Jacie Thorpe, Author (She/They)
@mylifeinslowmotion.bsky.social
🌈🏳️⚧️Tomboy - Just a girl who loves writing, rock climbing, and cooking. Oh, and dogs.
Author of the MLiSM (My Life In Slow Motion) books.
Author of the MLiSM (My Life In Slow Motion) books.
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The federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline, according to a Health and Human Services budget draft leaked last week.
HHS plans to cut the national suicide hotline’s program for LGBTQ youth
In February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day.
www.motherjones.com
April 22, 2025 at 7:14 PM
The federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline, according to a Health and Human Services budget draft leaked last week.
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For LGBTQ+ of all ages, the LGBTQ National Hotline is 888-843-4564. Unfortunately they are not available 24/7, but are not age focused.
lgbthotline.org/national-hot...
For LGBTQ+ youth, the Trevor Project is available 24/7 to call, text or chat.
www.thetrevorproject.org/get-help/
Please share
lgbthotline.org/national-hot...
For LGBTQ+ youth, the Trevor Project is available 24/7 to call, text or chat.
www.thetrevorproject.org/get-help/
Please share
April 22, 2025 at 10:03 PM
For LGBTQ+ of all ages, the LGBTQ National Hotline is 888-843-4564. Unfortunately they are not available 24/7, but are not age focused.
lgbthotline.org/national-hot...
For LGBTQ+ youth, the Trevor Project is available 24/7 to call, text or chat.
www.thetrevorproject.org/get-help/
Please share
lgbthotline.org/national-hot...
For LGBTQ+ youth, the Trevor Project is available 24/7 to call, text or chat.
www.thetrevorproject.org/get-help/
Please share
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April 22, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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It was disturbing to be in court today.
As I wrote:
[I]n an alarming sign for LGBTQ people, it was clear that at least three of the justices believe that describing queer people accurately — acknowledging their equal existence — amounts to taking sides or trying to “influence” children.
As I wrote:
[I]n an alarming sign for LGBTQ people, it was clear that at least three of the justices believe that describing queer people accurately — acknowledging their equal existence — amounts to taking sides or trying to “influence” children.
SCOTUS conservatives seem eager to increase parents' religious rights in public schools
Tuesday's arguments over Montgomery County schools' story-time sessions included alarming questions about LGBTQ people.
www.lawdork.com
April 22, 2025 at 10:20 PM
It was disturbing to be in court today.
As I wrote:
[I]n an alarming sign for LGBTQ people, it was clear that at least three of the justices believe that describing queer people accurately — acknowledging their equal existence — amounts to taking sides or trying to “influence” children.
As I wrote:
[I]n an alarming sign for LGBTQ people, it was clear that at least three of the justices believe that describing queer people accurately — acknowledging their equal existence — amounts to taking sides or trying to “influence” children.
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A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond.
I hope you’ll read and share the piece.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
I hope you’ll read and share the piece.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly.
Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.
stanforddaily.com
April 23, 2025 at 12:23 AM
A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond.
I hope you’ll read and share the piece.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
I hope you’ll read and share the piece.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
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How did we get from "Do not use Wikipedia as a source" to "ask hallucinating chatbot everything"?
April 22, 2025 at 11:45 AM
How did we get from "Do not use Wikipedia as a source" to "ask hallucinating chatbot everything"?
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Balancing the "don't let them overwhelm you with fear-mongering rhetoric" w/the "they're really ramping up that whole oppressing/silencing/harming marginalized folx" alongside "staying informed" has become a real act of spinning plates while walking on a tightrope, y'all.
Take care of yourself.
Take care of yourself.
April 23, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Balancing the "don't let them overwhelm you with fear-mongering rhetoric" w/the "they're really ramping up that whole oppressing/silencing/harming marginalized folx" alongside "staying informed" has become a real act of spinning plates while walking on a tightrope, y'all.
Take care of yourself.
Take care of yourself.
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I have a MEGA Bundle for y'all
All my queer books in one place
It's like $99.99, at a whopping 50% discount
💙📚 #queerwriters #queeradultsff 🌈🚀💫 📚🌎 #writingcommunity 📢📚 🩷🧙♂️⚔️ 🪐📚 #Books #readingcommunity #readers #bookish #readersofbluesky #booksonbluesky #booklovers
All my queer books in one place
It's like $99.99, at a whopping 50% discount
💙📚 #queerwriters #queeradultsff 🌈🚀💫 📚🌎 #writingcommunity 📢📚 🩷🧙♂️⚔️ 🪐📚 #Books #readingcommunity #readers #bookish #readersofbluesky #booksonbluesky #booklovers
My queer books mega bundle by Niranjan
A bundle by Niranjan, $99.99 for 44 games
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April 23, 2025 at 2:31 AM
I have a MEGA Bundle for y'all
All my queer books in one place
It's like $99.99, at a whopping 50% discount
💙📚 #queerwriters #queeradultsff 🌈🚀💫 📚🌎 #writingcommunity 📢📚 🩷🧙♂️⚔️ 🪐📚 #Books #readingcommunity #readers #bookish #readersofbluesky #booksonbluesky #booklovers
All my queer books in one place
It's like $99.99, at a whopping 50% discount
💙📚 #queerwriters #queeradultsff 🌈🚀💫 📚🌎 #writingcommunity 📢📚 🩷🧙♂️⚔️ 🪐📚 #Books #readingcommunity #readers #bookish #readersofbluesky #booksonbluesky #booklovers
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If we had a news media that wasn't trying to help Trump, this alone would be treated as a show-stopping scandal, even leaving aside everything else DOJ is doing. Will it even get as much coverage as Bill Clinton saying hi to Loretta Lynch did?
