Happy Father’s Day to my dad. A few years back, I got an awful haircut and I was crying about it, and he came into my room and said “u have no idea how easy your life is. Do you know how hard it was for black female scientists in the 50s/60s?” (He just watched Hidden Figures)
United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain testifying in favor of a 32-hour workweek. "Eighty-four years ago the 40-hour workweek was established. And since then, we've had a 400 percent increase in productivity, and nothing's changed."
My mom was the first person to give skin to skin contact to one of the first babies born with AIDS in the US. Everyone else was in hazmat suits, and she saw that baby and decided it needed some loving. So she did it.
Ive tried to carry that with me. Miss you, mom. You rocked.