I'll be making myself available this winter to participate in Zooms with book clubs and reading groups that are discussing Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis. You can reach out through my website to arrange a convo with your group.

This reporting by the @nytimes.com sadly isn’t news to many of us. I was kidnapped at gunpoint by a Lyft driver in 2017, taken across state lines, and raped by him and 2 other men. This man currently drives for Uber. This is still a systemic problem.
www.nytimes.com/video/busine...

This is a truly landmark case requiring REAL reform that will change systems and generations, maybe even attitudes. Awe and gratitude for the bravery of survivors like Alison — and so (too) many others.

In 2019, I sued the City of New York for systemic sex discrimination by the NYPD. Yesterday, we made history with a landmark settlement requiring NYPD reforms in sex crimes investigations. It wasn't politicians who made this happen; it was the power of survivors.
gothamist.com/news/nypd-ag...

Some of y’all noticed I’ve been uncharacteristically offline. This is why, and I remain on leave for a few weeks to handle a PTSD relapse. CJR was dogged in its pursuit of my story. Because of what I do and who I am, I felt that I had to answer their questions honestly.

www.cjr.org/feature-2/we...

At the end of the day, the actual "welfare queen" was a white South African man.

This op-ed explains how to start an ICE Watch neighborhood program in your community. ⤵️

NEW: If a bill that would ban almost all abortions moves to the South Carolina Senate, not a single Republican debating or voting on the restrictions will be a woman.

By @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social

ACT UP, 1990

alright you wanna know how to support trans people?

hire them. It's REALLY hard already for visibly trans people to get jobs, even before this shit.

Support places that have trans people working front of house, and make sure owners know that's part of why you're there.

cis friends, you have no idea how big the impact of just asking how we're doing, and then actually listening is

you have no idea how rare it is

absolutely zero cis friends of mine checked in on me today. we notice this shit.

Use Signal to talk about protests
Use Signal to talk about your wordle score
Use Signal to talk about abortion
Use Signal to talk about your mom's knitting club
Use Signal to talk about parties
Use Signal to talk about gender affirming care
Use Signal to talk about the weather

Use Signal

I was the EIC of Bitch Media for nearly five years. Few things bother me more than people saying “I wish Bitch still existed” because keeping it alive was so damn hard.

I wrote about that conundrum for @theflytrapmedia.bsky.social. If you want an indie pub to survive, then please pay for it.

This piece by @freeblackgirl.bsky.social for @theflytrapmedia.bsky.social about how hard it is to fund independent media is almost too hard to read because of the strong echoes from when we announced that Burn It All Down was going on hiatus. theflytrap.beehiiv.com/p/pay-me-wha...

ALWAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TO MY CIS COMRADES: IT IS TIME TO STAND WITH YOUR TRANS SIBLINGS.

TO MY TRANS SIBLINGS: I LOVE YOU.

To truly appreciate how far rape kits have come, it’s important to understand not just the anti-rape movement of the 1970s but also the brutal pre-history of the modern evidence exam.

Read more: www.teenvogue.com/story/rape-k...

Find someone who loves you as much as Justice Alito loves worrying about detransitioners.