mx. clara sparks
@xgdr.net
eclectical engiqueer, catmom, silicidal ideator, she+they
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People who do icky sex stuff are going to the mat for you all the time and you don’t even know it.
December 24, 2025 at 4:47 AM
People who do icky sex stuff are going to the mat for you all the time and you don’t even know it.
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...Ms. Curth continues to deny that she engaged in any arbitrary behavior regarding the student's work, and is considering all of her legal remedies, including appealing this decision by the University."
December 22, 2025 at 10:10 PM
...Ms. Curth continues to deny that she engaged in any arbitrary behavior regarding the student's work, and is considering all of her legal remedies, including appealing this decision by the University."
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Re: OU religious discrimination finding
Quote from Attorney Brittany M. Stewart, Esq.:
"My client, Mel Curth, received notification from the University of Oklahoma that an investigation determined that she engaged in arbitrary grading of a student's paper...
Quote from Attorney Brittany M. Stewart, Esq.:
"My client, Mel Curth, received notification from the University of Oklahoma that an investigation determined that she engaged in arbitrary grading of a student's paper...
December 22, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Re: OU religious discrimination finding
Quote from Attorney Brittany M. Stewart, Esq.:
"My client, Mel Curth, received notification from the University of Oklahoma that an investigation determined that she engaged in arbitrary grading of a student's paper...
Quote from Attorney Brittany M. Stewart, Esq.:
"My client, Mel Curth, received notification from the University of Oklahoma that an investigation determined that she engaged in arbitrary grading of a student's paper...
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Please be aware of possible scams! My client, Mel Curth, is not seeking any donations at this time.
She is grateful for your support, and asks folks that want to help to give back to the community by donating to a local organization of your choice.
She is grateful for your support, and asks folks that want to help to give back to the community by donating to a local organization of your choice.
December 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Please be aware of possible scams! My client, Mel Curth, is not seeking any donations at this time.
She is grateful for your support, and asks folks that want to help to give back to the community by donating to a local organization of your choice.
She is grateful for your support, and asks folks that want to help to give back to the community by donating to a local organization of your choice.
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"Identify as" has been the new "lifestyle choice" since Americans had to begrudgingly tamp Blanchardism down.
December 23, 2025 at 5:54 PM
"Identify as" has been the new "lifestyle choice" since Americans had to begrudgingly tamp Blanchardism down.
Why did you transition, wrong answers only
Got tired of being taken seriously as a junior/mid-level engineer in STEM
Got tired of being taken seriously as a junior/mid-level engineer in STEM
Why did you transition, wrong answers only
Misandry
Misandry
Why did you transition, wrong answers only
I really like women, but my cat allergy was absolutely devastating
I really like women, but my cat allergy was absolutely devastating
December 23, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Why did you transition, wrong answers only
Got tired of being taken seriously as a junior/mid-level engineer in STEM
Got tired of being taken seriously as a junior/mid-level engineer in STEM
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learning Rust from beautiful trans women in the 2020s
December 23, 2025 at 2:41 PM
learning Rust from beautiful trans women in the 2020s
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This is what it is to be a trans professional.
Any pretext will be used to eliminate us. Our institutions abandon us, refuse to fight for us - even when all we're guilty of is doing our jobs correctly.
How are we meant to live in society? How are we supposed to win?
Any pretext will be used to eliminate us. Our institutions abandon us, refuse to fight for us - even when all we're guilty of is doing our jobs correctly.
How are we meant to live in society? How are we supposed to win?
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university
Graduate instructor who gave failing grade to Samantha Fulnecky no longer teaching at OU
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university.
www.koco.com
December 23, 2025 at 2:28 AM
This is what it is to be a trans professional.
Any pretext will be used to eliminate us. Our institutions abandon us, refuse to fight for us - even when all we're guilty of is doing our jobs correctly.
How are we meant to live in society? How are we supposed to win?
