Annalise Ophelian
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As a licensed psychologist I am saying with my whole chest: Gender-affirming care for young people is health care. Medically necessary, age-appropriate, science-backed, life-saving health care, supported by EVERY major medical association.
It is our duty to protect trans youth at all costs.
It is our duty to protect trans youth at all costs.
The documentary I made with Miss Major 10 years ago is available to stream free on Vimeo. If you want to spend some time with her and her loved ones, and learn some abolitionist trans history while you're at it, updated streaming link is here: vimeo.com/whatdowewant...
MAJOR! (free streaming link)
The award-winning 2016 documentary "MAJOR!" follows the life and campaigns of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a Black transgender elder who has been fighting…
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October 14, 2025 at 6:28 PM
The documentary I made with Miss Major 10 years ago is available to stream free on Vimeo. If you want to spend some time with her and her loved ones, and learn some abolitionist trans history while you're at it, updated streaming link is here: vimeo.com/whatdowewant...
The documentary I made with Miss Major 10 years ago is on Vimeo on Demand. If you want to spend some time with her on screen tonight and learn some abolitionist trans history while you're at it, it's free to rent with the code "shinebright" vimeo.com/ondemand/major
Watch MAJOR! Online | Vimeo On Demand
The award-winning documentary "MAJOR!" follows the life and campaigns of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a Black transgender elder who has been fighting for…
vimeo.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:08 AM
The documentary I made with Miss Major 10 years ago is on Vimeo on Demand. If you want to spend some time with her on screen tonight and learn some abolitionist trans history while you're at it, it's free to rent with the code "shinebright" vimeo.com/ondemand/major
We're all traveling a path Miss Major paved for us. She touched so many lives, and left her mark across 50 years of organizing, fighting, and loving. I miss her deeply. But I know she’s going to persist as the most hands-on ancestor we’ve got. Rest in Power 🖤👠 www.them.us/story/miss-m...
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Stonewall Veteran and Legendary Trans Activist, Has Died at 78
Miss Major continued fighting for trans rights even after two strokes and other health concerns.
www.them.us
October 14, 2025 at 1:02 AM
We're all traveling a path Miss Major paved for us. She touched so many lives, and left her mark across 50 years of organizing, fighting, and loving. I miss her deeply. But I know she’s going to persist as the most hands-on ancestor we’ve got. Rest in Power 🖤👠 www.them.us/story/miss-m...
SF Bay Area! It’s so very hard right now, but it’s the 10th anniversary of the MAJOR! doc and we can come together in a theater with Miss Major and witness her legacy from Attica to Stonewall to today. Open captions, ASL, wheelchair access, masks required. All proceeds benefit TGIJP 🖤 6/8 3pm Roxie
June 3, 2025 at 1:45 AM
SF Bay Area! It’s so very hard right now, but it’s the 10th anniversary of the MAJOR! doc and we can come together in a theater with Miss Major and witness her legacy from Attica to Stonewall to today. Open captions, ASL, wheelchair access, masks required. All proceeds benefit TGIJP 🖤 6/8 3pm Roxie
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My piece on Sinners, its questions and considerations of ownership and freedom, and how Ryan Coogler utilized those themes to create a legacy for himself and Black creatives. #Sinners
‘Sinners’, Coogler and Questions of Ownership
There was a time when Black creatives could simply be grateful for the opportunity to make something, but that wasn’t true freedom. True freedom is to make it, own it, and build a legacy from it, writ...
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April 22, 2025 at 8:25 PM
My piece on Sinners, its questions and considerations of ownership and freedom, and how Ryan Coogler utilized those themes to create a legacy for himself and Black creatives. #Sinners
SINNERS
SINNERS
April 23, 2025 at 5:26 AM
SINNERS
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I know you aren't going to want to hear this but the reason the system can deport Mahmoud Khalil and send Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador is that for years we've been executing factually innocent people like Marcellus Williams and sending legally innocent people to places like Riker's Island.
April 15, 2025 at 12:20 AM
I know you aren't going to want to hear this but the reason the system can deport Mahmoud Khalil and send Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador is that for years we've been executing factually innocent people like Marcellus Williams and sending legally innocent people to places like Riker's Island.
