The room laughed yesterday because everyone knew the speech was fiction—the administration's performance of care while the policy enacts erasure. Urvashi Vaid spent thirty years naming that gap with a lawyer's precision and a queer woman of color's refusal to accept survival as the ceiling of ambition.

The deleted webpages are not the war. The war is the assumption that we will disappear quietly if the pressure is consistent enough.

They stripped "transgender" and "queer" from Stonewall National Monument's digital presence. Quietly—the way you erase a pencil drawing when you think no one's watching. But you don't erase a people by deleting their metadata. This plundering corrupt cabal does not get to keep the word empathy. It forfeited that one.

A story is not gone until the last person carrying it is gone. We're still here.

https://twp.ai/4hr1c3

#LGBTQHistory #Queer #Erasure #Archives #Resilience #UrvashiVaid #Stonewall #NationalArchives #DigitalPreservation #Community #Memory #Resistance #Survival #Identity #History #Documentation #Activism #QueerRights #Legacy #Witness #Truth #Power #Justice #Hope #Endurance

Courage in C Major Needed At Watertown High School, Band Students Must Perform “A Mother Of A Revolution”

Something is chilling about learning that a Wisconsin school board is debating whether a piece of music, without lyrics, should be publicly performed. Students have spent months practicing the piece, which was composed as a dedication to a transgender activist and a prime mover of the Stonewall uprising. I read about this latest bizarre culture war story on my iPad and got up to turn my computer on. This story begs to be addressed. Watertown High School band students have spent months […]

https://caffeinatedpolitics.com/2026/05/07/courage-in-c-major-needed-at-watertown-high-school-band-students-must-perform-a-mother-of-a-revolution/

Day 124
#365project

#MonochromeMonday + #MinimalismMonday

This might be cutting it close with regard to minimalism but I think it kinda works.






#monochrome #bnw #bw #blackandwhite #noiretblanc #blackandwhitephotography #minimalistic #minimalism #minimalistisch #minimalismus #minimal #minimalist #highcontrast #stairway #staircase #leadinglines #stonewall #moody #photography #Fotografie #amateurphotography

Elizabeth Castle, eine Festung aus dem 16. Jahrhundert, liegt auf einer Gezeiteninsel vor Saint Helier, Jersey. Das Bild zeigt die Anlage bei Ebbe, als die felsige Küstenlinie und der Meeresgrund freigelegt sind.

#NikonZ6 #NikonZ #Nikon Z 6 | 14mm | f/9 | 1/320s | 14/04/2026

#hess_photography #Photography #Fotografie #Landscapephotography #Landschaftsfotografie #rockycoast #tidallandscape #historicfortress #cloudysky #coastalarchitecture #stonewall #barnacles #lowtide #island #Jersey

#SilentSunday #stonewall #nature
I like following the stone walls through our property and beyond. I have no idea who built them and why. In my rural town (est. 40 sq mi) there are hundreds of miles of old stone walls. The amount of labor involved is just incredible! On my southern boarder wall, an interesting transition happens. The wall stops at a ledge then is continued at the top of the ledge ( see pics).

#FotoVorschlag: Natur in der Stadt // Nature in the city

📍 Christ Church War Memorial Garden, #Oxford


#garden #Garten #Steinmauer #stoneWall #stoneWalls #cityscape #urban