JoyLeonardNYC

Applied Theater artist, educator, parent, bibliophile, accomplice. "All that you touch, You Change. All that you Change, Changes You." --Octavia Butler

[GLSEN @GLSEN]

The LGBTQI+ and Women's History Ed Act directs the Smithsonian National Museum of American History to develop & disseminate resources and programming for educators to teach LGBTQI+ and women's history in an inclusive and intersectional way.

Click here https://t.co/jrRRY5q1F5

[JoyLeonardNYC @nyc_leonard]

Let's go, Josie! KY fam take note! 💚

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

Trans people just keep winning!

The 9th CIrcuit Court of Appeals has ruled that transgender athletes have likely a constitutional right to compete, and that discrimination against them is likely a form of sex discrimination.

This will have big effects in Idaho and Montana!

[JoyLeonardNYC @nyc_leonard]

@GovMurphy The Elizabeth Detention Center has created tremendous suffering. At least two people, Boubacar Bah and Victor Ramirez-Reyes, have tragically died due to their detention there. You and other NJ officials must step up and condemn it today.

[JoyLeonardNYC @nyc_leonard]

JOIN THE DISSENT: ADD YOUR NAME. In a radical decision, the Supreme Court has issued a damaging ruling in the 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis case.
Take action now: Join HRC in our dissent! Add your name & join with thousands of others to defend our rights. https://t.co/mum1yEgSvX

[JoyLeonardNYC @nyc_leonard]

Families need your help @GovKathyHochul @NYSBichotteHerm @senatorparker. The cost of calls from prisons & jails have been separating mothers from their babies for too long. It's time we make the prison & jail communication free like several counties across the U.S. already have.

[JoyLeonardNYC @nyc_leonard]

Time's up @TomGores. You've been separating mothers from their babies for too long with Securus' predatory practices. It's time to sell Securus or sell the @DetroitPistons. Detroit deserves better.

@NBA, you must hold Gores accountable. Silence is complicity.

[JoyLeonardNYC @nyc_leonard]

NEW PETITION: This is important, please sign: https://t.co/Dcplnhabzd via @conmijente

[JoyLeonardNYC @nyc_leonard]

Liyah Birru is an Ethiopian immigrant survivor of domestic violence who may be deported for defending herself against her abusive ex-husband if she is not pardoned by Gov. Newsom. join the movement to #freeliyah https://t.co/SARJTqrwY9

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

It’s really easy to reduce hate speech when you define speech calling LGBTQ people groomers and harassing lgbtq people as “not hate speech.”

[JoyLeonardNYC @nyc_leonard]

I just wrote a @LaColectiVA703 letter: #ICEoutofArlington . Write one here: https://t.co/Jn663NP2Ud

[PFLAG National @PFLAG]

Today, July 14, is International Nonbinary People's Day! To our wonderful #nonbinary community- PFLAG sees you, not only today or this week, but all year long and we are #PFLAGProud of you! 💛🤍💜🖤

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

The far right has gotten an anti-trans funding ban into the military NDAA.

They’ve also just put out a ban on any HHS funding for trans care.

They are attempting to turn trans care into the new Hyde amendment.

This could be devastating nationally. National funding ban.

[JoyLeonardNYC @nyc_leonard]

Love on those NBs in your life, today and EVERY day! Gender is a social construct, believe it. If you feel gender in yourself (and I do) - great! If you don't, amazing! Let's love on all the folx in our lives living their truths. So they don't have to be brave all the time. OK?

[JoyLeonardNYC @nyc_leonard]

People whose gender identity matches the bits they were born with, who think CIS gender is a slur are a waste of breath. Says this CIS-hetero woman. Y'all are twisted up over what, exactly?? Ain't no one coming for you til you show your own ass. 🙄

[JoyLeonardNYC @nyc_leonard]

ACTION ALERT! 📣Demand DHS-ICE #FreeCristal and #SanctuaryForSurvivors now! ICE must stop detaining and deporting immigrant survivors of Dublin prison staff sex abuse. Call and email today: https://t.co/waF28e8Uzi

[JoyLeonardNYC @nyc_leonard]

@GavinNewsom Nataly Marinero, an incarcerated trans survivor of DV trafficking granted parole in March 2023, will be turned over to ICE instead of returning to his community here. He fled El Salvador at 17 due to violence he faced as a trans person. Deportation is unjust!

[Minus18 @minus18youth]

Today is Pan Visibility Day!! Let's hear it for pan pride! Today we celebrate pansexual and panromantic identities, community, and pride.

To all of our pan friends, attendees, supporters, team members and family, let's celebrate our identity!

[Equality Florida @equalityfl]

This is DeSantis’ Florida. Bans. Censorship. A war on academic freedom.

When he calls it his “blueprint” for America, believe him.

[JoyLeonardNYC @nyc_leonard]

@ILSenateGOP This is up there with blaming rape survivors for their clothes, or ineffective risk assessment. Dude, your inability to control your own violent tendencies should not be anyone else's problem. That's YOUR problem. YOU get a handle on it.

[PinkNews @PinkNews]

Republican senator says gender-neutral bathrooms will lead to violence from ‘dads like me’
https://t.co/eqUufiSlPM