Shilo Quetchenbach 🏳️⚧️🌈
@shilo1364.bsky.social
Queer, nonbinary (they/them), neurodivergent, disabled. Voracious reader and arc reviewer. Chronic audiobook reader. Artist.
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Today is the last day that the State Department is taking public comments about its policy denying accurate passports to trans, intersex, and nonbinary people.
Tell the Trump administration to abandon this discriminatory action NOW.
Tell the Trump administration to abandon this discriminatory action NOW.
Hands Off Our Passports: Stop Attacking Transgender Americans
The Trump administration is denying accurate passports to trans, intersex, and nonbinary people – so I’m joining the ACLU to fight back. Urge the State Department to reject this dangerous attack on ou...
action.aclu.org
March 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Today is the last day that the State Department is taking public comments about its policy denying accurate passports to trans, intersex, and nonbinary people.
Tell the Trump administration to abandon this discriminatory action NOW.
Tell the Trump administration to abandon this discriminatory action NOW.
The narration - and the writing- are excellent. My science-obsessed 11yo is listening to the audiobook with me at bedtime and he absolutely loves it. I am greatly enjoying it as well. We have both learned a lot and been transported to a prehistoric world.
Wren Mack absolutely nailed the narration for When the Earth Was Green. I’m glad they’re getting recognition for their emotive reading. If you take your books in audio form, give it a listen. 🌱
WHEN THE EARTH WAS GREEN by Riley Black Read by Wren Mack | Audiobook Review | AudioFile Magazine
AudioFile Audiobook Review: Paleontologist Riley Black's vivid writing and Wren Mack's wonderstruck narration make these vignettes of prehistoric life on Earth fascinating listen
www.audiofilemagazine.com
March 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM
The narration - and the writing- are excellent. My science-obsessed 11yo is listening to the audiobook with me at bedtime and he absolutely loves it. I am greatly enjoying it as well. We have both learned a lot and been transported to a prehistoric world.
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You've read the stories about Gavin Newsom throwing transgender people under the bus in sports, prisons, and gender affirming care for trans youth.
Now watch the video and listen.
It's as bad as it sounds. He betrayed trans people and threw us under a bus driven by Charlie fucking Kirk.
Now watch the video and listen.
It's as bad as it sounds. He betrayed trans people and threw us under a bus driven by Charlie fucking Kirk.
March 6, 2025 at 8:12 PM
You've read the stories about Gavin Newsom throwing transgender people under the bus in sports, prisons, and gender affirming care for trans youth.
Now watch the video and listen.
It's as bad as it sounds. He betrayed trans people and threw us under a bus driven by Charlie fucking Kirk.
Now watch the video and listen.
It's as bad as it sounds. He betrayed trans people and threw us under a bus driven by Charlie fucking Kirk.
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1. Today, the NYT has reported that 100 members of an ERG-adjacent LGBTQ+ chat in the intelligence community have been fired.
This is a new McCarthyism, a new lavender scare meant to remove LGBTQ+ in government, and the way this was done should shake us all.
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This is a new McCarthyism, a new lavender scare meant to remove LGBTQ+ in government, and the way this was done should shake us all.
Subscribe to support my journalism.
The New McCarthyism: LGBTQ+ Purges In Government Begin
After Chris Rufo leaked LGBTQ+ chatlogs from the intelligence community, Gabbard has announced that all those who participated in the chats will be fired.
www.erininthemorning.com
February 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
1. Today, the NYT has reported that 100 members of an ERG-adjacent LGBTQ+ chat in the intelligence community have been fired.
This is a new McCarthyism, a new lavender scare meant to remove LGBTQ+ in government, and the way this was done should shake us all.
Subscribe to support my journalism.
This is a new McCarthyism, a new lavender scare meant to remove LGBTQ+ in government, and the way this was done should shake us all.
Subscribe to support my journalism.
Same. It always makes me brace myself before I can open the email
Getting an email with the subject line "New thread from Erin Reed" is perhaps my least favorite email to see
February 12, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Same. It always makes me brace myself before I can open the email
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It's depressing how few people have signed the various transgender protection petitions on
@resist.bot
. Here's some links to petitions that need more attention: resist.bot/petitions/PO...
@resist.bot
. Here's some links to petitions that need more attention: resist.bot/petitions/PO...
February 6, 2025 at 1:52 AM
It's depressing how few people have signed the various transgender protection petitions on
@resist.bot
. Here's some links to petitions that need more attention: resist.bot/petitions/PO...
@resist.bot
. Here's some links to petitions that need more attention: resist.bot/petitions/PO...
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February 2, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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At.
Gunpoint.
Musk is telling duly appointed and security cleared government officials that they will be shot if they don't turn over to Musk sensitive information to which he has no right.
