Zee 🏳️🌈🪲🐈🏳️⚧️🤿🛶
@zeesm.bsky.social
PhD in Entomology & certified scuba instructor. Queer trans masc neurospicy leftist invertebrate ecologist, scuba diver, kayaker, weightlifter, TTRPG gamer, scifi reader, cat lover, professional pessimist.
July 23rd is World Whale and Dolphin Day! 🐳🐋🐬 The International Whaling Commission established this holiday in 1986 to mark the historic 1982 vote to ban commercial whaling. We must protect marine mammals and all aquatic wildlife. #conservation #cetaceans #ocean #wildlife
A smöl spider has made itself a home in one of my roses. #arachnids #spiders #urbanwildlife #invertebrates #flowers #organicgardening
Flies don't get nearly enough love. They can be efficient pollinators, compost dead things, debride wounds, are important parts of the food web, and some are useful tools in forensic analysis. These Green Bottle Flies (Lucilia sericata) are really quite lovely. #insects #Diptera #flies #entomology
"why don't you win hearts and minds first?" Yeah, that's exactly the reason the right goes after any representation in film. They don't want trans people in media because they don't want people to empathize with trans people at all or know their struggles.
Assigned Media@assignedmedia.org · 4w ago@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Jul LGBTQnation GLAAD finds Hollywood continues reducing the number of LGBTQ+ characters; even worse, GLAAD found ZERO trans characters in 225 films last year and ZERO LGBTQ+ ones in animated and family films. www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/07/holl...
I really wish trans allies would fight as hard for us as those who hate us fight to eliminate us from society. The disparity there is why they're winning.
A mulluscan morning hike with PNW iconic gastropods Pacific Banana Slug and Pacific Sideband Snail. #northwestnature #gastropoda #invertebrates #hiking #oregon
Today, July 10, marks one year since the brutal and chaotic immigration raid by the US DHS on Glass House Farms in Ventura County, CA which resulted in more than 300 farm workers detained by federal agents and the violent death of farm worker Jaime Alanis Garcia. 1/
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo literally helped build this nation. He did nothing wrong but build American homes, raise American kids, and pursue the American Dream. He should be alive. 1/
Red-shouldered Ctenucha Moth (Ctenucha rubroscapus), a day-flying moth found only in the Pacific Northwest (low elevations west of the Cascade Mountains and south of Chehalis WA). Larvae feed on grasses but the adults like to nectar on composites like this ragwort. #Lepidoptera #Insects #entomology
I am so fucking tired of me and my community being so conveniently disposable...and having our rights matter solely in the context of whether discrimination against us could potentially hurt cisgender people.
Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · last mo.Now that the government’s persecution of trans people has gone beyond sports and medicine for teens, where are all the people who insisted they weren’t "anti-trans" but just had some “reasonable concerns"? www.readtpa.com/p/reasonable...
Real Oregonians hike in the rain. And then get beer at a Queer gaming pub afterwards. #waterfalls #rivers #water #pacificnorthwest
Being on the water is almost as good as being under the water. #rivers #water #Oregon #pacificnorthwest
A bunch of mudpuddling Western Tiger Swallowtails (Papilio rutulus). Butterflies can also puddle on feces, rotting organic material, or your sweaty arm. Males likely engage in this behavior to obtain sodium, nitrogen, or amino acids. #entomology #Lepidoptera #butterflies #northwestnature #insects
being transgender is amazing and beautiful, transitioning is one of the greatest choices you can ever make and i hope more people realize that its not dangerous or evil, but liberating
The morning after pogroms in northern Ireland, the UK just sent letters to hundreds of trans youth saying their NHS partner provider, WellBN, has been banned from providing GAC and they must forcefully detransition within the next month. Fascism has arrived to the UK.
Cal Horton (they/them)@fiercemum.bsky.social · 2mo agoUpdate: Young people & families today received shocking & transphobic letters from NHS. These letters tell people that endocrine care (blockers / HRT) is being fully withdrawn in 7 weeks time (July 31st). Forced medical detransition. This country is a danger to trans children & young people.
Happy Pride Month. If you know a young person (age 13-26) in the US who is getting their access to queer library books restricted because of local small-minded folks, please refer them to the Books Unbanned program. More people should know about it. #pride booksunbanned.com/card
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No Pacific Northwest dive is complete without a wolffish (wolf-eel) or two... 🦑 #scuba #diving #NAUIdiver #HoodCanal
He posted this after voting to defund schools that have any policy whatsoever that "advances concepts" related to gender identity. That includes bathrooms, locker rooms, even possibly having a trans teacher state their pronouns. Shame.
Congressman Eugene Vindman@repvindman.bsky.social · 2mo agoHappy Pride Month, Virginia!🏳️🌈 This month, we celebrate our LGBTQ+ neighbors and honor the progress we have made toward equality — while recognizing the continuing fight for justice and inclusion.
It’s the first of June, the beginning of Pride month. Stonewall was a riot. Trans rights are human rights. No one gets to erase us from history. Fight back against book bans. Fuck anybody who thinks we don’t deserve love or bodily autonomy. They don’t get to steal our joy.
