Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history
It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women
Unreal
www.science.org/content/arti...
Workers: tap in. How much did you lose in your retirement funds since January? I lost 7%.
We don’t have to play the stock market to feel the impact of this administration’s decisions.
Relatedly: University President Christopher Eisgruber signaled that Princeton would not make concessions to the federal government in an interview with Bloomberg after news broke that the Trump administration had suspended dozens of the University’s research grants.
A liberal judge won a seat on Wisconsin's Supreme Court, despite a historic spending binge by Elon Musk to flip control of the court to conservatives
“Women's History is Women's Right.' It is an essential and indispensable heritage from which we can draw pride, comfort, courage, and long-range vision.”
—Gerda Lerner
"Forced sterilization laws are a really powerful example of how violations of disabled people’s bodies and rights are baked into our legal system today.”
For @motherjones.com, I reported on how disabled people continue to be forcibly sterilized. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Audre Lorde ♾️
“There is nothing wrong with anger. It is not the angers of women that are destroying us.”
— Audre Lorde
From ‘Parable of the Talents’ by Octavia Butler (1998)
measuring an organizer’s skill based on how many actual, concrete wins they have under their belt >>>
I need to read more about this fight! Send me any good recs, kapatid
Hi! Does anyone know a graphic notetaker (artist) in LA? A social justice org I know wants to hire someone for Sat Feb 22 (9am-12 noon).
Introducing myself: I’m a union organizer with 20+ years of experience. I’ve been a lead organizer at United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) for 9.5+ years, was 11yrs in healthcare. For 22+ years I’ve been a feminist organizer in AF3IRM. Born/raised in Northeast LA, a mama, social worker & bookworm
People who voted Trump who are feeling pissed off right now about broken promises are an organizing opportunity, not a gloating opportunity
Professor who teaches African American studies here. If your school eliminates or bans it, I will personally host free zoom sessions, provide resources, or answer questions for students, parents/guardians, or teachers who are interested in learning or discussing African American studies.
I'm with Kelly here: deeply interested in leftism as a political project but have no interest whatsoever in leftism as a subculture. the stakes of leaving this behind are hopefully clearer by the day
“Are you going to be a coward?” Zül-Qarnain Nantambu asked himself before taking the field for Kendrick Lamar’s show. “Are you going to take a stand?”
United Teachers Los Angeles charter educators on strike today:
With the cost of living soaring in California, teachers feel it's time for something new. 32 school districts' contracts expire June 30. And the California Teachers Association (@wearecta.bsky.social) is coordinating 77,000 educators to bargain in sync.
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Newspaper headline: Trump's federal hiring freeze could delay your tax refund
Now there’s a top of the front page Monday morning headline.
THE SUPER BOWL HALFTIME SHOW IS UNION MADE!
Shout out to Kendrick Lamar, and all the performers and behind the scenes workers that made this go off without a hitch!
A love suden and love Gaza flag during Kendrick’s performance
The image of the night.
“Every woman has a well-stocked arsenal of anger potentially useful against oppressions, personal & institutional, which brought that anger into being. Focused with precision, it can become a powerful source of energy serving progress & change.”
-Audre Lorde
“The Uses of Anger”
“When anger combines with hope, it can become a source of the courage we need to transform a threat from which we must flee into a challenge with which we can engage.”
— Marshall Ganz
‘People, Power, Change’ (2024)
BILLIONAIRES ARE TAKING OVER THE GOVERNMENT CUTTING SCHOOL LUNCHES, SOCIAL SECURITY, AND MEDICAID THE CHAOS IS THE POINT. BREATHE STAY FOCUSED WE WILL WIN
breathe, stay focused, and lock in.
“Unless we build the organizational capacity - lateral committed relationships, decision-making venues, leadership structures - to do the mobilizing, not only will the resources dry up, but mobilization will turn out to have been nothing more than tactics in search of a strategy”
“Because social media dramatically reduced the cost of sharing information in real time, many now decide to skip organizing and go straight to mobilizing. They count on crisis events to generate reactions, choices made by individuals who command the media…”
—Marshall Ganz
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The problem with DEI is not that it went too far, but that it didn’t go far enough. My latest:
