S Bear Bergman
@sbearbergman.bsky.social
Writer, storyteller, publisher, advice guy, crankypants. Always looking for people to talk to and things to eat. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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What you can do, right now, for your trans and nonbinary friends, family, students and colleagues.
It’s very reasonable to be worried and trying to understand how to help. Here are some actionable suggestions for the short and medium term.
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Read “What you can do, right now, for your trans and nonbinary friends, family, students and colleagues.“ by S. Bear Bergman on Medium: medium.com/@sbearbergma...
Today I read a review of my new show that described it as, among other very nice compliments: “…if Spalding Gray were alive, and happy.” I’ll take that any day.
gender-defiant.ghost.io/the-first-je...
gender-defiant.ghost.io/the-first-je...
The First Jew in Canada: A Trans Tale
Three lines from this hilarious, tender solo play beamed out to me as the mom of a trans teen
gender-defiant.ghost.io
November 13, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Today I read a review of my new show that described it as, among other very nice compliments: “…if Spalding Gray were alive, and happy.” I’ll take that any day.
gender-defiant.ghost.io/the-first-je...
gender-defiant.ghost.io/the-first-je...
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Boston friends, check out Bear's show! I was lucky enough to see it last year, and it was such a great evening of storytelling!
Boston! Come see the show @broadwayworld.com called “skillful, deeply affecting, funny and sad and sweet and difficult and true,” and @intermissionmag.bsky.social says is “a solo show with a sense of heart and honesty that'll leave your cheeks wet and your chest warm.”
TICKETS! bpt.me/6732394
TICKETS! bpt.me/6732394
October 28, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Boston friends, check out Bear's show! I was lucky enough to see it last year, and it was such a great evening of storytelling!
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this is an amazing storytelling experience, i was just talking it up the other day.
Boston! Come see the show @broadwayworld.com called “skillful, deeply affecting, funny and sad and sweet and difficult and true,” and @intermissionmag.bsky.social says is “a solo show with a sense of heart and honesty that'll leave your cheeks wet and your chest warm.”
TICKETS! bpt.me/6732394
TICKETS! bpt.me/6732394
October 27, 2025 at 11:35 PM
this is an amazing storytelling experience, i was just talking it up the other day.
Boston! Come see the show @broadwayworld.com called “skillful, deeply affecting, funny and sad and sweet and difficult and true,” and @intermissionmag.bsky.social says is “a solo show with a sense of heart and honesty that'll leave your cheeks wet and your chest warm.”
TICKETS! bpt.me/6732394
TICKETS! bpt.me/6732394
October 27, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Boston! Come see the show @broadwayworld.com called “skillful, deeply affecting, funny and sad and sweet and difficult and true,” and @intermissionmag.bsky.social says is “a solo show with a sense of heart and honesty that'll leave your cheeks wet and your chest warm.”
TICKETS! bpt.me/6732394
TICKETS! bpt.me/6732394
I am having a hot bath because I’m fighting a cold.
While soaking, I finished the water in my glass, and then had the thought that I wished I could stay in but I really needed a drink of water.
So I would obviously need to get out.
Of the bathtub.
To get water.
(The cold may be winning.)
While soaking, I finished the water in my glass, and then had the thought that I wished I could stay in but I really needed a drink of water.
So I would obviously need to get out.
Of the bathtub.
To get water.
(The cold may be winning.)
October 27, 2025 at 11:08 PM
I am having a hot bath because I’m fighting a cold.
While soaking, I finished the water in my glass, and then had the thought that I wished I could stay in but I really needed a drink of water.
So I would obviously need to get out.
Of the bathtub.
To get water.
(The cold may be winning.)
While soaking, I finished the water in my glass, and then had the thought that I wished I could stay in but I really needed a drink of water.
So I would obviously need to get out.
Of the bathtub.
To get water.
(The cold may be winning.)
