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Christopher Wolff @respectthecows.bsky.social · 14h

Wow. #zohran #transrights

Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 15h

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 1d

Alright I need a short story break before I dive back into another gargantuan anthology, so let's read one of the oldest transfemme books I'm aware of!

Autobiography of an Androgyne is one of the earliest "trans memoirs," published a solid 15 years before the commonly cited 'first' trans memoir.

Autobiography of an Androgyne by Jennie June

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Truthout @truthout.org · 1d

Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado has voiced support for U.S. sanctions against Venezuela and other efforts to topple the government; she aims to privatize the country’s state oil industry and has praised right-wing Latin American leaders, such as Javier Milei and Nayib Bukele.

2025 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Is Aligned With US Imperialism, Says Historian

María Corina Machado has voiced support for sanctions against Venezuela and praised right-wing Latin American leaders.

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J.D. Sargan @jdsargan.bsky.social · 3d

It's true: I wrote a book. And what's more, the book is done and soon you'll be able to own a copy. And what's more more, if you want a hard copy you can order one for 50% off now, with the code SAR50. And if you want it digitally, it'll be open access!

www.arc-humanities.org/978180270163...

Trans Histories of the Medieval Book - Arc Humanities Press

Archival collections are political spaces: the decisions that govern whose histories are preserved, when, and by whom are not neutral. They reflect the commu...

www.arc-humanities.org

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LittlePuss Press @littlepuss.net · 1d

NEW 📗!

PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements (@ravineangel.bsky.social)

In which a trans woman discovers porn of herself she has no memory of making, only to find herself led to an unimaginably deeper evil

"The year's great work of literary horror."
—Gretchen Felker-Martin (@scumbelievable.bsky.social)

PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements — Debut trans horror — LittlePuss Press

"The best book I've read in years." —Gretchen Felker-Martin

www.littlepuss.net

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 1d

I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 1d

And don’t forget that you can still get 20% off on select banned and challenged titles on our site through October 19 using code BBW25 at checkout!

Keep reading. Keep fighting the good fight. I’ll see you soon. 💜

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Morgan M Page @morganmpage.bsky.social · 3d

London: Come listen to me prattle on about trans history (and watch Framing Agnes!) at this free event at Birkbeck next week! www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

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Maximilian Pichl @maxpichl.bsky.social · 2d

Die von der Bundesregierung geplanten Totalsanktionen treffen insb depressive Menschen, die sozialarbeiterische und psychologische Aufsuche benötigen würden. Ein autoritärer Sozialstaat verschärft soziale Probleme und löst kein Problem.

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Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 2d

"Today, Black and trans users continue to see their posts suppressed or removed, or their accounts banned for challenging Bluesky’s increasingly irresponsible leadership."

Bluesky’s CEO meltdown: How leadership continues to fail its most marginalized users

tl;dr: Bluesky began with genuine promise: a new social media platform where users could feel safer, but inconsistent moderation quickly…

plutopsyche.medium.com

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 2d

Ireland has approved plans to permanently implement a basic income program that will support up to 2,200 artists.

A cost-benefit analysis found that for every €1 invested, society receives €1.39 back.

Officials from other countries are now expressing interest in the program.

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Christopher Wolff @respectthecows.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, so business as usual? We learned nothing from the disasters of the Digital Service Tax and the Online News Act? #canpoli #tech

blair @blairaf.com · 2d

Looks like Canada's approach to "sovereign AI" will involve creating structural dependencies on large US tech companies

Excerpt from an article that reads: Lehane met with AI Minister Evan Solomon on Monday. Solomon told The Logic in June that his mission is to “create sovereign AI.” But “sovereignty is not solitude,” Solomon said, noting that Canada still needs technology and capital from other countries.

OpenAI is participating in similar initiatives in other advanced economies. In May, the firm launched OpenAI for Countries, a new program that localizes ChatGPT and its underlying models for a nation’s particular customs and the requirements of its public sector. It is also offering to build data centres for countries that help pay for the infrastructure.

Countries are turning to OpenAI because of its “cutting-edge technology,” which can be used to build homegrown tools and applications, and because the firm can help stimulate their domestic AI ecosystems by building or buying compute capacity, Lehane said.

