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Aotearoa born & grown. Irish national. Recovering Classics scholar. Decoloniser. Disability advocate. Zero tolerance for misogyny
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'Oh Rascal Children of Gaza' By Palestinian poet and playwright Khaled Juma - Al-Shaboura. Written during the Israeli bombardment of Gaza in Operation Protective Edge August 2014, that killed 547 Palestinian children, wounded 3,374 children and permanently disabled 1,000 children. #Palestine

submitted 28 days ago • 3 comments

i responded to one of the biggest streamers in the world. featuring @kenklippenstein.bsky.social

submitted 57 days ago • 3 comments

It is such a pleasure to see Trump and his gang be forced to listen to a sermon asking for mercy for queer children and the many people working in hard jobs in America. What courage Bishop Budde has to speak this directly to him. (A transcript is in the following post.)

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

#ICYMI - Have you ever wondered what it's like to age with autoimmune diseases? Dr. Amanda Piquet, the Céline Dion Foundation Endowed Chair in Autoimmune Neurology at Uni of Colorado, discusses how aging manifests for patients living with autoimmune diseases. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGkc...

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Transgender Law Center and @reprolegalfund.bsky.social’s Trans Health Legal Fund offers financial support for trans people facing investigation, arrest, or prosecution for seeking gender-affirming care. Share with your community, and apply here: reprolegaldefensefund.org/trans-health...

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

Some of these GoFundMe's for displaced Black people in So Cal aren't really moving. docs.google.com/spreadsheets... - there's a ton of need.

submitted 45 days ago • 19 comments

I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012. Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place. A thread.

submitted 45 days ago • 379 comments

New: Change Healthcare's breach last year affects over 100 million Americans whose health data was stolen. But for months, Change has hidden its official data breach notice from search engines, making it far more difficult for anyone searching the web to find it. techcrunch.com/2025/01/15/u...

submitted 45 days ago • 2 comments

On January 20, let’s all be Michelle. Don’t watch the inauguration. Instead, tune into MLK Day programming.

submitted 45 days ago • 115 comments

A great write-up on the incarcerated firefighter program in California & the folks in prison helping out with the fires in LA. Appreciate The Marshall Project for reaching out to me. All too often, folks write about fire camps without talking to people who’ve been to fire camps. Not the case here.

submitted 48 days ago • 10 comments

A reminder for people evacuating Hollywood that Metro is fare free. If you’re taking transit to get to safety I’d love to hear from you

submitted 51 days ago • 8 comments

When the Grenfell Tower blaze led to revelations that high-rise public housing across Britain were wrapped in flammable cladding, the government vowed those responsible would pay. Seven years on, the companies have largely escaped financial liability reut.rs/3BY7wYa

submitted 54 days ago • 24 comments

Hey All, please share and learn about this great summer program, conceived, led and taught by Indigenous scholars to Indigenous students! It's a groundbreaking concept, Indigenous Data Sovereignty #IDSov and protecting resources for Indigenous people's own and exclusive benefit. What an idea?!

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

Important thread

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

Anyone on #Classics Bluesky want to chat about Euripides and Greek drama? I graduated in 2007 so I'm not up to date with current scholarship, but I'm in the Nancy Sorlin Rabinowitz,Anxiety Veiled school of thought.

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

2024 was extraordinarily busy, so we’ll forgive you if you missed some of our articles at @bolts.bsky.social. Our team chose our 12 favorite pieces of the year. These are articles I'd love for you to not miss—& give them new life if you did. And: thank you for reading us! ↓

submitted 63 days ago • 6 comments

So the City of Miami was under a federal consent decree for 20 years that forbade them from criminalizing homelessness guess what happened during that time

submitted 63 days ago • 19 comments

1. Vertical (mother to child) transmission of HIV in the US is close to being eliminated—one of the greatest public health successes in modern times 2. RFK Jr is an AIDS denialist, & I fear that putting an AIDS denialist in charge of the nation’s health could be a huge setback to progress

submitted 63 days ago • 5 comments

#unboxing -- The Black Fantastic! IT'S HERE! My first-ever edited fiction anthology! Y'all these authors are THE ENTIRE FUTURE. #BlackSky #SFF #QueerCommons #afrofuturism youtu.be/oQObHBoatXQ

submitted 63 days ago • 6 comments

“He was on display for everyone to see in the biggest staged perp walk I've ever seen in my career. What was the mayor doing at this press conference.. the mayor should know more than anyone about the presumption of innocence that he, too, is afforded when he is dealing with his own issues.”

submitted 67 days ago • 845 comments