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Jen Wang

@jeniverseabr.bsky.social

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They/she. Taiwanese-American. Grey-ace. 30+ Scientist, writer, dancer, action sports fan, occasional photographer, cat dad, social justice rogue This is my universe abridged.

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Jen Wang @jeniverseabr.bsky.social · Oct 18

I'll reintroduce the Jeniverse for y'all, named thus for my many identities. I'm a lab tech, poet, burlesque and drag performer, cosplayer, and snowboarder. I'm genderqueer, grey-asexual, AuDHD, and older than I look. I'm passionate about social justice, cat rescue, and action sports.

Nonbinary Asian femme standing off center to the left on a wooden stage holding a microphone on a stand with their right hand and smiling. She has short hair and glasses. They are wearing a long-sleeve fishnet shirt with a short-sleeve blue button-up that has patches, a pocket on her left side with the word "karate instructor" embroidered on it. She is wearing a purple and silver chainmail flower necklace and has black nailpolish.

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Jen Wang @jeniverseabr.bsky.social · 2h

Mr. Global National Costume Thread

Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 3h

Mr Brazil starts us off inoffensively enough with a fairly boring suit but my goodness he's selling it with that walk. He does get a bonus point for the suit clearly fitting though, because as you will see that is not always a given...

A photo of a contestant at Mister Global 2025

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 6h

Abolish. Fire. Prosecute.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

“I’m worried about my community… I’m out here in a frog costume to show how ridiculous the notion that we’re violent terrorists is, and showcase how that narrative is wrong…”

Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 5h

Meanwhile the White House just illegally laid off dozens of CDC researchers and scientists during the shutdown.

Tweet by Dan Pfeiffer: “Anti-vax in the streets, pro-vax in the sheets.”
Below is Kaitlan Collins’ tweet showing a photo of a White House medical memorandum dated October 10, 2025, stating that President Donald Trump received his flu shot and COVID booster at Walter Reed.

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Kathryn Salamander @transsalamander.bsky.social · 6h

Jenny Nicholson tweet continues to not miss

@JennyENicholson

How come major film studios keep being like Jared Leto may have allegations, but at least he looks weird, stars in box office bombs, and is not a good actor

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 9h

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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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 21h

CHICAGO: REBUILD is providing therapy to folks detained by ICE. Please feel free to let people know.

findmeatherapist.org

Find Me A Therapist

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Rose Lerner @roselerner.bsky.social · 1d

This made me so happy

Screenshot of Claire's last skeet with one from the Frog and Toad bot underneath of Frog saying "don't be silly"

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 8d

In a stunning assault on the First Amendment, the Trump regime has deported an Atlanta journalist (after holding him for more than 100 days) in direct retaliation for his reporting on immigration enforcement. www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news...

Journalist Mario Guevara deported to El Salvador after judges deny his request to stay in U.S.

Georgia-based journalist Mario Guevara has been deported to El Salvador after more than 100 days in detainment.

www.cbsnews.com

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dave wagner @davewagner.bsky.social · 22h

pacific rim is a really good movie and i'm tired of people pretending it isn't

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Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 22h

I mean we've always been in the hide your neighbors stage, it's just most people weren't willing to. 🤷🏽‍♀️

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Jen Wang @jeniverseabr.bsky.social · 21h

#ShadowsTober25 Day 9: Weapon - The pen is mightier than the sword. 😉 Because the #ShadowsOverWelde fandom is international and English can be confusing as hell, I feel the need to clarify that I mean "wounds" like "inflicts injury". #poetry #quatrain

Blue text on pale yellow background that reads, "A Weapon delicate and soft –/ A Mind so sharp and deft –/ The Writer wounds within and out –/ Their Patience, do not test!". Below and to the right in dark red text is "–Jeniverse Writings" and at the bottom in green cursive text is "ShadowsTober 2025 Day 9: Weapon".

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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 22h

Chicago got our own dancing protest frog!

