Elizabeth S.
@valkyriegf.bsky.social
finally made a bsky (with my IG handle; apologies to anyone I followed who didn't recognize the handle)
Still reading more than posting.
Prison abolition. Trans rights.
she/her 🏳🌈
Still reading more than posting.
Prison abolition. Trans rights.
she/her 🏳🌈
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Thank you for the love for three of our TABOO contributors, @anemonebythesea.bsky.social @saoirsecl.bsky.social @asterolsen.bsky.social ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥 email us [email protected] if you want PDFs of the stories
December 25, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Thank you for the love for three of our TABOO contributors, @anemonebythesea.bsky.social @saoirsecl.bsky.social @asterolsen.bsky.social ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥 email us [email protected] if you want PDFs of the stories
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Feeling like you haven't read enough to vote in the 2025 TFR Awards? Here's a way you can still participate!
The 60-hour Shortform Challenge asks YOU to read our 2025 short story and poem nominees, then vote on your three faves in each category! No other reading required 🩷
The 60-hour Shortform Challenge asks YOU to read our 2025 short story and poem nominees, then vote on your three faves in each category! No other reading required 🩷
The 60-hour Transfemme Shortform Challenge
The rules are simple - read as many short stories and poems as you’d like before December 26th at 11:59pm EST, then submit a ballot for your favorites in the Outstanding Short Story and Outstanding In...
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December 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Feeling like you haven't read enough to vote in the 2025 TFR Awards? Here's a way you can still participate!
The 60-hour Shortform Challenge asks YOU to read our 2025 short story and poem nominees, then vote on your three faves in each category! No other reading required 🩷
The 60-hour Shortform Challenge asks YOU to read our 2025 short story and poem nominees, then vote on your three faves in each category! No other reading required 🩷
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This is your chance to speak up for the trans books and authors you’ve enjoyed this year! Whatever your faves were, please add your voice to the voting process
Short list nominees and winners are decided by fairly slim margins, so your votes make a big difference in whether books get noticed!
Short list nominees and winners are decided by fairly slim margins, so your votes make a big difference in whether books get noticed!
For our second year, I'm proud to present the TFR Reader's Choice Awards, the only literary awards where YOU can vote for your favorite transfeminine books of 2025 🩷
Voting is open right now! The voting period will last until December 26th, 2025 at 11:59 PM, so don't forget to cast your ballot.
Voting is open right now! The voting period will last until December 26th, 2025 at 11:59 PM, so don't forget to cast your ballot.
Vote for the 2025 TFR Reader’s Choice Awards!
Voting is open now for the 2025 TFR Reader’s Choice Awards! Vote by Dec. 26th.
thetransfemininereview.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:49 PM
This is your chance to speak up for the trans books and authors you’ve enjoyed this year! Whatever your faves were, please add your voice to the voting process
Short list nominees and winners are decided by fairly slim margins, so your votes make a big difference in whether books get noticed!
Short list nominees and winners are decided by fairly slim margins, so your votes make a big difference in whether books get noticed!
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What were your favourite reads/pieces of media this year that ft transmasculinity??
solomonskalozub.blogspot.com/2025/12/tran... I threw this together as an easier reference for people looking for *something* featuring transmasculinity. I will eventually get back to doing essays for each individual media I mention here, but I felt this may aid people in finding the story they need!
December 8, 2025 at 5:39 PM
What were your favourite reads/pieces of media this year that ft transmasculinity??
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How accessible is age verification technology to trans users? For @techpolicypress.bsky.social, we tried to figure that out. www.techpolicy.press/age-verifica...
Age Verification Is Locking Trans People Out of the Internet | TechPolicy.Press
Experts tell Dia Kayyali and Jasmine Mithani that age verification, sold as a fix for kids’ online safety, expands surveillance and deepens discrimination.
www.techpolicy.press
December 8, 2025 at 9:58 PM
How accessible is age verification technology to trans users? For @techpolicypress.bsky.social, we tried to figure that out. www.techpolicy.press/age-verifica...
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Kinda blows my mind how many people act like we're competing over a fixed no. of voters when 1/3 of people who can vote don't. What could be accomplished if we focused on removing barriers to voting and articulating how a progressive policy agenda could appreciably improve people's quality of life?
