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emma, she/her. detrans NB lesbian, transfeminist. writing about detransition for trans liberation, bodily autonomy, and informed consent.
co-host of @crackedivorypod.bsky.social
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fiction: @mzakharuk.bsky.social
co-host of @crackedivorypod.bsky.social
links: dolphindiaries.carrd.co
fiction: @mzakharuk.bsky.social
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An autobiographical essay about anti-trans child conversion therapy and the place of queer children under patriarchy.
open.substack.com/pub/dolphind...
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Due to being a refugee, I only get invited to interviews for menial and service jobs. Because of my disability, I can't work those. I live on modest and sporadic freelance earnings and can't afford surgical expenses. Please help if you can 🙏
#HelpSky #MutualAid
gofund.me/25003d6e4
#HelpSky #MutualAid
gofund.me/25003d6e4
Donate to Help Emma Get Gender-Affirming Surgery, organized by Em Zakharuk
UPD: Thanks to your generosity, I've been able to book a surgery date. Please help … Em Zakharuk needs your support for Help Emma Get Gender-Affirming Surgery
gofund.me
November 11, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Due to being a refugee, I only get invited to interviews for menial and service jobs. Because of my disability, I can't work those. I live on modest and sporadic freelance earnings and can't afford surgical expenses. Please help if you can 🙏
#HelpSky #MutualAid
gofund.me/25003d6e4
#HelpSky #MutualAid
gofund.me/25003d6e4
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I want to put this into perspective for one second I am a 22 year old little girl. I don’t care what I write. Strong arming me blackshirts style is wildly inappropriate.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZThLkWEsg/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZThLkWEsg/
January 7, 2026 at 6:39 PM
I want to put this into perspective for one second I am a 22 year old little girl. I don’t care what I write. Strong arming me blackshirts style is wildly inappropriate.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZThLkWEsg/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZThLkWEsg/
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Hop on their patreon for an interview with the Maria Ying team!
Early access!
Emma and Talia bring you an interview with one-third of bestselling author Maria Ying, about lesbian futurism, not-so-feminist Greek myth retellings, and how the past is a foreign country (so you can be orientalist about it)! 'The Persephone Effect' is out this January!
Emma and Talia bring you an interview with one-third of bestselling author Maria Ying, about lesbian futurism, not-so-feminist Greek myth retellings, and how the past is a foreign country (so you can be orientalist about it)! 'The Persephone Effect' is out this January!
Spotlight: Interview with Maria Ying, Author of "The Hades Calculus" | Cracked Ivory
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January 8, 2026 at 1:23 PM
Hop on their patreon for an interview with the Maria Ying team!
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ICYMI
For my newsletter this morning, I called for a ban on Grok after X, the child porn app formerly known as Twitter, started removing the clothes of women and girls in photos posted on the site. www.burnsnotice.com/grok-the-chi...
Grok, the Child Porn Generator, Should Be Illegal
X, the child porn company formerly known as Twitter, is now removing the clothes of women and children with photos on the site on behalf of its users.
I first joined Twitter in December 2015. Deeply ...
www.burnsnotice.com
January 8, 2026 at 12:43 PM
ICYMI
The competition is steep, but I think modern border enforcement is the greatest evil of our time. Nothing reinforces wealth inequality, international AND domestic labour exploitation more, while also not being popularly contested in any meaningful way
January 8, 2026 at 12:36 PM
The competition is steep, but I think modern border enforcement is the greatest evil of our time. Nothing reinforces wealth inequality, international AND domestic labour exploitation more, while also not being popularly contested in any meaningful way
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Big thanks to @callistokhan.bsky.social for coming onto our podcast, and to @benjanun.bsky.social & @devi.bsky.social for writing in!
Early access!
Emma and Talia bring you an interview with one-third of bestselling author Maria Ying, about lesbian futurism, not-so-feminist Greek myth retellings, and how the past is a foreign country (so you can be orientalist about it)! 'The Persephone Effect' is out this January!
Emma and Talia bring you an interview with one-third of bestselling author Maria Ying, about lesbian futurism, not-so-feminist Greek myth retellings, and how the past is a foreign country (so you can be orientalist about it)! 'The Persephone Effect' is out this January!
