Exciting stuff going on at my work! We're hosting a webinar about the intersection between AI, disability, and eugenics on 10 March, featuring our founding executive director Ly Xīnzhèn Zhǎngsūn Brown and disability scholar-activist Rua M. Williams!
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It really shouldn't be necessary to spell this out, but boys are not being told "BOYS ARE BAD." They're being told "RAPE AND MISOGYNY ARE BAD" and people want to pretend that those behaviors are "naturally" part of manhood, such that you can't get rid of them without getting rid of men
If we ever get out of this, the fact that men and boys were cast by the media as victims in a time when women’s advances and rights were being deliberately erased will strike some historians as one of the more perverse little hypocrisies of our era.
How are men and boys falling behind, you might ask? Well, boys disrupt their classrooms (no mention of how their misbehavior impacts girls’ education) and men now only have an 11% higher workforce participation rate than women do (it used to be more like 40% higher).
The starvation of Gaza does not make Jews safer.
The starvation of Gaza does not make Israelis safer.
The starvation of Gaza does not make Americans safer.
The starvation of Gaza does not make anyone safer.
Mat G!d have mercy, because again and again our leaders have proven that they won’t.
One option that is available to people everywhere is looking to Black history for a model of what it is possible for people facing oppression to achieve.
This magazine just fired all of their politics staffers
today’s information came out piecemeal, and people should be able to share their own situations on their own time, but I could share this much ^ as it is pretty cut and dry on the facts.
Teen Vogue also no longer has any trans staffers as of today.
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
Who could have possibly seen this coming?
Answer: Every single one of us that has warned about the dangers of these "age verification" laws. Giving up your #privacy is NOT worth it!
A thing about authoritarian information environments is that you definitionally no longer can know what is true based on what the authorities say, and everyone eventually adapts to this
My friends at ASAN out with a statement on the recent bullshit:
It is so damn obvious the trans sports issue is a drummed up nonsense moral panic masquerading as “common sense” - but if you look deeper for two seconds you see how the whole point of sex segregated sports is to defund women athletics & to build and propagandize the western idea of women as weak.
Even if you don't give a fuck about the human rights of trans people, diagnosing trans people as the reason Dems lost is inaccurate, and if you're working from that inaccurate info, you're going to implement the wrong fix.
it is absolutely fair to say that hakeem jeffries has, in the last year, shown more support for charlie kirk's life work than he has for the democratic nominee for mayor in his city, the largest city in the country
800 years of scholarly tradition chucked down the drain in favour of the literal stupidest bullshit in the world cos a couple billionaires opened their wallets.
Here is more info from multiple disabled BIPOC whose words were misrepresented and used without their consent in Ijeoma Oluo's book:
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Amongst the many, many other faults and follies of the party, perhaps the single most dangerous problem with the Democratic Party today is their incessant habit of reinforcing the idea that there is absolutely *no* principle that matters, no policy that is sacrosanct that they will stand behind.
Vaccines save lives.
And no, they do not cause autism.
I would love for a single democrat to reckon with the fact that conservatives are not in fact motivated by reasonable concerns. They are — just as they were with ‘concerns’ over blacks and gays and numerous other minorities over the last five decades — motivated by bigotry.
I just got mine, too!
*stepping out of a time machine in 2007*
I come from the future - the most consequential men in society are the hosts of the Man Show, Fear Factor, and the Apprentice
I believe this to my core. They're using trans people as a test case to dismantle individual rights in the US.
Groups and organizations committed to tackling these problems head on ought to be applauded and welcomed.
Catastrophic climate change is going to hurt the most marginalized first. In the face of threats that may not just end the United States as a country, but have the potential to wipe billions of human beings out, the urgency of change is self-evident to all people of good faith.
Anti-racism isn't a luxury. Dismantling white supremacy is both a moral imperative and structurally required for the survival of the Republic.
Transgender human beings are not disposable. Human rights are universal or they are not human rights.