Ebony Ava Harper
@ebonyava.bsky.social
🎨 Artist | ✊🏾 Trans Activist | 🐾 Animal Lover
Reporting truth, amplifying stories, refusing silence. 📰 Here is my Substack: https://blackntrans.substack.com/
Reporting truth, amplifying stories, refusing silence. 📰 Here is my Substack: https://blackntrans.substack.com/
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Beth Bourne and the Intersections of Hate: Where Transphobia Meets White Supremacy
Inside the campaign of a woman weaponizing whiteness and bigotry under the guise of “freedom”
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Beth Bourne and her campaign of hate against trans people!!! Old Jim Crow tactics, new generation.
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A comedic legend and his wife identified by L.A. robbery homicide division
-Rob Reiner has died at 78.
& his wife Michelle at 68
RIP our beloved Meathead & Michelle 🕯️
-Rob Reiner has died at 78.
& his wife Michelle at 68
RIP our beloved Meathead & Michelle 🕯️
Rob Reiner and his wife found dead with stab wounds in Los Angeles home, AP source says
Director-actor Rob Reiner and his wife Michele were found dead Sunday at Reiner's Los Angeles home, according to a law enforcement official.
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December 15, 2025 at 5:04 AM
A comedic legend and his wife identified by L.A. robbery homicide division
-Rob Reiner has died at 78.
& his wife Michelle at 68
RIP our beloved Meathead & Michelle 🕯️
-Rob Reiner has died at 78.
& his wife Michelle at 68
RIP our beloved Meathead & Michelle 🕯️
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As it turns out, the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun *isn’t* a good guy with a gun—it can be a good guy *without* a gun. Just another NRA lie.
December 14, 2025 at 11:19 PM
As it turns out, the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun *isn’t* a good guy with a gun—it can be a good guy *without* a gun. Just another NRA lie.
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The business mogul and activist has been in ailing health and has already spent more than 1,800 days in solitary confinement in Hong Kong before his verdict. n.pr/44wHTJg
Hong Kong pro-democracy activist and mogul Jimmy Lai sentenced
The business mogul and activist has been in ailing health and has already spent more than 1,800 days in solitary confinement in Hong Kong before his verdict.
n.pr
December 15, 2025 at 7:58 AM
The business mogul and activist has been in ailing health and has already spent more than 1,800 days in solitary confinement in Hong Kong before his verdict. n.pr/44wHTJg
This is me putting words to a future I wish we had. The first hundred days, led by care.
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A Black Trans Woman Is Now President. Welcome to Day One.
A 100-Day Plan to Dismantle Fascism and Build a Nation of Care, Dreaming Toward a Better World
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December 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
This is me putting words to a future I wish we had. The first hundred days, led by care.
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God painted this world in every color and texture. The lesson’s been right in front of us the whole time. Samantha Fulnecky needs a bigger God!
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The Trans “Demonic” Samantha Fulnecky Warned You About
We need to talk about the difference between a believer and a weapon. Let’s look at what is actually pulling the strings here.
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December 11, 2025 at 5:49 AM
God painted this world in every color and texture. The lesson’s been right in front of us the whole time. Samantha Fulnecky needs a bigger God!
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Welcome to my world. I hope you enjoy! i’m kind of teasing myself with the header, trying to laugh to keep from crying…
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The Weekly Gag: The Trans State of The Union
Location: The Right Side of History
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December 10, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Welcome to my world. I hope you enjoy! i’m kind of teasing myself with the header, trying to laugh to keep from crying…
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another chosen grifter has gone through the riley gaines industrial complex
December 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
another chosen grifter has gone through the riley gaines industrial complex
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Spot on, Mr. Rather. 🎯 💯
December 7, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Spot on, Mr. Rather. 🎯 💯
This is Lou Sullivan.
He was a pioneering female-to-male trans activist who openly identified as a gay man, one of the first to demand recognition for gay trans men in medical and social spaces.
He was a pioneering female-to-male trans activist who openly identified as a gay man, one of the first to demand recognition for gay trans men in medical and social spaces.
December 5, 2025 at 12:56 AM
This is Lou Sullivan.
He was a pioneering female-to-male trans activist who openly identified as a gay man, one of the first to demand recognition for gay trans men in medical and social spaces.
He was a pioneering female-to-male trans activist who openly identified as a gay man, one of the first to demand recognition for gay trans men in medical and social spaces.
Two Black folks with deep childhood trauma ended up in the same concert line, and the moment revealed more than either of us expected. Her reaction came from old pain, and my understanding came from old pain too.
The Hello She Didn’t Hear and the Hurt I Recognized
The night someone’s pain taught me more about my own healing.
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December 3, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Two Black folks with deep childhood trauma ended up in the same concert line, and the moment revealed more than either of us expected. Her reaction came from old pain, and my understanding came from old pain too.
Need unrestricted cash for your small Sacramento arts nonprofit? The OAC just opened grants up to $5,000 for general operating support. Eligibility is strict: must be under a $25,000 annual budget. Get the full breakdown and link here…..
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A Lifeline for Sacramento’s Smallest Cultural Groups: The $5,000 Sustainability Fund
General Operating Grants Up to $5,000 Now Available for Micro-Budget Arts Organizations.
