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OG Black feminist journalist and editor • Award-winning author of WEIGHTLESS and LAWC • Cofounder @theflytrapmedia.com • Helping incarcerated journalists with @empowermentave.bsky.social • Forever putting on for Black + queer folks • Next: ✍🏾 NO GIVING IN
Abortion is safe across body sizes, but some medical providers are still turning patients away for exceeding their self-imposed BMI limit. Fatphobia is everywhere and in everything.
Abortion is safe across body sizes, but some medical providers are still turning patients away for exceeding their self-imposed BMI limit. Fatphobia is everywhere and in everything.
Bluesky, @nora.zone and I need your help: We're building @heygavin.bsky.social, a bot that will respond with a Gavin Newsom fact when you @ it. Please help us compile factoids with this form, which you can fill out as many times as you want!
This week, @nicolefroio.bsky.social explores the power of activism + creativity and connects with a community of nail artists who are telling ICE to get fucked.
(Oh! And it's a FREE POST!)
Good coverage of how even small towns are coming out in huge numbers to fight data centers. This time in DeForest, Wisconsin. @derekseidman.bsky.social reports (and provides an explainer of private equity's role in the whole mess, too).
If nonprofit media is your jam, then consider applying for the Director, Audience & Marketing job at @rewirenewsgroup.com. The organization is fully distributed, so you can work remotely, and the salary range is $80,000-$105,000.
Thank you, Chrissy!
And, if you are interested in volunteering your time to helping these writers improve their craft and place their stories, fill out this interest form:
As we are rebuilding our program, I would love to connect with editors at publications that are committed to this practice of publishing incarcerated. If you are open to receiving pitches from these incredible writers, please reach out. evette[at]empowermentave[dot]org
🧵I am co-leading the Writing for Liberation program at @empowermentave.bsky.social, an organization that supports incarcerated journalists, essayists, and poets in publishing their work. Our writers have been published everywhere from the Dallas Morning News and Prism to Rolling Stone and Cosmo.
I really enjoyed writing this for @triplepundit.bsky.social, on Sesc Mesa in Brazil, a countrywide foodbank that does waste prevention by rescuing and distributing food that would otherwise end up in a landfill: triplepundit.com/2026/sesc-me...
In a rare interview, Simone Ledward Boseman, the wife of the late Chadwick Boseman, shared that they met for the first time at the Hollywood Bowl in 2014. Chadwick was there to perform a duet with D’Angelo. Now, both of those beautiful men are no longer here, thanks to the cruelness of cancer. 🥹😔
Not at all surprised to learn that Bad Bunny has a historical adviser. His halftime show was a reminder that our history and culture are deeply intertwined with the rest of the western hemisphere. We should think of his performance as part of #America250. #SuperBowl
news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
By the way, on Friday, @theflytrapmedia.com is running an archival Bitch Media piece by @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social about the torturous history and unsure future of sugarcane production in, you guessed it, Puerto Rico. Subscribe to get that story, which will not be behind a paywall, to your inbox:
A lot of people cannot just start a paid newsletter or become freelancers to sustain their careers. The sports, metro, and international desks did work that requires *team* resources, like legal checks, documents, access to archives, and long-term beat experience.
This whole thing where billionaires snap up media properties so they can run them into the ground to make it harder for people to call them and their cronies to account is extremely obvious and very tiresome. It also limits our access to largr information about culture and the world, also by design.
A reminder that we have three free posts this week. If you're looking for sharp criticism mixed with social justice, stay tuned for the next few posts!
bezos and the post is yet another reminder that it's impossible to have billions of dollars and operate in the public interest at the same time. nobody with that kind of money got it by looking out for other people or putting the common good first. that's why it's so antithetical to journalism
always bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post
Some **PERSONAL NEWS** as the go-getters say.
@burnitalldownpod.com has been on a hiatus for a couple of years. We are SO READY to return, but need your help because we don't have backing by a corporation, and need this to be sustainable.
Enter Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/bur...
Wrote this piece on the joys of cultivating a deeply weird FYP before the TikTok TOS update but I stand by this: We gotta find and celebrate the weird in our lives or we will not make it through this.
"...But the casualness of Kelly’s music still being part of people’s everyday lives was a jolting wake-up call for someone who was passing through."
And now, on Grammy-winning film SINNERS, @freeblackgirl.bsky.social wrote about the Black intimacies of Ryan Coogler's work: www.theflytrapmedia.com/sinners-cele...
HAPPY MONDAY!! Time to take advantage of the #Grammys algorithm! First up, @nicolefroio.bsky.social's review of THE ALBUM OF THE YEAR, Bad Bunny's DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS:
www.theflytrapmedia.com/deb-tirar-m-...
For the past 25 years, Reshona Landfair has lived with the painful aftermath of her name lingering in the public without her consent. She was the 14-year-old girl in the absolutely sickening R. Kelly videotape. Now, she’s reclaiming her name and her story. We should all bear witness.
NEW: Rep. Salman Bhojani said lawmakers were denied entry to Prairieland Detention Center, where Leqaa Kordia has been running “a high fever for several days” due to what he called inhumane conditions.
In May, her cousin said she had already lost 50 lbs.
thebarbedwire.com/2026/01/30/t...
Heated Rivalry gang! Form up!
For @theflytrapmedia.com, I wrote about how I saw my own queer athlete closet reflected back to me in Heated Rivalry in the most amazing way possible.
www.theflytrapmedia.com/icy-hot-heat...
My book on grief, mourning, and how both of these things are deeply broken in a society of runaway capitalism & positive thinking is coming out in six months. Here are some things you can do to help it find readers, starting with preordering. You can do that through your local indie or bookshop.org
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