Tristan Crane
@tcrane.bsky.social
Photographer, tea drinker, art maker, trans/non-binary entity, occasional writer of a weird comic book.
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Tristan Crane
@tcrane.bsky.social
· Nov 15
I'm bad at these intros, but I'm a middle-aged queer trans person who's spent years documenting my community through photography, I've been known to write a comic book or two, occasionally experiment with ceramics, and currently also work as a therapist for queer and trans folk in California.
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"Don't worry, it'll fail in the senate." Ancient cis proverb
December 18, 2025 at 1:17 AM
"Don't worry, it'll fail in the senate." Ancient cis proverb
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This would not have passed if those chickenshit Dems Davis, Cellar, and Gonzalez had not voted for it. They voted to put the parents of trans youth in prison for ten years.
Primary them all.
Primary them all.
Just now, a national trans healthcare felony ban for youth has passed the US House, with 10 year prison terms.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
December 18, 2025 at 12:27 AM
This would not have passed if those chickenshit Dems Davis, Cellar, and Gonzalez had not voted for it. They voted to put the parents of trans youth in prison for ten years.
Primary them all.
Primary them all.
I love how portraiture, and photography, can be both a weapon and a tool.
December 17, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I love how portraiture, and photography, can be both a weapon and a tool.
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"I didn’t put the injection sites on her. People seem to be shocked that I didn’t use Photoshop to retouch out blemishes and her injection marks. I find it shocking that someone would expect me to retouch out those things."
VF photog interview:
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
VF photog interview:
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
December 17, 2025 at 9:41 PM
"I didn’t put the injection sites on her. People seem to be shocked that I didn’t use Photoshop to retouch out blemishes and her injection marks. I find it shocking that someone would expect me to retouch out those things."
VF photog interview:
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
VF photog interview:
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
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How did Jeffrey Epstein, a college dropout with no financial training, become such a wealthy and influential figure in business?
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/12/17/epstein_wealth
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/12/17/epstein_wealth
December 17, 2025 at 9:59 PM
How did Jeffrey Epstein, a college dropout with no financial training, become such a wealthy and influential figure in business?
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/12/17/epstein_wealth
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/12/17/epstein_wealth
I'm the worst at self promotion sometimes, but if you're looking for the perfect comic book anthology all about queer folks and sports, check this one out! I have a short story about my return to ballet as a creaky old adult, beautifully illustrated by the talented @jamdye.bsky.social
Come Out and Play: The Queer Sports Project – Stacked Deck Press
stackeddeckpress.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I'm the worst at self promotion sometimes, but if you're looking for the perfect comic book anthology all about queer folks and sports, check this one out! I have a short story about my return to ballet as a creaky old adult, beautifully illustrated by the talented @jamdye.bsky.social
So far the highlights of the day have been waking up on the coast near Mendocino and finding an exceptionally large mushroom. Maybe it's time to go to bed.
December 10, 2025 at 11:26 PM
So far the highlights of the day have been waking up on the coast near Mendocino and finding an exceptionally large mushroom. Maybe it's time to go to bed.
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Every time you talk to someone about "what we did before" things like commercially available formula the answer is "babies died" (or suffered nutritional deficiencies, or or). I can tell you every household manual from the 19th c back has recipes for replacements for breast milk. Not a new issue.
December 9, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Every time you talk to someone about "what we did before" things like commercially available formula the answer is "babies died" (or suffered nutritional deficiencies, or or). I can tell you every household manual from the 19th c back has recipes for replacements for breast milk. Not a new issue.
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Beth Bourne is our local Mom for Liberty who has been harassing our community with her transphobic agenda for 3 years.
You know her as the Karen who screamed at drag queens in Hawaii, or the mom who stripped at a school board meeting.
Here’s our perspective. Pt 1.
youtube.com/shorts/ETBor...
You know her as the Karen who screamed at drag queens in Hawaii, or the mom who stripped at a school board meeting.
Here’s our perspective. Pt 1.
youtube.com/shorts/ETBor...
FAQBB: Who Is Beth Bourne?
YouTube video by DTAB
youtube.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Beth Bourne is our local Mom for Liberty who has been harassing our community with her transphobic agenda for 3 years.
You know her as the Karen who screamed at drag queens in Hawaii, or the mom who stripped at a school board meeting.
Here’s our perspective. Pt 1.
youtube.com/shorts/ETBor...
