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wendythedruid
Wendy @wendythedruid@thistleandmoss.org · 3d ago
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
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Wendy @wendythedruid@thistleandmoss.org · Aug 05, 2026
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
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wendythedruid @wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org · Aug 05, 2026
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
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wendythedruid @wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org · Aug 05, 2026
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
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Wendy @wendythedruid@thistleandmoss.org · Jul 29, 2026
"We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers." — Bayard Rustin, 1963 What are you willing to make trouble over, specifically, this week? I'm willing to make goddamn trouble over any kid who gets told the truth is optional whenever it's inconvenient for the adults in the room, hell yes I am, and I learned that particular fight from every teacher who ever chose me over the easier, quieter bullshit. That's the debt. I'm still paying it forward, one loud Tuesday at a time, no apologies for the volume. — Wendy the Druid, Now https://twp.ai/4huO1c #LGBTQ #Pride #ProgressPride #Toronto #QueerJoy #TransRights #Community #LoveWins #News #Photography #Resist #Solidarity #QueerNews
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wendythedruid @wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org · Jul 31, 2026
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Read free, you belong here. Fund a dollar, you belong here twice. Read free → https://twp.ai/IlsqSk · A dollar a month → https://twp.ai/E5DbGg Ko-fi → https://twp.ai/9OYM4c Publication upgrade (Coffee, Monthly, Quarterly, Yearly) → https://twp.ai/4ht6sY #MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #LGBTQ #TransRights #QueerNews #QueerFiction #Pride #IndependentMedia #ReaderFunded #Journalism #Solidarity #Fediverse #LGBTQwriters #Community 2/2
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Wendy @wendythedruid@thistleandmoss.org · Jul 30, 2026
A group paid for a billboard attacking queer families. They chose the wording carefully, to sting. It stung. Across party lines. Neighbors who agree on almost nothing looked up at the same sign and came to the same conclusion about it — and one resident's summary is the whole story: it was written to trigger people, and it did. Just not the people it was aimed at. That's the arithmetic nobody running a hate campaign ever bothers to run. They count the ones who'll cheer. They never count the ones who'll turn around. There were more of us than the billboard company assumed. There usually are. No ads here, no billionaire, no interest in acquiring one. If today was worth a bad gas-station coffee → https://twp.ai/E5EpWa / https://twp.ai/9OZaKW / https://twp.ai/4huL8S When did your neighbors last surprise you? #LGBTQ #QueerFamilies #Pride #Solidarity #Community #QueerNews #TransRights #LoveIsLove #Photography #News #Resist #MutualAid #MutualAidRequest
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Wendy @wendythedruid@thistleandmoss.org · Jul 30, 2026
Three people did visible work this week and every one of them did the same unglamorous thing. Somebody counted something. Alex Bollinger counted the fabricated videos — a month of watching AI watermarks show up, then get cropped off. Rachel Maddow counted the illnesses: 6,700 cyclospora cases across 45 states, laid beside the surveillance program they killed. Sarah McBride counted the dollars, and declined to fund a war with no stated end. None of it is glamorous. All of it is the work. You cannot protect what you haven't bothered to number. Who's doing the counting in your town? Today's issue → https://twp.ai/4huL8p #QuoteOfTheDay #Journalism #TransRights #LGBTQ #QueerNews #News #Politics #Resist #Solidarity #Heroes #Typography #MutualAid #MutualAidRequest
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Wendy @wendythedruid@thistleandmoss.org · Jul 29, 2026
"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," 1962 What does it cost you, some mornings, just to keep your eyes open on purpose? It costs me the nap I could be taking instead, if I'm honest, and it costs a little of the numbness I have damn well earned the right to want. But goddamn it, I've buried people this news cycle never once apologized for, and I'm still here, still upright, still mean enough and soft enough at the same time to keep doing this at fifty-plus in a body half the South is still betting against. I face it because the alternative is letting some other asshole decide what I saw instead of me. #LGBTQ #Pride #ProgressPride #Toronto #QueerJoy #TransRights #Community #LoveWins #News #Photography #Resist #Solidarity #QueerNews
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Wendy @wendythedruid@thistleandmoss.org · Jul 26, 2026
Cynthia Nixon is set to officiate one of the largest lesbian wedding ceremonies in the world — in Florida, of all the beautiful, defiant places to do it. Set that against the week's other Florida headline, the one about emptying the school shelves, and you get the whole argument in one state: they keep trying to erase us, and we keep throwing weddings. Spite, meet joy. Joy takes the crowd every time. What's the most defiant celebration you've ever stood in? Full issue, free every morning → https://twp.ai/4ht7Y7 #Pride #QueerJoy #LGBTQ #QueerWedding #Florida #Lesbian #LoveIsLove #QueerNews #TransRights #Community #Pride2026 #QueerLove #News
