always grateful for an opportunity to get candid and speak on the state of black movements, black thought and the political culture. get into my latest interview for @BARBookForum https://t.co/aPkZhCHZwZ
Revered by Georgia O'Keeffe, James Baldwin, and many more, queer Southern painter Beauford Delaney was almost lost to history. Black arts organizers are recovering his legacy for audiences from Knoxville to Paris.
https://t.co/gFPajG6OwK
Commemoration of Columbia’s legendary Candy Shop gay club speaks to a young generation of LGBTQIA+ South Carolinians, letting them know that today's struggles have long histories, their queer elders are standing with them, and they belong. https://t.co/3l7HQjfIIr
“‘I want to challenge the popular notion of rest as a choice. I want to recognize rest as both a tool and an outcome of resistance.’” https://t.co/s8DvyygMJ7
Cages, restraints, & guards are not the elements of a therapeutic environment.
Stop Criminalization of Our Patients is challenging a 1,800-bed “special purpose facility” intended to incarcerate people with mental health conditions.
https://t.co/1Bwhz8LWno
For PRIDE Month, incarcerated contributor Ashlee Inscoe offers critiques of both the prison and medical industrial complex’s queer and transphobic violence, in her experience in the North Carolina prison system as an intersex woman.
https://t.co/QuxhbVMh79
Black feminist. Legal pioneer. Gender non-conforming. Preacher. Lover of women. What Pauli Murray really did was fight to create the kind of world in which every part of them could live. https://t.co/MdnNrQn5Us
“The prison's medical team and administration knew I needed this care, but were determined not to approve it and continued to deny everything. They still deny it today. I thought it was something that would never happen for me, especially while I was in prison.
For PRIDE Month, incarcerated contributor Ashlee Inscoe offers critiques of both the prison and medical industrial complex’s queer and transphobic violence, in her experience in the North Carolina prison system as an intersex woman.
https://t.co/QuxhbVMh79
I had needed the surgery for a very long time but the stench of prison politics made it next to impossible. Even though multiple doctors told prison officials I needed it, they still made senseless barriers to go through. I really kicked the hornet's nest!”— Ashlee Inscoe
In his latest, @wayanbarre covers organizing efforts and daily life in Texas Colonias, communities comprised of hundreds of unincorporated subdivisions along the Texas–Mexico border often disconnected from crucial services.
https://t.co/pBWcW6V0Ja
The planet's most fanatical Israel loyalists now own and control (or are about to) Paramount, CBS, TikTok, Warner Brothers, CNN: all acquired in the last two years by Netanyahu's close friend, Larry Ellison, right as public support for Israel in the US and the west collapses:
here’s why i am a firm believer in the whole “affordability promises are a scam” thing. as an organizer + polic(e)y/planning professional in ATL for a decade, i can’t unsee the way affordability concessions are a resource laundering front for consultants & politicians 🧵
big scandal in Atlanta - amid an ongoing housing crisis, the city spent over $100,000 of money FROM the affordable housing trust fund on…consultants. overall, they paid $370k to marketing/comms consultants who didn’t disclose they were being paid by ATL https://t.co/sCfbtsTt8k
i just feel like “acting shocked” and outraged at another “discovery” that cities as capitalist institutions built for accumulation and capital flow, not people and planet is tired. we all know what is to be done and why reform over revolution is seductive. we gotta grow up.