I just don’t think people who haven’t rented a home since they were 20 (or maybe ever) have anything valuable to contribute to conversations around rent control! their minds can’t fathom the instability of ur access to shelter being at the whim of ppl using it for personal profit
we’re talking abt making it so that tenants never have stability ever again. not knowing where they’ll be living the following year because their landlord could arbitrarily decide to kick them out or raise their rent $400. threat of homelessness every 12 months. just deeply evil
I will be digging more into this later but, um, 🚨🚨🚨 the Ford government is looking to end Ontario's security of tenure rules - preventing tenants from automatically transitioning to month-to-month after their initial lease is up, and allowing landlords to refuse to renew
wrote about the excellent (and more relevant than ever) new documentary about Sally Ride and how the question of coming out is about more than just fear, for @XtraMagazine https://t.co/UceERvpjvE
The anti-trans “gender critical” crusade has never just been about trans women.
It’s always been about pushing white supremacist, bioessentialist purity standards.
All women who don't or can't conform to those ideas are in danger.
This story took almost a year to put together, and I'm so thankful to see it out. Anti-trans policies targeting youth have real impact on the youth in question. I'm grateful to all the young people and their families who shared their stories with me.
https://t.co/IVrqrHgTxO
kidding I love all my friends in PR and imagine it would be v difficult to deal with clients who think every logo change and item drop is exclusive and breaking news
or doing it the PR way and asking my friends to agree to an embargo before I share something important with them but it’s just me telling them I’m thinking about growing my bangs out
A UN-backed survey in Gaza this month found that 85% of the children had not eaten for a whole day at least once in the three days before the survey was conducted. https://t.co/zINu8pYK88.
also hearing her try to speak “as a lesbian” simply because she played a lesbian on tv is the strongest argument for why straight people shouldn’t play gay characters i’ve ever seen
re: julianna margulies, there is such cruel hypocrisy coming from the people justifying genocide by vaguely gesturing to homophobia while also describing the torture queer supporters of palestine would supposedly face with unbridled glee
"a stark reminder that genocide is about more than just the premeditated mass extinguishing of human life; it’s also about the calculated, and often vindictive, destruction of a people’s culture, language, history, and shared sites of community."
Canada failed humanity by abstaining on a UNGA emergency resolution for a humanitarian truce in Gaza. Our country is officially complacent and complicit with this terrible humanitarian catastrophe, which UN experts and scholars warn may amount to genocide.
The occupation of Palestine is not a complex issue—but it can be hard to find good information. A thread of resources/toolkits/mutual aid links/etc.:
1) Decolonize Palestine: https://t.co/dpThdVbQ8r
2) Palestinian Feminist Collective toolkit: https://t.co/kRzLzMwbEg