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Happy Pride Month 🏳️🌈
While we're in the process of new specific collection of LGBTQ+ focused games, we come across countless games on itchio. We'll use this thread to share some of the small LGBTQ+ games we find that don't fit any list we're making at the moment, but still wish to highlight.
While we're in the process of new specific collection of LGBTQ+ focused games, we come across countless games on itchio. We'll use this thread to share some of the small LGBTQ+ games we find that don't fit any list we're making at the moment, but still wish to highlight.
June 13, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Happy Pride Month 🏳️🌈
While we're in the process of new specific collection of LGBTQ+ focused games, we come across countless games on itchio. We'll use this thread to share some of the small LGBTQ+ games we find that don't fit any list we're making at the moment, but still wish to highlight.
While we're in the process of new specific collection of LGBTQ+ focused games, we come across countless games on itchio. We'll use this thread to share some of the small LGBTQ+ games we find that don't fit any list we're making at the moment, but still wish to highlight.
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In this corner of the internet, hope and optimism abounds so here is your weekly round up of good things you may or may not have heard about.
A thread/
A thread/
March 22, 2025 at 11:29 AM
In this corner of the internet, hope and optimism abounds so here is your weekly round up of good things you may or may not have heard about.
A thread/
A thread/
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The problem with pieces like this, which are countless, is the prevailing media assumption that left-of-center Americans need constant corrective instruction about how to be in and engage with the world, whereas right-of-center Americans are simply to be observed in awe, like rainbows or mountains.
Opinion - The problem with Bluesky: It won’t broaden our horizons: In the wake of Donald Trump’s election win, the social-media platform has enjoyed a surge of new users looking for an alternative to Elon Musk’s X. But will it be useful, if it just creates an echo chamber for the left?
The problem with Bluesky: It won’t broaden our horizons
In the wake of Donald Trump’s election win, the social-media platform has enjoyed a surge of new users looking for an alternative to Elon Musk’s X. But will it be useful, if it just creates an echo chamber for the left?
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 22, 2024 at 4:41 PM
The problem with pieces like this, which are countless, is the prevailing media assumption that left-of-center Americans need constant corrective instruction about how to be in and engage with the world, whereas right-of-center Americans are simply to be observed in awe, like rainbows or mountains.
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The Brooklyn Public Library has announced that any teenager in America is now eligible for a Brooklyn Public Library card.
Teens can sign out ebooks + audiobooks
The move is designed to combat censorship, with some titles listed as "always available."
www.bklynlibrary.org/media/press/...
www.bklynlibrary.org/media/press/...
Brooklyn Public Library Offers Free eCards to Teens Nationwide Facing Book Bans in Local Communities | Brooklyn Public Library
Librarians and Teen Volunteers Spearhead Books Unbanned Initiative to Combat Censorship
www.bklynlibrary.org
February 25, 2025 at 6:19 AM
The Brooklyn Public Library has announced that any teenager in America is now eligible for a Brooklyn Public Library card.
Teens can sign out ebooks + audiobooks
The move is designed to combat censorship, with some titles listed as "always available."
www.bklynlibrary.org/media/press/...
www.bklynlibrary.org/media/press/...
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The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.
February 14, 2025 at 7:07 AM
The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.
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This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument.
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Stonewall National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)
Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in the quest for LGB civil rights a...
www.nps.gov
February 13, 2025 at 10:53 PM
This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument.
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I can’t find any archival evidence that that the Langston Hughes poem circulating here today is authentic so here is a sourced Hughes poem, Beaumont to Detroit, 1943, published that year in the magazine Common Ground, in which he compares Hitler and Mussolini to American Jim Crow and the KKK
February 1, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I can’t find any archival evidence that that the Langston Hughes poem circulating here today is authentic so here is a sourced Hughes poem, Beaumont to Detroit, 1943, published that year in the magazine Common Ground, in which he compares Hitler and Mussolini to American Jim Crow and the KKK
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I will also add that people in Congress are not volunteers. They are being paid. They have health insurance. They have retirement. They have ONE JOB—to serve their constituents. And if they cannot figure out how to push back politically they don't deserve to be in office.
January 30, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I will also add that people in Congress are not volunteers. They are being paid. They have health insurance. They have retirement. They have ONE JOB—to serve their constituents. And if they cannot figure out how to push back politically they don't deserve to be in office.
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"Black people made up half of all births in D.C. but accounted for 90 percent of pregnancy-related deaths between 2014 to 2018...white people constituted 30 percent of births but did not experience a single maternal death."
