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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for helping Vicky who just got laid off 🖤🙏🏻

Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 2d

I need some help. Got laid-off on Friday: unannounced budget change + my position was first cut, so it was a total surprise. Thanks to a tax status loophole my employer manipulated, I cant get unemployment. In short im SOL

Anything you can give would be huge
Venmo: Vicky-surge
Cash: $VickySurge1312

A cardboard bankers box sitting on top of an office chair filled with assorted odds and ends as I cleaned out my desk

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 2d

And if youve been on the fence, now would be a great time to subscribe to CAW! Especially since im actually gonna have the time and space to put more and more up there!
Venmo: Vicky-surge
Cash App: $VickySurge1312
Cawshinythings.com

CAW Journal

a worker-run anarchist platform of art, culture, and all the shiny things we can find!

Cawshinythings.com

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 2d

Im confident im gonna land on my feet but its pretty stressful. If you were planning to buy or pre-order my book anyway, if you do it through my Bookshop affiliate link below I get a few bucks now. Everything helps!
Venmo: vicky-surge
Cash app: $VickySurge1312

bookshop.org/a/5522/97988...

The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies and Took Over the World

How Disney Killed the Movies and Took Over the World

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 2d

I need some help. Got laid-off on Friday: unannounced budget change + my position was first cut, so it was a total surprise. Thanks to a tax status loophole my employer manipulated, I cant get unemployment. In short im SOL

Anything you can give would be huge
Venmo: Vicky-surge
Cash: $VickySurge1312

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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social · 8d

Absolutely Ed 🖤

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Aren Aizura @incommensurati.bsky.social · 9d

Ohio SB 1 banned DEI, forced closure of Ohio universities' cultural centers, cut degrees in Africana studies, Asian studies, disability studies, and gender studies as well as philosophy, geography, and music; and forces faculty to publicly post syllabi. What novelist supports these things?

Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social · 9d

I think that maybe, before or during reading and according attention to Michael Clune's novel, comrades might want to check out his January 29, 2025 testimony on Ohio Senate Bill 1 (tweeted/brought to our attention earlier this year by @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social) cc: @patblanchfield.bsky.social

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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social · 9d

I think that maybe, before or during reading and according attention to Michael Clune's novel, comrades might want to check out his January 29, 2025 testimony on Ohio Senate Bill 1 (tweeted/brought to our attention earlier this year by @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social) cc: @patblanchfield.bsky.social

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 9d

I am grateful to Ezra Klein for demonstrating over and over how liberals got us here. The constant appeal to the right by throwing away both principles and the most marginalized. Constantly coming around to an issue too late & only after you’ve helped destroy actual opposition. He’s a case study.

Jannis J Grimm @jannisgrimm.bsky.social · 9d

I relistened this conversation this morning. I think you should too. The way how Ta-Nehisi confronts Ezra with his positionality and with way he is throwing one disenfranchised community after another under the bus for the sake of "political strategy" is beautiful.
open.spotify.com/episode/4jQE...

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bridging Gaps vs. Drawing Lines

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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social · 12d

Love is contraband in Hell,
cause love is an acid
that eats away bars.

But you, me, and tomorrow
hold hands and make vows
that struggle will multiply.

Rest in power Assata

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Grace Byron @emotrophywife.bsky.social · 13d

Next month! With @reproutopia.bsky.social

www.headhousebooks.com/event/evenin...

www.headhousebooks.com

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 13d

I've seen a lot of people misunderstanding what this does and does not mean and Melissa does a great job explaining it's first and foremost a media strategy. Importantly, none of this is new and has been used against other groups and activists (Muslims/Palestinians, BLM, immigrants)

Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 13d

I looked into the group and the guy pushing the FBI to create a new designation of “transgender ideology–inspired violence and extremism”—itself a political project, meant to conflate the fact of trans people’s existence with extremism.

The Right’s Baseless Project to Link Trans People With Extremism

A campaign for the FBI to adopt a new designation of “transgender ideology–inspired violence and extremism” is less about law enforcement than politics.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 13d

Research conducted by @transjournalists.org “identified 43 outlets including the Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic and The Daily Beast running with the disproven stories of a ‘trans shooter’ and ‘trans bullets.’”

At least 43 outlets shared anti-trans misinfo after Charlie Kirk shooting: TJA | Xtra Magazine

A report from the Trans Journalists Association found that 43 outlets published misinformation about “transgender ideology” after Charlie Kirk’s killing

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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social · 13d

The modus operandi is always to sprinkle legitimately valuable voices amid the genocide apologism isn't it 😩

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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social · 13d

Meanwhile, this is their Opinion section today. Benny Gantz for eternal genocide-as-usual, and Thomas Friedman for "democracy". What a joke

Screen shot of today's Nyt opinion section with all the different headlines

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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social · 17d

we have to figure out how to act like we are all each other’s makers—because, inevitably, we are

Brooklyn Institute @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social · 21d

Faculty Writing: @reproutopia "That Wild “Wired” Article Is Not a Case Against Surrogacy" for @thenation | www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 17d

The thing my book will do that i think is genuinely different from the histories of Disney is argue that Walt's obsession with IP and technology is of a piece with his politics and his aesthetics: that IP management is a form of propertarian cultural domination in line with whiteness and patriarchy

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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social · 17d

#TOBLSPA

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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social · 17d

stop throwing yourself wantonly into the moshpit everybody, my wife says it's the end of DBS (Dumb Bitch Summer) and the beginning of TOBLSPA (Taking Our Bodies' Limitations Seriously and Proactively Autumn)

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 19d

If you support Shymaa today with $10 or more, send a receipt and an address to Movement Stickers at proton dot me and CAW will send a special double pack of stickers! Please support her as she is alone in the hospital, she is scared the doctors think she might lose her leg gofund.me/bec64b33

Donate to Help my family, organized by Shymaa almasrii

Hello, I am Shaima from Gaza. Throughout my life, I have never asked for help from anyone, despite goin… Shymaa almasrii needs your support for Help my family

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 19d

This thread was about Shymaa. It turned out she was shot by a quadcopter, and she may lose her leg. Im so so scared for her and her baby, I really need yall to support her if you can

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 20d

While I got my knuckles rapped by corporate America for being rude and tasteless about a guy who dreamed of the stoning of me and everyone I love, Fox's Brian Kilmeade advocated explicitly for the state murder of all homeless people -- on live TV, no less -- to virtually no response.

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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social · 23d

this always made me giggle too!

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ace @aceanbender.com · 23d

working my way through ENEMY FEMINISMS by @reproutopia.bsky.social and can’t help but laugh that one of the shittiest “feminist” orgs ever was called Women Against Pornography (WAP)

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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social · 23d

Thank you! Here is the artist @em16.bsky.social and the link to the tattoo post www.instagram.com/p/C_A-5pzOCT...

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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social · 23d

Eat sh*t RFK

Sophie smiling, outside an empty CVS minute clinic, pointing to the bandaid on their arm from the Covid vaccine they just got

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