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Frankenstonk’s Monster @stonkers.bsky.social · 23m

this really gets at my complicated feelings about this movie that I love even as I cringe

Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social · 3h

Yes, Sleepaway Camp is scared of queers but it kinda hates the cishets even more.

'Sleepaway Camp' Was Kinda Heterophobic if You Think About It

Sleepaway Camp depicts heterosexual desire, particularly from men, as being predatory, transactional, cruel, and destructive.

www.autostraddle.com

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 1h

"Trans issues aren't this shameful thing that Democratic consultants suggest we hide from, it's the same fight undocumented immigrants are fighting, or those who can't access health care are fighting...Political issues aren't siloes, they're all connected, and Mamdani recognizes that." ✊

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1h

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Cat Fitzpatrick @catfitzpatrick.net · 3h

I have actually never seen a politician say anything even remotely like this. Whatever the follow-through, or not, even the fact he said this is really, really something

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4h

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.

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Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social · 3h

Yes, Sleepaway Camp is scared of queers but it kinda hates the cishets even more.

'Sleepaway Camp' Was Kinda Heterophobic if You Think About It

Sleepaway Camp depicts heterosexual desire, particularly from men, as being predatory, transactional, cruel, and destructive.

www.autostraddle.com

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Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social · 1d

Of course I’m the dumb bitch who instinctually utters an awkward “thank you” every time she’s cat called.

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violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

I'm pretty sure this means that, according to JK Rowling, skin is a woman now.

Scientists create human eggs in the lab, using skin cells

Scientists created the eggs using DNA from adult skin cells, a step that could someday potentially lead to new ways to treat infertility and enable gay couples to have genetically related children.

www.npr.org

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Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social · 1d

You know if it weren't for The Church's transphobia, wishy washy approach to queer sexuality, oppression of reproductive rights, and history of worldwide genocide, I'd almost consider doing the whole Catholic thing again. Almost.

Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 2d

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 2d

I would vote without question for anyone with the fucking stones to do this while refusing to 1) throw trans people under the bus and 2) fund Israel's genocide

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 2d

This is why I think the next Democratic president needs to use the EXACT tools that SCOTUS has handed Trump. Don't leave room for any distinctions.

Impound funds for deportation. Give ICE the USAID treatment. Refuse to collect government-backed debt. Purge MAGA loyalists from the executive branch.

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Adrian Walking Dead 🧟‍♂️ 🦇 @adrianswalker.blacksky.app · 2d

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

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Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social · 2d

I’m planning an offsite for AWP and was briefly stressed about finding a DJ but then I remembered that I’m a transsexual who knows a lot of transsexuals.

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Emma Addams @emma-addams.bsky.social · 2d

we should change egg to faceless furby

Cat Fitzpatrick @catfitzpatrick.net · 2d

It's a furby with its face ripped off! According to Julie Blair, who designed the cover, this is what Maria thinks James H is

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Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social · 2d

This is world changing information, Cat! I'm even more sad I don't have an original copy now.

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Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social · 2d

okay but what exactly is that little cat thing on the original cover of "Nevada?"

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Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social · 2d

I'm oscillating between being tiffed that The Beauty tv series adaptation apparently isn't going to include the trans hitwoman from the comics and beyond grateful that we're spared from watching her be adapted by Ryan Murphy.

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Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social · 3d

It's not always the full class that objects, but I've never taught the story without at least one student making a thing out of it. It's infuriating.

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Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social · 3d

Actual student quotes:
"This was perverted."
"It felt like I was reading porn."
"I was uncomfortable with her debauchery."

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3d

This very very very bad. I cannot stress this enough. I said that they crossed the Rubicon with arresting Ras Baraka several months ago. This is very bad and portends more bad things for regular people.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 3d

The President of the United States is calling for the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois to be jailed.

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Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social · 3d

Someday I'd love to be able to teach "The Husband Stitch" without a student getting more upset over the sex scenes than the misogyny.

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 3d

Starting my October horror posting...

countercraft.substack.com/p/shirley-ja...

Shirley Jackson and the Eerie Omniscient Narrator

Some thoughts on the horror classic The Haunting of Hill House

countercraft.substack.com

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Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social · 3d

The Haunting of Hill House feels like a distinctly trans femme novel to me. Eleanor is so grateful for the chance to finally be a woman on her own terms that she'd rather run straight into hell than even consider returning to her old life.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 3d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 3d

hi, cis folks in california!

this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out.

he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841

want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

very cool that if you are working on behalf of right-wing culture warriors, you no longer need standing to have your claim adjudicated by the supreme court

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 4d

It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 4d

One thing about American's widespread distrust and disapproval of the Supreme Court is that mainstream news coverage mostly doesn't dwell on stuff like standing, so people don't even begin to grasp how rigged the Court truly is www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

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Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social · 3d

Trans class update: the youths love "Nevada."

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