Kelly
@tense-sunflower.bsky.social
Allergic to writing bios. occasional ideas-guy. bi-femme loner and lover. 🌬️
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LGBTQI people aren’t DEI, we are people
Whole ass human beings
Whole ass human beings
February 18, 2025 at 8:49 PM
LGBTQI people aren’t DEI, we are people
Whole ass human beings
Whole ass human beings
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TOMORROW (WED): Rallies are being held across the country to protest the funding cuts to science and the illegal firing of federal workers.
Please join if you can. We need to show that many people oppose these destructive attacks on science and healthcare.
Details: labor4highered.org
Please join if you can. We need to show that many people oppose these destructive attacks on science and healthcare.
Details: labor4highered.org
February 18, 2025 at 10:13 PM
TOMORROW (WED): Rallies are being held across the country to protest the funding cuts to science and the illegal firing of federal workers.
Please join if you can. We need to show that many people oppose these destructive attacks on science and healthcare.
Details: labor4highered.org
Please join if you can. We need to show that many people oppose these destructive attacks on science and healthcare.
Details: labor4highered.org
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At 3pm on 9 February 2025, booksellers Mahmoud and Ahmad Muna were accosted by undercover Israeli police. They were arrested at the Educational Bookshop, handcuffed and taken to prison. Over 250 books were confiscated.
Donate to Jerusalem’s Educational Bookshop Emergency Appeal, organised by Saqi Books
Bookselling is not a crime: fundraiser to support the Educational Booksh… Saqi Books needs your support for Jerusalem’s Educational Bookshop Emergency Appeal
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February 14, 2025 at 9:53 PM
At 3pm on 9 February 2025, booksellers Mahmoud and Ahmad Muna were accosted by undercover Israeli police. They were arrested at the Educational Bookshop, handcuffed and taken to prison. Over 250 books were confiscated.
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This is a very heavy day for us.
To those who lost their jobs, we are with you and will work with you again.
To those struggling to see a future for our work, do not give up.
Real change in public health has always been a battle. Now it’s a war.
We will win it.
This is our country. #RISEUP
To those who lost their jobs, we are with you and will work with you again.
To those struggling to see a future for our work, do not give up.
Real change in public health has always been a battle. Now it’s a war.
We will win it.
This is our country. #RISEUP
ACT UP’s Radical Activism Saved Lives During the AIDS Epidemic
The movement stood up to the president, pharmaceutical companies, and the CDC.
www.teenvogue.com
February 14, 2025 at 9:57 PM
This is a very heavy day for us.
To those who lost their jobs, we are with you and will work with you again.
To those struggling to see a future for our work, do not give up.
Real change in public health has always been a battle. Now it’s a war.
We will win it.
This is our country. #RISEUP
To those who lost their jobs, we are with you and will work with you again.
To those struggling to see a future for our work, do not give up.
Real change in public health has always been a battle. Now it’s a war.
We will win it.
This is our country. #RISEUP
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One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!
February 14, 2025 at 4:25 AM
One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!
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Journalists should be discussing these power grabs in clear terms: this is an administrative coup. Elon Musk is acting outside the law to gut agencies and usurp and centralize as much power as possible in order to concentrate as much wealth as possible. This is a smash-and-grab race to autocracy.
February 7, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Journalists should be discussing these power grabs in clear terms: this is an administrative coup. Elon Musk is acting outside the law to gut agencies and usurp and centralize as much power as possible in order to concentrate as much wealth as possible. This is a smash-and-grab race to autocracy.
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When settlers seized and set fire to the Kitsilano reserve: As the Squamish Nation rebuilds with an ambitious new housing project, a scholar examines its long history of displacement. 🏡
When Settlers Seized and Set Fire to the Kitsilano Reserve | The Tyee
As the Squamish Nation rebuilds with an ambitious new housing project, a scholar examines its long history of displacement.
thetyee.ca
February 5, 2025 at 3:58 PM
When settlers seized and set fire to the Kitsilano reserve: As the Squamish Nation rebuilds with an ambitious new housing project, a scholar examines its long history of displacement. 🏡
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This is what revisionist history looks like, in real time. And this also is why it might appear that archaeologists and historians have to dig deep to discover the existence of powerful women and marginalized groups -- because their legacies are so often erased.
NASA workers were told to "drop everything" and spend their time scrubbing mentions of women in leadership, indigenous people, and environmental justice from the web: www.404media.co/nasa-dei-dro...
