Christine Mitchell
@christinescd.bsky.social
she/her. public health. anti-racism. disability justice. abolition of the prison industrial complex. religion. labor unions. views my own. #HealthNotPunishment
formerly @Christine_ScD on the bird app
formerly @Christine_ScD on the bird app
after dealing with thyroid issues & endocrinologists & cardiologists & electrophysiologists & testing over the last 3 months, i've concluded that either:
a) thyroids aren't real.
or b) thyroids are THE MOST REAL and COMPLEX and impact EVERY BODY SYSTEM in innumerable ways.
thoughts? which is it?
a) thyroids aren't real.
or b) thyroids are THE MOST REAL and COMPLEX and impact EVERY BODY SYSTEM in innumerable ways.
thoughts? which is it?
December 19, 2025 at 1:55 AM
after dealing with thyroid issues & endocrinologists & cardiologists & electrophysiologists & testing over the last 3 months, i've concluded that either:
a) thyroids aren't real.
or b) thyroids are THE MOST REAL and COMPLEX and impact EVERY BODY SYSTEM in innumerable ways.
thoughts? which is it?
a) thyroids aren't real.
or b) thyroids are THE MOST REAL and COMPLEX and impact EVERY BODY SYSTEM in innumerable ways.
thoughts? which is it?
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Now unlocked: @dreanyc123.bsky.social returns to discuss how healthcare workers can resist ICE and refuse to participate in criminalizing the people they care for, and the resources available from Beyond Do No Harm @interruptcrim.bsky.social
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on.soundcloud.com/6f5nCoDvSKOJ...
Beyond Do No Harm w/ Andrea Ritchie (Unlocked)
This episode was originally released September 15th for Death Panel patrons and is being unlocked today for the first time. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a
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December 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Now unlocked: @dreanyc123.bsky.social returns to discuss how healthcare workers can resist ICE and refuse to participate in criminalizing the people they care for, and the resources available from Beyond Do No Harm @interruptcrim.bsky.social
on.soundcloud.com/6f5nCoDvSKOJ...
on.soundcloud.com/6f5nCoDvSKOJ...
today is a good day because my shirt from @moxiest.art arrived!!!!
spread the word: gavin doesn’t care about:
-trans people
-unhoused people
-immigrants
-Palestinians
-women
-incarcerated people
-you
spread the word: gavin doesn’t care about:
-trans people
-unhoused people
-immigrants
-Palestinians
-women
-incarcerated people
-you
December 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
today is a good day because my shirt from @moxiest.art arrived!!!!
spread the word: gavin doesn’t care about:
-trans people
-unhoused people
-immigrants
-Palestinians
-women
-incarcerated people
-you
spread the word: gavin doesn’t care about:
-trans people
-unhoused people
-immigrants
-Palestinians
-women
-incarcerated people
-you
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"We can act on our strongest convictions that dehumanization anywhere is unacceptable because we are all bearers of the image of God."
Check out my latest article with @faithandleadership.bsky.social
faithandleadership.com/i-was-slamme...
Check out my latest article with @faithandleadership.bsky.social
faithandleadership.com/i-was-slamme...
I was slammed to the ground and arrested outside an ICE facility. It was a holy experience.
Internment sites are being operated across the country, writes a Chicago pastor. What we do with this knowledge tells us everything about the Christians we are.
faithandleadership.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
"We can act on our strongest convictions that dehumanization anywhere is unacceptable because we are all bearers of the image of God."
Check out my latest article with @faithandleadership.bsky.social
faithandleadership.com/i-was-slamme...
Check out my latest article with @faithandleadership.bsky.social
faithandleadership.com/i-was-slamme...
