Z
@inwaves.bsky.social
Former academic, current international philanthropic & NGO strategist for social change. She/her.
🏳️🌈intersectional feminist, ADHD,🏄🏻♀️🐾
Bay Area, California, USA.
Twitter: @zvakanaka_
🏳️🌈intersectional feminist, ADHD,🏄🏻♀️🐾
Bay Area, California, USA.
Twitter: @zvakanaka_
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"Quiet, Piggy" reactions from yours truly:
1. Soft misogyny in public is a tell for hard misogyny in private.
2. Not a single male reporter clapped back at Trump's "quiet piggy" comment.
3. I've seen no main page coverage from the biggest outlets. Absolutely part of the problem.
1. Soft misogyny in public is a tell for hard misogyny in private.
2. Not a single male reporter clapped back at Trump's "quiet piggy" comment.
3. I've seen no main page coverage from the biggest outlets. Absolutely part of the problem.
November 19, 2025 at 1:16 AM
"Quiet, Piggy" reactions from yours truly:
1. Soft misogyny in public is a tell for hard misogyny in private.
2. Not a single male reporter clapped back at Trump's "quiet piggy" comment.
3. I've seen no main page coverage from the biggest outlets. Absolutely part of the problem.
1. Soft misogyny in public is a tell for hard misogyny in private.
2. Not a single male reporter clapped back at Trump's "quiet piggy" comment.
3. I've seen no main page coverage from the biggest outlets. Absolutely part of the problem.
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Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.
November 17, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.
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It’s the seduction of the “silver bullet,” the belief that there remains a fact yet to be revealed that’s so damning that it will break Trump’s spell. But he’s not a witch, he’s a fascist. It’s not magic, it’s an awful movement, and you beat it not with counterspells but with better organizing.
August 11, 2025 at 7:20 PM
It’s the seduction of the “silver bullet,” the belief that there remains a fact yet to be revealed that’s so damning that it will break Trump’s spell. But he’s not a witch, he’s a fascist. It’s not magic, it’s an awful movement, and you beat it not with counterspells but with better organizing.
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This @jamellebouie.net essay is beautiful and tragic. Well worth your time. Well worth sharing broadly.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o...
Opinion | The Death of the Fourth American Republic
www.nytimes.com
August 6, 2025 at 8:28 PM
This @jamellebouie.net essay is beautiful and tragic. Well worth your time. Well worth sharing broadly.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o...
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Excited about this roll out!
Get your SOGI Data here!
Knowledge is survival. Access is power. And our history is not anyone’s to erase. #SOGIData #LGBTQ+ #DigitalPreservation #resist
Get your SOGI Data here!
Knowledge is survival. Access is power. And our history is not anyone’s to erase. #SOGIData #LGBTQ+ #DigitalPreservation #resist
Home | The LGBTQ+ Archive
Preserving federal and crucial information about the LGBTQ+ community in an accessible way.
This site independently preserves critical LGBTQ+ health, legal rights, and safety resources originally hos...
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May 8, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Excited about this roll out!
Get your SOGI Data here!
Knowledge is survival. Access is power. And our history is not anyone’s to erase. #SOGIData #LGBTQ+ #DigitalPreservation #resist
Get your SOGI Data here!
Knowledge is survival. Access is power. And our history is not anyone’s to erase. #SOGIData #LGBTQ+ #DigitalPreservation #resist
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Tomorrow, a certain online mega-retailer launches a book sale, just days before Indie Bookstore Day on 4/26. This is no coincidence; Bookstore Day is one of the largest revenue drivers for indies.
Indies need our support to thrive & build community spaces for all...mega-retailers do not.
Indies need our support to thrive & build community spaces for all...mega-retailers do not.
April 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Tomorrow, a certain online mega-retailer launches a book sale, just days before Indie Bookstore Day on 4/26. This is no coincidence; Bookstore Day is one of the largest revenue drivers for indies.
Indies need our support to thrive & build community spaces for all...mega-retailers do not.
Indies need our support to thrive & build community spaces for all...mega-retailers do not.
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Can you trust an average person?
The strongest predictor of folks saying 'yes' to that question is:
Educational attainment.
That was true in the 1970s.
It's true today.
However, notice how much interpersonal trust has dropped across the board in 50 years.
The strongest predictor of folks saying 'yes' to that question is:
Educational attainment.
That was true in the 1970s.
It's true today.
However, notice how much interpersonal trust has dropped across the board in 50 years.
March 17, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Can you trust an average person?
The strongest predictor of folks saying 'yes' to that question is:
Educational attainment.