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Constantin Wurthmann @wurthmann.bsky.social · 3d

For my DFG-funded project “German Sexual Identity and Election Study” and my ERC-funded project “VisibleQueers”, I am looking for three student assistants (m/f/d) to provide dedicated support and active collaboration.

Please share!

www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/three-stu...

Three Student Assistants (m/f/d) Projects German Sexual Identity and Election Study as well as VisibleQueers

www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de

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Brocky Horror Picture Show 🧟⚗️🪩 @queeralchemy.com · 3d

Listen to my interview on my community quilt project on CBC's Daybreak that aired this AM. Special thanks to Dionne Codrington who did an amazing job and was caring in her work and questions.

Yes, me complaining about the comité des sages made it to the interview!

www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

www.cbc.ca

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Brocky Horror Picture Show 🧟⚗️🪩 @queeralchemy.com · 3d

Write PM Carney, Foreign Minister Anand, and your MP to demand the release of the illegally abducted Canadians by the state of Israel!

Template letter and contact list on Proton Drive free for use and reuse here: bit.ly/3TelsCj

#CADpoli #FreedomFlotilla

Screenshot of video of the six Canadians on the boat Conscience of the Freedom Flotilla. Subtitles in screenshot say: we are the Canadian delegation aboard the 'Conscience'

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SCMS Queer and Trans Caucus @scmsqtc.bsky.social · 4d

The Board of the SCMS Queer and Trans Caucus is seeking submissions for the 2025 Chris Holmlund Graduate Student Writing Prize!

Nov 15, 2025 - All Submissions Due
Dec 15, 2025 - Winner Selected
Mar 15, 2026 - Winner Article Revised for Publication

MORE INFO: drive.google.com/file/d/1ZICp...

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Xtra @xtramagazine.com · 4d

Grace Byron’s debut novel examines a terrible consequence of the stripping back of trans rights: it’s easier for trans women to hurt one another, and to accept circumstances that to most people would be seen as unacceptable.

Grace Byron’s ‘Herculine’ shows what a trans cult might actually look like | Xtra Magazine

Byron flips right-wing stereotypes about trans people with her frightening and funny debut novel

xtramagazine.com

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Xtra @xtramagazine.com · 16d

LGBTQ2S+ archives like @arquives.ca, @ottawatranslibrary.bsky.social, @invisiblehistories.bsky.social and @leatherarchives.bsky.social preserve our past. They can also drive our future, writes @ainopihlak.bsky.social.

Among the archives, you can find love, community and history | Xtra Magazine

Queer and trans archives preserve our past—they also offer community space that is essential to our future

xtramagazine.com

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ainopihlak.bsky.social @ainopihlak.bsky.social · 9d

Hey tricks and treats!

Join us on October 15th from 12:10-2 pm EST in-person or over Zoom for Whorestory Volume Two: Mind the Gap(s)! Scan the QR to reserve your in-person or Zoom ticket!

#sexwork #whorestory #herstory #sexworkiswork

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

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Greylace @greylace.bsky.social · 4d

The recent ICE raid which emptied an entire apartment building was apparently at the request of Wells Fargo, which is trying to foreclose on the building.

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 4d

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The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Xtra @xtramagazine.com · 4d

Murphy himself has helped build a pop culture space for all sorts of queer and trans stories that go beyond trauma and violence, so why are we back in this exploitative space? Let’s pump the brakes on the queer trauma machine. Enough is enough

Ryan Murphy’s obsession with queer trauma must be stopped | Xtra Magazine

OPINION: From his Dahmer series to the new “American Horror Story” about a serial killer targeting queer people, the writer-director has gone off the deep end

xtramagazine.com

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 5d

Australia's grid operator has a clear line of sight to 100% renewables. There's nothing unknown or exotic required.

It'll be fun when the first large/major economies start hitting the goal. Too bad the US is likely to be at the rear of the pack.

As coal fades, Australia looks to realize dream of 100% renewable…

The country’s grid operator says shifting from coal to clean power is not only possible but inevitable. The work there could provide a road map for other…

www.canarymedia.com

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 4d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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MvBZ Gender Studies FU Berlin @mvbzfuberlin.bsky.social · 4d

Queer rights need global solidarity 🌍🏳️‍🌈

Join on Oct 9–10, 2025 @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social for
“Queer Rights Research and Activism” a two-day networking event by DiGENet’s Queer Networks .

⚡️ A few spots left, register now
👉 [email protected]

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