Becka
@beckaeppley.bsky.social
Writer | Speaker | Queer 🏳️🌈 | Using words to heal + disrupt
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Image credit: @LatinoMuslimUnity
“Say their names:
-Silverio Villegas González (38)
-Keith Porter (43)
-Renee Nicole Good (37)
-Jaime Alanís (57)
-Jocelyn Rojo Carranza (11)
-Roberto Carlos Montoya Valdez (52)
Rest in Power. We will not stop. They could have been anyone of us. “
“Say their names:
-Silverio Villegas González (38)
-Keith Porter (43)
-Renee Nicole Good (37)
-Jaime Alanís (57)
-Jocelyn Rojo Carranza (11)
-Roberto Carlos Montoya Valdez (52)
Rest in Power. We will not stop. They could have been anyone of us. “
January 11, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Image credit: @LatinoMuslimUnity
“Say their names:
-Silverio Villegas González (38)
-Keith Porter (43)
-Renee Nicole Good (37)
-Jaime Alanís (57)
-Jocelyn Rojo Carranza (11)
-Roberto Carlos Montoya Valdez (52)
Rest in Power. We will not stop. They could have been anyone of us. “
“Say their names:
-Silverio Villegas González (38)
-Keith Porter (43)
-Renee Nicole Good (37)
-Jaime Alanís (57)
-Jocelyn Rojo Carranza (11)
-Roberto Carlos Montoya Valdez (52)
Rest in Power. We will not stop. They could have been anyone of us. “
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Don't believe newspapers that say we've lost. The fight back is strong 👇
www.wearequeeraf.com/dont-believe...
www.wearequeeraf.com/dont-believe...
Don't believe newspapers that say we've lost. The fight back is strong
We’re constantly being told what to think by the papers, but are we listening?
www.wearequeeraf.com
December 23, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Don't believe newspapers that say we've lost. The fight back is strong 👇
www.wearequeeraf.com/dont-believe...
www.wearequeeraf.com/dont-believe...
“For the first time, I feel good in my body.”
New essay on embodiment, aging, and staying present with yourself.
A Body That Has Lived — Substack
open.substack.com/pub/beckaepp...
#Writing
#PersonalEssay
#QueerStories
#Embodiment
New essay on embodiment, aging, and staying present with yourself.
A Body That Has Lived — Substack
open.substack.com/pub/beckaepp...
#Writing
#PersonalEssay
#QueerStories
#Embodiment
A Body That Has Lived
On becoming while staying in my body.
open.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 4:54 PM
“For the first time, I feel good in my body.”
New essay on embodiment, aging, and staying present with yourself.
A Body That Has Lived — Substack
open.substack.com/pub/beckaepp...
#Writing
#PersonalEssay
#QueerStories
#Embodiment
New essay on embodiment, aging, and staying present with yourself.
A Body That Has Lived — Substack
open.substack.com/pub/beckaepp...
#Writing
#PersonalEssay
#QueerStories
#Embodiment
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UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene.
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
December 7, 2025 at 10:31 PM
UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene.
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
From my Behind-the-Scenes piece in Avoided No More (released last week):
“For me, perfectionism goes hand in hand with expertise…
the bitter couple whispering in my brain.”
The book’s available online everywhere, but bookshop.org > billionaires.
#writing #queer
Music: Anxiety by Doechii
“For me, perfectionism goes hand in hand with expertise…
the bitter couple whispering in my brain.”
The book’s available online everywhere, but bookshop.org > billionaires.
#writing #queer
Music: Anxiety by Doechii
November 30, 2025 at 1:15 AM
From my Behind-the-Scenes piece in Avoided No More (released last week):
“For me, perfectionism goes hand in hand with expertise…
the bitter couple whispering in my brain.”
The book’s available online everywhere, but bookshop.org > billionaires.
#writing #queer
Music: Anxiety by Doechii
“For me, perfectionism goes hand in hand with expertise…
the bitter couple whispering in my brain.”
The book’s available online everywhere, but bookshop.org > billionaires.
#writing #queer
Music: Anxiety by Doechii
I’m closing chapters without the fear I used to carry.
And the essay I wrote two years ago—Permission to Be—was finally published in Avoided No More last week.
Let the chapter close. You’re still becoming who you need to be. Link in bio.
#AvoidedNoMore #PermissionToBe #QueerWriter
And the essay I wrote two years ago—Permission to Be—was finally published in Avoided No More last week.
