Davi Gray (she/they)
@davigray.com
Queer, trans, nonbinary poet, writer, performer, artist, activist, & abolitionist. 🌐 davigray.com. 18+ 🙏🏼
Work published in Poetry, Water~Stone Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, et al. First collection "This Body, This Fruit" @ Feb 2027 (Trio House Press).
Work published in Poetry, Water~Stone Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, et al. First collection "This Body, This Fruit" @ Feb 2027 (Trio House Press).
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Davi Gray (she/they)
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i am very exhausted by disinformation about the cost of transition healthcare. it costs less than $100 for 1-2 years of hormones, depending on your exact sourcing. presenting HRT as impossibly expensive and inaccessible to people who need HRT but don't know how is equivalent to medical gatekeeping.
Trans people needing hormones but lacking medical access for whatever reason: they're fairly easy and cheap to get elsewhere! See 🧵 by @katie.bzky.team ->
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This article is well worth your time, getting at some aspects of the mutual aid going on here that we can't talk about all that much.
Crimes against humanity are being perpetrated on Minnesota by the federal government. People are stepping up & doing amazing things, but JFC this is horrific.
Crimes against humanity are being perpetrated on Minnesota by the federal government. People are stepping up & doing amazing things, but JFC this is horrific.
Bless all the helpers, but especially the teachers. School has been so critical to feeding kids for so long and the attendance impact of the occupation only compounds the crisis. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/d...
Hungry Families, ICE and Secret Grocery Networks in Minneapolis
www.nytimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:44 PM
This article is well worth your time, getting at some aspects of the mutual aid going on here that we can't talk about all that much.
Crimes against humanity are being perpetrated on Minnesota by the federal government. People are stepping up & doing amazing things, but JFC this is horrific.
Crimes against humanity are being perpetrated on Minnesota by the federal government. People are stepping up & doing amazing things, but JFC this is horrific.
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We could be housing homeless people, providing healthcare, funding our schools, protecting our environment… no let’s make more concentration camps for brown people.
I hate this.
I hate this.
In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in:
- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown
This is unprecedented.
- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown
This is unprecedented.
February 9, 2026 at 6:46 PM
We could be housing homeless people, providing healthcare, funding our schools, protecting our environment… no let’s make more concentration camps for brown people.
I hate this.
I hate this.
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feels deeply pertinent to the moment now in Minnesota where we are seeing health care systems choosing to stop providing puberty suppression and hormone care to youth. And we live in a state with legislation protecting access to trans health care!!
In an alarming development, it appears the UK Government covered up a massive spike in trans youth suicides after restrictions.
Then covered it up again when caught.
Now, after fighting for years, the data is public: trans suicide increased 5x in the country.
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Then covered it up again when caught.
Now, after fighting for years, the data is public: trans suicide increased 5x in the country.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Trans Youth Suicides Skyrocketed In UK After Care Drawdown; Government Covers It Up
A Freedom of Information request to the National Child Mortality Database reveals that 22 trans children under 18 died by suicide in England in 2021-22 alone.
www.erininthemorning.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:48 PM
feels deeply pertinent to the moment now in Minnesota where we are seeing health care systems choosing to stop providing puberty suppression and hormone care to youth. And we live in a state with legislation protecting access to trans health care!!
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Will be reading from MORE FLOWERS (@triohousepress.org) as part of the SUNDAY SALON CHICAGO with this stellar line-up of poets on February 22nd! Join us, friends! 💙⬇️
I'm excited to host SUNDAY SALON CHICAGO on Feb. 22nd on ZOOM at 6 pm CT with featured readers Teresa Scollon, @susanlleary.bsky.social, Tim Moder, Grayson Thompson & Denton Loving. Register for Zoom here: tinyurl.com/c65uwak3 — Website update coming soon! Hope to see you, good world— 👏🌈
February 9, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Will be reading from MORE FLOWERS (@triohousepress.org) as part of the SUNDAY SALON CHICAGO with this stellar line-up of poets on February 22nd! Join us, friends! 💙⬇️
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doing a virtual reading coming up with @tommywyattblake.bsky.social! DM either of us to rsvp for some #trans and #leftist poetry
February 9, 2026 at 6:24 PM
doing a virtual reading coming up with @tommywyattblake.bsky.social! DM either of us to rsvp for some #trans and #leftist poetry
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😓 “I have been here too long.” 💔
Please take the time to read what the children detained in Dilley wrote me in their own words: www.propublica.org/article/ice-... 10/
“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...
www.propublica.org
February 9, 2026 at 1:40 PM
😓 “I have been here too long.” 💔
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ICE isn't "routine, professional law enforcement"?
