Madisyn Parisi (they/them) ⚔️
@madisyn-writes.bsky.social
Tenacious trans journalist from Maryland. I won’t shut up until trans kids get to grow up.
Read The Backbone: https://the-backbone.beehiiv.com/ 🦴
Tips: DM, email [email protected], or Signal @marsbars.81
ko-fi.com/madisynparisi
Read The Backbone: https://the-backbone.beehiiv.com/ 🦴
Tips: DM, email [email protected], or Signal @marsbars.81
ko-fi.com/madisynparisi
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January 6, 2026 at 9:19 PM
This is the original interview from @transnews.network with @billiejsweeney.bsky.social. It's an incredibly valuable read, IMO.
'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry
In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...
transnews.network
January 6, 2026 at 9:19 PM
This is the original interview from @transnews.network with @billiejsweeney.bsky.social. It's an incredibly valuable read, IMO.
Thank you for your bravery and continued resistance. 💕
January 6, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Thank you for your bravery and continued resistance. 💕
Bless Assigned Media, Trans News Network, Billie Sweeney, and every other trans reporter planning to keep kicking ass this year. I walk in your footsteps with honor and tenacity. I know I am not alone.
And, as always: Fuck the NYT.
And, as always: Fuck the NYT.
January 6, 2026 at 1:44 AM
Bless Assigned Media, Trans News Network, Billie Sweeney, and every other trans reporter planning to keep kicking ass this year. I walk in your footsteps with honor and tenacity. I know I am not alone.
And, as always: Fuck the NYT.
And, as always: Fuck the NYT.
I teared up when I got to the picture of Billie in the interview. When I was first reading, I'd imagined her younger. Twenties or thirties, maybe. That's just what I see in my head when I picture trans women. Or trans men, or nb people...So often, we don't get to grow up. Or we go stealth, silent.
January 6, 2026 at 1:44 AM
I teared up when I got to the picture of Billie in the interview. When I was first reading, I'd imagined her younger. Twenties or thirties, maybe. That's just what I see in my head when I picture trans women. Or trans men, or nb people...So often, we don't get to grow up. Or we go stealth, silent.
This TNN interview was so validating. I sat with my girlfriend - a trans woman - and narrated to her how everything we'd felt about the NYT's coverage of trans people was true. We weren't conspiracy theorists. We weren't crazy. The transphobic smoke did, in fact, indicate fire (It usually does.)
January 6, 2026 at 1:44 AM
This TNN interview was so validating. I sat with my girlfriend - a trans woman - and narrated to her how everything we'd felt about the NYT's coverage of trans people was true. We weren't conspiracy theorists. We weren't crazy. The transphobic smoke did, in fact, indicate fire (It usually does.)
300k slowburn fic where a Russian bot meets an independent journalist in the psych ward and they fall in love
January 5, 2026 at 6:23 PM
300k slowburn fic where a Russian bot meets an independent journalist in the psych ward and they fall in love
It’s time to hit them where it hurts. Cancel. Your. Subscriptions.
January 4, 2026 at 3:02 AM
It’s time to hit them where it hurts. Cancel. Your. Subscriptions.
I’m not in their newsroom, but here’s what I know.
They will capitulate and capitulate and capitulate. They will let themselves rot from the inside out until they’re Winston from 1984, rewriting facts to please the powerful. But reality remains. Someone else will report on it.
They will capitulate and capitulate and capitulate. They will let themselves rot from the inside out until they’re Winston from 1984, rewriting facts to please the powerful. But reality remains. Someone else will report on it.
January 4, 2026 at 3:02 AM
I’m not in their newsroom, but here’s what I know.
They will capitulate and capitulate and capitulate. They will let themselves rot from the inside out until they’re Winston from 1984, rewriting facts to please the powerful. But reality remains. Someone else will report on it.
They will capitulate and capitulate and capitulate. They will let themselves rot from the inside out until they’re Winston from 1984, rewriting facts to please the powerful. But reality remains. Someone else will report on it.
I’m a newer journalist, but I can already feel the fact that there is something sacred in this work. Sources trust us with their stories. Readers trust us to inform them. On some level, we are trusted as guardians for reality itself.
The NYT and WaPo have proven they don’t deserve that trust.
The NYT and WaPo have proven they don’t deserve that trust.
January 4, 2026 at 3:02 AM
I’m a newer journalist, but I can already feel the fact that there is something sacred in this work. Sources trust us with their stories. Readers trust us to inform them. On some level, we are trusted as guardians for reality itself.
The NYT and WaPo have proven they don’t deserve that trust.
The NYT and WaPo have proven they don’t deserve that trust.
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January 3, 2026 at 1:24 PM
Your stuff has been making me smile for like a year at this point! Plus, dunking on the Telegraph felt like the best possible time to plug the Daily Telegrift.
Hope you keep doing what you’re doing, gal.
Hope you keep doing what you’re doing, gal.
December 30, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Your stuff has been making me smile for like a year at this point! Plus, dunking on the Telegraph felt like the best possible time to plug the Daily Telegrift.
Hope you keep doing what you’re doing, gal.
Hope you keep doing what you’re doing, gal.