Steven Fenton
@sfenton424.bsky.social
(He/Him) Boston-based cinephile, literature nerd, and non-profit arts leader. @sfenton24 on all other socials.
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Trans rights is inherently a bodily autonomy issue. Just like abortion rights is. We can't have gender equity or reproductive freedom without trans rights. Full stop.
You can yell at me and make up shit that you claim I've said if it makes you feel better. I don't care. I'm right. And you know it.
You can yell at me and make up shit that you claim I've said if it makes you feel better. I don't care. I'm right. And you know it.
September 16, 2026 at 1:02 PM
Trans rights is inherently a bodily autonomy issue. Just like abortion rights is. We can't have gender equity or reproductive freedom without trans rights. Full stop.
You can yell at me and make up shit that you claim I've said if it makes you feel better. I don't care. I'm right. And you know it.
You can yell at me and make up shit that you claim I've said if it makes you feel better. I don't care. I'm right. And you know it.
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Ed Sheeran needs to learn that if you don’t “pick a side”, you’re picking the side of the oppressor.
Every single time.
It’s that simple.
Every single time.
It’s that simple.
September 16, 2026 at 11:08 AM
Ed Sheeran needs to learn that if you don’t “pick a side”, you’re picking the side of the oppressor.
Every single time.
It’s that simple.
Every single time.
It’s that simple.
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Great montage of one of Bob Mackie's signatures--the Cher unveilings, circa 1976.
September 14, 2026 at 7:53 PM
Great montage of one of Bob Mackie's signatures--the Cher unveilings, circa 1976.
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Can’t wait to boycott everything Harry Potter and everyone that’s involved. Call it what you want, but it still funds Joanne’s anti-trans rhetoric that will (and already does) hurt an entire part of our society. Everyone that has worked on it is complicit. Fuck, JK Rowling.
September 3, 2026 at 7:13 AM
Can’t wait to boycott everything Harry Potter and everyone that’s involved. Call it what you want, but it still funds Joanne’s anti-trans rhetoric that will (and already does) hurt an entire part of our society. Everyone that has worked on it is complicit. Fuck, JK Rowling.
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NEW: Seth Moulton lost. Good.
Moulton’s willingness to throw trans people under the bus in 2024 showed his character. It’s good he won’t be going to the Senate.
Today, at Law Dork:
Moulton’s willingness to throw trans people under the bus in 2024 showed his character. It’s good he won’t be going to the Senate.
Today, at Law Dork:
Seth Moulton lost. Good.
Moulton’s willingness to throw trans people under the bus in 2024 showed his character. It’s good he won’t be going to the Senate.
www.lawdork.com
September 2, 2026 at 4:40 PM
NEW: Seth Moulton lost. Good.
Moulton’s willingness to throw trans people under the bus in 2024 showed his character. It’s good he won’t be going to the Senate.
Today, at Law Dork:
Moulton’s willingness to throw trans people under the bus in 2024 showed his character. It’s good he won’t be going to the Senate.
Today, at Law Dork:
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Don’t fuck with trans kids in Massachusetts.
September 2, 2026 at 1:51 AM
Don’t fuck with trans kids in Massachusetts.
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If Tropical Storm Dolly becomes Hurricane Dolly and then hits land in Florida and takes out Mar-A-Lago, I will have no choice but to believe in God and Her superior sense of humor.
August 26, 2026 at 8:15 PM
If Tropical Storm Dolly becomes Hurricane Dolly and then hits land in Florida and takes out Mar-A-Lago, I will have no choice but to believe in God and Her superior sense of humor.
Haven't I had enough heartbreak this week?? 😭
Dear Annie, a popular natural wine bar in Cambridge, is shutting down later this month, with the owner citing operational challenges, motherhood, and a changing restaurant scene.