Crush the oligarchy includes Joanne.
You all need to treat Harry Potter IP like we’re treating the Tesla brand.
April 17, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Crush the oligarchy includes Joanne.
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1,100 pieces against trans people in just 4 papers over 1 year. Almost 1 a day per paper. With absolutely no recourse at all. Is it any wonder that trans people are both angry and terrified?
Was actually wrong, I'm just two days away form having a full year's worth of stats.
It's going to come in at just under 1,100 articles about trans people in the Guardian, Times, Mail and Telegraph over that time, almost all attacks.
That's an ave of 3 a day every single day from just those papers
It's going to come in at just under 1,100 articles about trans people in the Guardian, Times, Mail and Telegraph over that time, almost all attacks.
That's an ave of 3 a day every single day from just those papers
April 13, 2025 at 7:58 PM
1,100 pieces against trans people in just 4 papers over 1 year. Almost 1 a day per paper. With absolutely no recourse at all. Is it any wonder that trans people are both angry and terrified?
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Fine. Whatever.
March 5, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Fine. Whatever.
Blossom cleanse for your timeline, courtesy of spring in San Francisco 🌸
February 23, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Blossom cleanse for your timeline, courtesy of spring in San Francisco 🌸
The National Park Service made Stonewall a national monument in 2016. Today, all language pertaining to trans people is gone from the page - it's LGB, the T and the Q are gone. Visit their site, click NO on "was this page helpful," and let them know what you think of this. www.nps.gov/ston/index.htm
Stonewall National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)
Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in the quest for LGB civil rights a...
www.nps.gov
February 14, 2025 at 1:22 AM
The National Park Service made Stonewall a national monument in 2016. Today, all language pertaining to trans people is gone from the page - it's LGB, the T and the Q are gone. Visit their site, click NO on "was this page helpful," and let them know what you think of this. www.nps.gov/ston/index.htm
Black and brown trans women started Stonewall.
Stonewall was an uprising against cops.
Stonewall is the reason we celebrate Pride month.
Stonewall is and always will be trans history.
Here's Black trans elder and activist Miss Major describing that night in her own words.
🖤🏳️⚧️🖤🏳️⚧️🖤🏳️⚧️🖤🏳️⚧️🖤
Stonewall was an uprising against cops.
Stonewall is the reason we celebrate Pride month.
Stonewall is and always will be trans history.
Here's Black trans elder and activist Miss Major describing that night in her own words.
🖤🏳️⚧️🖤🏳️⚧️🖤🏳️⚧️🖤🏳️⚧️🖤
MAJORettes Episode 5: Stonewall
An excerpt from the documentary MAJOR! Black trans elder and activist Miss Major describes her experience of the Stonewall Uprising. Watch MAJOR! free this month…
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February 14, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Black and brown trans women started Stonewall.
Stonewall was an uprising against cops.
Stonewall is the reason we celebrate Pride month.
Stonewall is and always will be trans history.
Here's Black trans elder and activist Miss Major describing that night in her own words.
🖤🏳️⚧️🖤🏳️⚧️🖤🏳️⚧️🖤🏳️⚧️🖤
Stonewall was an uprising against cops.
Stonewall is the reason we celebrate Pride month.
Stonewall is and always will be trans history.
Here's Black trans elder and activist Miss Major describing that night in her own words.
🖤🏳️⚧️🖤🏳️⚧️🖤🏳️⚧️🖤🏳️⚧️🖤
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Deeply good writing from @theradr.bsky.social on how we meet this moment, and this line really hit home:
“They are deliberately attempting to trigger a trauma response so that we are less able to respond from our whole selves and more likely to just go along with whatever's happening.”
“They are deliberately attempting to trigger a trauma response so that we are less able to respond from our whole selves and more likely to just go along with whatever's happening.”
New:
Why practices to connect us with our own humanity, each other, & perhaps something bigger, really matter now—
And can help keep us more whole, less responding on their terms & more on our own, more making choices as the people we wish to be.
Practical tips & bigger picture here:
Why practices to connect us with our own humanity, each other, & perhaps something bigger, really matter now—
And can help keep us more whole, less responding on their terms & more on our own, more making choices as the people we wish to be.
