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Joy Davenport @joydavenport.bsky.social · 3d

When I first signed up for bsky it was because I figured I needed to learn how to Post if I want to be a successful independent media creator. It's dawning on me that being bad at Posting might actually be a blessing in disguise.

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Joy Davenport @joydavenport.bsky.social · 3d

Baby's first bangs

selfie of a middle aged white woman with brown hair and bangs!

Joy Davenport @joydavenport.bsky.social · 4d

Saw a lot of people talking about showgirls and got kind of intrigued thinking we were getting a new Verhoeven joint, oh well

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Jeffrey J. Hall @mrjeffu.bsky.social · 19d

Video: a Japanese scientist was attacked by flies while giving the acceptance speech for his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research paper that proved painting Zebra-like stripes on cows led to a decrease in biting fly attacks.

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Joy Davenport @joydavenport.bsky.social · 5d

Okay first of all, this is excellent fanart. But also, seeing it made me realize how much of an impact intrepid reporter April O'Neil had on my development, as a child who has grown up to be a scrappy media producer. An icon, a (totally radical) inspiration to us all.

Denis Dupanovic @denisdupanovic.bsky.social · 6d

April in October.

An ink drawing of April O'Neil, a character from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series. She’s holding a Betamax camera on her shoulder.

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Joy Davenport @joydavenport.bsky.social · 7d

I've been harassed at the store, on the sidewalk, on the subway, online, in my own garden, by strangers, by neighbors, by adults, by kids. I wonder what it's like to not be constantly afraid!

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Joy Davenport @joydavenport.bsky.social · 7d

I moved to Chicago because I weighed the options and it seemed like the safest city to be trans. I wear modest femme clothing so I won't draw attention. I keep my voice down and hope nobody clocks me. My parents visit me instead of me going to them. I still haven't signed up for a dating app.

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Joy Davenport @joydavenport.bsky.social · 7d

It's exhausting how many decisions come down to "I don't wanna be hate crimed." Where should I live? How should I dress? What kind of haircut should I get? Should I go to that show? Can I apply for that gig? Should I visit my family? Should I sign up for a dating app? Should I make eye contact?

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Al Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social · 9d

Always wonderful to bump into my old friend Daniel Radcliffe!

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Joy Davenport @joydavenport.bsky.social · 7d

I am going through newsreel footage of fashion shows from 1966, not a time without its troubles. Honestly I started typing something about enjoying the escape, but the more I think about it the more '66 and '25 have in common, so maybe I'll just go back to looking at the fancy couture...

Joy Davenport @joydavenport.bsky.social · 7d

me after checking the news on any given day

black and white image of a white woman smoking ten cigarettes at once

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May “Bunny” Peterson 🦄 (Mostly Updates ) @goddessblade.bsky.social · 8d

My feelings about the concept of "born this way." 🧵

It's an important truth for me not as a way to justify my transness but because it speaks to a huge part of my life and identity, one that's made a social difference for me from day one. And I think this part of it can easily get missed.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 8d

Waiting for the Dr and making this my morning reading and how do I make every single person I work with read this entire thing.

(Seriously, everyone read the entire essay)

My phone is just full of screenshots of every time I was like “yes! This!” But also, yes!! This!!!

As we train our sights on what we oppose, let's recall the costs of surrender. When we use generative AI, we consent to the appropriation of our intellectual property by data scrapers. We stuff the pockets of oligarchs with even more money. We abet the acceleration of a social media gyre that everyone admits is making life worse. We accept the further degradation of an already degraded educational system. We agree that we would rather deplete our natural resources than make our own art or think our own thoughts. We dig ourselves deeper into crises that have been made worse by technology, from the erosion of electoral democracy to the intensification of climate change.
We condone platforms that not only urge children to commit suicide, they instruct them on how to tie the noose. We hand over our autonomy, at the very moment of emerging American fascism.

"The independent artist and intellectual are among the few remaining personalities equipped to resist the stereotyping and consequent death of genuinely lively things," wrote C. Wright Mills in a 1945 essay, presciently titled "The Powerless People:
The Social Role of the Intellectual," surveying the threats new business and military technologies posed to reading and writing life. "Fresh perception now involves the capacity continually to unmask and to smash the stereotypes of vision and intellect with which modern communications swamp us." A literature which is made by machines, which are owned by corporations, which are run by sociopaths, can only be a "stereotype" — a simplification, a facsimile, an insult, a fake-of real literature. It should be smashed, and can.

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Joy Davenport @joydavenport.bsky.social · 8d

"The Devil Wears Prada" was an utterly delightful sapphic romcom about a charming but problematic age gap bdsm relationship (with fashion)

Joy Davenport @joydavenport.bsky.social · 8d

I've been treating myself to iconic (girly) movies that I wouldn't let myself before I transitioned because What If They Knew etc

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Joy Davenport @joydavenport.bsky.social · 8d

Watched "Practical Magic" for the first time. It has an unhinged energy that I really enjoyed, its emotional reality was like a live action cartoon. Really could have done without the cop romance plot thread. Just let the witches be kooky cursed sisters living in an old house drinking margaritas

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 8d

What Does It Mean to Exhibit the Gun That Killed Emmett Till? hyperallergic.com/1045554/what... @artstuffmatters.bsky.social asks essential questions about the “museumification” of the weapon, fetishization, and the ramifications of its display.

What Does It Mean to Exhibit the Gun That Killed Emmett Till?

As someone who questions institutional claims of neutrality and the ethics of curatorial practice, I wonder about the “museumification” of the weapon and the ramifications of its display.

hyperallergic.com

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 10d

My latest:”Through gossamer tributes, Kirk’s cruel condemnation of transgender people & his racist throwback views abt Black Americans were no longer anathema but instead are being treated as just another political view to be respectfully debated —like a position on tax rates or health care policy.”

What the Public Memory of Charlie Kirk Revealed

www.nytimes.com

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Joy Davenport @joydavenport.bsky.social · 11d

Seven years ago I couldn't look in a mirror without slipping into a self-hatred spiral, now I'm vain as fuck, thank you HRT

Joy Davenport @joydavenport.bsky.social · 24d

I may be an ancient & terrible swamp witch but also I'm literally pretty

A middle-aged white woman with brown hair taking a selfie in bed under a green light

A middle-aged white woman with brown hair taking a selfie in bed under a pink light

A middle-aged white woman with brown hair taking a selfie in bed under a warm light

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Joy Davenport @joydavenport.bsky.social · 11d

"Don" and "doff" are just an excellent pair of words, nobody is talking about this

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 12d

1. Great news for trans students in Chicago.

Chicago Public Schools has announced it will defy Trump's demand to ban trans youth from bathrooms.

Trump will now pull millions in federal funds.

"Our district will not back away from doing what we know is right."

Subscribe to support our journalism.

Chicago Public Schools Defy Trump, Reject Trans Bathroom Ban Demands

The school system has refused to capitulate, despite Trump pulling back millions in federal funds.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 12d

every restaurant should have gravy on the menu. gravy you can order by itself

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 14d

I wrote about living with the chronic, debilitating anxiety that made me a "problem child" as kid, about trying to understand what anxiety is an adult, and how I discovered that it might be like prayer johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/line

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Anxiety as script, shape, and destiny

johnpaulbrammer.substack.com

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 15d

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."

me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually

www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review

Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

www.bostonreview.net

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Joy Davenport @joydavenport.bsky.social · 23d

Aaaa so good so cathartic thank you

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