“When people are questioning their gender, digital ways to explore different appearances can be extremely important. Games often provide highly customizable avatars, which can help people in exploring how they might want to look.”
article by @faefyx.bsky.social
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new LGBTQ Nation article by @faefyx.bsky.social featuring research by me (w/ @mayworms.info, @shoreingber.bsky.social, @naz-andalibi.bsky.social)
"Not everyone wants to use [AI] – [yet] they are often required to use it without meaningful consent."
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Happy new year all! Here’s where my head is as we enter that new year.
“As we walk into 2026, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel and good reason for hope. But we’re going to have to walk through a dark tunnel to get there.”
I had a truly wonderful conversation with @mburkephd.bsky.social about their book. We talked about everything from Beauvoir, to how anti-trans twist feminism for their own ends, to an ethics of affirming gendered existence. When the world is chaos, this philosophy helped me feel grounded.
I've been bad about posting on social lately - there's been a lot going on. But I'm still writing news and columns over on @lgbtqnation.com - go check out my latest opinion piece on how trans people are being cynically used as a political bargaining chip.
Today is #TransDayOfRemembrance. @lgbtqnation.com has put together this Flipboard Storyboard, with stories from @getvillarreal.bsky.social, @faefyx.bsky.social and others.
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I spoke with a mother who had to take her whole family to a new country and leave their life behind so their trans daughter could grow up safely.
It's a story of the grief and difficulty around leaving, but also of the hope for the future in a new home.
Read it all through the link.
The Dems won big last week. But as anti-trans candidates failed after following Trump's lead, all he cared to do was lie about the economy.
The views for my runs have changed a lot since April. Those waters are high and churning. I’m sure that isn’t symbolic of anything.
(First picture: river on my run yesterday, second picture: lake on a run back in April.)
From trying for that Nobel Peace Price, to knocking down the East Wing of the White House—I have a theory that explains what Trump is doing.
Read the full thing on @lgbtqnation.com
Trump administration changes rules to exclude LGBTQ+ org workers from loan forgiveness program Advocates say the new policy is intended to "make life more difficult for those who Donald Trump dislikes."
Donald Trump’s Education Department (ED) released a new rule to deny student loan forgiveness to people who work for LGBTQ+ organizations.
We talked about the 25th Amendment during Trump’s first term. It’s past time we talked about it again.
So, this is some bullshit.
The Trevor Project has a new longitudinal study - the results might not be surprising, but they're important and highlight ways to help queer youth.
The administration is pressuring this city to drop LGBTQ+ protections. They’re trying to stop it. - buff.ly/6phPF7j
Miss Major Griffin-Gracey fought for trans rights and prison reform and came out of retirement to fight back against an increase in anti-trans legislation.
Readers are happier than non-readers — for all we joke about ignorance being bliss, and for all keenly developed empathy will result in some very justified outrage, life is enriched by experiencing the literary arts.
Whether it's Gays Against Groomers, the Women's Liberation Front, or the LGB Alliance, there are LGB groups so desperate to hurt trans people that they are trading in their own protections to do it.
Read more in my op-ed for @lgbtqnation.com.
Trans people have to wait an average of 25 years for care in the UK, new report finds - buff.ly/qJTWd9c
Now there’s a game I haven’t thought about in a few years.
The attack on trans rights in the planned appropriations bill is a canary in the coal mine for impending authoritarian rule, and not enough people are talking about it.
Read more in my column for @lgbtqnation.com.
Judge ends Arizona’s “irrational” policy requiring surgery for updating gender markers - buff.ly/Y9VFfRS
A sitting US president did this.
I really thought I was beyond being surprised by the hateful nonsense this man will get up to.
If you've just tested out life without the Disney+ subscription, there's some good reasons to consider keeping things that way. Bringing Kimmel back doesn't atone for what they've done.
Read more in my column for @lgbtqnation.com.
a black ink and watercolour illustration of a van shaped like a giant strawberry. the side opens like a food truck, and a man inside is leaning out to point towards a menu on the side of the van. the van has wheels like an old fashioned cart, and bunting across the open side. It has a chimney at the top that is a bit crooked, and pigeons lined along the roof a small girl dressed a bit like a witch stands on tiptoe to point towards her menu choice. a black cat sits next to her, looking towards the van
The house opposite ours often gets deliveries from Tesco, and one of their vans has an image of a lot of strawberries on the side. My 3-year-old took to calling it "the strawberry van" so I thought "but what if...strawberry van", and here we are.
#watercolour #art #painting #illustration
This was never about Charlie Kirk, it was about finding an excuse to do what Trump and his team already had planned.
Read more in my column for @lgbtqnation.com
This is such a good read and an important topic
“‘If people don’t know who we are, we’re never going to be safe. They will never know how to take care of our needs when we are elderly, infirm, vulnerable in any way. […] I think if people understand our bodies and who we are, we’ll be safer in the world.’”
Excellent article, @faefyx.bsky.social!
Too often, trans men are left out of the conversations that we have. I set out to answer "why?"
Thank you to Rae Timberlake with SPARTA Pride, @harperseldin.bsky.social of the @aclu.org, and Jamison Green for talking to me for this piece.
“Whatever the Republican Party once stood for, it is no more. A lot of the blame for that can be laid at Trump’s door, but he was really just the final nail in the coffin. At some point, they became far more obsessed with just holding power rather than with doing anything constructive with it.”
