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Jessie Gender
@jessiegender.bsky.social
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Director & Writer | IDENTITEAZE film | YouTuber | former writer/video producer at Gamespot, The Advocate, Microsoft, Out Magazine, Rotten Tomatoes, & Skybound | Trekkie by birth

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It’s Lego Star Trek day! Might build the D on stream but this little guy is adorable!
The Lego Enteprrise D shuttle with Lego Ensign Ro
December 7, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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R/Star_Trek_ having a chill one again by misrepresenting my video to complain I’m misrepresenting Star Trek. Love how they act as if I’m not subbed to every Trek subreddit and assume I won’t see it.
December 7, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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Like I can already tell she’s gonna be my favorite character by a hot mile on this show, but I also know she’s gonna face the brunt of the harassment. Can’t have a happy go lucky Black girl on our screens, no. God I hate that I know the “critical drinker nerdrotic playbook” by heart.
December 4, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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I’m having fun with my next script.
Heterosexuality, then, performs a kind of ideological drag act. It claims to embody futurity, but it’s haunted by the same impulses labeled anti-social as homosexulity. Straight sex becomes “future-driven” because we tell a story that it is. But the psychic forces behind it such as desire and pleasure that destabilizes identity - like when a straight man desires sex with a trans woman which is still heterosexual but opens a fault line in the story of who he’s allowed to desire - are the same forces Edelman aligns with the death drive. It’s just that queer bodies get blamed for it. Straightness is allowed to pretend it’s all about stability and legacy while homosexuality gets cast as the villain even when everyone partakes in the same messy, unruly, pleasure-driven impulses. Heterosexuality becomes queer the moment it slips its leash: when a straight couple uses birth control pill or condom, when a straight couple has sex for pleasure, when a straight couple has rough sex, kink, BDSM, public sex, cheating, casual hookups, or anything outside “marital missionary baby-making.” So all of us, no matter who you are, have the chance to be the sinhomosexual. It means to reclaim your organsm for yourself. It is masturbating with wild abandon. It is choosing an abortion and feeling no shame. It is not apologizing for choosing to never have a baby. It is touching your skin and enjoying the simple pleasure of just feeling your nerves feed to your brain the joy of touch with the need to produce. It is not offering your body up as a factory for tomorrow. It is taking a day that produces nothing. It is resting without earning it. It is loving without a plan. It is breathing your own air. It is living in your body like it belongs to you.
November 28, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Thinking more how the trope of “(white) mother who get extra power while willingly sacrificing herself to save her child” trope is propaganda for white supremacist reproductive futurism, casting white women as mystical factories and guardians of a status quo endlessly reproduced through children.
November 28, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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A movie that takes place where you’re from

For better or for worse

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This was the first movie I remember seeing that was set in Buffalo, NY.
Bruce Almighty poster
November 24, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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If you could renew one obscure randomly cancelled tv show that never got to finish its story - what would it be. Mine would be this show
The poster for the cbs series Threshold from the mid-2000s
November 17, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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This is still perhaps my favorite acting moment in all of Star Trek.
Sisko looking with love in his eyes at his son Jake waking up as an old man from the episode The Visitor.
November 15, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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The pope is gonna have a trans brunch! I wonder who is gonna bring the wilder hat, the pope or the trans women?

