personal updates and kangaroos
Added 2025-07-13 22:46:26 +0000 UTCHope you’re all hanging in there. I’ve been running around all week, so here’s a little personal update why not. This week, I:
played 4+ hours of softball and hit two triples :)
melted a new Chapstick all over two of my favorite shirts :(
saw a guy named “Taco Meat” hit a walk-off single to win a Portland Pickles game :)
saw 7 dog-friends and 3 cat-friends and 5 human-baby-friends (and my old boss and my hot ex and four wonderful former roommates and two friends who gave me free coffee that their respective café jobs) :)
ate two Nutri-Taco burritos :)
cancelled my health insurance and then received this letter from my insurance ? :( ? :( ?
Photo: A real letter from the NY State of Health that says my insurance is ending because I'm currently incarcerated in a correctional facility.
What…. what do they know?????? Am I going to meet Luigi fr. (Also, does anyone know how to get health insurance that covers anything lolololol.)
Anyway, we are still working on the July Reveal & Conceal episodes; it might get a little down to the wire but they will happen, surely!! We are trying! In the meantime, here’s Links & Stuff.
Three sizes of Dean Spade content:
ICE:
How to find someone after a US immigration arrest
N+1 reporting from an ICE job fair: “The motivating force behind American career fascism would appear to be wanderlust”
Meanwhile, ICE is searching medical bill databases and patrolling sports practices to find deportation targets. (Shout out to that quick-thinking baseball coach!)
Prison:
A beautiful spotlight on solidarity gardens (thanks to Mariame Kaba’s newsletter for this link and others!)
Incarcerated readers are creating their own Little Free Libraries against the odds
Meanwhile, incarcerated letter-writers are busting out the thesaurus to get around stringent censorship
Tuck’s Creature Corner:
Protest at the 101-year pet parade! Also, what is a kangaroo doing there???? Kangaroos are no joke lol.
That’s it for this week. Here’s your Weekly Rhubarb featuring Puffin, courtesy of my roommate.
Photo: Ruby sitting and receiving pets while Puffin lays belly-up in the background, expectantly.
Please send your favorite kangaroo videos!!!
Xo,
Yr resident gender detective
Comments
Also that letter is wild wtf
Crikkett Young
2025-07-14 11:39:55 +0000 UTCWow, congrats on the triples! I am genuinely impressed. Also jealous bc I'm 3 weeks out from top surgery and can't do literally anything.
Crikkett Young
2025-07-14 11:39:40 +0000 UTCThank you for the Ice updates. I do follow trustworthy outlets covering it, but you still add news I haven't heard of yet; whenever you have space to do it, not an expectation. Just wanted to say I appreciate it. Also, Ruby ❤️🩶🤍🤎🖤🩷🩵🧡💛💚💙💜.
Kai Lewen
2025-07-13 23:34:15 +0000 UTC
