dr. antonia alvarez
@arg5a.bsky.social
Queer Pilipinx Mama Social Worker Scholar Artist & Educator
Thrilled to announce that I have been awarded the Portland State University Early Career Research Award.
It’s been a journey..! Padayon! (Onward!)
www.pdx.edu/social-work/...
It’s been a journey..! Padayon! (Onward!)
www.pdx.edu/social-work/...
April 26, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Thrilled to announce that I have been awarded the Portland State University Early Career Research Award.
It’s been a journey..! Padayon! (Onward!)
www.pdx.edu/social-work/...
It’s been a journey..! Padayon! (Onward!)
www.pdx.edu/social-work/...
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We are members of Congress at the Treasury Department. We want to be let in to provide oversight on behalf of our constituents. @jasmineforus.bsky.social @sethmagaziner.bsky.social
February 4, 2025 at 9:40 PM
We are members of Congress at the Treasury Department. We want to be let in to provide oversight on behalf of our constituents. @jasmineforus.bsky.social @sethmagaziner.bsky.social
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As the world focuses on the politicization of DEI, important health equity work is continuing, like this new report, the work of community researchers in the Mississippi who investigated reasons why cervical cancer rates among Black women there are so inexcusably high. www.hrw.org/report/2025/...
No Excuse
The report, “No Excuse: Inadequate Cervical Cancer Prevention and Care for Black Women in the United States Mississippi Delta,” documents that state and federal policies and a lack of investment in pr...
www.hrw.org
January 30, 2025 at 12:33 AM
As the world focuses on the politicization of DEI, important health equity work is continuing, like this new report, the work of community researchers in the Mississippi who investigated reasons why cervical cancer rates among Black women there are so inexcusably high. www.hrw.org/report/2025/...
Make soup!
Practice mutual aid.
Resist.
Practice mutual aid.
Resist.
The new “Don’t Just Do Nothing: 20 Things You Can Do to Counter Fascism—Yes, You! Yes, Now!” zine makes a great gift for your liberal fam, friends, neighbors & coworkers!
Read, print & distro freely!
Full text & PDFs on @igd.bsky.social:
itsgoingdown.org/dont-just-do...
Read, print & distro freely!
Full text & PDFs on @igd.bsky.social:
itsgoingdown.org/dont-just-do...
January 29, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Make soup!
Practice mutual aid.
Resist.
Practice mutual aid.
Resist.
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The new “Don’t Just Do Nothing: 20 Things You Can Do to Counter Fascism—Yes, You! Yes, Now!” zine makes a great gift for your liberal fam, friends, neighbors & coworkers!
Read, print & distro freely!
Full text & PDFs on @igd.bsky.social:
itsgoingdown.org/dont-just-do...
Read, print & distro freely!
Full text & PDFs on @igd.bsky.social:
itsgoingdown.org/dont-just-do...
January 28, 2025 at 9:21 PM
The new “Don’t Just Do Nothing: 20 Things You Can Do to Counter Fascism—Yes, You! Yes, Now!” zine makes a great gift for your liberal fam, friends, neighbors & coworkers!
Read, print & distro freely!
Full text & PDFs on @igd.bsky.social:
itsgoingdown.org/dont-just-do...
Read, print & distro freely!
Full text & PDFs on @igd.bsky.social:
itsgoingdown.org/dont-just-do...
We knew it was coming— absolutely horrific. The language alone is disturbing, violent, misleading, abhorrent.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation – The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Policy and
www.whitehouse.gov
January 29, 2025 at 12:14 AM
We knew it was coming— absolutely horrific. The language alone is disturbing, violent, misleading, abhorrent.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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JUST IN: Six transgender service members are suing Trump/Hegseth over new ban on trans people serving in the military. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 28, 2025 at 7:43 PM
JUST IN: Six transgender service members are suing Trump/Hegseth over new ban on trans people serving in the military. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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January 28, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring
Researchers facing “a lot of uncertainty, fear, and panic”
www.science.org
January 28, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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Academic workers across the country are organizing to call on our congressional representatives on Thursday, 1/30, at 3pm ET / 12pm PT to demand these restrictions be lifted immediately.
There will be a training over zoom at the beginning of the event.
