Bek
@moonyreads.bsky.social
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Bek
@moonyreads.bsky.social
· Jan 22
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I am Bek, a nonbinary nerd who mostly reads and talks about books. I read a lot of queer books and a lot of nonfiction. I also crochet and am getting into more crafts, love astrology, and my cat.
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we love campus free speech. we need to let weird middle aged freaks go to the center of campus to yell at students about how they are faggots. but the second students start saying controversial things like “children shouldn’t be bombed” we must deport them
March 15, 2025 at 4:50 PM
we love campus free speech. we need to let weird middle aged freaks go to the center of campus to yell at students about how they are faggots. but the second students start saying controversial things like “children shouldn’t be bombed” we must deport them
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everyone should listen to this in its entirety but journalists should listen to it multiple times. this is how you ask questions. you just keep asking simple, easily answerable stuff and the evasiveness becomes that much more glaring
In which the Department of Homeland Security struggles to answer a very simple question: "Is any criticism of the United States government a deportable offense?"
(From NPR here: www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...)
(From NPR here: www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...)
March 13, 2025 at 11:52 PM
everyone should listen to this in its entirety but journalists should listen to it multiple times. this is how you ask questions. you just keep asking simple, easily answerable stuff and the evasiveness becomes that much more glaring
But today, I spent my time reading finishing Wherever Is Your Heart by Anita Kelley and then immediately had to make a butch-appreciation playlist. So any song or book recs focused on butches (especially butch4butch themes) is highly welcomed
March 12, 2025 at 7:19 AM
But today, I spent my time reading finishing Wherever Is Your Heart by Anita Kelley and then immediately had to make a butch-appreciation playlist. So any song or book recs focused on butches (especially butch4butch themes) is highly welcomed
I think the most eventful thing in my reading in recent weeks has been that I'm rereading The Hunger Games and reading nonfiction about the wars the US was in that inspired those books. I can say with confidence that the first book really holds up and "fuck George Bush"
March 12, 2025 at 7:16 AM
I think the most eventful thing in my reading in recent weeks has been that I'm rereading The Hunger Games and reading nonfiction about the wars the US was in that inspired those books. I can say with confidence that the first book really holds up and "fuck George Bush"
I should probably use this app more, oops. I'll update my read books thread eventually.
March 12, 2025 at 7:12 AM
I should probably use this app more, oops. I'll update my read books thread eventually.
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If you are a cis person *please* take 2 minutes to do this. Trans people with non-updated gender markers, historical gender marker changes, and X markers are terrified to travel right now; rolling back this policy would mean a lot.
Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes.
You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment.
My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc.
www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...
You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment.
My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc.
www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...
Public comment on US passport form changes related to trans
www.reddit.com
February 19, 2025 at 9:47 PM
If you are a cis person *please* take 2 minutes to do this. Trans people with non-updated gender markers, historical gender marker changes, and X markers are terrified to travel right now; rolling back this policy would mean a lot.
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NEW VID! The internet has been flooded with AI generated "history" videos with yassified portrayals of historical people and questionable-at-best information. What exactly are we up against, and how do these generative systems even work? Come learn with me!
youtu.be/M65IYIWlqes
youtu.be/M65IYIWlqes
January 31, 2025 at 5:21 PM
NEW VID! The internet has been flooded with AI generated "history" videos with yassified portrayals of historical people and questionable-at-best information. What exactly are we up against, and how do these generative systems even work? Come learn with me!
youtu.be/M65IYIWlqes
youtu.be/M65IYIWlqes
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Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990.
One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS.
#LGBTplusHistoryMonth
One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS.
#LGBTplusHistoryMonth
February 16, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990.
One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS.
#LGBTplusHistoryMonth
One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS.
#LGBTplusHistoryMonth
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We won’t disappear just because you change a website.
February 14, 2025 at 5:36 PM
We won’t disappear just because you change a website.
My new personality is the new Lady Gaga song and it will remain as such until March, when my personality will be the new Lady Gaga album in full. youtu.be/vBynw9Isr28?...
