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"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." — James Baldwin, "As Much Truth As One Can Bear," The New York Times Book Review, 1962 https://thistleandmoss.com/p/i-want-to-know-why-motherfuckers-queer-refugees-shackled-to-bangui-a-five-grand-ballot-bribe-a-plane#the-practice-armor-you-can-wear-tom #BannedBooks #FreedomToRead #Libraries #LGBTQ #QueerBooks #QueerNews #Pride

We have all spent ten goddamn years watching this Orange FartBlimp, and I am still not numb to a head of state auditioning extinction verbs at the UN — because every one of those lands, sooner or later, on a kid in Tehran and a 19yo on a destroyer, and neither voted for this shit. https://thistleandmoss.com/p/pick-a-fucking-side-trump-auditions-fuckspeak-at-the-un-straight-women-ghost-bi-men-kid-rock-sells-s?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica #Trans #TransRights #LGBTQ #QueerNews #Politics #News #Journalism #HumanRights #Resist

— the first same-sex civil marriage on the books in Bolivia. Article 63 still says a woman and a man. This was won case by case, not by statute. David Aruquipa, whose own union was the 2020 ruling that made dozens of later registrations possible, refused to let last week be called a beginning. He called it a continuity. #Bolivia #MatrimonioIgualitario #QueerNews #LGBTQ #Lesbian #MarriageEquality #LatinAmerica #QueerHistory #TransRights #Solidarity #Journalism #History 2/3

The whole issue, and the question I'm asking under it — what have you built with your own hands that nobody asked you to build? I answer every one in the comments: https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-skynet-is-coming-we-are-all-dead #Bolivia #MatrimonioIgualitario #QueerNews #LGBTQ #Lesbian #MarriageEquality #LatinAmerica #QueerHistory #TransRights #Solidarity #Journalism #History 3/3

They applied on 12 October 2022. A registry that said no. A long administrative grind. Two constitutional injunctions filed by IGUAL Bolivia's team. Three years and ten months of being told their family wasn't the kind the state writes down. On Friday, in Santa Cruz, Fabiana Banzer and Scarlett Rocha were recorded as married #Bolivia #MatrimonioIgualitario #QueerNews #LGBTQ #Lesbian #MarriageEquality #LatinAmerica #QueerHistory #TransRights #Solidarity #Journalism #History 1/3

▪ Educators in forty-two states report what the bans are doing to trans kids ▪ Three newsrooms sue after reporters' White House badges are seized at the gate ▪ A Democrat's anti-trans ads, a crosswalk tribunal, a WNBA star done being used #Trans #TransRights #LGBTQ #QueerNews #Politics #News #Journalism #HumanRights #Resist #Solidarity #Democracy https://thistleandmoss.com/p/they-know-better-the-cock-weasels-seized-press-badges-sacrificed-trans-kids-a-hostage-car-and-a-demo?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica

Queer State of the Union by Wendy The Druid Brianna Turner stood up in public this week and said: She doesn't need protecting from trans women. Every fucking policy in this issue runs on the lie that somebody needs saving from us — kids need saving from their own teachers, women athletes need saving from their own teammates, a small Alberta town needs saving from a strip of paint, Ohio voters need saving from a Democrat's own voting record, and the American public needs saving from reporters asking questions at the White House gate. The saviors never ask the saved, the rot bastards. They never have. They know better, and the fkrs do it anyway, because the "protection" racket is the most profitable goddamn grift in American politics. So here's where we stand, queer and not, all of us together: the educators have the data, the courts have the Constitution, the repair crews have the wrenches, and a WNBA forward has the nerve. What the other side has is a social-media account, a flyer, a pollster, and a VIN blacklist. That's it. That's their whole damn army — scared people clutching padlocks and paper. You want to protect women's sports? Buy the fucking ticket. You want to protect kids? Show up at the school board and outvote the book-burners. You want to protect the press? Subscribe to the newsroom he just locked out. You want to protect the planet? Fix the thing instead of feeding it to the smoke in Accra. They know better. So do we. And we are finished letting the cowards who know better set the terms for the rest of us — every seat, every ballot, every hallway, every gate. Stand up. We're counting who does. https://thistleandmoss.com/p/they-know-better-the-cock-weasels-seized-press-badges-sacrificed-trans-kids-a-hostage-car-and-a-demo#the-queer-state-of-the-union?utm_source=PixelFed&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica #Trans #TransRights #LGBTQ #QueerNews #Politics #News #Journalism #HumanRights #Resist #Solidarity #Democracy

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1. Rep. Marcy Kaptur of Ohio — the longest-serving woman in Congress, first elected during Reagan's first term, holder of a 95% HRC score in the last Congress — has decided the smart way to survive anti-trans attack ads is to cut them herself. Two of them. In one she boasts, "I voted with Republicans to keep transgender ideology out of our schools," and she isn't bluffing

2. Westlock, Alberta — a town small enough that everybody knows whose kids asked for the crosswalk. In 2023 local activist Benita Pedersen papered the place — public walls, private property, online — with a flyer demanding residents stop a rainbow crosswalk carrying the trans flag. The flyer warned of a "transgender agenda" bent on "de-population," promised parents their children would be rendered infertile and die young, and branded gender-affirming care "chemical castration and genital mutilation." Laurie Hodge, the resident who filed the complaint and who now sits on the town council, took action.

