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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 1d

I get that everyone thinks it's a funny little joke when Trump says nonsense about "trangender for everybody" (because really, wtf does that even mean?), but I gotta say that as a trans person, I find it absolutely fucking insane that he's constantly obsessing over trans people existing. It sucks.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "If we didn't win this election. If we had these people that were running that were ruining our country, destroying our country with their open borders and men playing in women's sports and transgender from everybody and windmills all over the place ... I'm not sure we'd even have a country."

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Tamra Bonvillain @tamrabonvillain.bsky.social · 2d

I am generally happy on my wfh stuff, but definitely need to get back into more creator owned

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Tamra Bonvillain @tamrabonvillain.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah, and the path to Hades started here (I literally just installed Hades 2)

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Tamra Bonvillain @tamrabonvillain.bsky.social · 3d

This was one of the first indie games I played back in the XBox arcade days. Very good.

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 6d

...& here's his GLAAD Accountability page: glaad.org/gap/jesse-si...
it's one thing to decide to platform him (which I think is a bad moderation decision). but it's downright cruel to troll a marginalized community that he's been relentlessly targeting for almost a decade when we voice our concerns!

Jesse Singal | GLAAD

—Wrote cover story for The Atlantic headlined “When Children Say They Are Trans: Hormones? Surgery? The choices are fraught—and there are no easy answers.” Singal raises questions in the article: “But...

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 6d

just learning now that "waffles" is about Jəsse Singəl, so I will re-up this piece that chronicles his long history of harassing primarily trans women (+ other trans ppl & allies) online... juliaserano.blogspot.com/2017/12/my-j...

screenshot from linked to article that reads (in part):
Jun 18, 2018 – Katherine Cross on Singal sending her an email “swearing a storm at me because I tweeted something he disliked that he felt was untrue.”
Jun 18, 2018 – Cat Fitzpatrick mentions Singal threatened to sue her for politely disagreeing with him.
Jan 15, 2019 – Singal levies legal threats against two writers who mention that they personally know trans women who’ve had bad interactions with him.
Jul 7, 2020 – the day the Harper’s Letter (which Singal was a signatory) was released, Singal instigated pile-ons of multiple people. I captured him initiating the pile-on of Jennifer Finney Boylan as it was occurring in this thread (both up & down from linked-to tweet). Emily VanDerWerff reacts to Singal’s pile-on of her here and, two days later, discusses the aftermath of that pile-on (which included “Death threats, rape threats, invitations to commit suicide, constant misgendering, etc”). Ari Drennen took screenshots of Singal targeting Aja Romano.
Because Singal’s attack on Emily VanDerWerff was premised on his false presumption that she was trying to get one of her employers fired (which she has denied), lots of other writers began coming forward with stories of Singal contacting their employers and editors because he disliked what they wrote. Here are some of those instances:
Jul 7, 2020 – Katelyn Burns on Singal “repeatedly emailing my employer until they fired me” is found here. A week later a co-worker corroborated that story.
Jul 7, 2020 – Noah Berlatsky shares: “also Jesse emailed me to demand I save DMs from Katelyn and others and investigate them for him, implying he would sue me otherwise.”
Jul 7, 2020 – Katerine Cross shares: “Back when I wrote for Feministing, he repeatedly badgered the editors trying to get a critical post that mentioned him briefly changed or taken down.”
Jul 9, 2020 – Harron Walker shares how Singal “emailed my editor many times after this was published seeking correction....o…

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BuzzComics @buzzcomics.bsky.social · 5d

Preview de Supergirl #6 par Sophie Campbell, Rosi Kampe et @tamrabonvillain.bsky.social chez @dc.com #DCComics #DCAllIn #Supergirl www.buzzcomics.net/showpost.php...

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Tamra Bonvillain @tamrabonvillain.bsky.social · 6d

Just got a coconut milk tea that tastes exactly like I hoped the sunscreen I used as a kid would

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Tamra Bonvillain @tamrabonvillain.bsky.social · 6d

Yikes

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Tamra Bonvillain @tamrabonvillain.bsky.social · 7d

Apparently this is one of the movies that Regal is running for Halloween this year.

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Tamra Bonvillain @tamrabonvillain.bsky.social · 7d

Nice! I got it on sale a while back, but haven't gotten around to playing it yet.

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Tamra Bonvillain @tamrabonvillain.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks! I think most of the people I work with directly tend to be great, and make me feel part of the team

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Tamra Bonvillain @tamrabonvillain.bsky.social · 7d

Appreciate it!

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Tamra Bonvillain @tamrabonvillain.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks!

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Tamra Bonvillain @tamrabonvillain.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you

Tamra Bonvillain @tamrabonvillain.bsky.social · 7d

I get it and I don't. It's the inconsistency that will fuck with you.

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Tamra Bonvillain @tamrabonvillain.bsky.social · 7d

I appreciate it. None of this is to say that there aren't people that respect or value me and my work. It's more about keeping an emotional distance so you don't get too hurt when it does happen. I don't always follow my own advice.

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Tamra Bonvillain @tamrabonvillain.bsky.social · 7d

This happened on a book that I colored nearly 50 consecutive issues of, a thing I don't think I'm soon to repeat. You're disposable, don't trick yourself into thinking otherwise.

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Tamra Bonvillain @tamrabonvillain.bsky.social · 7d

Over the past few years, I had a couple of long form and/or labor intensive things get fancier, collected editions, and then not been included in promotion, and in some cases my name excluded from the covers of the books themselves.

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Tamra Bonvillain @tamrabonvillain.bsky.social · 7d

I feel like the only way to remain sane as a colorist is to never view what you do as anything other than a job. While I've had collaborations that were respectful and rewarding, your work is so often minimized or outright ignored, there's little point in being emotionally invested in any of it.

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Tamra Bonvillain @tamrabonvillain.bsky.social · 7d

Damn, we can't even ask for waffles at Waffle House.

Like obviously this exchange is stupid and meant to trivialize the very real concerns of the trans users on this site, but it even fails as a joke.

Ela Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 7d

is this your CEO

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 7d

On Friday 18 blue state attorneys general BLASTED the Federal Trade Commission, telling it to back off trans youth healthcare and warning of an insidious attempt to reshape the regulation of medicine in the US.

And nobody covered it.

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

State AGs Defend Trans Americans in Stunning Rebuke to Trump’s FTC — Assigned

Eighteen state Attorneys General unite to stand up in defense of trans Americans, in opposition to a Federal Trade Commission investigation into trans healthcare.

www.assignedmedia.org

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5uki5en5or @5uki5en5or.bsky.social · 13d

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Tamra Bonvillain @tamrabonvillain.bsky.social · 8d

Well, I guess I have to beat Silent Hill f a few more times to understand what's going on

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Crystal Frasier @amazonchique.bsky.social · 9d

The barriers put in place to stop any trans girls from playing with others girls are so complicated and onerous that TEN SCHOOLS can’t get enough cis girls through them to field soccer teams this year.

“Respect for women’s sports” my ass.

Carrie Tait @carrietait.bsky.social · 20d

Fewer girls are playing sports after govt erected barriers for girls to play sports.
edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

Early dropoff in girls' school sports linked to new gender confirmation forms

Province's new requirements are already having impacts on girls' sports in junior high

edmontonjournal.com

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