Amelia Wren
@amelia-wren.bsky.social
Writer and video creator. Trans woman.
Looking to the future.
Looking to the future.
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Amelia Wren
@amelia-wren.bsky.social
· Nov 19
Hi, everyone seeing this! I created a second account apart from @amazingamy.bsky.social so I could separate the more news/politics/world events oriented follows from the recreation/entertainment/personal follows.
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that's right
Speaker of the Korean parliament: “Wherever the MPs gather, that's the parliament. We will start the parliament meeting immediately.”
December 3, 2024 at 3:29 PM
that's right
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folks there is only one newsletter talking about WICKED and THE DEAD ZONE today, and it is available to you right now
Amy Wren Watched What? November 18-24
Wicked, Winkie's, and Women Talking, oh my! Four films that Amy watched last week.
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November 26, 2024 at 6:00 PM
folks there is only one newsletter talking about WICKED and THE DEAD ZONE today, and it is available to you right now
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Oh hey! I watched some movies last week, and wrote a bit about four of them.
Take a look, and be sure to subscribe!
Oh hey! I watched some movies last week, and wrote a bit about four of them.
Take a look, and be sure to subscribe!
Amy Wren Watched What? November 18-24
Wicked, Winkie's, and Women Talking, oh my! Four films that Amy watched last week.
amywrensayswhat.ghost.io
November 26, 2024 at 3:15 PM
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Oh hey! I watched some movies last week, and wrote a bit about four of them.
Take a look, and be sure to subscribe!
Oh hey! I watched some movies last week, and wrote a bit about four of them.
Take a look, and be sure to subscribe!
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really important to emphasize as much as possible that there was no great popular mandate for trump. these results were as close to an even split as possible.
“The latest vote count shows that Donald J. Trump won the popular vote by one of the smallest margins since the 19th century.” www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/u...
The ‘Landslide’ That Wasn’t: Trump and Allies Pump Up His Narrow Victory
The latest vote count shows that Donald J. Trump won the popular vote by one of the smallest margins since the 19th century. But Mr. Trump claims a “powerful mandate.”
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2024 at 4:09 PM
really important to emphasize as much as possible that there was no great popular mandate for trump. these results were as close to an even split as possible.
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So I wrote a novel, about the moment when you come out and realize people MUCH younger than you who've been out for longer are kinda sorta your elders. And you can learn from them. And they will be EXTREMELY ANNOYED by this.
People have told me it's FUNNY and LOVELY. And now it has a cover! 🧵
People have told me it's FUNNY and LOVELY. And now it has a cover! 🧵
November 22, 2024 at 5:16 PM
So I wrote a novel, about the moment when you come out and realize people MUCH younger than you who've been out for longer are kinda sorta your elders. And you can learn from them. And they will be EXTREMELY ANNOYED by this.
People have told me it's FUNNY and LOVELY. And now it has a cover! 🧵
People have told me it's FUNNY and LOVELY. And now it has a cover! 🧵
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Let's just get one thing straight. Every time Nancy Mace mentions a specific trans person's penis, it's sexual harassment.
November 21, 2024 at 10:38 PM
Let's just get one thing straight. Every time Nancy Mace mentions a specific trans person's penis, it's sexual harassment.
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Last chance to read this piece before I stop promoting it!
I mean, it will still be there to read, but I won't be sharing links to it into the void anymore.
I mean, it will still be there to read, but I won't be sharing links to it into the void anymore.
Where Were You? Where are you Now? - The Nasty Girl (1990)
A few words on how someone becomes a "nasty girl", looking at the past with clear eyes despite the consequences, and not looking away in the unfortunate present.
amywrensayswhat.ghost.io
November 21, 2024 at 9:40 PM
Last chance to read this piece before I stop promoting it!
I mean, it will still be there to read, but I won't be sharing links to it into the void anymore.
I mean, it will still be there to read, but I won't be sharing links to it into the void anymore.
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Sometimes I hate talking about myself but if @thefrankiedlc.news calls there is only one rule: you pick up.
in the field: sydney bauer, independent sports journalist
"Being queer, you kind of get shoved into doing queer stories. I would love to just write about the basketball game from last night."
www.thefrankiedlc.news
November 21, 2024 at 2:39 PM
Sometimes I hate talking about myself but if @thefrankiedlc.news calls there is only one rule: you pick up.
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trump is not invulnerable.
BREAKING: Gaetz withdraws from consideration for attorney general.
November 21, 2024 at 5:30 PM
trump is not invulnerable.
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The latest edition of my newsletter has been called "the best thing I have ever written" by a reliable source (my wife @coralinewren.bsky.social )
Check out what you are missing, and go ahead and give a subscribe as well.
I'd really appreciate it.
The latest edition of my newsletter has been called "the best thing I have ever written" by a reliable source (my wife @coralinewren.bsky.social )
Check out what you are missing, and go ahead and give a subscribe as well.
I'd really appreciate it.
November 21, 2024 at 5:59 PM
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The latest edition of my newsletter has been called "the best thing I have ever written" by a reliable source (my wife @coralinewren.bsky.social )
Check out what you are missing, and go ahead and give a subscribe as well.
I'd really appreciate it.
The latest edition of my newsletter has been called "the best thing I have ever written" by a reliable source (my wife @coralinewren.bsky.social )
Check out what you are missing, and go ahead and give a subscribe as well.
I'd really appreciate it.
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Coming in here again to brag on my wife: this is an essay on THE NASTY GIRL (1990, dir. Michael Verhoeven) and it's really great:
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Where Were You? Where are you Now? - The Nasty Girl (1990)
A few words on how someone becomes a "nasty girl", looking at the past with clear eyes despite the consequences, and not looking away in the unfortunate present.
amywrensayswhat.ghost.io
November 21, 2024 at 2:08 PM
Coming in here again to brag on my wife: this is an essay on THE NASTY GIRL (1990, dir. Michael Verhoeven) and it's really great:
amywrensayswhat.ghost.io/where-were-y...
amywrensayswhat.ghost.io/where-were-y...
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Oh, hey, a new newsletter just dropped! This one is a whole thing about the 1990 Michael Verhoeven film The Nasty Girl (Das Schreckliche Mädchen). It was a fun idea that I just ran with. Check it out!
amywrensayswhat.ghost.io/where-were-y...
Where Were You? Where are you Now? - The Nasty Girl (1990)
A few words on how someone becomes a "nasty girl", looking at the past with clear eyes despite the consequences, and not looking away in the unfortunate present.
amywrensayswhat.ghost.io
November 21, 2024 at 2:09 PM
Oh, hey, a new newsletter just dropped! This one is a whole thing about the 1990 Michael Verhoeven film The Nasty Girl (Das Schreckliche Mädchen). It was a fun idea that I just ran with. Check it out!
amywrensayswhat.ghost.io/where-were-y...
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I feel disappointed that the point of the transphobes in the House was conceded so quickly and I would have appreciated a fight on some level by McBride and the Democrats.
However…
However…
I wish Sarah McBride (or, more accurately, the actual leadership of the party she belongs to) had fought back against Republicans cruelly targeting her directly and catching every other trans person there in the crossfire. But I might have done the same? Going to think out loud, so pls ignore me.
November 20, 2024 at 11:01 PM
I feel disappointed that the point of the transphobes in the House was conceded so quickly and I would have appreciated a fight on some level by McBride and the Democrats.
However…
However…
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I think Sarah McBride’s statement is a misstep but also it’s more telling to me that party leadership didn’t push back after this turned from a very clear political stunt to an actual threat to staffers’ wellbeing’s.
November 20, 2024 at 11:01 PM
I think Sarah McBride’s statement is a misstep but also it’s more telling to me that party leadership didn’t push back after this turned from a very clear political stunt to an actual threat to staffers’ wellbeing’s.
I feel disappointed that the point of the transphobes in the House was conceded so quickly and I would have appreciated a fight on some level by McBride and the Democrats.
However…
However…
I wish Sarah McBride (or, more accurately, the actual leadership of the party she belongs to) had fought back against Republicans cruelly targeting her directly and catching every other trans person there in the crossfire. But I might have done the same? Going to think out loud, so pls ignore me.
November 20, 2024 at 11:01 PM
I feel disappointed that the point of the transphobes in the House was conceded so quickly and I would have appreciated a fight on some level by McBride and the Democrats.
However…
However…
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HAPPY GARBAGE SONS DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE clickhole.com/which-one-of...
