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Meg Stone @megstoneimpact.bsky.social · Sep 18

Practical safety skills for living a bigger life! Hope to see you at @wburcityspace.bsky.social!

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Stand Strong: A night of self-defense training and empowerment

Every year, nearly one in four women will experience sexual violence on college campuses, but research shows that empowerment self-defense programs reduce these assaults by 50% or more. Join us for a ...

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Meg Stone @megstoneimpact.bsky.social · Sep 8

All the most ridiculous advice you've ever heard about avoiding #Violence, repackaged for the 2020s. Come see what #TikTok is telling young people about crime, violence and safety!

Spoiler alert: it's ridiculous.

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Meg Stone @megstoneimpact.bsky.social · Sep 4

A little behind, but it was an honor to present at this year's National Sexual Assault Conference #NSAC2025 last week. Thank you @valor.us for inspiration, challenge, critical conversation and fun!

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Meg Stone @megstoneimpact.bsky.social · Sep 4

What the ACTUAL?!?!?!

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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · Aug 29

20 years ago, Hurricane Katrina thrashed lower Louisiana in the eerie early morning hours of August 29.

6 days after landfall, NOPD officers shot 6 Black citizens on the Danziger Bridge and hatched a cover-up with their supervisors. #TDIH

“I knew this was a bullsh*t story, but I went along with it”: Police violence after Katrina and how it was covered up - Salon.com

The truth behind the Danziger Bridge killings in New Orleans has been hard to unravel . Here's how it went down

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · Aug 29

NEW: The Texas Republican lawmaker who blocked Democrats’ effort to filibuster the state’s gerrymander suggested “shoot, shovel and shut up” as a way to deal with immigrants — a comment that could boost legal efforts to block the state’s map.

From: @jenrice.bsky.social

Texas GOPer Who Blocked Filibuster Shared Approach to Immigrants: ‘Shoot, Shovel and Shut Up’

Read more here.

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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · Aug 21

There’s not enough evidence about what makes us safer. But @megstoneimpact.bsky.social says the evidence we do have is that self-defense programs that are explicitly feminist and that focus on familiar sexual assault reduce sexual assault by 50% or more.

Episode 29: The Cost of Fear - with author Meg Stone - Breaking Down Patriarchy

we save our own lives

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Meg Stone @megstoneimpact.bsky.social · Aug 19

It is not compliance that makes us safer, but resistance, critical thinking, self-advocacy, and choice. - Meg Stone
That’s true for safety. It’s also true for visibility.
🎧 Hear how Meg wrote a bold, brave book - and got published without playing small. www.lanelit.com/blog/how-to-...

How to Turn Your Advocacy Into a Book That Demands Attention

Learn how Meg Stone turned decades of advocacy into a bold, publishable book - and how you can turn your mission into a message that gets noticed.

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Meg Stone @megstoneimpact.bsky.social · Aug 14

Fascinating history. I didn't realize the role the AIDS crisis and the Reagan administration played in our current sex ed landscape. Can't wait to read this book!

Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · Aug 13

In a surprise plot twist, Ronald Reagan’s surgeon general, C. Everett Koop, called for sex ed curriculum to start as early as 3rd grade. The threat of AIDS made the need critical. @literaryhub.bsky.social

How the AIDS Epidemic Led to the Creation of Sex Ed in America

The Adolescent Family Life Act (AFLA), nicknamed the “chastity bill,” was a federal law that provided funding for teen pregnancy prevention under Ronald Reagan’s Omnibus Budget Re…

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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · Aug 14

In the world we’re living in now, every definition of gender-based violence has to be inclusive of trans people, non-binary people, and men. @megstoneimpact.bsky.social

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Reverend Aiden @sweetfnlucifer.bsky.social · Aug 13

Ghislaine Maxwell raped over a thousand little girls and right now she's at a Club Fed in Texas eating better food and receiving better health care than America's working poor. A clear symptom of a terminally ill society. If this doesn't piss you off, you are sub-human scum.

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Meg Stone @megstoneimpact.bsky.social · Aug 12

This.

Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · Aug 12

When people stand up to bullies, most Americans instinctively cheer--thanks Zohran!

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Aug 12

#ReleaseTheCuomoList

Meg Stone @megstoneimpact.bsky.social · Aug 12

#PHILADELPHIA people... join me September 16th to support a great cause!

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Empower Hour-Meet the Author Meg Stone

Join NBC10's Tracy Davidson in a powerful conversation about safety and regaining personal power with author Meg Stone

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ProPublica @propublica.org · Aug 12

NEW: Greystar, which manages nearly 950,000 apartments, has agreed to stop using “anti-competitive” algorithms to suggest rents.

ProPublica previously showed how such software lets landlords set rents in a way that could result in cartel-like behavior.

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America’s Largest Landlord to Stop Using RealPage Rent-Setting Software, Makes Deal With DOJ

Greystar, which manages nearly 950,000 apartments, has agreed to stop using “anti-competitive” algorithms to suggest rents. ProPublica previously showed how such software lets landlords set rents in a...

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Meg Stone @megstoneimpact.bsky.social · Aug 12

I am really looking forward to reading this book!

Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · Aug 12

Happy #PubDay, Margaret Grace Myers! 🎆

THE FIGHT FOR SEX ED, an impassioned call to reform sex ed in US schools into a powerful tool for reproductive justice and social equality, “illuminates a history that is more vital than ever before.” — @emmastraub.bsky.social buff.ly/sJkM81W

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Meg Stone @megstoneimpact.bsky.social · Aug 6

#womensafety #safetyhacks #personalsafety

Meg Stone @megstoneimpact.bsky.social · Aug 6

If you're tired of racist, sexist, fear-mongering, stranger-danger safety advice (or you just want to know what your teenager is seeing online) check out this free workshop! TOMORROW 8/7, 7pm Eastern. (And again in September)

Meg Stone @megstoneimpact.bsky.social · Aug 6

If you're tired of racist, sexist, fear-mongering, stranger-danger safety advice (or you just want to know what your teenager is seeing online) check out this free workshop! TOMORROW 8/7, 7pm Eastern. (And again in September)

Meg Stone @megstoneimpact.bsky.social · Aug 5

This.

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Meg Stone @megstoneimpact.bsky.social · Aug 5

More #Lateadopter catch-up. Here I was on CSPAN.

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[The Cost of Fear]

Meg Stone offered strategies on how to discern between fact and fiction when it comes to promoting safety and stopping gender-based violence. Fountain Bookstore in Richmond, Virginia, hosted this even...

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xavierresists.bsky.social @xavierresists.bsky.social · Aug 4

Sounds about right.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · Aug 4

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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · Aug 4

Throughout her travels across the globe, @sgriest.bsky.social observed that art holds many meanings for women artists. Art is a form of reconciliation. Art is a form of dissent. For her, art is a form of healing.

Local author talks 'Art above everything'

Local author, Stephanie Elizondo Griest talks 'Art Above Everything' and her journey as a writer.

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Meg Stone @megstoneimpact.bsky.social · Aug 4

Ever the #Lateadopter trying to catch up on BlueSky! Here is my piece on @oldstermag.bsky.social . Thank you @saribotton.bsky.social

This is (Almost) 52: Empowerment Author Meg Stone Responds to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire

"Nothing is surprising about being a childless, queer Gen-X-er in my early 50s, because I grew up having no idea what my life would look like."

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Meg Stone @megstoneimpact.bsky.social · Aug 3

It takes so much more heart, energy, and creativity to fix a problem than to point it out and diminish imperfect solutions.

Aubrey Gordon @yrfatfriend.bsky.social · Jul 28

If you’re rolling your eyes at a problem you observe (like a perceived lack of media literacy) without even attempting to help solve it, then you’re just judging and condescending. Usually to people who haven’t had the same access to education and resources you have.

Meg Stone @megstoneimpact.bsky.social · Aug 3

That time when I broke down patriarchy.

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Episode 29: The Cost of Fear - with author Meg Stone - Breaking Down Patriarchy

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