Hello. It’s been a minute! I‘ve been busy running a cute little coffee shop. ❤️

What happens when you risk everything and open up a coffee shop as two trans people? This. ❤️ Thanks for making our first week incredible, Toronto. We love you.

Hi! My partner and I are trans and this weekend we opened our dream coffee shop in Toronto called Understory (505 Church St if you’re local). It’s been packed every day with people from all walks of life and the joy I feel is immeasurable. In these dark times, I just want to show you a little light❤️

Vancouver-based Hootsuite is catering to an organization that disappears children and shot a woman dead in her car.

A sneak peek at our queer lil’ coffee shop a few days before we open. 🥰

Everyone’s doing the whole “2016 to 2026” thing so I figured I might as well share my subtle changes.

Hi! I’m still here! I’ve been really busy getting our coffee shop through the last few days of construction and setup so we can open soon. Tired. Happy. Entirely worth it. Can’t wait to provide a new inclusive space for my neighbours. ❤️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

I don’t often respond to trolls these days, but when I do it tends to look like this. And then they delete their comments.

This is nine weeks post-op. I’m back to normal workouts, normal days, now with added scar gel and massage. What’s not there? The weight of dysphoria. That weight disappeared when the twins did. May I introduce my new roommates, the pec brothers.😅

Wondering what to do this quiet boxing day? Listen to @ericavogel.bsky.social and @mavenofmayhem.bsky.social chat about what people get wrong about trans people. 💕 open.substack.com/pub/unboxing...

34: What Society Gets Wrong About Trans People with Erica Vogel

Hey everyone, Lara here!

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Happy holidays and merry Christmas to all of you. Love is what makes a family, so whoever you’re with today, may you feel whole and happy. ❤️ Back to hanging out with my partner, her dad, my kids, her kid, my ex & her partner (who is also my current partner’s ex😂) I love this beautiful, messy life.

My partner took this photo of me yesterday. “Wow. Is that me?” I asked incredulously. She’s trans, too. She knew exactly what I meant. Was the man I was seeing in the photo—finally, after years of seeing a woman—me? She smiled. “Yes, it is. That’s you.” That’s me. 🥺

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

To my #academic and #history and #genderstudies friends: THE INTERMEDIARIES is exactly the kind of book the current admin don’t want you to teach— #trans history, #LGBTQ fight against nazis, real 🧪 science. Knowing y’all, you may be teaching it anyhow. If so, please say! wwnorton.com/books/978132...

The Intermediaries

A <em>Kirkus Reviews</em> Best Book of the Year <br /><br /> The fascinating history of a daring team of sexologists who built the first trans clinic in the shadow of the Third Reich., The Intermedia...

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I’m just going to call it my mansition now.

After MTG lied about me for weeks, she said that she felt bad for my unborn child because he'd have me as a mother. Her rhetoric led to threats against my family. No one, even her, should receive threats like those, but I'd like to see her own up to the role she played in creating them for others.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 8mo ago

Marjorie Taylor Greene: "I sent those deaths threats directly to him in a text message & informed him of what his name calling & words were doing - it was a direct assassination threat on my son. And he was extremely - I won't repeat what he said - but it was extremely unkind. No sympathy. No care"

I just finished my first strength workout since having top surgery and smiled the whole way through (even during pushups). The euphoria. OMG 🥺

Today is my six week follow-up appointment after top surgery. This will likely be the very last time I ever wear a binder, and that’s AMAZING (compression binders are used after this surgery for a few weeks to help healing). ANYWAY I know what shirt I’m wearing

TRANSGENDER FOR EVERYONE Except you. Not you. You have to go sit in that chair over there and watch the rest of us get transgender.

As an update to someone calling me “zippertits” today.

I don’t want to make anyone jealous but I have cool new nickname

Four weeks post-op. What a joy ❤️‍🩹

The plaid shirt I’m wearing and got at the thrift store today is from AMERICAN OUTDOORSMAN which makes me A REAL MAN A MAN OF FREEDOM AND FISH A RUGGED MAN OF TIMBER AND WOLVES AND TIMBERWOLVES Also I’m Canadian and live in central Toronto.

It’s transgender awareness week AND international men’s day, so here’s a pic of me, a transgender man. Hello. 👋

Epstein survivors just dropped a powerful message for Congress, and it hits like a warning: no more waiting, the truth is coming, ready or not. Watch till the end @housedemocrats.bsky.social @houserepublicans.bsky.social

Boundaries are a hot topic! What do you think about our take on them in this episode of Unboxing it? @mavenofmayhem.bsky.social

28: Are we setting too many boundaries?

And is it making us lonelier?

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Day 20 after top surgery. I just (carefully!) rolled the trash bins out to the curb this morning without worrying about hiding my breasts under a baggy coat or something because I DONT HAVE BREASTS ANYMORE GUYS AND ITS GREAT 😭

This is what I kept thinking when walking home earlier. Democrats need to show voters that having Democratic control of the Senate makes a difference. Cutting this deal only tells voters that it doesn't.

Kathleen J. Frydl@kfrydl.bsky.social · 9mo ago

2026 prospects do not feel as bright, given that caving now will undoubtedly launch and strengthen intra-/third- party challenges, as Dems again remind voters that, regardless of the stakes, they don't, and won't, fight their corner.

A happy lil’ update on our trans-owned and operated coffee shop and wine bar in Toronto. We’re getting sooooo close to opening! 🥰