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🎠 @jennajaco.bsky.social · 8d

i love this book

kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 8d

unholy fruit
dre levant

"[unholy fruit] is a treacle delight that lingers
long after the first taste"

- Elena Sichrovsky, author of Eating Out Anne Sexton

@drelevant.bsky.social
Print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/unholyfruit
eBook: kithbooks.com/digital/p/unholyfruit

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ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 13d

the state of texas pulled a 13-year-old trans boy out of class and subjected him to the same questioning that kids get when they're molested because his parents accepted him. it's what's happening, and it shouldn't be considered activism to say it.

www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/...

Mom says trans eighth-grader was questioned by Texas officials at school

Amid a lengthy court battle, legal advocates for the LGBTQ community say Texas continues to investigate parents providing gender-affirming care to their children.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 27d

ancient Transgender Markings

A still from the strong bad teen girl squad, a stick figure woman is saying I have a crush on ever boy and a bunch of arrows are flying at her from off acreen

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Travis M. Riddle @traviswanteat.bsky.social · Aug 29

My working theory is that RFK Jr is a situation like Oogie Boogie in Nightmare Before Christmas, a bunch of nasty disgusting bugs wearing a suit. That's why his voice and face and soul are like that

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · Aug 29

they think they can just erase trans joy and trans freedom. they can't. they can make things a lot harder and more painful. but that joy and that freedom is not theirs to take and it is incumbent on all good people to say so.

PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · Aug 27

US government orders 46 states to destroy trans education materials
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/27/trans-education-us-state-directive/?utm_content=1756312804&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

US government orders states to destroy trans education materials

The US government has ordered 46 states and territories to destroy education materials referencing trans people.

www.thepinknews.com

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Aug 26

1. The situation in Florida is growing more tense with the erasure of Pride crosswalks.

After state officials painted over the Pulse Memorial sidewalk in Orlando, Florida Citizens painted them back.

Now the state has sent 7 squad cars to stare at the crosswalk.

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Florida Deploys Police To Stare At Crosswalks, Stop Them From Being Painted Rainbow Colors

The move comes after citizens repainted the Pulse memorial sidewalk in Pride colors.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · Apr 2

"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense

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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · Aug 12

Does this make sense?
Jenna Jaco
@jennajaco.bsky.social

31 of wim's favourite poems from kith books
#SealeyChallenge
12/31

Does that make sense?

You are young1 and in Hallmark a lot.
Envelope color is so important. The aisles
go on so long. You worry you have never loved anyone.2
One summer you say this,3 and it is a hoot.
Now that’s just silly. Look at that boy.4 Always
some foil and always a chance to choose a better
envelope, but make sure it’s from the same section.5
Later you wonder where you’ll hide gifts when you’re old.
You’ll require access to the laundry room cabinet forever.
You hug your father and he smells like the world.6
Car ride bingo7 asks you to locate a bird and it’s like
sorry, are you being serious right now?

1 I am talking googoo gaga
2 OK maybe not absolute googoo gaga but very small
3 This is before the implementation of Nighttime Worry Hour. You voice such things in the middle of the day! Under fluorescent lights! God!
4 Boy In Store is a primal archetype: Buzz cut, red lips, shirt with licensed IP.*
5 The wedding anniversary envelopes are cuntiest. All pearlized and embossed. They wink at you.
6 A little unknowable, a little scary, but only in a first step on an escalator kind of way. He makes you sandwiches and composts in the backyard. Friendly, sophisticated, mystical, large.**
7 One of those cardboard slabs with little square cutouts. In each cutout is something you’re supposed to find the real version of. When you spy a thing, you drag a piece of transparent red film over the image.***

* Boy In Store can be good or bad. Watch him count change correctly, watch him hold the door. Or he might wipe snot on a card, might destroy Christmas ornaments.
** The sophistication and unknowability persist. The mysticism might have transferred so that’s cool. You split friendly. Scary and large are now unaccounted for.
*** With extremely common sightings like birds, it’s more fun to periodically reset the square. You slide the film back and forth repeatedly. You decide if you have seen the bird.

