Rough Notes: Queer Theories of WNBA Fandom Featuring a Guest Dispatch by Yezmin Villarreal!

new rough notes post, full of queer theories about wnba fandom <3 featuring a guest dispatch by yezmin villarreal, a real queer phoenix hooper!

tufts of straw-colored, coiled tidepool grass (?) in bright morning sun, in a bright triangle cut with shadows on either side. the tufts bunch and curl together, like locks of hair.

something soft

out here working (strategically relocating planters) to give my kids a better life (spoil my bunny ears cactus with sunlight)

An American kestrel perched on top of a telephone pole. It’s a smol raptor. Very cute. Very deadly

the cutest little killer 🪶 I watched it catch and eat a grasshopper

i have never been a doomer. but i find a lot of insight and precision in this analogue to waves of succession in an ecosystem. kimmerer also talks about two types of catalysts that create gaps in that dominant society - the rapid disaster, and the gradual (re-)growth - so something new can grow.

The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natu… From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braidi…

i read a new favorite book today - i LOVED the serviceberry - and amidst all of its beautiful attention to community animated by giving / local interdependent gift economies, was kimmerer's description of colonizing nations as rapid, unsustainable new growth. the failure is coming. what comes after?

the totally disassociated, beyond-hyper-financialized, theft-as-a-service nation we're living in now.

Federal Judge Vacates Kennedy Declaration, Permanently Blocks Trump's Trans Youth Care Hospital Threats The judgment overturns the Kennedy Declaration which has been used to force 40 hospitals to drop trans youth care.

1. This weekend, a federal judge permanently blocked funding threats to providers and hospitals that provide trans youth care.

The judge also blocked "any similar policy."

Hospitals have NO excuse and must return to providing care under many blue state laws.

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“The Mohegan Tribe chose to invest in women’s basketball at a time when male billionaires refused. It’s ironic, then, that the WNBA is now prioritizing NBA owners when those very owners turned their back on the league two decades ago.”

so deeply admire tash's approach to community. damn.

Federal judge unloads on ‘unserious’ RFK Jr., says anti-trans policy showed his ‘cruelty’ Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai vacated the “Kennedy Declaration,” finding it unlawfully attempted to override medical standards and restrict care for transgender youth.

Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded.

“This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.”

www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

Handmade seed bombs! Native seeds I wild-harvested locally last fall, scraps of the brown paper @bookmobile.bsky.social ships as padding with printed books folded into little envelopes and held together with a veg ink compostable @reckoningmag.bsky.social sticker

mmmmm. yeah. I love the conversation between iris and her mom in the stairwell, in one of the final sequences. I feel like we tend to imagine resilience as being something so triumphant, not just a stubborn, imperfect ”we keep going“. their body language in that moment. just.. so powerful.

yesss. very well said.

to keep moving and to resist even as you are mired in intergenerational fuck ups, and the imperfection of political action. to resist and resist and resist.

1000xRESIST (Fixer's Song EP) - Fixer's Song ~Extended~ YouTube video by sunset visitor 斜陽過客

youtu.be/2IWcMJtOoxQ?... 💚💙

A purple-coded clone curled up on a bed, with a big shark stuffie next to her. The text: “WATCHER: Sometimes your backpack isn’t big enough.”

In a red tinted basement, Watcher speaks with a giant pigeon, looking down patiently. The text: PIGEON PRIME: Humans. How nostalgic.”

returning to 1000xResist !!

my life has changed so much in the past 1.5 years - and yet! “there is a you that remains and remains and remains.” branches fork. transfer is lossy - we fit new things into our backpack, leave new things behind. so good. more crying this time lol

@sunsetvisitor.studio

oh my gosh. beautiful

dana *loudly sobbing*

Today in Baltimore, We Proved This Fight Is Working DHS went to court to defend their ICE warehouse plan and walked away with a judge openly laughing at their argument.

"Over the past several months, our community has built a blueprint that other communities can use when federal agencies attempt to move detention infrastructure into their neighborhoods..."

blog.hagerstownrapidresponse.com/p/today-in-b...

that wheeeee launch and how kiki stands up -- she's so cool with it 😭😭😭 and the maga terf, girl bye

This means so much to me. Kiki will always be my first rookie. 💙❤️ #WNBA

Will you be exalted to heaven? No, you will be brought down to Hades!

For whoever rejects Natasha Cloud rejects me, and whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me.

-A warning to the #WNBA teams + owners who are blackballing the highest prophet of The Point God, Luke 10:16

"I appreciate the community you've built with MinnMax. Pew Pew Bang tipped me from being a 'this is great!' fan to 'It's time to be a Patreon member'. Thanks for being a kind-hearted crew with strong values and a love of MN" #whysupportminnmax www.patreon.com/c/minnmax

a bright, curious bedroom with yellow orange carpet, a fishbowl, a bed area with bult-in elements, and steps up to a giant exposed skylight roof

arnold listening to his discman on the couch, legs crossed, eyes closed, smiling, vibing.

from the perspective of the skylight, arnold relaxes with his eyes closed. in the frame - house plants, a toy dinosaur, a single sock.

from above the city, arnold's skylight bedroom in the foreground as apartment buildings of various heights and colors extend into the distance.

relaxation goals (hey arnold, 1994)

A binder with a photographic cover of a majestic giraffe straining their neck to the black bar along the edge. The label in high contrast: Wildlife Fact-File

A sample page for Raccoon! Full of factoid boxes, a raccoon at night, diagrams of a mother Raccoon, habitat maps.

A binder page with a table of contents with colored tabs for Wildlife Fact-File) - groups include mammals, birds, reptiles & amphibians, and more. On the left of the page, a cheetah climbs carefully up a tree.

One more sample page: Bengali Tiger. A photo shows the tiger stalking at night directly at the camera.

thinking about her (my wildlife fact-file binder. beloved and long-lost!!)

😔🫂

The world’s oldest chicken lives in Portland. Her name is Gertie. Guinness World Records has recognized a blind, jazz-loving, 15-year-old hen in Portland as the oldest living chicken on Earth.

i sincerely hope so. also gertie can never know www.pressherald.com/2026/04/14/t...

I've been listening to Tom Waits for 40 years and I don't think I've ever heard him genuinely angry until now

i have been sick for ten (10) days so officially entering my “what the hell let’s finally play an hour of mother 3 on the couch” and !!!! wait. this game. is cooking. DOG PARTY MEMBER