Bethany Joy Winn
@bethanyjoywinn.bsky.social
🌈 queer, Rev. MDiv.
💀 hospice chaplain, death positive
🤎 cats, reading, crafting, singing
🐝 native/pollinator yard
💀 hospice chaplain, death positive
🤎 cats, reading, crafting, singing
🐝 native/pollinator yard
It seems like reading books is an underutilized skill. Y'all don't have to read on screens and snack on immediacy.
Pick up a book. Something funny or escapist. Something historical to learn from what's happened before. An autobiography of someone who has persisted and resisted. Slow down. Feast.
Pick up a book. Something funny or escapist. Something historical to learn from what's happened before. An autobiography of someone who has persisted and resisted. Slow down. Feast.
January 31, 2025 at 3:01 PM
It seems like reading books is an underutilized skill. Y'all don't have to read on screens and snack on immediacy.
Pick up a book. Something funny or escapist. Something historical to learn from what's happened before. An autobiography of someone who has persisted and resisted. Slow down. Feast.
Pick up a book. Something funny or escapist. Something historical to learn from what's happened before. An autobiography of someone who has persisted and resisted. Slow down. Feast.
May it be today. And today. And today.
January 29, 2025 at 5:19 AM
May it be today. And today. And today.
All of this.
I’ve been troubled by some of what I’ve seen online about boycotts bc I’ve seen 3 things missing - education, strategy, & community resourcing. Successful communal divestment via boycott has all these things.
January 28, 2025 at 3:35 AM
All of this.
Same, friend. Same. (Read full thread)
How I’m doing the next four years.
Focusing on people.
The ones closest to me. The ones that I laugh easy with and cry easy with. The ones I know I don’t have to explain why I am afraid or why I am at risk. The ones whose hearts fall, contract, and expand in the same way mine does.
Focusing on people.
The ones closest to me. The ones that I laugh easy with and cry easy with. The ones I know I don’t have to explain why I am afraid or why I am at risk. The ones whose hearts fall, contract, and expand in the same way mine does.
January 27, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Same, friend. Same. (Read full thread)
Really good advice. Read the whole thread.
My dad was tortured by the Gestapo for 4 days and thrown in a concentration camp for being in the Norwegian Resistance. Growing up, he would tell me things he learned in the Resistance. I thought, I'm never going to need this stuff. Here's some of those things #Thread
January 26, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Really good advice. Read the whole thread.
All of this. Follow the op thread.
How I’m doing the next four years.
Focusing on people.
The ones closest to me. The ones that I laugh easy with and cry easy with. The ones I know I don’t have to explain why I am afraid or why I am at risk. The ones whose hearts fall, contract, and expand in the same way mine does.
Focusing on people.
The ones closest to me. The ones that I laugh easy with and cry easy with. The ones I know I don’t have to explain why I am afraid or why I am at risk. The ones whose hearts fall, contract, and expand in the same way mine does.
January 26, 2025 at 4:32 AM
All of this. Follow the op thread.
Amen.
Just like perfection is a tool of oppression, so too is urgency - like the feeling that we always have to share what we see without taking that time to actually process and evaluate that information.
January 25, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Amen.
"[T]his novel...depicts generations of queer couplings w/o flinching. Avoiding the tragic queer narrative, Akbar portrays queer relationships as complicated, tender, full of ups & downs. In Martyr!, queer ppl simply live their lives & love each other; refreshing & masterfully told." (masters review)
January 25, 2025 at 5:12 AM
"[T]his novel...depicts generations of queer couplings w/o flinching. Avoiding the tragic queer narrative, Akbar portrays queer relationships as complicated, tender, full of ups & downs. In Martyr!, queer ppl simply live their lives & love each other; refreshing & masterfully told." (masters review)
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Clarity is important in our work to protect each other.
January 24, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Clarity is important in our work to protect each other.
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A lot of the “how to disagree well” stuff (which I have also produced) was based on the idea that we were all playing the game of what @kjephd.bsky.social calls “pluralist” or “Technocratic” politics. But trump and co are playing a different game. That seems like “bad faith” from the point of…
There's a whole industry of books on "how to disagree well". The spirit behind this is usually good & the principles valuable. However, there is often a presumption of good faith, and the problem with this is that we are living in an age of pervasive bad faith, cynical misinformation, etc. 1/
January 20, 2025 at 5:33 PM
A lot of the “how to disagree well” stuff (which I have also produced) was based on the idea that we were all playing the game of what @kjephd.bsky.social calls “pluralist” or “Technocratic” politics. But trump and co are playing a different game. That seems like “bad faith” from the point of…
Also stabbing things.
January 20, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Also stabbing things.
This is interesting:
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January 14, 2025 at 3:52 AM
This is interesting:
Snopes CEO's Take on Meta Cutting Ties with Fact-Checkers | Snopes.com search.app/XtqP2ovfTJrK...
Snopes CEO's Take on Meta Cutting Ties with Fact-Checkers | Snopes.com search.app/XtqP2ovfTJrK...
"You think there isn't anyone as ordinary as you," June had said. "And that makes you angry. But you always choose to be kind, even when that's not how you feel inside, and that's what makes witches out of ordinary folk."
#2025Reads
#2025Reads
January 13, 2025 at 6:08 AM
"You think there isn't anyone as ordinary as you," June had said. "And that makes you angry. But you always choose to be kind, even when that's not how you feel inside, and that's what makes witches out of ordinary folk."
#2025Reads
#2025Reads
"Sometimes, witchwork is just being angry enough to do something impossible."
January 12, 2025 at 6:18 PM
"Sometimes, witchwork is just being angry enough to do something impossible."
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This! Please 🫶
As we head into the final week before the inevitable onslaught of horrifying executive orders, please take a minute to think about what you can do for people who will be directly impacted by those orders in your life. Ask yourself what you will do to support just one specific person. Then scale up.
January 11, 2025 at 10:31 PM
This! Please 🫶
What happened here?
January 11, 2025 at 11:23 PM
What happened here?
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California Governor Gavin Newsom invites Trump to visit the state to see the crisis firsthand, emphasizing the need for leaders to focus on helping displaced Americans rather than peddling lies and disinformation.
January 10, 2025 at 10:46 PM
California Governor Gavin Newsom invites Trump to visit the state to see the crisis firsthand, emphasizing the need for leaders to focus on helping displaced Americans rather than peddling lies and disinformation.
This was an unexpected delight. Picked up because it's part of a sapphic book club for a local bookstore. It told a story that was about self-discovery and empowerment, chosen family and loyalty though also had excitement, action, gunslingers, sex. I unexpectedly loved this book.
January 11, 2025 at 6:06 PM
This was an unexpected delight. Picked up because it's part of a sapphic book club for a local bookstore. It told a story that was about self-discovery and empowerment, chosen family and loyalty though also had excitement, action, gunslingers, sex. I unexpectedly loved this book.