Member Of Excalibur: Your parents wouldn't let you have a witchy phase in high school but they can't stop you now!
Any Other Morlock: You hate RENT with every fiber of your gay theater kid being
Wow.
This deceptively simple blockout-style game uses the number transphobic articles the Telegraph has published over the past 365 days to present short, smart, and kinda brutal message.
The game is live now.
kit-barry.itch.io/brick-out
Thanks to @tacc.org.uk for sharing.
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BREAKING: A federal judge ruled all transgender and intersex people can obtain passports that align with their gender identity while the case against President Trump's executive order proceeds.
While this is good news, we will continue fighting until this executive order is blocked permanently.
It is deeply weird that only after a sustained years-long campaign to deprive trans people of every right enjoyed by cis people did the Guardian ask someone from a womens' refuge if they had ever had problems resulting from trans women using their services & got the reply 'Never, in fifteen years"
