Téa J-Y
@teaj-y.bsky.social
abolitionist, queer/trans, author of "experimental" prose and poetry, "mile deep inch wide" organizer, org dev and systems change strategy consultant, social justice program development & implementation, youth worker, daytime soap fanatic
“Welcome … to my little bordello.”
December 2, 2025 at 6:01 AM
“Welcome … to my little bordello.”
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Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.
Donate - Native Organizers Alliance
Supporting organizing and advocacy initiatives for Indigenous justice.
nativeorganizing.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.
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So thrilled to FINALLY get copies of 'Let This Radicalize You' and 'Read This When Things Fall Apart'. One copy to pass around right away. One to read and then start passing! @mskellymhayes.bsky.social @prisonculture.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 1:59 AM
So thrilled to FINALLY get copies of 'Let This Radicalize You' and 'Read This When Things Fall Apart'. One copy to pass around right away. One to read and then start passing! @mskellymhayes.bsky.social @prisonculture.bsky.social
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I really want cis folks to understand the situation - trans women face widespread employment discrimination and live in devastating poverty.
Meanwhile, the woman who came in fifth place in a swimming competition, ONCE, makes a million+ a year to advocate for destroying our rights.
Meanwhile, the woman who came in fifth place in a swimming competition, ONCE, makes a million+ a year to advocate for destroying our rights.
If Riley's doing speeches 40 times a year, assuming breaks, she'd be making between $600,000 and $999,960 a year pre-tax. She's a fucking millionaire who has made her entire career of harassing a singular trans woman into exile. I legit thought Lia Thomas was dead until she did a recent interview.
October 29, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I really want cis folks to understand the situation - trans women face widespread employment discrimination and live in devastating poverty.
Meanwhile, the woman who came in fifth place in a swimming competition, ONCE, makes a million+ a year to advocate for destroying our rights.
Meanwhile, the woman who came in fifth place in a swimming competition, ONCE, makes a million+ a year to advocate for destroying our rights.
September 12, 2025 at 6:47 PM
When I was living as a gay boy, I wanted to be a villainess. As a trans woman, I’ve instead begun to identify with heroines. Someday I will make enough sense of this to write something about it.
August 29, 2025 at 1:16 AM
When I was living as a gay boy, I wanted to be a villainess. As a trans woman, I’ve instead begun to identify with heroines. Someday I will make enough sense of this to write something about it.
Yr girl went off on Reddit.
First pic is the post I was responding to
First pic is the post I was responding to
August 29, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Yr girl went off on Reddit.
First pic is the post I was responding to
First pic is the post I was responding to
Seeing these two side by side really drives the transmisogny of longlegs and weapons home for me. Like no, my love and I are not crazy, these dudebro filmmakers are 100 percent marshaling trans panic tropes even if they have no idea they’re doing it. (The films’ narratives further support this).
August 28, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Seeing these two side by side really drives the transmisogny of longlegs and weapons home for me. Like no, my love and I are not crazy, these dudebro filmmakers are 100 percent marshaling trans panic tropes even if they have no idea they’re doing it. (The films’ narratives further support this).
I haven’t listened to Dar Williams in over a decade, but I just tried this new track and …. Am puzzled about the decision to release a song about olive trees and democracy in 2025 that says nothing abt / has nothing to do w/ Palestine
August 26, 2025 at 12:54 PM
I haven’t listened to Dar Williams in over a decade, but I just tried this new track and …. Am puzzled about the decision to release a song about olive trees and democracy in 2025 that says nothing abt / has nothing to do w/ Palestine
God I hate those care react emojis over at what Mariame Kaba calls fedbook. They make me feel completely pitied and “othered” which I don’t think is most of my friends’ intention. If tangible care isn’t available (can’t buy groceries with an emoji), I’d usually much rather see anger.
