What activists are asking for isn’t different from what the average voter is looking for- leadership. To trust that the President is doing everything in his power to save lives and protect our rights. No one is asking Biden to do the impossible. We’re asking him to do the maximum
Why yes, I will retreat from all people I know and love & ignore my phone and e-mail just to come back a week later to be hyper-productive/responsive for 72 hrs before burning myself out again & there’s NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT because there’s NOTHING I CAN DO ABOUT IT EITHER
The way the work Ana Mendieta made gets stronger and more startling with each passing year astounds me. She died—likely was killed by her partner—on this day in 1985. What more would she have given us? Two from her silueta series that are always in my mind.
Apropos of nothing, the Confederacy's refusal to actually accept defeat and instead embrace a Lost Cause narrative of betrayal was a key aspect of its successful efforts to wrench back one-party totalitarian control of the South, which it did both through violence and propaganda.
I really urge everyone to read through the hashtag #CountDisabledPeoplesVotes
We know the implications on the election if all mail-in votes aren’t counted, but it’s important for us to remember exactly whose votes will be ignored — it will be overwhelming disabled people
Advocates Want a D.C. Jail Resident to Run for an ANC Seat That’s Never Been Filled
ANC 7F07, the single member district that includes the D.C. Jail, hasn’t had a commissioner since it was created in 2012
@NoNewJailsDC
https://t.co/sbvIq6a6Je
@iSmashFizzle I had a very similar experience around the same age - hand up my skirt. All his friends told me how his dad was a cop who beat him. What hurt most was that my mom, who I thought would be outraged, also told me to not make a big deal. He never did apologize.
Yes I gave birth, but I haven’t bought those little month numbers and laid my child next to them like a tiny, happy crime scene victim and taken a picture of that and posted it to Instagram so in that sense I am not a mother.
Some asylum seekers who have given birth in custody were forced to hand over their newborns to the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services. We were unable to verify what happens to the children of women who do not have access to legal help. https://t.co/3BcZF7pKYb
The federal government body that polices racial discrimination at work, uses "Go back to where you came from" as literally textbook example of potentially unlawful bigoted harassment.