Gwen Scarlet, the Maenad
@dreaminggynoid.bsky.social
Fat MILF Goddess
(She/They) poet/writer 𒀭 𒈹 🏴☠️🏳️⚧️👽
Trans Elder, Disabled, Mad Pride & Survivor Lit
Culture, History, Poli Sci CNF
Galaxy Black RPG
DIY, ethical anarchist, world liberation
autistic af
holy vessel of Inanna
https://linktr.ee/GwenScarlet
(She/They) poet/writer 𒀭 𒈹 🏴☠️🏳️⚧️👽
Trans Elder, Disabled, Mad Pride & Survivor Lit
Culture, History, Poli Sci CNF
Galaxy Black RPG
DIY, ethical anarchist, world liberation
autistic af
holy vessel of Inanna
https://linktr.ee/GwenScarlet
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the Ishtar Cycle - Dreaming Gynoid's Ko-fi Shop
The Ishtar Cycle is a transgressive and provocative work of transgender identity, sexuality, experience, and liberation. By turns, vulgar, mythical,...
ko-fi.com
My first poetry chapbook, an absolutely vulgar, filthy paen to self-sufficiency, self-advocacy, and trans liberation. Class struggle and sex work, the Ishtar Cycle, is now available from my ko-fi store.
Suitable for mature minds; heed the trigger warnings.
ko-fi.com/s/d8426915e9
Suitable for mature minds; heed the trigger warnings.
ko-fi.com/s/d8426915e9
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#OtD 6 Feb 1976 Native American activist Leonard Peltier was captured in Canada on the basis of fictitious affidavits generated by the FBI. He was extradited to the US, where he was imprisoned until 2025 for allegedly killing two FBI agents stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1061...
February 6, 2026 at 10:25 AM
#OtD 6 Feb 1976 Native American activist Leonard Peltier was captured in Canada on the basis of fictitious affidavits generated by the FBI. He was extradited to the US, where he was imprisoned until 2025 for allegedly killing two FBI agents stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1061...
Lately I keep getting drawn back to this, a personal favorite of my early pieces, from Vulcanalia 21 by Lupercalia Press (we miss you!)
We have always been shapeshifters
We have always been shapeshifters
February 6, 2026 at 1:03 AM
Lately I keep getting drawn back to this, a personal favorite of my early pieces, from Vulcanalia 21 by Lupercalia Press (we miss you!)
We have always been shapeshifters
We have always been shapeshifters
This looks incredible.
Trans in the Machine: Chronicling the New Cyberpunk Canon on @BackerKit! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
Trans in the Machine: Chronicling the New Cyberpunk Canon on @BackerKit! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
Trans in the Machine: Chronicling the New Cyberpunk Canon
A first of its kind exploration of transness in cyberpunk. Putting Trans+ voices front and centre, this academic yet accessible book will feature interviews from dozens of creatives and media experts....
www.backerkit.com
February 3, 2026 at 4:32 PM
This looks incredible.
Trans in the Machine: Chronicling the New Cyberpunk Canon on @BackerKit! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
Trans in the Machine: Chronicling the New Cyberpunk Canon on @BackerKit! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
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Photo of Sir Lady Java and Redd Foxx protesting Rule No. 9 in Los Angeles, which prohibited trans people from working in entertainment venues (1967).
For more info about this item, please visit the DTA via the link in our story/bio. Image courtesy of Transas City.
#TransHistory #BlackHistoryMonth
For more info about this item, please visit the DTA via the link in our story/bio. Image courtesy of Transas City.
#TransHistory #BlackHistoryMonth
February 3, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Photo of Sir Lady Java and Redd Foxx protesting Rule No. 9 in Los Angeles, which prohibited trans people from working in entertainment venues (1967).
For more info about this item, please visit the DTA via the link in our story/bio. Image courtesy of Transas City.
#TransHistory #BlackHistoryMonth
For more info about this item, please visit the DTA via the link in our story/bio. Image courtesy of Transas City.