Practical tips & bigger picture here:
fortify inside
why spiritual practice matters during the rising authoritarian tide
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
February 4, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Deeply good writing from @theradr.bsky.social on how we meet this moment, and this line really hit home:
“They are deliberately attempting to trigger a trauma response so that we are less able to respond from our whole selves and more likely to just go along with whatever's happening.”
“They are deliberately attempting to trigger a trauma response so that we are less able to respond from our whole selves and more likely to just go along with whatever's happening.”
San Francisco Bay Area / Sacramento crew! 👇👇👇
Indivisible/Move On/Working Families Party members in California are visiting Senator Alex Padilla's offices in Sacramento AND San Francisco this Wednesday at 10:30am PST! Join them if you're in the area!
www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
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We Choose to Fight: Demand Senator Alex Padilla Fight Back Against the Trump-Musk Funding Freeze · Indivisible
We are facing a crisis and we need all Members of Congress to fight back. Join your friends and neighbors in telling Senator Alex Padilla that we demand they use every tool at their disposal to fight ...
www.mobilize.us
February 4, 2025 at 1:54 AM
San Francisco Bay Area / Sacramento crew! 👇👇👇
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"Europeans who witnessed democracy crumble before their eyes have some words of advice for Americans now entering the second Trump era.... stay united, safeguard your civic institutions and never, never give up." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
Europeans on democracy’s frontlines offer advice to Americans: never give up
With the new Trump era likely to pose unprecedented challenges the message from Europe’s fragile democracies is: stay united and safeguard your institutions
www.theguardian.com
February 3, 2025 at 4:12 PM
"Europeans who witnessed democracy crumble before their eyes have some words of advice for Americans now entering the second Trump era.... stay united, safeguard your civic institutions and never, never give up." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
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Someone please update this so I understand how the US government now works...
February 2, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Someone please update this so I understand how the US government now works...
I’m just a girl, standing in front of the DNC, asking for a real opposition party.
February 1, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I’m just a girl, standing in front of the DNC, asking for a real opposition party.
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Do Not Comply In Advance: bossy, already a cliche, implies permission to comply later
Fuck You, Make Me: leads by example, directs yelling at opposition instead of allies, easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner
Fuck You, Make Me: leads by example, directs yelling at opposition instead of allies, easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner
January 31, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Do Not Comply In Advance: bossy, already a cliche, implies permission to comply later
Fuck You, Make Me: leads by example, directs yelling at opposition instead of allies, easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner
Fuck You, Make Me: leads by example, directs yelling at opposition instead of allies, easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner
Today, all links related to trans people are being removed from federal health websites. Years of research, policy, and vital data about vulnerable communities is being erased.
Cis folks, call/e-mail your reps at the local, state, and federal level and make it clear you do not want this. Right now.
Cis folks, call/e-mail your reps at the local, state, and federal level and make it clear you do not want this. Right now.
January 31, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Today, all links related to trans people are being removed from federal health websites. Years of research, policy, and vital data about vulnerable communities is being erased.
Cis folks, call/e-mail your reps at the local, state, and federal level and make it clear you do not want this. Right now.
Cis folks, call/e-mail your reps at the local, state, and federal level and make it clear you do not want this. Right now.
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Being trans is a joy and a gift! Some folks are trying to take away that joy! We will not let them! We will become even more trans and more joyful as time goes on!
January 29, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Being trans is a joy and a gift! Some folks are trying to take away that joy! We will not let them! We will become even more trans and more joyful as time goes on!
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I just donated $50 to @transjournalists.org because they do important work and deserve the support. I strongly encourage anyone who can match me to do so. It also feels better than becoming more overwhelmed from doomscrolling: www.transjournalists.org/donate/
Support the TJA
Together, we can promote more accurate, nuanced coverage of trans issues and communities in the media while also supporting gender-expansive journalists in their workplaces and careers.
Join the TJA'...
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January 30, 2025 at 2:12 AM
I just donated $50 to @transjournalists.org because they do important work and deserve the support. I strongly encourage anyone who can match me to do so. It also feels better than becoming more overwhelmed from doomscrolling: www.transjournalists.org/donate/