When my children sass me, I just remember that as a child who could not keep my nose out of a book, I got many scoldings about watching what I was doing. Once my mother was particularly aggravated and I said yes, she should go complain to the other mothers about her child that won’t stop READING.
October 16, 2025 at 4:29 AM
When my children sass me, I just remember that as a child who could not keep my nose out of a book, I got many scoldings about watching what I was doing. Once my mother was particularly aggravated and I said yes, she should go complain to the other mothers about her child that won’t stop READING.
Some years ago, a Jamaican friend introduced me to the phrase “no broughtupsy” and while I don’t use it (feels appropriative; I am a middle aged white Jew from New York) I do find that I think it a whole lot these days.
I had a post reach the Discover feed today and was once again reminded of how many people on this site are not house trained.
October 11, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Some years ago, a Jamaican friend introduced me to the phrase “no broughtupsy” and while I don’t use it (feels appropriative; I am a middle aged white Jew from New York) I do find that I think it a whole lot these days.
I recommend you share a few potato chips with a dog if you have the opportunity. A big cozy ding-dong is ideal for this, but really any dog.
October 4, 2025 at 5:15 AM
I recommend you share a few potato chips with a dog if you have the opportunity. A big cozy ding-dong is ideal for this, but really any dog.
Francis, teaching his graduate seminar in coziness. Enrolment opens soon for his summer intensive, rolling on your back in a cool bed of clover.
September 30, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Francis, teaching his graduate seminar in coziness. Enrolment opens soon for his summer intensive, rolling on your back in a cool bed of clover.
I’m a transgender Jewish writer and storyteller; imagine how I feel.
Turns out it was pretty stupid of me to go to “law school” and pass the “bar” and practice “law”
Supreme Court rules 6-3 that congressional appropriations are optional: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
September 27, 2025 at 1:59 AM
I’m a transgender Jewish writer and storyteller; imagine how I feel.
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"In Clipboards We Trust."
Once again I beg you to consider my proposal that a rotating committee of librarians and stage managers be put in charge of the US.
September 26, 2025 at 3:37 AM
"In Clipboards We Trust."
Once again I beg you to consider my proposal that a rotating committee of librarians and stage managers be put in charge of the US.
September 26, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Once again I beg you to consider my proposal that a rotating committee of librarians and stage managers be put in charge of the US.
Can we not just accept that we need all the different kinds of brains to do all the different kind of human things? Because I am FOR SURE not keeping a 17-volume-and-counting detailed record of my decades of effort in restoring heirloom apple varieties, but I’m very glad someone is. ::crunch::
September 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Can we not just accept that we need all the different kinds of brains to do all the different kind of human things? Because I am FOR SURE not keeping a 17-volume-and-counting detailed record of my decades of effort in restoring heirloom apple varieties, but I’m very glad someone is. ::crunch::
Little wins but Troy Kostur looking hot (without additional context) in the Bottega Veneta ad wrapper for the Sunday NYT about the poetry of gesture qualifies I think.
September 9, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Little wins but Troy Kostur looking hot (without additional context) in the Bottega Veneta ad wrapper for the Sunday NYT about the poetry of gesture qualifies I think.
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Really loved reading Special Topics in Being a Parent: A Queer and Tender Guide to Things I've Learned About Parenting, Mostly the Hard Way by @sbearbergman.bsky.social
I cried many times ❤️
I cried many times ❤️
August 31, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Really loved reading Special Topics in Being a Parent: A Queer and Tender Guide to Things I've Learned About Parenting, Mostly the Hard Way by @sbearbergman.bsky.social
I cried many times ❤️
I cried many times ❤️
Someone’s going to tell the early modern historians why the students are all talking about the pear of anguish this week, right?
August 19, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Someone’s going to tell the early modern historians why the students are all talking about the pear of anguish this week, right?
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How about that? A victory for people who actually read.
"None Of These Books Are Obscene": Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida's Book Ban Bill
In a major win for intellectual freedom, a judge rules against Florida law that led to removing hundreds of books from school libraries.
bookriot.com
August 15, 2025 at 12:48 PM
How about that? A victory for people who actually read.