Dear Annie, Cambridge wine bar, to close as owner laments area’s increasingly corporate restaurant scene - The Boston Globe
The wine bar's last day will be July 31. The space will be used for bespoke events starting sometime in September.
trib.al
July 8, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Haven't I had enough heartbreak this week?? 😭
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Fundraising Match Announcement: All donations made to The Brattle through July 31 will be DOUBLED! Your generosity will help us cover the costs of the emergency closure over the 4th of July holiday weekend. Please donate now at brattlefilm.my.salesforce-sites.com/donate/?dfId=a0nJw00000U1WphIAF
July 7, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Fundraising Match Announcement: All donations made to The Brattle through July 31 will be DOUBLED! Your generosity will help us cover the costs of the emergency closure over the 4th of July holiday weekend. Please donate now at brattlefilm.my.salesforce-sites.com/donate/?dfId=a0nJw00000U1WphIAF
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An embarrassing and shameful oped in the NYT on the last day of pride month. These folks are gonna keep trying to split us up but their efforts are doomed to fail. We will not and cannot be separated
July 1, 2026 at 5:20 AM
An embarrassing and shameful oped in the NYT on the last day of pride month. These folks are gonna keep trying to split us up but their efforts are doomed to fail. We will not and cannot be separated
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Pride month is coming up and I cannot tell you enough, cis people, that the best thing you can do right now is stand up for trans people financially, publicly, and in any way you can think of so this witch hunt ends, once again, with bigots on the wrong side of history.
May 29, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Pride month is coming up and I cannot tell you enough, cis people, that the best thing you can do right now is stand up for trans people financially, publicly, and in any way you can think of so this witch hunt ends, once again, with bigots on the wrong side of history.
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Anyway, Joseph Kosinski has now directed more Best Picture nominees than David Lynch did, and that’s why the Oscars, as much as they delight and entertain us nerds every year, should never be taken to heart.
January 22, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Anyway, Joseph Kosinski has now directed more Best Picture nominees than David Lynch did, and that’s why the Oscars, as much as they delight and entertain us nerds every year, should never be taken to heart.
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I am once again asking.
Real talk: If Andrea Riseborough getting nominated when she wasn’t supposed to warrants an investigation, can we maybe look into the apparently ironclad rule that Best Song must always include a Diane Warren composition?
January 22, 2026 at 2:20 PM
I am once again asking.
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Hamnet is a superb film that shouldn't need defending, but apparently it does, so I'll just say that I can't count the number of Oscar seasons in which a movie labeled as "soft" or "manipulative" is attacked bc it putatively threatens the chances of a NOT-soft film that is at least as manipulative.
December 8, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Hamnet is a superb film that shouldn't need defending, but apparently it does, so I'll just say that I can't count the number of Oscar seasons in which a movie labeled as "soft" or "manipulative" is attacked bc it putatively threatens the chances of a NOT-soft film that is at least as manipulative.
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If trans kids can’t get hormone blockers, their bodies change permanently in ways that are profoundly disturbing to them. It isn’t a “they can decide when they’re grownups” situation. The blockers are what ALLOW them to decide later. Keeping blockers from trans kids is a cruel torture.
November 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
If trans kids can’t get hormone blockers, their bodies change permanently in ways that are profoundly disturbing to them. It isn’t a “they can decide when they’re grownups” situation. The blockers are what ALLOW them to decide later. Keeping blockers from trans kids is a cruel torture.
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this exists it is called thinking
September 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
this exists it is called thinking
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First Cole Escola beats George Clooney for a Tony. Now Jeff Hiller beats Harrison Ford for an Emmy. A chaotic gay moon is rising!
September 15, 2025 at 3:09 AM
First Cole Escola beats George Clooney for a Tony. Now Jeff Hiller beats Harrison Ford for an Emmy. A chaotic gay moon is rising!
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Einbinder on saying 'free Palestine' during her Emmys speech:
"It is my obligation as a Jewish person to distinguish Jews from the state of Israel. Our religion and our culture is such an important and long-standing institution that is really separate to this sort of ethnonationalist state."
"It is my obligation as a Jewish person to distinguish Jews from the state of Israel. Our religion and our culture is such an important and long-standing institution that is really separate to this sort of ethnonationalist state."
Hannah Einbinder ends her Emmys acceptance speech: "Go Birds, fuck ICE, and free Palestine."
September 15, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Einbinder on saying 'free Palestine' during her Emmys speech:
"It is my obligation as a Jewish person to distinguish Jews from the state of Israel. Our religion and our culture is such an important and long-standing institution that is really separate to this sort of ethnonationalist state."
