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littlepuss.net
Listen everyone our next book for spring Missed Connections With Tall Girls is so punk rock and funny and sexy and loud and beautiful and sad it makes us WEEP. Astonishing young poet Gwen Aube is here from the Rust Belt swamp to break new literary ground and YOUR OWN STUPID HEART
December 11, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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thetransfemininereview.com
As the dread day approaches and the spirits begin to stir, now is the perfect time to hunker down with a horror novel! 😈🗡️

This Halloween, TFR shares twelve chilling tales from transfemme authors to match the mood 🖤

A handcrafted rec list with a scariness rating for each book.

#halloween #horror
12 Chilling Books by Transfemmes to Read This Halloween (CW #16)
Tales of Nazi censorship, haunted houses, and mushroom cults to keep you up at night.
thetransfemininereview.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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jphillll.bsky.social
Clanker down!
August 7, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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soleilho.com
I’m the news editor for Chrysalis, and I’d love to get pitches on news stories from trans youth!
teaberryblue.net Tea Berry-Blue @teaberryblue.net · Apr 21
Hi friends! A good friend asked me to share this awesome new project— a literary magazine by trans kids, for trans kids, with a little help from trans adults. If you have a trans kid in your life, definitely check out Chrysalis Magazine! www.chrysalismagazine.org
ANNOUNCING THE LAUNCH OF Chrysalis a new literary magazine by trans youth, for trans youth (created with a little help from trans adults) These days, it feels like we are always hearing about trans kids and teens: Chrysalis was created so that trans, non-binary, intersex, gender- queer, agender, two-spirit, and gender expansive youth can speak for themselves - and most impor- tantly, speak to one another. At Chrysalis, we believe that art, literature, and culture are a key part of trans resistance and resilience for people of all ages. And we know that the creativity, talent, and imagination of trans youth is unparalleled! Chrysalis exists to give that radiance a platform, and to mentor the next generation of trans writers. Submit! We are currently seeking submissions of visual art, poetry, non-fiction and fiction related to our first issue's theme: Strength. You can also submit reporting on local events related to trans youth, and questions for Danny Lavery, our advice columnist! Visit the submissions page of our website for more information: chrysalismagazine.org/submissions Submissions deadline: June 15, 2025. Support our Work Chrysalis is a grassroots initiative: we do not yet have grant funding and or other resources. Your donations help us print the magazine, pay for our website and other subscriptions, and grow our efforts for the future. To support our work, visit chrysalismagazine.org/support-our-work chrysalismagazine.org
April 21, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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evangreer.bsky.social
Here’s “Basket Case” except it’s about why you shouldn’t use Face ID or a thumbprint to unlock your phone
April 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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oliviawhen.com
Happy National Library Week!! A great time to ask everyone you know if they have a library card.
#art #nationallibraryweek
Gouache painting of a spaniel, beagle, and german shepherd. They're holding in their mouths a tennis ball, library card, and rope toy respectively. The beagle looks very proud, while the other two stare at them.
April 8, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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lollardfish.bsky.social
We don’t have to - and must not - place scholarly writing and popular writing in opposition. Doing so is a losing move. Writing exists in many overlapping genres and we get to work in and out of the ones that fit.
April 3, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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histoftech.bsky.social
someone shared this on insta and I thought, i better not reshare this bc it’ll piss ppl off. anyway.
Shaking hands in agreement meme—liberals, conservatives, and an upsetting amount of leftists: NOT MASKING IN PUBLIC SPACES.
April 1, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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astrojaz.bsky.social
jupiter wishes you a very happy trans day of visibility 🏳️‍⚧️
The planet Jupiter with its cloud bands seen in shades of pink, rusty red, blue, and purple. The Great Red Spot is a deep navy blue, surrounded by bands and swirls of pink, and light blue. Hubble's ultraviolet view of Jupiter shows the planet in hues of pink and blue.
March 31, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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hugbox.bsky.social
Birds and flowers too, I guess
A four panel comic about all the regular signs of spring
March 26, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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nutshellgulag.bsky.social
drawing(? not sure of the medium) by @secondlina.com
A lovely drawing of two very chunky cats, one gray and white and the other black, flaunting their tummies on a faint blue and white diner tile background. They are surrounded by text that reads "#BELLYSEASON IT'S SUMMER AGAIN" "PRIMORDIAL POUCH EXPOSED SEASON" "OH YES HERE WE GO FELLAS" "THE POUCH IS OUT, THE POUCH IS SEEN"
March 25, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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upongoblinhill.bsky.social
🌞𝕭𝖊𝖞𝖔𝖓𝖉 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕱𝖎𝖊𝖑𝖉𝖘
𝖂𝖊 𝕶𝖓𝖔𝖜🌛
Title: Beyond The Fields We Know Image: a landscape in a limited color palette of navy and gold, depicting a stylized landscape of forest and farm fields in the American Midwest. The sky is filled with overlapping stylized clouds and stars depicting a scene of both night and day at the same time. A classical sun with a smiling face occupies the upper left hand corner and a classical smiling crescent moon occupies the upper right hand corner.
March 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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thetransfemininereview.com
Anyway here's some cool protest art I saw in Florence today
A relief that says "Jesus was Palestinian" with Mary in a keffeyeh holding a baby, done in the medevial Christian style
March 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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leftistlawyer.com
The easiest way you can show solidarity right now is to wear a mask when you're doing your grocery shopping.

