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Independent scholar. Anticaste savarna. Abolitionist. Lives with horses, swords, overwhelming rage, and a traumatic brain injury. 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 #LandBack #BlackLivesMatter #TransRightsAreHumanRights
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You still have time to register for our webinar: Asian American Disability: History, Archives, Methods on March 26 at 4pm Central on zoom. Register at z.umn.edu/AsianAmericanDisabilityHistory @illinoispress.bsky.social @migrationcollab.bsky.social @uofmhumanrights.bsky.social @oah.org

#desi #mentalHealth centraldesi.beehiiv.com/p/dr-kani-s-...

Enraging & heartbreaking

“Who has the right to have rights?” #FreeSpeech #FreeMahmoudKhalil #FreePalestine inthesetimes.com/article/mahm...

Please, help if you can

THEY BROKE THE CEASEFIRE. WHY IS THAT SO FUCKING HARD TO WRITE.

May your ancestors guide you. Wisdom from an Indigenous (to Turtle Island) friend @ningaode.bsky.social #SaintPatricksDay

Having fun with liberty work today. #Horses #Equestrians #EquestriansOfColor #DisabledEquestrian

Aljawad Riding Club community in Gaza needs your support. We are fundraising for Coach Abed’s dental surgery. He was injured while imprisoned. #Palestine #Gaza #Equestrian #EquestrianCommunity #EquestriansOfColor #Horses

Join us March 26 at 4pm for "Asian American Disability: History, Archives, Methods and our panel of experts will discuss ableism and the Asian American community. Register at z.umn.edu/AsianAmericanDisabilityHistory @jonathanhsy.bsky.social @selenammoon.bsky.social @migrationcollab.bsky.social

Please, help if you can. While being held prisoner, our friend was subjected to blunt force trauma to his face. He needs dental surgery. We URGENTLY need to raise $900. The full cost for the dental surgery is $5,500. www.gofundme.com/f/help-coach... #FreePalestine

Jewish students at Columbia singing in solidarity with Mahmoud Khalil.

It's almost Pi Day 🥧 Which means we're going LIVE to discuss our new report, Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie. Join us over on IG Friday, March 14 at 1 pm ET – set a reminder here 👇 buff.ly/eIgqACT

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Advocating for Palestinians’ right to be alive is not advocating for terrorism. We will not be silent. #FreeSpeech #FreeMahmoudKhalil #FreePalestine

More loss of public data. Journalists and researchers, please keep a final copy of everything you’ve worked on, clips, datasets, etc. We can figure out how to alt-internet things if we HAVE it

This statement, about a US permanent resident who hasn’t been charged with any crimes, is going to lead to years of litigation. He is also turning Khalil into a hero.

LIVE NOW! Palestine in a World on Fire Join Ilan Pappé, Katherine Natanel, and @lalehkhalili.bsky.social as they connect the struggle for Palestinian liberation to various liberatory movements around the world. Stream here:

'Water Blessing' is available as a #print here: www.inprnt.com/gallery/bydh... This started out as ink on paper, reworked years later into a finalized hand-drawn illustration, mixing elements from ink studies w themes of (un)belonging between the body & water-body of the sea. #art #bsnm #artists

Please, help if you can

Coach Abed, recently released in a hos -tage exchange, is reunited with his family! That is the overwhelmingly good news. Here is the difficult news. He was injured by his captors. “Injured” is a very very mild word for the reality of 1/

NOAA provides Americans with critical, lifesaving information about our planet. Gutting NOAA leaves us vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and environmental disasters. Call on your congresspeople to #SaveNOAA: community.citizensclimate.org/tools/protec... @vanhollen.senate.gov

The border closure - the entity’s violation of the ceasefire - has led to the tripling and quadrupling of prices in Gaza. Please keep contributing to the Sameer Project’s Ramadan campaign so they can continue their distributions. chuffed.org/project/1239...

Alice Elizabeth McEwen (born 1870) was a journalist, newspaper editor, and teacher. She was one of the twenty-three Black women working as journalists in the US prior to 1891 (that we know of). In 1885 she published her first article, "The Progress of the Negro", in the Montgomery Herald.

Black history is gender history is American history is world history is current events

Please listen to disabled & marginalized people. We’ve been trying to warn you for years. We’re in an unprecedented time. History is repeating itself & fascism is back. You may not see it because you’re not a target. You think you’re safe. No one is safe. Fight with us.

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

We are honoured to help the LGBTQ+ Refugees with HIV/AIDs , we are calling for more help from the HIV/AIDs helping organizations to give us a hand because at the moment we are out of medication 💊, whoever sees this please spread it to organizations that can help #HIV/AIDs #stonewall #LGBT

"Despite the destruction and lack of resources Al-Shifa Hospital struggles to provide services to citizens" رغم الدمار ونقص الإمكانيات.. مستشفى الشفاء يكافح لتقديم خدماته للمواطنين www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwiC...

Can you speak up for trans folks today? Here’s one small action. Public comments are open for #genderMarker changes for #trans & #NonBinary people on passports. You can leave the same comment on all three pages.

I'm excited to talk about misogynoir and the rise of war on women in digital spaces on Tuesday at 12:30 pm EST at the NO MORE Tech Summit! It is free, and you still have time to register! events.zoom.us/ev/AgnWiOcoE...

Ramadan Mubarak!

GOOD NEWS!!! Coach Abed, our friend who was abducted in Gaza in December, was just released, along with hundreds of others. He needs medical care. please, help if you can. gofund.me/9cb13f16 #Gaza #Palestine #Equestrians

Our trans siblings need us to speak up. Right now

20% of Americans are on Medicaid. Many of them live in red states and are Trump voters. Republicans just voted to kill Americans to make Musk and billionaires more money.

Yessssss.

It’s clear by now that state abortion bans are having a seismic impact on health care. But they are also introducing a dangerous new dynamic for anyone who happens to conceive. Help us report on maternal health ⤵️

If you think mask bans are “no big deal” because there’s medical exemptions, consider the following: Police are not doctors Many disabilities are invisible Everyone should have the right to protect their health Criminalizing masks sends a message that maskers are “bad”. It emboldens anti-maskers