"BOYISH" BY EMILY BLACK You drag Maddox through road-shoulder snow like a broken soldier, arms around each other's necks. The weight of him is almost too much to move forward when you hear the siren peal. Standing frozen, your shadows are blent: a single distended beast dancing at the center of a strobing red glow like a scrambled channel.

"Boyish" by Emily Black (@threnody.bsky.social) appears in our newest issue, which is available now.

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Trans rights are human rights.

The Trump White House Is Trying to Price Law Students Out of Public Service A proposed Department of Education rule would make borrowers ineligible for loan forgiveness if the administration doesn’t approve of their work.

The Dept of Education is now accepting comments on a proposed rule that would overhaul Public Service Loan Forgiveness, and make it too expensive for students to go into work that threatens the Trump administration

Folks have til *Sept. 17* to oppose the changes

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they’re saying i did something good. all of my self worth is exogenous so i can’t outright agree, but it would surely be rude of me to argue.

so, i guess all i can do is give you the link. ⬇️

prairieschooner.unl.edu/excerpt/boyi...

Ralph Wiggem “I’m in danger” meme

*Academics in early August

I get irrationality irked by osmosis vs diffusion.

Aside from limited materials, corporations manufacture abroad because of child labor and worker rights laws, as well as OSHA and the federal minimum wage. As poorly conceived as it is, the tariff plan would never have been proposed at all if it didn't also include a plan to repeal those protections.

Mints, unopened but expired eye drops, and a pen that’s out of ink.

Quality “What’s in my Purse?” content here, folks.

I found unwrapped, unchewed gum in my purse. Just sayin’…

Tufts graduate student detained by federal authorities sent to Louisiana - The Boston Globe Masked plainclothes officers arrested Rumeysa Ozturk outside a Somerville home Tuesday evening.

The Tufts graduate student detained by federal authorities in Somerville has been sent to a Louisiana detention facility, despite a federal judge’s order telling US Immigration and Customs Enforcement not to remove her from Massachusetts without notice.

Eternal Sunshine it, please. The bunnies have their own thing going that I want nothing to do with.

I’m in Cait’s camp, too. Sunday Scarlett Runner beans and greens dinner is self care.

Cis folks, please read this. It’s an emotionally tough read, but these are the types of stories that need to be shared if we want to ensure that all trans people have human rights.

well, would you look at that? on march 12, good ol’ doc marshall of kansas re-introduced legislation to do just that!

a hyde amendment for trans care with no age restrictions. trans kids. trans adults. all 16 trans people america let live to be trans elders.

who could have seen it coming!

KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN.

☎️: (202) 224-3121

Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid.

The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING.

Call retiring Senators too!

hi, cis folks!

a thing you might not know about trans care is that—even if we can pay for it or have good insurance (most of us don’t)—expenses like “move to another city for 3 weeks & take 6 weeks off work or we won’t do it” are part of it & *never* covered.

could you fund that? give june a hand.

sigh.

took lotsa effort to get (mostly) unified NOs on HB28+S9 from dems. media’s been hyped to get them to cave since nov; politico, axios, cnn, et al have spent the week doing “actually dems in disarray & the issue’s a loser.” using carrots & sticks is critical. ⬇️

www.senate.gov/senators/sen...

dems are probably going to eat shit from fox & newsmax & the NYT for this for a news cycle. or until the recession hits.

you’re going to hate that i’m asking this, but if you have a dem senator who voted to stop this, you should call & tell them “good job. we like when you fight. keep it up.”

I love these so much!

Stonewall National Monument New York Info Alerts Maps Calendar Fees “By the time of Stonewall...we had 50 to 60 gay groups in the country. A year later...1500.” Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in the quest for LGB civil rights and provided momentum for a movement. Five visitors and one park ranger standing next to an iron fence as they post rainbow flags. Plan Your Visit Located in Greenwich Village, New York City, Stonewall National Monument is one of the many parks in New York Harbor. Educational images of leaning at Stonewall National Monument Education No Matter where you are, we can bring Stonewall National Monument to your classroom. Find teachers resources here. A rainbow flag overlaid with "Stonewall National Monument, Established 2016" with the NPS arrowhead. LGB Flags What are LGB flags and what days should we celebrate them? Click here to find out.

The National Park Service has removed "T" and all mention of transgender people from the Stonewall National Monument.

Trans women were some of the most influential activists behind the Stonewall movement and what followed.

3 articles of clothing laws were why raids happened.

Erasure.

no the fuck we are NOT making “LGBQ+” a thing and if I see any of you motherfuckers using that acronym it’s on sight

Marsha P. Johnson did not smash in the windshield of a police car for this

I couldn’t agree more! And sometimes you need the cognitive estrangement non-mimetic literature can provide in order to work out some stuff in new and interesting ways.

One Story Reading Group with Dan Chaon: Thomas Tryon's THE OTHER: Rediscovering a Classic Novel of Horror. March 4-25 Register today www.one-story.com

Just placing this here in case you missed it. 👈👀

Have you had your passport application put on hold or suspended in the last few weeks because of the executive order from the Trump administration about trans people’s documents. If so I want to talk to you.

Email: sydneyerinwrites@gmail.com
Signal: @SydneyBauer.30

Protect Trans Kids On January 29th, Donald Trump signed an illegal executive order that attempts to ban gender affirming care for youth under the age of 19, an attempt to detransition all trans children in the US. Despi...

NYC! On Monday folks are protesting NYU Langone for cutting off access to gender affirming care under 19

We need to demonstrate that people stand in solidarity with those losing medical treatment.

If you want to “do something,” this is something to do.

actionnetwork.org/events/prote...

it’s been an amazing journey going from “closeted barkeep trying to drink herself to death passing around the same $20 to other barkeeps to pay rent” to “trans person passing around the same $20 to other trans people to pay rent”

cis folks, help a girl pay her rent.

In my years of reporting on LGBTQ news this was by far the hardest.

But we are still here. You made it to Friday. You lived. Good job. That wasn’t easy.

Through a diversity of tactics, we will continue to live.

Rest up, drink water, find community, so that we can all be here tomorrow too.

Please do not read this if suicide is a major trigger.

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It has just been reported that a transgender person committed suicide today wrapped in a transgender flag in Syracuse at the VA.

These attacks are killing us.

This must stop.

one small, sincere thing I'd like to say about what's happening now is: every trans person who's paying attention is going to be deeply affected by the way we're being targeted. even if they're not showing it to you. be patient and kind with us.

A page with the title "LGB Travelers"

‼️ The State Department has REMOVED TQIA+ on their page of recommendations for queer travelers. This page yesterday said "LGBTQIA+" and now just says "LGB".

The federal government is trying to erase trans people from existence.