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Karien Hutch
@karien.bsky.social
I do stuff with education and publishing. I believe everything is political.
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“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.” - Audre Lorde
When I first received my autism confirmation, I thought it was a good thing to be “high functioning”. Until my therapist explained that it was measured by how convenient (or inconvenient) you were to the rest of the world - a measure that doesn’t matter 🫠
November 18, 2024 at 7:13 PM
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resolved: people who insist that all social media sites must be places where users are constantly encountering and arguing with people over fundamental disagreement do so because their actual, real lives are echo chambers where they do not encounter any meaningful difference from day-to-day.
November 16, 2024 at 6:12 PM
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In my most classic informercial…but wait there’s more! Fantasy, fiction, non-Western fiction, Classics, Afrikaans, Historical Fiction, Art and Sport. @karien.bsky.social and I started our romance dreaming of the library we would live in one day!
November 15, 2024 at 8:15 AM
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The library continues! African history, political history, biographies, intersectional history, lanuages and dictionaries, children’s literature and philosophy. Some of @karien.bsky.social’s university textbooks feature here too!
November 15, 2024 at 8:12 AM
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it’s possible to believe both that NYT’s coverage of trump’s fascism has been grossly understated and that it’s bad for freedom of the press that he’s suing them
November 15, 2024 at 12:53 AM
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45,000 Gazans dead. 90% of the living displaced. No one's been deceived. They've looked away.

"A senior IDF officer quietly admitted what the intl community has long been reluctant to acknowledge: that Israel is carrying out ethnic cleansing in N Gaza & deceiving the world abt its true objectives."
Israel’s true objective in northern Gaza? Removing Palestinians – and annexing the territory | Ben Reiff
Settlers have been dreaming of a return to Gaza for nearly 20 years – and Trump’s presidency may only embolden them, says Ben Reiff of +972 magazine
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2024 at 3:23 AM
Introduce yourself as a TV character
November 13, 2024 at 6:42 PM
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An extraordinary moment. Guardian to stop publishing on Twitter www.theguardian.com/media/2024/n...
Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X
We will stop posting from our official editorial accounts on the platform, but X users can still share our articles
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2024 at 12:38 PM
“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.” - Audre Lorde
November 13, 2024 at 9:20 AM