“I’ve been wanting to celebrate Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera’s lives for a long time, as they broke such important ground in both defining trans as a lived identity and for connecting it (and insisting on that connection) to…
Transgender Bathroom Bill Blues – new song
Transgender Bathroom Bill Blues Goin down South for some grits and eggsYou better learn to cross your legsCause they don’t want you in the W. C.They got all kinds of problems with you and me Seems like we never did…
Help get Marius out of Carswell
Greetings, The campaign to Fight Toxic Prisons will be hosting its second annual national convergence this Summer! Last year’s convergence gathered activists and revolutionaries from across the country to explore the intersections of the environmental movement and the struggle to…
Marius Mason self-portrait
Help with Marius’ cats vet bills
Please help us raise funds for Marius’ cats vet bills. Click here to donate Peace is the sweetest of the five cats Marius had to leave behind. He was born with a neurological problem, most likely caused by an infection…
Seen This Before (new poem by Marius)
Seen This Before Once on a snowy Detroit street, I saw a dog I knew Crouched, tail-tucked and teeth-bared, Freezing and arrested in the the road The Pound’s truck parked Engine running, door flung open And a man in uniform,…
Melomys Rubicola. . .Good Night
The story is a sad one. This tiny mammal, Melomys Rubicola, used to live on a little island in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. It was the only place in the world where they lived, but they could not survive the…
Melomys Rubicola. . .Good Night
The story is a sad one. This tiny mammal, Melomys Rubicola, used to live on a little island in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. It was the only place in the world where they lived, but they could not survive the…
Lou Sullivan painting
Lou Sullivan was an organizer, an advocate for civil rights for both the gay and trans communities – and an unabashed commentator when the two communities refused to have each other’s backs and emphasized points of divergence rather than their…