"It is my obligation as a Jewish person to distinguish Jews from the state of Israel. Our religion and our culture is such an important and long-standing institution that is really separate to this sort of ethnonationalist state."
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I quite frankly don't know how to speak to people who call themselves Democrats + who've worked their entire lives in the Arts + yet continue to muck about with AI thinking it doesn't make them look like unethical pigs (and I just realized you can put Twitter into that sentence where AI is and same)
September 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I quite frankly don't know how to speak to people who call themselves Democrats + who've worked their entire lives in the Arts + yet continue to muck about with AI thinking it doesn't make them look like unethical pigs (and I just realized you can put Twitter into that sentence where AI is and same)
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So Blue Sky is turning out to have a policy of silencing transgender posts and transgender accounts.
So - for the record: J.K. Rowling is a hate filled monster. TERFS are not feminists, and the "LGBT needs to drop the T" people are traitors to the struggle for human rights.
So - for the record: J.K. Rowling is a hate filled monster. TERFS are not feminists, and the "LGBT needs to drop the T" people are traitors to the struggle for human rights.
August 21, 2025 at 2:38 PM
So Blue Sky is turning out to have a policy of silencing transgender posts and transgender accounts.
So - for the record: J.K. Rowling is a hate filled monster. TERFS are not feminists, and the "LGBT needs to drop the T" people are traitors to the struggle for human rights.
So - for the record: J.K. Rowling is a hate filled monster. TERFS are not feminists, and the "LGBT needs to drop the T" people are traitors to the struggle for human rights.
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RFK Jr. backs down all the time when he gets push back, so if anyone wants to call, here's the HHS number 1-877-696-6775.
I'd also call your senators/reps as well.
I'd also call your senators/reps as well.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces he will cancel $500 million in vaccine development projects.
August 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
RFK Jr. backs down all the time when he gets push back, so if anyone wants to call, here's the HHS number 1-877-696-6775.
I'd also call your senators/reps as well.
I'd also call your senators/reps as well.
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"[U]nlike ... Andrew Cuomo—the serially accused sexual predator and current legal counsel to war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu—Mamdani wasn't backed by billionaires or towering figures of the Democratic establishment like former President Bill Clinton (also a serially accused sexual predator)."
If Democrats didn’t loathe their own base, they would see Mamdani as an opportunity, as they struggle to "appeal to anyone beyond Liz Cheney and a handful of geriatric MSNBC viewers who love the status quo but think Donald Trump is a little mean": @kylietcheung.bsky.social for @prismreports.org
Democrats and Zionists target Zohran Mamdani
As young, diverse voters rally behind Zohran Mamdani’s bold agenda, Democrats and Zionists respond with old tactics of performative victimhood and racism
prismreports.org
July 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM
"[U]nlike ... Andrew Cuomo—the serially accused sexual predator and current legal counsel to war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu—Mamdani wasn't backed by billionaires or towering figures of the Democratic establishment like former President Bill Clinton (also a serially accused sexual predator)."
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Good morning, America. We have concentration camps in our country. If that is not freaking you out, you're not paying attention.
July 2, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Good morning, America. We have concentration camps in our country. If that is not freaking you out, you're not paying attention.
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I laughed so hard I dropped my phone into the abyss under the ottoman
July 1, 2025 at 12:52 AM
I laughed so hard I dropped my phone into the abyss under the ottoman
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Do not ever do this under any circumstances. You will be held to the actual contract, not the AI summary, and the AI summary has no way of knowing which terms you might personally care about or have questions about. Dooooo notttttt dooooo thissssss.
I just received a contract on Docusign for review and signing, and it offered to give me an AI-generated summary that I could read instead to save time.
That's AN AI-GENERATED SUMMARY ***OF A CONTRACT***, in case you need to let that sink in.
That's AN AI-GENERATED SUMMARY ***OF A CONTRACT***, in case you need to let that sink in.
June 30, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Do not ever do this under any circumstances. You will be held to the actual contract, not the AI summary, and the AI summary has no way of knowing which terms you might personally care about or have questions about. Dooooo notttttt dooooo thissssss.