Lady Gaga - Abracadabra (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by LadyGagaVEVO
youtu.be
February 10, 2025 at 7:07 AM
My new personality is the new Lady Gaga song and it will remain as such until March, when my personality will be the new Lady Gaga album in full. youtu.be/vBynw9Isr28?...
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The fascist can not see beauty in anything that does not conform to what they believe the world should be. Capitalism needs this too, so that they can more easily market to you.
Be ugly.
Be ungovernable.
Be unmarketable.
Be ugly.
Be ungovernable.
Be unmarketable.
February 8, 2025 at 3:46 AM
The fascist can not see beauty in anything that does not conform to what they believe the world should be. Capitalism needs this too, so that they can more easily market to you.
Be ugly.
Be ungovernable.
Be unmarketable.
Be ugly.
Be ungovernable.
Be unmarketable.
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Fascists hate art. Art relies on nonconformity and fascism can’t thrive in nonconformity. Fascism is full of people who wanted to be creative but weren’t and people who used to be creative but lost any creativity they had to fascism.
February 8, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Fascists hate art. Art relies on nonconformity and fascism can’t thrive in nonconformity. Fascism is full of people who wanted to be creative but weren’t and people who used to be creative but lost any creativity they had to fascism.
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Very good advice to find after a day of doomscrolling
January 31, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Very good advice to find after a day of doomscrolling
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The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more.
I'm trying to save them.
You can find the deleted docs at CDCGuidelines.com - I'll be adding more over the weekend.
I'm trying to save them.
You can find the deleted docs at CDCGuidelines.com - I'll be adding more over the weekend.
Download CDC Guidelines Removed By The Trump Admin
The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more.
CDCGuidelines.com
February 1, 2025 at 2:12 AM
The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more.
I'm trying to save them.
You can find the deleted docs at CDCGuidelines.com - I'll be adding more over the weekend.
I'm trying to save them.
You can find the deleted docs at CDCGuidelines.com - I'll be adding more over the weekend.
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Montgomery County Public Schools comes out and tells Trump to pound sand with his EO telling schools that they have to discriminate against transgender students.
This is how you refuse to comply.
This is how you refuse to comply.
January 30, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Montgomery County Public Schools comes out and tells Trump to pound sand with his EO telling schools that they have to discriminate against transgender students.
This is how you refuse to comply.
This is how you refuse to comply.
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People are understandably feeling scared as Trump unleashes his torrent of attacks on vulnerable populations. But some in the grassroots are fighting back, piece by piece. @rebeccaburns.bsky.social burns and I documented one such effort in Chicago disrupting Trump’s mass deportation plans.
“Don’t Open the Door”: How Chicago Is Frustrating ICE’s Campaign of Fear
Months of know-your-rights work has Trump’s border czar complaining.
inthesetimes.com
January 30, 2025 at 11:36 PM
People are understandably feeling scared as Trump unleashes his torrent of attacks on vulnerable populations. But some in the grassroots are fighting back, piece by piece. @rebeccaburns.bsky.social burns and I documented one such effort in Chicago disrupting Trump’s mass deportation plans.
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I've collected accounts from trans folks inside US prisons facing Trump's brutal crackdown: trans women rounded up + placed in solitary before transfer to men's prisons; canceled medical appointments + loss of vital healthcare; vicious taunting
"You're going to be a man," one guard told trans women
"You're going to be a man," one guard told trans women
Trans people in US federal prisons face brutal crackdown under Trump order
Advocates report harassment and loss of gender-affirming care as trans women face transfers to men’s prisons
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2025 at 6:26 PM
I've collected accounts from trans folks inside US prisons facing Trump's brutal crackdown: trans women rounded up + placed in solitary before transfer to men's prisons; canceled medical appointments + loss of vital healthcare; vicious taunting
"You're going to be a man," one guard told trans women
"You're going to be a man," one guard told trans women
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follow up: TRANS FOLKS, DONT GIVR THE GOVERNMENT YOUR PASSPORT!
