Joanie (ze/hir)
@jnsaltzman.bsky.social
Genderqueer. AuDHD. Writer. Lutheran seminarian.
ze/hir or he/him
www.kanmowrico.com
ze/hir or he/him
www.kanmowrico.com
Pinned
If you want to talk about what you're willing to do to support people (that's legal and not going to bite you when it's shown in a courtroom), I genuinely think the most important work ahead of us is combatting mass incarceration.
Where are political prisoners and trans people already detained?
Where are political prisoners and trans people already detained?
If I can have everyone's attention please I have received my first ✨rejection letter✨ (My first time submitting anything since I was 16!) Thank you to ASF for considering my work.
Stay tuned as I continue looking for a home for The Town Behind The Wall!
Stay tuned as I continue looking for a home for The Town Behind The Wall!
November 22, 2025 at 8:36 PM
If I can have everyone's attention please I have received my first ✨rejection letter✨ (My first time submitting anything since I was 16!) Thank you to ASF for considering my work.
Stay tuned as I continue looking for a home for The Town Behind The Wall!
Stay tuned as I continue looking for a home for The Town Behind The Wall!
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Apparently we are talking about speed cameras again so let me remind everyone that every reduction in the frequency of police encounters is a reduction in police brutality.
May 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Apparently we are talking about speed cameras again so let me remind everyone that every reduction in the frequency of police encounters is a reduction in police brutality.
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It's often presented as a kind of conformity or groupthink to "trust the experts," but you do in fact need to do this to have a functioning society!
What is the alternative? Every person researches every single issue of public concern themselves?
What is the alternative? Every person researches every single issue of public concern themselves?
Scientific insiders hold power for a reason. Cause they know shit. The idea that there is something wrong with our best and brightest holding power is how we get idiots who run our country into the ground. Absurd
Utterly psychotic. RFK's "unfounded beliefs and suspicions" are what separate him from legitimate critics of science and public health, he fucking lies all the time!
You can't say "he might have a point" about the parts you agree with and ignore everything else.
You can't say "he might have a point" about the parts you agree with and ignore everything else.
May 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM
It's often presented as a kind of conformity or groupthink to "trust the experts," but you do in fact need to do this to have a functioning society!
What is the alternative? Every person researches every single issue of public concern themselves?
What is the alternative? Every person researches every single issue of public concern themselves?
Read Pachinko!!
Honored to be on this list with so many writers I admire whose books I love. Many thanks to the editors of @latimes.com Book Review
April 16, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Read Pachinko!!
I need that notebook, but she doesn't care.
April 16, 2025 at 12:34 AM
I need that notebook, but she doesn't care.
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Yes. If these people gave a shit about "bringing good jobs back to America," they would be fighting to improve the quality of the jobs we already have. There's nothing inherent to the work of a taxi driver or waitress that has to be less secure than a 1950s factory worker.
April 8, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Yes. If these people gave a shit about "bringing good jobs back to America," they would be fighting to improve the quality of the jobs we already have. There's nothing inherent to the work of a taxi driver or waitress that has to be less secure than a 1950s factory worker.
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They are death sentences.
So the kidnapped people sent to El Salvador . . . those are life sentences. Or what? There were no trials.
April 8, 2025 at 5:57 PM
They are death sentences.
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this is why shipping migrants to third party countries is inherently a due process violation. it very literally removes them from the realm of legal process entirely.
The Trump administration claims the right to throw a man with legal status into a black hole Central American prison, affording him no due process, to admit afterward it was a mistake, and then to get snide with the judge who tells them to fix it.
April 4, 2025 at 11:26 PM
this is why shipping migrants to third party countries is inherently a due process violation. it very literally removes them from the realm of legal process entirely.
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it’s weird that we’re staring down the second unprecedented economic catastrophe in five years and instead of a novel coronavirus that will go on to kill millions of people this one is just “no one was willing to tell him no”
April 6, 2025 at 11:54 PM
it’s weird that we’re staring down the second unprecedented economic catastrophe in five years and instead of a novel coronavirus that will go on to kill millions of people this one is just “no one was willing to tell him no”
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today and always
March 31, 2025 at 9:21 PM
today and always
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ABCqueer [cont] -- The 26-item scale is based on 3 themes common to trans people: social affirmation, self-affirmation and community connection. It's "the first ever scale to assess...a concept that arose from within the trans community to describe positive feelings associated with being trans."
Researchers take a more positive approach to trans identity
Australian researchers have developed a world-first scale to measure an almost universal experience for trans adolescents and adults – gender euphoria – that could have significant implications for me...
www.abc.net.au
March 31, 2025 at 10:49 AM
ABCqueer [cont] -- The 26-item scale is based on 3 themes common to trans people: social affirmation, self-affirmation and community connection. It's "the first ever scale to assess...a concept that arose from within the trans community to describe positive feelings associated with being trans."
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Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.
—Martin Luther
—Martin Luther
March 31, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.
—Martin Luther
—Martin Luther
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as someone who left the same country that xuan did, yeah---this is why claims like 'the US has always been fascist' leave us cold
Many of us come to study in the United States due to its commitment to freedom of expression & assembly -- rights that we in our home countries often lack. My own country would deport student protestors in a heartbeat. That the US used not to was a testament to its commitment to freedom.
March 31, 2025 at 3:40 AM
as someone who left the same country that xuan did, yeah---this is why claims like 'the US has always been fascist' leave us cold
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“Right now, building community is a form of protest, an active way to push back against our oppressors and fascism,” [Ash Lazarus] Orr said. “Showing up for each other, creating safer spaces, organizing across movements — that’s how we fight back.”
Want to Honor Trans Day of Visibility? Fight With Us Like Your Life Hinges on It
Being visible isn’t enough. Let’s organize, protect each other and fight back against rising fascism.
truthout.org
March 31, 2025 at 2:12 PM
“Right now, building community is a form of protest, an active way to push back against our oppressors and fascism,” [Ash Lazarus] Orr said. “Showing up for each other, creating safer spaces, organizing across movements — that’s how we fight back.”
It's Trans Day of Visibility! Check out me this year and me in early 2016, when I first told someone else I was trans. Usually I make a post about what TDOV is, or about broad definitions of visibility, but this year I do want to talk about myself. (1/8)
March 31, 2025 at 4:30 PM
It's Trans Day of Visibility! Check out me this year and me in early 2016, when I first told someone else I was trans. Usually I make a post about what TDOV is, or about broad definitions of visibility, but this year I do want to talk about myself. (1/8)
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TIME MAG has a piece by a reporter embedded at the El Salvadoran prison who watched as Andry, a gay asylum-seeking Venezuelan barber they said is a gang member but is not, was slapped and screamed for his mother as they held him down.
Horrific.
time.com/7269604/el-s...
Horrific.
time.com/7269604/el-s...
March 23, 2025 at 3:16 AM
TIME MAG has a piece by a reporter embedded at the El Salvadoran prison who watched as Andry, a gay asylum-seeking Venezuelan barber they said is a gang member but is not, was slapped and screamed for his mother as they held him down.
Horrific.
time.com/7269604/el-s...
Horrific.
time.com/7269604/el-s...
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I haven't ever really spoken about this to anyone, but when I was litigating the so-called "comfort women" case, I went to the National Archives to obtain and read the testimonies of women and girls who were held in sex slave camps by the Japanese military following their release.
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March 22, 2025 at 11:27 PM
I haven't ever really spoken about this to anyone, but when I was litigating the so-called "comfort women" case, I went to the National Archives to obtain and read the testimonies of women and girls who were held in sex slave camps by the Japanese military following their release.
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Absolutely obsessed with this late 19th century illustration of the Orion Nebula by Otto Boeddicker.
March 23, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Absolutely obsessed with this late 19th century illustration of the Orion Nebula by Otto Boeddicker.
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elon’s real legacy is revealing that being a loser has nothing to do with material success but is instead an energy
March 24, 2025 at 12:12 AM
elon’s real legacy is revealing that being a loser has nothing to do with material success but is instead an energy
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I've been taking courses through Yale @religion-ecology.bsky.social to prepare for the release of IF GOD WERE A GREAT BIG BEAR (@beamingbooksmn.bsky.social). One quote resonates throughout:
🌏"THE UNIVERSE IS A COMMUNION OF SUBJECTS, NOT A COLLECTION OF OBJECTS."🌏 - Thomas Berry.
Hear, hear! 👏👏👏
🌏"THE UNIVERSE IS A COMMUNION OF SUBJECTS, NOT A COLLECTION OF OBJECTS."🌏 - Thomas Berry.
Hear, hear! 👏👏👏
March 23, 2025 at 11:40 AM
I've been taking courses through Yale @religion-ecology.bsky.social to prepare for the release of IF GOD WERE A GREAT BIG BEAR (@beamingbooksmn.bsky.social). One quote resonates throughout:
🌏"THE UNIVERSE IS A COMMUNION OF SUBJECTS, NOT A COLLECTION OF OBJECTS."🌏 - Thomas Berry.
Hear, hear! 👏👏👏
🌏"THE UNIVERSE IS A COMMUNION OF SUBJECTS, NOT A COLLECTION OF OBJECTS."🌏 - Thomas Berry.
Hear, hear! 👏👏👏
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🎶Whan thou wakest next to hym
Yn the middle of the nighte
Wyth thyne heade yn thyne hondes
Thou art no thinge more than hys wyfe
And whan thy thoughtes do turne to me
All those yeares ago
Thou standest face to face
Wyth "Ich Tolde Thee So"🎶
Yn the middle of the nighte
Wyth thyne heade yn thyne hondes
Thou art no thinge more than hys wyfe
And whan thy thoughtes do turne to me
All those yeares ago
Thou standest face to face
Wyth "Ich Tolde Thee So"🎶
December 12, 2024 at 1:10 AM
🎶Whan thou wakest next to hym
Yn the middle of the nighte
Wyth thyne heade yn thyne hondes
Thou art no thinge more than hys wyfe
And whan thy thoughtes do turne to me
All those yeares ago
Thou standest face to face
Wyth "Ich Tolde Thee So"🎶
Yn the middle of the nighte
Wyth thyne heade yn thyne hondes
Thou art no thinge more than hys wyfe
And whan thy thoughtes do turne to me
All those yeares ago
Thou standest face to face
Wyth "Ich Tolde Thee So"🎶
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Went to see the absolutely stunning reconstructions of Nubian early and high medieval textiles at the Dress to Impress exhibition that is now visiting Bode Museum in Berlin. The Warsaw team has done a splendid job bringing one of the most impressive bits of medieval history to life.
March 21, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Went to see the absolutely stunning reconstructions of Nubian early and high medieval textiles at the Dress to Impress exhibition that is now visiting Bode Museum in Berlin. The Warsaw team has done a splendid job bringing one of the most impressive bits of medieval history to life.
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Christian nationalism is impoverished as it seeks a kingdom without a cross. It pursues a victory without mercy. It acclaims God's love of power rather than the power of God's love.
- N.T. Wright
- N.T. Wright
March 20, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Christian nationalism is impoverished as it seeks a kingdom without a cross. It pursues a victory without mercy. It acclaims God's love of power rather than the power of God's love.
- N.T. Wright
- N.T. Wright
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My new piece in Metro Weekly (DC) about how Republicans laws policing gender are often little more than ways of making not passing illegal. And these bans on not-passing will snare many of us (often more trans women) but also many cis lesbians as well.
magazine.metroweekly.com/books/aubw/#...
magazine.metroweekly.com/books/aubw/#...
March 22, 2025 at 11:57 AM
My new piece in Metro Weekly (DC) about how Republicans laws policing gender are often little more than ways of making not passing illegal. And these bans on not-passing will snare many of us (often more trans women) but also many cis lesbians as well.
magazine.metroweekly.com/books/aubw/#...
magazine.metroweekly.com/books/aubw/#...