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📣 IT'S TIME! Applications are now open for our Spring 2026 cohort of the Abolitionist Public Health Network! Interested in organizing an abolitionist, anti-authoritarian campaign on your campus? Learn more and apply here: bit.ly/AbSPHSpring2026
December 11, 2025 at 4:43 PM
📣 IT'S TIME! Applications are now open for our Spring 2026 cohort of the Abolitionist Public Health Network! Interested in organizing an abolitionist, anti-authoritarian campaign on your campus? Learn more and apply here: bit.ly/AbSPHSpring2026
please call & share to support Juan David and his family: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
December 10, 2025 at 6:52 PM
please call & share to support Juan David and his family: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
this is a major hit to radical public health.
a good reminder to all who forgot that harvard should not be considered a leader in anyone's "resistance" movement.
a good reminder to all who forgot that harvard should not be considered a leader in anyone's "resistance" movement.
Harvard School of Public Health Dean Andrea A. Baccarelli is a coward. Mary Bassett is a public health legend. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard Dismisses Director of FXB Center for Health and Human Rights | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard forced out the director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights — another shakeup at a center whose programming on the Israel-Palestine conflict has been a flashpoint...
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December 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
this is a major hit to radical public health.
a good reminder to all who forgot that harvard should not be considered a leader in anyone's "resistance" movement.
a good reminder to all who forgot that harvard should not be considered a leader in anyone's "resistance" movement.
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Spend five minutes talking to someone who has survived what these policies were designed to stop and you’ll never be the same again. PREA is imperfect and often weaponized, but it’s often the only protection trans/intersex prisoners have. Everyone involved in this should never know a moment’s peace.
BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.
Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order
prismreports.org
December 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Spend five minutes talking to someone who has survived what these policies were designed to stop and you’ll never be the same again. PREA is imperfect and often weaponized, but it’s often the only protection trans/intersex prisoners have. Everyone involved in this should never know a moment’s peace.
yesss amen! and also send some cash over to CCWP while you're at it! womenprisoners.org
Number of people caged in California's prisons for women:
Dec. 2007: 10,704
this week : 3,636
Thank an abolitionist for the 7,000 who aren't spending the holidays locked up.
& send some cash to the orgs in CA closing prisons:
@curbprisons.bsky.social & Critical Resistance
Dec. 2007: 10,704
this week : 3,636
Thank an abolitionist for the 7,000 who aren't spending the holidays locked up.
& send some cash to the orgs in CA closing prisons:
@curbprisons.bsky.social & Critical Resistance
December 5, 2025 at 3:16 PM
yesss amen! and also send some cash over to CCWP while you're at it! womenprisoners.org
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BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.
Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order
prismreports.org
December 4, 2025 at 11:30 PM
BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.
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Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
December 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
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6 years today the first COVID case was identified in a man in Wuhan marking the beginning of a global pandemic that changed the world. We are way less prepared today to face another pandemic than we were back then. This fact makes me sad.
November 30, 2025 at 10:52 PM
6 years today the first COVID case was identified in a man in Wuhan marking the beginning of a global pandemic that changed the world. We are way less prepared today to face another pandemic than we were back then. This fact makes me sad.
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If you need a whistle in Somerville, stop by Gracie’s. If you need A LOT of whistles that’s probably ok too.
November 23, 2025 at 8:20 PM
If you need a whistle in Somerville, stop by Gracie’s. If you need A LOT of whistles that’s probably ok too.
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Thinking about this today.
“It also means more than simply living. It means our lives are made so much better now that they actually feel worth living— that the change that gender-affirming care makes possible isn't just about life or death, it's about a vibrant life instead of the absence of one.”
“It also means more than simply living. It means our lives are made so much better now that they actually feel worth living— that the change that gender-affirming care makes possible isn't just about life or death, it's about a vibrant life instead of the absence of one.”
In defense of trans quality of life — Jessica Kant
Today trans people exist in an atmosphere where it has become normal for strangers to demand of us that we extemporaneously provide inarguable, indisputable proof that without very safe medical care w...
jessk.org
November 23, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Thinking about this today.
“It also means more than simply living. It means our lives are made so much better now that they actually feel worth living— that the change that gender-affirming care makes possible isn't just about life or death, it's about a vibrant life instead of the absence of one.”
“It also means more than simply living. It means our lives are made so much better now that they actually feel worth living— that the change that gender-affirming care makes possible isn't just about life or death, it's about a vibrant life instead of the absence of one.”
i talked about Alice Wong's death in therapy today and my therapist described her as someone who "lit others up." i just find that so apt as a descriptor for who i experienced Alice to be. may she rest in love, knowing that her light continues to shine on in so many of us.
