When I see landlords replying to tweets like this that "regulating us would actually collapse the whole market!!!" I think about how 19th century child labour was kept legal for ages bc factory owners kept saying All Business would Collapse if they couldn't pay pennies to orphans
I'll leave you with the story of Hind Rajab, who student activists at Columbia renamed a building after. No matter how much media spin you hear about these protests, they are fundamentally about innocent people like Hind who are being killed every day in Gaza. This needs to end.
I live by Columbia. Tonight I went for a walk & saw 10+ blocks rapidly barricaded, dozens of police vehicles flying by, large groups of NYPD in riot gear gathering.
I study protest in E Europe. What I saw tonight was some of the most wildly disproportionate policing I've seen
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#TransAwarenessWeek
🧵Trigger warning: suicide
I am the proud mum of a trans woman, Alice.
Alice came out to her best friend, Lucy when she was fifteen, to her sister, Kate a year later. She didn’t come out to me. Why not? Probably because I’d absorbed media transphobia 1/
And to those ignorant fools who have the nerve to tell me I would be decapitated in a heartbeat in Gaza: what about Glasgow? What about Moscow? What about Medford, Malden or Marlborough Massachusetts? As a gay person who can’t pass, as a cross-dresser, as a sissy—they have, they do and they will kill us anywhere. Bitch.
Alas, the bouncer must search the contents of my bag…..he finds a thousand empty vape juice bottles, strange trinkets, my half-eaten nut bar……for a brief moment he knows me more intimately than my mother. he rifles through the dark confines of my mind. & he is sickened