Kay Whitlock
@kwhitlock.bsky.social
Writer. Activist. Co-author "Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States"
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Kay Whitlock
@kwhitlock.bsky.social
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This Is How You Win the Culture Wars | Kay Whitlock | INQUEST
Faced with violence and authoritarianism, survival demands prioritizing relationship building over reactivity and solidarity over silence.
inquest.org
My latest for @inquest.bsky.social ...and yes, we can ultimately win, if we are willing to work in transformative ways. It will require the best we have in ourselves, but along the way, we may become quietly courageous in ways that will surprise and energize us. inquest.org/this-is-how-...
Wishing us all a New Year that brings more kindness and compassion, more justice, more generosity, more creativity, and less human and ecological suffering. youtu.be/SUlNixgSQIA
“Peaceable Kingdom” - Patti Smith (LIVE on The Late Show)
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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January 1, 2026 at 9:11 PM
Wishing us all a New Year that brings more kindness and compassion, more justice, more generosity, more creativity, and less human and ecological suffering. youtu.be/SUlNixgSQIA
It’s not “let them die,” but worse: let’s remove any possibility that Palestinians will live.” Genocidal.
Israel Will Halt Doctors Without Borders Operations in Gaza www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...
Israel Will Halt Doctors Without Borders Operations in Gaza
Dozens of humanitarian organizations are suspended from operating
www.medpagetoday.com
December 31, 2025 at 8:38 PM
It’s not “let them die,” but worse: let’s remove any possibility that Palestinians will live.” Genocidal.
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But…but…the MAGA flunky appointed to headache Center sez performers have no right to refuse to perform for all the public. These performers must have missed the memo.
Oh okay. . .
December 29, 2025 at 4:49 AM
But…but…the MAGA flunky appointed to headache Center sez performers have no right to refuse to perform for all the public. These performers must have missed the memo.
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Rights Group Warns Israel’s Genocide Isn’t Over in Gaza truthout.org/articles/rig...
Rights Group Warns Israel’s Genocide Isn’t Over in Gaza
Israel has killed at least 400 Palestinians and injured over 1,100 others since the ceasefire began in October.
truthout.org
December 27, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Rights Group Warns Israel’s Genocide Isn’t Over in Gaza truthout.org/articles/rig...
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“Then they shouldn’t have voted for this!”
Bitch, Asheville is a blue college town and the county has gone blue for decades. I am so sick of this “if I pretend disasters only happen to red areas, it means I’m safe because I’m properly on the left!” No. You’re not safe. That’s why we save everybody.
Bitch, Asheville is a blue college town and the county has gone blue for decades. I am so sick of this “if I pretend disasters only happen to red areas, it means I’m safe because I’m properly on the left!” No. You’re not safe. That’s why we save everybody.
Hundreds of residents signed up for FEMA buyouts after Hurricane Helene. Not one has been approved.
Hundreds of residents signed up for FEMA buyouts after Helene. Not one has been approved.
More than a year after applying for a federal buyout, many North Carolina homeowners have heard almost nothing definitive.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 27, 2025 at 9:05 PM
“Then they shouldn’t have voted for this!”
Bitch, Asheville is a blue college town and the county has gone blue for decades. I am so sick of this “if I pretend disasters only happen to red areas, it means I’m safe because I’m properly on the left!” No. You’re not safe. That’s why we save everybody.
Bitch, Asheville is a blue college town and the county has gone blue for decades. I am so sick of this “if I pretend disasters only happen to red areas, it means I’m safe because I’m properly on the left!” No. You’re not safe. That’s why we save everybody.
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"Everywhere I went in Chicago, there were community members patrolling streets, following government agents, warning victims, and pushing back any way they could — and always, the whistles around their necks, the sign you’re around allies."
(via @hammerandhope.bsky.social)
(via @hammerandhope.bsky.social)
War at Home
A record of ICE’s assault on immigrants and the people’s resistance.
hammerandhope.org
December 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
"Everywhere I went in Chicago, there were community members patrolling streets, following government agents, warning victims, and pushing back any way they could — and always, the whistles around their necks, the sign you’re around allies."
