Melissa Parson (she/her)
@lissajane.bsky.social
Experimental & Documentary Filmmaker, separation of church and state, disability rights, trans rights
I'm attending Pramila for Congress's event, “Pramila Jayapal's Resistance Lab: NOVEMBER Virtual Organizing Training” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
Pramila Jayapal's Resistance Lab: NOVEMBER Virtual Organizing Training · Mobilize
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November 5, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I'm attending Pramila for Congress's event, “Pramila Jayapal's Resistance Lab: NOVEMBER Virtual Organizing Training” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
My family and I are all in for Katie Wilson—we're signing up to donate our time to her campaign! Her campaign needs two critical things: volunteers and donations. If you can help with either, now is the time. Let's do this, Seattle! #katiewilson #seattlemayoralrace #Vote
Volunteer to elect Katie Wilson for Seattle Mayor! · Wilson for Seattle on Mobilize
My name is Katie Wilson and I’m running to be your next mayor. I want to bring your power and your voice into City Hall.
www.mobilize.us
October 6, 2025 at 11:56 PM
My family and I are all in for Katie Wilson—we're signing up to donate our time to her campaign! Her campaign needs two critical things: volunteers and donations. If you can help with either, now is the time. Let's do this, Seattle! #katiewilson #seattlemayoralrace #Vote
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This is correct. Any candidate cynically “triangulating” on trans kids is a non-starter, and now is the time to say so. There’s still so much time to advance candidates that DON’T suck.
I will never, ever vote for Gavin Newsom. Ever, under any circumstances. I don't care if he becomes the Dem nominee, he's still not getting my vote.
On a recent podcast Gavin Newsom tells Shawn Ryan how the Trans sports issue opened the door for him to change his mind on GAC for Trans Youth.
As someone who adored him since 2004 and voted for him 5 times, I can't wait for him to leave office.
There is no way I will be voting for him a 6th time.
As someone who adored him since 2004 and voted for him 5 times, I can't wait for him to leave office.
There is no way I will be voting for him a 6th time.
July 17, 2025 at 1:03 AM
This is correct. Any candidate cynically “triangulating” on trans kids is a non-starter, and now is the time to say so. There’s still so much time to advance candidates that DON’T suck.
“What I witnessed now in Gaza is not hunger. It is starvation. Hunger is a feeling. Starvation is a weapon.”
From Mohammed, R. Mhawish’s essay in #TheNation magazine July/ Aug issue. 🥹🥲😢
Free #Gaza, Feed Gaza! End the #genocide.
From Mohammed, R. Mhawish’s essay in #TheNation magazine July/ Aug issue. 🥹🥲😢
Free #Gaza, Feed Gaza! End the #genocide.
June 25, 2025 at 8:51 PM
“What I witnessed now in Gaza is not hunger. It is starvation. Hunger is a feeling. Starvation is a weapon.”
From Mohammed, R. Mhawish’s essay in #TheNation magazine July/ Aug issue. 🥹🥲😢
Free #Gaza, Feed Gaza! End the #genocide.
From Mohammed, R. Mhawish’s essay in #TheNation magazine July/ Aug issue. 🥹🥲😢
Free #Gaza, Feed Gaza! End the #genocide.
I ❤️New York!
Congrats Zohran Mamdani Power to the people…. Forever may we strive for justice!
Congrats Zohran Mamdani Power to the people…. Forever may we strive for justice!
June 25, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I ❤️New York!
Congrats Zohran Mamdani Power to the people…. Forever may we strive for justice!
Congrats Zohran Mamdani Power to the people…. Forever may we strive for justice!
ZOHRAN!!! This is a massive win for true progressives.
With Zohran Mamdani’s victory, Democrats were handed their latest challenge in selling themselves nationally to swing voters.
NYC Mayoral Primary Is Latest Blow to Democratic Establishment
Progressives see Zohran Mamdani as a candidate who can lead them to greater electoral success. Republicans see another chance to label the party as extreme.
on.wsj.com
June 25, 2025 at 6:07 PM
ZOHRAN!!! This is a massive win for true progressives.