You know her as the Karen who screamed at drag queens in Hawaii, or the mom who stripped at a school board meeting.
Here’s our perspective. Pt 1.
youtube.com/shorts/ETBor...
"He does not call the whole thing off but forgives us time to restore ourselves and then calls for another take" ??? Maybe I am better at writing than I realize because this is wildly bad.
At least 40% of the book is just tortured descriptions of her surroundings.
December 4, 2025 at 8:09 PM
"He does not call the whole thing off but forgives us time to restore ourselves and then calls for another take" ??? Maybe I am better at writing than I realize because this is wildly bad.
Obligatory Meow Wolf photo.
November 24, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Obligatory Meow Wolf photo.
What a loss.
BREAKING: Marjorie Taylor Greene says she's resigning from Congress — effective January 5, 2026.
November 22, 2025 at 1:17 AM
What a loss.
Well this is horrifying and heartbreaking in equal measure.
November 19, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Well this is horrifying and heartbreaking in equal measure.
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What do we say when the government comes asking for data it's not entitled to? Fuck you, make me.
www.autonomynews.co/doj-subpoena...
www.autonomynews.co/doj-subpoena...
The DOJ Subpoenaed Patient Info From a Gender-Affirming Care Clinic. It Fought Back.
A Washington judge quashed the Trump administration's attempt to subpoena patient information from the telehealth practice QueerDoc—but the fight may not be over.
www.autonomynews.co
November 19, 2025 at 10:15 PM
What do we say when the government comes asking for data it's not entitled to? Fuck you, make me.
www.autonomynews.co/doj-subpoena...
www.autonomynews.co/doj-subpoena...
Aforementioned beastie. I raised her from a 5lb kitten who fit into my hand and she's my world. I'd do anything for her and I also know that everything won't be enough.
November 19, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Aforementioned beastie. I raised her from a 5lb kitten who fit into my hand and she's my world. I'd do anything for her and I also know that everything won't be enough.
The hell we walk through to save an 11lb creature who's primary talent is licking her own asshole and causing me stress. And money, of course.
November 19, 2025 at 6:29 AM
The hell we walk through to save an 11lb creature who's primary talent is licking her own asshole and causing me stress. And money, of course.
It's cool that our senate did a thing? Maybe? But also my cat is sick so that's basically all I can think about regardless of if the rest of the world is burning.
November 19, 2025 at 6:28 AM
It's cool that our senate did a thing? Maybe? But also my cat is sick so that's basically all I can think about regardless of if the rest of the world is burning.
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Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.
November 19, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.
murica.
President Trump walking past the flag at the Whitehouse which has fallen to the ground
November 18, 2025 at 2:42 AM
murica.
I guess it's good news that our passports will be valid until they expire, because that's a basic human right under what should be a reliable law. I guess.
November 18, 2025 at 12:14 AM
I guess it's good news that our passports will be valid until they expire, because that's a basic human right under what should be a reliable law. I guess.
Sharing a few images from this recent performance by Jas Lin, opening a show at the Mendocino Art Center on the california coast.
November 17, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Sharing a few images from this recent performance by Jas Lin, opening a show at the Mendocino Art Center on the california coast.
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the man has admitted to sexually assaulting people and was legally proven by a court of law to be sexually assaulting people (a notoriously hard thing to do) but I’m sure this new evidence that he was sexually assaulting people will really wake up the base. It’ll be our lucky sexual assault evidence
November 12, 2025 at 10:00 PM
the man has admitted to sexually assaulting people and was legally proven by a court of law to be sexually assaulting people (a notoriously hard thing to do) but I’m sure this new evidence that he was sexually assaulting people will really wake up the base. It’ll be our lucky sexual assault evidence
If you read one story today about the sea change and DRAMA taking place in the American Dollhouse Miniatures community, make it this one. www.switchboardmagazine.com/monthly/the-...
The Miniature Wars of Louisville — Switchboard Magazine
At the Kentucky State Fair, craftsman Preston Poling—known online as The Bearded Miniaturist—upended the genteel world of dollhouses with a scandalous 1:12-scale creation called The Casting Couch. His...
www.switchboardmagazine.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
If you read one story today about the sea change and DRAMA taking place in the American Dollhouse Miniatures community, make it this one. www.switchboardmagazine.com/monthly/the-...
Just cause the Supreme Court did one thing right today doesn't erase all of the other bullshit.
November 10, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Just cause the Supreme Court did one thing right today doesn't erase all of the other bullshit.