NEW: Read the resignation letter of three federal prosecutors who'd worked on the Eric Adams case: "Now, the Department has decided that obedience supersedes all else, requiring us to abdicate our legal and ethical obligations in favor of directions from Washington." static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...
April 23, 2025 at 5:27 AM
If we had a news media that wasn't trying to help Trump, this alone would be treated as a show-stopping scandal, even leaving aside everything else DOJ is doing. Will it even get as much coverage as Bill Clinton saying hi to Loretta Lynch did?
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A generation of infants are being born HIV+ today who should have been born HIV-free because one of the principal propagandists of AI bullshit in the world dismantled PEPFAR and USAID.
April 22, 2025 at 5:59 PM
A generation of infants are being born HIV+ today who should have been born HIV-free because one of the principal propagandists of AI bullshit in the world dismantled PEPFAR and USAID.
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For anyone concerned about the impact of the recent UK Supreme Court's ruling on trans people just trying to live their lives like the rest of us.
chng.it/nx8KtVsMCF
chng.it/nx8KtVsMCF
Sign the Petition
Require Accessible Gender Neutral Bathrooms in Public Areas
chng.it
April 23, 2025 at 7:53 AM
For anyone concerned about the impact of the recent UK Supreme Court's ruling on trans people just trying to live their lives like the rest of us.
chng.it/nx8KtVsMCF
chng.it/nx8KtVsMCF
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ICE has detained Kseniia Petrova, a Harvard scientist from Russia working on major advancements in cancer detection, since mid-February.
If deported, she could face arrest over her opposition to the war in Ukraine.
Another reminder that xenophobia hurts all of us.
If deported, she could face arrest over her opposition to the war in Ukraine.
Another reminder that xenophobia hurts all of us.
April 22, 2025 at 8:35 PM
ICE has detained Kseniia Petrova, a Harvard scientist from Russia working on major advancements in cancer detection, since mid-February.
If deported, she could face arrest over her opposition to the war in Ukraine.
Another reminder that xenophobia hurts all of us.
If deported, she could face arrest over her opposition to the war in Ukraine.
Another reminder that xenophobia hurts all of us.
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You wanna talk about a YA slow burn with world building and character development, that captures the horrors of war in a way that still shocks me decades later?!
Jk Rowling could never be so cool, don't read potter read animorphs to support an author who isn't a pos.
April 22, 2025 at 9:14 PM
You wanna talk about a YA slow burn with world building and character development, that captures the horrors of war in a way that still shocks me decades later?!
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not to invalidate my trans siblings but, personally, cis allies loudly declaring support for us right now does help keep despair at bay even if it changes nothing. I don’t care how you phrase it, how clumsy. Please be there for/with us, loudly. It fights the voices that scream everyone hates us.
April 17, 2025 at 2:33 PM
not to invalidate my trans siblings but, personally, cis allies loudly declaring support for us right now does help keep despair at bay even if it changes nothing. I don’t care how you phrase it, how clumsy. Please be there for/with us, loudly. It fights the voices that scream everyone hates us.
A snippet just before the climax of My Life In Slow Motion -- Jesse, the #nonbinary protagonist, and Mai, their girlfriend and technically-wife-it's-complicated having ice cream after the Mandatory Beach Episode
My favorite flavor is 'Moose Goose Caboose': a coffee & sesame version of Moose Tracks
My favorite flavor is 'Moose Goose Caboose': a coffee & sesame version of Moose Tracks
April 23, 2025 at 10:24 PM
A snippet just before the climax of My Life In Slow Motion -- Jesse, the #nonbinary protagonist, and Mai, their girlfriend and technically-wife-it's-complicated having ice cream after the Mandatory Beach Episode
My favorite flavor is 'Moose Goose Caboose': a coffee & sesame version of Moose Tracks
My favorite flavor is 'Moose Goose Caboose': a coffee & sesame version of Moose Tracks
Reposted by Jacie Thorpe, Author (She/They)
It’s murder.
The federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline, according to a Health and Human Services budget draft leaked last week.
HHS plans to cut the national suicide hotline’s program for LGBTQ youth
In February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day.
www.motherjones.com
April 23, 2025 at 10:44 AM
It’s murder.
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I would dearly love a more complete collection translated in this style. Insofar as I'm aware, that doesn't exist.
