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Key K. Bird 🗝️🦉

@keychanged.bsky.social

Writer. Syrian, Mvskoke, genderplural. I love cartoons. ARMS EMBARGO NOW 2026 Mass Cultural Council Grantee in Literature 2024 NEA Fellow in Creative Writing Cover image from my novel-in-progress (excerpt at Mizna). Pic of me 📷: RWB http://keykbird.com

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GenderQueeries 🇨🇦@genderqueeries.ca · 2d ago

This hasn't received anywhere near enough coverage but the Montreal Trans March had an overwhelming police presence with police in riot gear effectively kettling the march and denying access. Some good photos in these rolls. www.instagram.com/p/DcFsqsxlYD... www.instagram.com/p/DcFm5X5jVR...

Lana on Instagram: "august 15, 2026. Trans Liberation March, organized by @pink_bloc_mtl and others. the march was characterized by an extremely heavy police presence. they blocked the demonstrators f...

201 likes, 1 comments - lanasfilmroll on August 15, 2026: "august 15, 2026. Trans Liberation March, organized by @pink_bloc_mtl and others. the march was characterized by an extremely heavy police pre...

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Anna Holmes@annabookwriter.bsky.social · 3d ago

Hey, guys, when the librarians get pissed about the destruction of books, it’s time to put those listening ears on. Because we are very comfortable with the idea that books are tools that can be retired. What’s happening right now is not that.

Evan Greer@evangreer.bsky.social · 5d ago

there is no such thing as "age verification." All "age verification" is actually "identity verification." You can coat it in glitter and "privacy-preserving" wrapping paper. But in the end, mandating age verification means mandating surveillance be built into software and hardware. Period.

Interrupting Criminalization@interruptcrim.bsky.social · 6d ago

Black August is an annual tradition of remembrance, political education, discipline, & resistance, honoring Black freedom fighters, political prisoners, & the global resistance against racial, colonial, & state oppression. Today we want to lift up the memory of Assata Shakur, who passed last year🧵:

Black August Assata Shakur, photo of Assata
Tulsa Flyer@tulsaflyer.bsky.social · last wk.

Cherokee Nation bans hyperscale data centers on tribally owned, trust lands The Cherokee Nation issued a ban on hyperscale data center development for tribally owned and trust land on Wednesday.... http://tulsaflyer.org/2026/08/10/news/post/cherokee-nation-bans-hyperscale-data-centers/

Cherokee Nation bans hyperscale data centers on tribally owned, trust lands

The Cherokee Nation issued a ban on hyperscale data center development for tribally owned and trust land on Wednesday.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · last wk.

I will also say this. There is a real, authentic cohort of poor and working class people in higher education. They can speak to the complexities of being in and not of a class position without making broad, provocative generalizations. One day, someone should publish those people.

Key K. Bird 🗝️🦉@keychanged.bsky.social · 2w ago

South Korea's reforestation may sound like good news, but it isn't. There are only 3 types of trees. Think of any forest you've ever seen with just 3 types of nonnative trees. Worst: the effort wasn't led by local activists, but steered by U.S. imperialism. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

“A Good Tree Is a Fast-Growing Tree”: South Korea’s Reforestation in the 1950s and the Making of Cold War Ecology in East Asia | Environmental History: Vol 31, No 2

AbstractThis article reexamines the early history of reforestation in postwar South Korea, focusing on the 1950s, a decade typically overshadowed by the authoritarian tree-planting campaigns of the Pa...

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Digital Brain@yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 2w ago

South Korea restored its mountains through reforestation plans launched in 1973. The country planted more than 10 billion trees, and forests now cover over 63% of its territory after decades of restoration efforts.

Bolts@boltsmag.org · 2w ago

In Maine, people never lose the right to vote because of a felony conviction, even while they’re incarcerated. Many incarcerated people are keen to vote in this year's election for governor, which could have big ramifications for criminal justice.

Maine Prisoners Organize to Protect Their Rare Right to Vote - Bolts

Maine is one of the only places in the country where prisoners keep their right to vote. But logistical barriers to voting still contribute to their larger exclusion from the political process.

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Evan Greer@evangreer.bsky.social · 2w ago

THREAD: Here's what happened in today's "We are exploiting peoples' legitimate fears around kids online safety to advance dangerous censorship and surveillance legislation" hearing in the Senate Commerce Committee... 🧵

Key K. Bird 🗝️🦉@keychanged.bsky.social · 2w ago

Laura Harjo, Spiral to the Stars: "I do not need a tribal government to indicate whether I am a citizen. I do not need my community to accept me, embrace me, or recognize me; I carry a Mvskoke belief system wherever I go, and that is why it makes no difference to me who recognizes me as Indigenous."

In reflecting on Mvskoke place and community from my subject position as a Mvskoke female, I already possess an embodied Mvskoke belief system, which may not look like that of other Mvskoke females; however, no one, no entity, and no law can alienate me from my Mvskoke sense of self—and as such, neither can other Mvskoke people be alienated from their senses of self and who they are. I do not need a tribal government to indicate whether I am a citizen. I do not need my community to accept me, embrace me, or recognize me; I carry a Mvskoke belief system wherever I go, and that is why it makes no difference to me who recognizes me as Indigenous. Both the strength of my ancestors and my own refusal to allow others to impose settler colonial and genocidal values as a mode of erasure are embodied forms of power that are activated by felt knowledge. Remembering the relatives and their sacrifices is another pivot point of power and agency. A powerful form of felt knowledge that we often hear Indigenous groups draw upon is the urge to remember the sacrifices of our relatives so that we carry ourselves with gratitude and build upon what they have left us.
Key K. Bird 🗝️🦉@keychanged.bsky.social · 2w ago

2/Top 5 books 1. Spiral to the Stars: Mvskoke Tools of Futurity by Laura Harjo 2. 1984 by George Orwell 3. Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis 4. Caucasia by Danzy Senna 5. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldúa Bonus: 1 like = I explain how each book changed my life

Shepherd@neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 2w ago

In 1986, contracting HIV meant you were going to die, usually slowly, painfully, and alone. Now it's a chronic illness like hypertension. In 1986, gay and lesbian couples couldn't have their relationships legally recognized and had to adopt elaborate legal workarounds.

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 2w ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

dorian @doriantaylor.com air travel is one of those experiences that has gotten monotonically worse over my entire lifetime question though: has *anything* in the last 40+ years genuinely gotten *better*? like, there's *more* stuff, sure, but is any of it *better*? 2:58 PM Aug 4, 2026
jess m. 🌤️@jametc.bsky.social · 2w ago

okay but, this is the way we fight AI in everyday life we need to foster an atmosphere of disgust and repulsion of AI, like AI is like seeing a roach in a google review. Get up and leave the restaurant. "um, I just saw some AI stuff, I just... I dunno, it's gross haha. I'm good. thanks. Thank you"

jess m. 🌤️@jametc.bsky.social · 2w ago

we need to be normies about this and be like "EEEWW... IS THAT AI? THAT'S SO GROSS.... EW IT LOOKS SO GROSS (gag noise) UM, LET'S GO SOMEWHERE ELSE. EW LOL" normalize being outwardly repulsed by it physically