1. In devastating news, the Supreme Court just ruled in favor of conversion therapy, a practice the UN calls torture.
The ruling could have catastrophic consequences, writes Jackson in her sole dissent.
The ruling comes on trans day of visibility.
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Trans tabletop game designers! Post your work in this thread and I'll share them! If you want to talk to me about your game, feel free to DM me or drop me an email (it's in my bio). Everyone else, please take a look and give the thread a share! #TDoV #TransDayofVisibility
Trans People Belong in View Kumi Yokoyama (he/they)
For Trans Day of Visibility we’re highlighting the accomplishments of famous athletes. Their accomplishments aon and off the field of play deserve to be celebrated. They are competitors, they are our teammates, and they are strong. We hope that these visible athletes remind us that sports and athleticism are important to the whole trans community. Their fight, grit, and determination enrich us all. Today we say Trans Athletes Belong.
![The Spirit Squadron and Rose Room Collective are sharing the story of Kumi Yokoyama, a dynamic Japanese forward known for his creativity, technical precision, and attacking flair. Kumi made 12 appearance in two seasons with the Washington Spirit and was part of the 2021 Championship team. Beyond their on-field impact, Yokoyama has also been an influential figure off the pitch. In June 2021, Kumi came out as a transgender man in an interview with fellow Nadeshiko striker Yuki Nagasato.
“[Canadian midfielder Quinn] wore a [sweatshirt] that said ‘Protect Trans Kids’ before a game, and I realized that’s what taking action looks like,” Kumi said in an interview with the Japanese Times. “To be able to accept people you have no relationship with, that’s the kind of person I’d like to become and I hope we can create that society.”
Kumi is still playing professionally in the Nadeshiko League with Okayama Yunogo Belle.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fl7fcw26kxjdadnati7umjog/bafkreia6jswe32airaohwqxyj4f42rk5s5tlcap6htvvzs6uaxbt3mncte)
The Spirit Squadron and Rose Room Collective are sharing the story of Kumi Yokoyama, a dynamic Japanese forward known for his creativity, technical precision, and attacking flair. Kumi made 12 appearance in two seasons with the Washington Spirit and was part of the 2021 Championship team. Beyond their on-field impact, Yokoyama has also been an influential figure off the pitch. In June 2021, Kumi came out as a transgender man in an interview with fellow Nadeshiko striker Yuki Nagasato. “[Canadian midfielder Quinn] wore a [sweatshirt] that said ‘Protect Trans Kids’ before a game, and I realized that’s what taking action looks like,” Kumi said in an interview with the Japanese Times. “To be able to accept people you have no relationship with, that’s the kind of person I’d like to become and I hope we can create that society.” Kumi is still playing professionally in the Nadeshiko League with Okayama Yunogo Belle.
This Trans Day of Visibility, we’re celebrating Kumi Yokoyama, a champion and history-maker in more ways than one. Thank you, Kumi, for your time with the Spirit and for living your truth! Trans people belong everywhere, on and off the pitch.
Today SCOTUS, in a grave disservice to queer and trans people across the country, held that statutes banning conversion therapy are subject to First Amendment strict scrutiny. Basically, SCOTUS handed therapists a First Amendment right to torture queer people.
Only Justice Jackson dissented.
I’m proud to support PEN America's important work protecting free expression. I’ll be moderating a panel on graphic novels for young readers at the World Voices Festival. Find this EXTRAORDINARY lineup in NYC on May 2nd. More info at worldvoices.pen.org
at laaaaaast. the new book is out. it's forward thinking and moves the needle in terms of how we think about the first-gen experience. tell a friend.
ICYMI: We @propublica.org set up a tracker for immigration-related habeas cases, which means it tracks the number of suits filed by immigrants claiming they are detained illegally. The number has hit historic highs. We'll update it regularly with new data. projects.propublica.org/habeas-track...
Join us today at 3:00pm ET for a timely conversation as Augustus Mays, EdTrust’s VP of Partnerships & Engagement joins an education roundtable to discuss what’s at stake for our nation’s students. https://edtru.st/3O0Hb1w
THE LIBRARIANS is now streaming on @pbs.org’s YouTube channel and app. Watch now and get engaged in the Freedom to Read movement in your community!
Watch now: tinyurl.com/TheLibrarian...
in a text string after the shooting, a fellow agent told Exum he's a "legend"
"Beers on me"
And in the face of these threats--stop exercising your rights and you *might* have fewer violators of your rights terrorizing your community--dem leadership wants to suggest "common sense reforms and accountability measures" to justify giving these violators of rights more money.
Legacies By Nikki Giovanni her grandmother called her from the playground "yes, ma'am" "i want chu to learn how to make rolls" said the old woman proudly but the little girl didn't want to learn how because she knew even if she couldn't say it that that would mean when the old one died she would be less dependent on her spirit so she said "i don't want to know how to make no rolls" with her lips poked out and the old woman wiped her hands on her apron saying "lord these children" and neither of them ever said what they meant and i guess nobody ever does
Nikki Giovanni’s poems are deceptively accessible; getting it is a master class in close reading. I read
“Legacies” to my students the day she died. The poem’s a reminder that I live at the intersection of generational inheritance & torch-bearer.
28 poems for #BlackHistoryMonth day 5
The reward for absolute lawlessness, terror, and murder is legitimacy. Rest assured that by the end, dem leadership will compromise even on these half measures.
Screenshot of a map and table listing ICE warehouse purchase data.
🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is targeting across the US.
Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records.
Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...
You cannot do "commonsense reform" for a secret police force that's declared itself exempt from constitutional requirements. You cannot reform ultraviolent agencies that have been corrupt for decades and now have accountability only to the president's goons and lackeys.
““They’re both sick right now,” Gutierrez said. “She has no access to any medical care.” Elizabeth has flu-like symptoms, while her mom has broken out in hives, Gutierrez said. Neither has been given any medicine or testing — a particular concern given the measles cases in the facility.” She is 10
this part is so true, i mostly travel in women-and-children spaces in far outer SE, so the exact opposite end of town, and since saturday i've overheard and had multiple conversations about how to launder tear gas out of things like diaper bags including one at the methodist church
New — I spoke to eight people who were present at the ICE protest on Saturday in Portland, Oregon when federal agents deployed tear gas and rubber bullets into a crowd of families, children, elderly and disabled people, and their pets.
These are their stories:
Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza.
We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...
"We're going to pursue [prosecuting journalists] to the ends of the earth" is itself a whole thing before you get to the ", promised the Civil Rights Division leader"
“The earliest forums offered an invaluable space for people whose innate sense of being trans clashed with the prevailing culture. But there, in cyberspace, they built community and friendships.” From @alysbrooks.bsky.social
Thread:
Body cams won't stop this.
We want abolition. They want surveillance.
Share this thread and read these 5 essential abolitionist resources exposing the body cam lie.
PS these other reforms are garbage, too.
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‘The people are being charged with keeping the peace, asked to stand firm against the federal agents who are disrupting it. This is a sick form of double taxation — your paycheck gets docked so that a guy in a mask can beat you up while you try to calm him down.’
A teacher literally shaking as she describes the threat from her own government to the children she teaches www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
The headlines in this article in the Economist (UK) are great—better than almost any newspaper in the US
I think it’s far far more useful to think about how legacies of state terror and ideas about the Black family have shaped US government agencies like the child welfare system and policing, which in turn shape the political and juridical cultures and practices of ICE.