I'm old enough to remember when police beat Rodney King, but younger people may instead recognize names like George Floyd or Sandra Bland.
Policing has always treated some people this way, they've just expanded the definition of "some people".
I'm old enough to remember when police beat Rodney King, but younger people may instead recognize names like George Floyd or Sandra Bland.
Policing has always treated some people this way, they've just expanded the definition of "some people".
February 9, 2026 at 12:10 AM
ICE isn't "routine, professional law enforcement"?
I'm old enough to remember when police beat Rodney King, but younger people may instead recognize names like George Floyd or Sandra Bland.
Policing has always treated some people this way, they've just expanded the definition of "some people".
I'm old enough to remember when police beat Rodney King, but younger people may instead recognize names like George Floyd or Sandra Bland.
Policing has always treated some people this way, they've just expanded the definition of "some people".
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so something that's been helpful for me is the @xblock.aendra.dev labeler, bc it labels social (mostly twitter / bsky) screenshots, so I'd have to actively click it open when people post those. In case you are looking for something to minimize twitter dunking on your skyline.
February 9, 2025 at 1:19 AM
so something that's been helpful for me is the @xblock.aendra.dev labeler, bc it labels social (mostly twitter / bsky) screenshots, so I'd have to actively click it open when people post those. In case you are looking for something to minimize twitter dunking on your skyline.
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In case you missed the moment.
Art is powerful
Art is powerful
February 9, 2026 at 2:05 AM
In case you missed the moment.
Art is powerful
Art is powerful
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Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
February 9, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
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When he says "América" he means ALL of it
OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit
February 9, 2026 at 1:57 AM
When he says "América" he means ALL of it
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I have told people to cut Minnesotans a lot of slack right now and should note that also includes Minnesotans with each other. None of us are at our best right now. (I really very much am not.)
Is someone Wrong On The Internet? maybe. but a lot of that is coming from the fact that shit is real rough right now and everyone is hypervigilant and no one is sleeping, and I think if we try to see that in each other we can avoid a lot of friendly fire right now
February 9, 2026 at 12:11 AM
I have told people to cut Minnesotans a lot of slack right now and should note that also includes Minnesotans with each other. None of us are at our best right now. (I really very much am not.)
Great summation of the mechanics of the GOP spiral into evil and why it's terminal.
The only way out is through; it's a rugged and terrible path which most will avoid until ignominious death.
The only way out is through; it's a rugged and terrible path which most will avoid until ignominious death.
Your point reminds me of a very astute Twitter thread about shame, by David Rees (of Get Your War On fame), from early in Trump's first term. It's hard to find now, so I'm going to post the whole thing here.
February 8, 2026 at 10:32 PM
Great summation of the mechanics of the GOP spiral into evil and why it's terminal.
The only way out is through; it's a rugged and terrible path which most will avoid until ignominious death.
The only way out is through; it's a rugged and terrible path which most will avoid until ignominious death.
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The point of the AI project is to provoke despair in creative people. They haven’t produced profits or anything anyone wants, just a steady stream of articles about how us artistic types can’t do the thing we’re already doing, making art. Jokes on them, we’re even better at despair than they are.
February 8, 2026 at 6:24 PM
The point of the AI project is to provoke despair in creative people. They haven’t produced profits or anything anyone wants, just a steady stream of articles about how us artistic types can’t do the thing we’re already doing, making art. Jokes on them, we’re even better at despair than they are.
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ACAB includes Amy Klobuchar
I think it's clear at this point that Amy is pro-ICE, and we need to remember that her record as county attorney was *extremely* carcereal. She fought to extend immigrants' sentences - in one case by 2 days - so that they'd be deported.
She increased HC prison pop by 20% and... (1/2)
She increased HC prison pop by 20% and... (1/2)
All in for Team USA Curling. Met former Olympic curling medalist Joe Polo at the Duluth Curling Club. He’s won two Olympic medals — the bronze from the 2006 Winter Games in Turin and the gold from the 2018 Winter Games in PyeongChang. 🥇 🥇
February 8, 2026 at 10:18 PM
ACAB includes Amy Klobuchar
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Layers:
1. What ICE/CBP is doing isn't making us safer.
2. When ICE/CBP does their work "the right way," it ALSO doesn't make us safer.
3. Human beings deserve respect and care no matter their status, language, or background. If "leaders" can't say that, everyday people can lead by shouting it.
1. What ICE/CBP is doing isn't making us safer.
2. When ICE/CBP does their work "the right way," it ALSO doesn't make us safer.
3. Human beings deserve respect and care no matter their status, language, or background. If "leaders" can't say that, everyday people can lead by shouting it.