Seriously. You're protecting people around you and normalizing community care.

I wear a mask when I do my grocery shopping. Will you join me?
March 20, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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techconnectify.bsky.social
Oh.
smcgrath.phd Scott McGrath @smcgrath.phd · Mar 12
AI models in hospitals miss 66% of patient injuries, failing to detect worsening health. A study urges integrating medical expertise, as 65% of US hospitals rely on these systems for patient care. 🩺💻

Direct link to the study: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
AI failed to detect critical health conditions: study
AI systems designed to predict the likelihood of a hospitalized patient dying aren't detecting worsening health conditions.
www.axios.com
March 12, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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veradrew22.bsky.social
Insanely good shit. Pick up a copy today especially if you're into Lovecraft, are trans, hate big tech, and love your wife. Dark, dystopian but also uplifting in all the right ways. Can't wait to see what Mattie does next, and will be re-reading Boys Weekend over and over again in the meantime.
February 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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erinbiba.bsky.social
This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”.

This is a manifesto against disability.

This is the language of eugenics.
Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
www.whitehouse.gov
February 17, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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aruviii.bsky.social
also he doesn't yap about like I do, but he is on this site as @riverie.bsky.social . I'll ask him to post more of his art on here. The world needs disabled gay trans art now more than ever. This is his latest work:
an artwork of three sets of disabled skeletal legs in three different shades of blue on a pink background, showing hips, knees, and ankles with progressive pseudo-rheumatoid dysplasia. above and below the legs are the text "The Future Body is a Disabled body"
February 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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moresalty.bsky.social
Collective liberation must include disability justice! The first step to fighting fascism is to wear a damn mask.
bimbolaureate.bsky.social Themme Fatale @bimbolaureate.bsky.social · Jan 30
People who don’t include disability liberation in their understanding of social justice will never make sense to me.

Like what do you MEAN you oppose sexism, racism, and classism, but the minute the lived reality of that oppression starts showing up physically, all your energy just evaporates?
February 6, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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kesalt.bsky.social
Happy year of the snake, friendsssss!! 🐍🌱 19x24" prismacolor pencila on paper
a pale green snake sticks its tongue out, surrounded by tiny flora, fungi, dragonflies, snails, and a small frog
January 29, 2025 at 6:23 PM
beckmallwitz.bsky.social
feeling very grateful for the people in my life today!! especially after attending (and knitting at) the amazing defense of my advising sibling, Dr. Mez Perez!! 💕
the doctoral defense of Dr. Mez Perez. several people are seated around a conference table engaging in various crafts.
January 29, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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cartamonir.com
Being trans is a prayer for something better. Transness is belief in a better world.
November 19, 2024 at 7:30 PM
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divinationhollow.bsky.social
It's time! Come visit us today and grab some free queer books during Queer Your eReader!

divinationhollow.com/queer-your-e...
Queer Your eReader — Divination Hollow Reviews
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January 25, 2025 at 12:20 AM
beckmallwitz.bsky.social
just preordered from my local bookstore! can’t wait :-)
leemandelo.bsky.social Lee Mandelo @leemandelo.bsky.social · Jan 21
‘Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity’ is available for preorder wherever fine books are sold, due out on May 27th—and these are all the folks whose work I’m honored to present:

Esther Alter - Bendi Barrett - Ta-wei Chi, trans. Ariel Chu - Colin Dean - Maya Deane - Dominique Dickey [1/2]
January 25, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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cartamonir.com
If you're trans, you're trans. Live your life and get the most out of it. It's going to be hard no matter what. There's no reason to be proactive about limiting yourself or making it harder. Seize your own happiness, tranny! Nobody else is going to seize it for you!
December 11, 2024 at 7:38 AM