@urbanbushwoman9.bsky.social for @51st.news
51st.news/study-shows-...
@urbanbushwoman9.bsky.social for @51st.news
51st.news/study-shows-...
Study shows Mamatoto Village’s culturally relevant care can improve birth outcomes for Black people
The non-profit's home-visiting program, Mothers Rising, brings maternal and infant care to the doorsteps of underserved communities.
51st.news
January 24, 2025 at 1:18 PM
"Black people made up half of all births in D.C. but accounted for 90 percent of pregnancy-related deaths between 2014 to 2018...white people constituted 30 percent of births but did not experience a single maternal death."
@urbanbushwoman9.bsky.social for @51st.news
51st.news/study-shows-...
@urbanbushwoman9.bsky.social for @51st.news
51st.news/study-shows-...
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Read Audre Lorde, Barbara Smith, Jewelle Gomez, Pat Parker, Nikki Giovanni, and Jacqueline Woodson. Watch films by Marlon Riggs and Dee Rees. Listen to Sylvester, Bessie Smith, Luther Vandross, Big Freedia, Brittany Howard, and Janelle Monae.
We've always been here. We will always be here.
We've always been here. We will always be here.
January 20, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Read Audre Lorde, Barbara Smith, Jewelle Gomez, Pat Parker, Nikki Giovanni, and Jacqueline Woodson. Watch films by Marlon Riggs and Dee Rees. Listen to Sylvester, Bessie Smith, Luther Vandross, Big Freedia, Brittany Howard, and Janelle Monae.
We've always been here. We will always be here.
We've always been here. We will always be here.
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LIVE TODAY AT 1PM EASTERN VIA YOUTUBE!!!
#WinWithBlackWomen
#WinWithBlackWomen
January 20, 2025 at 1:19 PM
LIVE TODAY AT 1PM EASTERN VIA YOUTUBE!!!
#WinWithBlackWomen
#WinWithBlackWomen
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My MLK day piece is up.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
It Is MLK Day. Do Not Despair. This Year Especially, We Have Work To Do.
With delicious anticipation, we imagined it.
open.substack.com
January 20, 2025 at 1:58 AM
My MLK day piece is up.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
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Tomorrow noon east-coast time, 9am Pacific: we'll be here to talk about beloved community, power, storytelling, and enter this next era of US history together, heads held high, friends held close. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf_y...
January 20, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Tomorrow noon east-coast time, 9am Pacific: we'll be here to talk about beloved community, power, storytelling, and enter this next era of US history together, heads held high, friends held close. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf_y...
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Ok #booksky, let’s talk.
👎🏼Goodreads, owned by Amazon, fuels its monopoly on books.
👍🏼StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform, offers an ethical, ad-free alternative with mood-based recommendations, user control over data, and a focus on inclusivity. Support diversity over corporate power!
👎🏼Goodreads, owned by Amazon, fuels its monopoly on books.
👍🏼StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform, offers an ethical, ad-free alternative with mood-based recommendations, user control over data, and a focus on inclusivity. Support diversity over corporate power!
January 19, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Ok #booksky, let’s talk.
👎🏼Goodreads, owned by Amazon, fuels its monopoly on books.
👍🏼StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform, offers an ethical, ad-free alternative with mood-based recommendations, user control over data, and a focus on inclusivity. Support diversity over corporate power!
👎🏼Goodreads, owned by Amazon, fuels its monopoly on books.
👍🏼StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform, offers an ethical, ad-free alternative with mood-based recommendations, user control over data, and a focus on inclusivity. Support diversity over corporate power!
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Arkansas was among the 10 states with the most children in rural areas relying on Medicaid for health insurance in 2023, and was one of only six with more than half of its rural children on Medicaid, according to a new report.
Proposed Medicaid cuts would hurt rural areas, including Arkansas kids, researchers say • Arkansas Advocate
Congressional Republicans have also proposed work requirements for Medicaid recipients. Arkansas' 2018 work requirement was struck down in court.
buff.ly
January 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Arkansas was among the 10 states with the most children in rural areas relying on Medicaid for health insurance in 2023, and was one of only six with more than half of its rural children on Medicaid, according to a new report.
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That guilt you feel about not being able to support every GoFundMe for folks who are suffering?
That’s actually rage at a corrupt system refusing to support its people - a rage carefully steered away from the system so you struggle with yourself & not with the institutions that deserve it
That’s actually rage at a corrupt system refusing to support its people - a rage carefully steered away from the system so you struggle with yourself & not with the institutions that deserve it
January 11, 2025 at 9:47 PM
That guilt you feel about not being able to support every GoFundMe for folks who are suffering?
