Kassandra Jo Tomaras
@raconteuse.bsky.social
Transfeminine author, literary translator, and sufferable pedant. Represented by Rach Crawford of Wolf Literary Services. She/they https://raconteuse.me DMs open to people I follow only. EN/ES/DE/FR/PT and sometimes Yiddish
Dear college radio DJs, You want to play classical music on the air? Great! So did I, back in the day. Before you go on air, though, please cram on pronunciation of German, French, and Italian. If you plan to play composers or performers from different backgrounds, look up how to say their names.
I deliberately included chapters about this in my forthcoming book.
Anya Johanna DeNiro@adeniro.bsky.social · 9h agoJust in case younger trans women are pre-dooming about it: yes if you want to be a mother you can be a mother , to think that this is some lost frontier after you transition is more about anticipatory grieving than reality
Advice I just gave to Kid 1: "You don't have to be attractive to gay men in general. Unless you're planning an orgy, you just have to be attractive to one gay man at a time."
Kategorie Kritikverständnis In Lünen, NRW, Geburtsort von Bernd Höcke, suhlen sich CDU und SPD ein bißchen in der Opferrolle. Almans: Karneval ist wichtig, das ist Kritik nach oben. Auch Almans: CSD ist ja nur Karneval für Schwuppen, Party, Saufen, Rumvögeln.
Kritik an ACAB-Banner und Anti-CDU-Song bei CSD Lünen
CDU und SPD äußerten sich irritiert über bestimmte Botschaften beim CSD Lünen. Insbesondere ein historischer CSD-Song, in dem die CDU wegen ihre Blockadehaltung bei der Ehe für alle kritisiert wird, s...
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All the Tiresome Literature Boys I knew in college, including myself, have transitioned.
Kid 2 made themself a snack of wedges of donut peach, mixed with soft goat cheese and sprinkled with lemon juice. I told them that they could be a chef.
#OtD 4 Aug 1765 French actor and revolutionary Claire Lacombe was born. She took part in the 1792 Paris insurrection and co-founded the Society of Revolutionary Republican Women, an organisation so radical it led all women's organisations to be banned stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1040...
The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.
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There is an exhibit of work by Felix Gonzalez-Torres at the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid. One of the installations invites viewers to waltz in pairs on an impromptu dance floor framed by lights. Espose led, and Kid 1 took some lovely pictures of us, but I am visibly weeping in all of them.
Character note for novel in progress
Lea Fink@strassenverlauf.bsky.social · 5d agoGerda Taro, geboren als Gerta Pohorylle am 1. August 1910 in Stuttgart, musste - als Jüdin und Sozialistin verfolgt - 1933 nach Frankreich fliehen. Nach dem Militärputsch 1936 ging sie nach Spanien und fotografierte mit Robert Capa den Spanischen Bürgerkrieg. 🧵
This is the thing though. Amnesty folded on this one because they see the trannies as acceptable losses for protecting their other work. This is not "human rights org scared of lawsuit" this is "human rights org does not give a fuck about trannies".
ergopraxis@ergopraxis.bsky.social · 5d agoIf you issue an apology whenever a rights-infringing organisation, movement or state objects to your research output pointing out their character as a rights-infringing actor, you might as well close up shop, because that's always going to happen, so you'll never be able to oppose any of them!
gofund.me/f8dc19170 I keep trying to make a difference for June and her kids. It would be nice to get some help.
Stand with June: Legal and Housing Support Needed, organized by Kassandra Tomaras
June L. is a dear friend, a committed community-builder, a proud J… Kassandra Tomaras necesita tu apoyo para Stand with June: Legal and Housing Support Needed
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Me to Espose, after reading them this post: "The 2026 vintage is going to be ass." (Context: Espose and I, while deeply concerned about climate change — they are an ecologist after all — are also both wine snobs.)
Nahel Belgherze@wxnb.bsky.social · 6d agoBordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.
Kate Pierson and Cindy Wilson: oooh, aaah, oooh, aaah, ooooooooh
Kate@katemck.bsky.social · 6d ago[Fred Schneider voice] hot lobster
"El nivel de desigualdad y de control militarizado de los movimientos humanos que creó esta situación no debe existir." Así es la repuesta izquierdista, en vez de bulos sobre la venganza de Trump, Netanyahu, y la monarquía marroquí.
Nick Brumfield@nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 6d agoThe level of inequality and militarized control of movement that created this situation shouldn't exist
This keeps happening: - I follow a Spanish "leftist" account on here. - They (usually he) seems cool for a while. - They post something racist (usually against Moroccans) or antisemitic. - Lacking the patience or the eloquence in Spanish to argue, I unfollow.
In my day job, I manage the finances and grant applications of a $7M/year operation.
Los asesores de Ayuso llevan ya dos horas bicheando en idealista para ver qué propiedades puede comprar la Comunidad de Madrid en la provincia de Alicante y que nuestra presidenta pueda teletrabajar este verano desde primera línea playa.
Kid 2, speaking about a baguette: "I love carbtube."
Me: This quote that's attributed to DeGaulle is, "How can you govern a country that has 246 varieties of cheese?" Espose: Become ungovernable. Make cheese. Me: That would be an excellent sticker. cc: @gordonzola.bsky.social