For a more complete collection we have to turn to Carson's work. It's still brilliant, but absolutely loses something
powells.com/book/if-not-winter-fragments-of-sappho-9780375724510
For a more complete collection we have to turn to Carson's work. It's still brilliant, but absolutely loses something
powells.com/book/if-not-winter-fragments-of-sappho-9780375724510
If Not Winter: Fragments of Sappho | Powell's Books
Of the nine books of lyrics the ancient Greek poet Sappho is said to have composed, only one poem has survived complete. The rest are fragments. In this miraculous new translation, acclaimed poet and ...
powells.com
April 23, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I would dearly love a more complete collection translated in this style. Insofar as I'm aware, that doesn't exist.
For a more complete collection we have to turn to Carson's work. It's still brilliant, but absolutely loses something
powells.com/book/if-not-winter-fragments-of-sappho-9780375724510
For a more complete collection we have to turn to Carson's work. It's still brilliant, but absolutely loses something
powells.com/book/if-not-winter-fragments-of-sappho-9780375724510
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Recommend a solid English, Japanese, or Chinese translation of your favorite Sappho works for #LesbianVisibilityWeek?
Mine is Poochigan's, who clearly strives to maintain the lyrical quality of original works over the structure
www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/stung-with-love-poems-and-fragments-of-sappho
Mine is Poochigan's, who clearly strives to maintain the lyrical quality of original works over the structure
www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/stung-with-love-poems-and-fragments-of-sappho
Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho ebook by Sappho - Rakuten Kobo
Read "Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho" by Sappho available from Rakuten Kobo. More or less 150 years after Homer's Iliad, Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos, west off the coast of wha...
www.kobo.com
April 23, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Recommend a solid English, Japanese, or Chinese translation of your favorite Sappho works for #LesbianVisibilityWeek?
Mine is Poochigan's, who clearly strives to maintain the lyrical quality of original works over the structure
www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/stung-with-love-poems-and-fragments-of-sappho
Mine is Poochigan's, who clearly strives to maintain the lyrical quality of original works over the structure
www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/stung-with-love-poems-and-fragments-of-sappho
My Life in Slow Motion starts in an NYC hospital, but mostly takes place in NJ Suburbs and Apartments. Write what you know, and all that.
April 23, 2025 at 10:13 PM
My Life in Slow Motion starts in an NYC hospital, but mostly takes place in NJ Suburbs and Apartments. Write what you know, and all that.
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Happy Lesbian Visibility Week! Whether you’re out and proud, still navigating your journey, or part of the larger LGBTQ+ community standing in solidarity, your existence is a beautiful and vital part of the tapestry of love and identity.
#lesbianvisibilityweek
#lesbianvisibilityweek
April 23, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Happy Lesbian Visibility Week! Whether you’re out and proud, still navigating your journey, or part of the larger LGBTQ+ community standing in solidarity, your existence is a beautiful and vital part of the tapestry of love and identity.
#lesbianvisibilityweek
#lesbianvisibilityweek
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Also, loved these super-specific questions from @natashadevon.bsky.social to her MP which really emphasise what a farce this is
April 23, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Also, loved these super-specific questions from @natashadevon.bsky.social to her MP which really emphasise what a farce this is
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🌎 Today is #WorldBookDay! Let's see how far the love of #reading goes!
#bookish #libbyapp #ForOurLibraries #librarylove #FundLibraries
#bookish #libbyapp #ForOurLibraries #librarylove #FundLibraries
April 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
🌎 Today is #WorldBookDay! Let's see how far the love of #reading goes!
#bookish #libbyapp #ForOurLibraries #librarylove #FundLibraries
#bookish #libbyapp #ForOurLibraries #librarylove #FundLibraries
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An autism "registry" culled from private medical records could potentially violate federal privacy laws and runs the risk of abuse.
It also harkens back to a time when disabled people were labeled, segregated, and excluded. We won't go back.
It also harkens back to a time when disabled people were labeled, segregated, and excluded. We won't go back.
RFK Jr’s autism study collecting Americans’ private medical records
The National Institutes of Health claims it is fulfilling RFK’s promise to find cause of autism by September
www.theguardian.com
April 23, 2025 at 8:31 PM
An autism "registry" culled from private medical records could potentially violate federal privacy laws and runs the risk of abuse.
It also harkens back to a time when disabled people were labeled, segregated, and excluded. We won't go back.
It also harkens back to a time when disabled people were labeled, segregated, and excluded. We won't go back.
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If you can't give up your wizard books, whatever, but don't call yourself an ally.
We've been screaming this from the rooftops for years. "I didn't know" doesn't cut it anymore and "separation of art from artist" never did.
We've been screaming this from the rooftops for years. "I didn't know" doesn't cut it anymore and "separation of art from artist" never did.
April 19, 2025 at 5:14 PM
If you can't give up your wizard books, whatever, but don't call yourself an ally.
We've been screaming this from the rooftops for years. "I didn't know" doesn't cut it anymore and "separation of art from artist" never did.
We've been screaming this from the rooftops for years. "I didn't know" doesn't cut it anymore and "separation of art from artist" never did.
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"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work.
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
snyder.substack.com
April 19, 2025 at 1:28 PM
"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work.
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...