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Mel🏳️‍🌈 she/they universal healthcare now

@knownforms.bsky.social

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She/her, they/them. Writer, Researcher. Work in Strange Horizons, Tin House, Electric Lit, and more. I used to do research for Roxane Gay.

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Mel🏳️‍🌈 she/they universal healthcare now @knownforms.bsky.social · Aug 31

Idk I just want everyone to have free healthcare (including dental), safe housing, universal basic income so they don’t go hungry and free childcare/education. But this is considered impossible and naive while we spend trillions on war/genocide/police.

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 1h

Artist Michelle Browder’s 'Mothers of Gynecology' project is an act of resistance, challenging the silences around the ugly history of medical apartheid's impact on Black women. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

One woman's quest to reclaim the ugly history of Black maternal health

Artist Michelle Browder's Mothers of Gynecology project is an act of resistance.

www.motherjones.com

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 1h

Found out that the latest Nobel Peace Prize winner is a staunch ally of Netanyahu's and signed a cooperation agreement with the Likud party, which makes perfect sense. This is a prize that went to Kissinger and Obama, after all.

Venezuela opposition cooperating with Israel's Likud party

An opposition party, called Vente Venezuela,through its leader, María Corina Machado, signed a cooperation agreement with Zionist Likud party, which is in government through Benjamin Netanyahu.

nournews.ir

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 11h

See also: "Why isn't anyone DOING ANYTHING"

Translation: "I'm not doing anything"

People are doing things. They are doing a LOT. It's up to you to plug in and participate.

The Enigma of Amandagara Fault @amandalafrenais.com · 3d

"why is nobody talking abou--" EVERYONE is talkin about it BRO. You just never stick around to listen to ANYONE ELSE, you're just here to TALK

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 1h

Believe me when I say that sometimes this is what holds authors’ resolve together, because publishing is bleak af.

Henn, known robot kisser @iwriterobots.com · 14h

This is your monthly reminder: if you like a piece of writing, a piece if art, etc-- TELL THE PERSON WHO MADE IT!!! Leave a comment, tell them with *words* that you like it.
Seriously, it goes *such* a long way.

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 1h

Let’s hope Trump’s Gaza peace deal works out better than his “wonderful treaty” that he claimed ended 30 years of war in the DR Congo.

Two countries signed a peace deal in Washington. On the ground, little has changed | CNN

In the mineral-rich eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, new recruits are being trained for battle – and US President Donald Trump’s claimed peace deal for the nation feels like a distant dream.

www.cnn.com

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Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · 1h

This is a good and thoughtful response by a community group to actions of a different group (read thread).

Trans Pride Brighton @transpridebrighton.bsky.social · 1h

🧵 1/7 Last night, a trans-led direct action group, Bash Back, damaged windows at the Brighton Centre in response to it hosting the Filia Conference. To be clear: TPB had no involvement in this and doesn’t coordinate with Bash Back. Our organising centres community safety and collective empowerment.

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Hermione, Texas Granger @misterfungi.bsky.social · 1h

can’t even use the military on your own people and win the nobel peace prize anymore because of woke

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1h

He wants X thing so he gets X thing is not a given. And to me that's the thing to uproot from people's consciousness. Because we're less than a year in and many people seem already defeated.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 3h

Naoise's brother is asking Irish people to please contact the government #Speirgorm

My sister @NaoiseDolan, alongside other members of the Thousand Madleens flotilla, has been abducted by Israeli forces while on a humanitarian mission to break the illegal siege and deliver aid to Gaza.
Please join me in urging the Irish government to demand their safe return.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 1h

What I think Portland gets right ( mostly) and has since they’ve been doing this from 2015 when mainstream media was t paying attention but local popped off

Is

Portland shows up authentically

And their a bunch of weirdos but real weirdos

StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d

Portland is so good at trolling these fascists.

I ❤️ Portland

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Just a girl and her books @thebookwyrmshoard2.bsky.social · 3h

These all look amazing. And wonderful reads for children to learn more about Palestine.

Rachel Malik @rachelmalik.bsky.social · 21h

For #BannedBooksWeek

‘They didn’t even read the book’: How children’s authors are being canceled over Palestine

Authors tell of book bans, cancellations and harassment – ‘they’re trying to disconnect us from our stories’

www.theguardian.com

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 7d

Just in time for horror season, my story 'You Will Survive This Night' (1st pub in Nightfire's audio anthology COME JOIN US BY THE FIRE s2) is reprinted in the latest issue of @tasavvurnama.bsky.social. A woman navigates a winter house party in the poshest part of Kolkata & finds it deeply cursed:

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 1h

Contents are as perfectly delightful as you’d imagine. Jill McDonald somehow managing to bring a colourful quality even to her monochromatic illustrations.
Very, very tempted to get a tattoo of that spectacularly sublime sickly cat

Page from a 1970s puffin post magazine, gorgeous cartoon pictures in black and white illustrate short texts about how to make a puppet theatre from a matchbox and instructions on creating a snake shaped draught excluder with a sickly looking cross eyed cat with a speech bubble reading yurck in capital letters, illustrating a short item on creating a recipe for deliberately disgusting food. The style of the illustration is a joyful junior psychedelia

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 15h

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 2h

The "How to Report ICE" zines in the photo above were made by the incredible @meganpiont.bsky.social - download and print your own!!!

blacksky.community/profile/did:...

Megan Piontkowski illustration @meganpiont.bsky.social · 10h

Get your zines here:

drive.google.com/drive/folder...

SALUTE zines **BE SURE TO PRINT AT 100%!** - Google Drive

drive.google.com

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 10h

The Trump administration is offering $60K in student loan forgiveness as a recruitment tool for ICE, which just proves fighting Biden on student loan relief was never about the loans or “paying your own debt.” It was about who was offering it and who it would’ve helped.

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Mel🏳️‍🌈 she/they universal healthcare now @knownforms.bsky.social · 2h

I mean, there's a reason they're called "Kavanaugh Stops"

Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 18h

The administration's line about how it is "a disgusting smear to say there is racial profiling going on" with ICE neatly forgets that the administration frantically asked SCOTUS for permission to racially profile which the court then granted in a shadow docket decision.

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#OtD 9 Oct 1945 the UK Labour govt defended its jailing of 226 Spanish Civil War and anti-Nazi resistance fighters, describing them as "members of an enemy paramilitary organisation". Some killed themselves, others were deported to Spain for execution stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1094...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#OtD 9 Oct 1912 the Little Falls textile strike began at the Phoenix mill when the mostly women workers walked out to reduce working hours from 60 to 54 a week. Workers joined the @IWW and spread the strike. Learn more about IWW women: workingclasshistory.com/2018/12/02/e...

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Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · 2h

Sandra Bland was murdered for being calmly defiant.

thematthill.bsky.social @thematthill.bsky.social · 2d

Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.

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Georgina Kiersten @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social · 2h

I need Hollywood to look at Ryan Coogler and Jordan Peele's success in horror and give opportunities to Black women directors to do the same.

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Mel🏳️‍🌈 she/they universal healthcare now @knownforms.bsky.social · 2h

Not creepy at all #RapeCulture

WIRED @wired.com · 2h

Some sports gamblers are trying to predict WNBA players’ performance—and the outcomes of games—based on the athletes’ periods. One betting content creator has dubbed it “blood money." www.wired.com/story/men-ar...

Men Are Betting on WNBA Players' Menstrual Cycles

Some sports gamblers are trying to predict WNBA players’ performance—and the outcomes of games—based on the athletes’ periods. One betting content creator has dubbed it “blood money."