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Matilda Bliss
@matildabliss.bsky.social
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Trans femme anarchist. Criminalized for the act of journalism. Suing. More at @avlblade.bsky.social where I cover city hall, grab photos, design graphics, and write a little here and there.

Bicycle rider, cat lover, and Star Wars and geology nerd
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The battery, radiator, radiator hoses, all four tires, thermostat housing, ignition wires, starter, and front brakes were all replaced in the last three years.

The water pump, drive belt, and AC belt were replaced in 2021.
November 7, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Since I got it in 2019, the truck was running as well as it had run before its rebuilt transmission gave out. The following are still under warranty. Valve cover gasket, spark plugs, and passenger door handle system were replaced last month. Its rear differential was replaced in May.
November 7, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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All windows are still intact, but I cut the screen on the driver’s side so that I could let my cat go in and out via a carpet ladder. The screen on the passenger side is still intact. There is a clothes hanging bar that still works, and the window into the truck’s cab still opens.
November 7, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Realistically, however, it’s probably for parts.

It could also be a living/ storage space. Many years ago, I spent long periods of time living out of the back and using the tailgate as a table. The floor is mostly carpeted and is insulated with foam board. Though I’ve never done it…
November 7, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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2000 Chevy Silverado and camper top for sale for $700! To purchase the truck without the camper top, $500. Camper top without the truck, $300.

This babe is at present inoperable. Coming in at over 290,000 miles, it will need a new transmission. This could be a project vehicle.
November 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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At least I still have them, and I will be closing this fundraiser.

If you still want to donate, I will happily accept them on my paypal or venmo. And look for an orchiectomy procedure and healing fund, as that will almost certainly be needed come January.
November 6, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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I got my mechanic to check it out and I dug into the carfax report to confirm that yes, this was a heck of a deal and a solid purchase. I have a vehicle.

While insurance, registration, and a few minor repairs are sure to eat into my limited savings for a bit…
November 6, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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We did it yall. With your support of this fundraiser and donations across both of my apps, I was able to buy a fuel efficient hatchback yesterday. While it’s at the upper limit as far as what I was looking for on the odometer, it’s of a make an model that’s known for its longevity.
November 6, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Know of a decent vehicle that you or someone you know is trying to get rid of? I could probably give you a better price than a dealership these days. Here’s what I’m looking for.
The image has a star border and at the top are two photographs. On the left is a maroon truck and on the right is a white trans woman who is smiling. The words “The old vehicle is dead. The new vehicle struggles to be born.” Below is text that reads “Help Matilda find a new set of wheels.” Below that is text “Budget: $3.5k now up to $6k in 3 wks.” Below that is text that takes us to the bottom of the page. “Type: 1st choice: hatchback 2nd choice: sedan.” To the right is text, “Model: 2000 or younger (line break) Transmission: automatic (line break) Mileage: Under 230k miles (line break) Condition: Good (line break) Gas Mileage: > 20 MPG in town.”
November 3, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Here are some other ways to donate that include venmo and paypal links 💖
The graphic includes a portrait of a white trans woman with text on the left side saying “Support Matilda in Securing Safe Transportation” text below reads “Gofundme https://gofundme.me/8ad6ce51e” Then Venmo: @Matilda-Bliss” and finally “Paypal: paypal.me/MatildaBliss”. To the right on the bottom of graphic is text “Goal: $5,000”
November 3, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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And as things currently stand this would of course empty my savings.
Please keep donating to my gofundme and my apps! (Second slide) I’m counting on at least a few donations to come in to pay for registration, insurance, etc. Please don’t stop supporting this effort. Your support has been crucial 💖
The graphic includes a portrait of a white trans woman with text on the left side saying “Support Matilda in Securing Safe Transportation” text below reads “Gofundme https://gofundme.me/8ad6ce51e” Then Venmo: @Matilda-Bliss” and finally “Paypal: paypal.me/MatildaBliss”. To the right on the bottom of graphic is text “Goal: $5,000”
November 2, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Okay with all of my savings and donations across all of the platforms, I’m ready to talk purchase.

