@emirates why is EK201 sitting on the tarmac for over 6 hours?! Deplane the passengers and let them go home.. especially if you're not going to feed them!
Too big to buy at Dubai Airport so will have to shop local when I land but a useful reminder to re-listen to ALL @EmpirePodUK again to get the list of books to add to the pile!
(That’s why I joined @givingwhatwecan. Check out their ‘How Rich Am I calculator’ to see how rich you are compared to the rest of the global population. https://t.co/R5xmoeYwbZ).
As we watch an ascendant fascist theocracy queer people might be tempted by the urge to sanitize how we present ourselves and I'm here to tell you the actual best strategy is to be as mindblowingly gay as you possibly can
Instead of showing me your diversity statement, show me your hiring data, your discrimination claim stats, your salary tables, your retention numbers, your diversity policies, and your leaders’ public actions against racism.
End performative allyship.
When the gleaming moon outside his window announces bedtime, Mitch McConnell curls up on a pile of dead children, tugs the limbs of the smallest all the way up to his chin, and snuggles around his favorite rifle. "Don't worry, Arfy," he whispers. "I'll never let them hurt you."
If Black elders who suffered Jim Crow are still w/us, & Native elders who were robbed of their land & rights are still w/us, & Japanese elders who were forced into Camps are still w/us—why do we pretend the people & systems who committed those atrocities are magically gone?🤔
Some media literacy on trans issues:
1. When a piece about youth transition says "daughters" it's talking about young trans boys in a way that is priming you to dismiss them as silly and emotional and believe they need to be protected from themselves.