A collection of queer, trans, progressive, and left leaning writers, artists, poets, and friends who are fighting for the freedom and expression of others.

Some places on the internet were built to extract. This one was built to gather. Thistle & Moss lives in the federated web — a Pixelfed instance breathing through the ActivityPub protocol, woven into the larger Fediverse like mycelium threading through old-growth soil. Behind it sits thistleandmoss.com, home of Wendy The Druid: a trans woman, a druid, a voice that doesn't soften its edges for comfort or for clout. This isn't Instagram with a politics filter slapped on. This is something older and more deliberate — a space where images carry weight, where the aesthetic of a moment matters as much as the moment itself. Seasonal ritual and hard political truth. Queer visibility and the kind of slow, grounded spiritual practice that the algorithm would never reward because it doesn't convert, it just sustains. The community here knows the difference between performance and presence. Between content and meaning. Between a brand and a calling. If you're tired of shouting into corporate-owned silence — if you want your visual world to reflect the actual texture of your life, your grief, your defiance, your oak tree in winter — you've found the grove.

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