"A corrosive ideology" otherwise known as unvarnished American history.

A love suden and love Gaza flag during Kendrick’s performance

The image of the night.

I audibly gasped when I saw Serena. The LORE

HATERS WE OUT HERE THIS IS OUR YEAR

Serena Williams!

Dorothy Porter in 1939, at her desk in the Carnegie Library at Howard University. Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Manuscript Division, Howard University

Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜

The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization.

Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵

NYU Langone is canceling gender-affirming care appointments of trans patients under 19

Email and call Dr. Robert Grossman, the CEO of NYU Langone Health, and demand that they resume care for trans youth. 📩 robert.grossman@nyulangone.org 📞 +1 (212) 263-3269 Call from 9 AM-5 PM ET on weekdays. Ask for the CEO’s office. Leave a message.

Hello, my name is [Name], and I’m a concerned [patient/parent/trans person/ally/New Yorker]. I’m calling about NYU Langone’s reported cancellation of gender-affirming care appointments for trans patients under 19. This preemptive policy change, in response to an Executive Order that is not settled law, is harmful and cruel.

The American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics, consider this essential care. Gender-affirming care is proven to be life-saving. A 2022 peer-reviewed study published by the AMA found that it reduces depression by 60% and suicidality by 73% among trans youth. Canceling these appointments puts the mental and physical health of trans youth at serious risk.

🏳️‍⚧️ NYU Langone is canceling gender-affirming care for trans youth under 19. This is harmful, likely illegal, & risks lives.

📞 Call +1 (212) 263-3269
✉️ Email robert.grossman@nyulangone.org

Demand they reinstate care now. Details: bit.ly/transyouthnyu

I think the transgender kids are the bravest kids right now that we see; they're as brave as my generation was in breaking down segregation. They're breaking down-I don't have the word for it right now-but it's gender prejudice, and [the idea that] somebody has decided that they can tell you who you are, what your name should be, and how you should look. And those youngsters are saying, "No, I can decide who I am, what my name should be." Everybody's mad at me like, You should be a girl because we've decided you're a girl. And they say, "Well, who the hell are you?" I can decide that I'm a boy. And if it makes me happy, what does it mean to you? And I can decide that my name is John. And if you don't like that my name is Geraldine, why can't you name yourself? And if the people who know you and love you-or have to talk to you, maybe they don't even love you but they have to talk to you -you can tell them, “This is my name, and I would like to be referred to in that way."

This interview with Nikki Giovanni from earlier this year should be required reading. oxfordamerican.org/web-only/nik...

Nikki Giovanni sitting on the floor in a white suit, blue/periwinkle shirt, and white and black wingtips with hands together as if caught mid clap. She is smiling, eyes twinkling. Full wide open mouth laugh with all of her top teeth showing and a little of the bottom. Her hair is fully white in a twa, little to no jewelry with either a pin or mic on her lapel.

You see what I mean?

Nikki Giovanni was a bridge elder. One of those elders who held onto their youthful exuberance. So much that you could see the young person they once were in their eyes. She bridged the gap between young and old, standing up for the youth, because she never forgot what it was like to be young.

Stop using these apps entirely, people. Get a notebook and a pen and go analog. I'm serious

58 Jazz Musicians Were Photographed for ‘Harlem 1958.' Only One Remains. Art Kane’s “Harlem 1958” gathered giants of the music. Sonny Rollins, 94, looks back at the historic picture.

Perhaps my favorite famous photograph:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

that thought came yesterday, partly thanks to wesley morris’s podcast on stevie wonder. and further back, bc of the memory of nikki giovanni singing her mother’s favorite showtunes and ballads at the jazz festival in harlem this year

I wanna ask her about her mama’s favorite singers. My great-grandma

Honestly so heartbroken. But this loss and so many things lately are reminding me to love on my elders. Already had plans to go see my auntie today

Thank you, Nikki Giovanni ❤️

This country wants poor people to die. They want them to suffer from treatable conditions. They are gleeful about it. And that’s why no one cares about an insurance CEO. This is their bed and they get to lie on it.

Apropos of nothing, thru my spouse‘s job we have “ good” insurance. 5yrs ago, I had knee replacement &they made me jump thru 1 million hoops ofc (& we were out of pocket $$$$ too). 1 month later, they sent me a 5-figure bill for the full amount. They *retroactively* unapproved it & demanded I pay up

Training AI takes heavy toll on Kenyans working for $2 an hour | 60 Minutes YouTube video by 60 Minutes

I see a lot of people talk about the environmental costs of AI. I don't see as much about the human exploitation behind it.

Thank you, Chase Strangio. Laws made to protect the marginalized should in fact do that

At this point I am running out of Legal Analyst ways to say that this man is a stupid and mendacious piece of shit

Friday Poem - How I Abandoned My Body To His Keeping - Seren This week's poem is from Kim Moore's debut collection, The Art of Falling, released earlier this year.

@kimmoorepoet.bsky.social has written so many wonderful poems. But this was the one, still in her 1st pamphlet, that made me love & follow her work from the beginning!

How I Abandoned My Body to His Keeping by Kim Moore www.serenbooks.com/2015/09/frid...

Blessings, safety, and freedom to you and your family ❤️🙏🏾

A staggering statistic: Every $100 increase in median rent is associated with a *9 percent* increase in the estimated homelessness rate, according to a report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

The math of our housing crisis is brutally clear.