Let the chapter close. You’re still becoming who you need to be. Link in bio.
#AvoidedNoMore #PermissionToBe #QueerWriter
November 28, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I’m closing chapters without the fear I used to carry.
And the essay I wrote two years ago—Permission to Be—was finally published in Avoided No More last week.
Let the chapter close. You’re still becoming who you need to be. Link in bio.
#AvoidedNoMore #PermissionToBe #QueerWriter
And the essay I wrote two years ago—Permission to Be—was finally published in Avoided No More last week.
Let the chapter close. You’re still becoming who you need to be. Link in bio.
#AvoidedNoMore #PermissionToBe #QueerWriter
I’m learning to say things without shrinking after years of softening myself to keep the peace.
My essay Permission to Be is part of Avoided No More — 14 writers sharing truths we once avoided. Out 11.20.2025 (TOMORROW)
I stopped gaslighting my own knowing.
#PermissionToBe #AvoidedNo
My essay Permission to Be is part of Avoided No More — 14 writers sharing truths we once avoided. Out 11.20.2025 (TOMORROW)
I stopped gaslighting my own knowing.
#PermissionToBe #AvoidedNo
November 19, 2025 at 3:24 PM
I’m learning to say things without shrinking after years of softening myself to keep the peace.
My essay Permission to Be is part of Avoided No More — 14 writers sharing truths we once avoided. Out 11.20.2025 (TOMORROW)
I stopped gaslighting my own knowing.
#PermissionToBe #AvoidedNo
My essay Permission to Be is part of Avoided No More — 14 writers sharing truths we once avoided. Out 11.20.2025 (TOMORROW)
I stopped gaslighting my own knowing.
#PermissionToBe #AvoidedNo
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Today was Day Two of Customs and Border Patrol’s Charlotte Operation. Members of our Safe to Work community patrols hit the streets early this morning and observed federal agents preparing to spend their day questioning grocery shoppers.
November 17, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Today was Day Two of Customs and Border Patrol’s Charlotte Operation. Members of our Safe to Work community patrols hit the streets early this morning and observed federal agents preparing to spend their day questioning grocery shoppers.
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CLT, these guys are CBP agents, active in abductions along N Tryon this morning.
Saw them myself, was confirmed by other trained volunteers as well.
Saw them myself, was confirmed by other trained volunteers as well.
November 17, 2025 at 4:29 PM
CLT, these guys are CBP agents, active in abductions along N Tryon this morning.
Saw them myself, was confirmed by other trained volunteers as well.
Saw them myself, was confirmed by other trained volunteers as well.
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What we know now about CBP in CLT:
CBP Mobilizing in Charlotte, Protest Planned | Queen City Nerve
Sheriff Garry McFadden confirmed Thursday that CBP has informed him that agents will begin arriving in Charlotte as early as this weekend.
qcnerve.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:23 PM
What we know now about CBP in CLT:
“My essay Permission to Be — my coming-out story — is being published this month in, Avoided No More.
It’s about learning you don’t need permission to be who you already are. 💛
open.substack.com/pub/beckaepp...
#PermissionToBe #AvoidedNoMore #ComingOutStory #LateInLifeLesbian #QueerVoices
It’s about learning you don’t need permission to be who you already are. 💛
open.substack.com/pub/beckaepp...
#PermissionToBe #AvoidedNoMore #ComingOutStory #LateInLifeLesbian #QueerVoices
November 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
“My essay Permission to Be — my coming-out story — is being published this month in, Avoided No More.
It’s about learning you don’t need permission to be who you already are. 💛
open.substack.com/pub/beckaepp...
#PermissionToBe #AvoidedNoMore #ComingOutStory #LateInLifeLesbian #QueerVoices
It’s about learning you don’t need permission to be who you already are. 💛
open.substack.com/pub/beckaepp...
#PermissionToBe #AvoidedNoMore #ComingOutStory #LateInLifeLesbian #QueerVoices
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As expected, most schools receiving @GovBillLee’s private school voucher taxpayer handouts have shady testing & transparency, and “patchwork” curriculums “largely based in Christianity”
(Betsy Devos openly admitted “advancing God’s kingdom” is the goal) nashvillebanner.com/2025/11/10/t...
(Betsy Devos openly admitted “advancing God’s kingdom” is the goal) nashvillebanner.com/2025/11/10/t...
