casandra (cass) saldaña

@mxcatnap

trans femme wetlands queer in RI / ME data librarian, hooper, sometimes writer rock skipper, lynx fan, creature appreciator 💪🏼🌸 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ cass-ws.com

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casandra (cass) saldaña@mxcatnap· 20d

feels good lynx fam!!!! #wnba

McBride patting Phee’s head in a huddle with Miles and Tash coming in too!

casandra (cass) saldaña@mxcatnap· 22d

cheryl reeve and sophie cunningham on what it means to uplift and protect #wnba

Andrew Dukowitz
@adukeMN
X.com
Cheryl Reeve on the trans sports bans from her perspective of being a leader in women's sports
"Of course it weighs on me, the attacks on trans people, the attacks that they've gone through... it seems like it's got way more aggressive, it's sort of sickening when the issues they are trying to tackle are really not issues, the number of transgender athletes they are now making laws for and creating a problem, to get elected...what I'm hopeful for is that people have gotten themselves more educated and they understand that, that's not actually a problem... exclusion is never the answer, separate isn't equal, and trans lives matter, so to take away something that's so valuable that sports brings to young people in particular and what it does, as I have a youngster, encourages you to be part of a team and what it gives you in terms of teamwork, leadership, competitiveness, all the things, they have every right to that as well"

Sophie Cunningham article on ESPN.com: You say she's a "MAGA Barbie," as some corners of the internet have taken to calling her? Projection, she says, because of what she looks like and where she's from. She'll weigh in on how to "protect women's sports," she says, because she's in that world and feels qualified to speak to that world. "I got a lot of negative feedback about me hating trans. And I'm like, 'I never once said that,'" she says. "I think that I am here to extend love. But I also think with that love is truth, being honest. And I want to protect young girls in a locker room, or young girls in sport who shouldn't have to go against biological men."

cherly reeve wearing a shirt with a pride flag on it, yelling with passion from the sidelines.

Sophie Cunningham grabbing the head and hair of Jacy Sheldon with a look of violent concentration on her face, as players try to separate the two.

casandra (cass) saldaña@mxcatnap· Jul 3

doing the beach thing!! 🔪🌸🔪

white latine trans woman wearing a floral and turquoise bikini in a mirror selfie, with the caption “ok heat u win I am Participating”

casandra (cass) saldaña@mxcatnap· Jun 27

good kitty ☀️

A white and brown senior Aegean cat smiling as they lounge and stretch out on a human’s black dress. Happy kitchen clutter lines the background and an open kitchen door lets the sun in.

casandra (cass) saldaña@mxcatnap· Jun 25

what are you thinking about, sunset marsh heron

casandra (cass) saldaña@mxcatnap· Jun 20

Listening to Nona on the porch. It is time!!!

The Libby all displaying the cover of Nona the Ninth by Tasmyn Muir playing at chapter one. A tall girl with a long braid grins in the foreground with skeletal creatures behind.

casandra (cass) saldaña@mxcatnap· Jun 20

jane Participated (she did not scream! despite her body language, she’s actually starting to like being held in her old age. but like, still under duress.)

A white latine queer squatting again - but this time the camera is blurrier as they try to hold their white tabby kitty in the frame. The cat is sort of long and non-resisting, but doesn’t look entirely thrilled.

casandra (cass) saldaña@mxcatnap· Jun 20

happy pride

a white latine queer grinning in a floor length mirror from a squatting position. they are wearing a purple tank top, black “everyone watches women’s sports” shorts, and wnba slides. They have long brown hair tied back.

casandra (cass) saldaña@mxcatnap· Jun 10

i know who I am 💅

No long no leggy goose, a puffed up urchin-like creature, blessed

casandra (cass) saldaña@mxcatnap· Jun 6

working on this - this specific diagram is quite useful.. also very funny that the window of tolerance looks like a tombstone 💀💀💀 you‘ll be regulated when you’re super dead!!

