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Important to note they threaten withholding federal funds if institutions don’t comply

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The life expectancy of Palestinians in Gaza was slashed nearly in half amid the first year of Israel’s genocide, going from 75.5 years before the genocide to 40.5 years.

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Make America Mexicana Again #MAMA

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Transphobia is a rich man's game. It allows billionaires to position themselves as brave truthtellers challenging the status quo without really risking anything because the group they're demeaning lacks much of any institutional power. It gives them the thrill of martyrdom without any sacrifice.

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"A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in history. A quietly mad population is a tractable one" Naomi Wolf - The body is not an apology

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An #Elsevier journal retracted two papers because the authors used a certain piece of research #software without a proper #license. retractionwatch.com/2024/11/08/c... PS: Would Elsevier retract papers because the authors read some relevant background research through #SciHub? #Retractions

submitted 105 days ago • 2 comments

Number of PDF downloads from Sci-Hub per month (2016-2023) #SciHub #OpenScience

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I mean yay for the verification but Gazans have been showing bits of ordinance with us origin for months now.

submitted 276 days ago • 1 comment

#FreePalestine 🇵🇸

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As long as we’re talking about terror let’s think whether we’d rather be a Jewish student at Columbia during this “occupation” by a few dozen students or a Palestinian student under the Israeli occupation, which has leveled every university in Gaza and killed more than 30,000 people in six months

submitted 313 days ago • 17 comments

It's pretty simple: Cities that want more people to bike shouldn't force cyclists to ride alongside fast cars. "Substantial speed differentials between bikes and motor vehicles are a barrier to bike riding." doi.org/10.1016/j.jt...

submitted 313 days ago • 6 comments

So what does the Washington Post editorial board think someone who can't find or afford a place to sleep should do? Should they just disappear?

submitted 313 days ago • 55 comments

this is the right thing to do. #archeology #museums #indignenous #anthropology

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I just saw a thing where this poor girl's tweet was swarmed with incels on the bad site, and it's interesting how their biggest criticism is "you'll end up single," and she's like "good" because we've alread read the literature on how men make extra work for women.

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Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine says the university has circulated documents with photos of some of the arrested protesters to prevent them from entering Barnard dorms. One is Rep. Ilhan Omar’s daughter. www.instagram.com/p/C5_AjMjO1Z...

submitted 315 days ago • 33 comments

One doctor described the clitoris in 1597 as "that part with which imprudent and lustful women, aroused by a more than brutal passion, abuse one another with vigorous rubbings". Reis, E. (2013). Intersex surgeries, circumcision, and the making of "normal".

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Never not thinking of Judith Lorber's Believing is Seeing in which she argues that we should not be presuming to find gender in everything all the time, instead studying what we will and seeing of gender happens to arise from the results. That was 1993!

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"Earning" your right to dignity through Christlike suffering has always produced at best marginal gains. Jules Gill-Peterson really nails how even that is too much to ask for trans people. sadbrowngirl.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

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Making students homeless and without healthcare the same day, destroying their belongings, banning them from campus, having them arrested for trespassing—this institution has far too much power to do harm to the students for whose safety it’s responsible.

submitted 316 days ago • 60 comments

A major flaw in the right's effort to use women's sports as a cudgel against trans people is the fact women's sports is one of the queerest, most progressive institutions in American public life

submitted 328 days ago • 16 comments

"Right now we stand here as [folx] who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people"🖊️ Fixed. If that wasn't an easy task.

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"... a changing climate doesn’t just shape the environment in which we live. Rather, the climate crisis spurs visceral and tangible transformations in our very brains."

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This week, Uganda's Constitutional Court upheld a law that makes homosexuality punishable by death. To justify it, the Court cited the US Supreme Court opinion in Dobbs as an example of using "the nation's history and traditions...to overrule the broader right to individual autonomy"

submitted 331 days ago • 26 comments

depraved. inhumane.

submitted 331 days ago • 2 comments

Literally every straight t4t couple

submitted 331 days ago • 7 comments

Good Friday

submitted 336 days ago • 14 comments

A Utah man was charged with multiple counts of attempted murder after prosecutors say he plowed his car into at least six women over the last seven months

submitted 336 days ago • 27 comments

When disabled people with intimate experience of medical systems say we do not trust doctors to make judgements about whose lives are worth living, this is why. Until you experience it, you don't believe this could happen. We warned about it early in 2020. We're warning about it now.

submitted 339 days ago • 28 comments

More Butler

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guns don’t kill people; this singular armed toddler does

submitted 351 days ago • 95 comments

Contact with [menstrual blood] turns new wine sour, crops touched by it become barren, grafts die, seed in gardens are dried up, the fruit of trees falls off, the edge of steel and the gleam of ivory are dulled, hives of bees die (1)

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According to Wahl (2003), television viewing occupies more of a child’s time than any other structured activity, including school. By the time American children begin school, they will already have spent the equivalent of 3 SCHOOL YEARS years watching television (1)

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BECAUSE (say it with me, kids): Abortion bans are not only a violation of the 14th Amendment, but the 1st Amendment as well. You cannot enshrine one specific religious perspective into law and impose it upon an entire diverse nation of people.

submitted 358 days ago • 31 comments

Not hard to craft a dystopian conspiracy theory around this one!

submitted 358 days ago • 3 comments

Establishing a port for delivery of US aid to Gaza is so little, so late—and the image of the US responding to a genocide by expanding its military footprint is all too typical. Permanent ceasefire, now. Nothing less.

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Celebrate International Women's Day by interrupting men with your unsolicited opinions and taking credit for their work. If they get upset about it, be sure to tell them that they sound hysterical and should probably smile more.

submitted 358 days ago • 12 comments

Meanwhile in the states, in Arizona the head of the State Senate says women just need to put an aspirin between their knees instead of needing contraception

submitted 358 days ago • 55 comments