November 11, 2025 at 3:17 PM
As expected, most schools receiving @GovBillLee’s private school voucher taxpayer handouts have shady testing & transparency, and “patchwork” curriculums “largely based in Christianity”
(Betsy Devos openly admitted “advancing God’s kingdom” is the goal) nashvillebanner.com/2025/11/10/t...
(Betsy Devos openly admitted “advancing God’s kingdom” is the goal) nashvillebanner.com/2025/11/10/t...
@joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social …. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Watch the full clip here: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMpomrF6/
#zohran #zohranmamdani
Watch the full clip here: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMpomrF6/
#zohran #zohranmamdani
November 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
@joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social …. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Watch the full clip here: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMpomrF6/
#zohran #zohranmamdani
Watch the full clip here: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMpomrF6/
#zohran #zohranmamdani
“The Least of These” Were Never Someone Else.
Maybe the poor aren’t “always with us.” Maybe we just keep building systems that make it so.
The real work isn’t saving anyone — it’s remembering proximity makes us human.
open.substack.com/pub/beckaepp...
#Deconstruction #Community #Writing #SNAP
Maybe the poor aren’t “always with us.” Maybe we just keep building systems that make it so.
The real work isn’t saving anyone — it’s remembering proximity makes us human.
open.substack.com/pub/beckaepp...
#Deconstruction #Community #Writing #SNAP
November 5, 2025 at 5:37 PM
“The Least of These” Were Never Someone Else.
Maybe the poor aren’t “always with us.” Maybe we just keep building systems that make it so.
The real work isn’t saving anyone — it’s remembering proximity makes us human.
open.substack.com/pub/beckaepp...
#Deconstruction #Community #Writing #SNAP
Maybe the poor aren’t “always with us.” Maybe we just keep building systems that make it so.
The real work isn’t saving anyone — it’s remembering proximity makes us human.
open.substack.com/pub/beckaepp...
#Deconstruction #Community #Writing #SNAP
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Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, NC is offering $50 in free SNAP tokens to Charlotte EBT card holders at three area farmer's markets.
October 28, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, NC is offering $50 in free SNAP tokens to Charlotte EBT card holders at three area farmer's markets.
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Trans activist and Stonewall veteran Miss Major Griffin-Gracy has died aged 78.
Read more: https://bit.ly/4q7d0nX
Read more: https://bit.ly/4q7d0nX
October 15, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Trans activist and Stonewall veteran Miss Major Griffin-Gracy has died aged 78.
Read more: https://bit.ly/4q7d0nX
Read more: https://bit.ly/4q7d0nX
Pondering how we let others define who we are and the power we give them to invalidate emotions that we experience.
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Music Love, peace and happiness by Goltare MC
#overreacting #dontgiveyourpoweraway #youremotionsarevalid #queer #wlw
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Music Love, peace and happiness by Goltare MC
#overreacting #dontgiveyourpoweraway #youremotionsarevalid #queer #wlw
October 13, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Pondering how we let others define who we are and the power we give them to invalidate emotions that we experience.
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Music Love, peace and happiness by Goltare MC
#overreacting #dontgiveyourpoweraway #youremotionsarevalid #queer #wlw
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Music Love, peace and happiness by Goltare MC
#overreacting #dontgiveyourpoweraway #youremotionsarevalid #queer #wlw
I wrote this earlier this year—when the world already felt like it was breaking.
Now, those cracks have widened.
Maybe “not knowing where to start” is exactly where we begin.
Full essay: Not Knowing Where to Start - link in bio.
#BeckaEppley #AMileDeep #RadicalHope #GriefAndGrace #EmpireIsFalling
Now, those cracks have widened.
Maybe “not knowing where to start” is exactly where we begin.
Full essay: Not Knowing Where to Start - link in bio.
#BeckaEppley #AMileDeep #RadicalHope #GriefAndGrace #EmpireIsFalling
October 13, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I wrote this earlier this year—when the world already felt like it was breaking.
Now, those cracks have widened.
Maybe “not knowing where to start” is exactly where we begin.
Full essay: Not Knowing Where to Start - link in bio.
#BeckaEppley #AMileDeep #RadicalHope #GriefAndGrace #EmpireIsFalling
Now, those cracks have widened.
Maybe “not knowing where to start” is exactly where we begin.
Full essay: Not Knowing Where to Start - link in bio.
