Community Organizer. Multigendered (they/them). Queer. Black-Italian. Imaginatrix and co-founder @timetospringup. Co-author with @a_learoth of @MillennialSexEd.
Our @TEDx talk "Cultivating a Culture of Consent" posted! Watch & learn more at https://t.co/cc4S4bYhR9 #cultivateconsent#timetospringup https://t.co/oduOXWV4uf
🌱Are you ready to Spring Up with us?! 🌱#SAAM may have come to a close, but we’re continuing the conversation throughout May with the official launch of our month long #CultivateConsent… https://t.co/TDQeWKxWVd
So I’ve been staying right next to Central Park up by columbia for the last few nights and have had such beautiful and magical adventures outside! Honestly one of the last things I… https://t.co/gP1jJRM6L3
"...new research suggests that isolated comments, lingering stares, and far more minor behaviors that send devaluing messages can cause a negative psychological impact as serious as the effects of physical or other types of harassment."
https://t.co/baJzYgYWoo via @usatoday
Our #SCOTUS let us down today but we will continue to STAND UP. Time to support Muslim-led organizing. Freedom is not free. If you #StandWithMuslims, donate here: https://t.co/3QctOlTsg5
If you're poor like me and want to support authors you love, ask your local library to stock their books.
I've never seen someone scramble so fast as the librarian when I asked why they didn't have @nkjemisin in stock - they ordered the book, I got to read it for free, win win!
In the history of colonialism, Australia is considered a relatively late European “discovery.” But a 13th-century manuscript shows that, indirectly, Europeans had contact with Australia hundreds of years before they landed there. The evidence? A cockatoo. https://t.co/DROuJlLVQA
🎉 Today is an historic day for trans communities worldwide! @who released an online version of the International Classification of Diseases (#ICD11) removing trans identities from the mental health disorders chapter! 🎉 Stay tuned: more reactions from us soon!
Those at @AlliedMediaConf who are interested in the worker coop movement, don’t miss @USFWC’s “Worker Coop National Conference” this September in Los Angeles & next week’s #CommonBound conference in St. Louis with a track “Worker Coops: Struggle & Growth Together” #AMC2018
Ruha Benjamin @ruha9 at @AlliedMediaConf: "The data alone cannot save us. We need the poets and storytellers to describe context, undue discourse, and dismantle the New Jim Code." #AMC2018
Gaming addiction listed as a mental health condition for the first time by the World Health Organization.
Evidence shows that gaming addiction is best viewed as a coping mechanism associated with underlying problems such as anxiety or depression.
https://t.co/thyqWqQQ3u
74 million people are under some sort of heat advisory or warning. @alroker has a look at the cities that could see record-breaking temperatures today.