Badly Licked Bear
@badlylickedbear.bsky.social
Educator, Writer, Clown Sex/BDSM Educator & 🌶️ Human Mx. Strap Sucker Los Angeles 2025 Leatherdyke, Auntie, Warlady-In-Waiting badlylickedbear.substack.com
With Mary Harron's 1996 I Shot Andy Warhol back in theatres after three decades in distribution hell, I have questions, particularly about the use of Candy Darling as a human crowbar to access the life of the 20th century's most radical feminist and TERF.
Hot Take: I Shot Andy Warhol
The biopic of the RadFem saint and SCUM Manifesto author Valerie Salonas as bullshit, Lily Talyor's performance of a lifetime, and Candy Darling as a human crowbar.
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From On Our Backs, Fall 1986, a full-page ad taken out by the AIDS Project of the East Bay and the Pacific Center for Human Growth, the oldest operating LGBTQ+ center in the Bay Area, thanking the lesbian community for their support during the AIDS crisis.
(Jonathan Frakes Voice) Have you ever transported an entire castle to the top of a New York skyscraper?
Lupita Nihongo@otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 2mo agoWhat did Gargoyles know when they made despotic billionaire Xanatos do ayahuasca & become enamored with the Native American trickster Coyote spirit & then appropriate its symbology to create an artificially intelligent ambitious android in his image that was also obsessed with trolling 6 gargoyles.
This one has everything: A dissolving strap-on, talking shit on Neil Gaiman, SEX GHOSTS, a divinatrix-turned-sci-fi-legend, TRANSSEXUAL REALISM, a vertical slice of 1993 Queer life, a wormhole of footnotes, a severed head...you know, Doom Patrol shit. Hope you like it. 💋
Doom Patrol, Kate Godwin, and the Birth of Trans Realism
In 1993, Rachel Pollack gave birth to Kate Godwin, aka Coagula, the first trans character in superhero comics written by a trans person. Why? How? Into what universe? Who was Kate Godwin?
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I suppose I should share this rant-not-rant based on my many, many, thousands, even of recent interactions with TERFs, transphobes, and anti-trans activists on other platforms. My conclusion: They all hate women and have found the one outlet that lets them do so, publicly, and without consequence.
Why Be A TERF? Why Be Transphobic? Why Be Anti-Trans, Anyways?
Or, how to hate women and fantasize about their pain, suffering, and death in a socially acceptable way.
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Look also upon this absolute unit, who is definitely one of the cooler people in my neighborhood.
Back in my day, when we went to the Moon, we didn't have toilets!
CosmoQuest@cosmoquest.org · 5mo agoThere are now 10 toilets in Space International Space Station: 4 Crew Dragon Docked at ISS: 1 Soyuz Docked at ISS: 1 Tiangong Space Station: 2 Shenzhou Docked at TSS: 1 Artemis II on way around Moon: 1 This will be the first time a toilet has left low earth orbit!
It was the best of Transgender Days of Visibility, it was the worst of Transgender Days of Visibility....
Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 5mo agowe can either get a Supreme Court decision or a headline like this but both in one day is too much
Once Again, I Wish My Superpower Were Invisibility: Another Year, Another Transgender Day of Visibility "To be To be transsexual is to be invisible and hyper-visible at the same time." My annual thoughts on my relationship to invisibility as a transsexual on our Day of Visibility.
Once Again, I Wish My Superpower Were Invisibility
Another Year, Another Transgender Day of Visibility
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Post your favorite Lord of the Rings character, wrong answers only.
Maggie McNeill@maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 5mo agoPost your favorite Lord of the Rings character, wrong answers only
The Post-Patriot Act Era has been living hell and everyone knows it. The death of empire is never fast, never pretty, and never kind to everyday people.
Jerad Walker@jeradwalker.bsky.social · 6mo agoFrom Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.
Everyone seems mildly concerned that movie about a gear fetish biker in a 24/7 D/s relationship with a naive twink doesn't have a comprehensive consent negotiation. Meanwhile, as a BIPOC in wearing her domme hat, I have things to say about race in Pillion.
Pillion, Divided
In which I cannot envision myself reading Min Kamp (My Struggle) while my submissive begs for attention.
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"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.
Tom Noonan echoed of the Downtown LA actors and poets I crawled around with as a wayward teen in the 1990s, someone you'd know from that one movie, but was much more. He's not here, now, but here he is being incredibly present, in the short film "They're Made Out Of Meat." Rest easy, big man.
They're Made Out Of Meat
YouTube video by Stephen O'Regan
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Soooo, has everybody figured out what their street gang's theming is going to be after The Event?
John Leavitt@leavittalone.bsky.social · 6mo agoSoooo has everybody figured out what their street gang’s theming is going to be after the Event?
Brewster McCloud is the best film ever made about a twink-trickster who transcends a psychologically (at mimimum) incestuous relationship with his mother, The Devil, via an infatuation with an emotionally dissociative Shelly Duvall and her spectacular eyelashes. Rest in Perversity, Bud Cort.
Nea “Dracula” Ching@thegaychingy.bsky.social · 6mo agoRIP Bud Cort. Star of my favorite Altman movie
Just noting the emphasis on defining transgender identity as a mental health disorder, "gender dysphoria," which serves only one purpose - relegating trans and gender diverse people to the category of sick, ill, diseased, crazy, insane, undesirable, vermin, subhuman, and otherwise less than.
Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 6mo agoHelen Lewis is back in The Atlantic with "Youth Gender Medicine Is Indeed Up for Debate". It is a masterclass in manufacturing consent, framing the capitulation of medical bodies to political terror as a calm "return to reason."
She has finally arrived, my custom #titleholder strap as America's first Mx. Strap Sucker. Made by Pup Dume in Los Angeles. This thing is a monster, built for the monsterfuckers. You know who you (we) are. 🕳️
If you see this, don't participate. It's a rigged study by Lisa Littman and unethical researcher J. Michael Bailey meant to undermine access to care. Spread the word.
"You know Bovino leaving won't st..." Yes I fucking know. I shipped 800 whistles across the country today. I'll ship another 500 tomorrow. I will not stop until they are stopped and also I will take the fucking W when one of their top fash fucks gets the boot.