Which One Of My Garbage Sons Are You? - ClickHole
I’ve got some shit boys. My huge beautiful wife gave me children who think and speak like the toilet. I have four garbage sons: The…
clickhole.com
November 20, 2024 at 8:42 PM
HAPPY GARBAGE SONS DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE clickhole.com/which-one-of...
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Important note for reporters covering the GOP's effort to ban trans women from bathrooms on Capitol Hill: while Sarah McBride and Nancy Mace both have private bathrooms in their offices, the trans people who are not elected officials who have to work there every day do not.
November 20, 2024 at 2:07 AM
Important note for reporters covering the GOP's effort to ban trans women from bathrooms on Capitol Hill: while Sarah McBride and Nancy Mace both have private bathrooms in their offices, the trans people who are not elected officials who have to work there every day do not.
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Doing this on Trans Day of Remembrance and filing a bill to subject trans people to violence intentionally is just really getting to me.
So Nancy Mace is now going after trans people's right to use the bathroom on any federal property. Seems like this is something people should forcibly denounce.
November 20, 2024 at 7:13 PM
Doing this on Trans Day of Remembrance and filing a bill to subject trans people to violence intentionally is just really getting to me.
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New newsletter: What we talk about when we talk about echo chambers
(Been working on this off and on for a few months, never quite feeling like it was there, and recent discourse about BLUESKY made me feel like it was TIME.)
episodes.ghost.io/echo-chamber...
(Been working on this off and on for a few months, never quite feeling like it was there, and recent discourse about BLUESKY made me feel like it was TIME.)
episodes.ghost.io/echo-chamber...
November 20, 2024 at 6:34 PM
New newsletter: What we talk about when we talk about echo chambers
(Been working on this off and on for a few months, never quite feeling like it was there, and recent discourse about BLUESKY made me feel like it was TIME.)
episodes.ghost.io/echo-chamber...
(Been working on this off and on for a few months, never quite feeling like it was there, and recent discourse about BLUESKY made me feel like it was TIME.)
episodes.ghost.io/echo-chamber...
Nancy Mace is yet another shitty politician from the state that gave us the guy “hiking the AT”, Strom Thurmond, and the fella who damn near beat a Massachusetts Senator to death.
November 20, 2024 at 6:32 PM
Nancy Mace is yet another shitty politician from the state that gave us the guy “hiking the AT”, Strom Thurmond, and the fella who damn near beat a Massachusetts Senator to death.
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Your move, Dems. I implore you to not fuck this up, even though I know you probably will
JUST IN: Speaker Mike Johnson announces transgender lawmakers and staff will be barred from U.S. Capitol bathrooms not corresponding to their “biological sex.” via @delaneyrules.bsky.social
November 20, 2024 at 5:47 PM
Your move, Dems. I implore you to not fuck this up, even though I know you probably will
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Dumbness is a Trump superpower and it will swallow you if you let it.
inthesetimes.com/article/dona...
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The Power of Dumb
In the Second Trump Era, don't expect reality to be realistic.
inthesetimes.com
November 20, 2024 at 5:55 PM
Dumbness is a Trump superpower and it will swallow you if you let it.
inthesetimes.com/article/dona...
inthesetimes.com/article/dona...
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Trans day of remembrance. Don't just focus on those trans people who have been murdered by strangers in public. Also remember the trans people who were denied healthcare, allowed to die in prison, encouraged to kill themselves by their loved ones, buried under the wrong name by their families.
November 20, 2024 at 3:34 PM
Trans day of remembrance. Don't just focus on those trans people who have been murdered by strangers in public. Also remember the trans people who were denied healthcare, allowed to die in prison, encouraged to kill themselves by their loved ones, buried under the wrong name by their families.
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My latest is in @thenation.com, writing about how Democrats scapegoating trans people is grasping at straws following the 2024 election, and certainly disheartening to see:
Trans People Shouldn't Be Scapegoated For Democrats' Failures
Politicians and pundits are stoking a backlash to trans rights in the wake of the election. They're playing a dangerous game.
www.thenation.com
November 20, 2024 at 4:33 PM
My latest is in @thenation.com, writing about how Democrats scapegoating trans people is grasping at straws following the 2024 election, and certainly disheartening to see: