Leigh Hendrix (they/he)
@leighhendrix.bsky.social
Theater maker, writer, psychotherapist. Elder millennial on the internet.
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So many people were detained extrajudicially, were tortured, or died because of Dick Cheney. You can't get to the danger we're in now without everything he did. The weapons he helped forge are ones we need to take away from U.S. presidents forever.
November 4, 2025 at 12:52 PM
So many people were detained extrajudicially, were tortured, or died because of Dick Cheney. You can't get to the danger we're in now without everything he did. The weapons he helped forge are ones we need to take away from U.S. presidents forever.
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BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
November 3, 2025 at 8:21 PM
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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This magazine just fired all of their politics staffers
We are honored to receive the @rooseveltinstitute.org's 2025 Four Freedoms Award for Freedom of Speech and Expression, and to be among a stellar class of laureates including @wck.org, @cvt.org, and more. Details: tnvge.co/ZMIUg7v
November 3, 2025 at 9:59 PM
This magazine just fired all of their politics staffers
I had pointed my politics obsessed 14 year old here as inspiration, not to mention what I have learned from Lex’s work and others. This is such a huge loss.
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 11:23 PM
I had pointed my politics obsessed 14 year old here as inspiration, not to mention what I have learned from Lex’s work and others. This is such a huge loss.
This is a bid to create division that does not exist and I know a lot of non-trans queer folk who just will not have it. The cis queer people in my life are showing up and throwing down for trans people. These losers are the outliers. Don't listen to straight people about queer life.
🚨 1/ SCOOP We all know Pamela Paul is not a good journalist. But in her (poorly argued) WSJ screed on the alleged "growing divide" in LGBTQ circles abt trans rights, she reports ESPECIALLY badly—including abt Jose Arango & his boyfriend who dumped him.
Paul didn't talk to the boyfriend.
I did.
Paul didn't talk to the boyfriend.
I did.
November 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
This is a bid to create division that does not exist and I know a lot of non-trans queer folk who just will not have it. The cis queer people in my life are showing up and throwing down for trans people. These losers are the outliers. Don't listen to straight people about queer life.
Just saw a video on fedbook of straight people having a pink pony club themed 40th birthday party. If this was not also a coming out event, I hate it so much. It’s truly wild how culture makers from marginalized communities can be celebrated while those communities are under threat!
November 2, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Just saw a video on fedbook of straight people having a pink pony club themed 40th birthday party. If this was not also a coming out event, I hate it so much. It’s truly wild how culture makers from marginalized communities can be celebrated while those communities are under threat!
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It’s like taking a stack of hateful flyers you find in a neighborhood and then walking around and handing them out and adding, “Wow, did you see this? This is awful.” …But then they are still left holding the flyers YOU gave them.
November 1, 2025 at 11:57 AM
It’s like taking a stack of hateful flyers you find in a neighborhood and then walking around and handing them out and adding, “Wow, did you see this? This is awful.” …But then they are still left holding the flyers YOU gave them.
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I'm an unemployed, disabled trans woman surviving off donations and now without SNAP like so many people.
Needing $300 for a grocery order as priority atm.
Amz: shorturl.at/FaojU
Kofi: shorturl.at/Z3mfJ
CA: $LuciNevins
Vnmo: @ Harland-Nevins
PP: shorturl.at/S694j
Needing $300 for a grocery order as priority atm.
Amz: shorturl.at/FaojU
Kofi: shorturl.at/Z3mfJ
CA: $LuciNevins
Vnmo: @ Harland-Nevins
PP: shorturl.at/S694j
Check out my list on Amazon
shorturl.at
October 30, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I'm an unemployed, disabled trans woman surviving off donations and now without SNAP like so many people.
Needing $300 for a grocery order as priority atm.
Amz: shorturl.at/FaojU
Kofi: shorturl.at/Z3mfJ
CA: $LuciNevins
Vnmo: @ Harland-Nevins
PP: shorturl.at/S694j
Needing $300 for a grocery order as priority atm.
Amz: shorturl.at/FaojU
Kofi: shorturl.at/Z3mfJ
CA: $LuciNevins
Vnmo: @ Harland-Nevins
PP: shorturl.at/S694j
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Ideally money, to an existing food bank. I've seen tons of pop-up mutual aid efforts in my small city in the last week. While I applaud the desire to support neighbors in need, imagine navigating dozens of random Facebook posts and email accounts to find food when you need it. Let's make it easy.
If you can afford it, it's a good time to give a donation to your local food bank.
October 30, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Ideally money, to an existing food bank. I've seen tons of pop-up mutual aid efforts in my small city in the last week. While I applaud the desire to support neighbors in need, imagine navigating dozens of random Facebook posts and email accounts to find food when you need it. Let's make it easy.
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If judges can refuse to officiate gay weddings, gay defendants should be able to refuse to be heard by those judges. If they can’t be compelled to perform the most heteronormative of functions, why would anyone believe they are capable of putting their biases aside for something with higher stakes?
October 29, 2025 at 11:39 PM
If judges can refuse to officiate gay weddings, gay defendants should be able to refuse to be heard by those judges. If they can’t be compelled to perform the most heteronormative of functions, why would anyone believe they are capable of putting their biases aside for something with higher stakes?
The whole Charles is on T storyline on Only Murders is just… it is wild the ways the experiences of trans life are being picked up everywhere by cis culture as we are losing.
October 29, 2025 at 2:02 AM
The whole Charles is on T storyline on Only Murders is just… it is wild the ways the experiences of trans life are being picked up everywhere by cis culture as we are losing.
I have been using fedbook related to some local stuff more and now I am seeing the horrible way local news is reported and a lot more transphobic stories and comments. I can see how it shapes people’s view of the world.
October 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I have been using fedbook related to some local stuff more and now I am seeing the horrible way local news is reported and a lot more transphobic stories and comments. I can see how it shapes people’s view of the world.
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My latest. "Do not allow your values to be captured and contained behind a screen in a cycle of inactive reaction. Jailbreak your cynicism and isolation, and escape your devices. Bring your hope, rage, and potential into the world."
We Have to Move
"There are living, breathing people all around you who need your sense of decency to be made material. Don’t give up on them, or on you."
organizingmythoughts.org
October 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
My latest. "Do not allow your values to be captured and contained behind a screen in a cycle of inactive reaction. Jailbreak your cynicism and isolation, and escape your devices. Bring your hope, rage, and potential into the world."
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Today in, "we tried to tell you, but you were too busy hating on the trans..."
22 Oct 2025 -- 8th grade cis AZ boy w/ mistake on birth certificate listing him as female removed by HS athletic director from basketball team tryouts & told to play w/ girls "to ensure fairness" under new birth-sex designation policies. Genetic tests can cost up to $2k.
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social
Arizona boy reportedly barred from team due to error on birth certificate
Laker Jackson was wrongly identified as female at birth, but high school in Mesa won’t let him play basketball with boys
www.theguardian.com
October 22, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Today in, "we tried to tell you, but you were too busy hating on the trans..."
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I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong.
Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.
Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.
October 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong.
Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.
Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.
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I was commissioned to make a zine for the No Kings 2 protest on Saturday Oct 18th!
If you wonder “what can I do?” this zine is for you. It’s packed with things that you can do from wearing a “no ICE” pin to organizing a visibility brigade with your friends.
drive.google.com/file/d/1TJnH...
If you wonder “what can I do?” this zine is for you. It’s packed with things that you can do from wearing a “no ICE” pin to organizing a visibility brigade with your friends.
drive.google.com/file/d/1TJnH...
October 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I was commissioned to make a zine for the No Kings 2 protest on Saturday Oct 18th!
If you wonder “what can I do?” this zine is for you. It’s packed with things that you can do from wearing a “no ICE” pin to organizing a visibility brigade with your friends.
drive.google.com/file/d/1TJnH...
If you wonder “what can I do?” this zine is for you. It’s packed with things that you can do from wearing a “no ICE” pin to organizing a visibility brigade with your friends.
drive.google.com/file/d/1TJnH...
I am grateful I was able to be a part of something in my own community yesterday. I showed up in a keffiyeh and a trans shirt. There were not as many of those but I was not alone. It was galvanizing and we keep going.
The critiques of these rallies and their limitations are valuable. I also think that what is happening in smaller towns and broadly more conservative communities as they link up is valuable. I am witnessing people become more radical all the time here!
October 19, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I am grateful I was able to be a part of something in my own community yesterday. I showed up in a keffiyeh and a trans shirt. There were not as many of those but I was not alone. It was galvanizing and we keep going.
The critiques of these rallies and their limitations are valuable. I also think that what is happening in smaller towns and broadly more conservative communities as they link up is valuable. I am witnessing people become more radical all the time here!
October 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM
The critiques of these rallies and their limitations are valuable. I also think that what is happening in smaller towns and broadly more conservative communities as they link up is valuable. I am witnessing people become more radical all the time here!
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I find it interesting that everybody assumes every woman over the age of about 30 they see a picture of on a protest is a liberal winemom or whatever.
October 19, 2025 at 12:07 PM
I find it interesting that everybody assumes every woman over the age of about 30 they see a picture of on a protest is a liberal winemom or whatever.
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In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
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COVID is still here.
October 16, 2025 at 5:11 AM
COVID is still here.
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This is one of the significant fault lines between the Left(s) and the Right. On the Left(s) [in general], we believe that everyone deserves public goods and to live in dignity. Period.
Q: “Most hospitals + people who will lose insurance are in rural areas. If Trump & Republicans are so intent on sticking it to their own voters, why not let them?”
@aoc.bsky.social : “That’s the difference between us & Trump. I don’t care if you voted for me, I want you to have health care.”
@aoc.bsky.social : “That’s the difference between us & Trump. I don’t care if you voted for me, I want you to have health care.”
October 16, 2025 at 7:23 PM
This is one of the significant fault lines between the Left(s) and the Right. On the Left(s) [in general], we believe that everyone deserves public goods and to live in dignity. Period.