KJ "October Name" Shepherd
@kjshepherd.bsky.social
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NYT #1 Bestseller. Grammy nominee. Your butch aunt. they them etc etc Art: keegan.substack.com
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kjshepherd.bsky.social
"year in exile" bitch you let rfk jr show you his wiener, bare minimum join a convent
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marisakabas.bsky.social
"a test"? you mean...a violation?
AP: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire
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hausofdecline.bsky.social
RIP D'angelo. Black Messiah is a top 5 of all time record.
kjshepherd.bsky.social
Jesus Christ I didn't even know D'Angelo was sick
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thetransfemininereview.com
Reading Miss Majors Speaks was an incredibly moving experience last year. I can't recommend this book enough for those unfamiliar with her work.

Rest in peace 🖤
Miss Major Speaks Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary by Toshio Meronek and Miss Major
kjshepherd.bsky.social
Thanks to YouTube shorts force-feeding me 90 second clips of crap I have never seen I can safely say the worst program in the history of television is grey's anatomy
kjshepherd.bsky.social
I think you can either be a pundit or I can care about your taste in film and music but not both and frankly that also goes for most academics who have name recognition lol
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stillhere415.bsky.social
Devastated and undone but celebrating that we got to be on the planet at the same time as our beloved Major.

May we all be as unwavering In the face of fascism as she remained.

Sending love to the rest of the family.
kjshepherd.bsky.social
I mean this in the least anti-natalist way possible, but lady if your children don't shut the fuck up right now I swear to god
kjshepherd.bsky.social
like these are people who have stolen shitty below-the-elbow tattoos and shaken therapy speak from lesbians and transmascs and Urkel-inseam pants from every white gay from 2018 and the only difference is that they're now pairing it with being a suburban goon with shitty highlights
kjshepherd.bsky.social
Like most of these people should be euthanized starting with the closet case homophobe
kjshepherd.bsky.social
watching the new Love Is Blind and I realize it's rightwing garbage, I know hush, but it is disorienting to see the prison of heterosexuality continue to co-opt gay aesthetic five years off the mark
kjshepherd.bsky.social
like fucking sending stories to fucking MFA dork magazines is hard enough when you're saying "okay so in this one, this jamoke is in love with his best friend and also he may be a trans woman all along but most importantly he is convinced his bartender is a washed-up Veronica Lake because it is: 🙇🏻‍♂️🙏"
kjshepherd.bsky.social
"KJ why did you write a shorts collection first" why did you mom give you a fucking idiot face, do you think anything about publishing makes any sense to the degree that it matters one bit what I wrote first lol
kjshepherd.bsky.social
look I am sending agents query letters I am but if any of you are or know literary agents who would fuck with someone who has a full shorts collection they are trying to sell, is actively working on another fiction ms, and has just cowritten a NF essay collection then just DM me?
kjshepherd.bsky.social
Part of me thinks he's doing the busy-dad cut on purpose and part of me thinks straight men often do not think about this as much as they should
kjshepherd.bsky.social
love that doc -- when we screened it for our series Eva Love from the film came and I nearly cried while I said how amazing she was
kjshepherd.bsky.social
Are you disappointed in the lack of a fade
kjshepherd.bsky.social
My favorite Diane Keaton factlet remains that she directed the music video for "Heaven is a Place on Earth." RIP queen.
Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by BelindaCarlisleVEVO
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jessehawken.bsky.social
Diane Keaton made ANNIE HALL and LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR in the same year and deserved the Academy Award for either performance as far as I’m concerned.
Diane Keaton holding her Best Actress Oscar for Annie Hall
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boringstein.bsky.social
Episode 4 is up! This one is very meaningful to me. Very proud to work for someone so unfailingly committed to protecting everyone in this city.
zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.