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Cassandra Whitaker
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Poet, Writer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (She/they/Mx). NBCC, full length out in 25 with Jackleg Press. https://wolfs-den.page/

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rvtrousdale.bsky.social
This review is worth your time, and the book it's reviewing is really, really worth your time.
November 11, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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willfries.bsky.social
Another: www.delmarvanow.com/story/news/l...
Salisbury's rainbow crosswalk draws a devoted defender before repainting this week
The repainting of Salisbury’s rainbow crosswalks beginning this week has garnered a lot of attention and one devoted defender: K.T. Tuminello.
www.delmarvanow.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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willfries.bsky.social
www.baltimoresun.com/2025/11/10/a...
Plan to remove Salisbury rainbow crosswalk sparks backlash, confusion
Advocate KT Tuminello began a hunger strike in downtown Salisbury to protest the city’s plan to replace Maryland’s first Pride crosswalk.
www.baltimoresun.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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erinbiba.bsky.social
TIL that blood platelets have serotonin receptors, which is why anemia can mimic depression symptoms and that is absolutely fucking fascinating.
November 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
casswhit.bsky.social
Someone is currently camping out in the crosswalk or at the crosswalks to prevent the city in their efforts....folx are heading to the city council meeting tonight
willfries.bsky.social Will Fries @willfries.bsky.social · 2d
Salisbury Mayor Randy Taylor labeled a ‘bigot’ by community members after announcing plans to remove the city’s rainbow crosswalk, drawing widespread backlash and raising questions about media ethics and corruption. Full story: willfries.substack.com/p/mayor-rand...
Mayor Declared Bigot, Harmful For Plans to Remove Rainbow Crosswalk
Randy Taylor's Actions Draw Accusations of Bigotry and Media Corruption
willfries.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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willfries.bsky.social
Salisbury Mayor Randy Taylor labeled a ‘bigot’ by community members after announcing plans to remove the city’s rainbow crosswalk, drawing widespread backlash and raising questions about media ethics and corruption. Full story: willfries.substack.com/p/mayor-rand...
Mayor Declared Bigot, Harmful For Plans to Remove Rainbow Crosswalk
Randy Taylor's Actions Draw Accusations of Bigotry and Media Corruption
willfries.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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sethcotlar.bsky.social
"Obergefell is settled law" is to the 2028 election what "Roe is settled law" was to the 2016 election. Roe and Obergefell are supported by a majority of voters. Republicans will try hard to convince independents that Obergefell is safe, nothing to see here...just as they did with Roe in 2016 & 20.
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d
Breaking News: The Supreme Court denied a request to consider overturning its landmark decision to legalize same-sex marriage a decade ago. nyti.ms/3Ju2Ayd
November 10, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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susanrinkunas.com
The Supreme Court not taking Kim Davis’ crackpot appeal doesn’t “indicate” a lack of appetite to overturn Obergefell—just that this was a ridiculous legal argument. Pathetic framing here by the Washington Post. There is absolutely a ticking clock on marriage equality. DO NOT CONGRATULATE
Courts & Law Supreme Court won't hear challenge to landmark gay marriage ruling The announcement indicates there is not an appetite among the high court's conservative majority to revisit one of the court's most significant decisions in recent years. Today at 9:42 a.m. CT
November 10, 2025 at 6:11 PM
casswhit.bsky.social
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Supreme Court rejects call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide
The Supreme Court has rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
apnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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amsterdamreview.bsky.social
"If / I were there I too would be nothing / But inside my body is a bearing were / One to arise."

A poem by 𝗦𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘀 𝗗𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘆 @seanthomasd.bsky.social in the Fall 2025 issue

bit.ly/AmsterdamReview

#poetry #poetrycommunity
GS with lines from Alejandra Pizarnik's Paths of the Mirror and a Distant Autumn Something from the blood the way Y Or X shapes and shifts as if above The body is a cartography for all Who is not other. Who will be the one to Turn away or be the one to look And bear witness for the body on The ground, torn apart—​inocencia
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
casswhit.bsky.social
Salisbury MD had the states first 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 crosswalk and the mayor is repaving them, Will Fries covers the fallout since the city's announcement on Facebook. Following the hate crime last year the city keeps regressing.
open.substack.com/pub/willfrie...
Mayor Declared Bigot, Harmful For Plans to Remove Rainbow Crosswalk
Randy Taylor's Actions Draw Accusations of Bigotry and Media Corruption
open.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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gbbranstetter.bsky.social
'If the government can enforce rules based on the 'historical fact' of our sex assigned at birth without offending equal protection principles, then what does that mean for the conditions of our lives in the present?" @chasestrangio.bsky.social
Elusive Discrimination
The Supreme Court's continued unwillingness to vindicate trans rights.
open.substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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adrianf.bsky.social
Two new micro poems in @havehashad.com today!