Any pretext will be used to eliminate us. Our institutions abandon us, refuse to fight for us - even when all we're guilty of is doing our jobs correctly.
How are we meant to live in society? How are we supposed to win?
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The question I asked myself was:
"What if the shitty terf fantasy school was instead written by @badambulist.bsky.social?"
and everything else proceeded from that core idea.
"What if the shitty terf fantasy school was instead written by @badambulist.bsky.social?"
and everything else proceeded from that core idea.
December 22, 2025 at 6:09 AM
The question I asked myself was:
"What if the shitty terf fantasy school was instead written by @badambulist.bsky.social?"
and everything else proceeded from that core idea.
"What if the shitty terf fantasy school was instead written by @badambulist.bsky.social?"
and everything else proceeded from that core idea.
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When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
Why Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives?
Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized?
contingentmagazine.org
December 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
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December 21, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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How the nyt used the Cass report to restart its anti-trans propaganda campaign in the US:
Coverage of the report was initially assigned to a nyt UK correspondent, usual practice for a UK report. The story being prepared cited critics who called Cass a shoddy, political document that defied science
Coverage of the report was initially assigned to a nyt UK correspondent, usual practice for a UK report. The story being prepared cited critics who called Cass a shoddy, political document that defied science
One reason the NYT has burned its credibility with trans people is that they still cite the discredited Cass report in reporting on trans healthcare. Never the German, Utah, or other systematic reviews supporting care. They also never provide the political context behind restrictions in care.
December 20, 2025 at 10:23 AM
How the nyt used the Cass report to restart its anti-trans propaganda campaign in the US:
Coverage of the report was initially assigned to a nyt UK correspondent, usual practice for a UK report. The story being prepared cited critics who called Cass a shoddy, political document that defied science
Coverage of the report was initially assigned to a nyt UK correspondent, usual practice for a UK report. The story being prepared cited critics who called Cass a shoddy, political document that defied science
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the reason the entire conservative political apparatus opposes comprehensive sex education is that children who understand sexuality are more likely to be able to identify and report sexual abuse, so keep that in mind next time your politicians brag about "bipartisanship"
December 19, 2025 at 12:43 AM
the reason the entire conservative political apparatus opposes comprehensive sex education is that children who understand sexuality are more likely to be able to identify and report sexual abuse, so keep that in mind next time your politicians brag about "bipartisanship"
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this is about forcing people with breasts to show them in the way approved of by fascists. it is in itself an act of sexual violence and coersion
In addition to this administration trying to kill kids, and they're also coming for our binders? OUR BINDERS.
December 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
this is about forcing people with breasts to show them in the way approved of by fascists. it is in itself an act of sexual violence and coersion
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A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter.
This is obscene. Why can't other politicians say that?
The 25 richest families are collectively $358.7 billion richer than a year ago, with a combined fortune totaling $2.9 trillion.
The 25 richest families are collectively $358.7 billion richer than a year ago, with a combined fortune totaling $2.9 trillion.
December 18, 2025 at 2:45 PM
A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter.
every transgender child is a goddamned miracle
December 18, 2025 at 7:15 PM
every transgender child is a goddamned miracle
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what I want trans kids, queer kids, and gender nonconforming kids to know:
you are loved
you are so much more powerful than the ghouls using your healthcare as a political pawn, and you WILL outlive them (they know this, and it is why they're attacking you)
you are loved
you are so much more powerful than the ghouls using your healthcare as a political pawn, and you WILL outlive them (they know this, and it is why they're attacking you)
December 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
what I want trans kids, queer kids, and gender nonconforming kids to know:
you are loved
you are so much more powerful than the ghouls using your healthcare as a political pawn, and you WILL outlive them (they know this, and it is why they're attacking you)
you are loved
you are so much more powerful than the ghouls using your healthcare as a political pawn, and you WILL outlive them (they know this, and it is why they're attacking you)
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They will not succeed — both because they are wrong and because, ultimately, such people always fail.
