freckledfemmby
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freckledfemmby
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Respectability politics in the LGBTQ+ movement, then and now.

open.substack.com/pub/historyc...
Sylvia Rivera Warned Us: Gay Men Would Abandon Trans People—And She Was Right
Gay conservatives say trans rights aren’t their fight. But what happens when they’re next?
open.substack.com
March 5, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Please don't email HR@opm.gov with random photos of your meals or cats or the top 5 things you wish you accomplished today or the Constitution of the United States or the Bill of Rights. Edolf says it's for serious things only.
February 24, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other
February 14, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Mostly about/for trans folks. Allies, your bit is at the end.
open.substack.com/pub/flintdel...
When do we go to LGBTQ DEFCON 1?
An article for the queer Americans who are all wondering if they’re overreacting (and the allies who have no idea how to help us)
open.substack.com
February 10, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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millennui
February 6, 2025 at 7:15 PM
When your BFF runs the cafe you choose for a working brunch, you get the VIP treatment.
February 1, 2025 at 5:46 PM
My current line in the sand is this:
if you're willing to act against authoritarianism when it is knocking at your door and "doing your job" would mean falling in line but you DON'T... Then we're on the same side.

This thread shares a bunch of examples of people and orgs who are on the right side.
It is Friday afternoon of a wild, wild week. And yet for me a reassuring one. My greatest fear was not of what they would do. It's that we would let them. And I'm seeing a lot of beautiful intransigence. From federal workers. From people all over the country obstructing ICE....
February 1, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Given all these critical webpages are being taken down, this might be a good time to familiarize yourself with the Wayback Machine on Internet Archive. It can pull up pages that are no longer active:

web.archive.org
Wayback MachineHamburger iconInternet Archive logoWeb iconTexts iconVideo iconAudio iconSoftware iconImages iconDonate iconEllipses iconDonate iconUser iconUpload iconSearch iconSearch iconSearch icon...
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January 31, 2025 at 11:20 PM
TRANS PEOPLE EXIST.
Trans people exist.
We exist.
January 31, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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January 31, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Are you paying ATTENTION, yet? 👇

Well, are you?!
January 27, 2025 at 2:04 AM
ft. Unpaid actor Smol Gay Ikea Bag
January 22, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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January 19, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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How to spend today
January 20, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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January 15, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Honestly? Same. Especially around a Cancer full moon.
January 14, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts?

Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.

Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
2025 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!
This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!
www.erininthemorning.com
January 12, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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January 14, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I've been trying to figure out the essence of the color of this year's bullet journal. Vegan cheese. It's vegan cheddar cheese.
January 14, 2025 at 6:19 PM