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Jenni Olson
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I'm @JenniOlsonSF everywhere | Senior Director, Social Media Safety at @glaad.bsky.social. LGBTQ film expert & online pioneer. Maker of films. Proprietor: Butch.org
"I can’t stand the idea of working for a company that doesn’t live up to having basic values around L.G.B.T.Q. rights and equality.

What should I do?"
September 8, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Happy International Butch Appreciation Day! Appreciate all the butches in your life every day. "I wanted to thank you. If it wasn't for you, I'd never have known I had a right to be me." — Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues (art by @miriamkleinstahl.bsky.social)
www.facebook.com/butchappday/
August 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Check out this must-read piece from @mmasnick.bsky.social at TechDirt on how LinkedIn is following in the anti-trans footsteps of Meta, YouTube, and others: "LinkedIn Joins The Parade Of Cowards: Quietly Strips Anti-Trans Protections To Appease MAGA Mob" www.techdirt.com/2025/08/01/l...
August 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
LA Friends: I'm presenting a screening of The Royal Road on Mon Aug 4th at 7:30pm at the queer Black Cat Cinema series at Look Cinemas in Glendale. Click to get your tix. Fun fact: This production still is my shot of Barbara Stanwyck's house in Double Indemnity. www.lookcinemas.com/movie/1001/6...
July 19, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Thrilled to be featured in the new issue of Film Quarterly talking about the 10th anniversary of The Royal Road (2015)! With my continuing mission as a filmmaker: “I’m engaged in a completely impossible and yet partially successful effort to stop time.” online.ucpress.edu/fq/article/7...
July 5, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Not me being picked by the @theguardian.com as having made the third best LGBTQ film of the 21st century! Thx @ryangilbey.bsky.social! The Royal Road is available to watch for free via @kanopy.com, Tubi, or the Wolfe Video Movies channel on YouTube. Happy Pride! www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...
June 12, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Wow, this is wild. This is the building at 6th & Market where the old PlanetOut.com office was — like, um, 25 years ago!? do.ithistory.org/db/companies...
May 20, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Thank you @maya4rights.bsky.social & @civilrightsorg.bsky.social for today's kick-ass open letter to Meta demanding that Mark Zuckerberg must "take accountability for your role in sowing the seeds of hate, falsehoods, and lies." civilrights.org/resource/lea...
May 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
April 19, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Oh wow! I know it's not #FollowFriday yet, but... Look who's here! @hillmurray.bsky.social Welcome to Bluesky, Murray Hill! (Aka: Fred Rococo on HBO's Somebody Somewhere).
April 15, 2025 at 9:14 PM
🏳️‍🌈 🫵 Click to register: The @glaad.bsky.social Media Institute is hosting this virtual media advocacy training for local LGBTQ organization staff, community leaders, and individuals (Telling Your Story: Messaging & Media Tools For Today’s Activist — April 23, 12 PM EST). act.glaad.org/page/78001/s...
April 9, 2025 at 10:37 PM
🤠 SF Bay Area folks: My film The Royal Road is showing Tues, April 1 @ 6:30pm at the Roxie AND Wed, April 2 @ 7pm at @bampfa.bsky.social. And The Joy of Life (2005) screens Tues, April 8 @ 6:30pm at the Roxie. More details here via @sfchronicle.com! datebook.sfchronicle.com/datebook-pic...
March 25, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Great question. [grabs copy from shelf]. Sadly no. But does have interview with David Buckley and with Don Scotti. And a video essay about the film by the late great Lee Gambin. Plus better box art. :-)
March 4, 2025 at 4:32 AM
The NYT asking with a straight face: “Why, after more than a decade of TV representation would transgender Americans be losing ground?”

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/a...
March 2, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Two screenings left in my Masc II series at @bampfa.bsky.social! These are extremely rare opportunities to see these films. Come out Thursday at 7pm for Something Special, aka Willy/Milly (I'm showing my 35mm print!) And Sunday at 7pm we're showing Muchachas de uniforme. bampfa.org/program/masc...
February 20, 2025 at 5:17 AM
February 14, 2025 at 2:53 AM
SF Bay Area: My Masc II series continues at @bampfa.bsky.social in Berkeley! Click for tix!

Thurs, Feb 6 7PM — Pariah (2011)

Fri, Feb 14 7PM — Summer Vacation 1999 (1988)

Thurs, Feb 20 7PM — Something Special (1986)

Sun, Feb 23 7PM Muchachas de uniforme (1951)

bampfa.org/program/masc...
February 5, 2025 at 3:28 AM
🫵 "I want a dyke for president. I want a person
with aids for president and I want a fag for
vice president and I want someone with no
health insurance... Always a boss and never a worker, always a liar, always a thief and never caught." — Zoe Leonard (1992)

Full poem:
www.lttr.org/journal/5/i-...
February 2, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Hard to imagine posting about anything but Democracy and Fascism after tomorrow, so... one more plug for my @bampfa.bsky.social film series: Masc II: Butch Dykes, Trans Men, and Gender Nonconforming Heroes in Cinema — it opened on Friday & goes thru end of Feb. 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 📽️ 👊 bampfa.org/program/masc...
January 19, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Got to talk to @cinepam.bsky.social for a wonderful @sfchronicle.com overview of my series that opens this Friday at @bampfa.bsky.social. Please come out for Masc II: Mascs Plus Muchachas — Trans Men, Butch Dykes, and Gender Nonconforming Heroes in Cinema!
datebook.sfchronicle.com/movies-tv/be...
January 15, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Bay Area: Please come see my new film series!
Starts this Friday night at 7pm!
Masc II: Mascs plus Muchachas — Butch Dykes, Trans Men, and Gender Nonconforming Heroes in Cinema (Jan 17–Feb 23 at @bampfa.bsky.social).
See the full schedule & get your tix. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️📽️https://bampfa.org/program/masc-ii
January 15, 2025 at 7:19 AM
"Meta is free to do what it wants with its policies... but here they’re not just saying 'hey, we’re going to be less aggressive in pulling down content,' they’re explicitly signaling 'hate has a home here!' I mean, what the fuck is this?" - @mmasnick.bsky.social

www.techdirt.com/2025/01/09/m...
January 13, 2025 at 4:02 PM
If you start playing my 7 minute short film Blue Diary at 11:58pm on New Year’s Eve, you’ll ring in the new year right as you see the slate: “Fuck, talk, sleep, fuck, breakfast.”
January 1, 2025 at 3:37 AM
🚨 🚸 PSA for California folks: The new statewide "daylighting" law, banning parking within 20 feet of approach-side intersections to increase visibility and protect pedestrians, starts Jan 1 (with approx 60-90 day grace period). It applies whether a red curb or no parking sign is present.
December 31, 2024 at 5:11 PM
SF Bay Area Queers: Please get your tix for my upcoming film series at BAMPFA! “Masc II: Mascs plus Muchachas - Butch Dykes, Trans Men & Gender Nonconforming Heroes in Cinema” runs January 17–February 23, 2025. Click for tix & details.
bampfa.org/program/masc...
December 8, 2024 at 9:09 AM