The only question is how many people will be harmed in the interim and what we, as people who care, will do to support and protect those being targeted. (This, to be clear, is not a new question.)
The only question is how many people will be harmed in the interim and what we, as people who care, will do to support and protect those being targeted. (This, to be clear, is not a new question.)
December 18, 2025 at 5:40 PM
They will not succeed — both because they are wrong and because, ultimately, such people always fail.
The only question is how many people will be harmed in the interim and what we, as people who care, will do to support and protect those being targeted. (This, to be clear, is not a new question.)
The only question is how many people will be harmed in the interim and what we, as people who care, will do to support and protect those being targeted. (This, to be clear, is not a new question.)
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the binder IS the safe alternative. there are guidelines for safe use of these. i remember my trans friends (and cosplayers) as a kid describing painfully using ace bandages to compress their chests. this is dangerous, this causes tissue damage and can harm the ribs.
December 18, 2025 at 6:04 PM
the binder IS the safe alternative. there are guidelines for safe use of these. i remember my trans friends (and cosplayers) as a kid describing painfully using ace bandages to compress their chests. this is dangerous, this causes tissue damage and can harm the ribs.
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the gender/sex distinction doesn't work. there's no clear line where gender ends and sex begins, or vice versa. transphobes make use of the distinction and its ambiguity in order to impose gender norms under the rubric of a supposedly immutable "sex."
July 21, 2025 at 9:52 AM
the gender/sex distinction doesn't work. there's no clear line where gender ends and sex begins, or vice versa. transphobes make use of the distinction and its ambiguity in order to impose gender norms under the rubric of a supposedly immutable "sex."
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You *can* change your sex. That is the entire reason that transition care is being demonised, vilified, erased, and outlawed. Because this fact makes cis people uncomfortable.
Deal with your own discomfort without denying biological reality.
Deal with your own discomfort without denying biological reality.
spare us from the cis allies who are always like "nobody saying that you can change your sex" and "we're talking about gender not sex, they're very different." stop it.
July 21, 2025 at 1:47 PM
You *can* change your sex. That is the entire reason that transition care is being demonised, vilified, erased, and outlawed. Because this fact makes cis people uncomfortable.
Deal with your own discomfort without denying biological reality.
Deal with your own discomfort without denying biological reality.
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those who predicted authoritarianism were both dismissed, & deeply misunderstood, by the media
my latest for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
my latest for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
The Americans Who Saw All This Coming—but Were Ignored and Maligned
Call them the Cassandras: the people—mostly not white and male—who smelled the fascism all over Trump from jump street. Why were they “alarmists,” and how did “anti-alarmism” become cool?
newrepublic.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:26 AM
those who predicted authoritarianism were both dismissed, & deeply misunderstood, by the media
my latest for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
my latest for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
i unironically do want “transgender for everybody.” name changes that don’t mess up your credit. hormones and abortion pills over the counter. standards of “looking professional“ that aren’t patriarchal and white-supremacist. you don’t need to *use* transgender but you should be allowed to *have* it
December 18, 2025 at 2:46 AM
i unironically do want “transgender for everybody.” name changes that don’t mess up your credit. hormones and abortion pills over the counter. standards of “looking professional“ that aren’t patriarchal and white-supremacist. you don’t need to *use* transgender but you should be allowed to *have* it
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Here's a timeline of 500 years of Native American trans women's history, please learn things
(I accidentally published it with the worst picture as the main pic so am posting this with just the url.)
landbodymind.substack.com/p/500-years-...
(I accidentally published it with the worst picture as the main pic so am posting this with just the url.)
landbodymind.substack.com/p/500-years-...
December 16, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Here's a timeline of 500 years of Native American trans women's history, please learn things
(I accidentally published it with the worst picture as the main pic so am posting this with just the url.)
landbodymind.substack.com/p/500-years-...
(I accidentally published it with the worst picture as the main pic so am posting this with just the url.)
landbodymind.substack.com/p/500-years-...