🍉Yaffa 🍉
yaffasutopia.bsky.social
🍉Yaffa 🍉
@yaffasutopia.bsky.social
🇵🇸 Trans Palestinian Fabulousness🍉

Wanted to be here for the thirst traps instead here fighting against genocide.
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Author 📚
Be Better Broken out Feb 20

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Thanksgiving is, has always been, and will always be a celebration of genocide against Indigenous folks in what is now called the ‘us’ and the systems that allowed the genocide to occur and to be celebrated in the first place.
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If you have time to doom scroll, you have time to read books!
January 6, 2026 at 10:26 PM
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@yaffasutopia.bsky.social calls these the “first responders.” The people who have been engaged from the start, before the catastrophe that brings attention to the crisis.
January 5, 2026 at 12:43 PM
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The workshop today was about the roles we claim in upholding fascism and what roles we can claim to create a better world.

I’m a writer, so that’s where my musings are going. How do I do these two things?
January 4, 2026 at 7:12 PM
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Folklore not as nationalistic enterprise. Not culture-defining and defined tropes and myth. Not nostalgia. But something that is decentralized knowledge. A futurism of folklore, as it were.
January 4, 2026 at 7:09 PM
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So grateful for today’s workshop from @yaffasutopia.bsky.social . I’m honing in on how I can use my skills to prefigure a better world, and address how I uphold the world as it is now. I think the same roles apply here.

Folklore is very gross, friends. It has so much fascism on it.
January 4, 2026 at 7:07 PM
If your analysis of Venezuela starts and ends with one white man then you’re most likely part of the problem. This isn’t the first invasion, it is not the last. Empire functions as it’s meant to. If you believe the above then you also function as Empire demands.
January 3, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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Send this to anyone in your life who pretends this is about defending Venezuelan democracy or whatever
In November, I sat with two Venezuelans who fled the country after protesting Maduro.

Trump's masked ICE agents had just taken their son.

The boy's mother told me, "In Venezuela, if they take you, you don’t come back. This left me with the same impression.”
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/how-a-h...
How a ‘Habeas Machine’ Reunited One Family That Was Pulled Apart by ICE
The agents were on the hunt, but as they staked out the...
talkingpointsmemo.com
January 3, 2026 at 1:33 PM
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The media doesn’t talk enough about the fact that ”Let’s Make America Great Again” was Reagan’s 1980 campaign slogan

Nothing this man does is original, at all, including illegal/imperial invasions in Latin America
January 3, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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“Please do imperialism the legal way,” is a take I just saw on here.

I thought that was just a meme.
January 3, 2026 at 7:07 PM
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Just saying out loud that I remember this morning when they were saying that they weren’t going to do anything besides the Maduro kidnapping

Before they announced they were also going to run the entire country

I remember a few hours ago
January 3, 2026 at 6:39 PM
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Sometimes I think about Harris‘s ”most lethal military in the world” line from her DNC speech and today is one of those days
January 3, 2026 at 7:45 PM
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Shout out to @yaffasutopia.bsky.social for the use of “cute.” You should check out their podcast and workshops.

Also shout out to that Sufi guy who said “only God is non binary.” Haha so very close!
January 3, 2026 at 12:42 AM
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For those watching #StrangerThings, remember that the cast passed around signs saying they are proud zionists in the middle of an ongoing livestreamed genocide carried out by the zionist regime.
January 1, 2026 at 10:14 PM
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INARA: Light of Utopia Ed. Yaffa As. www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...
Inara: Light of Utopia
Inara: Light of Utopia is a groundbreaking anthology th…
www.goodreads.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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in a year filled with so much upheaval, i turned to books. in a first for me, i finished a 100. i dreamed, i ruminated, i fretted, and i escaped. these were my tops. 📚💙
January 1, 2026 at 12:32 AM
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Please say “ethnic cleansing” when posting this stuff because that’s what they’re broadcasting. They’re broadcasting plans to engage in ethnic cleansing.
DHS now says it's aiming for 100 million deportations. In an amazing coincidence, there are 104 million Black and Hispanic people living in the U.S. right now.
January 1, 2026 at 1:42 AM
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Over 275 authors, editors, critics and diehard readers came together over the last month to vote on their favorite transfeminine books of the year.

It's my honor to present the 2025 TFR Reader's Choice Awards!

Congratulations to the winners, and thank you to everyone who voted 🩷
The 2025 TFR Reader’s Choice Awards
Over 275 authors, critics, editors, and readers came together to vote on their favorite transfeminine literature of 2025.
thetransfemininereview.com
December 31, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Ngl, I still fret a lot about asking for help with bills and getting out of debt.

In this week’s session of the Utopia workshop series hosted by @yaffasutopia.bsky.social, all my reflections were all about how I can provide care. It was a really important point that receiving care is crucial too.
December 29, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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To Liberation

You come alive before me,
Projected from my heart.
You are new and ancient, and have waited a very very long time.

So have I.

You are noetic, actual and material. It’s how I know you can be both seed and cedar
Hoary and yielding sapling
W/a huge canopy
Of starlight.
December 25, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Joining in with @swantower.bsky.social ‘s #12daysofpoetry

I’m going to make some new poems from the free writing I did as part of the organizing towards Utopia workshop hosted by @yaffasutopia.bsky.social

I’m a poet in denial. I’m trying to receive to it. I hope you enjoy!
December 25, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Underdiscussed point: how much responsibility Substack bears for Bari Weiss being in the position she is now in.

Fuck substack
the quality of work that bari weiss produced at THE FREE PRESS was dogshit-tier bad (even by the standards of right wing slop) but it was a financial success anyway because Substack's right wing owners and other oligarch benefactors heavily promoted it.

A timeslot hit
December 24, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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"I share all this because the Disability Justice (DJ) revolution we need will not come without a frank discussion about how many disabled folx have been harmed by other disabled folx who preyed on us, based on our perception of shared DJ values."
- Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW.

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The Disability Justice Revolution We All Need Will Never Include Access Intimacy Abuse
This essay deconstructs Access Intimacy Abuse, the term I coined to illuminate the phenomenon by which disabled folx can be harmed by those who weaponize Access Intimacy to exploit us. This conceptual...
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December 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Did you read a book by a transfemme in a language other than English this year?

Comment them on this post!

The Foreign Language category for the TFR Awards only has two votes total and I need more crowdsourcing.
December 24, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Access an unpaywalled link here! 👀 web.archive.org/web/20251223...
December 23, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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JOB!!!
Jewish Currents is searching for a new Editor in Chief!

This is a pretty important role, and I hope there is a diverse applicant pool. Being Jewish is NOT a requirement. As an advisory board member with no say in the hire, I hope especially that those who are POC and/or trans will apply!
Careers
Find out about career opportunities at Jewish Currents.
jewishcurrents.org
December 22, 2025 at 5:46 PM