Spotlight: Interview with Maria Ying, Author of "The Hades Calculus" | Cracked Ivory
Get more from Cracked Ivory on Patreon
www.patreon.com
January 8, 2026 at 12:25 PM
Big thanks to @callistokhan.bsky.social for coming onto our podcast, and to @benjanun.bsky.social & @devi.bsky.social for writing in!
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cis women are equally as """male socialised""" as trans women because we're all socialised as "women are quiet and obedient and men are loud and get what they want". the patriarchy does not, indeed,want young girls to grow up feminist anymore than young boys
January 8, 2026 at 8:48 AM
cis women are equally as """male socialised""" as trans women because we're all socialised as "women are quiet and obedient and men are loud and get what they want". the patriarchy does not, indeed,want young girls to grow up feminist anymore than young boys
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I recommend submitting a complaint.
January 7, 2026 at 3:18 PM
I recommend submitting a complaint.
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Please donate to or share my GFM if you're able - bsky.app/profile/mzak...
Due to being a refugee, I only get invited to interviews for menial and service jobs. Because of my disability, I can't work those. I live on modest and sporadic freelance earnings and can't afford surgical expenses. Please help if you can 🙏
#HelpSky #MutualAid
gofund.me/25003d6e4
#HelpSky #MutualAid
gofund.me/25003d6e4
Donate to Help Emma Get Gender-Affirming Surgery, organized by Em Zakharuk
UPD: Thanks to your generosity, I've been able to book a surgery date. Please help … Em Zakharuk needs your support for Help Emma Get Gender-Affirming Surgery
gofund.me
December 16, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Please donate to or share my GFM if you're able - bsky.app/profile/mzak...
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We kind of forget how many modern recreational activities and lifestyles and such are actually the middle-class modernized versions of whatever shit that the upper class of 1860-1910s UK and US basically playtested, often with a LARP element like romanticizing rural life and activities.
January 7, 2026 at 1:05 PM
We kind of forget how many modern recreational activities and lifestyles and such are actually the middle-class modernized versions of whatever shit that the upper class of 1860-1910s UK and US basically playtested, often with a LARP element like romanticizing rural life and activities.
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Learning that modern culture of camping and road trips in RVs is born out of what essentially amounts to a massive cultural appropriation of romanticized Romani culture by the Victorian British upper class who were LARPing as "caravan nomads". Like, I was ignorant, but also why am I not surprised?
January 7, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Learning that modern culture of camping and road trips in RVs is born out of what essentially amounts to a massive cultural appropriation of romanticized Romani culture by the Victorian British upper class who were LARPing as "caravan nomads". Like, I was ignorant, but also why am I not surprised?
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It’s honestly pretty telling that two trans women who took opposite positions were harassed off this site. It doesn’t really matter if you’re right or wrong, people just want to abuse us.
January 7, 2026 at 11:54 AM
It’s honestly pretty telling that two trans women who took opposite positions were harassed off this site. It doesn’t really matter if you’re right or wrong, people just want to abuse us.
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be normal about trans women challenge: eldritch incomprehensibility
be normal about ana valens challenge: impossible
January 7, 2026 at 11:10 AM
be normal about trans women challenge: eldritch incomprehensibility
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Feminist theory that (sexualised) violence against women and minors is a (if not THE) central medium of subjectivation and socialization in heteronormative capitalist societies, and keeps this shitshow running is still undefeated.
Regrettably, I have been writing about explicit deepfakes on and off for the last half decade, and public nature, openness and scale of what is happening on X with Grok is off the charts.
At the same time, Grok is claiming a surge in app downloads in multiple countries around the world
At the same time, Grok is claiming a surge in app downloads in multiple countries around the world
January 7, 2026 at 9:29 AM
Feminist theory that (sexualised) violence against women and minors is a (if not THE) central medium of subjectivation and socialization in heteronormative capitalist societies, and keeps this shitshow running is still undefeated.
I recently had to buy a new laptop as my old one gave up its ghost. I chose one that heavily markets Copilot--but I chose it based on specs and price, and then proceeded to run a script that deleted/disabled every single Windows AI feature (frees up a few gigs btw so I recommend it)
DELL EXEC: Consumers are “not buying based on AI. In fact I think AI probably confuses them more than it helps them understand a specific outcome."
