Chris Ash (they/them)
@christianashnc.bsky.social
SA/IPV/HT expert, queer activist, survivor, storyteller, fire spinner. Violence prevention, public health, and harm reduction. Trying to make the anti-trafficking sector (& the world in general) suck less. CHAOTIC GOOD linktr.ee/chrisash
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The Department of Education, led by the wife of a former head of the WWE, has declared nursing to no longer be a professional degree.
It’s a war on so called women dominated professions
It’s also devastating for the disability community
We need nurses
They’re an invaluable part of the care team
It’s a war on so called women dominated professions
It’s also devastating for the disability community
We need nurses
They’re an invaluable part of the care team
November 21, 2025 at 5:36 AM
The Department of Education, led by the wife of a former head of the WWE, has declared nursing to no longer be a professional degree.
It’s a war on so called women dominated professions
It’s also devastating for the disability community
We need nurses
They’re an invaluable part of the care team
It’s a war on so called women dominated professions
It’s also devastating for the disability community
We need nurses
They’re an invaluable part of the care team
If you are watching NC’s incredible resistance against ICE with awe (possibly with surprise because you think we’re all right wing hillbillies) donate to Siembra NC. They’re the ones providing specific ICE resistance trainings to community members. secure.actblue.com/donate/siemb...
November 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
If you are watching NC’s incredible resistance against ICE with awe (possibly with surprise because you think we’re all right wing hillbillies) donate to Siembra NC. They’re the ones providing specific ICE resistance trainings to community members. secure.actblue.com/donate/siemb...
Delighted to co-author this piece urging the de-silo-ing of anti-trafficking work, & genuine solidarity with grassroots movements.
November 20, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Delighted to co-author this piece urging the de-silo-ing of anti-trafficking work, & genuine solidarity with grassroots movements.
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Despite huge sums spent on anti-trafficking, there are staggeringly few evaluations of interventions & growing evidence of harms caused.
This new edited book with @uclpress.bsky.social is our attempt to help change that. 1/
Open access with free digital downloads: uclpress.co.uk/book/evaluat...
This new edited book with @uclpress.bsky.social is our attempt to help change that. 1/
Open access with free digital downloads: uclpress.co.uk/book/evaluat...
Evaluating Anti-Trafficking Interventions
Explore the complexities of trafficking and the importance of effective evaluation in anti-trafficking interventions and measures.
uclpress.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Despite huge sums spent on anti-trafficking, there are staggeringly few evaluations of interventions & growing evidence of harms caused.
This new edited book with @uclpress.bsky.social is our attempt to help change that. 1/
Open access with free digital downloads: uclpress.co.uk/book/evaluat...
This new edited book with @uclpress.bsky.social is our attempt to help change that. 1/
Open access with free digital downloads: uclpress.co.uk/book/evaluat...
Excited to see this published: peer reviewed publication on trafficking survivors’ experiences with journalists. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 18, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Excited to see this published: peer reviewed publication on trafficking survivors’ experiences with journalists. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The debate over whether this is 'fascism' is a silly semantic one in which a small minority mean 'completed fascist authoritarianism' and the vast majority mean 'the people in power say and do things that demonstrate completed fascist authoritarianism is what they want to achieve.'
November 17, 2025 at 9:06 AM
The debate over whether this is 'fascism' is a silly semantic one in which a small minority mean 'completed fascist authoritarianism' and the vast majority mean 'the people in power say and do things that demonstrate completed fascist authoritarianism is what they want to achieve.'
It’s almost like they knew this would happen.
The cruelty is the point.
The cruelty is the point.
Attended an Illinois #HumanTrafficking Task Force meeting yesterday. Social service providers reported a decrease in foreign born forced labor survivors/victims coming forward because they are afraid to seek help due to immigration enforcement. Many orgs now have to offer online services!
November 16, 2025 at 7:47 PM
It’s almost like they knew this would happen.
The cruelty is the point.
The cruelty is the point.
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Canada’s Supreme Court ruled to uphold laws criminalizing sex work, ignoring voices of 23 sex worker-led and migrant advocacy groups. The ruling perpetuates unsafe conditions, isolates workers, and reinforces vulnerability to abuse and exploitation.
www.freedomunited.org/news/canadas...
www.freedomunited.org/news/canadas...
