Samantha Tano
@samanthatano.bsky.social
🏳️⚧️ Transsexual
🏳️🌈 Lesbian
♾️ auDHD
✒️ Sci-fi author
IN THE VALLEY, A SHADOW available now!!
HER BLOOD RUNS COLD coming 2025!!
(she/her)
www.samtano.com
https://linktr.ee/samtanoauthor
🏳️🌈 Lesbian
♾️ auDHD
✒️ Sci-fi author
IN THE VALLEY, A SHADOW available now!!
HER BLOOD RUNS COLD coming 2025!!
(she/her)
www.samtano.com
https://linktr.ee/samtanoauthor
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So I'm a trans auDHD author who writes sci-fi and futuristic westerns featuring a trans female main character. I'd love to find readers and authors here since meta is collapsing (ongoing). I have one book out already with a sequel on the way this year #booksky
Hello, if you aren't transgender I do not care about your opinion on whether Newsom was transphobic or not on that podcast.
You don't get to define transphobia for those of us who are intimately aware of its forms and experience it on a near daily basis.
Thanks bye.
You don't get to define transphobia for those of us who are intimately aware of its forms and experience it on a near daily basis.
Thanks bye.
March 7, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Hello, if you aren't transgender I do not care about your opinion on whether Newsom was transphobic or not on that podcast.
You don't get to define transphobia for those of us who are intimately aware of its forms and experience it on a near daily basis.
Thanks bye.
You don't get to define transphobia for those of us who are intimately aware of its forms and experience it on a near daily basis.
Thanks bye.
The pink outfit "protest" last night has me incensed. It's a hollow gesture. And if that's all they're willing to do in the face of fascism, then they might as well rip those pink outfits up and sew them into pink triangles and hand them out to my and my community
March 5, 2025 at 5:51 PM
The pink outfit "protest" last night has me incensed. It's a hollow gesture. And if that's all they're willing to do in the face of fascism, then they might as well rip those pink outfits up and sew them into pink triangles and hand them out to my and my community
How many trans people has cable news had on the air to humanize us in the face of our extermination? Cause they sure are eager to platform and sympathize with the white people who voted for trump that are now getting their comeuppance
February 28, 2025 at 10:51 PM
How many trans people has cable news had on the air to humanize us in the face of our extermination? Cause they sure are eager to platform and sympathize with the white people who voted for trump that are now getting their comeuppance
When cis ppl outlaw transition healthcare for everyone, what do these traitorous Tgirls think they gonna do? They won't need Breanna or Blaire anymore and they're gonna find out
February 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM
When cis ppl outlaw transition healthcare for everyone, what do these traitorous Tgirls think they gonna do? They won't need Breanna or Blaire anymore and they're gonna find out
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🚨 Call to action: S.9 does more than just ban trans women from sports—it sets a dangerous precedent for legally defining trans people by their assigned sex at birth.
We can’t afford to lose any dems on this one. Please contact your senators
We can’t afford to lose any dems on this one. Please contact your senators
ok, cis folks—if you said you'd stand with trans folks, it's time.
S.9 is the senate's sports ban bill—a big step to making trump’s executive order a federal law, which is much harder to undo. it can be stopped *monday.*
short call scripts for dem & GOP senators ⬇️🧵
legiscan.com/US/bill/SB9/...
S.9 is the senate's sports ban bill—a big step to making trump’s executive order a federal law, which is much harder to undo. it can be stopped *monday.*
short call scripts for dem & GOP senators ⬇️🧵
legiscan.com/US/bill/SB9/...
a cloture vote for the way-harder-to-undo-than-an-executive-order federal anti-trans sports ban is now set for monday. that means there's more time to make calls.
no on cloture means it doesn't get a vote. the GOP needs 7 dems to advance it.
please call. there is *so* much evil downstream of this.
no on cloture means it doesn't get a vote. the GOP needs 7 dems to advance it.
please call. there is *so* much evil downstream of this.
February 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
🚨 Call to action: S.9 does more than just ban trans women from sports—it sets a dangerous precedent for legally defining trans people by their assigned sex at birth.
We can’t afford to lose any dems on this one. Please contact your senators
We can’t afford to lose any dems on this one. Please contact your senators
The trans agenda is survival.
February 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
The trans agenda is survival.
The trans agenda is actually wanting to look at yourself in the mirror.
February 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
The trans agenda is actually wanting to look at yourself in the mirror.
The trans agenda is self-determination.
February 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
The trans agenda is self-determination.
Everybody at WaPo should walk off the job.
February 26, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Everybody at WaPo should walk off the job.