August 22, 2025 at 8:33 PM
God I hate those care react emojis over at what Mariame Kaba calls fedbook. They make me feel completely pitied and “othered” which I don’t think is most of my friends’ intention. If tangible care isn’t available (can’t buy groceries with an emoji), I’d usually much rather see anger.
We need to get back to first place by 9 PM CT.
If you haven’t voted yet, or haven’t voted in the past 24’hours, we appreciate your support and reshares!
americasfavcouple.org/2025/brandon...
If you haven’t voted yet, or haven’t voted in the past 24’hours, we appreciate your support and reshares!
americasfavcouple.org/2025/brandon...
August 10, 2025 at 9:03 PM
We need to get back to first place by 9 PM CT.
If you haven’t voted yet, or haven’t voted in the past 24’hours, we appreciate your support and reshares!
americasfavcouple.org/2025/brandon...
If you haven’t voted yet, or haven’t voted in the past 24’hours, we appreciate your support and reshares!
americasfavcouple.org/2025/brandon...
August 9, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Plz vote for us before 9 PM central today as AMERICAS GREATEST COUPLE—I hate these data mining/fundraising schemes, *but it would be lovely to see trans and caregiving stories represented amongst the finalists, and the prize would make a big difference for us!
americasfavcouple.org/2025/brandon...
americasfavcouple.org/2025/brandon...
Vote for Brandon Will as America's Favorite Couple!
One couple will appear in an advertorial in Variety and take home $20,000.
americasfavcouple.org
August 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Plz vote for us before 9 PM central today as AMERICAS GREATEST COUPLE—I hate these data mining/fundraising schemes, *but it would be lovely to see trans and caregiving stories represented amongst the finalists, and the prize would make a big difference for us!
americasfavcouple.org/2025/brandon...
americasfavcouple.org/2025/brandon...
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I used to do this. JDI is inviting folks to write holiday cards to incarcerated people. It's simple: you sign up and they send you cards to write: justdetention.org/woh/ - perfect for people who are homebound.
Join JDI’s Words of Hope Campaign! – Just Detention International Join JDI’s Words of Hope Campaign! – Just Detention International
justdetention.org
August 7, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I used to do this. JDI is inviting folks to write holiday cards to incarcerated people. It's simple: you sign up and they send you cards to write: justdetention.org/woh/ - perfect for people who are homebound.
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Latest substack -
With 2025’s Disability Pride Month now having drawn to a close, this is my wish: That more of us will learn to check ourselves on our shit, and show the fuck up:
open.substack.com/pub/transiti...
With 2025’s Disability Pride Month now having drawn to a close, this is my wish: That more of us will learn to check ourselves on our shit, and show the fuck up:
open.substack.com/pub/transiti...
August 5, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Latest substack -
With 2025’s Disability Pride Month now having drawn to a close, this is my wish: That more of us will learn to check ourselves on our shit, and show the fuck up:
open.substack.com/pub/transiti...
With 2025’s Disability Pride Month now having drawn to a close, this is my wish: That more of us will learn to check ourselves on our shit, and show the fuck up:
open.substack.com/pub/transiti...
Latest substack -
With 2025’s Disability Pride Month now having drawn to a close, this is my wish: That more of us will learn to check ourselves on our shit, and show the fuck up:
open.substack.com/pub/transiti...
With 2025’s Disability Pride Month now having drawn to a close, this is my wish: That more of us will learn to check ourselves on our shit, and show the fuck up:
open.substack.com/pub/transiti...
August 5, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Latest substack -
With 2025’s Disability Pride Month now having drawn to a close, this is my wish: That more of us will learn to check ourselves on our shit, and show the fuck up:
open.substack.com/pub/transiti...
With 2025’s Disability Pride Month now having drawn to a close, this is my wish: That more of us will learn to check ourselves on our shit, and show the fuck up:
open.substack.com/pub/transiti...
Hoorah! We got another one!
August 1, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Hoorah! We got another one!
