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[littleacebee]

Today is International Podcast Day so I decided to finally go on Podchaser and create list with all the podcasts I listened to. Behold – Littleacebee’s Big Podcast List!

Podchaser

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All the podcasts I extremely enjoyed and highly recommend, so if you are looking for a recommendation or wonder what podcasts I have listened to or want to recommend me something, feel invited to take a look.

[cosmikazie]

hey remember when people said we gotta keep talking about this and then two days passed and it just went quiet. anyways

[socio-logic]

“If a society puts half its children into short skirts and warns them not to move in ways that reveal their panties, while putting the other half into jeans and overalls and encouraging them to climb trees, play ball, and participate in other vigorous outdoor games; if later, during adolescence, the children who have been wearing trousers are urged to “eat like growing boys,” while the children in skirts are warned to watch their weight and not get fat; if the half in jeans runs around in sneakers or boots, while the half in skirts totters about on spike heels, then these two groups of people will be biologically as well as socially different. Their muscles will be different, as will their reflexes, posture, arms, legs and feet, hand-eye coordination, and so on. Similarly, people who spend eight hours a day in an office working at a typewriter or a visual display terminal will be biologically different from those who work on construction jobs. There is no way to sort the biological and social components that produce these differences. We cannot sort nature from nurture when we confront group differences in societies in which people from different races, classes, and sexes do not have equal access to resources and power, and therefore live in different environments. Sex-typed generalizations, such as that men are heavier, taller, or stronger than women, obscure the diversity among women and among men and the extensive overlaps between them… Most women and men fall within the same range of heights, weights, and strengths, three variables that depend a great deal on how we have grown up and live. We all know that first-generation Americans, on average, are taller than their immigrant parents and that men who do physical labor, on average, are stronger than male college professors. But we forget to look for the obvious reasons for differences when confronted with assertions like ‘Men are stronger than women.’ We should be asking: ‘Which men?’ and ‘What do they do?’ There may be biologically based average differences between women and men, but these are interwoven with a host of social differences from which we cannot disentangle them.”

— Ruth Hubbard, “The Political Nature of ‘Human Nature’“ (via gothhabiba)

Yes.

[crazy-pages]

Here, have a study (x) showing that mothers underestimate their daughter’s physical capacity from as young as 11 months old (though in reality it’s identical to that of their son’s at the same age). And if you think that parents acting on those expectations won’t alter their children’s development, then I have a sloped bridge to sell you.

[iceandrain]

archive of the “The Political Nature of ‘Human Nature” link

[girldraki]

[leavethepuddle]

@sarumans

[nessimaki-deactivated20141106]

[dialupmodern]

Babe, you okay? you reblogged “and we were nice to each other” like 12 times again

[ateazure]

"and the universe said i love you."

[soosmain]

And the universe said i love you

[salbertwolf]

Christina Koch (Mission Specialist), Artemis II - April 6th 2026

[anxeious]

this is making me emotional

[the-lost-archivist]

'im gay'

'im straight'

well I get the body in the coffin in the ground on time

[free-queer-books]

Trans Rights Readathon 2026: March 17-31

The Trans Rights Readathon is back this year! It's an event to support trans, nonbinary, 2Spirit, and gender-nonconforming authors. The organizers encourage everyone to read books by these authors and/or featuring trans, nonbinary, 2Spriit, and gender non-conforming characters.

For more information on the event: https://transrightsreadathon.carrd.co/

I'll be sharing at least one free book each day for the event. If you read one of these, or one of the other free books below, please support the author by leaving a review! With so many AI books flooding the ebook space, I and many other readers rely on reviews to figure out which books are written by real people.

To start, here are some previously-shared books that are still free:

Anthologies

Blood Samples by Xine Fury - Short stories in a shared universe. Includes both trans women and trans men.

Courage is a Gift: and other stoies by and about transgender, nonbinary, and genderqueer people - multigenre short story collection.

Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom: A Transfeminine Anthology - Sampler covering a variety of genres. All authors are transfeminine.

Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Authors - Pay-if-you-can collection of 25 speculative fiction stories.

Trans Rites: An Anthology of Genderfucked Horror presented by The Dionysian Public Library - "eleven bizarre tales of transition and transformation, beastliness and becoming."

Authors

Trismegistus Shandy has many stories in a variety of genres with strong trans themes.

Johannes T. Evans, a trans man, has free nonfiction essays and fiction in a variety of genres.