Cats rule. This is 13 year old Cole. His full name is Cat King Cole. He is the only king I believe in!
June 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Cats rule. This is 13 year old Cole. His full name is Cat King Cole. He is the only king I believe in!
Trans dreams matter. This is a sticker a dear friend sent my daughter. It made her happy so she displayed it. The tarot card here is of soul and blues singer Jackie Shane. Happy Pride!
sweetkitty.com/outsider-tarot
sweetkitty.com/outsider-tarot
June 24, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Trans dreams matter. This is a sticker a dear friend sent my daughter. It made her happy so she displayed it. The tarot card here is of soul and blues singer Jackie Shane. Happy Pride!
sweetkitty.com/outsider-tarot
sweetkitty.com/outsider-tarot
Rest in peace, Brian Wilson. He was a truly gentle and sensitive soul, a musical genius whose harmonies were a divine gift to the world. May he now find eternal peace and be with his soulmate, Melinda. #BrianWilson
June 11, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Rest in peace, Brian Wilson. He was a truly gentle and sensitive soul, a musical genius whose harmonies were a divine gift to the world. May he now find eternal peace and be with his soulmate, Melinda. #BrianWilson
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- People are being disappeared from our streets from unidentifiable, masked ICE agents.
- TX is trying to mandate the 10 commandments be posted in every classroom.
- Trump is trying to dismantle the judicial system.
- Women are still being forced to travel across state lines for an abortion
- People are being disappeared from our streets from unidentifiable, masked ICE agents.
- TX is trying to mandate the 10 commandments be posted in every classroom.
- Trump is trying to dismantle the judicial system.
- Women are still being forced to travel across state lines for an abortion
June 10, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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- People are being disappeared from our streets from unidentifiable, masked ICE agents.
- TX is trying to mandate the 10 commandments be posted in every classroom.
- Trump is trying to dismantle the judicial system.
- Women are still being forced to travel across state lines for an abortion
- People are being disappeared from our streets from unidentifiable, masked ICE agents.
- TX is trying to mandate the 10 commandments be posted in every classroom.
- Trump is trying to dismantle the judicial system.
- Women are still being forced to travel across state lines for an abortion
Nationwide No kings Protest
Saturday June 14th
Pick your issues:
- The Marines have been called to stand by in Los Angeles
- Our tax dollars are being spent on bombing Palestinian families. People are literally dying of starvation.
- Colleges are being bullied and muzzled.
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Saturday June 14th
Pick your issues:
- The Marines have been called to stand by in Los Angeles
- Our tax dollars are being spent on bombing Palestinian families. People are literally dying of starvation.
- Colleges are being bullied and muzzled.
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June 10, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Nationwide No kings Protest
Saturday June 14th
Pick your issues:
- The Marines have been called to stand by in Los Angeles
- Our tax dollars are being spent on bombing Palestinian families. People are literally dying of starvation.
- Colleges are being bullied and muzzled.
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Saturday June 14th
Pick your issues:
- The Marines have been called to stand by in Los Angeles
- Our tax dollars are being spent on bombing Palestinian families. People are literally dying of starvation.
- Colleges are being bullied and muzzled.
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REMINDER: NO KINGS MASS PROTEST - SAT. JUNE 14th.
June 10, 2025 at 4:14 AM
REMINDER: NO KINGS MASS PROTEST - SAT. JUNE 14th.
Students and academics hunted and ‘disappeared’
Denied, detained, deported: the people targeted in Trump’s immigration crackdown
Denied, detained, deported: the people targeted in Trump’s immigration crackdown
These are some of the people ensnared by the administration’s unprecedented measures to target people it believes oppose its agenda
www.theguardian.com
April 30, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Students and academics hunted and ‘disappeared’
I’d also add to this meme HANDS OFF trans people, immigrants, people of color, our art, Gaza, our freedom of religion and speech and hands off our bodies.
April 8, 2025 at 1:58 AM
I’d also add to this meme HANDS OFF trans people, immigrants, people of color, our art, Gaza, our freedom of religion and speech and hands off our bodies.
Hands Off rally Seattle WA
April 6, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Hands Off rally Seattle WA
Will be protesting in Seattle tomorrow with the rest of the country! Hands off our democracy!
