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May 5, 2025

A Story of Trans Genocide, Now and Then, in a Single Photo

On the histories we forgot — and who burned them

A black and white, grainy photo of a pile of books in the street, on fire. A crowd is visible looking on, and in the foreground, a Nazi soldier facing away from the camera throws several more books onto the pile.

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Feb 17, 2025

A love letter to those who want me dead.

If you think transgender people are a threat to your way of life, this is for you. Happy Valentine’s Day.

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May 20, 2021

Cops Don’t Belong at Pride, “Unseemly” Queer People Do

Marsha P. Johnson and the failures of queer respectability

A photo of Marsha P. Johnson in a bar. She is wearing a large headpiece of flowers and smiling hugely at the camera.

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Sep 21, 2025

Who Gave Cis People Their Gender Identities?

Cis people reading this: you don’t have to be trans to opt out.

Who Gave Cis People Their Gender Identities?

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Sep 20, 2025

As an antifascist organizer, I am done persuading.

Persuasion does not work. Only education does.

As an antifascist organizer, I am done persuading.

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Sep 13, 2025

Charlie Kirk: Wanted Dead, Not Alive

Who Gets To Decide Which Violence Is “Political”?

Charlie Kirk: Wanted Dead, Not Alive

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Aug 11, 2025

Fuck Pete Buttigieg and Fuck Queer Assimilation

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A photo of Pete Buttigieg, a white man wearing a gray beanie and a gray jacket, smiling at the camera.

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Jul 7, 2025

The Devil’s Bargain: whiteness and the making of the modern age

When I was about 14, my parents took me on a cross country road trip across the US. The beauty I saw changed my life on that trip, but…

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Jun 19, 2025

My Trans Liberation from Enforced Womanhood

Or, how feminism, including transfeminism, is always about choice

My Trans Liberation from Enforced Womanhood

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May 3, 2025

Trans Resurrection

This was written on April 20th, 2025, Easter.

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Alex Petrovnia

Alex Petrovnia

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Poet, farmer, historian, gender theorist, child advocate, abolitionist, leftist, organizer. Kind not nice. Transmasc Genderfluid. Mad Neurodiverse Crip.

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