Krista Toovey
@krista-dale.bsky.social
Just another sentimental feminist lefty English teacher.
Avid reader/listener/viewer/writer.
Equal parts enamoured and disillusioned by the state of things.
Avid reader/listener/viewer/writer.
Equal parts enamoured and disillusioned by the state of things.
Words cannot express how heartbreaking this is 💔
I required a D&C after having both my girls for retained placenta.
Without this essential health care, I wouldn’t be here. Twice.
Not providing this service is absolute madness.
I required a D&C after having both my girls for retained placenta.
Without this essential health care, I wouldn’t be here. Twice.
Not providing this service is absolute madness.
My dear friend’s niece, who in October developed sepsis when a Georgia hospital refused her a D&C after a miscarriage, will be taken off life support tomorrow.
I don’t know the names of the countless others who have suffered and will suffered because of anti-abortion laws.
But her name was Haley.
I don’t know the names of the countless others who have suffered and will suffered because of anti-abortion laws.
But her name was Haley.
March 19, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Words cannot express how heartbreaking this is 💔
I required a D&C after having both my girls for retained placenta.
Without this essential health care, I wouldn’t be here. Twice.
Not providing this service is absolute madness.
I required a D&C after having both my girls for retained placenta.
Without this essential health care, I wouldn’t be here. Twice.
Not providing this service is absolute madness.
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BILLIONAIRES SMITE!
Trump’s Billionaire Tech Bros Have Lost $246 Billion So Far
Let's keep it going.
www.thegodpodcast.com
March 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
BILLIONAIRES SMITE!
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And the very beautiful Juliet from Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet - still a classroom favourite for me 🩷
December 28, 2024 at 1:42 AM
And the very beautiful Juliet from Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet - still a classroom favourite for me 🩷
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San Franciscan since 1980, regular user of public restrooms, probably shared them with more trans women than most people out there, also nothing to report. We're fine. Wrote about that four years ago. All still true. Damn this persecution. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trans women pose no threat to cis women, but we pose a threat to them if we make them outcasts | Rebecca Solnit
Growing up in San Francisco, the loudest, proudest queer town around, made it clear to me that gender was what you made of it
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November 20, 2024 at 11:38 PM
San Franciscan since 1980, regular user of public restrooms, probably shared them with more trans women than most people out there, also nothing to report. We're fine. Wrote about that four years ago. All still true. Damn this persecution. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The idea that agreement upon the basic dignity and humanity of all people is an “echo chamber” is hollow in its reductionism. I’d say it’s much more akin to the foundational building block for a functional society.
November 25, 2024 at 5:02 AM
The idea that agreement upon the basic dignity and humanity of all people is an “echo chamber” is hollow in its reductionism. I’d say it’s much more akin to the foundational building block for a functional society.
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"if you wanted rights and bodily autonomy you should have asked about it more politely, where we couldn't hear you" is always going to be the mainstream take on social movements I know
November 26, 2024 at 4:06 PM
"if you wanted rights and bodily autonomy you should have asked about it more politely, where we couldn't hear you" is always going to be the mainstream take on social movements I know
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Here are the 100 notable books from 2024 — including standout fiction, poetry and nonfiction, all chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.
100 Notable Books of 2024
Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2024 at 6:11 PM
Here are the 100 notable books from 2024 — including standout fiction, poetry and nonfiction, all chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.
I spent yesterday being called a fascist by an influx of men infiltrating a mum’s group on Facebook.
I said I call out (and at times censor) JK Rowling’s transphobic beliefs from my girls (who are 10 and 4) and my classes at school.
Popper’s paradox of tolerance reinforces my position perfectly.
I said I call out (and at times censor) JK Rowling’s transphobic beliefs from my girls (who are 10 and 4) and my classes at school.
Popper’s paradox of tolerance reinforces my position perfectly.
November 22, 2024 at 7:03 PM
I spent yesterday being called a fascist by an influx of men infiltrating a mum’s group on Facebook.
I said I call out (and at times censor) JK Rowling’s transphobic beliefs from my girls (who are 10 and 4) and my classes at school.
Popper’s paradox of tolerance reinforces my position perfectly.
I said I call out (and at times censor) JK Rowling’s transphobic beliefs from my girls (who are 10 and 4) and my classes at school.
Popper’s paradox of tolerance reinforces my position perfectly.
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Me every time a new person is announced on that man’s team.
November 15, 2024 at 4:41 AM
Me every time a new person is announced on that man’s team.
For those of you following Honey cat’s protests about me leaving the house - he is now refusing to let me try on formal dresses! 🐱
“The kitty doth protest too much, methinks!”
“The kitty doth protest too much, methinks!”
November 13, 2024 at 9:54 AM
For those of you following Honey cat’s protests about me leaving the house - he is now refusing to let me try on formal dresses! 🐱
“The kitty doth protest too much, methinks!”
“The kitty doth protest too much, methinks!”
I haven’t been able to stop thinking about this!
The last season of Succession predicted what would happen in this election with 99% accuracy.
November 13, 2024 at 9:00 AM
I haven’t been able to stop thinking about this!
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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Still laughing at this!!
