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D'Anne Witkowski

D'Anne Witkowski is a writer living in Michigan with her wife and son. She has been writing about LGBTQ+ politics for nearly two decades. Follow her on Twitter @MamaDWitkowski.

Life Under Trump Was Not Better and I Promise You It Will Be Even Worse If He Wins 

As Nov. 5 approaches, I, for one, am dreading the election and at the same time yearning for it to be over. The result is that I am suspended in a purgatory of sorts, where time moves simultaneously ever so slowly and at light speed.I was at my [...]

Don’t Let Donald Trump Dunk the United States in Boiling Oil. Vote, For the Love of Monét.

I’m in Philadelphia visiting my sister as I write this. I arrived yesterday, the same day that disgraced former president and super-felon Donald Trump made a campaign appearance at a McDonald’s franchise in order to make French fries. He [...]

Donald Trump and Republicans Banking on Anti-Trans Attacks to Win This Election

As I write this, I am watching the Detroit Lions game against the Dallas Cowboys with my son. Football is not my thing. That is an understatement considering it perpetuates misogyny and toxic masculinity. But my 15-year-old son loves it. Watching [...]

Trump and Vance: Immigrants Are to Blame for Everything Wrong, Don’t Fact Check Us

It’s almost midnight on a Sunday and I really, really wish that I was fast asleep but, alas, I am not. And it sucks.My battle with insomnia has been going on for years now. And every single thing I’ve tried has not worked. But [...]

Log Cabin Republicans Think LGBTQ+ People Have It Too Good In America

I have long had nothing but contempt for Log Cabin Republicans. But after reading LCR President Charles Moran’s opinion piece in Newsweek, my immediate response was, “Oh, fuck off.”The Trump Administration was one of the most [...]

Mark Robinson Is Emblematic of the Hypocrisy of the Entire Republican Party

For the past few years, I’ve heard people say Republicans have a “candidate quality” problem. In other words, that Republicans are losing races or are having to fight much harder than they have in the past to protect safe Republican [...]

Donald Trump Hates Taylor Swift, Loves Laura Loomer. We'll See How That Works Out For Him.

OK, so let me see if I have this right. Disgraced former president Donald Trump hates Taylor Swift, one of the most beloved people in the country.Swift, as I am sure you know, has endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris. So now Trump has declared [...]

Evil Isn’t Real. Guns and Murder Are. Yet Republicans Do Nothing.

I don’t believe in evil. When people commit horrific acts there are always those who claim that such acts are “evil.” They are not. They are human.I object to the use of “evil” because it’s a cop out. If I call a [...]

Trump’s Claim That Transgender Kids Get Surgeries At School Should Disqualify Him From Office

Can we all just agree that Donald Trump is the absolute worst?Haha. I kid. Not about him being the worst. He is trash. But I know that we cannot all agree on this fact. And that definitely makes me fearful for the future of this country.I have been [...]

Republicans Vow to Ruin Transgender Lives at the Expense of Everything Else

Say what you want about Republicans, but thank god somebody is out there protecting women from the transgender agenda.What’s the transgender agenda, you ask? It’s all about existing. Or at least that’s what they want you to think. [...]

U.S. Supreme Court to Queer Kids in Red States: You Don’t Matter.

What if I told you that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the Biden Administration’s rule protecting LGBTQ+ students from discrimination in schools must be enforced in all 50 states? That would be pretty incredible, wouldn’t it?And by [...]

I'm Heavily Into How Tim Walz Scares Conservatives

It’s 4 in the morning, and I’m up eating a bowl of Froot Loops and strongly considering getting heavily into transgender. That’s what disgraced former president and convicted felon Donald Trump said about Democratic Party vice [...]