tekla 💜✨

@tekla.bsky.social

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writer, artist, feminist, fancy. dedicated to reproductive freedom, LGBTQ+ liberation, and racial justice. professionally trans over at A4TE, but all views shared here = my own.

Achewood comic “guess who just got yelled at”!!
Very cute baby grins, showing two wee teeth, with scrambled egg crumbies on her face
Adorable fat baby in a fruit romper grins
to sully a man's good name what dirties a man is not: the photographs of wives he beat nor stifling her screams. everyone does it. how dare her black eye look accusing! how could she when we know boys break their toys and bury them. men break their wives. some bury them. oh sweetheart, it's the way of the world. don't get so angry.
A vintage 1950s ad of a happy lady having like a Disney princess moment with a little bird that says “to wake up GAY in the morning”
STOP DOING • TASKS WERE NOT MEANT TO BE ACHIEVABLE • YEARS OF DOING and yet THERE ARE STILL even more TASKS TO BE DONE • Want to work anyway, for a laugh? We had a tool for that: it was called "SIMULATION GAMES" • "Yes, I have ENERGY to spend working. I am going to FINISH my TODO LIST" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged
a lady in a painting doing a severely depressed facepalm
How Gentle Measures operate. By the gentle measures, then, which are to be here discussed and recommended, are meant such as do not react in a violent and irritating manner, in any way, upon the extremely delicate, and almost embryonic condition of the cerebral and nervous organization, in which the gradual development of the mental and moral faculties are so intimately involved. They do not imply any, the least, relaxation of the force of parental authority, or any lowering whatever of the standards of moral obligation, but are, on the contrary, the most effectual, the surest and the safest way of establishing the one and of enforcing the other.
Tekla and Louisa pose at the wedding and L is sooo handsome in her tux
Tekla wears a vintage-inspired silk dress they made
baby margles sits in her swing doing a big grin. she’s wearing an absurd cupcake ruffly dress that was given to toddler Louisa somewhere around 1985 by her grandmother
unreasonably cute baby margles (aka bug, aka buggums, aka bugtina nugalina) sits on a homemade quilt looking pensive (bc teeth)
Chunky baby has perfect fat cheeks and chin
Baby Margles lays on a flowered blanket wearing a peach print romper (which has a PEACH ON THE BUTT BTW!!) being cute
tekla looks at the camera in their pink vest
Margot grins and wears a super cute bear hat that KT and I made
Micah’s Star Trek chart
One of Erte’s drawings which is so so queer - an androgynous person wears an outfit that is half a wedding dress and half a tux!
the prettiest baby in the world tbh, with frankly gigantic crystal blue eyes, long eyelashes, and an anime blush on her round lil nose and cheeks
photo from Tekla and L’s wedding. L is dapper in a navy tux with blush vest and silk ascot, and i am wearing the same 1954 silk organza dress that my mom also wore in 1985 and that I wore in 2022. it has gorgeous lace detailing, a soft rustling skirt, and a nipped-in waist.
Baby Margot grins mid-squeal, her duck fluff hair sticking out around her head. her onesie does have little bugs on it
Tekla smooches luca
a cute cosplayer dressed as Daenerys ears a candy heart to reenact the GOT scene where she is a badass and has to eat a horse heart for magic reasons. Tekla is wearing soft pretty glam, Margaery Tyrell drag. I’m really sad I can’t find a better pic of the dress which was/is lovely!!
tekla looks into the mirror wearing a vintage bob mackie silk shirt, alpaca scarf, and wide leg jeans
Why, by then, in the long twilights, in the hard work of planting and watering, of watching and waiting, by then we may have understood what we can't now imagine, desperate as we are about the white wall, the holes in the shape of a man, the mark they wanted to leave us, the line terror taught us to trace--so different from the one that he left, the one whose shape left its trace in the heart, the balcony open, the long spill of stars in the sky, the track of creation's milky tongue, and, listen--the shift and seethe of the sap forcing its slow way toward the branching twigs--the ear-splitting crack as the end is riven by budding--a salt breeze in the orchard, the small leaves trembling with light. Read the whole poem!!!
baby margles looks angelically at the camera while wearing a FOX HAT, being held by her aunt Kylie
baby margles strikes a pose at the orthopedist office after we got cleared to take her club feet brace off during the day and she only has to wear it at night now!! she is wearing a cozy brown teddy bear sweater and pink overalls
Tekla holds baby margles who is wearing a cuddly soft bear suit!!! I’m wearing a very gorgeous vintage teal wool coat and a heliotrope purple alpaca scarf that my mom got me for Xmas. fuck ice btw
These dissident voices agreed that important demographic changes were taking place but perceived that "race suicide" represenated a particular spin on those changes, deflecting attention from alternative meanings. Indeed, "race suicide" was worse than a spin—it was a red herring. It was a way of refusing to accept the implications of democracy without clearly rejecting democracy. It provided a focus for distress among business and professional classes about the growth of working-class and nonwhite groups and about shifts in family and gender patterns produced by industrialization and the feminist movement. Since traditional religious and moral scruples, and belief that the economic system needed population growth, would not allow seeking remedy by urging birth control upon the poor, the alarmists turned in the other direction and asked prosperous women to restore upper-class families to a competitive size. Women became the scapegoats.
