friendly reminder that trans people:
- face elevated rates of violence, including police violence
- face extreme levels of mistreatment within prison systems
- have been medically experimented on for decades
- have been forcibly sterilized
- are demanded by society, and sometimes by legal [...]
Psst:
Project 2025 is terrifying for a lot of reasons but also because on page 5 it calls for teachers and librarians who grant access to books that are maligned as pornography (which just means anything LGBTQ) to be registered as sex offenders.
Pass it on.
Banal, obvious point but: if you don’t want Bluesky to die, you need to keep it safe and enjoyable for Black people and trans women. Lose either, lose the site.
/cc Bluesky team
Amerikanska satanister som sätter käppar i hjulet för religiöst motiverad lagstiftning i USA är en av mina favoritföreteelser. De gjorde liknande insatser i bl.a abortfrågan för flera år sedan: arbetet.se/2019/06/06/s...
Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools.
Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.
The post-festival feeling of sadness is a kind of a dubbel-edge knive. It's nice to be on your way home but sad that you had to leave that nice bubble that a festival is and miss...
It was worth working the gate at the local pride so when a guy drove by and shouted "i'm PROUD to LOVE PUSSY" I could shout back "so are many people here, sir"
Having vacation is great and I'm happy about that. But at the same time I dont't know if I'm gonna laugh or cry about how the world looks like at the moment, 'cause all those things are crazy af...
“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights” is literally the start of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. There’s no good reason why this shouldn’t include the freedom to transition, the dignity of being true to yourself, and the right to simply live your life.
The fact that the trail of tears lasted between 1830 and 1850 is baffling. 60,000 lead on a death march and displaced from their lands.
This is not discussed enough. And then forced to live in Oklahoma. And Tulsa just dismissed the Tulsa massacre lawsuit.
Imperial America. ☠️ 🇺🇸 🩸 🇺🇸 ☠️
I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️🌈💖
NEW ESSAY (many months in the making): A "Gender Critical" and "TERF" Primer (for readers trying to make sense of "feminists versus transgender activists" debates). no paywall, please give it lots of "claps" & share widely!
juliaserano.medium.com/a-gender-cri...