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🎠 @jennajaco.bsky.social · Aug 11

"no work related to the pandemic." so like. no work related to... the world...

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Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · Aug 5

RFK Jr. backs down all the time when he gets push back, so if anyone wants to call, here's the HHS number 1-877-696-6775.
I'd also call your senators/reps as well.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Aug 5

WASHINGTON (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces he will cancel $500 million in vaccine development projects.

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🎠 @jennajaco.bsky.social · Aug 1

this made my day! thank u for checking it out!!

tRaum Books @traumbooks.bsky.social · Jul 31

Had to freshen up my @kithbooks.bsky.social collection, so I grabbed the following volumes this last month. 🥹 I love the design of these chapbooks---read Mall Water so far and it is excellent 👾👾👾👾

Three poetry chapbooks by indie publisher Kith Books--- Swarm, poems by NDR, Jump Cut, by Helen Gu, and Mall Water, by Jenna Jaco.

Cover for Jenna Jaco's poetry chapbook, Mall Water. A chaotic and surreal interior mall scene with bright colors. Book is published by Kith Books.

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🎠 @jennajaco.bsky.social · Aug 1

omg thank u

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🎠 @jennajaco.bsky.social · Jul 31

something sinister about that hot wings man

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · Jul 30

If you're desperate to only ever experience comforting media then you don't want art, you want a literary gated community.

Telathiel | Tasha @telathiel.bsky.social · Jul 30

I don't like this trend of people being afraid to experience (negative) emotions when consuming art.

Experiencing things outside of your own point of view makes life a lot more interesting, and is honestly necessary to understand the world and people around you.

Boze the Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · Jul 29

A key point in Fahrenheit 451 is that books were banned because they made people depressed and uncomfortable. The novel's protagonist, Montag, is taken into custody after he reads a poem that makes a woman cry because she realizes the emptiness of her life.

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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · Jul 29

im strutting around in my little caveman shorts

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · Jul 26

in a thousand years when archaeologists dig this up, their bones will not say it was Clippy's "son"

Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · Jul 25

say hello to Clippy's son. Microsoft's new Copilot virtual character www.theverge.com/news/713715/...

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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · Jul 8

imagine living in that town in memphis that the grok datacenter is poisoning the air of, and knowing the noxious shit you are breathing is due to a 4chan hitler chatbot that posts like chris hardwick

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KOTH Screens @kothscreens.bsky.social · Jun 22

Screenshot from King of the Hill Season 5, Episode 12

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Jun 16

Trump announces a mass deportation mission in a long post on Truth Social, and of course, just randomly throws trans people in there because why not?

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KOTH Screens @kothscreens.bsky.social · Jun 11

Screenshot from King of the Hill Season 10, Episode 2

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KOTH Screens @kothscreens.bsky.social · May 31

Screenshot from King of the Hill Season 4, Episode 12

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Travis M. Riddle @traviswanteat.bsky.social · May 29

If you play that dumb game or stream the movies or buy butterbeer at the park or recommend the books to people or tune in to the new TV show you are directly contributing to this so please don't!!

The Advocate @advocate.com · May 28

J.K. Rowling is using her wealth attained from the "Harry Potter" series to create an organization dedicated to removing transgender people's rights "in the workplace, in public life, and in protected female spaces.”

🔗: bit.ly/3ZBRxYk

J.K. Rowling uses 'Harry Potter' wealth to fund anti-transgender organization

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · May 18

Why does “learning to live with covid” mean accepting repeat infections as inevitable?

Why does it mean throwing the vulnerable to the wayside, unsafe healthcare & mass disability?

That’s not “living with it”. That’s giving up

We need to adapt. Clean air, paid time off, masks in healthcare.

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🎠 @jennajaco.bsky.social · May 18

luanne platter summer

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