That was true in the 1970s.
It's true today.
However, notice how much interpersonal trust has dropped across the board in 50 years.
The strongest predictor of folks saying 'yes' to that question is:
Educational attainment.
That was true in the 1970s.
It's true today.
However, notice how much interpersonal trust has dropped across the board in 50 years.
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Also important, the tactic of weaponizing civil rights against equality movements is identical:
"protecting" Jewish people requires punishing pro-Palestine
"protecting" women requires eliminating trans
"protecting" white + Asian students requires eliminating Black and Latin affirmative action
"protecting" Jewish people requires punishing pro-Palestine
"protecting" women requires eliminating trans
"protecting" white + Asian students requires eliminating Black and Latin affirmative action
The choice of Columbia in particular shows that there's *no* amount of suppression of pro-Palestinian speech a university can engage in that will insulate and protect it; so might as well try to do the right thing, which Columbia has determinedly avoided since October 7.
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DOJ, HHS, ED, and GSA Announce Initial Cancellation of Grants and Contracts to Columbia University Worth $400 Million
Today, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Department of Education (ED), and the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) announced that through their coordinated efforts they would i...
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March 7, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Also important, the tactic of weaponizing civil rights against equality movements is identical:
"protecting" Jewish people requires punishing pro-Palestine
"protecting" women requires eliminating trans
"protecting" white + Asian students requires eliminating Black and Latin affirmative action
"protecting" Jewish people requires punishing pro-Palestine
"protecting" women requires eliminating trans
"protecting" white + Asian students requires eliminating Black and Latin affirmative action
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The British National Archives folk have kindly shared this 1943 infographic to explain how they won the war. Catalogue ref: CO 875/15/12/f46
December 4, 2024 at 8:11 PM
The British National Archives folk have kindly shared this 1943 infographic to explain how they won the war. Catalogue ref: CO 875/15/12/f46
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No, I don't believe that acquiescing to the right-wing framing of trans women as sexual predators who are inherently threats to cis women is in our best interests, or in any way reflective of reality.
November 26, 2024 at 11:41 PM
No, I don't believe that acquiescing to the right-wing framing of trans women as sexual predators who are inherently threats to cis women is in our best interests, or in any way reflective of reality.
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Welcome to Issue 183 of The Continent.
This week, we travel to Beitbridge, where movement is free for the right price.
Get your free copy here: bit.ly/TheContinent...
November 23, 2024 at 12:43 PM
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The amount of people who don't know what is happening on Dec 4th is quite… alarming.
Everyone needs to understand what this case is going to mean for us-
www.aclu.org/cases/l-w-v-...
www.them.us/story/suprem...
Everyone needs to understand what this case is going to mean for us-
www.aclu.org/cases/l-w-v-...
www.them.us/story/suprem...
November 18, 2024 at 10:55 PM
The amount of people who don't know what is happening on Dec 4th is quite… alarming.
Everyone needs to understand what this case is going to mean for us-
www.aclu.org/cases/l-w-v-...
www.them.us/story/suprem...
Everyone needs to understand what this case is going to mean for us-
www.aclu.org/cases/l-w-v-...
www.them.us/story/suprem...
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This holiday season, are you looking for books for young readers about #womenartists? Visit #ArtHerstory's regularly updated post:
Recent Books for Young Readers About Women Artists
artherstory.net/recent-books...
Recent Books for Young Readers About Women Artists
artherstory.net/recent-books...
Children's Books About Women Artists | Published c. 2018 to 2024
An illustrated list, with descriptions, of books about women artists, written for children and/or young readers.
artherstory.net
November 13, 2024 at 2:10 AM
This holiday season, are you looking for books for young readers about #womenartists? Visit #ArtHerstory's regularly updated post:
Recent Books for Young Readers About Women Artists
artherstory.net/recent-books...
Recent Books for Young Readers About Women Artists
artherstory.net/recent-books...