My budget is $3.5k now and an additional $2.5k for a total of $6k by the weekend before Thanksgiving. As things currently stand, part of this would be a loan. 🧵
The image has a star border and at the top are two photographs. On the left is a maroon truck and on the right is a white trans woman who is smiling. The words “The old vehicle is dead. The new vehicle struggles to be born.” Below is text that reads “Help Matilda find a new set of wheels.” Below that is text “Budget: $3.5k now up to $6k in 3 wks.” Below that is text that takes us to the bottom of the page. “Type: 1st choice: hatchback 2nd choice: sedan.” To the right is text, “Model: 2000 or younger (line break) Transmission: automatic (line break) Mileage: Under 230k miles (line break) Condition: Good (line break) Gas Mileage: > 20 MPG in town.”
November 2, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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For folks who want to donate via paypal or venmo, I have those too
November 1, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Mutual aid is one of my core values. If I have a resource, I share that resource. Period. Know that when you are supporting me, you are supporting other impoverished locals (including trans femmes) as well!

www.gofundme.com/f/support-ma...
October 30, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Donations have stalled out a bit. Please keep sharing! When I reach $2,000 towards my goal, I’m going to make a post describing what kind of vehicle I am looking for. But I can’t even start thinking along those lines until I reach that mark. Link in the comments!
The graphic includes a portrait of a white trans woman with text on the left side saying “Support Matilda in Securing Safe Transportation” text below reads “Gofundme https://gofundme.me/8ad6ce51e” Then Venmo: @Matilda-Bliss” and finally “Paypal: paypal.me/MatildaBliss”. To the right on the bottom of graphic is text “Goal: $5,000”
October 29, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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I’m nearly a quarter of the way to my goal, which is pretty good for a first week! But I don’t have an unlimited amount of time to meet this goal. If you can, please donate if you haven’t already and please share!
The graphic includes a portrait of a white trans woman with text on the left side saying “Support Matilda in Securing Safe Transportation” text below reads “Gofundme https://gofundme.me/8ad6ce51e” Then Venmo: @Matilda-Bliss” and finally “Paypal: paypal.me/MatildaBliss”. To the right on the bottom of graphic is text “Goal: $5,000”
October 28, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Even loans would be welcome if they are 0% interest. Please help a trans woman out! Here are some other ways to donate.
The graphic includes a portrait of a white trans woman with text on the left side saying “Support Matilda in Securing Safe Transportation” text below reads “Gofundme https://gofundme.me/8ad6ce51e” Then Venmo: @Matilda-Bliss” and finally “Paypal: paypal.me/MatildaBliss”. To the right on the bottom of graphic is text “Goal: $5,000”
October 27, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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I’m off to a good start but still need support towards meeting my goal of purchasing a new vehicle!

