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“Tattered Gold Flag” 💛 / This month’s Oratio is by @rachelvirginiah, a Queer, Black, Nonbinary poet and community leader, whose insights and words have touched many of us. It includes an original poem on complex connection, “hopeful maybe’s”, and hope in unknowns 🦄 Link in bio!
It’s also lazy journalism and free publicity to police to *republish* arrests and mugshots, which makes no effort to actually “report” on a story, but instead republish the story that police have already presumed and written for themselves without due process.
.@TucsonStar, publishing any arrests made by militarized police against protestors in this moment is irresponsible. Why?
Because charges are not convictions and could be *completely* false, and yet it lives on your publication forever, online, for a possibly innocent protestor.
The rest will be used to keep our content up and live. This beautiful work was created and donated by @/clarencewwbh for a special Pride month logo—go follow on Instagram and support! We are in this together. #BraveCommons#FaithfullyLGBT#BlackTransLivesMatter
We join others in mourning the life #TonyMcDade, a Black Trans Man murdered by police in Tallahassee.
White folks who follow us: Read, share, and take time to log off and do your internal work.
To be anti-racist is an everyday practice. Rest in power, Tony. #BlackLivesMatter