That’s actually rage at a corrupt system refusing to support its people - a rage carefully steered away from the system so you struggle with yourself & not with the institutions that deserve it
That’s actually rage at a corrupt system refusing to support its people - a rage carefully steered away from the system so you struggle with yourself & not with the institutions that deserve it
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A poem for my last day working at the writing center for the semester (by Joseph Fasano)
November 23, 2024 at 2:09 AM
A poem for my last day working at the writing center for the semester (by Joseph Fasano)
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This echo chamber nonsense is predicated on the notion that bigotry is a valid perspective. It isn’t. Grow up! Think better!
November 22, 2024 at 3:12 PM
This echo chamber nonsense is predicated on the notion that bigotry is a valid perspective. It isn’t. Grow up! Think better!
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This obsession is unhealthy. Our horizons are fine. Also social media, for most, is not a job. It is not school. It is socializing. And it’s fine to say “I don’t want to hang out with Nazis, homophobes, transphobes etc in my free time.”
Opinion - The problem with Bluesky: It won’t broaden our horizons: In the wake of Donald Trump’s election win, the social-media platform has enjoyed a surge of new users looking for an alternative to Elon Musk’s X. But will it be useful, if it just creates an echo chamber for the left?
The problem with Bluesky: It won’t broaden our horizons
In the wake of Donald Trump’s election win, the social-media platform has enjoyed a surge of new users looking for an alternative to Elon Musk’s X. But will it be useful, if it just creates an echo chamber for the left?
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 22, 2024 at 3:12 PM
This obsession is unhealthy. Our horizons are fine. Also social media, for most, is not a job. It is not school. It is socializing. And it’s fine to say “I don’t want to hang out with Nazis, homophobes, transphobes etc in my free time.”
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NEW: Georgia officials have dismissed all members of a state committee charged with investigating deaths of pregnant women. The move came in response to ProPublica having obtained internal reports detailing two deaths.
Georgia Dismissed All Members of Maternal Mortality Committee After ProPublica Obtained Internal Details of Two Deaths
In a letter, the state’s public health commissioner said the action was taken because “confidential information provided to the Maternal Mortality Review Committee was inappropriately shared with outs...
www.propublica.org
November 21, 2024 at 1:14 PM
NEW: Georgia officials have dismissed all members of a state committee charged with investigating deaths of pregnant women. The move came in response to ProPublica having obtained internal reports detailing two deaths.
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Let’s talk a bit about what you, an average German newspaper reader in 1933, would have learned about Hitler’s rise to power. Let’s assume you read the “Vossische Zeitung”, a comparatively liberal middle-class newspaper. In modern times, the Berlin State Library library let’s you read it online: 1/
1933 - ZEFYS
ZEFYS, das Zeitungsinformationssystem der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin ist ein Portal für den Nachweis und Zugriff auf aktuelle und historische Zeitungen aus Deutschland und der ganzen Welt.
zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de
November 15, 2024 at 10:20 PM
Let’s talk a bit about what you, an average German newspaper reader in 1933, would have learned about Hitler’s rise to power. Let’s assume you read the “Vossische Zeitung”, a comparatively liberal middle-class newspaper. In modern times, the Berlin State Library library let’s you read it online: 1/
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The real trap here is that the Republicans have made defending civil rights seem like a frivolous thing and a whole lot of liberals are falling in line. Even if it was a culture war, so what? This would be a war worth fighting. What are we even doing here, people? Get it together.
November 21, 2024 at 4:13 AM
The real trap here is that the Republicans have made defending civil rights seem like a frivolous thing and a whole lot of liberals are falling in line. Even if it was a culture war, so what? This would be a war worth fighting. What are we even doing here, people? Get it together.
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Love to ban trans women from capitol restrooms in order to “protect women and girls” while suppressing a report about the incoming attorney general paying for the statutory rape of a minor while in congress and showing women’s nudes on the House floor
November 20, 2024 at 9:23 PM
Love to ban trans women from capitol restrooms in order to “protect women and girls” while suppressing a report about the incoming attorney general paying for the statutory rape of a minor while in congress and showing women’s nudes on the House floor
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I would also like to note that Republicans are nakedly and aggressively scapegoating trans women at a time when they’re also under fire for their rapist president giving us a slate of rapist cabinet nominees
November 20, 2024 at 11:24 PM
I would also like to note that Republicans are nakedly and aggressively scapegoating trans women at a time when they’re also under fire for their rapist president giving us a slate of rapist cabinet nominees