December 6, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Kinda blows my mind how many people act like we're competing over a fixed no. of voters when 1/3 of people who can vote don't. What could be accomplished if we focused on removing barriers to voting and articulating how a progressive policy agenda could appreciably improve people's quality of life?
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The thing to understand about "age verification" laws is that they are not just for kids
The only way to "stop kids from doing xyz online" using age-gating is to demand a government ID (or invasive biometric face scan) from EVERYONE.
This means associating your gov ID with EVERYTHING YOU DO ONLINE
The only way to "stop kids from doing xyz online" using age-gating is to demand a government ID (or invasive biometric face scan) from EVERYONE.
This means associating your gov ID with EVERYTHING YOU DO ONLINE
December 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
The thing to understand about "age verification" laws is that they are not just for kids
The only way to "stop kids from doing xyz online" using age-gating is to demand a government ID (or invasive biometric face scan) from EVERYONE.
This means associating your gov ID with EVERYTHING YOU DO ONLINE
The only way to "stop kids from doing xyz online" using age-gating is to demand a government ID (or invasive biometric face scan) from EVERYONE.
This means associating your gov ID with EVERYTHING YOU DO ONLINE
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A Pep Guardiola quote has been knocking around in my brain recently. On its face it applies only to futbol, but it feels like something we could all put to use at this moment in history, when our actions count for so much. "We do not pass to move the ball. We pass to move the opposition."
December 5, 2025 at 6:17 PM
A Pep Guardiola quote has been knocking around in my brain recently. On its face it applies only to futbol, but it feels like something we could all put to use at this moment in history, when our actions count for so much. "We do not pass to move the ball. We pass to move the opposition."
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be the bitch doing something yourself that you want to see in the world
there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything
December 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM
be the bitch doing something yourself that you want to see in the world
I'm torn between "Structured Disorder" and the autism bicycle.
tag yourself I'm Totalbottl
Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?!
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 28, 2025 at 1:36 AM
I'm torn between "Structured Disorder" and the autism bicycle.
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Utah plans a 3,100-mile paved bike network that would put a trail within one mile of 95% of residents.
Utah Unveils 'Ambitious' 3,100-mile Bike Network
The complete network would put a paved bike trail within one mile of 95% of Utah residents.
www.planetizen.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Utah plans a 3,100-mile paved bike network that would put a trail within one mile of 95% of residents.
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I have been looking at Black Friday sales for a week but I do not actually need anything so instead I closed all those tabs and bought a Polaroid for a foster kid in Florida who uses photography to deal with big feelings. Perhaps you would like to do the same for one of the kids at the link below?
🧵 We are, in fact, doing the thing again for @onesimplewish.bsky.social. In 2024, the kind people of this community put the money cannon on blast to help grant $75K in wishes for children in foster care. Toys, tech, a suit for job interviews. Here we go again! 👇
www.onesimplewish.org/giving/megwa...
www.onesimplewish.org/giving/megwa...
November 22, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I have been looking at Black Friday sales for a week but I do not actually need anything so instead I closed all those tabs and bought a Polaroid for a foster kid in Florida who uses photography to deal with big feelings. Perhaps you would like to do the same for one of the kids at the link below?
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the mc addressing the crowd’s use of “no convicted felon presidents” signs and pointing out that he has convicted felons in his family and challenging people to consider what and whom they aim to stigmatize
October 18, 2025 at 5:25 PM
the mc addressing the crowd’s use of “no convicted felon presidents” signs and pointing out that he has convicted felons in his family and challenging people to consider what and whom they aim to stigmatize
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This Indigenous Peoples Day please speak up: another typhoon sweeping away homes of Alaska's Natives, who, during settlement (statehood: 1948) were forced to end ways of life (like my Grandma's) involving mobility across regions & stuck them in flood-prone/unstable villages with housing deficits.
October 14, 2025 at 5:17 AM
This Indigenous Peoples Day please speak up: another typhoon sweeping away homes of Alaska's Natives, who, during settlement (statehood: 1948) were forced to end ways of life (like my Grandma's) involving mobility across regions & stuck them in flood-prone/unstable villages with housing deficits.
I correctly guessed from the first sentence of the preview which board game designer this is :) ( @amabel.bsky.social )
Absolutely killer work here, read it even if you're not interested in board games per se (i'm not)
www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/painful-ch...
www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/painful-ch...