But seriously - this is nice but i hope he also chats with some enbys or trans men too at some point.
Pope Leo XIV Will Have Lunch With 4 Trans Women in Upcoming Meeting
November 15, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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Random musing on detransition narratives
Random musing, not a final thought, but—I’ve been wondering how much the word “detransition” exists mainly to Other trans bodies. For many detransitioners, even and perhaps especially those who aren’t doing so for safety or political reasons but to reaffirm a gender identity they once claimed, they’re still transitioning. The self they “return” to is never the exact self they had before; even the act of exploring other gender expressions changes you. You come back with more knowledge, and hopefully more clarity of self. Like all of us, they’ve moved through different ways of being. We can never return to a past, only move forward as a synthesis of these explorations. But the “detransitioner” narratives weaponized by anti-trans politics cling to the idea of an “original” identity that is ruined by transition—usually framed around medical changes like HRT or surgery—to claim that gender-affirming care is harmful because it breaks some imagined natural state that a detrantioner can never return to now because they have been “tricked” intro transition. Yet no one can ever return to an untouched original self. We all change. We all move forward, not back. The real issue facing many“detransitioners” is often a material one: they often step away from transition because the path offered to them didn’t fit. Instead of being supported in exploring their own terms, many were handed a narrow, binary script of how we think of gender affirming care (get top surgery, start hrt, wear these clothes to affirm your gender). Our culture loves to prescribe identities, not enable people to discover them. Continued form part 1 - The real issue facing many“detransitioners” is often a material one: they often step away from transition because the path offered to them didn’t fit. Instead of being supported in exploring their own terms, many were handed a narrow, binary script of how we think of gender affirming care (get top surgery, start hrt, wear these clothes to affirm your gender). Our culture loves to prescribe identities, not enable people to discover them.
November 14, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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I sometimes get high and then find the next day I have somehow written political rhetoric in my notes app
You cannot imagine the totality of me and this I am trapped inside your limited language, your limited imagination - my truth is contained with your imagination for my body - I do not wish to be human, I want o hear dark matter, - but this makes me villian for I do not wish to be like you- I do not wish to be part of your dialectic I wish to be removed entirely from it - I do not wish to be part of your endless cycle of violence, of oppressor and oppressed, a dichotomy that you argue can be reversed but is always inherent in our nature and thus you justify your own grip on the identity of oppressor who is just a kinder oppressor then the currently oppressed would ever be. I wish to be free from this very concept, free from the chains by with you not only hold my body but my imagination for it.
November 13, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Sarah, I am all for building working class coalitions, but you constantly get it backwards. It’s not trans people who hate working class MAGA folks, but the reverse! Why must we accommodate their bigotry while abandoning other marginalized working class ppl who will actually return our solidarity?
Article that reads: Sarah McBride explains how Democrats’ ‘big tent is bisexual’ The Democratic congresswoman from Delaware told an audience at Crooked Con, "You can’t build a diverse working class coalition if people don’t feel like you like them."
November 11, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Legit what is even the point of the Democrats? Truly.
November 10, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Ahhh the legendary Vince Gilligan calling out my bestie @drerinmac.bsky.social on the official Pluribus podcast!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
November 10, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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I know everyone seems to not like it, but I actually enjoy the look of the LEGO USS Enterprise-D set! The Enterprise-D has always looked goofy to me - it’s so damn 80s - and been my least favorite hero ship design. Voyager, Defiant, the original Ent, NX-01, Discovery all rank higher for me.
The upcoming Lego USA enterprise-d set
November 6, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Establishment Dems: “We just had a sweeping win proving people want us to fight for them and that we can beat the fascists.”
Also Establishment Dems: “Quick, back to capitulating!”

What an utterly spineless and embarrassing political party.
News article that reads: Senate Democrats debate path to ending government shutdown A bipartisan group of senators is working on a possible deal to end the government shutdown, which has become the country’s longest.
November 5, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Can someone earnestly help me break down this comment, because I'm confused. I'm clickbaiting because I use facts and evidence to support my point that I assert in my title that got people to click in the first place? Huh?
Comment that says - You know what is worse than liberalism? Click bait YouTube. It is social media that is destroying this country and making people turn off their brains. That's why you make this video emotional so that they click. You're trying to get an audience that already thinks exactly like you. So of course you have to provide facts and evidence to prove your point. Once you give up that forget it. It's all we have.
November 4, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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To celebrate election day, I made a video about the part of liberalism that keeps going “we can fix fascism with a well-crafted podcast episode.” Check out the full video here: youtu.be/XLjqNQB-SGw?...
November 4, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Kitty love ❤️❤️❤️❤️
November 2, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Ya know, sometimes I'm just too cute.
Jessie looking cute as hell
November 2, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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Does anyone else remember these books released after Obama's presidency where Obama and Biden solved murder mysteries? I need to do a video on them because its just a fascinating piece of a very specific era of America in the immediate wake of the 2016 election.
October 30, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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New tattoo, who dis?
A tattoo of a glitching floppy disk that says hack the planet - based on the movie hackers
October 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Not Elon Musk threatening me with a good time…
Elon Musk tweeting that “Zorhan is the future of the Democratic Party”
October 27, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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This feels like it’s going to be a massive disaster on so many levels it’s going to be wild to watch and I’m going to probably hate every second of the discourse on it.
A report claiming the Harry Potter series will be the most expensive show ever made at $100 million per episode for a total of 4.2 billion dollars for its planned 7 seasons.
October 24, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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I may be getting spicy in my next video essay script...
Fascism purges and destroys in the name of purity; liberalism arrives as the hero to “restore order” - solidifying and facilitating power back to capital and paving the way for the techno-oligarch future. Together they maintain the same architecture of control - the very same hierarchy of whose lives are livable, whose deaths are acceptable, and whose futures are imaginable. The system was never built to serve us. It was built to preserve itself. So when I say I’ve lost faith in it, this is what I mean. No future can bloom inside its walls - only an endless, decaying present. The only path forward is to imagine beyond them, to see past the horizon of the flag, past the language of empire, past the myth of order itself. They are bound—both in their minds and in the lines they draw on maps. By their borders. We are not. We live on a horizon they cannot even imagine. Ezra Klein ends his op-ed with the line, “we are all safe or none of us are.” But trans women murdered in silence have never been safe. Immigrants who are snatched off the streets in the name of “order” have never been safe. Palestinians erased in the name of “peace” have never been safe. Safety for whom? The truth is not “we are all safe or none of us are.” The truth is: we are all liberated, or none of us are.
October 21, 2025 at 5:15 AM