Mel🏳️🌈 she/they universal healthcare now
@knownforms.bsky.social
She/her, they/them. Writer, Researcher. Work in Strange Horizons, Tin House, Electric Lit, and more. I used to do research for Roxane Gay.
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The Price: A Queer Daughter of a Queer Mother - Electric Literature
I am doomed to die an ugly death or at least to be separated from my partner, probably violently. So is my queer mother and my partner and my cousin and many of my friends. We are all doomed, it seems...
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I wrote this and it's still true but also, I've since gone no contact because she's toxic and have been writing a response ever since electricliterature.com/the-price-a-...
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I’m seeing more and more Minneapolis/Minnesota people naming that they are burned out and I just hope people allow themselves to change their pacing from sprint to marathon or better yet, a relay.
Slow down if the alternative is you crashing out and not being able to do anything.
Slow down if the alternative is you crashing out and not being able to do anything.
February 11, 2026 at 4:42 AM
I’m seeing more and more Minneapolis/Minnesota people naming that they are burned out and I just hope people allow themselves to change their pacing from sprint to marathon or better yet, a relay.
Slow down if the alternative is you crashing out and not being able to do anything.
Slow down if the alternative is you crashing out and not being able to do anything.
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MY WIFE GOT ME ONE
who wants to twin with me 🌈
who wants to twin with me 🌈
ATTENTION: inspired by @amybrown.xyz, the Please Ask Me About Gay shirt is out. 100% of the profits will be split among:
• National Center For Transgender Equality
• It Gets Better
• The Trevor Project
• National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color
bornmiserable.threadless.com/designs/plea...
• National Center For Transgender Equality
• It Gets Better
• The Trevor Project
• National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color
bornmiserable.threadless.com/designs/plea...
Please Ask Me About Gay Men's T-Shirt | bornmiserable's shop of horrors
Please Ask Me About Gay on Men's T-Shirt – please ask me about gay. that's about it. inspired by a post on Bluesky by @amybrown.xyz.
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February 11, 2026 at 4:53 AM
MY WIFE GOT ME ONE
who wants to twin with me 🌈
who wants to twin with me 🌈
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"But I think one reason why Heated Rivalry has hooked so many of us is that Shane and Ilya’s romance insists that queer desire and love belong at the heart of the world, not on the margins. It gets you where you live."
Author @oliviawaite.com on how #HeatedRivalry presents queer life as thriving:
Author @oliviawaite.com on how #HeatedRivalry presents queer life as thriving:
On Heated Rivalry and Queer Desire as an Unequivocal Good - Reactor
In a world where queer desire is nearly always framed as something that destabilizes, this series gives its audience an alternate narrative
reactormag.com
February 9, 2026 at 5:26 PM
"But I think one reason why Heated Rivalry has hooked so many of us is that Shane and Ilya’s romance insists that queer desire and love belong at the heart of the world, not on the margins. It gets you where you live."
Author @oliviawaite.com on how #HeatedRivalry presents queer life as thriving:
Author @oliviawaite.com on how #HeatedRivalry presents queer life as thriving:
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I have a tiny new micro today in @bulbregion.bsky.social. grateful to @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social & any of you who read this story! 🥭 🥃 bulbregion.com/Mangoes-and-...
February 10, 2026 at 4:48 PM
I have a tiny new micro today in @bulbregion.bsky.social. grateful to @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social & any of you who read this story! 🥭 🥃 bulbregion.com/Mangoes-and-...
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Putting my application in tomorrow.
gofund.me/c5ce2f80d
gofund.me/c5ce2f80d
Donate to Support My Journey to Safety and Wellness, organized by Lenée A. Voss
Hi, I'm Lenée. I am an organizer and cultural worker. I need your help to get … Lenée A. Voss needs your support for Support My Journey to Safety and Wellness
gofund.me
February 11, 2026 at 4:28 AM
Putting my application in tomorrow.
gofund.me/c5ce2f80d
gofund.me/c5ce2f80d
This is the FBI’s list of “Prominent Names” it was tracking in the Epstein Case. This list appears in this slide show, FBI email correspondence, and FBI tip sheets — all of which I saw unredacted today. Believe the survivors.
You can see this file on DOJ’s website
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
You can see this file on DOJ’s website
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
February 11, 2026 at 4:52 AM
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Us trying to describe what Cloud 9 is all about.
February 11, 2026 at 3:40 AM
Us trying to describe what Cloud 9 is all about.
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This is what I don’t like about the release of the files. It’s desensitizing people to the point people forget it’s still child exploitation material. You don’t have to share some of these pictures.
