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A movement for healing trans nervous systems + infusing inboxes with joy! 📭 Subscribe today to join us: transjoy.ghost.io ✨ Share your #transjoy to be featured: transjoy.ghost.io/contribute 🏳️‍⚧️ Tip us! buymeacoffee.com/transjoy

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Amplifying Trans Joy @amplifytransjoy.bsky.social · Aug 19

Our newsletter is actively seeking trans & gender-expansive artists, writers, musicians, project makers, and creatives of all stripes to share with our community! If you/someone you know resonates with our mission and want to be featured, please DM!

#TransArt #TransProject #TransCreative #TransJoy

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Amplifying Trans Joy @amplifytransjoy.bsky.social · 2d

Your words are so beautiful! Would you be open to sharing them with my trans joy newsletter? We have a round-up each month of anonymous joy submissions from the community, and this would be perfect for it. Let me know :)

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Cassie 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @thatcassielassie.bsky.social · 9d

The best thing on this app is seeing so many trans women and trans men living their best lives. Revelling in their new bodies and showing themselves to the world. It makes me so happy seeing their joy.

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Equality Network @lgbtiscotland.bsky.social · 8d

Our Community Market Joy for All is this Saturday, just four days away!🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Our next artist is Robin Ilex Studios! They are a trans hand embroidery artist based in Glasgow. They also make scrunchies, reusable makeup wipes and other accessories, such as embroidered pride flag inspired pansy brooches

Graphic with an orange background. At the top is a rainbow banner which says "Joy for All" "LGBTQIA+ Autumn Makers Market & Community Space! 11/10/25 - Norton Park Conference Centre". On the left is three pictures. The top picture is of orange and red patterned hair scrunchies around a green pumpkin. The second picture is of a removable collar on a hanger, it has been sewn in star-patterned fabric. The third picture is of an embroidered brooch of a pansy in the trans flag colours. On the right it says "Artist Highlight: Robin Ilex Studio" "Robin (he/they) is a trans hand embroidery artist based in Glasgow. They also make scrunchies, reusable makeup wipes and other accessories, such as embroidered pride flag inspired pansy brooches."

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Amplifying Trans Joy @amplifytransjoy.bsky.social · 2d

Love this for you!!

Would you be open to sharing your words with my trans joy newsletter? We have a round-up each month of anonymous joy submissions from the community, and this would be a perfect addition. Let me know :)

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🍂winry🍂 @w1nry.bsky.social · 7d

the unique trans experience of "im happier and more whole than I've ever been but have never had fewer people to share that joy with" is so backwards

give a shit about your trans friends when they're metamorphosing. there's nothing to mourn, and it doesn't need to make sense to you

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Amplifying Trans Joy @amplifytransjoy.bsky.social · 2d

So much yes to trans futures! We are birthing new things in the cracks of our civilization and they can't stop us.

Would you be open to sharing your words with my trans joy newsletter? I feature anonymous joy submissions from the community each month, and I love what you wrote. Let me know :)

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Amplifying Trans Joy @amplifytransjoy.bsky.social · 2d

Ah, realized that you are not the author! If you're able to connect me to him, that would be amazing. Otherwise, happy to just include this in our links roundup :)

Amplifying Trans Joy @amplifytransjoy.bsky.social · 2d

This is so beautiful! I run a trans joy newsletter and would love to share your work in it. If you're interested in being featured, please let me know!

Amplifying Trans Joy @amplifytransjoy.bsky.social · 2d

I love this! Would love to share in my trans joy newsletter - if you want to be a featured project, please let me know!

Amplifying Trans Joy @amplifytransjoy.bsky.social · 2d

If you'd ever want to be featured in my trans joy newsletter, let me know! I spotlight trans creatives and their work every month :)

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Amplifying Trans Joy @amplifytransjoy.bsky.social · 2d

I love your art! The integration of trans pride colors into nature is so unique. If you'd ever be interested in being featured in my trans joy newsletter, where I spotlight trans creatives each month, let me know!

Amplifying Trans Joy @amplifytransjoy.bsky.social · 2d

I love this for you!!

Would you be open to sharing your words/image with my trans joy newsletter? We have a round-up each month of anonymous joy submissions from the community, and this would be perfect for it. Let me know :)

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 7d

“At a recent trans rights conference in TX her assistant scheduled 30-min one-on-one chats w/any attendee who wanted, a process that brings her joy. She shows younger ppl what’s possible, that you can be a Black trans person who has no desire to conform to gender norms & can survive to be an elder.”

Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 7d

@samtlevin.bsky.social did a really lovely profile and interview with Miss Major in June of 2023:

"Her doormats say “Welcome bitches”, “Fuck off”, “Come back with a warrant” and “Home, where the ho & me come together”."

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023...

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Amplifying Trans Joy @amplifytransjoy.bsky.social · 2d

I love this!! Love notes from strangers are the best.

