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Calder 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ktg48.bsky.social · 7h

Said as a very binary trans guy - same. I’d never want to be a cis guy. The combination of lived experiences I’ve had, and the unique lens that I now get to see everything through - I’d never trade it.

But I do wish society would stop being fucking garbage to us.

Calder 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ktg48.bsky.social · 7h

Totally agree w your assessment about ranking and loving a handful of songs. Me too. But Wi$h Li$t is super on my list 😅

Calder 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ktg48.bsky.social · 7h

… and clearly having good sex lol. I think she’s due to come into her own in that regard; she’s always been so reticent to be reduced to a sex symbol and now she’s going there on her own terms.

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Calder 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ktg48.bsky.social · 7h

… simple (like a driveway w a basketball hoop). I don’t think that’ll lead her to become a trad wife lol. To me, her albums have mirrored her life and right now she’s clearly happy af…

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Calder 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ktg48.bsky.social · 7h

I kinda think the point of her feminism and her having songs like The Man means that she gets to do whatever the heck she wants. She isn’t saying the $ stuff in Wi$h Li$t is for her - she’s saying some other people aspire to that stuff, thinking it can buy happiness, but she wants something…

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Calder 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ktg48.bsky.social · 7h

Screaming.

Janice rocks!

Calder 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ktg48.bsky.social · 11h

😆😆😆

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Calder 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ktg48.bsky.social · 11h

… precisely because they’re associated with feminized forms of emotion and community.

YES. Well said.

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Calder 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ktg48.bsky.social · 11h

This quote is fire:

Dismissing this discourse around Taylor Swift as frivolous pop culture drama would be a mistake – it would repeat the same old pattern of treating women’s and queer people’s cultural spaces as trivial and unworthy of serious analysis…

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Calder 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ktg48.bsky.social · 11h

“Dismissing this discourse around Swift as frivolous pop culture drama would be a mistake; it would repeat the same old pattern of treating women/queer people’s cultural spaces as trivial & unworthy of serious analysis precisely because they’re associated with feminized forms of emotion & community”

When Intimate Publics Shift: Understanding the Discourse around Taylor Swift’s New Album

As those who know me well (or, even those who have been around me for any length of time) know, I’m a Swiftie. And I was excited for The Life of a Showgirl like everyone else. I stayed up to …

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Calder 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ktg48.bsky.social · 11h

Yaaaassss! Glass Houses!!

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Calder 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ktg48.bsky.social · 13h

What the actual fuck, I am laughing so hard

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Calder 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ktg48.bsky.social · 21h

“This is representative of how the effects of the patriarchy play out on straight people” ? I try to keep it real (and then buy queer graphic novels to balance it out).

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

yeah, trump has made very clear that he doesn’t think black people deserve to be in jobs of influence! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

www.nytimes.com

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 1d

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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Calder 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ktg48.bsky.social · 1d

People calling Taylor anti-feminist because she sings that she wants to have kids with her hot fiancé, or she chooses to get filler - like, FUCK, the whole point of feminism is that women can do WHATEVER THE FUCK THEY WANT TO. That’s precisely what “fuck the patriarchy” means.

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Calder 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ktg48.bsky.social · 1d

100%! I read the book decades ago and just saw it in the theatre recently. Landed a little differently now.

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Free Łink - Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 1d

Yep. What they *always* mean is "I don't think your life is important enough to care about, and I don't like being confronted with that fact, so I'm gonna make it sound like *your* problem"

✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 1d

At this point im starting to wonder if hearing the words “purity test” are a dogwhistle because the most shit opinions in the universe will almost always immediately follow it

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Calder 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ktg48.bsky.social · 1d

Dude, you have rainbow flags next to your name. You should at a minimum be aware of Newsom’s anti-trans stance. It’s a pretty low-hanging fruit (fact!).

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Calder 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ktg48.bsky.social · 1d

Snorting. This comment wins the internet today, congrats 🤣

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Calder 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ktg48.bsky.social · 1d

He has an amazing young woman writing his tweets, yes. Do you know anything about his policy? It’s not at all a spin if the answer is yes.

Calder 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ktg48.bsky.social · 1d

- AOC
- Sanders
- Beshear
- Walz
- Warren
- Mamdani
- Tlaib
- Omar
- Green
- Pritzker
- Murphy
- Crockett

Start looking at them before you come with this Newsom or bust bullshit

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Calder 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ktg48.bsky.social · 1d

Wtf

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Calder 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ktg48.bsky.social · 2d

He has a few more days to sign them, let them become law without an sig, or veto them. I’m not saying I’m hopeful, but this isn’t over yet. The headline is a bit misleading. I may have yelled WTF when I saw it before reading. That’s one media outlet that will still make a correction, at least.

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Calder 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ktg48.bsky.social · 2d

Yaaassss

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