Tuesday, 18 אייר 5780 (Tuesday, 12 May 2020) Glasgow, Scotland content note: sexual violence, mental health, trans stuff, homophobia, antisemitism In the Jewish calendar the days begin at sundown, so I’m including my activities from last night through sundown today. A brief timeline of the day: 21:16 Sunset
He’s a 6:00am post-Pride Grindr hookup. We’re at my place. I’m always too nervous to get right to sex, so I usher him into my living room. He talks about being a teacher in Spain and makes fun of me for having a Morrissey record, which
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My friend, comrade, and collaborator Kevin Sanders (aka hairdryer excommunication) and I have released new music under our moniker Tradescantia zebrina. Hibiscus kokio by Tradescantia zebrina The sound is gloomy, ambient, and weird. It’s our second benefit album (check out the first one) raising money for Action for Trans
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Today I’m releasing my EP “Pansy” It’s a 32 minute tape of sad queer songs about trauma and love and gender and ugliness, written last spring when I was heartbroken and homeless. Pansy by Plant Dad Side A has guitar & synth songs with my melodramatic voice crooning
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Last night Kevin Sanders and I released our cellotronik collaboration, Tradescantia zebrina. Tradescantia zebrina by Tradescantia zebrina It’s cinematic and atmospheric and eerie, like the soundtrack to a movie I want to watch but wouldn’t want to be a character in. It’s available in digital and CD
Content note: abuse Last week, myself and another (anonymous) survivor of abuse teamed up and disrupted an abuser’s upcoming gigs by messaging all of the bands who were going to play the shows he was promoting under the name Shapeshifter. Unexpectedly, enough of the bands responded positively to us
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Today, bandcamp is donating all of their profits to the Transgender Law Center in the US. To maximize the impact, I’m doing a 24 hour release of an A Side / B Side single from my new EP “Pansy” for £1. 15% of the money raised will go straight to
[CN: transmisogyny] Grindr is primarily a gay men’s space, which means it’s full of machismo, femmephobia, racism, and general nonsense about gender. I’m a non-binary trans boy, and I’ve only recently been afforded a level of masculine expression which allows me access to grindr, and it’
Content Note: non-graphic mentions of rape, abuse, and transphobia Last night I read my piece “I Pity The Cis” at the launch of SALT. Magazine‘s launch for issue 9 at Deptford X. SALT is a feminist magazine run by women, and this issue was themed on The Furies (not
Content note: death, misgendering, mentions of transphobic violence [Image description: Pink carnations with baby’s breath against a black background] In collaboration with Gendered Intelligence and The Corpse Project, I have consolidated information for trans people in England and Wales to ensure their gender identity, and other wishes, are respected
Late last night my good friend comedian/performer Nicole Henriksen and I made a vlog about queer crushes and love under capitalism. My camera died at the end because I’m just an amateur filmmaker but the conclusion is: There are lots of kinds of love! Love is good! Tell
Content note: death, misgendering, mentions of transphobic violence In collaboration with Gendered Intelligence and The Corpse Project, I have consolidated information for trans people in England and Wales to ensure their gender identity, and other wishes, are respected in death. It’s written with the aim of being accessible and