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Quinn Rhodes (he/him) @onqueerstreet.bsky.social · 40m

(Hi, I'm focussing on this to avoid All The Transphobia Happening Right Now. I'm very open to the fact I'm wrong about this and hope I do not come across accusatory here.)

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 44m

Any journos working on this who need help with sourcing should feel free to ping me; I have lots of disabled kids, adults, and parents of disabled kids currently fighting for access to education in my networks. sesmith @ realsesmith dot com

s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 46m

This special education news is really devastating and we're going to learn more in the coming days as we get more info and people figure out exactly what it means, but a reminder that disabled people are entitled to a free appropriate public education.

Amid shutdown, Trump administration guts department overseeing special education

Multiple sources tell NPR that, as part of the Trump administration's latest reduction-in-force, the U.S. Department of Education has gutted the office that handles special education.

www.npr.org

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Quinn Rhodes (he/him) @onqueerstreet.bsky.social · 43m

Does he not do this in the books as well? Not to defend the film (which I haven't watched) but I feel like one/both of them definitely had an apple on their trays the first time they eat lunch together? And we all know how canonically clumsy Bella Swan is, so her dropping an apple feels possible?

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Scottish Trans @scottishtrans.bsky.social · 4h

Are you a rural trans or non-binary person in Highland or Argyll and Bute? NHS Highland Public Health have partnered with Scottish Trans to conduct trans-led research on experiences of GP practices.

Take part in this important research: www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/RTHTNBSurv...

#RuralTransHealth

Graphic with a light blue background. At the top are small drawings of the trans and nonbinary flags, the Scottish Trans, NHS Highland and Public Health Scotland logos. It says "Trans People Needed for Rural Research -
Rural Transgender Health: Primary Care Experiences
The survey can be found at:
www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/RTHTNBSurvey"
There is a drawing of a computer with a webpage of a survey.
"Chance to win
one of 3 x £100 vouchers"

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A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 5h

We also need op-ed’s in the national press talking about violence from anti trans campaigners being out of hand!

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 5h

Wes Streeting condemned some trans activists for vandalising a building. He will be condemning this, too, right?

naoarte 🎚️🦋🎀🤍🎀🦋🎚️ @naoarte.bsky.social · 5h

FiLiA Statement on yesterdays brawl between Jean Hatchett and Lucy Masoud. Possibly others...

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 5h

They always start with free speech. It sounds reasonable, doesn’t it? Free speech? And they can use it to shut down anyone who criticises them, because it’s all “free speech”

After “free speech” it’s “protecting women and girls”

And then it’s whatever they actually wanted.

Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 6h

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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Quinn Rhodes (he/him) @onqueerstreet.bsky.social · 21h

It’s a truth universally acknowledged that trans healthcare in the UK is fucked, but what if it wasn’t? What if trans people could actually expect our basic healthcare needs to be met?

This week's newsletter asks whether I'm lying to myself about bottom surgery: www.genderbent.co.uk/am-i-lying-t...

Am I lying to myself about bottom surgery?

Strap in (or on) – today I'm talking about my dick.

www.genderbent.co.uk

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obnoxiously gay @obnoxiously.gay · 18h

hiring an interior designer to rearrange my guts

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 19h

BEEP BOOP THIS IS NORA'S AUTOMATED STRETCH CHECK. today is Sunday. everyone do your stretchies. 💪🤖

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Evil Orc Heart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 20h

Genuinely makes me a little crazy that many large legacy outlets are printing that Bari Weiss' free press cared as much about reporting and accuracy as real journalists despite that being a factual statement that is easily disproven.

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 21h

Describe the opposite of The Free Press in a sentence

Screenshot of text:

It’s a business story. [Highlighting begins] Everyone in journalism has known for years that there’s been a huge opportunity for a publication that employs the traditional methods of U.S. journalism—reporting, deep sourcing, fact-checking, fearlessness—to subjects that either don’t get covered enough or get covered only from a certain perspective. [Highlighting ends] If creating such an enterprise seems simple

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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 21h

I began connecting some dots in a post earlier this year abt the way white Gen X women were talking about Caitlin Clark. There's an expanded analysis to be written, I think, as it pertains to an "anti-woke" lens permeating these formerly liberally-minded women. www.thefrankiedlc.news/p/no-playing...

