Leona Lee

Hey, I'm putting together a reading rec list for the Trans Rights Readathon (transrightsreadathon.carrd.co).

I'm looking for SFFH books written by trans and non-binary authors featuring a sapphic / wlw / f/f f/x relationship (including QPR) prominently (protag &/or one of the major POV characters)

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH

beautiful!

Consumption's back on the menu, boys!

I’m gonna salute every snowplow that passes me.

So instead,

imagine winning. This is your sacred task.
This is your power.

V'ahavta Say these words when you lie down and when you rise up, when you go out and when you return. In times of mourning and in times of joy. Inscribe them on your doorposts, embroider them on your...

"Thus spoke the prophet Roque Dalton:
All together they have more death than we,
but all together, we have more life than they.
There is more bloody death in their hands
than we could ever wield, unless
we lay down our souls to become them,
and then we will lose everything."

The number of Health Professionals that are delighted to have me as their “Really Interesting break from their otherwise boring patients/clients” is … telling.

(I get charged the same though of course no matter how much they learn from me)

Part of why I am insistent that public libraries must be expanded is because they can offer us a foundation for unleashing creativity and for nurturing imagination. This is an affirmative project at a time when we desperately need to be FOR things and not just against them.

Fascism is here and yet we insist on continuing to make things. Keep creating. It's so important. Do not let the fascists colonize your imagination or curtail your creativity.

Nina Simone: Portrait of a Revolutionary Artist - Left Voice Nina Simone took the world of her experience, the hatred and anger of a lifetime of racial and sexual violence, and transformed it into a weapon to defend and uplift Black Americans.

Nina Simone took the world of her experience, the hatred and anger of a lifetime of racial and sexual violence, and transformed it into a weapon to defend and uplift Black Americans

ICE abandons plan to build detention facility in Chester, assemblyman says U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will allegedly scrap a controversial plan to bring an immigration detention facility to the village of Chester.

www.timesunion.com/hudsonvalley... [gift link]

‘No one deserves this’: Beaverton father dies after deportation to Mexico A Beaverton family is grieving after the father, who was detained and deported by ICE, has now died.

This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported.

He finally died.

I am so angry.
www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...

“Reforms” Didn’t End Police Violence in 2020 and They Won’t End ICE Violence Now We can’t settle for “reforming” the largest law enforcement agency in the nation — it must be abolished.

"These watered-down ICE policy reforms do not serve as a break from the Democrats’ years-long rightward shift on immigration, but a repackaging of immigration enforcement to maintain the status quo."
truthout.org/articles/ref...

beep beep! I used to see them in Albequrque, thanks fo sharihg this!

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.

This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

Activists Want the City to Enforce Code Against the Dallas ICE Field Office. Can It Be Done? Cities across the state and nation are finding ways to hold ICE accountable. Will Dallas?

New in @dmagazine.bsky.social

"In June 2025, DHS waived the original 12-hour limit on holding people at field offices, increasing it to 72 hours...between July and October 15, at least 336 people were held at the Dallas ICE field office for more than 72 hours."

www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/...

In this Ohio diner, McLaughlin still means Sarah. But they do know this: DHS isn't exactly delivering ICE detainees into the arms of an angel.

Reading a family obituary that closes with "We gladly relinquish him to the hands of the Lord" and baby I wonder what the hell that man was doing. But he was a pastor so...it's probably a hot mess

lyrics by my 3-year-old daughter YouTube video by Stephen Spencer

Okay, the internet can be good sometimes.

m.youtube.com/shorts/TOvRW...

Fred the cat laying down in the christmas ginger bread house that I got for the dogs He claimed it after the kids threw it in my room and sleeps in it every day 😆

Good #Caturday Morning from Fred and his gingerbread house

Please no one tell him Christmas is long passed, he loves his little home

#Ginger #Caturday

Disclose.tv @disclosetv NOW - EU Parliament votes to accept a report, that calls for "the full recognition of trans women as women" as part of the EU priorities for the UN CSW on "women's rights and gender equality." • • I| 0:14 12:31 pm • 12 Feb 2026 • 174K Views

The EU has just voted, by a VERY wide margin, for the full recognition of trans women as women…!

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Juliana Stratton is the obvious pick. I hate even having to weigh in here. It's plain as day, and the frontrunner is so bad. Folks, this needs to get turned around. Like desperately. Phone bank for Stratton, talk to your friends, anything, just please, Illinois, NO.

What are we using for encrypted video conferencing & webinars these days?

Anything EU based worth looking at?

I have Zoom, but would like to move away from it since it's getting rather unstable (like the rest of the US).

The thing about saying that genAI will enable the marginalized to create art is that not only is it not true, literally just fucking look at art and music and writing,

but it is saying that a handful of rich pedophiles should be allowed to control whether marginalized people can produce art.

Incredible work here by local Chicago journalists investigating two of the especially violent DHS agents terrorizing people in Chicago & MSP. Using body cam footage, after-action reports, social media videos & much more, @unraveledpress.com tells a jarring and must read story:

Zero regrets on that cat’s face. Something tells me we will be living with this new look for an extended period of time.

The Real Reason ICE Agents Wear Masks Face coverings may work less to protect federal agents from danger than to make it easier for them to do unconstitutional things.

The Atlantic: 'The Real Reason ICE Agents Wear Masks'

'Face coverings may work less to protect federal agents from danger than to make it easier for them to do unconstitutional things.'

'Masked men with guns are swarming through American cities'

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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