April 5, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Will be protesting in Seattle tomorrow with the rest of the country! Hands off our democracy!
This is horrifying. As Dr Philip Low asks: “Christians is this what you voted for?” El Salvador: Inhumane Prison Lockdown Treatment
www.hrw.org/news/2020/04...
www.hrw.org/news/2020/04...
El Salvador: Inhumane Prison Lockdown Treatment
El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele has ordered a mandatory lockdown in prisons holding gang members, imposing inhumane conditions on the inmates.
www.hrw.org
April 4, 2025 at 1:16 AM
This is horrifying. As Dr Philip Low asks: “Christians is this what you voted for?” El Salvador: Inhumane Prison Lockdown Treatment
www.hrw.org/news/2020/04...
www.hrw.org/news/2020/04...
Speak up for Rumeysa and others in any way you can!
March 29, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Speak up for Rumeysa and others in any way you can!
@brainking.bsky.social Citing concerns over a potential annexation or incursion into Canada, if Trump initiates such action as he has threatened, Dr. Low is calling on governors to take a stand. He suggests withholding federal taxes and, if necessary, initiating secession as a form of resistance.
March 20, 2025 at 9:23 PM
@brainking.bsky.social Citing concerns over a potential annexation or incursion into Canada, if Trump initiates such action as he has threatened, Dr. Low is calling on governors to take a stand. He suggests withholding federal taxes and, if necessary, initiating secession as a form of resistance.
To my trans family, please know we will fight this every single day. This administration's attacks wound our families and ignite our rage, but they will not stop our fight. This article is focussed on WA state particularly.
What to know about ID and passport markers in Washington state
People are anxious and uncertain about their next steps, says a lawyer with ACLU of Washington.
www.axios.com
March 15, 2025 at 12:31 AM
To my trans family, please know we will fight this every single day. This administration's attacks wound our families and ignite our rage, but they will not stop our fight. This article is focussed on WA state particularly.
This wasn't about policy or principle; it was pure cruelty. Grateful for Rep. McBride's response and Rep. Keating's powerful allyship.
Bright spot in the world: yesterday Rep. Self (TX) purposely and rudely misgendered Rep. McBride (DE), but she responded by calmly misgendering him right back, and Rep. Keating (MA) did an amazing job standing up for what is right. Video worth a watch, from ABC News: youtu.be/V0s-wTrs4O4?...
Rep. Sarah McBride misgendered by Republican colleague during committee hearing
YouTube video by ABC News
youtu.be
March 12, 2025 at 7:17 PM
This wasn't about policy or principle; it was pure cruelty. Grateful for Rep. McBride's response and Rep. Keating's powerful allyship.
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Fascism is here.
The list of words Trump is banning from government is the most stunning document of our time. Click the image below to see how many words Trump and Musk have canceled as part of their new Reich.
🔗: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The list of words Trump is banning from government is the most stunning document of our time. Click the image below to see how many words Trump and Musk have canceled as part of their new Reich.
🔗: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
March 10, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Fascism is here.
The list of words Trump is banning from government is the most stunning document of our time. Click the image below to see how many words Trump and Musk have canceled as part of their new Reich.
🔗: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The list of words Trump is banning from government is the most stunning document of our time. Click the image below to see how many words Trump and Musk have canceled as part of their new Reich.
🔗: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Reposted by Melissa Parson (she/her)
March 10, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Last night, my daughter and I watched "Twin Peaks" and got to the trans character Denise's introduction. I was bracing myself, knowing it's from the 90s, and not remembering how it went down but Agent Cooper's immediate and respectful recognition of her pronouns and name was a relief.
“Fix Your Hearts or Die”: David Lynch’s Work Has Always Been Deeply, Powerfully Queer
The filmmaker was so much more than just an influence on his legion of LGBTQ+ fans.
www.them.us
March 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Last night, my daughter and I watched "Twin Peaks" and got to the trans character Denise's introduction. I was bracing myself, knowing it's from the 90s, and not remembering how it went down but Agent Cooper's immediate and respectful recognition of her pronouns and name was a relief.