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wendythedruid @wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org · Jul 26, 2026
A billionaire tried to block an LGBTQ+ bar from opening. The bar opened. The queers are inside right now, partying anyway. That's the whole ballgame in one sentence — the richest man in the room reaches for the "off" switch, and a hundred people he'll never meet turn the music up. Spite is loud. Joy is louder, and it doesn't need a yacht. #Pride #QueerJoy #LGBTQ #QueerNews #Community #Resist #Solidarity #MutualAid #Pride2026 #News 1/2
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Wendy @thistleandmoss.com@bsky.brid.gy · Jul 26, 2026
33,739 comments to the FCC on labeling TV with queer families. 9 in 10 said no. 57% of pro-label mail was copy-pasted; 96% of opposition came from real people. #QueerNews #LGBTQ #FCC #Censorship #Resist 1/2
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wendythedruid @wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org · Jul 26, 2026
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That's not a grassroots movement, Chuckwagon. That's a mail-merge in a MAGA hat. How is a government that has to forge its own support anything but afraid of what a child might see and refuse to unlearn? #QueerNews #LGBTQ #FCC #Censorship #TransRights #Resist #Journalism #Democracy #Politics #News Full issue → https://twp.ai/4ht7Ym 2/2
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wendythedruid @wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org · Jul 26, 2026
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The dance does not stop because the music was cut. It never has. #Pride #CSD #Berlin #ChristopherStreetDay #QueerNews #LGBTQ #Solidarity #Community #TransRights #Resist Full issue → https://twp.ai/4ht7Yo 2/2
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Wendy @wendythedruid@thistleandmoss.org · Jul 26, 2026
Above a Manhattan brothel in 1895, a handful of people met in secret and called themselves the Cercle Hermaphroditos — the earliest known trans advocacy group in the country. They gathered to defend one plain thing: the right to dress as we please. The century gave them no room. They met anyway. The line from that rented room over the noise to every Pride since is one thread. It did not break above the brothel. It did not break in the Tiergarten Saturday night. It does not break here. Cha bhris an t-snàthainn — the thread does not break. This runs on readers, not billionaires — no ad network, no oligarch's whim. If a thread this old is worth keeping lit, the room behind the door — the audio read, the Founding seats — is here → https://twp.ai/4ht7VV #Pride #QueerHistory #TransRights #LGBTQ #TransHistory #QueerNews #Community #Resist #Solidarity #Gaelic #Pride2026 #History
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wendythedruid @wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org · Jul 26, 2026
Cha bhris an t-snàthainn — the thread does not break. Above a Manhattan brothel in 1895, people met in secret and called themselves the Cercle Hermaphroditos, the earliest known trans advocacy group in this country. They gathered to defend one plain right: to dress as we please. The century gave them no room. They met anyway. #Pride #QueerHistory #TransRights #LGBTQ #TransHistory #QueerNews #Community #Resist #Solidarity #Gaelic #Pride2026\ 1/2
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Wendy @thistleandmoss.com@bsky.brid.gy · Jul 23, 2026
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Elliot Page: five minutes of a three-hour film. The boycott ran four months. The Odyssey made $300 million anyway. They got outvoted by people who wanted to see a boat. #TransRights #QueerNews #Pride #TransJoy thistleandmoss.com
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Wendy @thistleandmoss.com@bsky.brid.gy · Jul 23, 2026
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Ken Paxton, $153,000 salary. At least 15 properties worth roughly $9 million, per the NYT. Six votes from an address he hadn't lived at in two years. He walked out when asked. #Politics #QueerNews #TransRights #Democracy #News #Resist thistleandmoss.com
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Wendy @wendythedruid@thistleandmoss.org · Jul 23, 2026
Elliot Page is onscreen for about five minutes of a three-hour film, and those five minutes are the ones people walk out talking about. He plays Sinon in Nolan's The Odyssey — the con at the heart of the horse. Musk spent four months insisting Nolan had desecrated a 2,800-year-old text by casting Page as Achilles. Page isn't Achilles. Sinon isn't in Homer at all. He shows up in Virgil, four hundred years later, different poem, different guy. The movie made $300 million anyway. Somewhere a fourteen-year-old in a town with one theater watched a trans man hold the screen and understood the door was never locked. https://twp.ai/4hsxtt #TransRights #ElliotPage #QueerNews #Pride #LGBTQ #TransJoy #TheOdyssey #Film #Cinema #TransVisibility #QueerJoy #Resist #Solidarity #Photography
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wendythedruid @wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org · Jul 23, 2026
Elliot Page is onscreen for five minutes of a three-hour film. Musk spent four fucking months insisting Nolan had desecrated Homer by casting him as Achilles. Page plays Sinon. Sinon isn't in Homer. He's in Virgil, four hundred years later, different poem, different guy. That is not criticism. That's Musk being a dumbass. #TransRights #ElliotPage #QueerNews #LGBTQ #Pride #TransJoy #TransVisibility #Film #TheOdyssey #QueerJoy #Resist #Solidarity 1/2
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