#queernews — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #queernews, aggregated by home.social.
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Friday I say the long version of this out loud — including the part about who gets paid and who gets thanked.
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#Trans #QueerNews #Journalism #Politics
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They'll spend this week arguing about whether she was one of theirs. She already answered that, over sixty years, by refusing to hand a single person over.
The ruling, and three other Bright Signals from this week → https://thistleandmoss.com/p/pay-the-fucking-rent-gratitude-doesn-t-cash-bessent-bails-out-the-bond-market-spain-guards-its-own-a?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica
#DollyParton #Drag #Texas #LGBTQ #QueerNews #TransRights #QueerRights #Music #CountryMusic #Journalism #History #Solidarity
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The vagueness in these bills is not sloppiness. It is the product.
A law that could catch anybody is a law that can be pointed at whoever you like this month, and the men who write them know that going in — which is why the judge reaching for the most beloved woman in the American South was not a joke. It was the demonstration. #DollyParton #Drag #Texas #LGBTQ #QueerNews #TransRights #QueerRights #Music #CountryMusic #Journalism #History #Solidarity2/3
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A federal judge threw out the Texas drag ban this week, and part of the reasoning was that the law had been written so loosely it could have reached Dolly Parton — the big hair, the flamboyant clothes, the whole rhinestone architecture of her.
She died Tuesday. She had spent a lifetime being claimed by people who never asked her permission, and politely declining every one of them.
#DollyParton #Drag #Texas #LGBTQ #QueerNews #TransRights #QueerRights #Music #CountryMusic #Journalism
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Thirty-four percent of trans people live in poverty. Eighteen percent are unemployed. Both numbers sit under every we-see-you graphic an institution ever posted.
Not a charity case. An unpaid invoice.
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Naming a number is easy. Funding it is the hard part.
Budget lines are what belief looks like when it stops being a mood and starts being a check that clears.
#TransRights #QueerNews #Transgender #LGBTQ #QueerRights #MutualAid #Solidarity #WorkersRights #Labor #Journalism #History #USpol
Her campaign is called Pay It → marshap.org?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica ·
The whole piece, and the part where I put myself in the exhibit → https://thistleandmoss.com/p/pay-the-fucking-rent-gratitude-doesn-t-cash-bessent-bails-out-the-bond-market-spain-guards-its-own-a?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica
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She didn't write an op-ed about it. She wrote a budget.
Pride Corps pays Black and Brown trans ambassadors, educators and organizers in every city the Institute enters, on the plain theory that local knowledge cannot be flown in and therefore has to be bought where it lives. #TransRights #QueerNews #Transgender #LGBTQ #QueerRights #MutualAid #Solidarity #WorkersRights #Labor #Journalism #History #USpol2/3
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Chastity Bowick runs the Marsha P. Johnson Institute, and this week she did the thing the movement's polite wing cannot stand.
Thirty-four percent of transgender people live in poverty. Eighteen percent are unemployed. Both of those figures sit underneath every we see you graphic any institution has ever posted, like a rotted joist under a fresh coat of paint. #TransRights #QueerNews #Transgender #LGBTQ #QueerRights #MutualAid #Solidarity #WorkersRights #Labor #Journalism #History #USpol1/3
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Is treasa tuath na tighearna — the people are mightier than a lord. An old sentence from a wet country full of people who lost, and lost, and are somehow still speaking the language the losing was supposed to end.
#Journalism #IndependentMedia #QueerNews #Gaelic #Gàidhlig #FactChecking #News #Media #Resist #Solidarity #Accountability #ReaderFunded
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Nobody upstairs can call and ask me to soften a paragraph about an Attorney General, because there is no upstairs. That is the entire product.
#Journalism #IndependentMedia #QueerNews #Gaelic #Gàidhlig #FactChecking #News #Media #Resist #Solidarity #Accountability #ReaderFunded
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Today's issue took 2 hours and cites numerous linked sources. Such is the life of an indepedent and rather poor journalist.
#Journalism #IndependentMedia #QueerNews #Gaelic #Gàidhlig #FactChecking #News #Media #Resist #Solidarity #Accountability #ReaderFunded
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Today's issue: three stories, Countless sources, one obituary laid out date by date, zero ad networks.
1991. 2005. 2011. 2016. 2019. 2023. Checked.
3 hours. No AI, no ad network, written by a lonely poor transwoman
#Journalism #IndieMedia #Trans #Writing #News #QueerNews
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The Secretary of Tiny Wee Wees stood in a Wisconsin truck plant Monday and said the slur into a live mic. Second time this month.
His department calls its trans ban gender-neutral.
