We don't talk enough about how social stigma harms sex workers.
Policy is made around you, but never for you.
You're often part of a demographic that is chronically unheard (women, lgtbq+, disabled, in poverty) but you're not allowed to speak
And we wonder why sex workers live on the margins.
IMPORTANT: The folks at LUCE: Immigrant Justice Network are organizing a week of action in MA to support the PROTECT ACT.
Stop Massachusetts' complicity with ICE kidnappings and violence. Show up for these events!
C'est un idiome de l'anglophonie, mais: sont-ils deux pays divisés par une langue?
Image of Canadian passport books laying on top of a map - text reads: Talkin' Justice Workshop: Citizenship Through Family 101 Tuesday, April 21 6 to 8 p.m. The 519 or via Zoom RSVP required
TODAY 6-8pm ET
Zoom or in person (Toronto)
Learn about Canadian citizenship by descent rules and process
Part of The 519’s Talkin’ Justice Legal Education workshops
FREE - RSVP: www.the519.org/events/talki...
OMG I grind my teeth about this all the time
This @bostonglobe.com piece highlighting substantive critiques of Massachusetts' "protect the kids" push for online ID checks is rock solid.
Many experts quoted along with parents and young people who would be directly impacted.
send this to yr MA legislators
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/19/m...
This. It’s much more bureaucracy-speak and technocrat lobbyist-speak than progressive/left movement speak.
Homer Simpson angrily shaking fists
I don’t know how it works in Toronto, but a lot of places in the US you at least theoretically have the right to hold back a portion of rent for that kind of nonsense.
Merci beaucoup, Maëlys!
Le livre est «Demain est un autre jour,» traduit de coréen, de Keum Suk Gendry-Kim (2023). C’est un histoire d’un couple marié confronté à l'infertilité. Ses dessins sont magnifiques.
trans women have a biological advantage at being hot now
J'ai lu un livre en français pour la première fois!
C'était une bande dessinée, et elle faisait peut-être quatre mille mots, mais quand même! Je n'ai eu besoin d'une application que de temps en temps pour traduire des phrases.
Maintenant, il faut vraiment que j'améliore ma compréhension orale!!
Who’s going to see Jane Siberry on tour?
View of the Hog’s Back Falls with high, churning waters; apartment towers in the background.
View of the Hog’s Back Falls with high, churning waters; green streaks can be seen where the water flows from under the bridge.
View of the Hog’s Back Falls with high, churning waters; taken from the middle of the bridge down into the channel.
View of the Hog’s Back Falls with high, churning waters, taken from the other side and facing upstream at the cascading froth.
Hog’s Back is high.
@massgovernor your bill would require everyone to give big tech MORE personal data and without effectively holding them accountable for abusivo features and practices. This is the wrong approach and it’s dangerous.
‼️MASSACHUSETTS ‼️ we need you to get your phones & get busy pushing back against @massgovernor.bsky.social ‘s awful social media ban legislation that pushes age verification- punishing parents & teens while letting Big Tech off the hook!
www.boston.com/news/local-n...
Emergency & I by The Dismemberment Plan (though I didn’t discover this band until they played my college a year or so later).
What perfect album came out when you were 18?
Governor Healey Announces Massachusetts To Become First State to Deploy ChatGPT Across Executive Branch
Hi @massgovernor.bsky.social genuine question. Did you use Chat GPT to write your social media age verification legislation?
THREAD: I've now analyzed @massgovernor.bsky.social's proposed social media legislation and ...
... it is somehow even worse than the House bill that passed last week (which was already one of the worst bills on this issue we've seen in the US.)
You might wanna sit down for this. Here goes: 🧵
“f/8 and be there”
Wow
This will be a nightmare for privacy and safety. How long until the first data breach, do you think?
It's not trans people causing you to not have healthcare but they want you to think that it is to create a scapegoat. The tax cuts for the wealthy and endless wars could've paid for universal healthcare for everyone in the US. A few trans people getting surgery isn't keeping you from that.
I would be on a costumed team with @floralashes.bsky.social any day.
*important point. (There have fun with that)
Sorry Florence, this is actually an imposter point and I realized I have no idea if you’re the sort of person who finds jokes about their typos psychically painful. I just thought of the reference, cackled to myself breaking the stillness of the empty guest loft, and posted.
International humanitarian ME??
My Body Rock Choke
Sex testing has been used by sporting bodies to target women athletes who, often through variations in their sex characteristics, or intersex traits, have higher than typical natural testosterone. The practice has been debunked as unethical, unscientific, and unworkable.
www.hrw.org/news/2026/04...
"Don't Rank Pinto: Leave Brooke Pinto off your ballot. June 16."
As Councilmember, Brooke Pinto has consistently advanced policies that endanger Black and Brown families. Yesterday she did it again for her own political gain.
We encourage DC voters: #DontRankPinto.