"Many of the people arguing for less physicality in the W—Brennan, Jenkins, tennis legend Chris Evert—have spent their careers covering or taking part in women's sports (or both). And yet, they’re buying into the oldest sexist trope in the book, a narrative that existed over a century ago as a way to keep women out of sports altogether: That women are too weak to handle physicality in sports.

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Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 23h

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

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tuck woodstock @tuck.bsky.social · 21h

I've heard rumors of two different "poly coaches" lately and I've decided that this should be my new career pivot. I have zero relevant professional training and my primary advice will likely be either "have you tried being normal about it" or "sounds like you actually want to do monogamy"

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Quinn Rhodes (he/him) @onqueerstreet.bsky.social · 21h

It’s a truth universally acknowledged that trans healthcare in the UK is fucked, but what if it wasn’t? What if trans people could actually expect our basic healthcare needs to be met?

This week's newsletter asks whether I'm lying to myself about bottom surgery: www.genderbent.co.uk/am-i-lying-t...

Am I lying to myself about bottom surgery?

Strap in (or on) – today I'm talking about my dick.

www.genderbent.co.uk

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 1d

Incredibly refreshing to see a uk politician just say yes a woman can have a penis and can you be normal about trans people if you dont want them to have a dick fund their transition awesome love this guy

Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 1d

Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions

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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 3d

SOURCE REQUEST: looking to talk to folks who have cruised at men’s sporting events (anonymously ofc!). Please share with anyone this might apply to & get in touch: DM or email frankie at britnidlc dot com

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lilith kills u @deathcarpets.sisc.one · 4d

shoving priceless artifacts inside my dickhole because my financial advisor told me i need sound investments

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Kate Sloan (she/her) @katesloan.com · 4d

"[This book] achieves the rare art of the best humor: a joke that tells you something dead serious about life." -Torrey Peters bookshop.org/a/24457/9798...

Sex Change and the City

Check out Sex Change and the City - The team behind the Lambda Literary Award-winning 2 Trans 2 Furious returns with another delightful, deranged volume of queer media studies. Sex ...

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Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 4d

Needing multiple streams of income to stay afloat is a societal failure not a personal one. You should be able to afford a comfortable lifestyle with one job. You are not lazy.

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Bishop Whitewind @bishopwhitewind.bsky.social · 4d

Hey you guys remember that time Donald Trump decided that if you're mentally ill he can send you to a concentration camp and no one will ever see you again. You guys remember that? I'm just thinking about that for no reason.

Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 4d

A fringe group wants the field of psychiatry to regress back to the days when stereotypes and prejudices resulted in mental illness diagnoses for marginalized populations.

In a new reported piece, @evanurquhart.bsky.social examines Genspect's call for the re-psychopathologization of trans identity.

Hate Group Calls for Re-Labeling Transness as Mental Illness — Assigned

A fringe group with no expertise pushes the field of psychiatry to regress to a pre-scientific, prejudice-soaked view of trans people. It coincides with the far-right political agenda.

www.assignedmedia.org

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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 4d

If you’re a queer person who loves sports, there’s a new way to connect: a project from Out of Your League & Rough Notes called Shoot Your Shot. Whether you’re looking for love, friendship, solidarity or partnership — we’re hoping this collab can help you find it. Call us your queer sports yentas.

Shoot Your Shot: Queers + Sports + Connections

Old-school classifieds for queers who love sports, from Out of Your League + Rough Notes <3

www.thefrankiedlc.news

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 4d

Thing I just learned. “Lede” as in “bury the lede” is a deliberate misspelling of “lead”. It’s part of a lexicon of misspellings used for annotations by journalists and subs so that notes on copy are removed, rather than included in the body of the text by accident. Others include “dek” and “hed”.

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Quinn Rhodes (he/him) @onqueerstreet.bsky.social · 4d

Totally get that. You can email Jem at [email protected] – and please feel free to say that I passed on her email address and suggested you reached out.

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Quinn Rhodes (he/him) @onqueerstreet.bsky.social · 4d

(To be clear, their team is very small and their director is the person who puts the newsletter together most weeks – that's just her title in that role.)

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