Save the date, San Francisco! 🗓️
On March 25, @crystalsimonesmith.bsky.social will be at @citylightsbooks.bsky.social to chat about her new work of erasure poetry, COMMON SENSE (1776), with Tongo Eisen-Martin Poetry. Register now! #America250
How women have led the way out of the closet in sports - buff.ly/KXH0OaN
Retired professional hockey player Harrison Browne, who plays Ilya’s teammate in HEATED RIVALRY, had no idea the show would blow up the way it has. (Cue to 15:30.)
ICYMI: One of the largest school districts in New Mexico subjects Navajo students to pervasive discrimination and a climate of fear, according to a report released last week by the Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission. @nmindepth.bsky.social
Beyond seeking a mental release, some diarists write to report, reveal, rebel, resist. Others write to preserve and retrieve memories.
If you keep a diary, what are your reasons for writing? @literaryhub.bsky.social
When lives are lost during protest, a protest movement grows from a local story to an international story.
Look at how the world is looking at the US and chiming in on what’s happening. #ProtestIsPower
Speakers at the Stand Up for Science rally in Washington, D.C., criticized the politicization of science and cuts to research that serves the public
If you’re looking for a front row seat to and a feminist perspective on the underground No Wave scene of the 1970s, you’re looking forward to Adele Bertei’s NO NEW YORK!
Props to Arts in America for showing her upcoming book some love! 🤩
Street mural of Harriet Tubman reaching toward the viewer with a helping hand. A little girl facing the mural is in the foreground for scale. Artist: Michael Rosato. The mural, painted in 2019, is located behind 424 Race Street in Cambridge, MD on the exterior wall of the Harriet Tubman Museum and Education Center.
Did you know that tomorrow, March 10th marks the National Day of Rest for Black Women, a day created to center rest, reflection, and renewal? It's also the anniversary of Harriet Tubman’s passing, honoring her powerful legacy of courage, resistance, and liberation.
People tend to forget that the Mississippi Delta is a space of radical imagination and ongoing resistance. @wralpheubanks.bsky.social says it always has been, and that goes back to the blues. @capitalb.bsky.social
Trans and non-binary people have ALWAYS existed.
We are an integral part of LGBTQ+ history.
We will never stop fighting for our right to flourish, grow old, and live without fear.
How can we take communities that are unhealthy and move them closer to a blue zone? There are 3 pillars for change that can make this happen. #PublicHealth
Photo of ALA Members participating in a 1980 Equal Rights Amendment march in Chicago, holding a blue, white, and yellow flag with "American Library Assn" printed in the middle. Text over image reads, "ALA's Committee on the Status of Women in Librarianship. 'Librarianship cannot upgrade itself without upgrading opportunities for women who constitute the majority of the profession.'" ALA150, American Library Association
Librarianship has long been dominated by women, but that has historically not translated to true equity in other dimensions. ALA's Committee on the Status of Women in Librarianship was created in 1976 to further the advancement of women within the field.
Read more: https://bit.ly/47kkQmb
#ALA150
9 years after her book on lethal self defense, STAND YOUR GROUND, originally came out, what gives Caroline Light the most hope in the whole wide world is seeing everyday people stand their ground against authoritarian violence.
March 8
International Women's Day
Women's rights have been fought long and hard for ...
THEN PEDOrump, HIS EPSTEIN ADMINISTRATION AND HIS REPUBLIKKKLAN PEDOPHILE PROTECTORS TOOK OUR RIGHTS AWAY ... OUR RIGHT TO CHOOSE!!!
Freedom of speech became part of the Bill of Rights in 1791. Did that mean everybody had freedom of speech?
No.
It took protest in order for people to get themselves included into the Constitution. #America250
"This is what opened my eyes to what lynching really was. An excuse to get rid of Negroes who were acquiring wealth & property & thus keep the race terrorized & keep them down." -- Ida B. Wells after People's Grocery lynching in Memphis #tdih 1892. Read ⬇️ 🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/pe...
Don’t forget that the 1839 Amistad rebellion is also a New Haven, CT, story.
That was where the enslaved Africans, led by Cinqué, were incarcerated on charges of murder and piracy before they won their case in the Supreme courtroom.
THE BLACK SCHOONER tells their story.
Here’s last night’s story about USAID, why the Trump Administration has gutted it, who is being impacted, and how many nice things John can say about George W. Bush. It’s more than zero! By a very narrow margin, it is more than zero. youtu.be/tU8S13xYJNM
In NO NEW YORK, Adele Bertei “chronicles her experiences as a queer artist in a vibrant cultural underground that centered around the East Village, the Strand Bookstore, and clubs like Max’s Kansas City.”
You haven’t seen this side of NYC before!
“I feel wild and lonely, and wonder if that’s how I am desired: unknown and at a distance. It’s easier not to care from that far away.”—Michael Torres #AbolishICE @literaryhub.bsky.social
When it comes to health advice, more people trust the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Medical Association than they do federal health agencies, according to a new poll
3 people dying a day from police and carceral violence is not the shocking news. What @terencekeel.bsky.social says is more shocking are the cover-ups and misreporting that literally bury this horrible truth.
James Baldwin was insistent on turning the mirror toward cis-het white men because he did not want to be the body on which they projected their fantasies of racial deviance and sexual immorality. @crileysnorton.bsky.social
Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died.
Growing up in the pro-life movement, Sara Moslener learned what it meant to be a good Christian woman. Years later, she realized that the pro-life movement is about protecting motherhood as a source of authority. #PurityCulture
First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, seated, surrounded by nearly 30 other women, seated around her and standing behind her. 1933. Harris & Ewing, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
As the Great Depression threatened the tenuous foothold of women on newspaper staffs, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt instituted a weekly, women-only press conference at the White House to force news organizations to employ at least one woman reporter.
The first was held on this day in 1933. 🧵
Getting artsy on 🎨COVER REVEAL Friday🎨 with @fernham.bsky.social!
HER OWN VOICE tells the stories of 8 radical women who responded to social oppression and helped create the modernist movement.
Watch this space in August! 👀
Cover design: Louis Roe