The first one is a true story of when the Dr. left open our medical file on the screen...
havehashad.com HAD @havehashad.com · 2d
two new little micro #littlepoemsunday poems today from Adrian Dallas Frandle!

https://www.havehashad.com/rmxas
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November 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
This is a lie. All 31 Moms for Liberty candidates in contested races lost their 2025 elections. The only "wins" were in uncontested races. Apparently, being hypocritical, book-banning scolds isn't so popular.
November 9, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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leemandelo.bsky.social
Definitely ‘Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity’ from @erewhonbooks.bsky.social! Editing this project was such a powerful joy, especially right now, and I’m honored by all the amazing writers & translators who contributed and entrusted me with their stories.

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November 9, 2025 at 3:41 PM
casswhit.bsky.social
Fabulous!
November 9, 2025 at 2:22 PM
casswhit.bsky.social
I somehow missed these when they came out! So grateful to be included! And with so many poets I admire! My apologies Many thanks to Screen Door Review

www.screendoorreview.com/the-wolf-ret...
www.screendoorreview.com/two-getting-...
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The Wolf Returned Me To The Interior. I Know The Well
Cassandra Whitaker (she/they) is a trans writer living in rural Virginia. Whit’s work has been published in Michigan Quarterly Review, havehashad, Conjunctions, The Mississippi Review, and ot…
www.screendoorreview.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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gbbranstetter.bsky.social
I'm in @thenation.com this morning on the repeated failure of transphobia as political strategy, efforts to scapegoat trans people for Democrats' own failures, and Zohran Mamdani's model of solidarity
For any politician facing them, there are two ways of handling these attacks: by promising to care less about trans people or by promising to care more about everyone. If you are not responsive to the needs and interests of a broad coalition of working people, you can be more easily caricatured as dedicated to the interests of some nefarious (and often racialized) other. But if you do have a compelling vision for how to improve all people’s lives, the fact that not all of those people are the same carries less weight. It is true that many Americans would rather starve than share a table with someone they view as less deserving or too deviant from their own experience. But it’s especially true if all that’s on the menu is scraps.
November 7, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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katelynburns.com
"without subjecting anyone to differential treatment."

This is flatly false! Trans people with a passport that does not match with their plain appearance when presented to a border agent is subject to additional hassle compared to a cis person presenting a passport.
mjsdc.bsky.social Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 5d
NEW: On the shadow docket, the Supreme Court lets Trump resume misgendering trans Americans on their passports, claiming "the government is merely attesting to a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential treatment." All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
This case concerns an Executive Branch policy requiring all new passports to display an individual’s biological sex at birth. The United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts preliminarily enjoined the Government from enforcing the policy, and the First Circuit declined to stay the injunction pending appeal. The Government then filed this stay application. Applying our familiar stay fac- tors at this preliminary stage, we grant the application. Displaying passport holders’ sex at birth no more offends equal protection principles than displaying their country of birth—in both cases, the Government is merely attesting to a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential treatment. And on this record, respondents have failed to establish that the Government’s choice to display biological sex “lack[s] any purpose other than a bare . . . desire to harm a politically unpopular group.” Trump v. Hawaii, 585 U. S. 667, 705 (2018) (internal quotation marks omitted). Nor are respondents likely to prevail in arguing that the State Department acted arbitrarily and capriciously by de- clining to depart from Presidential rules that Congress ex- pressly required it to follow. See 22 U. S. C. §211a.
November 6, 2025 at 8:47 PM
casswhit.bsky.social
Sad face... www.thewrap.com/glaad-where-...
Nearly Half of All LGBTQ+ Characters Will Disappear From TV Next Season, GLAAD Study Finds
The 2024-25 TV season recorded 489 queer characters across broadcast, cable and screenings, but cancellations and plot find a deep decline to come
www.thewrap.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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polgreen.bsky.social
I am taking particular pleasure in the complete collapse of trans-as-unbeatable-wedge-issue narrative this morning. It might be an 80-20 issue in voters minds, but it has to be on voters minds to matter. The results in VA demonstrate that it is very much not on voters minds.
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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mississippifreepress.org
After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats have broken the Republican Party’s supermajority in the Mississippi Senate.

Democrats flipped two GOP-held Senate seats and one House seat in the special elections.
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Mississippi Democrats Break Republican Senate Supermajority, Flipping 3 Legislative Seats
After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats broke the Republican Party's supermajority in the Mississippi Senate, flipping 3 legislative seats.
www.mississippifreepress.org
November 5, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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abigailspanberger.com
Democrats, Republicans, Independents — all of us — because that embodies the message we sent tonight, and that is Virginia.

