Allison Castillo Small

she/her Let's talk Prison Reform, Extremism, Class, Race & Masculinities|🎓MA IMSISS, BA Social Psychology - Former UNV - Researcher|🗣️ polyglot 🇵🇪🏳️‍🌈ADHD

[danisha carter @danishacarterr]

if men’s mental health mattered (to men) they’d be creating safe spaces for themselves and each other, pursuing therapy, and creating community. instead, they perpetuate the very behaviors systems that have handicapped them in the first place, refuse to support or create community amongst each other, severely damage the women in their lives who try to care for them, and attack women online for not doing the work for them in replies to tweets like the one below lol.

[Allison Castillo Small @allisoncsmall]

As Peru faces accusations of violating international law, Baluarte's coalition with Fujimorismo and right-wing is pushing to withdraw from the Inter-American system, seeking to evade accountability and further undermine efforts to protect justice and human rights in Peru ⚖️

[Allison Castillo Small @allisoncsmall]

The gov of Peru's first female president, Dina Baluarte, plans to dissolve the Ministry of Women & Vulnerable Populations. In a country where sexual abuse is the 2nd most committed crime, and eleven girls get pregnant daily, this is a cruel blow against girls and women 💔🚨

[Allison Castillo Small @allisoncsmall]

Baluarte's regime also freed ex-dictator Fujimori, a perpetrator of crimes against humanity. His gov, notorious for corruption, was responsible for the forced sterilizations of +270,000 women. Now his party drives the rollback on gender equality and attacks on sexual diversity

[Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com on Bsky @ErinInTheMorn]

@jk_rowling Magnus Hirschfeld's institute was raided by early Nazis and the first 30 years of trans research were burned, Joanne.

Here's a picture of an early edition of the German Nazi publication Der Stürmer with Hirschfeld's picture on it essentially calling him a groomer.

[George Takei @GeorgeTakei]

When Hitler rose to power as German chancellor in 1933, he enacted policies to rid the country of Lebensunwertes Leben, or “lives unworthy of living.” His targets included Jews, Roma people, disabled people and communists—but also specifically homosexuals and transsexuals.

While many are familiar with haunting images of the first book burnings in Germany, which took place in May of 1933, most aren’t fully aware of their origin story.

The books and texts that provided the fuel for that first bonfire came from the library of the Institute for Sexual Research, founded in 1919 by Magnus Hirschfeld, a gay, Jewish doctor. As Scientific American notes, the Institute was “full of life everywhere” and provided incredible and groundbreaking gender affirmation care to trans individuals. Its mission was to provide a center for “research, teaching, healing and refuge” that could “free the individual from physical ailments, psychological afflictions and social deprivation.”

In other words, the first book burning in Germany, which led to copycat bonfires around the country, was an attack on a trans care institution. There are echoes of this today: The far-right has specifically chosen to target trans care centers in America, including repeated bomb threats to Boston Children’s Hospital, for providing gender affirming medical care.

[Natalie Wynn @ContraPoints]

See also “why won’t leftists debate me 🥺”—well because you turned “debate” into an exploitative humilitainment circus

[Natalie Wynn @ContraPoints]

Conservatives spent 20 years scavenging student protests for monetizable triggered-lib content, and now are shedding literal tears that protestors won’t talk to them anymore

[Heidi @HeidiBriones]

Dudes say they want a woman with no body count and this is what they do.

[UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency @Refugees]

REMINDER:

No one chooses to be a refugee.
No one chooses to be a refugee.
No one chooses to be a refugee.
No one chooses to be a refugee.
No one chooses to be a refugee.
No one chooses to be a refugee.
No one chooses to be a refugee.
No one chooses to be a refugee.

[andrew @and_rew_thom]

Trying to sort outfits for Brighton Pride in August when it’s 18°c 40mph winds and pissing down

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

Whatever your views on monarchy, arrest of anti-royalist campaigners for exercising right to peaceful protest is chilling. Many of us warned about exactly this when govt rushed thro the illiberal public order bill. This is not what democracy looks like https://t.co/TWndQW6Whr

[Peace & Justice Project @corbyn_project]

The arrest of anti-monarchy protestors in London this morning is an abuse of power enabled by the authoritarian and unlawful Public Order Bill, passed by this disgraceful government.

The right to peaceful protest must be respected and this demonstration allowed to continue.

[Peter Tatchell @PeterTatchell]

Police arrest peaceful anti-monarchy protesters & have erected giant barriers to osbcure pro-republic banners. Right to freely protest suppressed. Shame!

[Howard Beckett @HowardRBeckett]

A woman arrested in Edinburgh for holding an anti monarchy sign. A man arrested in Edinburgh for heckling Prince Andrew as “sick”. A barrister told by police in London that a placard saying “not my King” would see him arrested.

This ‘accession’ is anti democratic.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Colonial apologists: "British colonizers developed India!"

Actual British colonizers: "We have succeeded in converting India from a manufacturing country into a country exporting raw produce.” (Chairman of the East India and China Association, speaking to Parliament in 1840)

[AskAubry 🦋 🐆🦝 @ask_aubry]

Trans-Investigators thinking Pink can't have kids because she's fit as f*ck?

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

A 79-year-old man in Illinois shot and killed his neighbor as he did yard work. The two had argued before and the victim was using a leaf blower.

“Once again, easy access to firearms has turned a dispute into a deadly crime,” the state attorney said. https://t.co/dPpYHU8a6z