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Bluesky,
Today is my 2nd day on here as an escapee from The Bad Place. I am BEGGING y’all to repost this
I have $80,000 in scholarship money to give away to women and girls NATIONWIDE. I worked so hard to raise this money. Applications open THIS week. I’m scared the mass migration will impact this
Today is my 2nd day on here as an escapee from The Bad Place. I am BEGGING y’all to repost this
I have $80,000 in scholarship money to give away to women and girls NATIONWIDE. I worked so hard to raise this money. Applications open THIS week. I’m scared the mass migration will impact this
November 11, 2024 at 2:49 PM
Bluesky,
Today is my 2nd day on here as an escapee from The Bad Place. I am BEGGING y’all to repost this
I have $80,000 in scholarship money to give away to women and girls NATIONWIDE. I worked so hard to raise this money. Applications open THIS week. I’m scared the mass migration will impact this
Today is my 2nd day on here as an escapee from The Bad Place. I am BEGGING y’all to repost this
I have $80,000 in scholarship money to give away to women and girls NATIONWIDE. I worked so hard to raise this money. Applications open THIS week. I’m scared the mass migration will impact this
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Think you're as good/bad as political pros at predicting which messages persuade voters? According to a new study co-authored by @jkalla.bsky.social, you're probably correct. bit.ly/48y7iTo
November 4, 2024 at 2:55 PM
Think you're as good/bad as political pros at predicting which messages persuade voters? According to a new study co-authored by @jkalla.bsky.social, you're probably correct. bit.ly/48y7iTo
Phone-banking for ballot curing in PA & just got a guy who said he was too depressed to handle this and the fascists won. But he stayed on the phone with me for 15 min & did take the info about how to cure. I hope he does it.
November 10, 2024 at 9:08 PM
Phone-banking for ballot curing in PA & just got a guy who said he was too depressed to handle this and the fascists won. But he stayed on the phone with me for 15 min & did take the info about how to cure. I hope he does it.
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californians!! there are house seats you can potentially save!
Okay, and I found some ballot curing canvassing in California! These are all in person - check 'em out if you're in CA! www.mobilize.us?country=US&q...
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November 10, 2024 at 5:16 PM
californians!! there are house seats you can potentially save!
If you see this, post a beach photo from your gallery.
November 10, 2024 at 5:02 PM
If you see this, post a beach photo from your gallery.
Reskeet and recommend two brilliant Black women to follow.
@shaonta.bsky.social
@aasewell.bsky.social
@shaonta.bsky.social
@aasewell.bsky.social
Reskeet and recommend two brilliant black women to follow.
I’ll go first: @sorayamcdonald.bsky.social
@reetamac.bsky.social
I’ll go first: @sorayamcdonald.bsky.social
@reetamac.bsky.social
November 10, 2024 at 4:44 PM
Reskeet and recommend two brilliant Black women to follow.
@shaonta.bsky.social
@aasewell.bsky.social
@shaonta.bsky.social
@aasewell.bsky.social
I have had to get really quiet since Tuesday, not really capable of engaging yet, but I did sign up for this phonebanking after the 3rd post I saw. Thank you to those who keep pushing.💙
Saving Casey's seat would be huge for getting the Senate back in 2026. Curing is only going on through Tuesday the 12th.
Pennsylvania! Here we go! Pretty sure this is to try to hold Casey's Senate seat. Sign up here for ballot curing! www.mobilize.us/2024pavictor...
November 10, 2024 at 4:39 PM
I have had to get really quiet since Tuesday, not really capable of engaging yet, but I did sign up for this phonebanking after the 3rd post I saw. Thank you to those who keep pushing.💙
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Terrified people getting constantly re-terrified can’t think clearly. We all need to be thinking as clearly as we can. This was true in 2016 and during the early-pandemic info vacuum and it’s true now.
November 10, 2024 at 4:15 PM
Terrified people getting constantly re-terrified can’t think clearly. We all need to be thinking as clearly as we can. This was true in 2016 and during the early-pandemic info vacuum and it’s true now.
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For the next two weeks, we’re offering ten free ebooks for getting free
Another world is possible if we fight for it
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Another world is possible if we fight for it
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November 9, 2024 at 8:22 PM
For the next two weeks, we’re offering ten free ebooks for getting free
Another world is possible if we fight for it
www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-te...
Another world is possible if we fight for it
www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-te...
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🤩 I wholeheartedly recommend Josh's wonderful book: A Little Gay Natural History (UK)/A Little Queer Natural History (US). 🐧🌈🦋 #PrideInSTEM
November 8, 2024 at 2:03 PM
🤩 I wholeheartedly recommend Josh's wonderful book: A Little Gay Natural History (UK)/A Little Queer Natural History (US). 🐧🌈🦋 #PrideInSTEM
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The complaint about the phrase “toxic masculinity” is a classic reversal of victim and offender: the moral emergency is not the sexist violence and degradation that women are complaining about, but the way that overhearing their complaints makes men feel.
November 7, 2024 at 4:53 PM
The complaint about the phrase “toxic masculinity” is a classic reversal of victim and offender: the moral emergency is not the sexist violence and degradation that women are complaining about, but the way that overhearing their complaints makes men feel.