Black Lives Matter. I am ANTIFAscist. Electrochemist, environmental scientist, queer, survivor, mental health advocate. I sing, dance, and root for the Thorns.
“Providers didn’t all miss the day in medical school when students were taught how not to be cruel to fat people. Medical fatphobia is medicine’s status quo.”
🧵🔧 Welcome to Pipe Wrench no. 6: The Fat Issue.
It’s a big one, as is only fitting.
Hi! I’m Ginger Sykes Torres!
I’m a mom and experienced environmental professional & climate leader, working to become Arizona’s first-ever Native American representative in Congress by flipping a red seat to blue.
Can you RT and help me get to 5k followers? ❤️ 🌏
Here we go. 11 rising Black men headed to Washington D.C. to represent Portland, OR. We stand on the shoulders of giants who paved the way for us to be here today. Thank you for all the support from so many to make this trip possible. Onward! ✊🏽👑
We cannot ignore the fact that if Brittney Griner wasn’t a Black woman, it would be plastered across the news that she is being held as a political prisoner in Russia.
Free Brittney Griner.
If you think the concept of abolishing police & prisons today is too radical to be entertained, you would not have been an abolitionist working to end slavery which was an equally radical notion & carried criminal penalties for those who disrupted the slave economy.