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Quintessential Race Woman™️ @blckphilohottie.bsky.social · 21h

RIP Miss Major. Recommended reading if you’re not familiar with her and her contributions.

Cover of Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 4h

EXCLUSIVE: This tech has been used to track heads of state, journalists, and maybe even you.

@lighthousereports.com uncovered a vast surveillance empire whose untraceable tech has been used to target people in more than 100 countries.

It has operated under the radar for decades. Until now.

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 7h

Librarian fired after refusing to censor 2SLGBTQ+ books wins $700K US settlement #USA

‘I'm relieved to have this outcome,’ says Wyoming’s Terri Lesley

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Librarian fired after refusing to censor 2SLGBTQ+ books wins $700K US settlement | CBC Radio

A former Wyoming library director who was fired amid an uproar over books with sexual content and 2SLGBTQ+ themes that some people complained were inappropriate for young readers will be paid $700,000...

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Sad Francisco @sadfrancisco.bsky.social · 7d

At House of GG/TILIFI, with Asiah, Beck, Christopher and a few close helpers, where Major’s getting hospice care and trying to get some rest. Keep sending good energy this way.

Miss Fucking Major! I’m Still Here hand painted banner at House of GG Oasis

A karaoke machine on top of a bench that reads BITCH RELAX

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Sad Francisco @sadfrancisco.bsky.social · 2d

Miss Major is getting good care in home hospice here in Little Rock. Clip from Vice doc on YT titled: Pride Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Does For This Stonewall Veteran

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 16h

"Mainstream visibility hasn't helped our community at large. It's actually *more* to our detriment"💥
Miss Major spoke the unvarnished truth until the end, long live her legacy💥 (From MISS MAJOR SPEAKS: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary, Toshio Meronek/Miss Major @versobooks.bsky.social)

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MISS MAJOR SPEAKS

Motherfucker, you brought me here to show the public you care about the gurls and you don't--there's no honesty or transparency in that. And how about let sex workers be sex workers, because whoever's dick they have in their mouth is bound to be a whole lot cleaner than a hidden agenda of some obnoxious gay guy or lesbian who woke up in 2019 and saw a billboard for Pose and thought of calling up their minions: "Maybe we should put a Black person on a float during the Pride parade."

It was really cute when they put Laverne Cox on the cover of Time magazine back in 2014, but I can't help but think, what has that done for the average gurl on the street? Mainstream visibility hasn't helped our community at large. It's actually more to our detriment. The images that the cis people have of the community, they're images that aren't real to the gurls who are barely making a living. It's not real life. It's not keeping us alive. It hasn't slowed the murders, or the abuses.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18h

I've been told that this 2019 fundraiser for Miss Major started after her stroke is where anyone who might want to contribute to the expenses of her family in the immediate future should contribute: fundly.com/missmajor - It will stay open for the time being.

Click here to support Miss Major's Monthly Fundraising Circle by Friends of Miss Major

After Miss Major's 2019 stroke, donations go to continuing her rehab + her retirement fund, in addition to helping care for Asiah, the baby she and Beck ...

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

ICE hit our area hard again today. I spent the morning and afternoon on patrol, and then came home for Understory, the emotional and spiritual support group for activists I co-facilitate. @tanuja.bsky.social was going to cover for me, but I decided I needed to be there, for my sake. I was right.

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 20h

Reading Miss Majors Speaks was an incredibly moving experience last year. I can't recommend this book enough for those unfamiliar with her work.

Rest in peace 🖤

Miss Major Speaks Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary by Toshio Meronek and Miss Major

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 20h

What I learned from Miss Major was persistence and also keeping a sense of humor. I was lucky to see her work in various organizing meetings over the years. She was a model of how to be a good elder. Truly grateful for everything she did to make the world better. Time for the rest of us to continue.

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Eric Stanley @stillhere415.bsky.social · 19h

Thanks so much.

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Annalise Ophelian @dr-ophelian.bsky.social · 19h

The documentary I made with Miss Major 10 years ago is on Vimeo on Demand. If you want to spend some time with her on screen tonight and learn some abolitionist trans history while you're at it, it's free to rent with the code "shinebright" vimeo.com/ondemand/major

Watch MAJOR! Online | Vimeo On Demand

The award-winning documentary "MAJOR!" follows the life and campaigns of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a Black transgender elder who has been fighting for…

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Eric Stanley @stillhere415.bsky.social · 19h

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Eric Stanley @stillhere415.bsky.social · 19h

Devastated and undone but celebrating that we got to be on the planet at the same time as our beloved Major.

May we all be as unwavering In the face of fascism as she remained.

Sending love to the rest of the family.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 4d

None of us can do everything but each of us can do SOMETHING.

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K. Liakos @kliakos.com · 5d

America 2025:

The facade of a store in a Delaware strip mall called its fashion but the lights on the o n and exclamation point are out so it says it’s fashi

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 7d

Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 5d

I forgot to share my October newsletter here. prisonculture.substack.com/p/prisons-pr...

Prisons, Prose & Protest - #31

Rants, Musings and More

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 5d

Solidarity!

RutgersAAUP-AFT @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social · 5d

This week, our colleague Dr. Mark Bray came under attack by Turning Point USA’s Rutgers chapter for his public scholarship. Rutgers AAUP-AFT and the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union condemn this campaign and stand in solidarity with our colleagues. Read our full statement here: https://loom.ly/BDXasRY

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 5d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 14d

I teach a history of antifascism course @ruhistorydept.bsky.social and figured I'd start an ongoing thread this semester to share some insights from course readings and recommend some great works on antifascism.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 7d

Five years ago, the United Nations concluded that conversion therapy could amount to torture and recommended it be banned. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will consider a case that could greenlight it for LGBTQ+ youth across the nation.

Will SCOTUS Greenlight Conversion Therapy Even Though the UN Calls It “Torture”?

The outcome of “Chiles v. Salazar” could have major implications for conversion therapy bans across the country.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 15d

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In show of force, dozens of armed federal immigration agents patrol downtown Chicago

Dozens of federal immigration agents were seen patrolling downtown Chicago Sunday afternoon.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 16d

North Carolina and Idaho have already announced plans to cut payments to hospitals, doctors, and caregivers.

States Are Scrambling to Cut Medicaid Before Trump’s Cuts Even Hit

North Carolina and Idaho have already announced plans to cut payments to hospitals, doctors, and caregivers.

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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 16d

Since he’s crawled back into the limelight amid Trump’s crackdown on left-wing groups, here’s my 2019 profile of Andy Ngo.

He’s an anti-antifa propagandist who has a history of whitewashing violent fascist groups, particularly in Portland. jewishcurrents.org/the-making-o...

The Making of Andy Ngo

The right-wing provocateur’s grift exposing “the tyranny of the left” worked—until it didn’t.

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