Kestrel M
@liminalraptor.bsky.social
LGBTQ+ Nerd, Writer, Musician, Archer, Cook, and getter of things down from high shelves. I blog about trans issues and music and movies etc. I'd say I'm an aspiring fiction writer too, but that would be overstating things.
liminalraptor.substack.com
liminalraptor.substack.com
Shit. I would have called dibs.
Why did you transition? (Wrong answers only)
Same, in reverse. The hospital refused to return my breasts, even after I explained that I wanted to put them on Facebook as “Free to a good home.”
Same, in reverse. The hospital refused to return my breasts, even after I explained that I wanted to put them on Facebook as “Free to a good home.”
Why did you transition, wrong answers only.
I like trans dudes so much I wanted to donate my testicles. Imagine my disappointment when they said I couldn't give them to charity.
I like trans dudes so much I wanted to donate my testicles. Imagine my disappointment when they said I couldn't give them to charity.
December 24, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Shit. I would have called dibs.
Why did you transition, wrong answers only.
I like trans dudes so much I wanted to donate my testicles. Imagine my disappointment when they said I couldn't give them to charity.
I like trans dudes so much I wanted to donate my testicles. Imagine my disappointment when they said I couldn't give them to charity.
Why did you transition, wrong answers only.
I just really wanted underwire to be a part of my life.
I just really wanted underwire to be a part of my life.
Why did you transition, wrong answers only.
Studies have shown that children with two moms are higher achievers.
Studies have shown that children with two moms are higher achievers.
December 23, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Why did you transition, wrong answers only.
I like trans dudes so much I wanted to donate my testicles. Imagine my disappointment when they said I couldn't give them to charity.
I like trans dudes so much I wanted to donate my testicles. Imagine my disappointment when they said I couldn't give them to charity.
I blogged. It's words that you can read on your glowing screen.
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You should read it.
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You should read it.
The Enemy Within
Internalized transphobia, trauma, TERFs and transmeds. Oh. My.
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December 22, 2025 at 2:47 AM
I blogged. It's words that you can read on your glowing screen.
open.substack.com/pub/liminalr...
You should read it.
open.substack.com/pub/liminalr...
You should read it.
This is why I'm not on board with Newsom. That he took the time to praise a man who's responsible for the deaths of millions of queer people shows he's the worst kind of gutless, pandering faux-centrist. Dragging Trump on social media doesn't win you a free pass on this shit.
The presidency once served as a reminder of our common humanity. Ronald Reagan described its purpose as building "a nation composed of good and decent people."
December 19, 2025 at 1:41 PM
This is why I'm not on board with Newsom. That he took the time to praise a man who's responsible for the deaths of millions of queer people shows he's the worst kind of gutless, pandering faux-centrist. Dragging Trump on social media doesn't win you a free pass on this shit.
Yes! But canonically they're way too one dimensional. For one of my campaign settings I re-imagined them as a tragic fallen society that had thrown off the yoke of demonic evil and taken up a more shamanic religion. Gave them a chance to shine as possible allies.
i like gnolls
December 18, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Yes! But canonically they're way too one dimensional. For one of my campaign settings I re-imagined them as a tragic fallen society that had thrown off the yoke of demonic evil and taken up a more shamanic religion. Gave them a chance to shine as possible allies.
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Keep the two distinct in your head.
August 3, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Keep the two distinct in your head.
I think anyone trans in the USA right now is probably going through some shit. I know I am.
I'm having a rough go of it lately, and have been thinking: everyone is going through something, and you have no idea what it is, or how it's affecting them.
Quote post this is if you're going through something, and maybe we'll all realize that we aren't as alone as we feel right now.
Quote post this is if you're going through something, and maybe we'll all realize that we aren't as alone as we feel right now.
August 3, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I think anyone trans in the USA right now is probably going through some shit. I know I am.
To sum up life in Central #oregon in one encounter: stopped in the shopping center parking lot to let the openly pistol-carrying dude in full tactical gear cross the street in front of me. He flashed me a peace sign before continuing on into the local organic food store.
July 28, 2025 at 10:13 PM
To sum up life in Central #oregon in one encounter: stopped in the shopping center parking lot to let the openly pistol-carrying dude in full tactical gear cross the street in front of me. He flashed me a peace sign before continuing on into the local organic food store.
Editing for consistency a first draft of a gaming book that was written by 2 authors over 15 years spread across 10 discrete files. If that's not a labor of love, I don't know what is. #writing
July 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Editing for consistency a first draft of a gaming book that was written by 2 authors over 15 years spread across 10 discrete files. If that's not a labor of love, I don't know what is. #writing
New blog post is live! Is it mostly just Kestrel being a squeeing fangirl about the Portland show that @sarahrose.lol and her band just played with Streetwalker Barbie and Everybody's Worried About Owen? Signs point to "probably". #music #lgbt #SarahAndTheSafeWord
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Back From the Big City
And time for a (live) music post!