After a good six and a half years, last week my truck bit the dust. This sadly came after this year alone pouring thousands of dollars into repairs. This isn’t unusual. 🧵
The graphic includes a portrait of a white trans woman with text on the left side saying “Support Matilda in Securing Safe Transportation” text below reads “Gofundme https://gofundme.me/8ad6ce51e” Then Venmo: @Matilda-Bliss” and finally “Paypal: paypal.me/MatildaBliss”. To the right on the bottom of graphic is text “Goal: $5,000”
October 26, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Examples of who gets to be loud and drunk in downtown Asheville #avlgov
October 14, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Trans women are not responsible for the trauma inflicted by men in your life. Read that again.
July 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Here's what #avlgov has been talking about for the last bit. Essentially city hall speak for its "affordable housing" plan over the next few months. The concept of affordable housing that city hall uses is more often than not just a shiny cover on its ruthless gentrification machine.
"Key Takeaways" in a city hall presentation on its affordable housing plan. "City staff are rebooting the Equitable and Affordable Housing and Stability strategy with an eye towards the region’s overall recovery. Proposed revisions to the staff work plan maintain anti-displacement strategies, funding programs, and zoning/regulatory tools to promote housing options across the community. ● Tropical Storm Helene reshaped staff’s timeline and approach to tasks on the work plan, but not all tasks were delayed: ○ The programmatic strategies of rental assistance and home repair were prioritized in response to Helene, and are well underway. ○ Staff has continued to work on previously approved Housing Trust Fund (HTF) projects and has made significant progress toward multiple loan closings. ● Key differences between the original schedule of work (cited in the September 24th work session) and the revised schedule include: ○ HTF cycle shifted back into accepting applications on a rolling basis, allowing more flexibility for developers. ○ The zoning and regulatory strategies that require Council action were paused during emergency response. ○ Because we anticipate the need to respond quickly to new information during recovery, our revised timeline looks at the next six months only. ● These efforts will feed into the larger recovery plan with input from City Council and the community, especially in light of CDBG-DR planning and long-term recovery."
January 28, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Image of Chelsea Manning was grabbed from a google search late last decade. Same with the Samus Aran suit dancing with the Samus Aran person.
Shoes hanging from power lines in the evening make a butterfly and sun beams travel upwards. In the bottom left, a semitransparent photo of a pink flower is over top. An image of Chelsea Manning is on the right. Poetry over top: “ Consequences much better than silence, and Kira takes me to buy panties that I can wear underneath until I am ready to fight the bastards The ones who would jump me for painting eyes, donning dress, clipping bra, for being me hormones and all - And I am smiling, returned from time, and I know I have an arrest to unchain And with fire moving, telling cops just who I am, what they need and needn’t do for me - with their cameras rolling portals opening and closing in the back of the paddy, Chelsea Manning a frequent visitor over weeks/ hours, as we extricate a way to stay present amidst cacophony” A white trans woman kneels, smiles and poses artistically. In the top right corner, a sad baby tiger stuffed animal looks on. In bottom left, the Samus Aran suit dances with the human. Poetry over top: ““Try to stay rooted in the space and time,” says midwife just now So much younger and holding so much intuitively, fiercely, gently I awaken at 16, vindictive reply from an early crush I tried only to say I like her I stop and write and talk about it, even if it’s with my dad whose advice like snow on a warm night I know won’t stick And I think out questions and draw in sharpie, and I call up sister and I ask what she would do (as herself) (a girl) had she received an email from a (girl) that she liked. One like this” A white trans woman jaunts forward on the right. A pink flower is in the top left corner, and sharpie art on drawing paper and many pens are on the floor of a porch in the bottom left corner. Poetry over top: “ Sighed and said “okay” (very carefully, searching my words) “I would ask her why she said that.” And so I save eight years when I ask, dodging sadness and fear frozen sharp and shear, that I can never really trust upon revealing to a crush, attraction ‘That they are bound to want to hurt me (just like Whitney)’ shattered “That was my mom who sent that email” “That was my mom who sent that email” time breaks And stepping out, I ponder these threads that made me doubt, shrink in silence’s cage, resenting the absence of mindreading, oh that amygdala limbic nightmare frenzy” A white trans woman shows off her ass on the right. On the left is a magenta flower with graffiti that reads “Chaotic Dance” interposed over top. Poetry over all reads: “Another day, and I follow these crumbs across time. They feed a moment in which a hot confident tranny grows equipped to fight, to survive these horrors Not just way back, not just way forward, but here, now Failing that, scratch and claw like a banshee on the way out, lessons learned from true masters So we are, there we went, and here we go The bastards think they’re tough shit? We’ll make them fucking show”
January 28, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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Note about images: Photography is mostly my own. Selfies are recent & AVL based, and many of the others are either of my NE TN hometown or of Knoxville Tn, the locations of much of this trauma work. Mystique and Samus Aran images were grabbed off Google. Lion too, & traced into start of sharpie art
