Sheena Barnes
@barnesforequity.bsky.social
Director of People & Culture @ Equality Ohio | Toledo Public Schools Board of Ed | Equity-Centered Leadership Consultant | Fighting for justice, inclusion & thriving communities 💪🏿🏳️🌈👑
At last night's school board meeting, my community reminded me that I'm not fighting for our students, staff and district alone 🥹🥰
Together we will keep protecting our ALL students and teaching the truth
#protectPublicEducation #WomensHistoryMonth
@toledopersists.bsky.social
Together we will keep protecting our ALL students and teaching the truth
#protectPublicEducation #WomensHistoryMonth
@toledopersists.bsky.social
March 26, 2025 at 11:03 AM
At last night's school board meeting, my community reminded me that I'm not fighting for our students, staff and district alone 🥹🥰
Together we will keep protecting our ALL students and teaching the truth
#protectPublicEducation #WomensHistoryMonth
@toledopersists.bsky.social
Together we will keep protecting our ALL students and teaching the truth
#protectPublicEducation #WomensHistoryMonth
@toledopersists.bsky.social
Today, I proudly wear my blue in solidarity with public schools across America! Our students and educators deserve fully funded classrooms.
It’s time to invest in our future by prioritizing public education.
💙📚 #FundOurSchools #SupportTeachers #PublicEducationMatters
It’s time to invest in our future by prioritizing public education.
💙📚 #FundOurSchools #SupportTeachers #PublicEducationMatters
March 4, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Today, I proudly wear my blue in solidarity with public schools across America! Our students and educators deserve fully funded classrooms.
It’s time to invest in our future by prioritizing public education.
💙📚 #FundOurSchools #SupportTeachers #PublicEducationMatters
It’s time to invest in our future by prioritizing public education.
💙📚 #FundOurSchools #SupportTeachers #PublicEducationMatters
At last night's school board meeting, we celebrated #BlackHistoryMonth by giving those who are doing the work in our district that would bring joy to our ancestors.
I am that Black Queer school board member and I am TPS proud ♥️🖤💚
#doingthework
I am that Black Queer school board member and I am TPS proud ♥️🖤💚
#doingthework
February 26, 2025 at 1:09 PM
At last night's school board meeting, we celebrated #BlackHistoryMonth by giving those who are doing the work in our district that would bring joy to our ancestors.
I am that Black Queer school board member and I am TPS proud ♥️🖤💚
#doingthework
I am that Black Queer school board member and I am TPS proud ♥️🖤💚
#doingthework
February 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Another set of handy dandy tools for fighting extremism at the statehouse: open.substack.com/pub/ohagains...
How to Track Ohio Statehouse Bills
It's a new legislative session in the Ohio General Assembly. Here are some ways to keep up with the madness.
open.substack.com
January 28, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Another set of handy dandy tools for fighting extremism at the statehouse: open.substack.com/pub/ohagains...
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I hate to be that guy, but it feels like there was more (again, totally justified) outrage at Tik Tok being banned than Trump trying to take birthright citizenship away and deciding to use ICE to ethnically cleanse Black and Brown folks.
January 28, 2025 at 1:39 AM
I hate to be that guy, but it feels like there was more (again, totally justified) outrage at Tik Tok being banned than Trump trying to take birthright citizenship away and deciding to use ICE to ethnically cleanse Black and Brown folks.
We are hiring! Join us as a part-time organizer. More info here: www.honestyforohioeducation.org/jobs.html
January 29, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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Turning our schools into prisons is the dystopia the gun lobby wants. We shouldn’t have to live like that. Instead, we demand stronger gun laws and proactive school safety policies that will keep guns from getting to our campuses in the first place.
December 17, 2024 at 3:46 PM
Turning our schools into prisons is the dystopia the gun lobby wants. We shouldn’t have to live like that. Instead, we demand stronger gun laws and proactive school safety policies that will keep guns from getting to our campuses in the first place.
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Teaching kids how to use guns is the dystopia the gun lobby has been working for. It puts the burden on kids to “know better,” not on the adult gun owners to securely store their guns.
December 13, 2024 at 4:54 PM
Teaching kids how to use guns is the dystopia the gun lobby has been working for. It puts the burden on kids to “know better,” not on the adult gun owners to securely store their guns.
That category is... (drop the best in the comments)
#Ballroom #BlackGaySlay
#Blacksky
@nbjc.bsky.social @victoryinstitute.bsky.social
#Ballroom #BlackGaySlay
#Blacksky
@nbjc.bsky.social @victoryinstitute.bsky.social
December 11, 2024 at 11:22 AM
That category is... (drop the best in the comments)
#Ballroom #BlackGaySlay
#Blacksky
@nbjc.bsky.social @victoryinstitute.bsky.social
#Ballroom #BlackGaySlay
#Blacksky
@nbjc.bsky.social @victoryinstitute.bsky.social
Yesterday I rocked my panel at the LGBTQ International Leadership Conference: "Winning the War on Kids."
Trans, Gender Expansive, and LGB students deserve schools where they thrive.
#LGBTLeaders2024
#DEImatters
@victoryinstitute.bsky.social @nbjc.bsky.social @honesty4ohioed.bsky.social
Trans, Gender Expansive, and LGB students deserve schools where they thrive.
#LGBTLeaders2024
#DEImatters
@victoryinstitute.bsky.social @nbjc.bsky.social @honesty4ohioed.bsky.social
December 7, 2024 at 11:18 AM
Yesterday I rocked my panel at the LGBTQ International Leadership Conference: "Winning the War on Kids."
