Kay Whitlock
@kwhitlock.bsky.social
Writer. Activist. Co-author "Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States"
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Kay Whitlock
@kwhitlock.bsky.social
· Feb 11
This Is How You Win the Culture Wars | Kay Whitlock | INQUEST
Faced with violence and authoritarianism, survival demands prioritizing relationship building over reactivity and solidarity over silence.
inquest.org
My latest for @inquest.bsky.social ...and yes, we can ultimately win, if we are willing to work in transformative ways. It will require the best we have in ourselves, but along the way, we may become quietly courageous in ways that will surprise and energize us. inquest.org/this-is-how-...
Because we also need beauty in our lives.
November 23, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Because we also need beauty in our lives.
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We did it on the Epstein petition, and we can do it again for healthcare:
Tell Congress: Support discharge petition to force vote on ACA tax credits
Contact Congress today!
actionnetwork.org
November 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
We did it on the Epstein petition, and we can do it again for healthcare:
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My mom said from Raleigh that people there were squaded up against ICE & ICE is leaving Raleigh & Durham tomorrow. She said there were trainings at churches for ICE watch & all kinds of things. She said "these are our people & ICE is not welcome." Alright mommy!
November 22, 2025 at 8:28 PM
My mom said from Raleigh that people there were squaded up against ICE & ICE is leaving Raleigh & Durham tomorrow. She said there were trainings at churches for ICE watch & all kinds of things. She said "these are our people & ICE is not welcome." Alright mommy!
Lynching takes many forms: "An autopsy report seen by Newsweek showed Ge was found tied with a bedsheet, with linens around his wrists and ankles in what the report described as a "hog-tied" position." This is what has been described as a suicide. #abolishICE
A Chinese immigrant detained by ICE was found hanged to death with his hands and feet tied and Newsweek runs the article with a trigger warning about “descriptions of suicide”?
www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
November 22, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Lynching takes many forms: "An autopsy report seen by Newsweek showed Ge was found tied with a bedsheet, with linens around his wrists and ankles in what the report described as a "hog-tied" position." This is what has been described as a suicide. #abolishICE
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Omar El Akkad's One Day, Everyone will have Always Been Against This has won the National Book Award. This is a deserving, necessary win. His words need to be on all of our minds and in all of our hearts.
"When it mattered, who sided with justice and who sided with power?"
"When it mattered, who sided with justice and who sided with power?"
November 21, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Omar El Akkad's One Day, Everyone will have Always Been Against This has won the National Book Award. This is a deserving, necessary win. His words need to be on all of our minds and in all of our hearts.
"When it mattered, who sided with justice and who sided with power?"
"When it mattered, who sided with justice and who sided with power?"
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A lot of the people lamenting Marjorie Taylor Greene’s departure from Congress—and celebrating her as some kind of principled maverick—are going to end up eating their words when she reemerges in 2028 to help lead a pro-groper, pro-Fuentes “America First” faction of the GOP.
November 22, 2025 at 2:49 PM
A lot of the people lamenting Marjorie Taylor Greene’s departure from Congress—and celebrating her as some kind of principled maverick—are going to end up eating their words when she reemerges in 2028 to help lead a pro-groper, pro-Fuentes “America First” faction of the GOP.
For so so so many reasons, I always hear Bob Dylan's classic "Masters of War" when contemplating the latest cruelty from the current current fascist administration. Always willing to sacrifice the lives that are not their own.
youtu.be/JEmI_FT4YHU?...
youtu.be/JEmI_FT4YHU?...
Bob Dylan - Masters of War (Official Audio)
YouTube video by BobDylanVEVO
youtu.be
November 21, 2025 at 10:56 PM
For so so so many reasons, I always hear Bob Dylan's classic "Masters of War" when contemplating the latest cruelty from the current current fascist administration. Always willing to sacrifice the lives that are not their own.
youtu.be/JEmI_FT4YHU?...
youtu.be/JEmI_FT4YHU?...
Please support the strike.
BREAKING: 30 more Starbucks locations are joining the strike.
Starbucks workers in 25 cities are jumping into the week-long strike.
Now @sbworkersunited.org members at 95 stores in 65 cities have walked off the job.
Starbucks workers in 25 cities are jumping into the week-long strike.
Now @sbworkersunited.org members at 95 stores in 65 cities have walked off the job.
November 20, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Please support the strike.
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🇨🇦😡Canadians can NOT afford to IGNORE and underestimate Jamil Jivani. He is BFFs with JD Vance and MapleMAGA to the core.😡
📰 Today's top stories:
▶️ Conservative MPs intensify anti-DEI campaign
▶️ Washington links F-35s to future trade talks
▶️ Chrystia Freeland named CEO of Rhodes Trust
open.substack.com/pub/canadano...
▶️ Conservative MPs intensify anti-DEI campaign
▶️ Washington links F-35s to future trade talks
▶️ Chrystia Freeland named CEO of Rhodes Trust
open.substack.com/pub/canadano...
Daily News Brief: Maple MAGA rally against "Liberal racism"
Plus: Chrystia Freeland lands a new job
open.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:38 PM
🇨🇦😡Canadians can NOT afford to IGNORE and underestimate Jamil Jivani. He is BFFs with JD Vance and MapleMAGA to the core.😡
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I want people to displace the imaginary depictions of *revolutions* that they have come to create in their heads with the actual small revolutionary acts that happen daily. We might get closer to revolution that way.
November 20, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I want people to displace the imaginary depictions of *revolutions* that they have come to create in their heads with the actual small revolutionary acts that happen daily. We might get closer to revolution that way.