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Semi-regular reminder that I'm the Readers' Voices editor at @thepvdeye.bsky.social, and we're looking for essays from Providence residents about their lives in, and thoughts about, the city. 👋
More info here: pvdeye.org/voices-guide...
Email voices@pvdeye.org or get in touch with me directly.
More info here: pvdeye.org/voices-guide...
Email voices@pvdeye.org or get in touch with me directly.
February 26, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Semi-regular reminder that I'm the Readers' Voices editor at @thepvdeye.bsky.social, and we're looking for essays from Providence residents about their lives in, and thoughts about, the city. 👋
More info here: pvdeye.org/voices-guide...
Email voices@pvdeye.org or get in touch with me directly.
More info here: pvdeye.org/voices-guide...
Email voices@pvdeye.org or get in touch with me directly.
Guess what! The ebook of In the Valley, A Shadow, is discounted today to $0.99 as part of a sapphic stuff your kindle event hosted by Year of Queer Lit! Also, there are over 150 other books discounted or even free from hundreds of sapphic authors!! #booksky
yearofqueerlit.com/2025/02/23/s...
yearofqueerlit.com/2025/02/23/s...
February 26, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Guess what! The ebook of In the Valley, A Shadow, is discounted today to $0.99 as part of a sapphic stuff your kindle event hosted by Year of Queer Lit! Also, there are over 150 other books discounted or even free from hundreds of sapphic authors!! #booksky
yearofqueerlit.com/2025/02/23/s...
yearofqueerlit.com/2025/02/23/s...
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There's a transmasculine version of this. If someone assigned female can become a man, it means there's nothing so special or powerful about men.
Each of us has the biological truth of equality between the sexes within us, as demonstrated by the ability of some to pass from one to the other.
Each of us has the biological truth of equality between the sexes within us, as demonstrated by the ability of some to pass from one to the other.
February 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
There's a transmasculine version of this. If someone assigned female can become a man, it means there's nothing so special or powerful about men.
Each of us has the biological truth of equality between the sexes within us, as demonstrated by the ability of some to pass from one to the other.
Each of us has the biological truth of equality between the sexes within us, as demonstrated by the ability of some to pass from one to the other.
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Commentary: “I am tired of my community, my family, being spoken for but not listened to,” says @samanthatano.bsky.social who is transgender. “The time to platform trans voices is now.”
They put ya girl in the @bostonglobe.com
LET US SPEAK FOR OURSELVES.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/25/m...
LET US SPEAK FOR OURSELVES.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/25/m...
Commentary: The media must let transgender people speak for themselves - The Boston Globe
“I am tired of my community, my family, being spoken for but not listened to,” says a Rhode Island writer who is transgender. “The time to platform trans voices is now.”
www.bostonglobe.com
February 25, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Commentary: “I am tired of my community, my family, being spoken for but not listened to,” says @samanthatano.bsky.social who is transgender. “The time to platform trans voices is now.”
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This is an excellent piece. Huzzah for @samanthatano.bsky.social! And good for @globeri.bsky.social for publishing it.
They put ya girl in the @bostonglobe.com
LET US SPEAK FOR OURSELVES.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/25/m...
LET US SPEAK FOR OURSELVES.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/25/m...
Commentary: The media must let transgender people speak for themselves - The Boston Globe
“I am tired of my community, my family, being spoken for but not listened to,” says a Rhode Island writer who is transgender. “The time to platform trans voices is now.”
www.bostonglobe.com
February 25, 2025 at 8:11 PM
This is an excellent piece. Huzzah for @samanthatano.bsky.social! And good for @globeri.bsky.social for publishing it.
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And until then, they should keep us out of their damn mouths
They put ya girl in the @bostonglobe.com
LET US SPEAK FOR OURSELVES.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/25/m...
LET US SPEAK FOR OURSELVES.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/25/m...
Commentary: The media must let transgender people speak for themselves - The Boston Globe
“I am tired of my community, my family, being spoken for but not listened to,” says a Rhode Island writer who is transgender. “The time to platform trans voices is now.”
www.bostonglobe.com
February 25, 2025 at 8:04 PM
And until then, they should keep us out of their damn mouths
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Substack discourse again so I am moved to reiterate:
getting off Substack is one of THE most straightforward and effective ways to get fascist stink off your work. If you choose not to do it because it seems too hard, then I do not trust you to do literally anything in the face of fascism.
getting off Substack is one of THE most straightforward and effective ways to get fascist stink off your work. If you choose not to do it because it seems too hard, then I do not trust you to do literally anything in the face of fascism.