“ STRESS
There are two places outside the window of tolerance: either toward hyperarousal or hypoarousal.
HYPERAROUSAL
WINDOW
OF
TOLERANCE
Optimal zone; able to deal with stress effectively
HYPOAROUSAL
Fight-or-flight response, emotional reactivity, panic, rage, hypervigilance, stress
Decreased overall nervous system response, numbness, detachment, slowness, fatigue, shutting down, dissociation”

casandra (cass) saldaña@mxcatnap· Jun 6

walking squats are soul affirming. it’s that nervous system experience of staggering forward in the mud and finding a way to stay poised and powerful. also gay. 💖🔪💅

a white latine femme smiles and drips sweat in a gym selfie. they are wearing a black AOC with the words “compañeras” and a a pink triangle, “everyone watches women’s sports” black shorts, and Sab 2 sneakers.

casandra (cass) saldaña@mxcatnap· Jun 2

olivia miles WHAT 🎯🎯🎯 #wnba

casandra (cass) saldaña@mxcatnap· May 30

queer, finding solace in tide pools in the rain. (maybe my new fav)

a white latine femme crouching down at low tide among tide pools. they are grinning slightly, wearing a pink windbreaker, green hat, and a pink raccoon-print bandana. the sky is cloudy.

casandra (cass) saldaña@mxcatnap· May 30

<3 #wnba

four lynx players help #9, cloud, on the sky up from the court after a collision

Olivia Miles, Natasha Howard, and more Lynx helping #9 Natasha Cloud of the Sky get to her feet.

casandra (cass) saldaña@mxcatnap· May 28

Homer in bed. Happy. Peaceful. Smiling with his eyes closed.

casandra (cass) saldaña@mxcatnap· May 28

WNBA League Standings. We see Minnesota Lynx at the top (!!!) followed by the Fever, Aces, Dream, Valkyries, Fire, Sings, and Sparks.

casandra (cass) saldaña@mxcatnap· May 22

that olivia miles no-look was filthy. look how she is being swallowed up by FOUR tempo players and - doesn’t matter - finds howard. whewwww 😮‍💨 #wnba

Olivia Miles is surrounded by three defenders in the paint. She leaps up and throws a dart to Natasha Howard streaking to the arc.

casandra (cass) saldaña@mxcatnap· May 19

tagging myself

Bright greens of a native wildflower field in Biddeford, Maine - one small part of Rachel Carson Wildlife Refuge. A small wooden structure holds various sticks and has the label “Solitary Bee Habitat”

casandra (cass) saldaña@mxcatnap· May 16

today was a beach goth re-listening to Gideon the Ninth day! 🗡️💀🌊

A nonbinary white latine queer with shaggy long hair and wearing a black dress looks off to the side in the ocean-adjacent. They are wearing a Rhode Island wetlands pendant, sunglasses, and a green hat.

casandra (cass) saldaña@mxcatnap· May 14

heron stomp! heron setting boundaries!

casandra (cass) saldaña@mxcatnap· May 8

video game level designed by a pondrous periwinkle when

a distinct snaking pattern appearing in sand on a brown stone. the path bends about and features little dotted imprints - perhaps of periwinkle legs? we see the periwinkle in question near the center of the photo - but at one possible end of a path?? many questions!

casandra (cass) saldaña@mxcatnap· May 7

found art at the tide pool 🐚🌱🪨🥰

A rocky tide pool along the Maine coast - in the foreground, a rock dusted with sand reveals a wiggly pattern dotted with little extensions - and in the middle is a bivalve gripping to the rock. Sea grasses and stones of every color and shape stick out of the clear water.

casandra (cass) saldaña@mxcatnap· May 6

sweet syl forever

Sweet Syl, fantasy basketball team name. Cass Wilkinson Saldaña. A photo of Lynx legend #34 Sylvia Fowles handling a rebound.

casandra (cass) saldaña@mxcatnap· May 6

* let's build around aliyah's post game * lovedddd kiki in unrivaled this year * chasing upside b/c why not - olivia miles! tempo players! * reunite izzy and tash bc gay * try to fight my Forwards/Bigs bias a bit (mixed results) i'm not saying it's going to work but i'm happy with it!