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This stunning portrait of trailblazing civil rights legal visionary Pauli Murray, now hangs in the Pauli Murray Suite at Howard Law School. The portrait was donated by alumni.

submitted 30 days ago • 14 comments

Dogs are the answer. Or at least one answer

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

I spent the day reading about resistance.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

being a 19th century feminist ally was such a layup. imagine the brownie points you'd get for being on the forefront of stuff like "women's hearts won't explode if they exercise"

submitted 62 days ago • 31 comments

IT'S A WONDERFUL ESSAY: The last few days before Christmas is when people usually tend to rewatch 'It's a Wonderful Life.' Can I commend to you this really superb essay we published a few years ago? It could change the way you understand that movie. www.thebulwark.com/p/there-is-n...

submitted 73 days ago • 41 comments

People are being thrown in psych wards for considering abortion, insurance companies are denying anesthesia coverage if your surgery takes longer than they say it should and journalists are getting cease and desists for pointing out incompetencies in political appointees. Time is up.

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In South Korea, President Yoon Suk Yeol has declared “emergency martial law.” www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1... Remember @onthemedia.bsky.social’s handbook for following this kind of breaking news: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

submitted 90 days ago • 3 comments

Every transphobic argument can basically be boiled down to: "I actually don't know the science at all or have a good argument here, but trans people challenge my long-held view of the world and it's very uncomfortable and everyone should be expected to move around my discomfort."

submitted 92 days ago • 21 comments

Incredibly grateful that Alice Paul kept her focus on winning a Constitutional amendment for suffrage. Without it, I have no doubt states would be passing laws to deny the vote based on sex and gender.

submitted 125 days ago • 0 comments

"I like this country. But everything good about it has been the product of centuries of people who had no reason to hope for better but chose to believe that better things were possible, clawing their way uphill ... to build this fragile thing called democracy."

submitted 128 days ago • 1 comment

“But to be fragile is not the same as to be perishable, as G.K. Chesterton wrote. Simply do not break a glass, and it will last a thousand years. Smash it, and it will not last an instant. Democracy is like that: fragile, but only if you shatter it.”

submitted 128 days ago • 0 comments

Reposting to finish reading later.

submitted 132 days ago • 0 comments

"The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog." - Glamorizes hustle culture - Speciest - Was taught to you in elementary school "Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow." - Metal as fuck - Implies that you are a wizard - No one will know you are testing out a font

submitted 139 days ago • 156 comments

Historian of Reconstruction and I agree with this message.

submitted 154 days ago • 1 comment

Marissa J. Lang writes a tender story about the friends who gathered here on July 19, 1974. What were they doing having breakfast and drinking champagne on the National Mall? How could it happen? Gift link.

submitted 155 days ago • 1 comment

The Devil's Own. All alone in the discount theater with Ronnie when we started dating. I don't really remember the film because we made out the whole time.

submitted 155 days ago • 0 comments

The thing about "just move away from areas where natural disasters are likely" this time around is I feel like "the mountains flooded" isn't really registering with people.

submitted 155 days ago • 69 comments

Fugitive Uterus Act

submitted 156 days ago • 4 comments

Just ordered mine

submitted 158 days ago • 0 comments

Abolish the death penalty

submitted 159 days ago • 0 comments

In 1907, Congress passed a law that American women lost their citizenship if they married a non-citizen. In 1915, the Supreme Court ruled to uphold this act. It was changed in 1940, but citizenship was not restored to those women, nor their children.

submitted 163 days ago • 45 comments

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,425,190!

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Amazing new revelations in the Emmett Till murder case: www.washingtonpost.com/history/2024...

submitted 183 days ago • 17 comments

This conversation between Tiya Miles and Alexis Pauline Gumbs on Harriet Tubman and Audre Lorde was standing room only at the National Book Festival. Thanks to BookTV, you can tune in here!

submitted 190 days ago • 0 comments

Everyone will remember the "crowd size" joke. But I was a little sad that the next laugh line was a comparison to the neighbor with a leaf blower. There were few things Ronnie loved more than his leaf blower. I sure miss that incessant sound.

submitted 194 days ago • 0 comments

This is so cool. Very relaxing

submitted 197 days ago • 0 comments

Jason Kander, the guy who almost kept Josh Hawley from becoming a US Senator, wrote this about Kamala Harris & I thought it was worth sharing.

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Not to get too political but I agree with the new VP candidate that it’s probably best for everyone if we don’t have kids starving and bleeding on themselves in school, even if their parents are poor

submitted 208 days ago • 82 comments

The depiction of empowered women as deviant is not new. The mere idea of women voting was so terrifying to anti-suffragists that they concocted a specter of suffragists as abnormal childless spinsters who rejected men and marriage. 1/2

submitted 223 days ago • 3 comments

The Institute for Women’s Policy Research finds that in just two years, abortion bans have already driven 1% of prime age women out of the paid work force. iwpr.org/2024-analysi...

submitted 255 days ago • 3 comments