The results are in: with 92% approval, the workers at @Powells have voted to authorize a strike! What this means, what you can do to help, and what happens next… 🧵
I just put on my headphones. I went to Spotify and searched “2012,” and promptly landed on this playlist.
I proceeded to hit play on said playlist, cranked the volume, and closed my eyes and held my face like this.
I’m about to have a breakdown or a breakthrough.
Two farmworkers died in two weeks from heat exposure. Brutal labor & deadly climate change on top of rampant wage theft and labor agreements that are sometimes akin to slavery. But NPR is asking the important questions, like why won't the children of farmworkers pick our produce?
Two farmworkers died in two weeks from heat exposure. Brutal labor & deadly climate change on top of rampant wage theft and labor agreements that are sometimes akin to slavery. But NPR is asking the important questions, like why won't the children of farmworkers pick our produce?
“Carrie Mae Weems: Reflections for Now” is a fitting tribute to an artist whose work has taken on the monuments of the past, and has itself become a monument of its own. https://t.co/oDyP7tLERr
they already do. many city councils have tried to pass or have successfully passed bans on cohabitation. prob with help of real estate interests in their cities. many states have anti cohabitation laws still on the books.
Orphan Black and She-Hulk star Tatiana Maslany calls out Disney CEO Bob Iger at the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strike in New York:
“He’s completely out of touch with the workers who make his shows happen, who make people watch these shows, who bring viewers to him and him money.”
Today is the 2-year anniversary of my book We Are Owed, poems about Black life & history in Texas & Mexico.
This is my favorite thing I’ve ever written & I’m so proud of it. I wrote and researched for 6 years to write this. & published during a pandemic!
https://t.co/ftjI9YxxRN
when my mom was a kid she & her siblings would spray hair spray on their jeans, then set it on fire, then go run in traffic screaming for help. when someone pulled over they would pat out the fire & run