Gayla (they/them)

@actuallykla.bsky.social

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Strengthening community and staying kind. 🏳️‍🌈♾️🏳️‍⚧️

First-person view photo of my hand outstretched upward, holding an unbaked flatbread pepperoni pizza in front of the open, red-hot oven.
Screenshot of Tidal Music interface. YOUR MOST STREAMED ARTIST 1. Bad Bunny (369 streams) 2. Durry (163 streams) 3. Fonseca (121 streams) 4. Måneskin (98 streams) 5. Calle 13 (97 streams)
Black and white clip of Lucille Ball in the sitcom I Love Lucy, seated at a table, eating, and completely absorbed in reading a book titled THE MOCKINGBIRD MURDER MYSTERY. She makes exaggerated facial expressions and dramatically turns the page in suspense.
Grid of laid-out amd pinned-together granny squares made of shades of green, orange, beige, grey, dark grey, and one with purple hues. Sewing supplies in the background.
Loco in black, white, and green. The border shape is a puzzle piece with four of the squiggly bits emerging outward. It is divided into the left half green, right half black. Inside the border is a stylized drawing of a boy with his head lowered and a hand to his face, as if wiping a tear.
Photo at a downward angle of the lower portion of my car. Next to it, on the street, sad and disheveled and run over many times, is a gold paper Burger King crown.
Screenshot of an email I recieved. Subject line: Legislative Review: Hearing Change for 5/15/2025 "Hearing Cancellation Notification A hearing you have signed up to recieve notifications for has been cancelled. Please visit for more information." There's zero information on where to go for more information, nor which hearing this was for.
Closeup of the black metal pin with gold lettering that says THEY|THEM. Work flannel is shades of blue and white, very cozy. ORVIS brand lol
My hand holding the book The Echo Machine (How Right-Wing Extremism Created A Post-Truth America), David Pakman's new book!
Photo of a glass museum cabinet with the header "Impeachment" above it. The contents of the cabinet are barely visible behind a big blue sign that says "Case under redesign (history happens*)" [the * is for a QR code.] The blue sign details four presidents who have been impeached: Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon, William Clinton, Donald Trump, and Donald Trump.
Photo of the book's dedication: To Those Who Aspired and Paid the Price
Photo of a hardcover copy of GREEN, by Alex Gino. The book is sitting on my light-and-dark-green-striped crochet blanket. The book cover features the title in bold Broadway-like lights, and a white middle school kid with short green hair that covers one eye, a green tshirt, and green shorts with yellow stars. Their arms are lifted upward and they are smiling wide.
Photo of a printed poem, written by myself. Poem is as follows: "An Open Letter to Donald J. Trump People like to mock you with small details that do not matter. To me that’s all nothing but white-noise chatter. I don’t hate you because of your tiny hands, but because everything you mar with your signature brings death a little closer to me and my friends. I don’t hate you for your gnashing teeth- It's because every single word you speak incites violence against those with whom you disagree. I don’t care about your "huge crowds and rallies;" I care about the diet of ignorance and fear offered to this country and ingested by your peers. I don’t hate you because you’re the “Idiot-in-Chief.” All your moves are calculated; you’re a liar and a thief. I hate you, Donald Trump. I’ll scream it in the streets. I hate the very core of you. I can only hope we’ll have you beat."
Outdoor, sunny photo of a large glass of pureed strawberries with a big straw, and the book White Rage in the background, for my reading pleasure, all on a nice fluffy blanket.
Photo of a white person's right hand and wrist, wearing two beaded bracelets. The top one has blue, yellow, and red beads and the letters W W TL D. The second one (gift from someone else) has pink, blue, and heart-shaped beads and the word TRANS.
Hardcover copy of Speechless by Aron Nels Steinke. The graphic novel shows an embarrassed girl looking down at a notebook paper in front of a class of laughing kids.
Softcover copy of A World Worth Saving by Kyle Lukoff, held in front of the trans flag hanging on my living room wall.
Photo of my Monstera leaves, featuring a new, lighter green, still rolled-up leaf beginning to unfurl.
Photo of three softcover books on my couch. A World Worth Saving, by Kyle Lukoff (Advanced Readers Copy); A Snake Falls To Earth, by Darcy Little Badger; Weed: Cannabis Culture in the Americas, by Caitlyn Donohue .
Photo of my hand holding a can of Miller High Life, with a sticky note on it saying "Phil" in cursive, placed so the beer reads "Phil Miller High Life". There are four more cans in the fridge in the background with the same style sticky notes on them.
Photo of a paneled, white wooden interior door a few feet down the hallway. Around the door is a pink glow of light coming from behind it. The door is ajar. Not a jar, but not quite closed.
Hardback copy of Olivetti, by Allie Millington. Header text: "A boy, a typewriter, and the stories they hold." Illustration is on a black background; a grey typewriter with colorful flowers springing up from inside it.
Harback copy of WORK WHAT YOU GOT by Zion Clark and James S. Hirsch. Color photo of Zion, a Black man, in a hoodie that says DEFY ALL ODDS posed on a weight bench. The reader can see Zion's head and torso, and the pose accentuates how Zion describes in the book, "He has no legs."
Paperback copy of Chance- Escape from the Holocaust, by Uri Shulevitz (Memories of a refugee childhood by the Caldecott medalist). The cover illustration shows the remnants of a destroyed cityscape, and a truck transporting goods with someone peeking out from the truckbed.