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October 28, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Need unrestricted cash for your small Sacramento arts nonprofit? The OAC just opened grants up to $5,000 for general operating support. Eligibility is strict: must be under a $25,000 annual budget. Get the full breakdown and link here…..
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Today, our Mother Major was laid to rest in Arkansas… and my heart is heavy. Miss Major is a movement. She raised many generations of girls. She poured her whole soul into this work, and the least we can do is keep that fire burning. Rest easy, Mother Major. You gave us the blueprint. 🕊️
The Weekly Gag: Trans State of the Union
Two Weeks Off, But the Bullshit Never Sleeps… We’re Back, and Here’s The Gag!
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October 26, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Today, our Mother Major was laid to rest in Arkansas… and my heart is heavy. Miss Major is a movement. She raised many generations of girls. She poured her whole soul into this work, and the least we can do is keep that fire burning. Rest easy, Mother Major. You gave us the blueprint. 🕊️
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“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.
We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
October 8, 2025 at 11:57 PM
“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.
We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
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The author Oliver Kornetzke didn’t miss!
September 28, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The author Oliver Kornetzke didn’t miss!
I remember being in fear at first. But saying yes to this production meant finally facing pieces of myself I had kept hidden. This piece is about that journey: leaving South Central, surviving neglect, running toward chosen family, and the ultimate act of self-love that led me to the stage.
Honey Let Me Tell You About The Flowers: Mirror Memoirs Transmutation: A Ceremony
From the Cracks of South Central to the Altar: Turning the Scars of Child Sexual Abuse and Transmisogynoir into Pure Gold: A Ceremony of Black Trans Sisterhood and Collective Testimony
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September 26, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I remember being in fear at first. But saying yes to this production meant finally facing pieces of myself I had kept hidden. This piece is about that journey: leaving South Central, surviving neglect, running toward chosen family, and the ultimate act of self-love that led me to the stage.
Happy Birthday to my fam Tee! 🎉💛 Tonight we hit Calabash Caribbean on Del Paso, and they showed Tee so much love. Grateful for another year around the sun with my chosen family. I love you, beautiful ✨
September 26, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Happy Birthday to my fam Tee! 🎉💛 Tonight we hit Calabash Caribbean on Del Paso, and they showed Tee so much love. Grateful for another year around the sun with my chosen family. I love you, beautiful ✨
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“The time of…Benjamin Netanyahu coming to this city and then making military decisions from this city to kill civilians…has to come to an end.”
I asked @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social if he still plans to arrest Netanyahu if he comes to New York.
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I asked @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social if he still plans to arrest Netanyahu if he comes to New York.
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September 26, 2025 at 12:55 AM
“The time of…Benjamin Netanyahu coming to this city and then making military decisions from this city to kill civilians…has to come to an end.”
I asked @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social if he still plans to arrest Netanyahu if he comes to New York.
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I asked @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social if he still plans to arrest Netanyahu if he comes to New York.
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They have been at this for a long time. I say we reclaim Jesus; it's all a narrative. They have made a whole group of people believe that we aren't Christians, but we are living more according to Christian values than they are. Let's take Jesus back. You know very well that Jesus was a leftist…
How evangelicals abandoned Christianity — and became "conservatives" instead - Salon.com
As an evangelical pastor for many years, I saw faith in Jesus Christ gradually replaced by right-wing ideology
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September 26, 2025 at 5:18 AM
They have been at this for a long time. I say we reclaim Jesus; it's all a narrative. They have made a whole group of people believe that we aren't Christians, but we are living more according to Christian values than they are. Let's take Jesus back. You know very well that Jesus was a leftist…
Did y’all see this? A Sacramento man, who is a former lobbyist, shot into ABC10. I have friends that work there, and they’ve always been good to me. I hope everybody is okay over there.
Man arrested in Sacramento ABC TV station shooting was flagged on X for "violent speech" days earlier
The man accused of firing shots at a Sacramento ABC-affiliate television station faced a judge for the first time Monday in federal court.
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September 25, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Did y’all see this? A Sacramento man, who is a former lobbyist, shot into ABC10. I have friends that work there, and they’ve always been good to me. I hope everybody is okay over there.
Big Bird’s kindness, Snuffy naming sadness out loud, Mister Rogers telling kids “it’s not your fault” during divorce, these were the affirmations I needed and got from PBS. They were ahead of their time and I have to give them their props!
The Street That Saved Me: How Sesame Street Touched My Life
The Lessons a Giant Yellow Bird and a Would-Be Priest Taught a Black Kid in South Central
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September 24, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Big Bird’s kindness, Snuffy naming sadness out loud, Mister Rogers telling kids “it’s not your fault” during divorce, these were the affirmations I needed and got from PBS. They were ahead of their time and I have to give them their props!
I hope they don't don't try to come after her
MacKenzie Scott gives $70 million to UNCF to financially strengthen HBCUs
Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has donated $70 million to the UNCF, the largest private provider of scholarships to minority students.
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September 23, 2025 at 4:35 AM
I hope they don't don't try to come after her
A reminder that America faces an extremist problem, even within the military.
American Terror: The Military’s Problem With Extremism in the Ranks
YouTube video by VICE News
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September 22, 2025 at 9:43 PM
A reminder that America faces an extremist problem, even within the military.