they are holding ANY passport that’s trying to get a gender marker change/update, ARENT letting you renew if they know you’re trying to, and they are HOLDING PASSPORTS THAT REQUEST A GENDER MARKER CHANGE.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZT22nUxY5/
they are holding ANY passport that’s trying to get a gender marker change/update, ARENT letting you renew if they know you’re trying to, and they are HOLDING PASSPORTS THAT REQUEST A GENDER MARKER CHANGE.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZT22nUxY5/
January 30, 2025 at 7:59 PM
follow up: TRANS FOLKS, DONT GIVR THE GOVERNMENT YOUR PASSPORT!
they are holding ANY passport that’s trying to get a gender marker change/update, ARENT letting you renew if they know you’re trying to, and they are HOLDING PASSPORTS THAT REQUEST A GENDER MARKER CHANGE.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZT22nUxY5/
they are holding ANY passport that’s trying to get a gender marker change/update, ARENT letting you renew if they know you’re trying to, and they are HOLDING PASSPORTS THAT REQUEST A GENDER MARKER CHANGE.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZT22nUxY5/
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Guys, I know I’ve posted this article a lot in the last two weeks. But I’m so serious.
They’re not fucking around, and major executive action aimed at trans literature could happen as soon as tomorrow. The time to take action to protect trans books and authors is *now.*
They’re not fucking around, and major executive action aimed at trans literature could happen as soon as tomorrow. The time to take action to protect trans books and authors is *now.*
Okay, here’s the deal: RIGHT NOW is the time for concrete, direct action.
If you’re following me, it’s probably because you care about trans art and trans literature. The article below lays out my suggestions for dozens of concrete actions you can take to preemptively combat literary censorship.
If you’re following me, it’s probably because you care about trans art and trans literature. The article below lays out my suggestions for dozens of concrete actions you can take to preemptively combat literary censorship.
The Trans Literature Preservation Project: A Practical Guide to Resisting Censorship
Project 2025 wants to criminalize trans literature. Here’s a game plan for keeping our stories alive.
thetransfemininereview.com
January 30, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Guys, I know I’ve posted this article a lot in the last two weeks. But I’m so serious.
They’re not fucking around, and major executive action aimed at trans literature could happen as soon as tomorrow. The time to take action to protect trans books and authors is *now.*
They’re not fucking around, and major executive action aimed at trans literature could happen as soon as tomorrow. The time to take action to protect trans books and authors is *now.*
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Once again reminding a generation who thinks ska died that the scene is still in fact thriving. And in todays political climate, there’s lots of marginalized folk in the scene who got SOMETHING TO SAY 😤👊🏾💥
✨SAY GAY OR SAY GOODNIGHT✨
✨SAY GAY OR SAY GOODNIGHT✨
January 28, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Once again reminding a generation who thinks ska died that the scene is still in fact thriving. And in todays political climate, there’s lots of marginalized folk in the scene who got SOMETHING TO SAY 😤👊🏾💥
✨SAY GAY OR SAY GOODNIGHT✨
✨SAY GAY OR SAY GOODNIGHT✨
This is from Neuroqueer Heresies by Nick Walker (pg 133). The quote that she references explains so much and while her insights are specific to autism in this context, obviously it goes far beyond to explain a lot of what we're seeing.
January 25, 2025 at 9:01 AM
This is from Neuroqueer Heresies by Nick Walker (pg 133). The quote that she references explains so much and while her insights are specific to autism in this context, obviously it goes far beyond to explain a lot of what we're seeing.
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States like Tennessee have been laboratories for fascism for years but this is next-level out of control.
Among a list of other immigration policies, Gov. Bill Lee is proposing a felony charge and removal from office for local elected officials who vote in favor of sanctuary city policies in Tennessee.
Story: @sarahgracetaylor.bsky.social
nashvillebanner.com/2025/01/23/t...
Story: @sarahgracetaylor.bsky.social
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Tennessee proposes bill to crack down on sanctuary cities - Nashville Banner
Tennessee's Republican leadership introduces an immigration bill that threatens to jail or remove local officials for supporting sanctuary cities.
nashvillebanner.com
January 23, 2025 at 3:32 PM
States like Tennessee have been laboratories for fascism for years but this is next-level out of control.