#TransHistory #BlackHistoryMonth
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Abuse culture is an ideology. It is not a mistake or a personal flaw. It is an intentional agenda repeatedly, deliberately carried out, especially by those in power. Even those who disagree on other fronts will often unite to preserve it.
Only inflicting consequences on a massive scale will stop it
Only inflicting consequences on a massive scale will stop it
February 1, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Abuse culture is an ideology. It is not a mistake or a personal flaw. It is an intentional agenda repeatedly, deliberately carried out, especially by those in power. Even those who disagree on other fronts will often unite to preserve it.
Only inflicting consequences on a massive scale will stop it
Only inflicting consequences on a massive scale will stop it
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Say what you want, but not worrying about money allows people to bloom and spread their wings. Especially artists or people with projects.
Poverty stunt and diminish us, it make us smaller, like tardigrades in their withered survival mode.
Some of us are stuck in that stunted mode for life.
Poverty stunt and diminish us, it make us smaller, like tardigrades in their withered survival mode.
Some of us are stuck in that stunted mode for life.
February 3, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Say what you want, but not worrying about money allows people to bloom and spread their wings. Especially artists or people with projects.
Poverty stunt and diminish us, it make us smaller, like tardigrades in their withered survival mode.
Some of us are stuck in that stunted mode for life.
Poverty stunt and diminish us, it make us smaller, like tardigrades in their withered survival mode.
Some of us are stuck in that stunted mode for life.
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You know, I thought about doing a follow up to this but really it would just be one line
“Insurance has decided that teeth are not medically necessary.”
From Flying the Jolly Scarlet, Gambling with the Gods, available in print and digital from kith books
www.kithbooks.com/shop/p/harper
“Insurance has decided that teeth are not medically necessary.”
From Flying the Jolly Scarlet, Gambling with the Gods, available in print and digital from kith books
www.kithbooks.com/shop/p/harper
January 31, 2026 at 2:15 PM
You know, I thought about doing a follow up to this but really it would just be one line
“Insurance has decided that teeth are not medically necessary.”
From Flying the Jolly Scarlet, Gambling with the Gods, available in print and digital from kith books
www.kithbooks.com/shop/p/harper
“Insurance has decided that teeth are not medically necessary.”
From Flying the Jolly Scarlet, Gambling with the Gods, available in print and digital from kith books
www.kithbooks.com/shop/p/harper
Writer Bitching
I _love_ it when rejections tell me to take a look at their magazine and get the right vibe or whatever...and I do, and it’s yet another “literary grab bag of random unremarkable subject matter”
What, mundanity?
You don’t HAVE a vibe or a concept.
Just say you don’t want it FFS
I _love_ it when rejections tell me to take a look at their magazine and get the right vibe or whatever...and I do, and it’s yet another “literary grab bag of random unremarkable subject matter”
What, mundanity?
You don’t HAVE a vibe or a concept.
Just say you don’t want it FFS
January 31, 2026 at 11:59 AM
Writer Bitching
I _love_ it when rejections tell me to take a look at their magazine and get the right vibe or whatever...and I do, and it’s yet another “literary grab bag of random unremarkable subject matter”
What, mundanity?
You don’t HAVE a vibe or a concept.
Just say you don’t want it FFS
I _love_ it when rejections tell me to take a look at their magazine and get the right vibe or whatever...and I do, and it’s yet another “literary grab bag of random unremarkable subject matter”
What, mundanity?
You don’t HAVE a vibe or a concept.
Just say you don’t want it FFS
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Don’t forget that Keith Porter was the first person ICE murdered this year for the crime of celebrating the new year.
Don’t forget a Black man was the first person murdered this year by ICE.
Say his name too.
Don’t forget a Black man was the first person murdered this year by ICE.
Say his name too.
January 26, 2026 at 10:37 PM
Don’t forget that Keith Porter was the first person ICE murdered this year for the crime of celebrating the new year.
Don’t forget a Black man was the first person murdered this year by ICE.
Say his name too.
Don’t forget a Black man was the first person murdered this year by ICE.
Say his name too.