(Future historians are going to have a hell of a time trying to explain that sentence. 😂)

Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 1d

And he’s a dancing machine. Passersby are either delighted or just move on like they see dancing frogs on Clark Street every day.

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Dylan Chinn @dylandoesdraw.bsky.social · 16d

Just one more week till cr4

#criticalrole #criticalrolefanart #cr4 #dnd #fantasyart #dndart

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 1d

The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 has been awarded to Venezuelan democracy activist María Corina Machado.

The Nobel Committee recognised her “struggle to achieve a just & peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”

In other words, exactly the opposite of what Trump is doing to the United States.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2d

you'd think a prominent news outlet like the New York Times might mention that "antifa" isn't an actual organization in a long story about antifa, but nope!

and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate

NYT headline: "Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats"

subheadline: "Mark Bray was teaching courses on antifascism. Turning Point USA accused him of belonging to antifa, which he denies. His flight to Spain was canceled abruptly on Wednesday night."

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Sa’ar Keshet @tc221bee.bsky.social · 1d

While Banned Books Week is winding down, reading banned books is year-round.

Fight against literary censorship wherever you see it.

Support your local libraries, independent bookstores, Little Free Libraries, indie authors, schools, and educators-on-the-ground.

Everyone deserves access to books!

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Jen Wang @jeniverseabr.bsky.social · 1d

My dance about how much transphobes sucks because I'm a nonbinary pole dancer youtube.com/shorts/IY4Jt...

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YouTube video by Hana Li

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Jen Wang @jeniverseabr.bsky.social · 1d

As someone whose last DnD character was social justice rogue grung (frog race), I give all my love and support and wish I could join my fellow froggos.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 1d

Reporting live from Chicago, there’s no “hellscape” I’d rather be in.

Asian American bellydancer with a feather fan.

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Jen Wang @jeniverseabr.bsky.social · 1d

#ShadowsTober25 Day 8: Chain - Who was expecting a band AU #fanfic reimagining Zephrael, Bryant, and Esrael as Fleetwood Mac? Who is old enough to get the reference?😅I chased this wacky though and now we're here. #ShadowsOverWelde archiveofourown.org/works/716969...

Shadows Over October 2025 - Chapter 8 - Li_flower - Shadows Over Welde (Web Series) [Archive of Our Own]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

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The One Piece Podcast @onepiecepodcast.com · 2d

Protesters around the world are using the Straw Hat Pirate Jolly Roger as a symbol of freedom. We plan on doing a detailed report on this phenomenon in the coming weeks. In the meanwhile, here is an updating list of countries where the Jolly Roger has appeared:

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Jen Wang @jeniverseabr.bsky.social · 1d

My dance about how much transphobes sucks because I'm a nonbinary pole dancer youtube.com/shorts/IY4Jt...

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YouTube video by Hana Li

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en•gendered @en-gendered.bsky.social · Jul 21

Happy Monday!

"focus on quitting this job..."
- nat raum, poem for the woman who says including transmasc people in "women's" issues isn't relatable to her personally
@gr8earlofhell.bsky.social

engenderedlitmag.com/summer2025

this is a focus group. focus on identifying five things
i can see, four i can touch. focus on the cursor as it slides
over the camera button, switches it off. focus on the way
she says i hope you don’t take this as offensive, but after i say
the menopause website we’re all looking at doesn’t feel
trans-friendly. recalibrate; losing focus. don’t focus on
the way i feel, the way she doesn’t realize she swatted
me down like an attack helicopter would fall if struck
by such a blow. don’t focus on all twenty people who said
nothing and kept talking about the hot pink web design.
focus on the talking-to your boss says is coming for her.
focus on the email from your other queer coworker
sending love from her gay little corner of the world.
focus on quitting this job in a few months, anyway.
this is a focus group—focus on collecting my gift card
compensation. focus on a future without cis nonsense.

nat raum,
poem for the cishet woman who says including transmasc people in “women’s” issues isn’t relatable to her personally

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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