(via @hammerandhope.bsky.social)
(via @hammerandhope.bsky.social)
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I see the Panthers are being invoked. I like to remind people about what the U.S. government and local police forces did to the BPP. This recent book is useful. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Police Against the Movement
A bold retelling of the 1960s civil rights struggle through its work against police violence—and a prehistory of both the Black Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter movements that emerged half a century...
press.princeton.edu
December 27, 2025 at 3:06 AM
I see the Panthers are being invoked. I like to remind people about what the U.S. government and local police forces did to the BPP. This recent book is useful. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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I wonder if people in this country know that the VAST MAJORITY of people in the US did not contribute to the Black freedom movement. I'm always taken aback by how people talk online. Folks, your grandparents & great-grandparents DID NOTHING or they were in OPPOSITION, lol.
December 27, 2025 at 2:56 AM
I wonder if people in this country know that the VAST MAJORITY of people in the US did not contribute to the Black freedom movement. I'm always taken aback by how people talk online. Folks, your grandparents & great-grandparents DID NOTHING or they were in OPPOSITION, lol.
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If the Epstein files have proven anything, it’s that the justice system isn’t broken; it’s working exactly as it was built to do: to shield the rich and powerful from accountability while victims are buried, ignored, or silenced.
December 26, 2025 at 11:25 PM
If the Epstein files have proven anything, it’s that the justice system isn’t broken; it’s working exactly as it was built to do: to shield the rich and powerful from accountability while victims are buried, ignored, or silenced.
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happy holidays, all!
December 26, 2025 at 3:31 AM
happy holidays, all!
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Y'all, the hospital where I had my surgery is running trials to see if GLP-1 medications can help people suffering from long COVID. It's open to any person with documented long COVID who lives in the US.
Please pass it on!
Please pass it on!
Home - Long COVID Treatment Trial
Be part of groundbreaking Long COVID research from Scripps Research. We endeavor to conduct a portfolio of Long COVID clinical trials.
longcovid.scripps.edu
November 8, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Y'all, the hospital where I had my surgery is running trials to see if GLP-1 medications can help people suffering from long COVID. It's open to any person with documented long COVID who lives in the US.
Please pass it on!
Please pass it on!
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Bombing on Christmas. Yeah that tracks for the dude who gave himself a madeup Fifa Peace Prize.
December 25, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Bombing on Christmas. Yeah that tracks for the dude who gave himself a madeup Fifa Peace Prize.
In our home, Christmas always includes Yorkshire pudding. Merry and happy everything, friends!
December 25, 2025 at 11:32 PM
In our home, Christmas always includes Yorkshire pudding. Merry and happy everything, friends!
As the saying goes, the freedom of the press (including false/deceptive use of AI) belongs to those who own the press. Support indie movement -oriented media.
December 25, 2025 at 10:40 PM
As the saying goes, the freedom of the press (including false/deceptive use of AI) belongs to those who own the press. Support indie movement -oriented media.
AI makes up books that don’t exist - at least some on this list -even though the authors do. Read comments. Not the first time this crap has happened.
#4 sounds like a lovely book but I didn't write it. Have had whānau up and down the country send me clippings lol
Whoever put together this list that has been circulated to regional papers, didn't fact check.
Whoever put together this list that has been circulated to regional papers, didn't fact check.
December 25, 2025 at 10:38 PM
AI makes up books that don’t exist - at least some on this list -even though the authors do. Read comments. Not the first time this crap has happened.
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you have to imagine that this probably also happens when there doesn't happen to be a Herald reporter randomly sitting there to see it happen
"A Miami Herald reporter witnessed the agents forcefully removing Dayana — who is 4-feet, 11-inches tall and weighs 85 pounds — from her white Toyota Corolla. The footage shows Dayana yelling at the reporter to help her and that she was a United States citizen"
only a bit above the paywall but you get the horrible gist www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
December 24, 2025 at 1:26 AM
you have to imagine that this probably also happens when there doesn't happen to be a Herald reporter randomly sitting there to see it happen
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The administration's policy: "Let them die, especially those who are Black, brown, Indigenous, Muslim, poor, with the 'wrong' political/religious beliefs. Their deaths mean more of everything for 'us.'"
So much for "pro-life." This is pure evil in the service of supremacist hierarchies of worth.
So much for "pro-life." This is pure evil in the service of supremacist hierarchies of worth.
A Kenyan maternity ward is reeling after Trump’s cuts to World Food Program aid, leaving pregnant people and newborns without reliable nutrition and forcing families into desperation as basic care is starved of resources.
Inside a Kenyan Maternity Ward Being Starved by US Foreign Aid Cuts
The Trump administration’s decision to cut funding for World Food Program operations has left families desperate.
truthout.org
December 23, 2025 at 4:50 PM
The administration's policy: "Let them die, especially those who are Black, brown, Indigenous, Muslim, poor, with the 'wrong' political/religious beliefs. Their deaths mean more of everything for 'us.'"