Join us!
form.jotform.com/250226137228...
There will be a training over zoom at the beginning of the event.
Join us!
form.jotform.com/250226137228...
Join researchers across the country in fighting restrictions on the NIH
Please click the link to complete this form.
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January 28, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Academic workers across the country are organizing to call on our congressional representatives on Thursday, 1/30, at 3pm ET / 12pm PT to demand these restrictions be lifted immediately.
There will be a training over zoom at the beginning of the event.
Join us!
form.jotform.com/250226137228...
There will be a training over zoom at the beginning of the event.
Join us!
form.jotform.com/250226137228...
Horrific
The FDA has removed webpages about diversity and inclusion in clinical trials for cancer drugs. www.npr.org/sections/sho... 10/12
The FDA pulls key DEI initiative for cancer studies from its website
A Food and Drug Administration project to promote diversity in clinical studies of cancer treatments was removed from the agency's website, as the Trump administration halts DEI initiatives.
www.npr.org
January 28, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Horrific
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Health and Human Services has shut down most of its communications. No new studies at the National Institutes of Health can be launched. www.statnews.com/2025/01/27/n... 5/12
NIH clarifies restrictions on staff after Trump's broad freeze sparked chaos
Ongoing clinical trials can continue, and scientists can keep publishing their findings, a memo shows.
www.statnews.com
January 28, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Health and Human Services has shut down most of its communications. No new studies at the National Institutes of Health can be launched. www.statnews.com/2025/01/27/n... 5/12
Tracking the impacts….
The PEPFAR program, which distributes HIV drugs, is estimated to have saved 25 million lives. The Trump administration has stopped it and taken its computer system offline, raising fears the program is done for good. Story by @apoorvanyt.bsky.social [Gift link] nyti.ms/4aCJHSx 2/12
Trump Administration Halts H.I.V. Drug Distribution in Poor Countries (Gift Article)
PEPFAR’s computer systems also are being taken offline, a sign that the program may not return, as Republican critics had hoped.
nyti.ms
January 28, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Tracking the impacts….
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Per an NIH source:
“Discussions with colleagues have suggested that if the universities all come together and raise hell about the delays to funding caused by not holding meetings, that might move the needle. From every state. There are well-funded universities in red states that will be impacted.”
“Discussions with colleagues have suggested that if the universities all come together and raise hell about the delays to funding caused by not holding meetings, that might move the needle. From every state. There are well-funded universities in red states that will be impacted.”
January 28, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Per an NIH source:
“Discussions with colleagues have suggested that if the universities all come together and raise hell about the delays to funding caused by not holding meetings, that might move the needle. From every state. There are well-funded universities in red states that will be impacted.”
“Discussions with colleagues have suggested that if the universities all come together and raise hell about the delays to funding caused by not holding meetings, that might move the needle. From every state. There are well-funded universities in red states that will be impacted.”
An important way to demonstrate resistance and community care.
JD Vance spearheaded a federal ban on mask mandates.
He said it was “a massive victory for personal freedom in this country.”
So wear a mask because JD doesn’t want you to.
Wear a mask to make them harder to ban.
Wear a mask as a form of community care, solidarity and resistance.
He said it was “a massive victory for personal freedom in this country.”
So wear a mask because JD doesn’t want you to.
Wear a mask to make them harder to ban.
Wear a mask as a form of community care, solidarity and resistance.
January 28, 2025 at 5:15 AM
An important way to demonstrate resistance and community care.
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NEW lawsuit from transgender woman in US custody challenges Trump's anti-LGBTQ+ executive order - storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 27, 2025 at 1:14 AM
NEW lawsuit from transgender woman in US custody challenges Trump's anti-LGBTQ+ executive order - storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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So, #academicsky, what are the best practices we’re seeing in how universities are supporting/communicating with their jr faculty & faculty who study vulnerable topics in light of the massive undermining of NIH this week? Silence / lack of a game plan is not a viable response. Who has done well?
January 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
So, #academicsky, what are the best practices we’re seeing in how universities are supporting/communicating with their jr faculty & faculty who study vulnerable topics in light of the massive undermining of NIH this week? Silence / lack of a game plan is not a viable response. Who has done well?