Re-evaluating these race-suicide tenets demonstrates several things about the historical trajectory of change. Although shifts of the greatest magnitude were taking place, they had been occurring for so long that it would be hard to attribute them to the influence of an organized feminist movement. The birth-rate differential was in fact only a lag. The race-suicide alarm was due partly to the impact of immigration—the sudden and massive introduction of people from rural and preindustrial situations. The societal changes that make large families no longer advantageous-the high cost of education, food, and rent, and the end of productive child labor—took time, often a whole gener-ation, before they produced new family values. Parents' willingness to accept small families required their understanding that children would not provide them security in their old age, either because their children would be unwilling or unable to do so or, later, because their security would come from other sources.
The World Split Open: How the Modern Women’s Movement Changed America, by Ruth Rosen
Baby Margot wears a cute green knit outfit and holds hands with Tekla
baby Margot looks at camera thoughtfully
Tekla smooches baby Margot who is grinning
Hazel cat gets skritches
With the advent of the Internet, the lines of connection between us grew stronger. One 1990s ad in Transgender Tapestry magazine drew attention to "over 1,000 transgender internet sites." Today, social media is both a powerful tool and a dangerous minefield. The final posts of one teenage trans girl, talented gaming artist Charlotte Fosgate, were viciously mocked online after her tragic loss from suicide. At the same time, we often rely on social media to share the stories of lost loved ones and pressure the authorities to remember them accurately.
This administration has aggressively targeted trans people, seeking to force the nation back to an imaginary time where people like us didn’t exist—where gender is a prison to cage us, instead of a canvas to express our true selves.
We are in an extraordinary moment in the fight for trans lives and greater gender freedom for all. For the trans community and our allies, many of the vicious attacks threatened by President Trump's 2024 campaign have come to pass. Officials in the highest levels of our government are constantly spreading misinformation and lies about trans people, as well as directly calling for violence against us. This administration has attacked trans healthcare research and access, dismantled protections for LGBTQl+ youth in schools, censored the very mention of trans people from our nation's history and federal resources, and much more.
As we remember those lost to violence, we also grieve their stolen futures. Their stories shine through the words of their loved ones, who remember their passions for music and art; their love of partners, friends, and pets; their talents for community organizing or fashion or ballroom or journalism or computer science. As trans people, living openly as ourselves often requires immense courage-and that courage inspires others to live more fully and authentically. As one relative of Kelsey Elem, a 25-year-old Black trans woman from Missouri who we lost this year, said, "watching [Kelsey] grow into her confidence and share it with the world was a blessing." When we lose trans people, everyone loses so much.
fat-cheeked baby peers at you
Luca being handsome af as Gomez
Gomez and morticia looking sultry af
Luca and Tekla and baby margles in our Addams family costumes
Tekla snuggles their fairy baby
Tekla is dressed as a glamorous sparkly mermaid and looks at tiny baby Margles who is wearing a golden mermaid costume
Louisa, in a onesie with frog eyes, holds a sign saying Frogs Against Fascism. Our very cute baby is also wearing a frog outfit with a button saying TADPOLES AGAINST TYRANNY
Tekla and Miss Major smile together.
Tekla stands with their handsome butch wife
cute baby blows kiss at camera
very cute baby enjoys nana snuggles
my very cute baby looks up at the camera
The bottleneck affected mission-critical work as well. Two days after catastrophic floods inundated Central Texas this summer, FEMA did not answer nearly two-thirds of calls to its disaster-assistance line, the New York Times reported, because Noem had not renewed a contract for hundreds of workers at call centers. And in September, Ted Budd, a Republican senator from North Carolina, threatened to filibuster Homeland Security nominees until the department stops "stonewalling" payments for the recovery efforts stemming from Hurricane Helene last year.
tiny nurse mice prepare a cartoonishly giant injection, bc this scene from the rescuers down under is literally all I can think about when Trump is like VAXX TOO BIG
Caravaggio’s David with the head of Goliath
cute baby looks astonished
a cute baby wearing a sushi outfit
Famous vanity fair cover of 1993 with a super hot butch kd lang being shaved by Cindy Crawford
baby Margot, cradled in Tekla’s hands, looks at the camera with very beautiful starry eyes