Award-winning author writing happily ever afters about difficult people with complicated lives. SAG-AFTRA performer. Figure skater. They/them.
Jun 26, 2022 • 8 tweets • 1 min read
Since the decision, a curtain of suspicion has already seemed to descend, even here, in New York.
I have casual interactions and friendships with dozens of people daily - in my cat care work and at the rink.
Jun 19, 2022 • 18 tweets • 3 min read
Cis people: I need you to understand (and help others understand) that “the trans debate” is NOT relevant “to only a small number of people” but to everyone. Thread below for why:
(This is focused on cis women, but cis dudes I need you to listen too. You are also in danger.)
Being anti-trans is only possible by policing the gender and sex of everyone. Because I promise you - you don’t know who is trans and who isn’t.
Also, most of this isn’t really about trans people although we get hurt the most first - it’s about control.
Apr 25, 2022 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
The other thing I will say about Twitter’s potential sale and what that may or may not do to the platform:
On the internet your home will always leave you.
It’s part of the inevitable Internet lifecycle. Social platforms die or atrophy or are abandoned because of scaling, profitability, technology and/or ownership issues, as well as cultural value shifts All The Time.
Mar 31, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
I want everyone to look at the resurgence of far-right, extensively disproven “queers are a danger to kids” rhetoric and compare that language to a lot of the flack queer people over 30 have received for being on social media & in other online spaces for the last five or so years
Because the language (including calling adults who exist in cross-generational spaces with other adults “groomers”) is horrifically similar.
Parts of the queer community have been actively primed for some time now - based on nothing - to turn against their own.
Mar 22, 2022 • 14 tweets • 2 min read
I want to talk about Lambda Literary pulling a nomination because someone was aggressively transphobic on Twitter, and about how this isn't the organization policing manners or quelling speech or deciding only some queers are the right queers or WHATEVER.
Regardless of whether the author has ever heard of the Lammys, the awards are significant. Even as just a finalist last year, they caused a massive increase in my book sales and more sales = bigger platform = potentially increased cultural influence.