This feels like a @theradr.bsky.social question: does Judaism already have a bracha that is roughly “Baruch Hashem for letting me live in such comfort that this constitutes an inconvenience? If not, can we write one?
August 10, 2025 at 2:15 AM
This feels like a @theradr.bsky.social question: does Judaism already have a bracha that is roughly “Baruch Hashem for letting me live in such comfort that this constitutes an inconvenience? If not, can we write one?
I wish to announce that today I have cleaned and reassembled the dishwasher and also migrated my email to Google hosting and I feel EXTREMELY accomplished please clap.
June 27, 2025 at 2:21 AM
I wish to announce that today I have cleaned and reassembled the dishwasher and also migrated my email to Google hosting and I feel EXTREMELY accomplished please clap.
Today I, a professional storyteller and author, described something as “the lightiest light” because I was so distracted and overwhelmed I forgot that the word bright exists and if that’s not a metaphor then I don’t even know what (but also, please someone name your band The Lightiest Light).
June 26, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Today I, a professional storyteller and author, described something as “the lightiest light” because I was so distracted and overwhelmed I forgot that the word bright exists and if that’s not a metaphor then I don’t even know what (but also, please someone name your band The Lightiest Light).
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Daily(ish) #PrideMonth #SmallPress #books: Special Topics in Being a Parent by @sbearbergman.bsky.social, ill. Saul Freedman-Lawson (@arsenalpulp.bsky.social) & Thunder Song by Sasha Lapointe (Counterpoint @catapultbooks.bsky.social)
#DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky 🌈📚
#DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky 🌈📚
June 24, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Daily(ish) #PrideMonth #SmallPress #books: Special Topics in Being a Parent by @sbearbergman.bsky.social, ill. Saul Freedman-Lawson (@arsenalpulp.bsky.social) & Thunder Song by Sasha Lapointe (Counterpoint @catapultbooks.bsky.social)
#DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky 🌈📚
#DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky 🌈📚
Anyone want to talk me out of relaunching Queer Culture Catchup as a standalone site?
(This brought to you by the many people I know making queer and trans arts & culture things, especially early career, and getting 0 reviews because arts media has contracted like a salted slug, and I just...)
(This brought to you by the many people I know making queer and trans arts & culture things, especially early career, and getting 0 reviews because arts media has contracted like a salted slug, and I just...)
June 20, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Anyone want to talk me out of relaunching Queer Culture Catchup as a standalone site?
(This brought to you by the many people I know making queer and trans arts & culture things, especially early career, and getting 0 reviews because arts media has contracted like a salted slug, and I just...)
(This brought to you by the many people I know making queer and trans arts & culture things, especially early career, and getting 0 reviews because arts media has contracted like a salted slug, and I just...)
I’ll be celebrating Trump’s birthday by performing a trans Jewish historical show, just up the road from the US War College.
a cartoon of fry from futurama blowing a party horn with the hulu logo behind him
Alt: a cartoon of fry from futurama blowing a party horn with the hulu logo behind him
media.tenor.com
June 14, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I’ll be celebrating Trump’s birthday by performing a trans Jewish historical show, just up the road from the US War College.
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www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... powerful and beautifully framed argument against book banning (thx @sbearbergman.bsky.social )
Opinion: When we remove books from schools or libraries, we prune the landscapes of children’s imaginations
Public libraries and school libraries don’t just serve one child or one family, they must serve the whole community
www.theglobeandmail.com
June 1, 2025 at 3:37 AM
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... powerful and beautifully framed argument against book banning (thx @sbearbergman.bsky.social )
It’s June 1, so if you haven’t reserved your homosexual yet be advised that we’re into surge pricing now.
June 1, 2025 at 6:53 PM
It’s June 1, so if you haven’t reserved your homosexual yet be advised that we’re into surge pricing now.