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Halee Kirkwood
@hskirkwood.bsky.social
✨Shameless poet, coy prose writer ✨
Chaotic bisexual, FDL Ojibwish, inhabitor of all things in-between🐢

Latest pub: flash essay in Prairie Schooner
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/article/939811/pdf
Reposted by Halee Kirkwood
When you call your legislators, please include this as one of your talking points.

Once again the United States Government is violating their agreements with tribal nations. Shame on them. More in comments.

nativenewsonline.net/health/break...
BREAKING: Federal Layoffs Target Indian Health Service, Threatening Healthcare Access Across Indian Country
The Indian Health Service faces losing 2,500 employees in new federal layoffs, nearly triple initial estimates, warns the top executive of a national Native health organization. The cuts would further...
nativenewsonline.net
February 15, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Let’s write poems about our worst jobs!! Let’s write sonnets on company time!! 🥰🥰 join us in a few weeks!
We’d love to have you!
February 6, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Reposted by Halee Kirkwood
The University of Minnesota is pre-emptively complying with Trump's executive order on diversity. If you live in Minnesota, please call the Office of the President to express your thoughts on this. I would urge you to encourage them to fight the order in court.

mndaily.com/292255/top-s...
UMN pauses DEI expansion, hiring for Law School Assistant Dean position
The search for a new assistant dean of diversity, equity and inclusion at the University of Minnesota Law School is paused as the University reassesses its DEI programs, according to...
mndaily.com
February 3, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Reposted by Halee Kirkwood
MPRnews [Feb 2] -- FB/Insta shuts accounts of 19-yr-old U Minn freshman Micah Leroy--"Disabled Trans Boy"---after bigots complain. “Cerebral palsy does not negatively impact [my] ability to make autonomous decisions or understand concepts of gender and sex.”

[by @rikiwilchins.bsky.social‬]
Disabled U of M student speaks out after anti-trans commentators blast his video
The 19-year-old went viral online after posting a video of his top surgery, drawing negative attention from right-wing, anti-transgender commentators.
www.mprnews.org
February 3, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Seeing a lot of all-or-nothing sentiment when it comes to resistance tactics. Reluctance to protest because “one isn’t going to change everything.” Reluctance to calling reps because “one phone call isn’t going to change everything.” You don’t have to take on the responsibility to change everything!
January 29, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Today and in the coming days, remember
January 20, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Thinking a lot about how we organize, create, and share with each other in a post-meta digital landscape. The idea that we need Meta as artists and activists is a lie that Meta needs us to believe to stay relevant. It’s the same as big oil - “you can’t survive without us!!” Oh. But we will.
January 17, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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Holiday gift ideas:
- Plan B, condoms
- Reusable period products
- Banned books
- Black & non-whitewashed US History books
- Pepper spray, tasers
- Depression era recipe and cost saving books
- Solar powerbanks
- Water filtration tools
- Seeds (heirloom)
- Local farm/grower co-op subscriptions
November 22, 2024 at 5:04 PM
Boozhoo Bluesky 👋🏻 where’s the party at? And by party I mean place to cry and plan the revolution
November 23, 2024 at 1:55 PM