McKinley Hopf

queer - he/they - chronically ill - grad student - sex politics and twentieth century u.s. history

[Salamāsina (she/her) @salamasinamusic]

How can I make this more clear?

There is no war.

Palestine has no army.

Hamas wants to give back all the hostages.

Israel wants to murder every single Palestinian, half of which are children, almost 2 million ppl.

What's so hard to understand about that?

It's a genocide.

[head jinn in charge @TheeAuthoress]

They don’t tolerate it because they know that shit works.

[Hend Amry @LibyaLiberty]

A lot of you and I mean a lot of you need to ask a Muslim what it means to glorify a martyr and who that applies to and what it means and what it may or may not mean. A lot of you.

[noorii 🔮🍉 @nooriireads]

Reporter at Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital: “There isn’t much of a difference now that it’s daytime. There is no fuel. People have to walk to the hospitals. Bombing is constant. The situation on the ground is tense and we have no way to move from around safely. This is a massacre.”

[noorii 🔮🍉 @nooriireads]

In this thread I will be translating the biggest takeaways from Al Quds Radio 102.7 on Radio Garden Live (it’s blocked in the UK btw). This station is live from Gaza and it’s in Arabic.

[Jen Richards @SmartAssJen]

Pretty much every queer creator will tell you that our projects started getting dropped a year ago as the studios began constricting. You'll notice the drop in representation soon, but KNOW that it won't be because of the strike; we're striking because of it.

[@[email protected] @Imani_Barbarin]

I don’t know why anyone would think anti-trans laws wouldn’t impact disabled folks…

[Disabled Trash Witch♿ @StinkRatsCharms]

If you're still wearing a mask in public spaces, I think you're pretty neat! If you've stopped, you can start again right now💜

[Diana Cejas, MD, MPH @DianaCejasMD]

Someone asked if I was embarrassed to be the only person in the room who was wearing a mask. Embarrassed for me? No. But for the rest of y'all?

[@[email protected] @Imani_Barbarin]

I really detest medical professionals holding renewing medication prescriptions over your head conditional upon you seeing them.

Especially when you have a history of you taking that medication.

[Street Medic @RndmStreetMedic]

Lesson?

Your biases can kill your patients just as quickly as anything else. You owe your patients a thorough and accurate assessment.

[McKinley Hopf @McKinleyHopf]

@HarrietHopfMD "Not if, when" becomes a narrative excuse to stop prevention efforts, when there really is a lot we can do. We've given up rhetorically, and the messaging is so strong that we're running out of well-received ways to convince people we can still do risk reduction 😞

[Ryan Ken @Ryan_Ken_Acts]

Genocidal and murderous men wrote the country’s guiding legal documents. To be fixated on their “original intent” is an evil pursuit.

[Cat Sebastian @CatSWrites]

The most boring thing about Who Belongs At Pride discourse is that it’s literally outdoors in a public space and you can’t actually stop anyone. The discourse exists only to make people feel paranoid about whether they’re performing queerness correctly, don’t be a cop.

[TheDisabilityEnthusiast @twitchyspoonie]

In fact, liberation, being truly free from oppressors, would mean it doesn't matter what they might think of you because they're no longer an oppressor. They no longer have the power to oppress you.

If you must beg someone for your humanity, you are not free.

[@[email protected] @Imani_Barbarin]

Hope is a renewable resource but you can’t abuse peoples’ hope with false promises and expect them to continue to find hope in you.

[@[email protected] @Imani_Barbarin]

Americas culture is death—it’s the extermination process. Genocide never stopped.