#Trans #TransRights #QueerNews #Military #News #Journalism
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She did not resign. She is doing the far more difficult thing. Staying. Her whole statement of position is four words: tired but undeterred. They looted Hirschfeld's institute in 1933 and burned the library, and we are still recovering what was in it.
#TransRights #QueerNews #LGBTQ #Trans #QueerHistory #Museums #Smithsonian #Archives #Books #History #Journalism #Solidarity https://thistleandmoss.com/p/half-staff-for-a-woman-he-couldn-t-buy-dolly-s-gone-trump-s-numbers-are-in-the-goddamn-cellar-and-th#3-things-that-you-absolutely-need-t?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica3/3
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Katherine Ott has spent a career at the National Museum of American History on the material culture of bodies the country would rather not think about — disability, medicine, sexuality, the objects of people who were never meant to end up in a case with a label. The pressure now is to let the queer part of that quietly disappear.
#TransRights #QueerNews #LGBTQ #Trans #QueerHistory #Museums #Smithsonian #Archives #Books #History #Journalism #Solidarity
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A federal curator with a pension, a security clearance, a career's worth of collecting, and a job that exists at the pleasure of the people asking her to make it go away, has decided out loud and on the record that the oath she took covers refusing. #TransRights #QueerNews #LGBTQ #Trans #QueerHistory #Museums #Smithsonian #Archives #Books #History #Journalism #Solidarity
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Note it for the lawyers: a policy gets a great deal harder to defend as neutral government interest when the cabinet secretary implementing it slurs the targets from a podium. On camera. Twice in one month. He is not defending the policy as neutral. He is telling you, out loud. Fuck You, Pentagon PissWeasel.
#TransRights #Trans #QueerNews #LGBTQ #Military #Pentagon #Journalism #News #Politics #Resist #Solidarity #History https://thistleandmoss.com/p/half-staff-for-a-woman-he-couldn-t-buy-dolly-s-gone-trump-s-numbers-are-in-the-goddamn-cellar-and-th#3-things-that-you-absolutely-need-t?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica
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The Secretary of TinyWeeWees stood in front of workers at a truck plant in Oshkosh, Wisconsin on Monday and said the fuckin t-slur into a live microphone. Second time this month. He ran the same line at the Iowa State Fair. His department describes its trans ban as gender-neutral. He is currently blocking the promotions of qualified Black & women officers. #Racist Piece of Shit. #TransRights #Trans #QueerNews #LGBTQ #Military #Pentagon #Journalism #News #Politics #Resist #Solidarity #History
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They will claim her all week. She spent a lifetime politely declining them.
What did you inherit from people who were never asked to be brave, and were anyway? I answer every one of these in the comments under the piece.
#DollyParton #Dolly #RIPDolly #Nashville #CountryMusic #Music #LGBTQ #QueerNews #TransRights #Trans #History #Journalism
The full timeline, laid out end to end rather than summarized into mush → https://thistleandmoss.com/p/half-staff-for-a-woman-he-couldn-t-buy-dolly-s-gone-trump-s-numbers-are-in-the-goddamn-cellar-and-th#queerisms-where-are-we-today?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica
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2019, she missed, took real heat from people who loved her, and kept moving. 2023, defending trans people directly, in Nashville, when it had started to cost.
She declined the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Twice. She declined the statue. She died Tuesday at 80 and they lowered the flag for her anyway.
Sixty years and not one press release.
#DollyParton #Dolly #RIPDolly #Nashville #CountryMusic #Music #LGBTQ #QueerNews #TransRights #Trans #History #Journalism
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1991, the line about preachers and gay people and addicts and strays, on a country label, in a year the plague was still killing everyone I knew. 2011, a personal apology to a woman told to turn her marriage-equality shirt inside out at her own park. 2016, proud of a gay following she said looked more like her than she does. #DollyParton #Dolly #RIPDolly #Nashville #CountryMusic #Music #LGBTQ #QueerNews #TransRights #Trans #History #Journalism
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A country singer from a one-room cabin on the Little Pigeon River, with a theme park in Sevier County, an Opry seat, and a radio format that will drop you for less, licensed "Travelin' Thru" to a road movie about a trans woman.
That was 2005. Twenty-one years ago. No press tour about how brave she was being. #DollyParton #Dolly #RIPDolly #Nashville #CountryMusic #Music #LGBTQ #QueerNews #TransRights #Trans #History #Journalism
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Applied 12 October 2022. Two constitutional injunctions. Three years and ten months of a registry saying no.
Recorded married in Santa Cruz on Friday.
#Bolivia #QueerNews #LGBTQ #Lesbian #MarriageEquality #LatinAmerica #Journalism
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