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Rae Bees (they/them)
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🏠 PDX (+Chi) ❤️ mutual aid, music, OFMD, alphabet mafia, disability justice, fat liberation, dismantling white supremacy
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I know posting "the girls are fighting" seems funny, but it's actually insensitive and shitty.

My father died in a girl fight. He tried to break it up and the girls pulled him apart like freshly baked bread. He didn't even scream. One moment he was there, the next just a spray of dad viscera.
June 6, 2025 at 12:43 AM
I still can't fathom that people walk around with no pain. For any amount of time. Pure fantasy. An editor would call it out as unrealistic.
April 5, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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Ohh "America First" was a hit list
April 3, 2025 at 6:43 PM
The world's still on fire, but Wet Leg is dropping a new album 💦🦵🏼
April 4, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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every person involved in this needs to be in prison
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
time.com
March 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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We reported on this a few days ago, but I want to point out this headline because this is where we are at.

A bill in Arkansas would ban gender affirming HAIRCUTS for transgender youth.

HAIRCUTS.

This is a straight up North Korea state sanctioned hairstyle proposed law for youth.
GOP bill could ban hairdressers from giving gender-nonconforming haircuts to minors - LGBTQ Nation
The bill would allow anyone to sue someone who affirms a young person's transition, and it specifically mentions hairstyles.
www.lgbtqnation.com
March 19, 2025 at 5:34 PM
As a kid, I used to tell people I wanted to be an etymologist. Everyone thought I liked bugs 😅

Nah, different kind of nerd.
March 19, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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we will go right down to the sea
bathing in light, we will be free to wander

🧡🏴‍☠️ #OurFlagMeansDeath #omfd
November 19, 2024 at 11:41 PM
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Fascism is a cult of hegemonic masculinity asserting its hierarchical dominance. For white men, by white men. Literally everyone else is on the chopping block.
March 3, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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I love being queer, I love queer love, I love queer sex, I love queer intimacy, holding hands, cheek kisses, longing, yearning, all of it. Queer love is beautiful, gentle, sacred. It is more than the homophobes are capable of understanding because it is pure. It is an honesty they can’t see
March 2, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I've got Stereolab tickets! ✨✨✨
February 28, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Autistic people don’t need to be cured. We need to be smoked
February 23, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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5 star reads of 2024, part 17

If there was ever a year to read this book, it is this year.
It is hopeful, radical and practical.

#booksky #nonfictionbooksky #diversebooks
February 3, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.
February 15, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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Unison is the largest women’s organization in the UK. It has a million women members.

The Unison women’s conference just voted for a motion that said;

“trans women are women and trans men are men”

with no-one speaking against it.

Transphobia is a top-down, elite practice.
February 14, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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The amount of weaponized unreality has increased dramatically.

It can have an effect on people at an individual level in terms of cognitive functioning and emotional state.

If you’re having greater than usual difficulty thinking clearly and mood variability, that might be part of why.
February 13, 2025 at 1:55 AM
[ID: A colorful illustration of Archie, Jim, Oluwande, and Zheng from Our Flag Means Death with their heads stacked on each other.]
the polycule stack
#ofmd
February 8, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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I can't get over the generosity Chappel Roam promotes. The speech was incredible, but the Pink Pony Club performance!!! Highlighting the dancers, musicians, and ✨theater✨ that exists when we prioritize artistic generosity and protection of most vulnerable.

She's the Pink Pony People's Princess
February 6, 2025 at 11:52 PM
February 6, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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It’s OK to admit that we’re off the map of our experience. The rules & best practices some of us are accustomed to, in certain situations, may no longer apply. There are some questions I lovingly refuse to answer at this time bc I don’t know. We need more humility. Some of our expertise is outdated.
February 6, 2025 at 12:17 AM
#OFMD alert! Once Upon a Summer in San Francisco updated by @samwisery.bsky.social ! A silver lining in this awful world.
February 5, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Even adorable anthropomorphic woodland creatures fight back when necessary.
February 5, 2025 at 1:21 AM
I had to put my dog down this weekend, unexpectedly. It's my first major loss of a loved one, so it's hitting me hard. I had food poisoning, and of course the general horrors of the world bore down on me too. I'm doing better than yesterday but crying a lot today. Thank goodness for therapy later.
February 4, 2025 at 9:28 PM