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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️
@danielle-actually.bsky.social
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Older than I look - doctor, public speaker, musician. Suing for workplace discrimination.

Writes about Trans Liberation, Marginalised Communities, LGBTQI+ issues, Politics, Autocracy, Health Tech.
#IDSky #WomenInMedicine
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Trans on Trams 🚃

My trans agenda is getting to my hairdresser and having a good ol’ catch up
Danielle, a trans, on a tram, wearing sage top, camel skirt and simply existing
September 20, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Melbourne, winter, 2025
A simple photo of a city building - Art Deco style, straw coloured, strong lines and squares, against a bright blue clear sky
August 13, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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@marciebianco.bsky.social
Saw this today, instantly wanted to forward it to you
July 25, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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He’s in great company
July 25, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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Someone was SUPER keen to wear their new pants to work today
Person on a train wearing a pair of trousers with the size sticker still stuck to the side
June 16, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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More of aesthetic!

*Alt-text: 4 more paintings of women reclining on day beds and chaise longues, in various states of bliss and/or mind-body-dissociation*
May 21, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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I think this whole aesthetic needs a revival

*Alt-text: 4 pictures of women reclining on day beds and chaise longues.*
May 21, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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May 3, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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Representing LFC down here in Melbourne/Naarm!

🎶 Weeeee are the champions
my frieeeeend🎤⚽️
April 30, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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So: you see these sitting invitingly on a bench at the train station.

They look freshly laid 😂

What do you do?
March 28, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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Post an ad for your car. There she is.
1967 print ad for a VW Beetle - “We made the car go faster. And the engine go slower”
March 20, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Aaaand it was great. Important discussion
February 24, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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😁 It’s giving
February 21, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Trans people have been accused of erasing women, erasing this and erasing that.

Guess what? THIS is erasure.

It is ALWAYS done by men.

#Stonewall
Photograph at Stonewall with a placard that says “you can’t spell history without a T” Photograph of lots of people protesting outside Stonewall with pride and trans flags
February 14, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Today was Pride Cup day!

It’s such a great social, fun and casual way to try to relax after the rally yesterday and all the MALARKEY that’s going on worldwide.

#PrideCup #QueerJoy #Community #Connection
February 9, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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I love this reflection by Erin Reed.

Stonewall - the quiet before the storm.

“May we find the strength they had”

#TransSky #PhotographySky #MedSky
Thank you @erininthemorning.com
Picture outside Stonewall of 8-10 gay and trans people about to be arrested, but smiling together. Erin Reed wrote that it’s her favourite picture of Stonewall, symbolic of the strength our forebears had.
January 29, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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Jasmine’s oh-so-cute thank you’s on Instagram for the reception of her album
Instagram screenshot of Jasmine.4.t’s thank yous. She says “l don't even know what to say. I can't believe this is happening. My album You Are The Morning is out. The love so far has been phenomenal. I could never have hoped for this. New video out now by @dir.harvfrost for Guy Fawkes Tesco Dissociation, a song I wrote about thinking about KMS in Tesco a few years ago, where I imagined the next chapter where I found "connection next to true self/something larger than my life". Wild to be living that now with this album out in this form, featuring a stellar cast. Thank you so much to everyone involved in this project including @phoebebridgers @lucydacus @julienrbaker@_eobr@phoenix_rousiamanis Today is my wonderful theyfriend @stone.grunge's birthday and it's an honour to use their name on the track Roan, written about the night we met thank you to my chosen family and the borderless anarchism of trans people thank you thank you
January 17, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Looks what arrived in the post.

@jasmine4t.bsky.social’s new album - You Are The Morning. Produced by the boys of boygenius

It’s a magnum opus and I just love it. It’s about beauty from pain, hope from suffering, and sweet production 😁

#MusicSky #Jasmine4t #boygenius #TransSky #QueerSky
Picture of Jasmine’s album cover
January 17, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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January 17, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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Jasmine.4.t’s album has just been released and I’m downloading it into my mind on this gorgeous summer morning.

First track Kitchen is amazing. Such a beautiful opening, firmly declaring the influence of Elliot Smith 🤯🩵🩷
Danielle blissing, listening to You Are The Morning Jasmine.4.t’s track list open for the first time
January 16, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Detail : Meta ensures women and trans people get TROLLED with no recourse.
Zuckerberg's statement was timed with the release of a post by Meta Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan: We want to undo the mission creep that has made our rules too restrictive and too prone to over-enforcement. We're getting rid of a number of restrictions on topics like immigration, gender identity and gender that are the subject of frequent political discourse and debate. It's not right that things can be said on TV or the floor of Congress, but not on our platforms.
January 8, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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Robin, Steve, and Dustin
January 5, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Just me blasting Gay Anthems to collect my kid…

in The Mornington Peninsula…

Melbourne’s answer to The Hamptons

#JimmySomerville #SmalltownBoy #BronskiBeat
January 5, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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Posting this with the following comment:

- HYN from Naarm Melbourne
- yea, it’s a bit silly
- also a bit fun, can’t lie
- helped me commit to being my happiest, most active, loving self in 2025 despite what the assholes of the world want to throw my way

❤️ 🏳️‍⚧️ ✊

#TransSky #MedSky #IDSky
January 2, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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I see your 20 or 30 years question and raise you Condundrum, a memoir by travel writer and journalist Jan Morris

Published 1974,
Cover quote from the first chapter, referring to her first memory as a child in the 1920’s
“I was three or perhaps four years old when I realised that I had been born into the wrong body, and should really be a girl. I remember the moment well, and it is the earliest memory of my life.” Cover of Jan Morris’s book, Conundrum
December 31, 2024 at 4:22 AM