3. Brianna Turner has played organized basketball for more than fifteen years, and she is sick to death of being used as a prop. The WNBA star told Them this week she hates being turned into a tool for dismantling trans people's rights, and she named the latest clowns: two former NBA players, both cis men, who declared themselves eligible for the WNBA's 2027 draft as an anti-trans stunt.

#Trans #TransRights #LGBTQ #QueerNews #Politics #News #Journalism #HumanRights #Resist #Solidarity #Democracy

Today's work. https://thistleandmoss.com/p/windows-up #BannedBooks #FreedomToRead #Libraries #LGBTQ #QueerBooks #QueerNews #Pride #Reading #Books #Resist #Solidarity

Three stories today and every one is the same machine: make the count small enough to ignore. The Senate half of that gets the length it deserves, out loud. #Owncast #Peertube #Trans #Queer #QueerNews #uspol #LGBTQ #Journalism https://live.thistleandmoss.org · https://spectra.video/a/wendythedruid/video-channels

Today's issue: 3 stories, Many sources read, 3 hours, and zero ad networks. I could use them, but I dont want to. The #Blanche transcript got pulled and read against his confirmation answers, because "he said it on television" isn't real enough. The #GLAAD number got checked against the study itself, because I wanted to be damn sure. #Journalism #IndependentMedia #Media #NoAI #MutualAid #Solidarity #QueerNews #LGBTQ #TransRights #Fediverse #Community #Politics 1/2

I am so tired of being asked to evaluate the wetness of The Orange Shitler Cockwomble’s chin while the apparatus underneath him hands out ballot lines to people who post about executing us. The GravyTrain Gobshite at the top is not the disease. He's the pus. #Trans #TransRights #LGBTQ #QueerNews #Politics #News #Journalism #HumanRights #Resist #Solidarity #Democracy https://thistleandmoss.com/p/get-fuckin-ready-for-the-drool-watch-a-white-nationalist-on-florida-s-ballot-maga-money-in-the-queer?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica

2.5 years of estradiol and spiro in my cabinet. Just in case. Trans women are hoarding meds like it's hurricane season; for us the storm already made landfall. https://thistleandmoss.com/p/bullets-bleachers-bullshit-smokestacks-dallas-chants-for-blood-while-the-epa-sells-your-lungs-to-the?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica #TransHealthcare #Estradiol #Trans #TransRights #LGBTQ #QueerNews #Politics #News #Journalism #HumanRights #Resist #Solidarity #Democracy

The Windbag Warlock stood in a #Dallas arena dotted with posters of his own face and admitted he only honks #trans people like a novelty air horn the week before an election. The Bullshit Shitpantser is at it again. #Trans #TransRights #LGBTQ #QueerNews #Politics #News #Journalism #HumanRights #Resist #Solidarity #Democracyhttps://thistleandmoss.com/p/the-craptacular-rnc-convention-that-was-a-limp-dick

In 1993 Brenda and Wanda Henson bought land outside Ovett, Mississippi, and opened a feminist, lesbian-run retreat and food bank in a county that made its feelings clear immediately. Somebody left a dead dog on their mailbox. They didn't leave. They ran the pantry. They kept the gate open, and over years the temperature around them changed — which is the least dramatic and most difficult kind of victory there is. Nobody photographs the long middle. That's the part where the root goes down. This runs on readers, not an ad network — no oligarch upstairs getting nervous about a sentence. If it's worth a morning to you: https://thistleandmoss.com/upgrade?utm_source=PixelFed&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Wendy-New-RSS #QueerHistory #LesbianHistory #Mississippi #MutualAid #LGBTQ #QueerNews #History #Solidarity #TransRights #Feminism #Photography #DailyGathering

Hundreds of signs, and not one of them printed. Ordinary Minnesotans paid for their own tickets, sat at their own kitchen tables with markers out of a junk drawer, and made posters. No organization convened them. Nobody bused them in. The noise carried through the entire game. Three feet from all of it, a head coach with a roster to hold together wore four words in front of twenty thousand people and then said the plain accurate sentence into a hallway full of reporters. None of that was brave in a cinematic way. A shirt. A marker. A document filed. A man saying I was wrong into a microphone. The accumulated weight of small unphotogenic decisions is the only thing that has ever moved this country an inch in a direction worth going. Who showed up for you before you knew their name? https://twp.ai/9OZewF This is reader-funded — no oligarch, no ad network, nobody whispering tone it down. If it's worth a morning to you: https://twp.ai/4huPkB #TransRights #TransKids #QueerNews #LGBTQ #Pride #WNBA #Solidarity #Community #MutualAid #Photography #Journalism #Resist #Commons

A basketball coach with a roster, a front office, and a job to protect walked into the loudest night of the WNBA's season wearing four words: Trans Kids Belong. Then she stood in a hallway and told reporters flat that the innuendo about trans women being predators is simply not what is happening. She named the framing itself as the problem. #TransRights #TransKids #QueerNews #LGBTQ #Pride #WNBA #Solidarity #Community #Journalism #Resist 1/2

Stormé DeLarverie fought the police outside the Stonewall Inn. Casa Susanna opened in the Catskills so trans women could live openly for a weekend. Vito Russo counted a century of erased queer film and published the count. Every one of them was told they were the wrong person, in the wrong room, at the wrong moment. Every one of them stayed in the room. #QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory #TransHistory #Stonewall #QueerNews #Pride #Folklore #Community #Solidarity #Journalism 1/2