February 25, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Substack discourse again so I am moved to reiterate:
getting off Substack is one of THE most straightforward and effective ways to get fascist stink off your work. If you choose not to do it because it seems too hard, then I do not trust you to do literally anything in the face of fascism.
getting off Substack is one of THE most straightforward and effective ways to get fascist stink off your work. If you choose not to do it because it seems too hard, then I do not trust you to do literally anything in the face of fascism.
They put ya girl in the @bostonglobe.com
LET US SPEAK FOR OURSELVES.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/25/m...
LET US SPEAK FOR OURSELVES.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/25/m...
Commentary: The media must let transgender people speak for themselves - The Boston Globe
“I am tired of my community, my family, being spoken for but not listened to,” says a Rhode Island writer who is transgender. “The time to platform trans voices is now.”
www.bostonglobe.com
February 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
They put ya girl in the @bostonglobe.com
LET US SPEAK FOR OURSELVES.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/25/m...
LET US SPEAK FOR OURSELVES.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/25/m...
Their power is fragile. Remember that.
"...she stepped confidently, her head high, and eyed each man she passed, silently marking them for death. The men around her stood confident in what they perceived as the ultimate power: they held weapons and surrounded someone unable to fight back."
"...she stepped confidently, her head high, and eyed each man she passed, silently marking them for death. The men around her stood confident in what they perceived as the ultimate power: they held weapons and surrounded someone unable to fight back."
February 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Their power is fragile. Remember that.
"...she stepped confidently, her head high, and eyed each man she passed, silently marking them for death. The men around her stood confident in what they perceived as the ultimate power: they held weapons and surrounded someone unable to fight back."
"...she stepped confidently, her head high, and eyed each man she passed, silently marking them for death. The men around her stood confident in what they perceived as the ultimate power: they held weapons and surrounded someone unable to fight back."
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New this morning for the @rhodeislandcurrent.com:
I have benefitted from SSRIs for years. To hear RFK Jr. falsely malign them in the name of making me and others "healthy again" was infuriating.
I wrote about this -- and the broader dark implications of his confirmation at HHS.
I have benefitted from SSRIs for years. To hear RFK Jr. falsely malign them in the name of making me and others "healthy again" was infuriating.
I wrote about this -- and the broader dark implications of his confirmation at HHS.
RFK Jr. is not a doctor. But he will play one at HHS. • Rhode Island Current
The new secretary leading the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has said things statements about antidepressants. Things that leave commentary writer Philip Eil very worried.
rhodeislandcurrent.com
February 24, 2025 at 12:19 PM
New this morning for the @rhodeislandcurrent.com:
I have benefitted from SSRIs for years. To hear RFK Jr. falsely malign them in the name of making me and others "healthy again" was infuriating.
I wrote about this -- and the broader dark implications of his confirmation at HHS.
I have benefitted from SSRIs for years. To hear RFK Jr. falsely malign them in the name of making me and others "healthy again" was infuriating.
I wrote about this -- and the broader dark implications of his confirmation at HHS.
Give trans people your money.
(Especially Black trans people.)
(Especially Black trans people.)
February 24, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Give trans people your money.
(Especially Black trans people.)
(Especially Black trans people.)
I just got a card from a 78-year-old cishet white man, who saw my letter in the Providence Journal, who said how much he supported our struggle, and didn't understand why people had to stand on the necks of the marginalized. I literally just put makeup on and am trying not to cry it all off
February 22, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I just got a card from a 78-year-old cishet white man, who saw my letter in the Providence Journal, who said how much he supported our struggle, and didn't understand why people had to stand on the necks of the marginalized. I literally just put makeup on and am trying not to cry it all off
I am sorry that many people called Mark Patinkin names. Now, imagine if he had real problems, such as people labeling his existence a dangerous ideology, or if his human rights were at risk, or his life.
February 22, 2025 at 11:49 AM
I am sorry that many people called Mark Patinkin names. Now, imagine if he had real problems, such as people labeling his existence a dangerous ideology, or if his human rights were at risk, or his life.
Oh ho I was right, the columnist who is a transphobe learned absolutely nothing from my letter or email response for an interview. Fix your hearts or die.
February 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Oh ho I was right, the columnist who is a transphobe learned absolutely nothing from my letter or email response for an interview. Fix your hearts or die.
But doctor I am Pagliacci
The NHS is to trial ‘comedy on prescription’ in a bid to tackle 9million people on antidepressants. The social prescribing scheme delivered by Craic Health is backed by Labour MP and GP, Dr Simon Opher who has warned against “a pandemic of over-prescription”.
February 20, 2025 at 8:09 PM
But doctor I am Pagliacci