TFW a large queer event in 2026 California offers only binary-gendered restrooms
A. Goad (she/her or ze/zir)
@agoadesq.bsky.social
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ advocate, herp fan, and cat parent. Militant introvert. Fan of Angel City FC, all NWSL, USWNT, LGBTQI athletes, and good defense. Ambivalent resident of unceded Tongva land. Views my own.
"Cunningham needed the culture war to get on the map, needing it as much as it needed her. ... The result is a star, the latest participant in an old game no more complicated than checkers but far less interesting."
David Ambaras@borderlander62.bsky.social · 3d ago
i wanna know which extremely online lawyer made sure to require the post be pinned. genius.
Susie "Nickname In Quotes" Beeca@susiebeeca.bsky.social · 4d agoAh, this warms the cockles of my cold, dead heart. Wait til you see the price a TERF had to pay for lying about a trans woman. "...also be required to publish a court-approved apology that must remain pinned on their social media channels for three months" www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/07/an-a...
"Worm-like creatures" is the new "racially tinged remarks"
Abigail Spanberger announced she is restoring the voting rights of about 66,000 people with past felony convictions, reversing the course set by Glenn Youngkin. New in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/virginia-gov...
Virginia Governor Restores Voting Rights for Thousands With Past Felony Convictions - Bolts
This is the only state that, absent action by the governor, bans people convicted of any felony from voting for life. Virginians have an opportunity to end that system for good in November.
boltsmag.org
NEW: ACLU of Mass. files public records lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Defense for documents about the Trump administration’s apparent deployment of active-duty military personnel as temporary immigration judges. www.aclum.org/press-releas...
the #NWSL did something I really appreciate and think will make stadiums safer and since I constantly have my foot on their necks, it’s only fair I call out when they make me happy.
Rachael@rachaelt.bsky.social · last wk.wanna hear something the #NWSL did that is amazing? reading through the new Fan Code of Conduct (as we all should if we're in stadiums) and what do my eyes behold on the last page? contact information for in-stadium assistance!!! save those numbers and use them if you see someone misbehaving.
bruce springsteen is music for lesbians because there are few men on earth that love women as much as bruce springsteen loves women
Chris Towers is Overreacting To Small Sample Sizes@cptowers.bsky.social · 2w agoPlease enjoy this EXTREMELY before-they-went-pop version of "Dancing In The Dark" by Tegan & Sara www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVIx...
These students sure did learn about how American government works. 🫠
Charlotte Clymer@charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 2w agoThis story is crazy. It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists. www.notus.org/national/ame...
I want to note that being anti-IVF and anti-surrogacy (and yes, I am fully aware of potential concerns with surrogacy as a larger ethical issue when it comes to wealthy people using poorer bodies, etc) isn't just rooted in anti-abortion politics, but also in removing parenthood for LGBTQ couples
Olivia Messer@oliviamesser.bsky.social · 2w agoSorry guys, I (an IVF baby myself once) am simply too powerful and they fear me too greatly www.austinchronicle.com/news/texas-g...
Content warning: suicide After May Pollard died on a late-January morning, a detective asked her parents a question: Had anyone wanted to hurt her? “A lot of America,” her mother answered. 1/ www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Idaho pushed anti-trans laws for years. Then a teen died.
The life and death of May Pollard, 16, provides a window into the tragic effect that legislation and political rhetoric have had on trans people in America.
nbcnews.com
Americorps = unpopular with Rs b/c participants a) are often POC from working class backgrounds b) are often in roles that benefit POC from working class backgrounds c) sometimes notice in the course of their service that communities of color need and deserve way more support and even deep reform
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 3w ago"Creation of national service" is one of those ideas that pundits have been putting in the "solutions" chapter of their airport books for 30 years and has no political juice whatsoever. "Vote for me, I'll force your kid to volunteer!"
Watching my old friend Chase's press clips: always a good move. Clicking on this one while eating lunch: NOT a good move.
Chase Strangio@chasestrangio.bsky.social · 3w agoFood safety and trans justice are connected via Project 2025 where both are threatened.
AWN celebrates Disability Pride Month!
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“AWN celebrates
Disability Pride Month
Nothing About Us Without Us”
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I wish more journalists would point out that Sen. McConnell and Rep. Tom Kean (missed 4 months of work) are/were essentially on paid sick & medical leave. The same employment protection they’ve spent their careers blocking other Americans from having.
Why are there so many rapists in politics? The answer is that political networking in the US—for future candidates, staffers, and donors—starts in frat houses. Here’s a recruitment slide from the University of Michigan about how many of our male political leaders chose to join literal boys’ clubs.
By shortening the time between asking a question and getting an answer, these tools are actually undermining curiosity — and paradoxically threatening our ability to understand the world www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/o...
Opinion | We Are Losing the Ability to Discover What We Didn’t Know to Ask
nytimes.com
Don't forget, Cabo Verde women will be in WAFCON at the end of this month. Support this footballing nation.
Time to be a buzzkill but the NWSL paying for a high-profile photographer/influencer to post photos of Ronaldo — who has faced multiple sexual assault allegations — as part of their summer of soccer to advertise a women’s soccer league……… Why.
Very thankful for this letter to Becky Pepper-Jackson (the 16 year-old trans girl SCOTUS ruled against yesterday) from James Dale, a gay man whose expulsion from the Boy Scouts was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2000.
To the Trans Girl Who Just Lost at the Supreme Court: So Did I 26 Years Ago
A letter to Becky Pepper Jackson about her trans sports case defeat at SCOTUS yesterday
medium.com
And even if the Dems can't manage to decide on a substantive crisis to tackle 🙃, there is an urgent need for process work that would actually matter
Kate Shaw@kateshaw.bsky.social · last mo.I’ve got a piece in the @nytimes.com this morning about yesterday’s decision in Slaughter - and also about how any post-Trump response *must* include Supreme Court reform www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o...
Not voting rights. Not court reform. Not policy to redistribute wealth. Not climate policy. A totally pointless plan to deny young people access to social media, which will be built on surveillance and will fail, because young people know VPNs exist. Classic democratic elite BS.
alpha @omarsbigsister.bsky.social · last mo.Dems' "Project 2029" first major policy proposal: an online child safety plan — narrowing Sec. 230, banning social media for kids under 16, promoting phone-free childhoods and more. Already backed by Cory Booker, Mikie Sherrill, Randi Weingarten + Jonathan Haidt. LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
The Trump administration is withdrawing all HIV aid from South Africa, which has the highest HIV rate in the world, because they won't end reparation programs for victims of apartheid and their descendants
U.S. Plans to End AIDS Funding for South Africa
nytimes.com
Fuckin’ Plato, man.
Karen Attiah@karenattiah.bsky.social · 2mo agoTexas A&M banned philosopher and tenured Prof. Martin Peterson from teaching Plato under its “gender ideology” restrictions. He resigned. On June 24, I’ll be in conversation with Peterson about censorship, philosophy and why Plato scares Texas so much. www.resistancestudiesseries.com/salon
Not lost on me that Australia 🇦🇺 & Turkey 🇹🇷 are kicking off a FIFA men’s World Cup game on grass pitch in Vancouver in the exact stadium that hosted the 2015 FIFA women’s World Cup Final between USA 🇺🇸 & Japan 🇯🇵 where we were repeatedly told they couldn’t install grass. Still not okay. Never will be.