These are the blog posts you read most often in 2025. This is no a “top” list because the majority of these posts are memorials about trans neighbors who died violent deaths in the United States. That’s a blunt fact. Don’t turn away from it. If I can write these memorials, you can read them.
If you are here to just read about lesbian stuff, you are at the wrong blog.
Still, four of these posts are tied to the resistance, one might say the antifa section of the blog. Three are from the Political Q&A Series that will be on hiatus in 2026.
One was about my impending divorce leaving me homeless, one was about pride festivals, one movie review, and one AMPLIFY Q&A. There’s a frequently read post about biphobia and another about marriage equality. A post I shared about a 1986 short film about lesbians has a quirky appeal.
Regular appearances from the 2022 decision by Nielsen Ratings to fire us as well as the ever popular post about Gen X shopping buggies.
This year is different because four of the posts in this list are about the death by suicide of my actual friend, Elisa Rae Shupe in January. The government refused to list a cause of death and I spent many hours trying to get someone in the media to share her truth. And it worked, but that process transferred some of her pain and trauma into my heart.
I noticed several posts from awhile back – the post about Alex Libby from the Movie Bully (2014), a post about the murder of two Black lesbians in Texas named Britney Cosby and Crystal Jackson (2015), the murder of Poe Black (2021), review of a Judy Bloom movie (2023), the GenX shoppig buggy (2022), and the deaths of Nex Benedict and Ra’Lasia Wright in separate incidents (2024). And Elisa’s 2016 contribution to the #AMPLIFY archive.
Being siloed as the blogger who memorializes anti-trans violence is a horrible development. Not only does it erase the important work led by trans folx, instead paying attention to the white cis lady, it suggests we can contain these important stories rather than exploring them as actual news. The erasure of trans and queer folx by the Federal government has been devastating to all memorialization work. Elisa’s death has reminded me of the personal and community toll. And survivor’s guilt.
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- I Knew Elisa Rae Shupe (1963-2025) and She Deserved Better
- Trans intersex US citizen Ezra Hulett, 24, brutally detained, then dies in a Dominican Republic immigration camp
- Brutal 2015 Murder of a Young Trans Woman in Columbus
- Idaho trans teen Onyx Cornish was shot to death by their father. They are at least the seventh trans victim of filicide in past decade
- Here are the Questions the Media Should Be Asking About the Death of Elisa Rae Shupe
- A Black Trans Woman Was Killed in Las Vegas in January. Now we know her name was Sasha Williams
- 31 year old Hairstylist and Black Trans Woman Kasí Rhea shot dead in Lynchburg, Virginia
- Black Trans Man Shy’Parius Dupree Shot to Death in Memphis
- Biracial Trans Man, Sam Nordquist, 24, Missing from Minnesota, Tortured and Killed in Canandaigua, New York
- 2023 Stabbing Death of Trans Woman Amira O’Neill Comes to Light in Michigan
- 29 Year Old Black Trans Woman Tahiry Broom Killed in Detroit
- “Feeling overwhelmed is the point. When you recognize this, you regain some power.” Sociologist Jennifer Walter’s Advice, resistance
- Status of missing Canton drag artist JJ Godbey now a homicide investigation with suspect in custody
- The 2025 Political Q&A Series: Sarra Terry, Candidate for Allegheny Court of Common Pleas
- Here’s the truth about housing after a divorce
- Trans Woman Hope Youngblood, 49, Killed on Los Angeles Highway
- Trans Latina Rosa Martinez Machuca, 24, Among Murder Victims of Target Shooting in Austin
- All the No Kings Oct 18 Events in the Pittsburgh Region
- Open Letter to UPMC From Staff Calling for Reinstatement of Gender-Affirming Healthcare for Youth and Adults Under 19
- What Happened to Poe Black, a 21-year-old Trans Man Killed in Slab City, California?
- We Were Fired as a Nielsen Family Because We Had COVID-19
- 25 year old Black trans woman fatally shot by boyfriend in St. Louis
- It matters that trans folx Sam Nordquist AND Tahiry Broom AND Elisa Rae Shupe died
- Black Trans Woman Kamora Woods, 27, Was Shot to Death in Indianapolis
- The Body of 25 Year Old Black Trans Woman Ervianna ‘Baydee’ Johnson Was Found Near a Pond in North Carolina
- On Trans Day of Visibility, Black Trans Woman Kaitoria ‘Kai’ Bankz, 31, Shot to Death.
- Whatever Happened to Alex Libby from the Movie Bully
- Black Trans Woman Dies From Multiple Gun Shot Wounds. Her name was Amyri Dior.
- 27-year-old Trans Cyclist Fatally Hit By a Car, Driver Leaves the Scene
- North Carolina Black Trans Woman Tiara Love Jackson Killed
- Trans Cherokee woman Aubrey Dameron, 25, was missing for six years. Her remains were found, but there are few answers
- Why I Disinvited Both Mayoral Candidates From the 2025 Political Q&A
- A 24 Year Old Black Trans Woman of Puerto Rican Descent Was Shot to Death in Minnesota. Her Name was Ra’Lasia Wright
- Cincinnati Black Trans Woman, Laura Schueler, Shot to Death
- Grieving Nex Benedict: the Brutal Killing of 16 year old Nonbinary Student in an Oklahoma High School
- Video: 1986 Short Film Focused on Three Lesbians
- Update on the Lives and Deaths of Britney Cosby and Crystal Jackson
- Trans woman of color who supported herself as a sex worker while living on the streets was killed by police when she called 911
- Our 2025 List of Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania Pride Festivals – Now up to 88
- 26 Year Old Drag Artist Missing from Canton, Ohio
- Will the Supreme Court Overturn Marriage Equality? What Does That Mean for Domestic Partnership
- Betty Who, Lesbophobia, and the Unacknowledged Trauma of Bisexual Erasure
- The 2025 Political Q&A Series: Judge Alyssa Cowan, Candidate for Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas
- Women Dressed as Handmaids Silently Follow GOP Congressman
- Two school districts, parents sue to dismantle Pennsylvania’s LGBTQ nondiscrimination protections
- Jamie, 52, Celebrates the Queer Tribe Rising #AMPLIFY
- Turnout for 22 No Kings Events in Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania. We are Golden. UPDATED
- Celebration of life, second autopsy planned for Trans Intersex US citizen Ezra Hulett who died in a Dominican Republic immigration detention center
- Review: ‘Are You There God, It’s Me Margaret?’ Is the Movie I Needed 40 Years Ago
- Remembering the Gen X Shopping Cart aka Buggy
Where did readers come from?
Which media outlets linked to us?
- unionprogress.com (Pittsburgh Union Progress)
- them.us
- syracuse.com (they broke the COD for Elisa)
- advocate.com
- Capital B News
- wesa.fm
- autostraddle
- public source
- Pittsburgh City Paper
- The Buckeye Flame
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