"No gods, no masters, no husbands, no parties"
"Your mother was abused too"
"You're being governed by rapists"
Seen in Buenos Aires following the #8M International Women's Day Protest
These things dissolve geography
U s a scene report.
This Venus in Aries, I want you to remember that your personal value isn’t determined by other people’s opinions about you.
We’re remembering the life of a giant in the movement for Palestinian freedom, Walid Khalidi, who passed away at age 100 on Sunday. He was the Honorary President and one of the founders of @palestinestudies.bsky.social
SWANA=Southwest Asia and North Africa. Let's let go of the colonial term "middle east". Language entrenches ideology.
This seems about right, centering male needs, demanding attention, denying accountability. Where is the surviving patriarchy support group we all need? I'm only in year 1 of therapy school so it'll be a minute on my end. And you?
Ginger Geranium scene report. We moved her into the greenhouse that my partner works in to winter over. This simple flower update is doing much to counter all the trauma in the world. The plants are our ancestors, remember.
I don't think stories about people eligible for retirement continuing to work are inspiring, regardless of specifics.
I'm having the most mercury retrograde, mercury retrograde ever. Normally I shrug a bit at this common celestial event, but have had my card frauded, scheduling snafus, and I write from a normally timely bus, en route to work, likely to be 20 minutes late.
Jupiter, Saturn, Venus, Mercury, Neptune and Uranus will all be visible at same time in curved line across sky
Great Question 💕
Small print
Now that you have sifted through Trump’s State of The Union doggerel, check out the real state of rhe union from my interview in Minneapolis with legendary sisters @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social and @autumnmeghanbrown.bsky.social.
I’m sometimes skeptical of the “bah mass media” takes, but I just scrolled through the NYT mobile homepage top to bottom and you would not learn of this FAIRLY major development by doing so
Here's a playlist of the NME's best singles of 1990 - number 15 in an ongoing series that started with the 1976 chart. "We're going to dance and have some fun"
1️⃣9️⃣9️⃣0️⃣▶️ open.spotify.com/playlist/6Qx...
We didn't get the snow predicted last week but we have had many dry days. Back to rain now but here's my favorite sage in the neighborhood. When I was in California early Feb these were fully flowering.
Just finishing Roddy Bottum's book and will miss his voice when it ends.
Print is a rent strike.
For @literaryhub.bsky.social, Harriet Murav and I wrote about translating Holocaust literature in times of genocide: some thoughts that have accompanied us during our work on “In the Shadow of the Holocaust” in the last few years, the years of genocides in Ukraine and Gaza lithub.com/translating-...
We offer a lesson on how students can use the Black Panther’s Ten Point Program to assess issues in their own communities and to develop Ten Point Programs of their own. By @rethinkingschools.bsky.social editor Wayne Au. Also available in Spanish.
Free⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/materials/bl...
#TDIH 1942, Huey P. Newton, co-founder of Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, was born in Monroe, La.
His family moved to Oakland as part of the Great Migration, after his father was almost lynched.
Read more ⬇️ and find lessons on BPP in 🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/hu...
i always return to my haunts: black folks in the american antebellum reading & writing against the intention of white supremacy. you think "the pen is mightier than the sword" for what it could write? simply holding one couldve got our heads split!
#alwaysrebel
AI guys insisting on the inevitability of the tech are so irritating. every comparison they make is to something whose utility was immediately apparent. "it does things faster and we can fix its mistakes later and that'll be the job now" does not compare to "metronome that doesn't need winding"
Just a big hug to all the anarchists in the Twin Cities who get dismissed all the time but knew exactly what to do when shit went down here.
In the short time generative AI has existed, it's been used to create deep fake nudes of innocent people and threaten people's jobs and distort people's perception of reality and exclusively enrich the wealthiest, shittiest assholes. Like... where's the part where this is a net positive on society?
THEY ARE BUYING UP WAREHOUSES TO HOLD HUMAN BEINGS IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY.
I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.
Take away Spanish and there's no San Francisco or Los Angeles or Sacramento, no San Diego or Santa Rosa or Sierra nevada and actually there's no California, because that's a Spanish word...
English-only California: the golden state with Spanish place names removed. First map I ever commissioned, to commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, whereby the US made Mexico give up its northern half, adding California and the Southwest to the Union.