Canada's Supreme Court ruling ignores safety and lived experience - FreedomUnited.org
Canada rules to reaffirm the criminalization of many aspects of sex work—and once again silences the very people most affected by these laws.
www.freedomunited.org
November 16, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Canada’s Supreme Court ruled to uphold laws criminalizing sex work, ignoring voices of 23 sex worker-led and migrant advocacy groups. The ruling perpetuates unsafe conditions, isolates workers, and reinforces vulnerability to abuse and exploitation.
www.freedomunited.org/news/canadas...
www.freedomunited.org/news/canadas...
Searched on Google for @drewkadel.bsky.social’s new book to snag the link, & Google AI was very helpful in reassuring me that I should not literally try to baptize a whale.
November 16, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Searched on Google for @drewkadel.bsky.social’s new book to snag the link, & Google AI was very helpful in reassuring me that I should not literally try to baptize a whale.
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If you aren’t fond of authoritarianism, a great place to start thwarting it is your local police force.
You will likely discover it is the top publicly funded vehicle for fascism in your city.
You will likely discover it is the top publicly funded vehicle for fascism in your city.
Calgary police are on a rampage downtown, using drones to find people and clear them off streets. Posting photos of unhoused folks they arrest (see twitter).
It’s collective punishment for social disorder and violence they have failed to improve with prior violence.
Film the cops if you see them.
It’s collective punishment for social disorder and violence they have failed to improve with prior violence.
Film the cops if you see them.
November 6, 2025 at 12:09 PM
If you aren’t fond of authoritarianism, a great place to start thwarting it is your local police force.
You will likely discover it is the top publicly funded vehicle for fascism in your city.
You will likely discover it is the top publicly funded vehicle for fascism in your city.
This is not the behavior of a civilized democracy.
Federal immigration agents fanned out across Chicago and its North Shore suburbs on Halloween, chasing suspects through front yards, driving SUVs onto sidewalks and using chemical agents during confrontations with furious residents.
Immigration Agents Clash With Chicago-Area Residents on Halloween
The state’s governor had called for a pause in the federal immigration crackdown over the Halloween weekend, citing concerns for children’s safety.
nyti.ms
November 1, 2025 at 8:12 PM
This is not the behavior of a civilized democracy.
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7. Our demands are moral, just & reasonable. The Times could enact them TODAY! There’s no reason not publish in @theintercept.com @mondoweiss.net @literaryhub.bsky.social @thenation.com & other places which are not prone to genocide peddling nor to publishing shoddy investigations (ie “Screams”)
October 27, 2025 at 4:50 PM
7. Our demands are moral, just & reasonable. The Times could enact them TODAY! There’s no reason not publish in @theintercept.com @mondoweiss.net @literaryhub.bsky.social @thenation.com & other places which are not prone to genocide peddling nor to publishing shoddy investigations (ie “Screams”)
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Meanwhile my friends in government don’t have their paychecks and there’s moms in the local Buy Nothing group asking for formula and diapers because their WIC stopped
Leavitt: "At this moment in time, of course, the ballroom is really the president's main priority."
October 23, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Meanwhile my friends in government don’t have their paychecks and there’s moms in the local Buy Nothing group asking for formula and diapers because their WIC stopped
Nothing quite like having a court-ordered name change and Cashapp replying to every attempt I make to update my name with a request for a divorce decree. It doesn't matter how many times I tell them it was a court-ordered name change and not via divorce decree. Fucking wild.
October 22, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Nothing quite like having a court-ordered name change and Cashapp replying to every attempt I make to update my name with a request for a divorce decree. It doesn't matter how many times I tell them it was a court-ordered name change and not via divorce decree. Fucking wild.
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Holy shit go off John Oliver youtu.be/gieTx_P6INQ?...
Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
youtu.be
October 13, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Holy shit go off John Oliver youtu.be/gieTx_P6INQ?...
“Western theorists and researchers consistently conflated indigenous peoples with past peoples; to journey to Africa or to the Americas or to the Pacific Islands was to go backwards in time, sailing towards the origin of humanity.”
Great piece worth a read.
Great piece worth a read.
wrote about Stefanos Geroulanos' The Invention of Prehistory and how fascists are indebted to discourses of science as well as religion. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/the-origin...
The Origin of Trump
Christofascism, yes. But also science.
www.everythingishorrible.net
October 13, 2025 at 12:49 PM
“Western theorists and researchers consistently conflated indigenous peoples with past peoples; to journey to Africa or to the Americas or to the Pacific Islands was to go backwards in time, sailing towards the origin of humanity.”