The day started with nightmares about fascist home invasion and me screaming at the top of my lungs at Alexa about how I was going to cut parts of her off with a knife because she wouldn't take the snooze command
July 30, 2025 at 12:24 PM
The day started with nightmares about fascist home invasion and me screaming at the top of my lungs at Alexa about how I was going to cut parts of her off with a knife because she wouldn't take the snooze command
call out NB fragility for what it is. In no way does centering medical transitioners (some of whom *are NB) in the fight for the right to medically transition, or trans women in the fight against State forces specifically organized around transmisogyny, erase your ID or throw you under any bus.
July 22, 2025 at 6:32 PM
call out NB fragility for what it is. In no way does centering medical transitioners (some of whom *are NB) in the fight for the right to medically transition, or trans women in the fight against State forces specifically organized around transmisogyny, erase your ID or throw you under any bus.
Do the people mad at Jules Gill-Peterson actually WANT medical pathologization to be a prerequisite for our freedom when there’s a superior argument, and actually BELIEVE that their gender was installed inside them by God or SCIENCE like the ONE RING they must quest to discover ? Gross.
July 22, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Do the people mad at Jules Gill-Peterson actually WANT medical pathologization to be a prerequisite for our freedom when there’s a superior argument, and actually BELIEVE that their gender was installed inside them by God or SCIENCE like the ONE RING they must quest to discover ? Gross.
As a college educated and formerly middle class / now financially precarious person who agonized over my identity for yrs while most aware of the kind of sex I wanted to have in a female body, I’ll only add that JGP uplifting in her other work poor folks who’ve transitioned for pleasure delights me
Any focus on the immiseration of trans people always already holds the fantasies+desires of the poor w/in its scope, incl. the poor+nonbinary.
A person whose housing + food + water is not at stake IS able to think abt self-actualization more—it doesn't rob the poor of agency to name that.
A person whose housing + food + water is not at stake IS able to think abt self-actualization more—it doesn't rob the poor of agency to name that.
July 21, 2025 at 11:51 PM
As a college educated and formerly middle class / now financially precarious person who agonized over my identity for yrs while most aware of the kind of sex I wanted to have in a female body, I’ll only add that JGP uplifting in her other work poor folks who’ve transitioned for pleasure delights me
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Any focus on the immiseration of trans people always already holds the fantasies+desires of the poor w/in its scope, incl. the poor+nonbinary.
A person whose housing + food + water is not at stake IS able to think abt self-actualization more—it doesn't rob the poor of agency to name that.
A person whose housing + food + water is not at stake IS able to think abt self-actualization more—it doesn't rob the poor of agency to name that.
July 21, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Any focus on the immiseration of trans people always already holds the fantasies+desires of the poor w/in its scope, incl. the poor+nonbinary.
A person whose housing + food + water is not at stake IS able to think abt self-actualization more—it doesn't rob the poor of agency to name that.
A person whose housing + food + water is not at stake IS able to think abt self-actualization more—it doesn't rob the poor of agency to name that.
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As a trans woman who grew up (very!) poor
+declared a trans nonbinary identity only once I felt $ecure enough to do so
security that, in turn, made medical transition much more possible for me
I find much of value in JGP's Baffler piece + a notable lack of generosity in many of yr readings!
+declared a trans nonbinary identity only once I felt $ecure enough to do so
security that, in turn, made medical transition much more possible for me
I find much of value in JGP's Baffler piece + a notable lack of generosity in many of yr readings!
July 21, 2025 at 10:25 PM
As a trans woman who grew up (very!) poor
+declared a trans nonbinary identity only once I felt $ecure enough to do so
security that, in turn, made medical transition much more possible for me
I find much of value in JGP's Baffler piece + a notable lack of generosity in many of yr readings!
+declared a trans nonbinary identity only once I felt $ecure enough to do so
security that, in turn, made medical transition much more possible for me
I find much of value in JGP's Baffler piece + a notable lack of generosity in many of yr readings!