#BeckaEppley #AMileDeep #RadicalHope #GriefAndGrace #EmpireIsFalling
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The Global Sumud Flotilla says its fleet of over 50 ships has entered the ‘high-risk zone.’
Gaza Sumud flotilla: How Israel breaks international maritime law
The Global Sumud Flotilla says its fleet of over 50 ships has entered the ‘high-risk zone.’
bit.ly
October 1, 2025 at 3:30 AM
The Global Sumud Flotilla says its fleet of over 50 ships has entered the ‘high-risk zone.’
The magic I was taught to fear was never outside of me. It was my connection, my power, my hope.
✨ New writing on faith, survival, and reclaiming magic.
What power were you told to hide?
🔗 Read more link in bio
#Exvangelical #SpiritualHealing #ReclaimingMagic #BreakingCycles #InnerPower
✨ New writing on faith, survival, and reclaiming magic.
What power were you told to hide?
🔗 Read more link in bio
#Exvangelical #SpiritualHealing #ReclaimingMagic #BreakingCycles #InnerPower
September 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The magic I was taught to fear was never outside of me. It was my connection, my power, my hope.
✨ New writing on faith, survival, and reclaiming magic.
What power were you told to hide?
🔗 Read more link in bio
#Exvangelical #SpiritualHealing #ReclaimingMagic #BreakingCycles #InnerPower
✨ New writing on faith, survival, and reclaiming magic.
What power were you told to hide?
🔗 Read more link in bio
#Exvangelical #SpiritualHealing #ReclaimingMagic #BreakingCycles #InnerPower
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The President of Slovenia at the United Nations 🇺🇳
September 25, 2025 at 7:35 AM
The President of Slovenia at the United Nations 🇺🇳
Realizing that faith does not sustain your hope, but the dissipation of that faith can create the clearing to see the hope has always been inside of you.
Music: poetry of things - pinegroove
#rapture #rapture2025 #wakingup #queerauthor #wlw #queerstories #lesbian #wlw #queerwriters #exvangelical
Music: poetry of things - pinegroove
#rapture #rapture2025 #wakingup #queerauthor #wlw #queerstories #lesbian #wlw #queerwriters #exvangelical
September 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Realizing that faith does not sustain your hope, but the dissipation of that faith can create the clearing to see the hope has always been inside of you.
Music: poetry of things - pinegroove
#rapture #rapture2025 #wakingup #queerauthor #wlw #queerstories #lesbian #wlw #queerwriters #exvangelical
Music: poetry of things - pinegroove
#rapture #rapture2025 #wakingup #queerauthor #wlw #queerstories #lesbian #wlw #queerwriters #exvangelical
Grateful that I get to be out now as a lesbian, even though my journey took 40+ years.
#comphet #wlw #lesbiansofinstagram #wuhluhwuh #lateinlifelesbian🏳️🌈 #conversiontherepy #queer #lesbiansover40 #faithdeconstruction #exvangelical
#comphet #wlw #lesbiansofinstagram #wuhluhwuh #lateinlifelesbian🏳️🌈 #conversiontherepy #queer #lesbiansover40 #faithdeconstruction #exvangelical
September 19, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Grateful that I get to be out now as a lesbian, even though my journey took 40+ years.
#comphet #wlw #lesbiansofinstagram #wuhluhwuh #lateinlifelesbian🏳️🌈 #conversiontherepy #queer #lesbiansover40 #faithdeconstruction #exvangelical
#comphet #wlw #lesbiansofinstagram #wuhluhwuh #lateinlifelesbian🏳️🌈 #conversiontherepy #queer #lesbiansover40 #faithdeconstruction #exvangelical
Rage burns fast. Hope is harder. But hope is the only thing that stays. ✨
New Substack → Hope Demands More Than Rage
🔗 Link in bio
#HopeDemandsMore #HealingJourney #RageToHope #realtalk #collectivepower
New Substack → Hope Demands More Than Rage
🔗 Link in bio
#HopeDemandsMore #HealingJourney #RageToHope #realtalk #collectivepower
September 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Rage burns fast. Hope is harder. But hope is the only thing that stays. ✨
New Substack → Hope Demands More Than Rage
🔗 Link in bio
#HopeDemandsMore #HealingJourney #RageToHope #realtalk #collectivepower
New Substack → Hope Demands More Than Rage
🔗 Link in bio
#HopeDemandsMore #HealingJourney #RageToHope #realtalk #collectivepower
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