Workers at NASA Told to ‘Drop Everything’ to Scrub Mentions of Indigenous People, Women from Its Websites
"This is a drop everything and reprioritize your day request," a directive "per NASA HQ direction" stated.
www.404media.co
February 5, 2025 at 10:59 PM
This is what revisionist history looks like, in real time. And this also is why it might appear that archaeologists and historians have to dig deep to discover the existence of powerful women and marginalized groups -- because their legacies are so often erased.
Today several typically stoic people have confessed to me that their mental health is in shambles. ☹️
February 6, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Today several typically stoic people have confessed to me that their mental health is in shambles. ☹️
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Someone should make a database that allows you to click on a location and see in detail how Trumps cuts are hurting you directly. What medical center closed? What schools aren’t being funded? What programs are shutting down?
February 5, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Someone should make a database that allows you to click on a location and see in detail how Trumps cuts are hurting you directly. What medical center closed? What schools aren’t being funded? What programs are shutting down?
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I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons
February 5, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons
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From a journalist friend: Just spreading the word. The CDC is purging data, so people should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, and reproductive health. Also health data involving climate. The youth risk behavior survey has already gone down.
January 31, 2025 at 3:43 PM
From a journalist friend: Just spreading the word. The CDC is purging data, so people should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, and reproductive health. Also health data involving climate. The youth risk behavior survey has already gone down.
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Years ago, ACT UP protested at hospitals cutting off LGBTQ+ people from their care.
They didn't stand for it.
They didn't stand for it.
January 30, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Years ago, ACT UP protested at hospitals cutting off LGBTQ+ people from their care.
They didn't stand for it.
They didn't stand for it.
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the headline is not “trump blames deadly plane crash on DEI” but “trump seizes on deadly plane crash to attack minorities”
January 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
the headline is not “trump blames deadly plane crash on DEI” but “trump seizes on deadly plane crash to attack minorities”
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I hope people come to understand what we’re dealing with isn’t due to a lack of nuanced understanding of different approaches to addressing racism. They’re not looking for your reasonable middle ground or more compelling argument. They don’t care if you prefer a different intellectual framework.
January 30, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I hope people come to understand what we’re dealing with isn’t due to a lack of nuanced understanding of different approaches to addressing racism. They’re not looking for your reasonable middle ground or more compelling argument. They don’t care if you prefer a different intellectual framework.
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The "diversity" thing is such a stark example of so many journalists just accepting the right-wing view as the frame for a story. It doesn't really matter what comes after that, because you've already given their view legitimacy.
January 30, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The "diversity" thing is such a stark example of so many journalists just accepting the right-wing view as the frame for a story. It doesn't really matter what comes after that, because you've already given their view legitimacy.
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good thing trump fired the entire Aviation Security Advisory Committee last week and is redirecting funds towards deportations.
unrelated, remember how hitler fired the head of airship safety for not being pro-nazi and then put in a yes man willing to cut corners and then the hindenburg blew up?
unrelated, remember how hitler fired the head of airship safety for not being pro-nazi and then put in a yes man willing to cut corners and then the hindenburg blew up?
January 30, 2025 at 1:23 PM
good thing trump fired the entire Aviation Security Advisory Committee last week and is redirecting funds towards deportations.
unrelated, remember how hitler fired the head of airship safety for not being pro-nazi and then put in a yes man willing to cut corners and then the hindenburg blew up?
unrelated, remember how hitler fired the head of airship safety for not being pro-nazi and then put in a yes man willing to cut corners and then the hindenburg blew up?
I’m trying to document how US anti-DEI actions and attacks on federal research funding are trickling into Canadian media and holy hell I knew the National Post were vile but the images they’re choosing for their articles are really something else.
January 30, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I’m trying to document how US anti-DEI actions and attacks on federal research funding are trickling into Canadian media and holy hell I knew the National Post were vile but the images they’re choosing for their articles are really something else.
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UMass has a new webpage to track federal actions as a community resource
www.umass.edu/news/federal...
www.umass.edu/news/federal...
Federal Actions | UMass Amherst
www.umass.edu
January 29, 2025 at 7:49 PM
UMass has a new webpage to track federal actions as a community resource
www.umass.edu/news/federal...
www.umass.edu/news/federal...
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I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion
The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 28, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
Me mournfully to myself every time I’m on BC Ferries: “it smells like Hot Egg™️”
January 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Me mournfully to myself every time I’m on BC Ferries: “it smells like Hot Egg™️”
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If you're at a Southern university/institution that is closing your LGBTQ or DEI/DEIA offices please reach out to us. We are helping people preserve their department's archival history and will work with you to help ensure folks remain anonymous.
January 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
If you're at a Southern university/institution that is closing your LGBTQ or DEI/DEIA offices please reach out to us. We are helping people preserve their department's archival history and will work with you to help ensure folks remain anonymous.