November 19, 2025 at 11:43 PM
i talked about Alice Wong's death in therapy today and my therapist described her as someone who "lit others up." i just find that so apt as a descriptor for who i experienced Alice to be. may she rest in love, knowing that her light continues to shine on in so many of us.
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ICYMI: I spent a week with an illustrator in Connecticut’s only immigration court, where judges decide whether thousands of people each year can stay in the U.S.
We found few lawyers, long backlogs and lessened transparency.
(And yes, that's me.)
www.ctinsider.com/news/article... #nutmegsky
We found few lawyers, long backlogs and lessened transparency.
(And yes, that's me.)
www.ctinsider.com/news/article... #nutmegsky
A week inside the opaque court where CT immigrants learn their fate
The courtroom often resembles an assembly line, with many cases taking less than five minutes.
www.ctinsider.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:08 PM
ICYMI: I spent a week with an illustrator in Connecticut’s only immigration court, where judges decide whether thousands of people each year can stay in the U.S.
We found few lawyers, long backlogs and lessened transparency.
(And yes, that's me.)
www.ctinsider.com/news/article... #nutmegsky
We found few lawyers, long backlogs and lessened transparency.
(And yes, that's me.)
www.ctinsider.com/news/article... #nutmegsky
reminder: please only share info about ICE presence that has been confirmed & verified by you and/or a trusted source. inciting fear & panic can prevent people from seeking needed care & getting essential resources. it's important that we share info, but it's important that we do so responsibly.
November 18, 2025 at 2:22 PM
reminder: please only share info about ICE presence that has been confirmed & verified by you and/or a trusted source. inciting fear & panic can prevent people from seeking needed care & getting essential resources. it's important that we share info, but it's important that we do so responsibly.
Reposted by Christine Mitchell
In sorting my own thoughts about the moment, I began writing about the way science is being used by bad actors under the guise of "evidence-based medicine". I also talk about the limits of our ability to fully boil down evidence into axioms that make subjectivity irrelevant.
The myth of an apolitical science — Jessica Kant
What we might call the modern anti-science movement, starting with efforts to hide the obvious linkage between tobacco and cancer, and the rise of “climate skepticism”, has grown in scale enormously i...
jessk.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:02 PM
In sorting my own thoughts about the moment, I began writing about the way science is being used by bad actors under the guise of "evidence-based medicine". I also talk about the limits of our ability to fully boil down evidence into axioms that make subjectivity irrelevant.
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While Alice has become an ancestor, her work continues! If you want to share her wisdom with others, you can purchase copies of her books for your local library, share her dazzling array of digital media from DVP, or donate to her legacy fund: www.gofundme.com/f/alice-wong...
Donate to Help finish Alice’s work, organized by yomi wrong
Our comrade, friend, collaborator and fierce Tiger Mischief Maker, Alice Wong, needs us.
As yo… yomi wrong needs your support for Help finish Alice’s work
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November 15, 2025 at 11:59 PM
While Alice has become an ancestor, her work continues! If you want to share her wisdom with others, you can purchase copies of her books for your local library, share her dazzling array of digital media from DVP, or donate to her legacy fund: www.gofundme.com/f/alice-wong...
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I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
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November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
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‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
—Alice Wong
November 15, 2025 at 6:12 AM
‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
—Alice Wong
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One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.
November 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.
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I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?
November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?
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Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
"If you think they treat me badly when the whole world is watching, it pales in comparison to what happens inside that facility...It’s why I refuse to be silent, & I will continue showing up to the Broadview facility til it's closed." @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social
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Why clergy should risk assault to protest ICE
(RNS) — For people wanting to experience God, we are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church.
religionnews.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:36 PM
"If you think they treat me badly when the whole world is watching, it pales in comparison to what happens inside that facility...It’s why I refuse to be silent, & I will continue showing up to the Broadview facility til it's closed." @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social
religionnews.com/2025/11/13/w...
religionnews.com/2025/11/13/w...