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astridplus.bsky.social
I have to have been the only trans woman in history to have read the twilight series
December 5, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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threnody.northsky.social
it’s really damn bleak right now & it’s hard to feel good about anything but some trans folks out there are 100% determined to make sure every trans person is exactly as panicked as they are in a way that’s not additive or informative & i’m not sure that’s helpful or what solidarity looks like.
August 27, 2025 at 9:31 PM
astridplus.bsky.social
Did nobody fact-check this statement? She's not saying what the headline is implying here.
Excerpt from the interview Ezra Klein: But the one thing that’s maybe different here is there’s a set of narrow policies, like nondiscrimination, and then a broader cultural effort — everybody should put their pronouns in their bio or say them before they begin speaking at a meeting — that was more about destabilizing the gender binary. And there people had a much stronger view. Like: I do know what it means. I’ve been a man all my life. I’ve been a woman all my life. How dare you tell me how I have to talk about myself or refer to myself! And that made the metaphor break. Because if the gay marriage fight was about what other people do, there was a dimension to this that was about what you do and how you should see yourself or your kids or your society. Sarah McBride: I think that’s an accurate reflection of the overplaying of the hand in some ways — that we as a coalition went to Trans 201, Trans 301, when people were still at a very much Trans 101 stage. I also think there were requests that people perceived as a cultural aggression, which then allowed the right to say: We’re punishing trans people because of their actions. Rather than: We’re going after innocent bystanders. And I think some of the cultural mores and norms that started to develop around inclusion of trans people were probably premature for a lot of people. We became absolutist — not just on trans rights but across the progressive movement — and we forgot that in a democracy we have to grapple with where the public authentically is and actually engage with it. Part of this is fostered by social media.
June 19, 2025 at 5:25 AM
astridplus.bsky.social
America's Transgender Women Too Precious To Risk In Combat, Pentagon Says
May 16, 2025 at 3:53 AM
astridplus.bsky.social
and headpats if you're nice!
April 12, 2025 at 3:50 AM
astridplus.bsky.social
reinterpreting the symphony of the night intro dialogue as a conversation between a trans woman and a chaser
February 13, 2025 at 4:35 AM
astridplus.bsky.social
Move over paranormal romance, the people demand eldritch romance
December 6, 2024 at 10:16 PM