Happy birthday! 🩷

Small unfired clay vessel with crackle texture from sodium silicate

Unfired clay mug stamped with "all you had to do was pay us enough to live"

Unfired clay jar stamped with "my body my choice"

Ceramic bottle stamped with "that which is precious ought to be shared"

Some recent pots and pots in progress

Going to the dentist has absolutely no redeeming qualities

Final tally of the first night of the online shop was 6 sales! All to people I already know but that's OK for now

Somehow managed to sell 3 pots already 🩷

Flyer reads: ada em Grand opening on Friday April 10! (Photo of a stack of pots of decreasing size) Visit ada-em.com now to see pots that will be available Sales will go live at approximately 5PM EDT

Actually opening my online pottery shop, ada-em.com, this week! Shipping to the US only for now. Sign up for the newsletter on the site to get a 10% discount code in your email Friday morning. There are no duplicate items, so once something sells, that's it (though you can always write to ask).

Honestly hard to be excited when space is tied to the government or the ultra wealthy in the way that it currently is

This made my day yesterday

My partner and I are finally making the transition from students to members at our pottery studio and I am fucking thrilled

‘It’s a Nightmare’: The Human Toll of the Catholic Church’s Trans Healthcare Ban Missing hormones. Canceled surgeries. Bureaucratic denials. Late last year the Catholic Church banned all trans healthcare across its sprawling networks. The impact on trans people's lives is devastat...

Crossing state borders for HRT. Insurance denials. Missed surgeries.

U.S. Catholic bishops imposed a ban on all trans healthcare throughout the church's massive networks. That's left working class trans people struggling even more.

Our latest, by @davidforbes.bsky.social are some of their stories:

Notes from AE Updates from Ada Em, pottery and more

BTW, also setting up a newsletter so if you want to know when my ceramic shop goes live first, sign up here buttondown.com/AdaEm

Ordered shipping supplies and as long as our printer still works I'm going to be set to open my online shop for sales soon 😊

A pot that can go 🤷🏼‍♀️

Taking half a day of vacation today to try and finalize my website and order shipping supplies. The first people to know when my ceramics are available for purchase will be subscribers to my newsletter (buttondown.com/AdaEm)

Chapel crypt with arched ceiling and chandelier of electric candles and hanging crosses

Went to an experimental music concert in a chapel crypt last night and it was like reconnecting with my college self when i would go see weird shit all the time

Learning to support my body, just ordered finger splints and a tool to help make wheel throwing easier on my hands

Definitely call! Some instructions I've found have said it's okay to take meds. Might even be okay to take them with the meal

Definitely wasn't provided enough info before doing a gastric emptying study. Had it canceled because I took my morning meds during the fasting period. Apparently I was supposed to wake up at 5am and take them

Forgot to do my injection before going on an overnight trip to NYC 🤦‍♀️

there are two trans lesbian tinglers. there should be more. i have made a note

Was a total surprise when I learned this was a thing too and that my grocery store only had 1 brand that wouldn't try to kill me

Incredible stuff from Steph here

Ceramic mug on a white background. Mug is printed with "palestinian liberation is queer liberation"

Definitely my favorite mug so far

Have absolutely done this. I've also finished a first sock and forgotten the needle size before starting the second

Two ceramic espresso cups. One stamped with "she", the other with "they"

First pots sold! And first commission! Two espresso cups with their pronouns 🩷

They're not going to run out of the absolute worst people with the absolute worst politics to replace the previous absolute worst person with.

The barrel is bottomless, we have to eliminate the position, the agency, and unbuild the whole institution.

Learning a lot in therapy finally but probably not enough to make changes to my life yet lol

Unfired small ceramic mug with "fuck" stamped on it

Think I nailed how I was feeling about the world in general at the pottery studio the other night

Yesterday was my 3 year hrt anniversary and next Tuesday is my 1 year orchi anniversary 🩷

text that reads "trans love will save you" overlaid on a background of ornamental hearts and shapes with various birds and bugs. the entire image is textured to look grainy

trans love will save you ❣️