February 11, 2026 at 4:40 AM
This is what I don’t like about the release of the files. It’s desensitizing people to the point people forget it’s still child exploitation material. You don’t have to share some of these pictures.
Imagine how many girls and women could have escaped or never been abused at all if we took victims seriously.
Leslie Wexner, former CEO of Victoria's Secret, was the other man named by Ava Cordero as her rapist and abuser alongside Jeffrey Epstein in 2007, only to be mocked and degraded and dismissed as crazy because she's trans.
For all the WHO ARE THE NAMES people in the comments: www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
February 11, 2026 at 4:43 AM
Imagine how many girls and women could have escaped or never been abused at all if we took victims seriously.
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build these. i'm not joking. the more I read history the more I read how often hiding spaces save lives.
A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years
February 11, 2026 at 4:38 AM
build these. i'm not joking. the more I read history the more I read how often hiding spaces save lives.
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Leslie Wexner, former CEO of Victoria's Secret, was the other man named by Ava Cordero as her rapist and abuser alongside Jeffrey Epstein in 2007, only to be mocked and degraded and dismissed as crazy because she's trans.
For all the WHO ARE THE NAMES people in the comments: www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
Democratic congressman Ro Khanna names six men appearing in unredacted Epstein files – live
Khanna, who co-sponsored the Epstein transparency act, named six people including Victoria’s Secret tycoon Leslie Wexner on the House floor
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Leslie Wexner, former CEO of Victoria's Secret, was the other man named by Ava Cordero as her rapist and abuser alongside Jeffrey Epstein in 2007, only to be mocked and degraded and dismissed as crazy because she's trans.
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ICE and CBP haven’t withdrawn from a single fucking U.S. city that they’ve occupied.
February 11, 2026 at 1:54 AM
ICE and CBP haven’t withdrawn from a single fucking U.S. city that they’ve occupied.
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This is what I’m talking about when I talk about technologies of liberation
This required careful measurement and design
This required careful measurement and design
“Historians call this passageway a masterwork of deliberate concealment, designed to be absolutely invisible to slave catchers or city marshals during the 19th-century”
Safe house linked to Underground Railroad discovered in Manhattan
The Merchant's House is the first landmarked building in Manhattan.
ny1.com
February 11, 2026 at 4:32 AM
This is what I’m talking about when I talk about technologies of liberation
This required careful measurement and design
This required careful measurement and design
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ATTENTION: inspired by @amybrown.xyz, the Please Ask Me About Gay shirt is out. 100% of the profits will be split among:
• National Center For Transgender Equality
• It Gets Better
• The Trevor Project
• National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color
bornmiserable.threadless.com/designs/plea...
• National Center For Transgender Equality
• It Gets Better
• The Trevor Project
• National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color
bornmiserable.threadless.com/designs/plea...
Please Ask Me About Gay Men's T-Shirt | bornmiserable's shop of horrors
Please Ask Me About Gay on Men's T-Shirt – please ask me about gay. that's about it. inspired by a post on Bluesky by @amybrown.xyz.
bornmiserable.threadless.com
February 10, 2026 at 11:25 PM
ATTENTION: inspired by @amybrown.xyz, the Please Ask Me About Gay shirt is out. 100% of the profits will be split among:
• National Center For Transgender Equality
• It Gets Better
• The Trevor Project
• National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color
bornmiserable.threadless.com/designs/plea...
• National Center For Transgender Equality
• It Gets Better
• The Trevor Project
• National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color
bornmiserable.threadless.com/designs/plea...
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Happy 70th birthday to the incomparable, powerful singer HR of the Bad Brains, born today in 1956 in Liverpool.
Bad Brains (I Against I) Live Holland TV 1988
#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #HR #badbrains #history #punkrockhistory #otd
Bad Brains (I Against I) Live Holland TV 1988
#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #HR #badbrains #history #punkrockhistory #otd
February 11, 2026 at 4:16 AM
Happy 70th birthday to the incomparable, powerful singer HR of the Bad Brains, born today in 1956 in Liverpool.
Bad Brains (I Against I) Live Holland TV 1988
#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #HR #badbrains #history #punkrockhistory #otd
Bad Brains (I Against I) Live Holland TV 1988
#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #HR #badbrains #history #punkrockhistory #otd
Putting a typo in it so you know it's real.
February 11, 2026 at 4:26 AM
Putting a typo in it so you know it's real.