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November 20, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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*people they define as Americans
See: most of American history/Native folks, Black folks, Mexican Americans, Japanese Americans, &etc
See: most of American history/Native folks, Black folks, Mexican Americans, Japanese Americans, &etc
a lot of you are probably too young to remember this but presidents dont normally wage war against americans
November 20, 2025 at 1:39 PM
*people they define as Americans
See: most of American history/Native folks, Black folks, Mexican Americans, Japanese Americans, &etc
See: most of American history/Native folks, Black folks, Mexican Americans, Japanese Americans, &etc
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Starbucks can end this today: bargain in good faith, resolve unfair labor practices, and stop the union-busting.
Until then, workers are holding the line! #NoCoffeeNoContract
Until then, workers are holding the line! #NoCoffeeNoContract
November 19, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Starbucks can end this today: bargain in good faith, resolve unfair labor practices, and stop the union-busting.
Until then, workers are holding the line! #NoCoffeeNoContract
Until then, workers are holding the line! #NoCoffeeNoContract
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"The River and the Falls have always been sources of power and abundance; it is time to honor the water as a relative, rather than a resource, once again." owamniyomni.org/design/
Design - Owámniyomni Okhódayapi
owamniyomni.org
November 20, 2025 at 2:43 PM
"The River and the Falls have always been sources of power and abundance; it is time to honor the water as a relative, rather than a resource, once again." owamniyomni.org/design/
This is why for years many of us and the ACLU warned of the dangers of adopting “domestic terrorism” as a frame for responding violence against vulnerable groups in the US. It’s so readily used against us, as is the rhetoric (and expansion of police powers) of “hate crimes.”
November 20, 2025 at 1:08 AM
This is why for years many of us and the ACLU warned of the dangers of adopting “domestic terrorism” as a frame for responding violence against vulnerable groups in the US. It’s so readily used against us, as is the rhetoric (and expansion of police powers) of “hate crimes.”
Not to be missed.
If you want to learn more about how family policing and the systems that claim to protect children make them—and our communities—less safe, join our co-founder @dreanyc123.bsky.social, Erin Miles Cloud and Dorothy Roberts on Dec. 1 at 4 PM ET for this event, hosted by @haymarketbooks.org:
How to End Family Policing
Join us for a virtual book launch of How to End Family Policing: From Outrage to Action, a much-needed intervention arguing that the systems that claim to protect children make them—and our…
www.haymarketbooks.org
November 19, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Not to be missed.
Excellent 🧵.
My comment on the "who is more racist" discourse is that Northern proponents of mass policing and incarceration pointed to openly racist caricatures of Southern sheriffs to avoid re-examining policing and jail in general.
November 19, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Excellent 🧵.
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It helps a lot that James Comey isn't sitting in pretrial lockup and can help plan his defense with his lawyers. Too many people never get the point where the jury feels like an option.
I will say Ye Olde common law jury trial system is proving its merit here. forcing prosecutors to get random dopes to agree on what they're doing is an important check
November 19, 2025 at 6:47 PM
It helps a lot that James Comey isn't sitting in pretrial lockup and can help plan his defense with his lawyers. Too many people never get the point where the jury feels like an option.
Agreed. Speaking for myself, I believe we’re in this mess, a long time in the making, because so many people thought that rights and other gains won would remain secure without our having to fight like hell to keep/expand them. Many people warned that this was the case but were labeled “alarmist.”
Curmudgeonly compaint to ignore: Even as I recognize its necessity, I don't like "we're going to win" rhetoric. I think it implies "norms" can be restored, that there'll come a day when this is "over"--vs. a long struggle in which there're victories but no final victory, because this isn't a movie.
November 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Agreed. Speaking for myself, I believe we’re in this mess, a long time in the making, because so many people thought that rights and other gains won would remain secure without our having to fight like hell to keep/expand them. Many people warned that this was the case but were labeled “alarmist.”
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It is both true that sexual violence is very dreadfully common AND that only a select group of people get to be victims with voices worth listening to.
November 19, 2025 at 3:22 PM
It is both true that sexual violence is very dreadfully common AND that only a select group of people get to be victims with voices worth listening to.
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Trans+ history is a source of creativity, experimentation, disruption, resistance, spirituality, and yes, pain, but also joy - our collab with Historical Homos 👇
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/histori/
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/histori/
November 19, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Trans+ history is a source of creativity, experimentation, disruption, resistance, spirituality, and yes, pain, but also joy - our collab with Historical Homos 👇
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/histori/
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/histori/
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So you mistakenly dismembered a journalist?
MBS claims the murder of Khashoggi was "a huge mistake and we're our doing our best that this doesn't happen again."
November 18, 2025 at 6:12 PM
So you mistakenly dismembered a journalist?
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Much respect to UFC fighter, Brandon Royval, who gave this answer as to why he would not fight at the UFC event on the WH lawn:
November 17, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Much respect to UFC fighter, Brandon Royval, who gave this answer as to why he would not fight at the UFC event on the WH lawn:
Yep. Olivia Nuzzi again.
November 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Yep. Olivia Nuzzi again.
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Two weeks into a new program that gives New Mexico children free childcare, officials are opening up about the surge that happened day one & how it’s been moving forward. In just a short time, the state said thousands of children are now enrolled in free childcare, & daycares are lining up to join.
www.krqe.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Two weeks into a new program that gives New Mexico children free childcare, officials are opening up about the surge that happened day one & how it’s been moving forward. In just a short time, the state said thousands of children are now enrolled in free childcare, & daycares are lining up to join.