Would you be open to sharing your words/image with my trans joy newsletter? We have a round-up each month of anonymous joy submissions from the community, and this would be perfect for it. Let me know :)

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Amplifying Trans Joy @amplifytransjoy.bsky.social · 2d

This is awesome! I run a monthly trans joy newsletter, and we need more trans-run publications to help shift narratives! Would love to collaborate in some way or write an article for your publication about trans joy. :)

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Amplifying Trans Joy @amplifytransjoy.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks so much!! I'm so glad you were part of the Sept. issue!

Amplifying Trans Joy @amplifytransjoy.bsky.social · 12d

Forgot to share that the Sept. issue is out!! This was such a gorgeous one to put together, ft. @moonyeka.bsky.social @blairingmysoul.bsky.social @sacredsapling.bsky.social and so many more! #TransJoy #TransArt #TransWriters #TransCommunity
transjoy.ghost.io/i-hold-you-n...

I hold you & nature holds us

Why this newsletter exists in the first place: to remind all of us that we've got each other's backs. When one of us feels low, another of us is there to rise up with wisdom, humor, or care in the for...

transjoy.ghost.io

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Amplifying Trans Joy @amplifytransjoy.bsky.social · 20d

The next issue of Amplifying Trans Joy comes out this Saturday. To my knowledge, this is the only newsletter dedicated to trans joy (by and for us) out there. Are you & your besties signed up? transjoy.ghost.io <3

#TransJoy #TransWriting #TransArt #TransCreative #TransCreator

Amplifying Trans Joy

A movement for healing trans nervous systems & infusing inboxes with joy! Join us and share your #transjoy to be included.

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Johannes T. Evans @johannestevans.bsky.social · Sep 1

Get ready for the new term, freshers!

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Fat characters, disabled characters, ND characters, and queers galore!

#BookSky #FreeBooks

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historic brotherhood. mortimer jones, a young gay man, comes from tewkesbury to london where he meets percival campbell and, in short order, percival's beloved uncle - the flamboyant and loquacious queen B. Uncle B soon takes mortimer, shy and as-yet uncertain of his place in the world and in the gay community, under his wing, and serves as mentor.

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Tonya Song 🪶 @tonyasong.bsky.social · 29d

Remember, they hate trans joy, they hate gay joy, they hate Black joy, they hate Native joy, etc. they hate when we can laugh and love and live our lives in our own skin. They hate that we can find our way without their rigid rules. To find joy and thrive is a great act of resistance too.

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Mapping Trans Joy 🏳️‍⚧️ @mappingtransjoy.org · 23d

#nashville friends, don’t miss this! We’ll have #zines and #stickers to share as well as good vibes and lots of #joy

Event flyer: Mapping Southern Joy an “Alive with Pride” exhibition event with special guest Mapping Trans Joy. Community Room, Central Library m, Vanderbilt University. 9/23, 5:30pm

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Amplifying Trans Joy @amplifytransjoy.bsky.social · 22d

Appreciate this writeup <3 <3 <3

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Mari Rochelle🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ⚢ 💙🧬☮️🗳️ (she/her) ❤️🧡🤍🩷💜🌶️ @mari-rochelle.bsky.social · 22d

To all trans and queer people reading this and our cis allies,

We are under a steady psychological assault. They spend millions through PR firms to find the exact words that will wound us, to find the best way to divide us and make us turn on each other. But every day you wake up, their money is wasted. Every time you laugh at a meme, their work fails. Every time you pick up a hobby, even when it feels harder than before, you are winning.

And if all you can do is survive, if all you can manage is to stay alive through the day, you are defeating them by refusing to disappear.

Perhaps you read through this and don't recognize yourself. Perhaps all you feel is rage and the need to move forward. If so, good. We need you. Keep advancing.

We are not only survivors. We are the stubborn, joyful and proud light they cannot snuff out. Hate is unnatural; it burns through everything and eventually devours even those who feed it. Fire without fuel always dies. We will always have each other.

Show up when you can. Rest when you need to. Fight when you are able. When one of us falters, the rest of us hold steady.

Stay with us. Stay alive. We will make it through.

Weapons for survival:

• Rest is resistance. Sleep, warmth, food, laughter and little joys are fuel. Use them without guilt, they are what lift us up.

• Small acts are victories. When you reach for joy, when you answer a friend, when you refuse to stop breathing, you are cutting holes in their machinery of despair.

• You do not have to be "productive" to be valuable. Staying alive and present is itself a revolutionary act.

• Reach out. If you can, check in on one person today. If you can, offer water, food, a ride or a quiet place. If you are the one in crisis, say so. This is not the time to be a lone hero. Let people help. They deserve to take that role in your life.

• If you are in immediate danger, call emergency services or your local crisis line now.

Trans Lifeline US: (877) 565-8860
Trans Lifeline Canada: (877) 330-6366

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Amplifying Trans Joy @amplifytransjoy.bsky.social · 22d

yes!!!

Amplifying Trans Joy @amplifytransjoy.bsky.social · 22d

your work sounds incredible! as a queer spec fic fan, I want to read!
I know I just replied to one of your comments in another thread about submitting to my trans joy newsletter, but I also feature artists/creatives and would love it if you wanted to be one of them! :)