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Jessie Gender

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IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ - NETFLIX HAS tried to silence me for calling out racism from the star of their so-called ‘trans movie.’ I'm absolutely LIVID.

More info is in the photo, and even more is in the below thread.

ALT TEXT IS CONDENSED - Today, a vid about the Netflix film Emilia Perez will go up on my YouTube. The version that was supposed to go live included a last-minute section about Emilia Perez’s lead trans actress Karla Sofia Gascon’s resurfaced racist, Islamophobic, and violent tweets from 2020 and 2021. In Spanish, she wrote things like:
“Islam is becoming a hotbed of infection for humanity that urgently needs to be cured.”
I edited and uploaded that version, but Netflix hit it with a copyright strike before it could go live, forcing me to take it down. This wasn’t just a claim—it was a STRIKE, which could delete my entire channel—my livelihood. I already had one last year for calling out Matt Walsh’s hateful transphobia. The more I speak out, the more my channel is threatened.
Netflix weaponized copyright to silence a trans critic for exposing Gascon’s racism—all to protect their so-called “trans representation” movie, which, as I discuss, is harmful to trans people and considered racist by many Mexican people. I am furious but not surprised by this blatant hypocrisy. Given the state of the world, I do not have the emotional capacity for kindness right now. This is unacceptable, gross, disgusting behavior.
Luckily, this older version was already uploaded, so it survived. However, it’s MUCH lighter on Gascon, as it was edited before these revelations. The deleted version had much stronger words. But make no mistake: Netflix tried to threaten my livelihood.
Gascon’s tweets are linked below. Read them. Share them. Make noise.
And if you want the UNCENSORED version—the one Netflix tried to erase—it’s on my Patreon and Nebula. Support me there, where my work isn’t censored by corporations pretending to support us while actively silencing and attacking us.
Please share my videos. I won’t be ashamed to say I need financial and vocal support. I don’t know how much longer I can do this—to make my art, to pay my bills—because YouTube and the US is NOT safe for me now.

January 31, 2025 at 11:04 AM

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Jessie Gender

@jessiegender.bsky.social

In a culture complicit in genociding Palestinians, countless school shooting deaths, the genocide of trans people, police murdering Black people, and the genocide/ethnic cleansing of Indigenous tribes—somehow, it’s the murder of a CEO profiting off sickness that’s the real concern.

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · Dec 11

The brazen murder of a CEO in Midtown Manhattan—and the cheering reaction to his execution—amounts to a blinking-and-blaring warning signal for a society that has become already too inured to bloodshed, @adriennelaf.bsky.social writes. theatln.tc/ZRcsrreK

"The process of decivilization may begin with profound distrust in institutions and government leaders, but that distrust gets far worse in a society where people brutalize one another. There is no shortcut back to a robust democracy."
Adrienne LaFrance
Executive Editor

December 12, 2024 at 8:33 AM

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The Onion

@theonion.com

God Looks 400 Millennia Younger After Infusing Self With Son’s Blood
theonion.com/god-looks-40...

November 25, 2024 at 4:56 PM

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John Green

@johngreensbluesky.bsky.social

Interestingly, this is also a photograph of my thoughts at three a.m.

Curiosity @mcuriosity.bsky.social · Nov 24

James Webb's view of the M51 galaxy.

November 24, 2024 at 5:34 PM

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TheCindyNoir

@thecindynoir.bsky.social

THEN WHY DO I FEEL BETTER AFTER I DRINK IT THEN?!?!

November 21, 2024 at 9:32 PM

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ProPublica

@propublica.org

The new legislation, prompted by ProPublica’s reporting, comes after 111 Texas doctors signed a public letter urging that the ban be changed because it “does not allow us as medical professionals to do our jobs.”