So much for "pro-life." This is pure evil in the service of supremacist hierarchies of worth.
So much for "pro-life." This is pure evil in the service of supremacist hierarchies of worth.
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We cannot survive another neoliberal president.
We CANNOT *TOLERATE* Another neoliberal president.
This is unlivable and inexcusable.
If you think for one second voting blue no matter who will save us, you are LYING to yourself. THIS is what they do and we MUST fight to change them.
We CANNOT *TOLERATE* Another neoliberal president.
This is unlivable and inexcusable.
If you think for one second voting blue no matter who will save us, you are LYING to yourself. THIS is what they do and we MUST fight to change them.
December 19, 2025 at 10:10 PM
We cannot survive another neoliberal president.
We CANNOT *TOLERATE* Another neoliberal president.
This is unlivable and inexcusable.
If you think for one second voting blue no matter who will save us, you are LYING to yourself. THIS is what they do and we MUST fight to change them.
We CANNOT *TOLERATE* Another neoliberal president.
This is unlivable and inexcusable.
If you think for one second voting blue no matter who will save us, you are LYING to yourself. THIS is what they do and we MUST fight to change them.
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Since his appointment, RFK Jr. has pursued a brutal vision of American health that several experts liken to a sort of eugenics. Kennedy has made it clear that certain deaths are acceptable or even preferable to a world where every child is vaccinated.
Read more: www.theverge.com/health/66136...
Read more: www.theverge.com/health/66136...
December 20, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Since his appointment, RFK Jr. has pursued a brutal vision of American health that several experts liken to a sort of eugenics. Kennedy has made it clear that certain deaths are acceptable or even preferable to a world where every child is vaccinated.
Read more: www.theverge.com/health/66136...
Read more: www.theverge.com/health/66136...
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For folks curious re the news re gender affirming care for trans youth I wrote a quick summary in the BDNH newsletter
It’s NOT a national ban.
it creates no new civil or criminal penalties, it is a proposal to wield the power of the purse to discriminatorily deny care
mailchi.mp/interrupting...
It’s NOT a national ban.
it creates no new civil or criminal penalties, it is a proposal to wield the power of the purse to discriminatorily deny care
mailchi.mp/interrupting...
Proposed Regulations on Gender Affirming Care, Reflecting on 2025, Resistance Lab Jan 12th & more!
mailchi.mp
December 19, 2025 at 12:36 AM
For folks curious re the news re gender affirming care for trans youth I wrote a quick summary in the BDNH newsletter
It’s NOT a national ban.
it creates no new civil or criminal penalties, it is a proposal to wield the power of the purse to discriminatorily deny care
mailchi.mp/interrupting...
It’s NOT a national ban.
it creates no new civil or criminal penalties, it is a proposal to wield the power of the purse to discriminatorily deny care
mailchi.mp/interrupting...
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"As @lewispants.bsky.social describes in @objectivejournos.bsky.social, “fascist leaders thrive on an ill-informed public.” Wallace, citing @dreanyc123.bsky.social, notes that movement journalism’s 'purpose zero' is 'to challenge fascism and authoritarianism by fighting disinformation.'"
December 19, 2025 at 7:40 PM
"As @lewispants.bsky.social describes in @objectivejournos.bsky.social, “fascist leaders thrive on an ill-informed public.” Wallace, citing @dreanyc123.bsky.social, notes that movement journalism’s 'purpose zero' is 'to challenge fascism and authoritarianism by fighting disinformation.'"
Don't bother asking Sen. Bill Cassidy if this bothers him. He already sold what was left of his soul to help make this happen when he could have put at least one wrench in the works. His purported "concern" as a physician turned out to be hollow.
It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines.
It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States.
And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).
It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States.
And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).
December 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Don't bother asking Sen. Bill Cassidy if this bothers him. He already sold what was left of his soul to help make this happen when he could have put at least one wrench in the works. His purported "concern" as a physician turned out to be hollow.
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This week Inquest explored what gets lost when attempts to quanify the "success" of reentry focus only on recidivism, and share our recommended reading list of decarceral books. Get the full recap: mailchi.mp/inquest.o...
December 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
This week Inquest explored what gets lost when attempts to quanify the "success" of reentry focus only on recidivism, and share our recommended reading list of decarceral books. Get the full recap: mailchi.mp/inquest.o...