K.A. Cook, an agender author writing stories with aromantic characters, has collected all of hir stories with transgender protagonists.

Short stories

A Magnolia Dies and Blooms by H.R. Wolfe - Trans man joins alligator gar against his bigoted hometown. Author is trans.

Friends of the Damned by Vincent Lore - Gothic horror short story with a trans man protagonist. Author is a trans man.

HRTeeth by A.L. Thorne - Dental horror short story with a trans man protagonist.

Novellettes and novellas

A Strip of Velvet by Rien Gray - Cis woman huntress/nonbinary Lord of the Hunt. Author is nonbinary.

Band Girls by yves. - Erotic realistic fiction story with a trans lesbian main character. Author is a gender absinent transfeminist.

Cicerone by Oskar Leonard - Nonbinary guide to a magical city gets caught up in a murder investigation. Author is trans.

Equals at the Mansion by Vivian Redwood - queer polyamorous romantasy with a trans woman main character. Author is genderqueer.

The Forester by Blaine D. Arden - Elf must solve a murder to save his ex-lover and their mutual crush. Nonbinary love interest. Author is nonbinary.

Lantern's Glow by Anemone Moss - Nonbinary streamer in the 2060s follows an alien message. Author is a trans lesbian.

Last Gasp by Emily Reisback - Romance between a human man and a nonbinary alien as the world ends.

Lucas by MJ James - Trans man accidentally turns into a vampire and has to cope with not being able to medically transition + vampire politics. Author is nonbinary and transmasc.

Novels

Body After Body by Briar Ripley Page - From the book's summary, "Body After Body is the lurid, dreamlike, amoral queer/trans sci-fi trash literature at least four or five people have been waiting for."

Cary Sims: The Fairy Mushroom Forest by Cassandra Morphy - Trans girl goes to secret magical school.

Coffee and Faerie Cakes by Laura Simmons - Cozy romance between a nonbinary fae running a café and a trans man customer/thief.

Pixel by Lexa Chara Meadows - Agender loner hacker meets aromantic woman and gets dragged on an adventure. Author is nonbinary.

Self-Made by M. Darusha Wehm - Cyberpunk story with a heavily transmasc-coded victim and a stealth trans character (not the villain). Author is agender.

Silent Truth by Samuel York - Closeted gay homicide detective questions stealth trans man realtor who keeps finding dead bodies in his show houses.

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg - Key lesbian and transgender novel by a trans author.

Poetry

Any Fruit but Oranges by Callixta/Calix King - Poetry written between 2015 and 2025. Author is bigender and trans.

Entering Existence by creatures critters - Poetry chapbook about plurality by transfem authors.

Zines

Assigned [] At Birth by versegm - zine on the intersection of being nonbinary and intersex.

Before Nonbinary by cosmo crouch - Zine of historical figures who may have been nonbinary or gender non-conforming if they had modern terminology to describe themselves.

How to Question Your Gender Without Going Insane by Isaac James - Short zine about questioning gender as a genderqueer person.

A Rose by Any Other Name - zine with contributions from several authors about their chosen names.

Visibility: An RPG Magazine from the Trans Community - Games, stories and art by trans creators. The first issue is free to download.

Others

Mage By Blood by Theodore Snapdragon - Posted chapter-by-chapter for free on Royal Road. Has a queer trans man lead character.

whatever.odt by JD O'Meara - memoir about being genderqueer.

[dannimatic]

i drew this for my girlfriend and she told me to post it here

[everythingwsnormalhere]

PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD IF YOU HATE THE NEW UPDATE REBLOG THIS POST

[ PT; please for the love of god if you hate the new update reblog this post ]

I am organizing a lights out protest on tumblr, from March 20th 6AM UTC until March 21st 6AM UTC. It is best if as many tumblr users as possible can join this protest, as a mass downtime in users is the only way the tumblr staff will listen to us.

If you cherish this hellsite, participate. Do your bit. Every person counts.

Thank you for reading, and to @staff @changes: give us our tumblr back, or the people will migrate somewhere else. This is a threat.

[bardace]

Shut Up, I Don’t Care

[julia--blake]

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/opinion/ukraine-war-cold.html

Jenya Polosina (@polosunya) and Anna Ivanenko live and work in Kyiv. They co-founded Seri/graph Studio.

Originally posted by polosunya on Instagram

[oury-boros]

this valentine's day, remember: rudyard funn warded off a childhood sweetheart plotline via his overpowering aromantic aura. may we all share in his strength o7

[charcoalowl]