@pcgamer.com #CES
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/del...
@pcgamer.com #CES
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/del...
Dell seems to be the first to realise we don't actually care about AI PCs
"What we've learned over the course of this year, from a consumer perspective, is they're not buying based on AI."
www.pcgamer.com
January 7, 2026 at 10:25 AM
I recently had to buy a new laptop as my old one gave up its ghost. I chose one that heavily markets Copilot--but I chose it based on specs and price, and then proceeded to run a script that deleted/disabled every single Windows AI feature (frees up a few gigs btw so I recommend it)
IMO a lot of ppl don't realise they are primed to see anything even remotely annoying/abrasive from a marginalised person as a Terrible Infraction from Who-Does-She-Think-She-Is
It's not how you treat marginalised ppl you think are great--it's how you treat the ones you think are wrong or bad
It's not how you treat marginalised ppl you think are great--it's how you treat the ones you think are wrong or bad
i know this has been said before so truly i am just screaming into the void here, but you know… every time some trans woman says something ill-advised and gets run off a website people will go “hmmm, maybe we need to rethink how we handle situations like this” only to not take any of the suggestions
January 7, 2026 at 10:18 AM
IMO a lot of ppl don't realise they are primed to see anything even remotely annoying/abrasive from a marginalised person as a Terrible Infraction from Who-Does-She-Think-She-Is
It's not how you treat marginalised ppl you think are great--it's how you treat the ones you think are wrong or bad
It's not how you treat marginalised ppl you think are great--it's how you treat the ones you think are wrong or bad
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It's so quaint how in the 90s we worried that kids were gonna get fucked up by tamagotchis and now they're just giving every kid a free robot that generates child porn and tells you how to commit suicide
January 7, 2026 at 8:55 AM
It's so quaint how in the 90s we worried that kids were gonna get fucked up by tamagotchis and now they're just giving every kid a free robot that generates child porn and tells you how to commit suicide
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Once you finally begin to recognize us first and foremost as women, this is really all you need to understand about us.
This understanding of why, precisely, the global reactionary wave is so fixated on trans people and trans womanhood particularly, is incredibly lacking amongst even many feminist commentators. Trans women are being made the face of a worldwide right-wing "common enemy" to retrench Nationalism.
January 5, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Once you finally begin to recognize us first and foremost as women, this is really all you need to understand about us.
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Can you sufficiently explain your principles, or are you afraid of confronting your ignorance?
January 5, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Can you sufficiently explain your principles, or are you afraid of confronting your ignorance?
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Together, these episodes are a thesis on why we must strive to actually comprehend our ideological opponents and interrogate the consistency of our own principles. The Nationalist and patriarchal view of society is endemic everywhere---are you certain you've sufficiently unpacked them?
January 5, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Together, these episodes are a thesis on why we must strive to actually comprehend our ideological opponents and interrogate the consistency of our own principles. The Nationalist and patriarchal view of society is endemic everywhere---are you certain you've sufficiently unpacked them?
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The Robinson episode, meanwhile, shows how the language of queer liberation and feminism can be perverted to these ends, and how the specter of transition as "medical mutilation" and patriarchal capitulation is advanced to further transmisogyny on putatively feminist grounds.
January 5, 2026 at 3:48 PM
The Robinson episode, meanwhile, shows how the language of queer liberation and feminism can be perverted to these ends, and how the specter of transition as "medical mutilation" and patriarchal capitulation is advanced to further transmisogyny on putatively feminist grounds.
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This understanding of why, precisely, the global reactionary wave is so fixated on trans people and trans womanhood particularly, is incredibly lacking amongst even many feminist commentators. Trans women are being made the face of a worldwide right-wing "common enemy" to retrench Nationalism.
January 5, 2026 at 3:46 PM
This understanding of why, precisely, the global reactionary wave is so fixated on trans people and trans womanhood particularly, is incredibly lacking amongst even many feminist commentators. Trans women are being made the face of a worldwide right-wing "common enemy" to retrench Nationalism.