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Stephanie Dharma
@stephanie-dharma.bsky.social
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That Transgender radical you have been warned about. 🏳️‍⚧️ Artist, art collector. Lover of Ballet, Figure Skating, and anything wild. Granite State resident. Not pretty, not young, not interested.
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Stephanie Dharma @stephanie-dharma.bsky.social · Feb 7
As far as I am concerned, there no longer is an America. The American Experiment is over. This is a totalitarian regime. It's impressive how fragile and precarious the framework of the constitution was.

RIP the United States of America
July 4th 1776 - January 20th 2025
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thomasbamonte.bsky.social
Trump Administration proposing elimination of public transit funding and prohibiting states from choosing to flex highway funds for transit. usa.streetsblog.org/2025/11/18/b...
Breaking: Trump Admin Seeks To Decimate Federal Transit Funding — Streetsblog USA
"When you're talking about taking away money from transit, your proposal is flawed from the get-go," said one expert.
usa.streetsblog.org
November 18, 2025 at 12:29 PM
stephanie-dharma.bsky.social
#last4albums
The cover of the album Double Infinity by Big Thief The cover of the self titled album by Return to Dust The cover of Sarah McLachlan's latest release Better Broken The cover of the latest release from the band Garbage - Let all we imagine be the light
November 15, 2025 at 12:50 PM
stephanie-dharma.bsky.social
When you take in a black cat, you realize that the cat owns you and you are just hopelessly under her spell.
A regal black cat with yellow eyes
November 7, 2025 at 8:28 PM
stephanie-dharma.bsky.social
I am disappointed in the World Series outcome.
Shows you how much I have changed as an American when I root for Canada to kick our ass. It's what happens when you think of your country as the bad guy...
November 2, 2025 at 4:38 AM
stephanie-dharma.bsky.social
Why doesn't New Hampshire do something fiscally intelligent like this?
Oh, Right because we are proud of our underfunded schools and roads.
#NHPolitics
October 21, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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grayspark.net
Just dropping this for reference. Right now in the United States, every stage is active to some level against transgender people. Gender critical people internationally are pro-genocide.
TEN STAGES OF GENOCIDE 1 Classification: People are divided into "us and them." 2 Symbolization: People are forced to identify themselves. 3 Discrimination: People begin to face systematic discrimination. 4 Dehumanization: People equated with animals, vermin, or diseases. 5 Organization: The government creates specific groups (police/military) to enforce the policies. 6 Polarization: The government broadcasts propaganda to turn the populace against the group. 7 Preparation: Official action to remove/relocate people. 8 Persecution: Beginning of murders, theft of property, trial massacres. 9 Extermination: Wholesale elimination of the group. It is "extermination" and not murder because the people are not considered human. 10 Denial: The government denies that it has committed any crime
September 27, 2025 at 10:34 PM
stephanie-dharma.bsky.social
This app can suck.
But sometimes, the skeets just slay.
Xitter was never so wickedly spot on.
razzball.bsky.social Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · Sep 22
Get in losers, we’re grieving
September 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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iwantyoustudio.bsky.social
Image of Steamboat Willie wearing a maga cap. with the words: BOYCOTT DISNEY
September 20, 2025 at 6:11 PM
stephanie-dharma.bsky.social
No new pictures.
Where are you mentally?
August 26, 2025 at 9:38 AM
stephanie-dharma.bsky.social
Given the way EverSource -loves- to stick the cost of bringing electricity to our household(s), what will this multi billion dollar project cost every one of the rate payers in New Hampshire?

#NHPolitics
August 5, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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charliejane.bsky.social
This is essential reading
hamiltonnolan.bsky.social Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · Jul 29
I find it hypnotic to watch America walking straight down a path towards a climate change/ insurance/ financial/ political crisis that is entirely predictable.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/cheap-tric...
Cheap Tricks for Hard Problems
Picking up nickels in front of the climate steamroller.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
July 29, 2025 at 6:18 PM
stephanie-dharma.bsky.social
Drop something yellow from your gallery

Magnetic Fields - Mildred Thompson
July 27, 2025 at 10:59 PM
stephanie-dharma.bsky.social
Engagement bait, post your lock screen.