Great piece worth a read.
Great piece worth a read.
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The EU has a secret weapon to counter Trump’s economic bullying. It’s time to use it | Johnny Ryan
The EU has a secret weapon to counter Trump’s economic bullying. It’s time to use it | Johnny Ryan
The anti-coercion instrument, or ‘trade bazooka’, is designed to shield against foreign pressure, says civil liberties campaigner Johnny Ryan
www.theguardian.com
October 9, 2025 at 5:27 AM
The EU has a secret weapon to counter Trump’s economic bullying. It’s time to use it | Johnny Ryan
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Free and fair elections are really not something I would be betting on for 26 and the republicans are saying out loud why. Because they are already doing the open planning for election interference and sham election result
Two big GOP activists from Oregon were in DC last month for meetings with Trump admin officials. On their podcast they talk about a plan they discussed to nullify the results of Oregon's 2026 federal elections. Pass federal voter ID law, then refuse to seat OR delegation because OR didn't comply.
October 9, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Free and fair elections are really not something I would be betting on for 26 and the republicans are saying out loud why. Because they are already doing the open planning for election interference and sham election result
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"the imperial need for control is so desperate because it's so unnatural. It breaks, it leaks. Tyranny demands constant effort."
a man talking to another man with the words so much going wrong so much to say and all of it happening so quickly on the bottom
Alt: Nemik talking to Cassian in ANDOR : 'so much going wrong so much to say and all of it happening so quickly'
media.tenor.com
October 8, 2025 at 9:07 AM
"the imperial need for control is so desperate because it's so unnatural. It breaks, it leaks. Tyranny demands constant effort."
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Anyway, learning another language is good for you because you die a thousand deaths of embarrassment and then you come out more humble and even more aware of your various human failings
September 26, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Anyway, learning another language is good for you because you die a thousand deaths of embarrassment and then you come out more humble and even more aware of your various human failings
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The biggest obstacle to learning a foreign language as an adult is accepting how stupid you will feel, in public, with other people. If you can move through that you can do anything
Anyway, learning another language is good for you because you die a thousand deaths of embarrassment and then you come out more humble and even more aware of your various human failings
September 27, 2025 at 3:09 PM
The biggest obstacle to learning a foreign language as an adult is accepting how stupid you will feel, in public, with other people. If you can move through that you can do anything
Am I more interested in hearing Trump tell other countries how to do their governance, address human rights, or navigate peace?
a woman with red hair says " none of the above " in front of a netflix logo
Alt: a woman with red hair says " none of the above " in front of a netflix logo
media.tenor.com
September 23, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Am I more interested in hearing Trump tell other countries how to do their governance, address human rights, or navigate peace?
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My main observation from the last few hours of monitoring US social media is that Democrats are universally denouncing political violence and calling for calm while MAGA are escalating language and openly lusting for retribution against broad categories of people they identity as their enemies.
September 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
My main observation from the last few hours of monitoring US social media is that Democrats are universally denouncing political violence and calling for calm while MAGA are escalating language and openly lusting for retribution against broad categories of people they identity as their enemies.
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📢 NEW EVENT: On Weds, July 23, join us for an honest & shocking conversation, exposing one of the most uncomfortable truths of our time: state trafficking.
It’s time to challenge the myth that trafficking is only the domain of criminals and rogue states.
Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
It’s time to challenge the myth that trafficking is only the domain of criminals and rogue states.
Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
July 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
📢 NEW EVENT: On Weds, July 23, join us for an honest & shocking conversation, exposing one of the most uncomfortable truths of our time: state trafficking.
It’s time to challenge the myth that trafficking is only the domain of criminals and rogue states.
Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
It’s time to challenge the myth that trafficking is only the domain of criminals and rogue states.
Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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I also resent that air is given to the idea that accepting a $30 article rate is stabbing other writers in the back. One cannot make that claim without stressing the unique reason why ie a trans woman might be pressured to take such low-paying work. I just think this is an uncharitable read on us
July 23, 2025 at 2:07 AM
I also resent that air is given to the idea that accepting a $30 article rate is stabbing other writers in the back. One cannot make that claim without stressing the unique reason why ie a trans woman might be pressured to take such low-paying work. I just think this is an uncharitable read on us