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Democrats should really ne making loud connections between "the Epstein class is in charge and covering up mass sex crimes" and "they are separating teen girls from their family to hold them alone" in the public eye
An agent told the teen to call her family and ask them to pick her up. But the agent said that if they came, ICE would send the entire family to Texas. The girl writes “My family decided not to come and pick me up as a result of this threat. ICE decided to take me to a hotel.”
tinyurl.com/3nkf9sbd
tinyurl.com/3nkf9sbd
After arrest, teen refugee held overnight in hotel room by ICE agents
A girl who entered the United States as a refugee alleges that immigration authorities separated her from her family and detained her overnight in a hotel, where she was forced to share a room with fe...
www.mprnews.org
February 11, 2026 at 1:37 AM
Democrats should really ne making loud connections between "the Epstein class is in charge and covering up mass sex crimes" and "they are separating teen girls from their family to hold them alone" in the public eye
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We just had a strong geomagnetic substorm here in Iceland. My cat and I watched from the balcony. Sometimes the show is strong enough to see inside the city limits easily.
#northernlights #aurora #iceland
#northernlights #aurora #iceland
February 10, 2026 at 10:49 PM
We just had a strong geomagnetic substorm here in Iceland. My cat and I watched from the balcony. Sometimes the show is strong enough to see inside the city limits easily.
#northernlights #aurora #iceland
#northernlights #aurora #iceland
I know I am not @darthbluesky.bsky.social but this pup is clearly INNOCENT, Nicole
here is a dog who stole half my dinner roll and destroyed a whole box of tissues
February 11, 2026 at 4:21 AM
I know I am not @darthbluesky.bsky.social but this pup is clearly INNOCENT, Nicole
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This one is in Longfellow
February 11, 2026 at 3:03 AM
This one is in Longfellow
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They’re covering it. I’m here to talk to anyone reporting about his giving history and what working for him was like. www.politico.com/live-updates...
I want every Democrat who took his money to donate to survivors and to publicly renounce him. He’s a mean, mean person.
I want every Democrat who took his money to donate to survivors and to publicly renounce him. He’s a mean, mean person.
February 11, 2026 at 12:47 AM
They’re covering it. I’m here to talk to anyone reporting about his giving history and what working for him was like. www.politico.com/live-updates...
I want every Democrat who took his money to donate to survivors and to publicly renounce him. He’s a mean, mean person.
I want every Democrat who took his money to donate to survivors and to publicly renounce him. He’s a mean, mean person.
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For my Rochester, NY friends:
Rochester, New York
Constitutional Crisis Call-Out
Wednesdays thru March 4
Constitutional Crisis Call-Out
Wednesdays thru March 4
#SpeakOut
#STANDUP
#NewYork
Rochester New York
Constitutional Crisis Call-out
Wednesdays Jan 28 through
Mar 4
12 – 1:30pm EST
Kenneth B. Keating Federal Bldg
100 State St
Rochester, NY 14614
www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
#STANDUP
#NewYork
Rochester New York
Constitutional Crisis Call-out
Wednesdays Jan 28 through
Mar 4
12 – 1:30pm EST
Kenneth B. Keating Federal Bldg
100 State St
Rochester, NY 14614
www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
February 11, 2026 at 12:57 AM
For my Rochester, NY friends:
Same. 💜
I'll tell you another reason I'm chronically online. Because I'm chronically in pain. Online community gave me the best tools to combat my physical pain today.
February 11, 2026 at 4:10 AM
Same. 💜
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No, seriously--shake your couch cushions, see what you can give.
If you're not in Minneapolis or another place currently under siege, this is an easy thing you can do to help. You got this. Let's do this.
If you're not in Minneapolis or another place currently under siege, this is an easy thing you can do to help. You got this. Let's do this.
A parent at my kids’ school was abducted a few hours ago.
Please help us help the family with legal expenses and care for their elementary school son (who doesn’t even know his dad was taken yet 💔):
gofund.me/20a5b26ab
Please help us help the family with legal expenses and care for their elementary school son (who doesn’t even know his dad was taken yet 💔):
gofund.me/20a5b26ab
Donate to Support Byron Cabrera's Legal Defense and Son's Care, organized by Luz Riofrio
Hello everyone, I'm asking for your support for Byron Cabrera, who h… Luz Riofrio needs your support for Support Byron Cabrera's Legal Defense and Son's Care
gofund.me
February 11, 2026 at 2:41 AM
No, seriously--shake your couch cushions, see what you can give.
If you're not in Minneapolis or another place currently under siege, this is an easy thing you can do to help. You got this. Let's do this.
If you're not in Minneapolis or another place currently under siege, this is an easy thing you can do to help. You got this. Let's do this.
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ancestors are speaking
A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years
February 11, 2026 at 4:07 AM
ancestors are speaking