Dead Language In the hours to days to weeks to months that followed Renee Good’s murder, I was beset by an emetic intolerance for words newly written or spoken about the American situation, even those that came from pacifists, Marxists, anarchists, decent people of whatever professed ideology who spoke in anger and anguish. All expressions felt the same: like ash. Factual truth did not give the circulating phrases power or meaning, nor did a speaker’s emotional sincerity, because the words I encountered were not in touch with these sources. They may have been, once, but the vibrant, almost vascular process that occasioned their creation was not active anymore. Now, they were secular catechisms, repeated with an attachment that facilitates detachment, the energetic evacuation that comes with retreat into familiarity. It was sloganeering, even when wordsmithed into ostensibly original speech.

"I don’t want more dead material poured into the pool of my mind, or careless hands stirring up the old muck. I don’t want to be in spaces on or offline where agitating our fetid little ponds is all we do to each other."

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wrote a protest song so simple i can play it on most of the instruments i own ;-)

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Thank you!

I love this idea - he has some readers in his crew, too. We actually did something virtually when they were in middle school early pandemic times.

I have wanted to do this! I had a conversation with my 17 yo yesterday about his sense that there is nothing he can do that will matter enough. I wonder if I can get him to read this with me...

Donate to Grace Pinson's support fund today. Incarcerated trans people are under such intense conditions - especially in federal prison. Grace has done so much for trans folks!

It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you.

If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can.

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I am asking folks to donate to support my friend Grace Pinson, a badass jailhouse attorney and trans woman in federal prison. She is leaving in July after 23 years and needs support! You can donate here: www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/...

Handed out flyers about upcoming ways folks can get more involved with stopping a data center and also rapid response in my small college town today for 2 hours. It was great!

I hope others will join me in a paid subscription!

Clergy-led activists block entry into Kansas Senate in protest over bathroom law • Kansas Reflector Rabbi Moti Rieber sat on the tiled floor, legs akimbo, in front of the arched passage leading to the Kansas Senate chamber with at least 20 people behind him and more lining the walls with handmade si...

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I am so moved as I read about this action and the message of no is getting left behind this time!

Excited to read this - I have offered a wellness group for TGD folks in the past myself. There's so little out there about group work with trans people, this is wonderful to have.

"Gender non-conforming children continue to get the strong impression… that they’d be better off being something other than what they are.”

Like: yes! True. It's impressed upon them over & over again they should better conform to their gender assigned at birth. With social consequences!

This is the stuff. I long for this world where all these outcomes are possible and beautiful and available to us. I think it's really special to see you share this. To say this in this way.

Litany of Doing Something Imperfectly I wrote my first newsletter and promised more to come twice a month. That was 5 weeks ago. I have found it challenging at times to organize my thoughts in...

I wrote another newsletter. I am continuing to experiment with how speaking to others about how I am attempting to live now may build more relationships and opportunities with people to respond together. To build solidarity and to survive.
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Today’s hat.

Sticker saying TRANSSEXUALS HAVE GOT TO GET MEANER

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

An older woman in my community was arrested for keeping $20 she found at a wal-mart self-check out. It is fake and I refuse to take any of it seriously ever again. We know how this system was built and continues to work.

Songs From The Hole (Film) Incarcerated musician struggles for healing and peace in this documentary-musical odyssey film composed behind bars. Directed by Contessa Gayles. Written by JJ '88.

I watched Songs from the Hole last night and was reminded by this beautiful film of the powerful healing folks take up in the face of machines of violence. And how it requires folks caring for one another. Moved to continue to seek ways of doing this in my worlds. www.songsfromthehole.com

Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.

I wish so badly I could have seen Georgie in the snow today IRL. Looks like she had a blast.

As a trans therapist, my trans clients teach me how to build a better future | Xtra Magazine I share my client’s fears and struggles; they help me as much as I help them

We must live now and sometimes fight and sometimes rest and sometimes grieve and sometimes have fun together, writes @leighhendrix.bsky.social.

Have a larger story on this coming, but I’ve been embedded with this group, and this story from yesterday is part of what they’ve been doing in the city: religionnews.com/2026/01/22/h...

From Minneapolis: I've Never Seen Unity Like This or: a report from my first day in Minneapolis

“[The Federal occupation of the city] want to pick off a few people and bring them up on charges. That might still happen, but it will be a farce of a trial. If there’s a conspiracy, it’s the entire city conspiring to be free.”

As a trans therapist, my trans clients teach me how to build a better future I share my client’s fears and struggles; they help me as much as I help them

“This is what it is like to be a trans therapist for trans people. To believe that trans people have a collective future and to be some part of supporting individual trans survival.” Read our collaborative article with @xtramagazine.com by @leighhendrix.bsky.social now on Script!

Lessons of Springdale: Towns must prepare if they want any say over data centers Data centers are eying land in Western Pennsylvania. In Springdale, a 5-2 vote approved development. What can be done to mitigate noise and well-water impacts?

A 180-gigawatt data center would need as much power as 150,000 homes. Power consumption, noise pollution and water consumption rank high among the concerns — but so does the question of who calls the shots in towns where they are built. buff.ly/yy7umLO