The Old Grey cemetery in Knoxville with semitransparent hometown graffiti “I love you do you love me” in bottom right corner. Poetry over top: “ And we take a month to wear it out wear it down, and give it rest bind it to its time With acceptance that I will never shy away from stating the obvious, Asheville’s mired in abuse culture and I will find the community that loves me as hard as I grip this survivor support Conclusion that can never feel all-the-way okay, but it is enough And so am I amidst the discard tuff of yesteryear” Mystique from early 2000’s Xmen on the left and a selfie of a white trans woman showing off her first piercing on the right. Poetry over top: “Beyond time, reflecting upon intersections Unencumbered bullying meets supports mangled meets respect for cuties crushed meets transmisogyny whispering, “They’ll never believe you.” Rolled into one, bested, and into a small freedom I now step, Mystique, sapphire blue, transforming, adapting through this flood of tears so forever blessed by my container faeries, hugs, massage and hand holding Learning to self tap through Helene when the time port shut its doors and racking up points, we claim wins for a seven year old and a thirteen Growing a confidence in identity And capacity to love in spite of those who would deceive” A tracing of a lion in a suit and bow tie and monocle with a word bubble to the right that says, “Ahem. I am going to roar now…Please. Stand back.” There are colorful circles in sequence traveling up to the left corner with fire inside and flaring from. Poetry over top: “And the family, Thanksgiving at fifteen, mom breaks down in tears from overwork, and I throw down to help anyway I can come hell or invitations to watch the game This is who I am. Removing the guilt like so many shards of glass from a foot and thunderously, returning - The big one, diving in over weeks the work: daily abuse endured in eighth grade English Unlearning silence and the striving for the acceptance of people who don’t give a fuck about me and never will And the striving to keep this record, grades, standing, praise (but at what expense?)” An iron staircase travels up to the sky on the left. On the right, an ethereal depiction of Samus Aran is simultaneously beautiful and powerful. Poetry over top: “Leaning on trans femme trainers and supports shot through time like meteorites to give a special thirteen year old The love to keep going, to have confidence and struggle through whatever it takes to Be something more than the butt of a joke, the ghost at the desk the back of a head hit The nothing to forget and discard like the wad of paper AJ would toss once his craving for violence was soothed No, I turn this ship around and it's fisticuffs in a time portal, yall Fuck abuse or I dare you, light this fuse”
January 28, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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I write poetry and create image collages. Here’s my most recent about the fantastical therapy EMDR.
A white trans woman kneeling and smiling in front of a wall. Poetry in front “ Fisticuffs in a Time Warp Birthed from the fires of summer these time machines At first, surprise at how much I didn’t   want to    feel What is it to travel a list of traumas like “seven letter words that start with ‘T’” Maddening. This trip is poetry, therapy Traumas for this EMDR midwife so many years younger to hold, rope on a cliff We descend, buzzers rattle in sequence I didn’t want to reach this center of gravity into emotional turbulence, swirling winds around spaghetti and muted small talk of grownups” A circular hole in and old fence covered in lichen. Poetry over top: “ Dinner table, two and a half decades reversed Bully at school, bad advice given, and I stay with this feel these gusts that threaten to sweep me away forever into abyss of twelve  years  old Holding on And take this leave, chair this creaks, flee and bawl into middle school covers the cries of a girl alone in front of firing line I’ve been told to ignore Christopher from seven years future, this first queer mentor pulled through space, time before pacifying rush of a gameboy pocket could reach the title screen Consciousness, still tethered” A green and orange bottle made a terrarium in the wild. A semi transparent image white trans woman over top in bottom left corner. A semitransparent white flower over top in bottom right corner. Poetry over all: “Wise, witty Southern drag Dolly, the shoulder, the tears, collecting and scheming resistance and release. Permission granted Learn that when traveling, troublesome energies, feelings, thoughts with otherworldly power aren’t waste to flush into septic’s abyss, unforgiving - Leaning into 25, unlearning responses to crush’s absence, buzzed up to a door open, disorder, the room is the message no Sarah Honing, and after too much summer and winter, silences, and omens crowing, “You’ve been warned” I walk away. That rose strewn path a treadmill - now I walk free, save three years, at least. Your move, sweetie” A bricked up entrance to the left and an alleyway to the right. Poetry over top: “ And just as in these hour longs time opens Tucks away the now, so this past tucks the now within its hell I didn’t want to couldn’t stand to feel again All the moving parts of community’s abandonment, the close friends and their networks because I showed up in principle, in truth. Not so distant past. Here and in so many lucid reminders, now Leaving the work in garden’s container, beauty, but the door it never fully shuts, what is left inside growls “Let me out,” through the night, and I worry I’ve challenged too powerful a demon A beast loose feasting on serenity clinching the neck of this day to day This seven letter word that starts with ’T’ and ends with ‘Y.’ This wolf, this harpie”
January 28, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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Bb’s first d-cup ftw 🫶😻
January 18, 2025 at 1:30 AM