Let's ask everyone we know to come over here to the resisting, loving, funny blue skies! 💙💙
Ask your friends, the journalists, the celebrities, the weather people, the artists, your mama!!!
Get them here & leave the Bird to the brainwashed.
✌️💙✌️💙✌️💙✌️💙✌️💙
Still laughing at this!!
Let's ask everyone we know to come over here to the resisting, loving, funny blue skies! 💙💙
Ask your friends, the journalists, the celebrities, the weather people, the artists, your mama!!!
Get them here & leave the Bird to the brainwashed.
✌️💙✌️💙✌️💙✌️💙✌️💙
November 12, 2024 at 1:29 PM
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Still laughing at this!!
Let's ask everyone we know to come over here to the resisting, loving, funny blue skies! 💙💙
Ask your friends, the journalists, the celebrities, the weather people, the artists, your mama!!!
Get them here & leave the Bird to the brainwashed.
✌️💙✌️💙✌️💙✌️💙✌️💙
Still laughing at this!!
Let's ask everyone we know to come over here to the resisting, loving, funny blue skies! 💙💙
Ask your friends, the journalists, the celebrities, the weather people, the artists, your mama!!!
Get them here & leave the Bird to the brainwashed.
✌️💙✌️💙✌️💙✌️💙✌️💙
Love this so much. As soon as it rebranded as X, I deleted it for purely aesthetic reasons 💅🏽
In the week since the U.S. presidential election, Elon Musk has used X, the social media platform he owns, to reiterate his support for President-elect Donald Trump. Some of X’s users have decided they want to post elsewhere. Among the largest beneficiaries of that desire is Bluesky. nyti.ms/48JtYAt
Bluesky Adds One Million New Users After Election
With one million new accounts added since the U.S. elections, Bluesky has solidified itself as an option for people looking to change their social media service.
nyti.ms
November 13, 2024 at 8:47 AM
Love this so much. As soon as it rebranded as X, I deleted it for purely aesthetic reasons 💅🏽
Despite everything that has happened to this point, at least I know that I am safe from this fate!
A very special election day bonus episode for the rushed, sloppy, irritated, and alive. There are two movie adaptations of Ira Levin's The Stepford Wives, and midcentury scholar @sarcher.bsky.social came by to talk about both of them—and why this story just keeps getting more relevant.
November 12, 2024 at 5:13 PM
Despite everything that has happened to this point, at least I know that I am safe from this fate!
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thinking a lot about something @moiradonegan.bsky.social said in the @yourewrongabout.bsky.social episode on the Jane Collective:
"do it with the full breadth of your imperfect personhood"
"do it with the full breadth of your imperfect personhood"
November 7, 2024 at 3:32 PM
thinking a lot about something @moiradonegan.bsky.social said in the @yourewrongabout.bsky.social episode on the Jane Collective:
"do it with the full breadth of your imperfect personhood"
"do it with the full breadth of your imperfect personhood"
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Whatever else it may have been, colonisation is a dreamscape in which the nation remains enmired. The last word in this powerful exhibition is given to Oodgeroo Noonuccal, in her poem ‘Municipal Gum’. Here we are suspended, another kind of specimen, an artefact of Enlightenment imagining.
November 10, 2024 at 6:18 AM
Whatever else it may have been, colonisation is a dreamscape in which the nation remains enmired. The last word in this powerful exhibition is given to Oodgeroo Noonuccal, in her poem ‘Municipal Gum’. Here we are suspended, another kind of specimen, an artefact of Enlightenment imagining.
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Krista Toovey
Krista Toovey has 323 books on Goodreads, and is currently reading What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt
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November 12, 2024 at 4:58 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Day 2️⃣: my favourite book this year “Young Jane Young” by Gabrielle Zevin
(How appropriate that I would read it just before the election..)
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Day 2️⃣: my favourite book this year “Young Jane Young” by Gabrielle Zevin
(How appropriate that I would read it just before the election..)
November 12, 2024 at 4:36 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Day 2️⃣: my favourite book this year “Young Jane Young” by Gabrielle Zevin
(How appropriate that I would read it just before the election..)
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Day 2️⃣: my favourite book this year “Young Jane Young” by Gabrielle Zevin
(How appropriate that I would read it just before the election..)
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Day 1️⃣: Blue Nights by Joan Didion
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Day 1️⃣: Blue Nights by Joan Didion
November 10, 2024 at 10:55 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Day 1️⃣: Blue Nights by Joan Didion
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Day 1️⃣: Blue Nights by Joan Didion
Just finished Sally Rooney’s latest novel. Her best yet.
Read my review about grief and other mid life meanderings on Goodreads!
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Read my review about grief and other mid life meanderings on Goodreads!
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October 25, 2024 at 6:07 PM
Just finished Sally Rooney’s latest novel. Her best yet.
Read my review about grief and other mid life meanderings on Goodreads!
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Read my review about grief and other mid life meanderings on Goodreads!
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This is a great poem by Danielle Coffyn.
IF ADAM PICKED THE APPLE
IF ADAM PICKED THE APPLE
October 24, 2024 at 9:52 PM
This is a great poem by Danielle Coffyn.
IF ADAM PICKED THE APPLE
IF ADAM PICKED THE APPLE