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July 21, 2025 at 4:26 PM
New blog post is live! Is it mostly just Kestrel being a squeeing fangirl about the Portland show that @sarahrose.lol and her band just played with Streetwalker Barbie and Everybody's Worried About Owen? Signs point to "probably". #music #lgbt #SarahAndTheSafeWord
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Just got back from seeing @sarahrose.lol and her AMAZING band here in PDX. I'll probably be too stiff to move tomorrow but good God damn, that set SLAPPED.
July 20, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Just got back from seeing @sarahrose.lol and her AMAZING band here in PDX. I'll probably be too stiff to move tomorrow but good God damn, that set SLAPPED.
Okay, so queer gamer nerds are just the best...
July 18, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Okay, so queer gamer nerds are just the best...
I haven't blogged much lately about #trans stuff because, frankly, the state of politics in the US is dismal and depressing.
But today, I finished a post that has at least a smidgen of #hope-punk.
But today, I finished a post that has at least a smidgen of #hope-punk.
Hard Times Call for Defiant Joy
Save the misery for the pricks who deserve it, eh?
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July 17, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I haven't blogged much lately about #trans stuff because, frankly, the state of politics in the US is dismal and depressing.
But today, I finished a post that has at least a smidgen of #hope-punk.
But today, I finished a post that has at least a smidgen of #hope-punk.
Omg. This.
And to the many, many, many people who went, "But even a Dem who is bad on trans rights would be better than a Republican!" I want you to talk to some trans people in the UK to ask them how things are going under the current Labour government.
July 16, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Omg. This.
Rewinding a cassette with a bic pen because you didn't want to waste the batteries in your walkman.
Hovering over the "play" and "record" buttons on the cassette player, waiting for the DJ stop talking so you could tape a song off the radio
What’s a real thing from your childhood that kids these days would find completely foreign?
Like, how we used to be able to walk right up to the gate to meet our family coming off a flight.
Or how we had to pick a spot to meet at the theater BEFORE we went.
Like, how we used to be able to walk right up to the gate to meet our family coming off a flight.
Or how we had to pick a spot to meet at the theater BEFORE we went.
July 14, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Rewinding a cassette with a bic pen because you didn't want to waste the batteries in your walkman.
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a reminder for creative people that art is one of the most powerful tools we have during times of struggle and you should never feel guilty for making art even if it’s not explicitly political ❤️
July 3, 2025 at 7:12 PM
a reminder for creative people that art is one of the most powerful tools we have during times of struggle and you should never feel guilty for making art even if it’s not explicitly political ❤️
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since I see ppl posting pictures from a pseudoscience convention this morn, I will re-up this. Blanchard's theory of autogynephilia (read: his taxonomy & etiology) have been disproved by multiple research studies (see my reviews here):
juliaserano.medium.com/autogynephil...
juliaserano.medium.com/autogynephil...
Autogynephilia, Junk Science, and Pseudoscience
plus links to my academic articles, online essays, and explainers on the topic
juliaserano.medium.com
July 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
since I see ppl posting pictures from a pseudoscience convention this morn, I will re-up this. Blanchard's theory of autogynephilia (read: his taxonomy & etiology) have been disproved by multiple research studies (see my reviews here):
juliaserano.medium.com/autogynephil...
juliaserano.medium.com/autogynephil...
Happy Wrath Month, my lovely #lgbt folks. A new #trans blog post is now live, as I try to coerce myself back into writing regularly.
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Pride in the Name of Love
Belated for sure, but I'm reliably informed it's the thought that counts.
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July 1, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Happy Wrath Month, my lovely #lgbt folks. A new #trans blog post is now live, as I try to coerce myself back into writing regularly.
open.substack.com/pub/liminalr...
open.substack.com/pub/liminalr...
YES. YES IT IS.
is this really the world you want your children to live in, and your children’s children,
June 27, 2025 at 5:37 PM
YES. YES IT IS.
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Are you a cis woman who doesn't want the very real issues we face to be used as a stick to beat our trans sisters? Sign here.
Sign the Petition
Not in our name: Women in support of the trans+ community
chng.it
June 27, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Are you a cis woman who doesn't want the very real issues we face to be used as a stick to beat our trans sisters? Sign here.
Movie you've watched more than six times using gifs. Hard mode: no Star Wars, Trek, or LotR.
June 26, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Movie you've watched more than six times using gifs. Hard mode: no Star Wars, Trek, or LotR.
Seriously, San Francisco. Get your shit together.
Do you want gangs of queer Sense8 fans outside your door singing What's Up?
THAT'S how you get gangs of queer Sense8 fans outside your door singing What's Up!
Starting with Lana W, I would guess.
THAT'S how you get gangs of queer Sense8 fans outside your door singing What's Up!
Starting with Lana W, I would guess.
June 26, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Seriously, San Francisco. Get your shit together.