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Bahari Thomas
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Dir. of Public Education at A4TE 🏳️‍⚧️
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dionnewarwick.bsky.social
Happy MLK Day.
January 20, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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kumail.bsky.social
People outside of LA truly don’t understand how apocalyptic this is. It’s worse than it’s ever been. Entire residential neighborhoods are burning to the ground.
January 8, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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esqueer.net
Meta literally created a LGBTQ exception for calling someone mentally ill as an insult. You can't do it for any other group except LGBTQ people.
The image is from a "Transparency Center" document and lists guidelines regarding acceptable and prohibited content for insults. It mentions: 1. Insults about: Character, such as cowardice, dishonesty, criminality, and sexual promiscuity or immorality. Mental characteristics, including but not limited to accusations of stupidity, intellectual capacity, and mental illness, as well as unsupported comparisons among politically correct (PC) groups based on inherent intellectual traits. 2. Highlighted section: The document allows allegations of mental illness or abnormality when tied to gender or sexual orientation, referencing political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality. It also acknowledges the non-serious use of terms like "weird."
January 8, 2025 at 1:51 AM
baharileigh.bsky.social
I'm trying to fill this corner of the internet with as much Black trans joy as I can.
January 2, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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assignedmedia.org
With increasing threats to our community, its important to look at what it is that most keeps us going.
Article by Veronica Esposito
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Journal Club: What Keeps Us Alive — Assigned
A 2015 paper investigates what it is that motivates trans people to stay alive and keep going.
www.assignedmedia.org
January 2, 2025 at 4:14 PM
baharileigh.bsky.social
Watching the video of Trmp talking about day 1 executive orders to end "transgender lunacy" and erase us from all life is really horrifying. I'm not sure how we'll survive this, but we will. There is no other choice (I hope). God please watch over the trans kids.
December 23, 2024 at 8:25 PM
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solanopridecenter.bsky.social
Do they really think just not counting the deaths won’t mean that the community won’t know?
www.rawstory.com/abortion-ban...
'Bodies are piling up': Reporter finds GOP-led states are hiding abortion ban death toll
Some Republican-led states that passed near-total abortion bans have mysteriously stopped collecting statistics on maternal mortality over the last couple of years — and some observers suspect it's no...
www.rawstory.com
December 5, 2024 at 12:01 AM
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gbbranstetter.bsky.social
1964: "The defense submitted by the ACLU contends that it is unconstitutional to arrest as a vagrant a transvestite who has done nothing more than wear the clothing of the opposite sex."
A TRANSVESTITE GETS LEGAL HELP; Civil Liberties Union Argues Wearing Garb of Opposite Sex Is Not Criminal;
December 4, 2024 at 10:09 PM
baharileigh.bsky.social
Some of the A4TE team at the Supreme Court today.
Eight people pose in a group in front of the US Supreme Court. They are holding a banner with the logo of Advocates for Trans Equality.
December 4, 2024 at 10:52 PM
baharileigh.bsky.social
Because A4TE is not really on Bluesky yet, I'm posting this here to my 5 whole followers in hopes that someone sees. Our ED Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen, was quoted out of context in a New York Times story, and he released the following statement last night:

transequality.org/news/a4te-cl...
A4TE Clarifies Mission in Response to New York Times Article | A4TE
transequality.org
November 28, 2024 at 5:24 PM
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samtlevin.bsky.social
NEW: the trans healthcare ban before the US Supreme Court rests on a group of doctors who have repeatedly been discredited and dismissed by judges as unqualified, inexperienced + biased “experts” spreading religious doctrine and misinformation.

www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
Revealed: trans rights case at US supreme court features doctors previously discredited by judges
Tennessee relied on doctors rebuked by courts for inexperience and bias to defend its trans healthcare ban
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2024 at 8:31 PM
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jessicavalenti.bsky.social
I know everyone is talking about Matt Gaetz but please don't miss this:

Georgia fired every single person on its maternal mortality review committee. Why? They didn't like that reporters found out that the state's ban killed two women www.propublica.org/article/geor...
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 10:18 PM
baharileigh.bsky.social
Hey, I'm here! Sort of. I'm not a huge fan of listening to myself talk on social media, but occasionally I have things to say.
November 17, 2024 at 5:43 AM