I always use photos I have taken. Inside the Metropolitan Opera, NYC
July 26, 2025 at 8:14 AM
stephanie-dharma.bsky.social
I went to a gender conference in Salt Lake City. At the end of the day, I was sitting between two trans women. I asked:
"So, what convinced you that you were trans"
They listed a handful of touch points...
I said:
"That's me, me, and that's me and oh crap I am transgender"

My denial ran deep.
mel.bzky.team mel! @mel.bzky.team · Feb 3
TRANS WOMEN OF BLUESKY:

What was your egg cracking moment?

When did you know you were trans? What made you realize?

And did you know you were a woman right away, or did you pass through other identities first
July 15, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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juliusgoat.bsky.social
My theory is that it might have been the lavishly funded, meticulously planned, deliberate, persistent campaign of demonizing propaganda waged against trans people by far right figures who announced their intentions, which was abetted by centrist media platforming in the name of “objectivity.”
notalawyer.bsky.social Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · Jun 21
i listened to the Ezra Klein/Sarah McBride interview, and her entire position revolves around a completely unproven assertion: the idea what caused the shift in polls away from trans rights is the rhetoric of the left. that might be true, but i haven’t seen any real evidence for it.
July 7, 2025 at 10:07 AM
stephanie-dharma.bsky.social
Fifty years ago when the Homosexual community demanded to be de-stigmatized by the psychological establishment, they stepped away from those in the community who were "gender variant."
That framing of trans-ness as being psychologically damaged continues to this day.
shelleybwoke.bsky.social FreeLinkophant Shelley B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · Jul 3
I am so glad that the New York Times found a cis man to write about trans suicide calls. 😒
Opinion Guest Essay What I Heard on a Suicide Hotline for Trans Kids July 2, 2025, 5:01 a.m. ET As part of my research for a book about suicide prevention, I spent about a year working weekends on a hotline. I couldn’t acquire a serious understanding of what it meant to talk someone out of attempting suicide just by interviewing therapists or even sitting next to the people taking hotline calls. I wanted to feel the weight of caring for suicidal people and experience what it was like to help them through a crisis. One night, a suicidal trans girl said she had to cut the call short because it was getting to be past her bedtime. I am a cisgender male and a corny dad with a kid similar in age to these callers. Before they hung up, I whisper-yelled into the phone that they could call again anytime.
July 3, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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evanurquhart.bsky.social
This is what all the drama is really about. Some older gays and lesbians feel alienated and rejected by youth queer culture. They want gay men to be gay men, lesbian women to be lesbian women, and transgender people to be sex workers and queens, tolerated and pitied, on the margins of gay life.
July 1, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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cwebbonline.com
Such a good point on SCOTUS hypocrisy when it comes to Trump vs Biden:

They let a nationwide injunction kill Biden’s student loan relief when they had a chance to rule on it.

5 months into Trump’s presidency, suddenly nationwide injunctions are a grave threat to executive power and they must rule.
June 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
stephanie-dharma.bsky.social
My egg cracked when I sat down with two trans women and asked them what cracked their eggs.
They listed five things.
And to each of them I thought:
That's me, that's me, that's...
Oh hell.
Only by understanding how others connected the dots could I finally reach that realization.
elliesprites.bsky.social Ellie @elliesprites.bsky.social · Jun 27
People should really just consider to NEVER call ANYONE an egg. It's so fucking weird. Telling a cis person "I think you're secretly trans" is almost (almost) as bad as telling a trans person you don't think they're really trans. Don't do that. Trust that people have their own shit figured out.
June 28, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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moxiest.art
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nyc has fallen
We try to make cool things. We are sometimes successful.
artbymox.shop
June 25, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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40 plus appreciation post! Repost with pic if you are on the right side of 40

Sixty-Three
June 23, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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padresalsa.bsky.social
Stephanie, would you mind sharing this, Please?
democracynh.com/2025/free_st...
Learn more about the Free Staters and Liberty Alliance | DemocracyNH
“We might have to put a leash on some of these local governments.”Rep. Jason Osborne R-Auburn, House Majority Leader April 17, 2025Is that right? Read that quote again and let it sink in.
democracynh.com
June 22, 2025 at 5:33 PM
stephanie-dharma.bsky.social
Alice Wade stopped by our booth at Portsmouth Pride. She's the real deal. I would love to see her run for Congress.
#NHPolitics
#WadeForCongress
#AliceWadeForNH
June 22, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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monicabyrne13.bsky.social
It was one of the greatest privileges of my life to visit Iran in 2014.

