I’m pretty sure you’re not interested in engaging actual experts on this topic, but many of us would be happy to explain precisely why your statements are misplaced and damaging to many actual people living real lives.
Sometimes being a single parent means not being somewhere you were meant to be when you were meant to be there. I’ll be at Stonewall in spirit this afternoon. #transexualmenace
All thanks to #kendricklamar for teaching undergrads about close reading.
This.
We are all in this together!
5. Learn how to protect spaces in your life from ICE intrusions. The National Immigrant Justice Center has some resources here: immigrantjustice.org/know-your-ri...
4. Check out Common Cause- their website has info on voting rights, petitions on everything from protecting birthright citizenship to removing Musk from the White House. t.co/cMv6OW5Zb6
3. Call a loved one who might feel targeted by any of these reckless executive orders and see how they are holding up.
2. Show up for trans youth wherever you can. In NYC, there is a protest tomorrow (Monday) in front of NYU Langone at 6:30pm. Meet at 1st Ave and East 35th.
1. Send money- whatever you can-to mutual aid orgs that bring it directly to families most impacted by the California Fires. Here’s one: My Tribe Rise Altadena: mytriberise.org/home
I know we are all shocked and awed and struggling to keep two feet in the ground. But there are FIVE concrete things you can do RIGHT NOW to help:
Nerds: They’re pulling down data sets that collect gender and sexual data. YRBS has been pulled and word on the street is that BRFSS is next. Download your data.
So, I hear that @bsky.app runs dangerous algorithms that, through poor design and even actual malice, engage in content filtering, triggering liberal biases through the strategic exclusion of information and the exploitative reinforcement of preexisting behavioral patterns. And I’m here for it.