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Erica Violet Lee
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nêhiyaw, Irish, writer. raised by the prairies, homeward bound. support my community: prairiehr.ca ☀️🦬 linktr.ee/ericavioletlee
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Time to prepare, beloveds. If you are considering stocking up, remember that these pills do expire eventually, and *do not* discuss your actions online or via unencrypted communication. Take no shit, and leave no trace.
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PLAN C: Abortion pills by mail in every state
Plan C is an information resource for self-managed, at-home abortion with pills. Learn how people in the U.S. are accessing abortion pill options online.
www.plancpills.org
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Take a look up into the skies
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"Personal space no longer existed."

"The tents were so tightly packed into the Yarmouk stadium [..] that I heard every sound as if there were no barrier at all."

"I am just a woman who wants to close a door behind her and a space to be alone to cry in."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Housing #Genocide
Suffocating from the lack of privacy
The walls of a tent barely divide space, let alone protect dignity.
electronicintifada.net
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Seventeen Jordan's Principle staff workers of the Cree Nation Tribal Health Centre have been laid off this week after the executive director says Indigenous Services Canada Jordan's Principle funding for tribal councils who serve off-reserve clients.
17 Jordan’s Principle staff laid off in Manitoba | APTN News
YouTube video by APTN News
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DOJ "website has removed at least two key reports about violence against Indigenous people."

"A widely cited 2016 study [..] showing that Native American women were more likely than White women to experience a slew of different types of violence is no longer accessible."
#USA #Policing
Key reports addressing violence against Indigenous women are gone from federal sites
The removals came ahead of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women’s Day of Awareness.
19thnews.org
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the state of Twitter: you can reply to any image of a woman with a request to Grok to undress her to her underwear and it will comply and post the reply in thread: www.404media.co/elon-musks-g...
Elon Musk's Grok AI Will 'Remove Her Clothes' In Public, On X
Elon Musk’s AI bot is undressing women on X.
www.404media.co
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92 years ago today, the Nazis raided the Magnus Hirschfeld Institute for Sexuality, where the first study of trans people was conducted, and burned all of its contents.

Fitting that today is also the day SCOTUS greenlights the project of the eradication of trans people from society in the US.
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I wasn't able to attend the local MMIW/MMIR event today but I want to take a second to honor the Indigenous trans women who have been murdered or gone missing, as well as other Two-Spirit relatives, who are too often left out of our memorials. Savannah Ryan Williams, Aubrey Dameron, Nex Benedict...
Kinanaskomitin, love. You are kind. I hope your day is gentle. ❤️
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"You need the ocean for this: to stop believing in reality. To ask yourself impossible questions. To not know. To cease knowing. To become intoxicated by the smell. To close your eyes. To stop believing in reality."
- Cristina Rivera Garza, The Iliac Crest
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Switching things up a little over at my Substack, specifically the paid tier, and half of all proceeds are going to Gaza Funds. Also LOOPER fan art! For the full text, see the post here open.substack.com/pub/danieljo...
Thank you everyone!
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To put this power back in people's hands, I've written a full freedom of information request that you can fill out, sign and submit for free to Calgary Police. [Other cities should do the same.]

The file and instructions are at the bottom of the story: 11/
drugdatadecoded.ca/calgary-poli...
Calgary police is monitoring social media of citizens
As Chief Mark Neufeld announces his resignation, a ten-month investigation by Drug Data Decoded reveals extensive social media monitoring by his media relations unit that could violate privacy regulat...
drugdatadecoded.ca
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@desmondcole.bsky.social told the authors of a 2020 report:

"One of the most important features of surveillance is the way in which it alters our behaviour... It alters our mind, literally. It forces us to consider that we are being watched... to self-regulate."

citizenlab.ca/wp-content/u... 10/
citizenlab.ca
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THREAD: How Calgary police is monitoring social media of citizens.

Yesterday, Calgary's police chief surprise-announced he is resigning.

This coincided with my story showing social media surveillance by his office that runs counter to rulings & CPS policy. 1/
drugdatadecoded.ca/calgary-poli...
Calgary police is monitoring social media of citizens
As Chief Mark Neufeld announces his resignation, a ten-month investigation by Drug Data Decoded reveals extensive social media monitoring by his media relations unit that could violate privacy regulat...
drugdatadecoded.ca
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East Hastings St
Downtown Eastside
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Much love for Filipinx comrades and community impacted by horrific violence during Lapu-Lapu Day celebrations.

For ppl seeking support such as meal train or counseling, you can access resources thru Filipinx-led mutual aid network coming together.

Share widely:

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Filipino Emergency Response - Request Form
If you need support, please enter your contact information below. Please note, that this is not an immediate service and one of our members will try our best to reach out to you as soon as we can. I...
docs.google.com
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Legal forms of resistance and litigation strategies aren't the only ways to fight. Thinking so misrepresents the past and weakens the present. It also reveals a strong naivete about the supposed objectivity of oppressive laws. I wrote about it for @prismreports.org. prismreports.org/2025/04/29/t...
Another way out: Doing what’s right isn't all about what’s legal
Overemphasizing what’s legal and illegal is about returning to a normal where the screams were more easily muffled, distant, and ignorable for many
prismreports.org
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As an anthropologist, if the only thing I ever did all day was remind people that before the privatization and commodification of land humans had way more free time and peace of mind, it would still not do a dent in how deep this myth has burrowed into people's colonized minds like a parasite
Liberalism is pretty good actually, it's why we have the time and peace of mind enough to even be having these discussions. Every tangible step towards civil rights is founded on the stability brought about under liberalism
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We are proud to introduce our next Workshop4Sudan w/ Ruth Wilson Gilmore on May 5 at 12 pm (EDT). This wkshp will among other things allow 4 reflections on what internationalism frm below might look like, given abolition requires it + how we apply it to diff. contexts.
chuffed.org/project/work...