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A father with a heart condition was kidnapped by ICE at McDonalds in MN. The family is asking for help with legal fees, bond requests, & rent assistance.
An ICE agent smirked at the son when he went to drop off the medicine for his father. We need to bring him back home ASAP.
gofund.me/6459cadb4
An ICE agent smirked at the son when he went to drop off the medicine for his father. We need to bring him back home ASAP.
gofund.me/6459cadb4
Donate to Help Reunite Viviana’s Family, organized by Viviana Alvarez Reyes
My name is Viviana , and I’m raising funds to help bring my dad home after he was … Viviana Alvarez Reyes needs your support for Help Reunite Viviana’s Family
gofund.me
January 30, 2026 at 2:09 PM
A father with a heart condition was kidnapped by ICE at McDonalds in MN. The family is asking for help with legal fees, bond requests, & rent assistance.
An ICE agent smirked at the son when he went to drop off the medicine for his father. We need to bring him back home ASAP.
gofund.me/6459cadb4
An ICE agent smirked at the son when he went to drop off the medicine for his father. We need to bring him back home ASAP.
gofund.me/6459cadb4
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NEW Nerve investigation reveals extent of Palantir's enmeshment in UK state operations
Peter Thiel's surveillance company has deals with government bodies amounting to at least £670m – inc. £15m contract with nuclear weapons agency
By @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Charlie Young & Max Colbert
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Peter Thiel's surveillance company has deals with government bodies amounting to at least £670m – inc. £15m contract with nuclear weapons agency
By @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Charlie Young & Max Colbert
🔗⏬
January 27, 2026 at 2:57 PM
NEW Nerve investigation reveals extent of Palantir's enmeshment in UK state operations
Peter Thiel's surveillance company has deals with government bodies amounting to at least £670m – inc. £15m contract with nuclear weapons agency
By @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Charlie Young & Max Colbert
🔗⏬
Peter Thiel's surveillance company has deals with government bodies amounting to at least £670m – inc. £15m contract with nuclear weapons agency
By @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Charlie Young & Max Colbert
🔗⏬
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Call, boycott, sit-in, occupy, whatever ya got....
January 24, 2026 at 11:57 PM
Call, boycott, sit-in, occupy, whatever ya got....
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It's relevant that the congressional Dems who voted to fund ICE include one of the most avowedly anti-trans reps (Suozzi) and the four who voted to support Marjorie Taylor Greene's draconian ban on lifesaving care for trans youth (Cuellar, Davis, Gluesenkamp Perez, Gonzalez).
January 26, 2026 at 6:24 PM
It's relevant that the congressional Dems who voted to fund ICE include one of the most avowedly anti-trans reps (Suozzi) and the four who voted to support Marjorie Taylor Greene's draconian ban on lifesaving care for trans youth (Cuellar, Davis, Gluesenkamp Perez, Gonzalez).
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ICE is leaving Vietnam-style death cards in the wake of their kidnappings because they are the saddest, most embarrassing military wannabes to ever live
coloradosun.com/2026/01/23/a...
coloradosun.com/2026/01/23/a...
January 26, 2026 at 5:35 AM
ICE is leaving Vietnam-style death cards in the wake of their kidnappings because they are the saddest, most embarrassing military wannabes to ever live
coloradosun.com/2026/01/23/a...
coloradosun.com/2026/01/23/a...
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rightwingers see people caring about others in their community and instead of finding that inspiring they think it’s some sort of grand conspiracy because they don’t understand what it means to care for others you don’t personally know
January 25, 2026 at 7:57 PM
rightwingers see people caring about others in their community and instead of finding that inspiring they think it’s some sort of grand conspiracy because they don’t understand what it means to care for others you don’t personally know
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#OtD 26 Jan 1932 4000 mostly Jewish tenants in New York attacked police reserve forces who were trying to evict 17 tenants. The mob was led by women on rooftops who directed the action with megaphones and hurled missiles at police stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9824...
January 26, 2026 at 3:25 PM
#OtD 26 Jan 1932 4000 mostly Jewish tenants in New York attacked police reserve forces who were trying to evict 17 tenants. The mob was led by women on rooftops who directed the action with megaphones and hurled missiles at police stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9824...