In any other country, we'd call it a coup.
Gunpoint.
Musk is telling duly appointed and security cleared government officials that they will be shot if they don't turn over to Musk sensitive information to which he has no right.
In any other country, we'd call it a coup.
Musk's cronies tried to to gain access to classified USAID data. USAID Director of Security John Voorhees security said no. The Musk people threatened to call in the US Marshals and take the data at gunpoint. They still said no.
edition.cnn.com/2025/02/02/p...
edition.cnn.com/2025/02/02/p...
Senior USAID security officials put on leave after refusing Musk’s DOGE access to agency systems | CNN Politics
Two top security officials at the US Agency for International Development were put on administrative leave Saturday night after refusing to allow officials from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Ef...
edition.cnn.com
February 2, 2025 at 6:01 PM
At.
Gunpoint.
Musk is telling duly appointed and security cleared government officials that they will be shot if they don't turn over to Musk sensitive information to which he has no right.
In any other country, we'd call it a coup.
Gunpoint.
Musk is telling duly appointed and security cleared government officials that they will be shot if they don't turn over to Musk sensitive information to which he has no right.
In any other country, we'd call it a coup.
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The scariest Trump development to date: "Elon Musk's Team Now Has Access to Treasury's Payment System." He wants to tear it all down.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Access to Treasury’s Payments System
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2025 at 1:52 AM
The scariest Trump development to date: "Elon Musk's Team Now Has Access to Treasury's Payment System." He wants to tear it all down.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
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if you’re cis, please stop right now and think about how many other cis people you know are up in arms over these executive orders trying make our existence illegal
how many?
because there aren’t enough trans people to fix this, YOU CIS PEOPLE HAVE TO
and the resounding silence is heartbreaking
how many?
because there aren’t enough trans people to fix this, YOU CIS PEOPLE HAVE TO
and the resounding silence is heartbreaking
Surreal being a trans person on this website this week. Every single one of my trans friends is making emergency preparations in case Trump bans our health care while fighting off existential dread and depression, and 99% of the cis people i follow seemingly have nothing to say about the trans EOs.
January 30, 2025 at 12:09 AM
if you’re cis, please stop right now and think about how many other cis people you know are up in arms over these executive orders trying make our existence illegal
how many?
because there aren’t enough trans people to fix this, YOU CIS PEOPLE HAVE TO
and the resounding silence is heartbreaking
how many?
because there aren’t enough trans people to fix this, YOU CIS PEOPLE HAVE TO
and the resounding silence is heartbreaking
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ALL arguments against trans healthcare are based solely on religious bigotry. Period. Numerous studies determined transitioning is beneficial for kids too, puberty blockers are safe, etc. Cis allies, we NEED you to be LOUD about this. Healthcare is a basic right for EVERYONE.
Almost 20 years ago, a doctor on TV was asked, "Isn't 12 a little early for a kid to be deciding to transition?" And her response was, "It's old enough for them to decide that it's not worth living anymore if they can't."
That was the only argument I ever needed to hear about gender affirming care.
That was the only argument I ever needed to hear about gender affirming care.
January 29, 2025 at 5:21 PM
ALL arguments against trans healthcare are based solely on religious bigotry. Period. Numerous studies determined transitioning is beneficial for kids too, puberty blockers are safe, etc. Cis allies, we NEED you to be LOUD about this. Healthcare is a basic right for EVERYONE.
By way of introducing myself, I’m queer, nonbinary, neurodivergent and disabled. I’m an artist and arc reviewer and parent of a very bright 11yo. Here are some examples of my art:
January 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM
By way of introducing myself, I’m queer, nonbinary, neurodivergent and disabled. I’m an artist and arc reviewer and parent of a very bright 11yo. Here are some examples of my art:
This looks good! Kiddo (11) is on a prehistory kick so we’ve been listening to audiobooks in this vein at bedtime for a while. Will add this one and the author’s previous book to the list.
I've got a new book coming out next month - all about how prehistoric plants changed the world - and I'd love for it to bloom wildly when it comes out.
Pre-orders make a massive difference, so please consider ordering a physical, ebook, or audio copy, and asking for it from your favorite library 🌱
Pre-orders make a massive difference, so please consider ordering a physical, ebook, or audio copy, and asking for it from your favorite library 🌱
When the Earth Was Green
Winner, A Friend of Darwin Award, 2024 A gorgeously composed look at the longstanding relationship between prehistoric plants and life on EarthFossils plants...
us.macmillan.com
January 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
This looks good! Kiddo (11) is on a prehistory kick so we’ve been listening to audiobooks in this vein at bedtime for a while. Will add this one and the author’s previous book to the list.