Trans, Gender Expansive, and LGB students deserve schools where they thrive.
#LGBTLeaders2024
#DEImatters
@victoryinstitute.bsky.social @nbjc.bsky.social @honesty4ohioed.bsky.social
Trans, Gender Expansive, and LGB students deserve schools where they thrive.
#LGBTLeaders2024
#DEImatters
@victoryinstitute.bsky.social @nbjc.bsky.social @honesty4ohioed.bsky.social
It's always love and motivation to keep fighting to protect our community 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
#LGBTQ #protectTransKids
#SchoolBoardLife
#representationmatters #40years
@victoryinstitute.bsky.social
#LGBTQ #protectTransKids
#SchoolBoardLife
#representationmatters #40years
@victoryinstitute.bsky.social
December 6, 2024 at 3:48 AM
It's always love and motivation to keep fighting to protect our community 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
#LGBTQ #protectTransKids
#SchoolBoardLife
#representationmatters #40years
@victoryinstitute.bsky.social
#LGBTQ #protectTransKids
#SchoolBoardLife
#representationmatters #40years
@victoryinstitute.bsky.social
Oh ffs
Trump is considering replacing Pete Hegseth with Ron DeSantis for Defense Secretary.
Exclusive | Trump Mulls Replacing Pete Hegseth With Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis
Trump Mulls Replacing Pete Hegseth With Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis
www.wsj.com
December 4, 2024 at 9:53 PM
Oh ffs
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Abortion is a fundamental good pass it on
December 4, 2024 at 5:03 PM
Abortion is a fundamental good pass it on
Let teachers teach the truth
#BanGunsNotBooks
#BanGunsNotBooks
An #Ohio teacher was suspended due to having four #LGBTQ+ books in her classroom. Now she is fighting back.
🔗 thebuckeyeflame.com/2024/12/04/o...
#bannedbooks
🔗 thebuckeyeflame.com/2024/12/04/o...
#bannedbooks
Ohio teacher sues district after she was suspended for having books in her classroom with LGBTQ+ characters
The New Richmond teacher was suspended due to the four LGBTQ+ books containing “controversial issues,” which ran afoul of district policy.
thebuckeyeflame.com
December 4, 2024 at 9:49 PM
Let teachers teach the truth
#BanGunsNotBooks
#BanGunsNotBooks
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Cornelius “Neal” McDonald was reportedly trying to deescalate a situation outside a restaurant in Largo, Maryland when he was shot and killed on Saturday. He was only 33 years old. Neal was a beloved friend, cousin, and devoted father to his seven-year-old son. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
December 4, 2024 at 9:47 PM
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I've always been a strong believer in institutions. But the US spent 40 years empowering an authoritarian movement whose stated goal was to delegitimize and ultimately destroy our institutions. Asking Biden to sacrifice his son to maintain the illusion of integrity is unfair to the point of cruelty.
December 2, 2024 at 4:18 PM
I've always been a strong believer in institutions. But the US spent 40 years empowering an authoritarian movement whose stated goal was to delegitimize and ultimately destroy our institutions. Asking Biden to sacrifice his son to maintain the illusion of integrity is unfair to the point of cruelty.
These sales ads and emails are giving election overload vibes.
We are broke and can't buy eggs remember geesh
We are broke and can't buy eggs remember geesh
Just Stop It Ok Ella Payne GIF
ALT: Just Stop It Ok Ella Payne GIF
media.tenor.com
December 2, 2024 at 4:21 PM
These sales ads and emails are giving election overload vibes.
We are broke and can't buy eggs remember geesh
We are broke and can't buy eggs remember geesh
Reposted by Sheena Barnes
It never stops being weird watching homophobes dance to YMCA, the most popular gay anthem of all time.
November 29, 2024 at 11:39 PM
It never stops being weird watching homophobes dance to YMCA, the most popular gay anthem of all time.
I'm saying this with my whole chest ✊🏾🏳️🌈👑
November 30, 2024 at 5:16 PM
I'm saying this with my whole chest ✊🏾🏳️🌈👑
Reposted by Sheena Barnes
This is not complicated. America was built on patriarchal white supremacy. The majority of white voters and white-adjacent voters chose white supremacy over democracy, as they always do. No Democratic candidate for president has won the white vote since 1964. Not Carter, Obama, Biden, or Harris.
A failed president who incited a coup attempt and then was found liable of sexual assault and then was convicted of felonies won the popular vote and electoral college. I still haven’t seen a satisfactory explanation. Probably never will.
November 27, 2024 at 1:54 PM
This is not complicated. America was built on patriarchal white supremacy. The majority of white voters and white-adjacent voters chose white supremacy over democracy, as they always do. No Democratic candidate for president has won the white vote since 1964. Not Carter, Obama, Biden, or Harris.
🏳️⚧️ we will keep fighting to make Ohio safe for all #Ohioians
One more incredibly frustrating move by Ohio’s lawmakers. Honesty stands by our transgender and gender-nonconforming friends during this continued onslaught.
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signs bill to restrict bathroom access for transgender students
The new law will require K-12 and college students to use bathrooms and locker rooms that match their sex assigned at birth.
www.dispatch.com
November 27, 2024 at 11:34 PM
🏳️⚧️ we will keep fighting to make Ohio safe for all #Ohioians