Let’s put Virginia on a path forward. Let's show the world what we're made of. Let's get to work.
November 5, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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gbbranstetter.bsky.social
“I have not found one single instance of a straight person risking, helping, protecting a queer and trans person during this history. Not a single one. And that’s a hard pill to swallow"
19thnews.org/2025/10/lgbt...
Holocaust history shows LGBTQ+ people have always been their own heroes
Queer historians are using LGBTQ+ History Month to reflect on the often forgotten but powerful resistance against the Nazis.
19thnews.org
November 4, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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esqueer.net
Every single time, it's a collection of people so bigoted that everyone in their life no longer wanted to be associated with them. Their partners left them, their friends stopped talking to them, their bigoted harassment gets them booted from social media. These are not good people.
Alt text: Series of screenshots from a Wall Street Journal article discussing internal tensions within the LGBTQ+ community over gender identity and activism. The first section describes a man named Arango rejecting gender identity after reading queer theory, losing his boyfriend and friends as a result, and feeling alienated from the LGBTQ+ community. The next section quotes Ann Menasche, a 72-year-old civil rights lawyer, criticizing gender ideology for erasing the concept of sexual orientation; it notes she was fired from her job in 2022 after objecting to removing the word “women” from a statement and later filed a lawsuit. The following section, titled “Out of the closet,” introduces Nevlene Nnaji, a 35-year-old artist who blogs under the name N3VLYNNN, describing her rejection of gender ideology, loss of friendships, and frustration with comparisons between transgender and racial oppression. The final section says that in 2023, Nnaji lost her Instagram account after expressing support for black lesbian detransitioners; Meta declined to comment but noted its hate-speech policy has since changed and restrictions were lifted on some topics in January. Alt text: Series of screenshots from a Wall Street Journal article discussing internal tensions within the LGBTQ+ community over gender identity and activism. The first section describes a man named Arango rejecting gender identity after reading queer theory, losing his boyfriend and friends as a result, and feeling alienated from the LGBTQ+ community. The next section quotes Ann Menasche, a 72-year-old civil rights lawyer, criticizing gender ideology for erasing the concept of sexual orientation; it notes she was fired from her job in 2022 after objecting to removing the word “women” from a statement and later filed a lawsuit. The following section, titled “Out of the closet,” introduces Nevlene Nnaji, a 35-year-old artist who blogs under the name N3VLYNNN, describing her rejection of gender ideology, loss of friendships, and frustration with comparisons between transgender and racial oppression. The final section says that in 2023, Nnaji lost her Instagram account after expressing support for black lesbian detransitioners; Meta declined to comment but noted its hate-speech policy has since changed and restrictions were lifted on some topics in January. Alt text: Series of screenshots from a Wall Street Journal article discussing internal tensions within the LGBTQ+ community over gender identity and activism. The first section describes a man named Arango rejecting gender identity after reading queer theory, losing his boyfriend and friends as a result, and feeling alienated from the LGBTQ+ community. The next section quotes Ann Menasche, a 72-year-old civil rights lawyer, criticizing gender ideology for erasing the concept of sexual orientation; it notes she was fired from her job in 2022 after objecting to removing the word “women” from a statement and later filed a lawsuit. The following section, titled “Out of the closet,” introduces Nevlene Nnaji, a 35-year-old artist who blogs under the name N3VLYNNN, describing her rejection of gender ideology, loss of friendships, and frustration with comparisons between transgender and racial oppression. The final section says that in 2023, Nnaji lost her Instagram account after expressing support for black lesbian detransitioners; Meta declined to comment but noted its hate-speech policy has since changed and restrictions were lifted on some topics in January. Alt text: Series of screenshots from a Wall Street Journal article discussing internal tensions within the LGBTQ+ community over gender identity and activism. The first section describes a man named Arango rejecting gender identity after reading queer theory, losing his boyfriend and friends as a result, and feeling alienated from the LGBTQ+ community. The next section quotes Ann Menasche, a 72-year-old civil rights lawyer, criticizing gender ideology for erasing the concept of sexual orientation; it notes she was fired from her job in 2022 after objecting to removing the word “women” from a statement and later filed a lawsuit. The following section, titled “Out of the closet,” introduces Nevlene Nnaji, a 35-year-old artist who blogs under the name N3VLYNNN, describing her rejection of gender ideology, loss of friendships, and frustration with comparisons between transgender and racial oppression. The final section says that in 2023, Nnaji lost her Instagram account after expressing support for black lesbian detransitioners; Meta declined to comment but noted its hate-speech policy has since changed and restrictions were lifted on some topics in January.
November 2, 2025 at 2:18 PM