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babalang.bsky.social
Earth-loving, feminist, socialist, white, able-bodied, middle-aged mom, partner, reader, poet, & recovering academic 👩🏻‍🏫 Interested in social & environmental justice, women’s spirituality, community, and the poetry of experience ☮️🌳👣 (she/her)
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AOC: We must acknowledge the terrifying moment we are in right now. What we are hearing and seeing with our own eyes is, in fact, happening. We are watching our neighbors, students, and friends being fired, targeted, and disappeared. It is real.

submitted 2 days ago • 266 comments

Perioidic reminder that the reason you didn't see autistic people with intellectual disabilities on the street five decades ago was not because they didn't exist. It's because they were sent away to institutions and their parents were told to put away pictures of them.

submitted 2 days ago • 196 comments

When I imagine far into the future, yes, we’ve overfished the oceans, the streets are flooding again, and it’s hotter then hell on a September afternoon, but I still picture the world that gets conjured by the Green New Deal. I don’t know how we get there. But it’s the only future worth aiming for.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Be an effing dandelion.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I was scheduled to give a talk on Palestine at a student conference at @notredame.bsky.social. The University rescinded my talk a week in advance citing an extremely flimsy excuse. It is truly disgusting. Attached is the letter I received and my reply, link below...

submitted 8 days ago • 74 comments

Oh, that stifling orthodoxy that said you couldn't rape, sexually harass, be a racist, and generally have a good old boy time. While the right has been telling everyone who's not that good old boy that their rights, not just their voices, didn't matter. Same old "she made me do it" whining.

submitted 7 days ago • 19 comments

'Cause love's such an old-fashioned word And love dares you to care for The people on the (People on streets) edge of the night And love (People on streets) dares you to change our way of Caring about ourselves ✌️

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Thank you, Tufts. 🐘 “DECLARATION OF TUFTS UNIVERSITY … 1. On Tuesday, March 25, 2025, the University learned that Rümeysa Öztürk, a Tufts doctoral student from Turkey, was taken into custody by the Department of Homeland Security as she was leaving her off-campus apartment in Somerville,

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Good morning. Monday morning. In a rank choice voting system you need to rank five good apples for mayor in addition to NOT ranking Cuomo and NOT ranking Adams. Please help spread the word! Share share share!!!! Copy and redo in your own words if you prefer!

submitted 15 days ago • 48 comments