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they simply do not get it. they are not interested in getting it. and they must be replaced with politicians who do
New: Senate Democrats plot strategy as DHS standoff deepens heading into shutdown week
Schumer told Dems the caucus unified and message is “restrain, reform and restrict ICE,” per sources.
They want DHS bill stripped.
Inside the Dem call + what’s next: www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Schumer told Dems the caucus unified and message is “restrain, reform and restrict ICE,” per sources.
They want DHS bill stripped.
Inside the Dem call + what’s next: www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Senate Democrats plot strategy as DHS standoff deepens heading into shutdown week
Two sources who were on a Democratic caucus strategy call Sunday said Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told the group the message must be to “restrain, reform and restrict ICE.”
www.nbcnews.com
January 26, 2026 at 3:28 PM
they simply do not get it. they are not interested in getting it. and they must be replaced with politicians who do
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Please circulate!! This deserves to be a big story.
Concentration camp victims protest! The incredible bravery and fortitude and care involved in doing this ✊🏽
‘some of them holding signs that included “Libertad para los niños,” or “Liberty for the kids.”‘
‘some of them holding signs that included “Libertad para los niños,” or “Liberty for the kids.”‘
Immigrant families protest at Texas facility housing 5-year-old boy, father detained in Minnesota
Dozens of immigrant families protested behind the fences of a Texas detention facility where a 5-year-old boy Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent this week after being detained in Minnesota.
apnews.com
January 25, 2026 at 1:34 PM
Please circulate!! This deserves to be a big story.
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You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
January 25, 2026 at 1:15 AM
You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
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If you aren't in MN, check this help to aid us! If you are and can't protest on the streets, make sure to call your reps. One of the senators I called has a full voicemail box, so clearly we're overwhelming them. Keep that up and make your voice heard!
Only thing I can do from so far from MN is provide donation thru their mutual aid orgs, lots of good ones here: www.standwithminnesota.com
Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory
Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.
www.standwithminnesota.com
January 24, 2026 at 11:45 PM
If you aren't in MN, check this help to aid us! If you are and can't protest on the streets, make sure to call your reps. One of the senators I called has a full voicemail box, so clearly we're overwhelming them. Keep that up and make your voice heard!
For God's sakes, join me
Don't sit back there
The time is too late now, good God
You know? The king is dead, the king of love is dead
I ain't 'bout to be nonviolent, honey!
Woah no
Picket lines, school boy cots
They try to say it's a communist plot
But all I want is equality
youtu.be/LJ25-U3jNWM?...
Don't sit back there
The time is too late now, good God
You know? The king is dead, the king of love is dead
I ain't 'bout to be nonviolent, honey!
Woah no
Picket lines, school boy cots
They try to say it's a communist plot
But all I want is equality
youtu.be/LJ25-U3jNWM?...
Nina Simone: Mississippi Goddam
YouTube video by Aaron Overfield
youtu.be
January 24, 2026 at 11:59 PM
For God's sakes, join me
Don't sit back there
The time is too late now, good God
You know? The king is dead, the king of love is dead
I ain't 'bout to be nonviolent, honey!
Woah no
Picket lines, school boy cots
They try to say it's a communist plot
But all I want is equality
youtu.be/LJ25-U3jNWM?...
Don't sit back there
The time is too late now, good God
You know? The king is dead, the king of love is dead
I ain't 'bout to be nonviolent, honey!
Woah no
Picket lines, school boy cots
They try to say it's a communist plot
But all I want is equality
youtu.be/LJ25-U3jNWM?...
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Because protesters learned everything they needed to learn from my hometown of Hong Kong. It's even on GQ, the men's fashion magazine
www.gq.com/story/hong-k...
www.gq.com/story/hong-k...
January 24, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Because protesters learned everything they needed to learn from my hometown of Hong Kong. It's even on GQ, the men's fashion magazine
www.gq.com/story/hong-k...
www.gq.com/story/hong-k...