It’s the place I wish I could return to most. Stunning natural beauty, deep reverence for artists, and people of profound kindness, wisdom, and warmth.

They don’t deserve USrael’s barbaric violence. They never have.
The open door of Takht-e Suileman in northern Iran. Heavy wooden doors showing a beautiful landscape of dunes and forests in the distance.
June 22, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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drdevonojeda.bsky.social
My speech at the Skrmetti rally in DC yesterday.
Speech: "We Fight to Live" In the wake of the Skrmetti decision, I found myself reflecting on the state of our rights and freedoms. It feels like the ground has shifted beneath our feet, a feeling that is all too familiar. It wasn't even three years ago, in June 2022, that I shared this familiarity, but I am grateful now that I am at peace, all thanks to gender-affirming care. You see, I woke up in a hospital bed three years ago. My memory was foggy. My body was weak. My parents sat beside me, their faces filled with worry. I didn't understand why until the truth hit me. I had almost given up. It was just days after Roe fell. I had spent months watching the government strip away bodily autonomy, hearing the same tired debates about whether people like me should have control over our own lives. And while that was happening, I was in the closet, working in trans advocacy, yes but still afraid. Afraid of what coming out would mean for my family, my relationships, my safety. When the Dobbs decision leaked, I felt something crack. I already knew what it meant to feel like your body isn't yours. But that day, the rest of the country got a glimpse of what that felt like. I went to the protests. I marched. I shouted. But I felt completely detached from myself. And when the decision officially dropped, I broke down. I believed I had no future. No agency. No way forward. That night, I tried to end my life. But my friends saw what I couldn't. They got me to a hospital in time. By the time I arrived, I was unconscious. My organs were shutting down. For a few moments, I was pronounced dead. But a nurse refused to give up. She saw a flicker of life and told the doctors to try again. And somehow-they did. Somehow—| came back. I woke up three days later with a second chance. That day, I made a decision: I would live for me. I would no longer let the government, or society, or relationships, or fear dictate who I was. I came out. I started my transition. I legally changed my name. I got top surgery. I claimed my life. And let me tell you something, choosing to live as my full self was the most radical, most powerful thing I have ever done. Because here's the truth: the struggle isn't that we're trans. The struggle is that we live in a country obsessed with control; controlling bodies, controlling gender, controlling truth. Let them drown in their own fear and lies. I'm still standing, and that's what they can't take. And every single day I live as my whole self is an act of defiance. Of love. Of revolution. And so is your life. They can say whatever they want. They can lie. They can distort science, history, and reality itself. They can say l'm a woman. But I live as a man. I love as a man. I move through this world as a man. And nothing they say or legislate will ever change that. To my trans siblings,the same goes for you. We win by refusing to disappear. We win by caring for each other. We check in. We show up. We get our people what they need. They can take over the courts and try to strip our rights, but they will never understand our strength. They cannot break a community that has already survived so much. And this fight isn't just about trans people. When they target undocumented folks, they are targeting us. When they gut DEIA programs, they are gutting spaces we've fought to exist in. When they fire federal workers, they fire trans workers too. When you come after our healthcare, you will no doubt be impacted whether you are trans or cis. We are everywhere. And when they come for one of us, they come for all of us. The Skrmetti decision is not the end. We are entering a new era. There will be grief, there will be losses. But we cannot afford to give up. We must fight not only to survive but to live. To thrive. Out of spite. Out of love. Out of a deep, unshakable belief that we deserve to be here. Because we do. And we are not done fighting. Thank you.
June 20, 2025 at 12:27 AM