February 8, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Layers:
1. What ICE/CBP is doing isn't making us safer.
2. When ICE/CBP does their work "the right way," it ALSO doesn't make us safer.
3. Human beings deserve respect and care no matter their status, language, or background. If "leaders" can't say that, everyday people can lead by shouting it.
1. What ICE/CBP is doing isn't making us safer.
2. When ICE/CBP does their work "the right way," it ALSO doesn't make us safer.
3. Human beings deserve respect and care no matter their status, language, or background. If "leaders" can't say that, everyday people can lead by shouting it.
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Alex Paucar and Kimberly Tocte, were kidnapped by ICE while going to their immigration check in. This family needs help with lawyer fees, bond requests, and support to stay afloat and be reunited. Alex is being held in Texas now and Kimberly is in Minnesota being monitored.
gofund.me/14aaa00e9
gofund.me/14aaa00e9
Donate to Help Bring Alex & Kimberly Home, organized by Lucino Sosa
I am writing this with a heavy heart and an urgent request for help. Two of my employees, … Lucino Sosa needs your support for Help Bring Alex & Kimberly Home
gofund.me
February 8, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Alex Paucar and Kimberly Tocte, were kidnapped by ICE while going to their immigration check in. This family needs help with lawyer fees, bond requests, and support to stay afloat and be reunited. Alex is being held in Texas now and Kimberly is in Minnesota being monitored.
gofund.me/14aaa00e9
gofund.me/14aaa00e9
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People Not In Minnesota: The national narrative is that ICE is de-escalating. This is not the case. Many of our businesses are financially in peril, as are thousands of families who cannot leave their homes to work safely. Please send a small donation. Link below.https://www.standwithminnesota.com
Stand With Minnesota
Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.
www.standwithminnesota.com
February 8, 2026 at 6:39 PM
People Not In Minnesota: The national narrative is that ICE is de-escalating. This is not the case. Many of our businesses are financially in peril, as are thousands of families who cannot leave their homes to work safely. Please send a small donation. Link below.https://www.standwithminnesota.com
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Oh hey, this is true.
I hope folks are still calling their members of congress. Please keep calling your members of congress. (And if you've been doing that & donating funds where you can, that means a lot.)
(Folks in MN call the governor if you have energy enough.)
I hope folks are still calling their members of congress. Please keep calling your members of congress. (And if you've been doing that & donating funds where you can, that means a lot.)
(Folks in MN call the governor if you have energy enough.)
A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
February 8, 2026 at 5:11 AM
Oh hey, this is true.
I hope folks are still calling their members of congress. Please keep calling your members of congress. (And if you've been doing that & donating funds where you can, that means a lot.)
(Folks in MN call the governor if you have energy enough.)
I hope folks are still calling their members of congress. Please keep calling your members of congress. (And if you've been doing that & donating funds where you can, that means a lot.)
(Folks in MN call the governor if you have energy enough.)
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I would also add it’s going to get increasingly tough to meet the mutual aid demands (covering rent, chiefly) without continued wide support that national coverage can help generate.
A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
February 8, 2026 at 5:55 AM
I would also add it’s going to get increasingly tough to meet the mutual aid demands (covering rent, chiefly) without continued wide support that national coverage can help generate.
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I have incarcerated comrades & loved ones who are enduring the daily torture of US prisons. They also continue to make art. They often don't have the proper supplies and yet they make it knowing that it will never make it out to anyone else. But they continue to make art nonetheless. Keep making art
February 8, 2026 at 1:51 AM
I have incarcerated comrades & loved ones who are enduring the daily torture of US prisons. They also continue to make art. They often don't have the proper supplies and yet they make it knowing that it will never make it out to anyone else. But they continue to make art nonetheless. Keep making art
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I will match $200 of this. Show me your work.
Alright folks, I’m back on my barnraising bullshit with @ziibiing.com and Stand With Minnesota. 🌻
There are 2 rent needs im barnraising for this weekend: one for $800 and one for $2600.
V: colocha_rachel
$: ColochaRachel
Please chip in or share as you can.
There are 2 rent needs im barnraising for this weekend: one for $800 and one for $2600.
V: colocha_rachel
$: ColochaRachel
Please chip in or share as you can.
a large red barn is being built in a grassy field with a cloud gif in the corner
Alt: a large red barn is being built by many people in a grassy field with a cloud gif in the corner
media.tenor.com
February 8, 2026 at 2:36 AM
I will match $200 of this. Show me your work.
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"We will not be conquered."
February 8, 2026 at 2:42 AM
"We will not be conquered."
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