It’s that time of year again, where I come around asking for support for @scarleteen.com for those able to pitch in with some cash, some shares, or both. We’re raising for a healthcare fund for our team this time around, and a 10k match is in play: classy.org/fundraiser/6815368 Can you help? ❤️🙏🏼

Oh, do I know how this is!

Ooooo la la!

<image is a screenshot of the Scarleteen Bluesky account, now without ye olde dot social!>

Also, my relationship with my mother was so fraught, and combined with an abusive stepparent, unsafe, resulting in my leaving home at 15. But every now and then there were moments of light, and this one is my favorite of the few rare photos of us together:

Here’s a pic of Lulu in the days after surgery when she refused to be more than six inches away from me as an extra gesture of thanks.

Totally.

@yelahneb.bsky.social I heart this picture of us so much. 🥹

Traditional American imagery like this, seems like:

In less grumpy news, in these times, I can be worse at remembering to eat than usual. Making a big pot of soup Sundays for the week helps, so I give you last nights improv pasta e fagioli.

I think that in these very shittiest of times, I need to bring post-orgasmic me back to the chat more often again. I would encourage all of you to do the same.

This fucking picture of smug-ass Trump surrounded by smug-ass young girls whose parents have apparently raised them as tiny TERFs, smiling as he signs trans girls rights away to enjoy sports the cis girls do makes my blood BOIL.

Because life is way too scary and hard right now, may I offer you my dogs being especially cute tonight?

This language is completely absurd, not the least of which because Trump couldn’t tell you what Marxism is if his stupid, shitty life depended on it. 🙄

“to ensure they do not “advance Marxist equity, transgenderism and Green New Deal social engineering policies.”

After 2016, I had one of these made for our whole team at Scarleteen. Today felt like a day to wear it again. <images are a freckled hand with a copper bracelet with Nolite te bastardes carborundurum etched on it, the inside faux-Latin joke from Handwife’s Tale>

Hey Boston! Tuesday night you can find me, Judy Norsigian and Aida Manduley at the Modern Theater, from 5-7:30 PM, talking sex and aging for Our Bodies, Ourselves Today! It’s a (free!) hybrid in-person and virtual event, and masks are required in-person. ci.ovationtix.com/34432/produc...

I… um… how… what… okay, I still don’t understand how all this can actually be real. Are we all absolutely CERTAIN we are awake and not having unbelievably stupid dreams?

Okay, Chicago: I sent my ballot in a few weeks ago and I am still seeing this (image shows my ballot delivered but not counted). Anyone else here experiencing this? 😒 This is a new one for me.