Every choice in this game is painful
Exploring a "subversion of the point salad paradigm" game that makes every decision seem like a bad one. How The Field of the Cloth of Gold creates it's own kind of fun out of gift giving.
www.skeletoncodemachine.com
October 14, 2025 at 12:58 PM
I correctly guessed from the first sentence of the preview which board game designer this is :) ( @amabel.bsky.social )
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The Plymouth County Correctional Facility is the only ICE detention center in Massachusetts and the linchpin to ICE's infrastructure in New England. It seems like the easiest way to weaken this infrastructure is for the Mass. legislature to pass a law terminating any county-level contracts with ICE.
October 7, 2025 at 12:06 AM
The Plymouth County Correctional Facility is the only ICE detention center in Massachusetts and the linchpin to ICE's infrastructure in New England. It seems like the easiest way to weaken this infrastructure is for the Mass. legislature to pass a law terminating any county-level contracts with ICE.
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Reminder from your resident high school lubrarian: if you plan to do a Banned Books Week display and programming, prioritize living marginalized authors. Use this time to help those who need it the most.
October 6, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Reminder from your resident high school lubrarian: if you plan to do a Banned Books Week display and programming, prioritize living marginalized authors. Use this time to help those who need it the most.
So what I'm hearing is that I should move _Dead End: Paranormal Park_ higher up on my to-watch list.
2. On Monday, Libs of TikTok—the far-right account notorious for stoking violent threats against LGBTQ+ people—erupted over a kids’ show featuring a transgender character. The target was Dead End: Paranormal Park, and the outrage quickly snowballed.
October 2, 2025 at 6:07 PM
So what I'm hearing is that I should move _Dead End: Paranormal Park_ higher up on my to-watch list.
Taking this prompt to note that NewFest has a lot of its programming available for streaming (Oct 9-21, $14.50/program or $95 pass for all 26) -- about half shorts programs, half feature-length (fiction and documentary). newfest.org/events/?_fil...
September 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Taking this prompt to note that NewFest has a lot of its programming available for streaming (Oct 9-21, $14.50/program or $95 pass for all 26) -- about half shorts programs, half feature-length (fiction and documentary). newfest.org/events/?_fil...
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Update on this from the Boston Globe. This is great news!
September 3, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Update on this from the Boston Globe. This is great news!
This linked article is from 2021, and I think I may have read it before, but I always forget that the Storrows *opposed* the highway that is named after them.
So many benefits to removing urban highways, but returning Storrow Drive to the people is an absolute no brainer @nathanpboston.bsky.social
commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/reve...
commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/reve...
Reverse the curse: pedestrianize Storrow Drive - CommonWealth Beacon
IMAGINE STORROW DRIVE transformed: quiet, soot-free, no longer a wall between the Charles River and the Back Bay and Boston University. Imagine streams of
commonwealthbeacon.org
September 3, 2025 at 7:09 PM
This linked article is from 2021, and I think I may have read it before, but I always forget that the Storrows *opposed* the highway that is named after them.
True that you can't book *currently,* but I live in one of the listed states (MA), and CVS gives me lots of appointment options starting Sept 4 (which I assume is the new booster).
NEWS: CVS, the largest pharmacy chain in the country, is currently not offering Covid vaccines in 16 states and DC — even to people who meet the new FDA criteria — because the CDC hasn't signed off and isn't expected to do so (if it does so) for at least three weeks.
CVS Holds Off on Offering Covid Vaccines in 16 States
www.nytimes.com
August 29, 2025 at 1:35 AM
True that you can't book *currently,* but I live in one of the listed states (MA), and CVS gives me lots of appointment options starting Sept 4 (which I assume is the new booster).
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yeah i do have a condition that puts me at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 virus, it's called being alive
Here's what CVS asks you about the updated shot today.
![We want to make sure Ryan is eligible
All fields required.
Have you received a COVID-19 vaccine in the last 2 months?
Yes No
Do you have a condition that puts you at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 virus?
Yes No
CDC conditions and risk factors
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August 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
yeah i do have a condition that puts me at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 virus, it's called being alive
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anyway imagine all the creative things dem campaigns could do with their piles of money that go to annoying texts, emails, and celebrity concerts
August 24, 2025 at 8:41 PM
anyway imagine all the creative things dem campaigns could do with their piles of money that go to annoying texts, emails, and celebrity concerts