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TJ Richards
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She/they 🏳️‍🌈 Cajun trouble maker 🐊 LGBTQ+ activist ✊ Audiobook narrator 🎧🎙️🤓 & chaotic feral forest goblin 🌲🕺
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Definition: Authoritarianism

the blind submission to authority and the repression of individual freedom of thought and action. Authoritarian regimes..do not afford..citizens civil liberties or political rights. Power is concentrated in the hands of a single leader or a small elite…
August 11, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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August 10, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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ATTN: If you’re a member of the National Guard or you work for ICE and you’re asked to violate the law or your oath, contact Whistleblower Aid to safely, securely, and legally blow the whistle. You can support Whistleblower Aid HERE: whistlebloweraid.org/beans
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June 8, 2025 at 7:12 PM
"Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes." Anne Frank, 13 January 1943
Warning: ICE is planning 30 days of immigration raids across Los Angeles County. If you or someone you know may be impacted, now is the time to set up a support system, identify a safe place, and stay alert.
June 8, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Silence

Is

Complicity

Straighten your spine
Speak & live your truth
June 7, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Request for info:

If you know of any organisation etc. which has announced publicly that it has changed its policies/practices as a result of the Supreme Court decision or the EHRC update - please comment it below.

Trying to collate some of this.
May 14, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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We are studying today's judgement by the UK Supreme Court.

Nothing they rule will change our solidarity with the trans+ community and with everyone who seeks to live their lives under control of their own bodies, and free from poverty, ignorance or conformity.
April 16, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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"Now is the moment to work in solidarity with other marginalised groups, and resist an establishment which wants to force us into ever smaller boxes."

Analysis of the Supreme Court ruling that has changed Trans rights in the UK from @jessothomson.co.uk 👇

www.wearequeeraf.com/uk-supreme-c...
UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren’t Women under the Equality Act 2010
The legal definition of a woman in the UK now excludes trans people: This is what it means for Trans+ rights in the country
www.wearequeeraf.com
April 16, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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We will shortly make an announcement about renewing our organisational commitment to working for the trans community. We have already started hiring. We know, and they know, that trans people are right at the cutting edge of fascism. What we can do we will do.
April 16, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Even the very short break I took from social media helped give me perspective.

I know that everyone is terrified of the what will happen next in America.

It’s okay to feel fear.

It’s not a weakness.

I’m afraid too.

BUT

We will not give in.

We will not give up.

We will face this together. ❤️🎈
April 12, 2025 at 3:34 AM
I got my first library card as an adult! I grew up in libraries so am very excited to get back into it. I even found my books available in the audiobook section 😍🤩
March 29, 2025 at 8:26 PM
First bike ride since my hip replacement! I felt fine and the sun was shining and I loved it. Very excited to kick off bike commute season this year 😍
March 29, 2025 at 8:19 PM
In our house you can't say 'ready for bed?' because the dog and cat will both lose their shit. So I have to turn to my wife and announce 'I'm leaving! Will you join me?'
March 28, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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I unironically use my local library a lot. Ebooks, audio books, physical books, the seed exchange, the meeting spaces?? Passport services?? Citizenship and English classes? I grew up in the teen hangout area as a housing insecure youth with a bad parent. Libraries are important, I'm pissed
March 16, 2025 at 12:05 PM
My favourite part of spring is when my first batch of seeds poke their little green faces through the soil. Feels like a giant exhale. I love spring time
March 13, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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JUST A REMINDER ...

... of how close we are today ...
March 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Apparently if you have 1,000 books, it's considered a library. In completely unrelated news I have discovered the joys of second hand booksellers on eBay for under a fiver each...
March 8, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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1. Reports this week revealed that DHS has rescinded guidance banning surveillance based on someone's gender identity or sexual orientation.

We have confirmed those reports.

The latest from S. Baum, who goes over steps you can take to protect yourself.

Subscribe to support our journalism.
DHS Now Allows for Surveillance based on Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity
If you or your loved ones are part of the LGBTQ community, there are steps you should take to protect yourself.
www.erininthemorning.com
March 3, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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It is February 28 tomorrow.

This means a total and complete economic blackout.

This means buying nothing.

AT ALL

Not even your coffee!
February 27, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I'm in my 'trying my best to not give my money to billionaires' era.
February 21, 2025 at 8:37 AM
My wife crochet'd me a whole jumper of many colours and I love it! I feel like I'm in my own episode of The Good Life 😀
February 15, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Back in MK and feeling more rested. Any fun stuff happening in MK this weekend? I need to exercise this new hip with some steps 🧓🏻
February 15, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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*Billie Joe Armstrong voice* “not gonna call it the Gulf of America”

[power chords]
February 12, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Y'all I need jet lag tips. 2 weeks in the US and now back in the UK, I feel like I haven't been properly rested forEVER. 20 hours? 1 hour? Both feel like ass. Help!
February 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Live the revolution
This is my favorite picture of Stonewall.

They knew they were getting arrested just for being LGBTQ+.

Yet... they're still here, standing outside of the boarded up Stonewall Inn, smiling as the world was at a fever pitch of hatred against them.

I think about it a lot in moments like this.
January 29, 2025 at 4:27 PM