kb (she/her)
@duchessofhazard.bsky.social
radical social worker, new yorker.
sharing info + resources for the disaster era on justice, liberation, mental health, mutual aid, and more.
sharing info + resources for the disaster era on justice, liberation, mental health, mutual aid, and more.
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Interesting how I haven’t seen a single person who tried to whitewash MTG’s violent history and claim she’s “coming around to our side now” speak a single word about her latest anti-trans bill.
December 18, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Interesting how I haven’t seen a single person who tried to whitewash MTG’s violent history and claim she’s “coming around to our side now” speak a single word about her latest anti-trans bill.
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If you are a health care worker and have concerns or are looking for additional support and strategies around not complying in advance, and resisting criminalization and harm in your role as a provider of care, you can also reach out to our Beyond Do No Harm Health Care Strategy Consult:
Beyond Do No Harm Health Care Strategy Consult Desk — Interrupting Criminalization
www.interruptingcriminalization.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:43 PM
If you are a health care worker and have concerns or are looking for additional support and strategies around not complying in advance, and resisting criminalization and harm in your role as a provider of care, you can also reach out to our Beyond Do No Harm Health Care Strategy Consult:
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If you're a provider of gender-affirming care, please check out The Good Health Project's Know Your Rights update/memo. Trans health care care is still lawful under federal law. static1.squarespace.com/static/686eb...
December 18, 2025 at 11:42 PM
If you're a provider of gender-affirming care, please check out The Good Health Project's Know Your Rights update/memo. Trans health care care is still lawful under federal law. static1.squarespace.com/static/686eb...
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One parishioner who lacks legal immigration status "learned about his rights for the first time at a freedom school and shared his new knowledge with his landscaping colleagues and neighbors, telling them not to open their doors during a warrantless raid.”
“Participants act out how to respond to encounters with immigrant agents in various situations, including agents coming to homes, stopping someone in their car or approaching a street vendor.” religionnews.com/2025/12/18/l...
How an LA interfaith coalition is using ‘freedom schools’ to defend against ICE
LOS ANGELES (RNS) — One LA is convening faith-based ‘freedom schools’ that help residents learn what to do if confronted by immigration enforcement. The movement also led to a recent public hearing.
religionnews.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:22 PM
One parishioner who lacks legal immigration status "learned about his rights for the first time at a freedom school and shared his new knowledge with his landscaping colleagues and neighbors, telling them not to open their doors during a warrantless raid.”
great analysis of the fiction that DEI initiatives worsened white men's material reality.
"Ambitious white men in their thirties have not seen much, if any, decline over this period. Their overall employment is up. Their employment in the arts and media is unchanged. Educational attainment is up."
"Ambitious white men in their thirties have not seen much, if any, decline over this period. Their overall employment is up. Their employment in the arts and media is unchanged. Educational attainment is up."
Ah I think it's a bit worse than I said! My take was that the bit re the failure of the meritocracy when it turns on these people didn't seem well supported by argument. Having read this I now think it's even more substantially just false, incorrect.
www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/12/17/w...
www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/12/17/w...
What Does the Census Data Say About “The Lost Generation”
Savage appears wrong, but the reality is potentially bleaker.
www.peoplespolicyproject.org
December 17, 2025 at 11:20 PM
great analysis of the fiction that DEI initiatives worsened white men's material reality.
"Ambitious white men in their thirties have not seen much, if any, decline over this period. Their overall employment is up. Their employment in the arts and media is unchanged. Educational attainment is up."
"Ambitious white men in their thirties have not seen much, if any, decline over this period. Their overall employment is up. Their employment in the arts and media is unchanged. Educational attainment is up."
evil is corrosive.
December 17, 2025 at 6:55 PM
evil is corrosive.
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good morning to vanity fair and vanity fair only today
December 16, 2025 at 5:57 PM
good morning to vanity fair and vanity fair only today
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i do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
♥️ “ICE looked at that school, saw a community standing up for families, and decided it wasn’t worth it.”
December 9, 2025 at 2:50 AM
i do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
Check out the schedule and map of actions at www.handsoffnyc.com!
December 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Check out the schedule and map of actions at www.handsoffnyc.com!
💯 When Lander was my councilman I saw him all over the neighborhood.
On the other hand Goldman refuses to engage with constituents, gatekeeps public events to prevent dissent, and rarely even sends a form email acknowledging multiple calls and voicemails I've personally left with his office.
On the other hand Goldman refuses to engage with constituents, gatekeeps public events to prevent dissent, and rarely even sends a form email acknowledging multiple calls and voicemails I've personally left with his office.
I've probably photographed Brad Lander more than any other elected in NYC because the dude shows up. He's everywhere, he's incredibly accessible, and he genuinely loves New Yorkers. You can literally go up and talk to him whenever he shows up. Go ahead, try it!
(I have NEVER seen Goldman ANYWHERE.)
(I have NEVER seen Goldman ANYWHERE.)
December 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
💯 When Lander was my councilman I saw him all over the neighborhood.
On the other hand Goldman refuses to engage with constituents, gatekeeps public events to prevent dissent, and rarely even sends a form email acknowledging multiple calls and voicemails I've personally left with his office.
On the other hand Goldman refuses to engage with constituents, gatekeeps public events to prevent dissent, and rarely even sends a form email acknowledging multiple calls and voicemails I've personally left with his office.
YESSSSSSSSSS!!! So excited to vote for @bradlander.bsky.social again (this time for Congress)!
I’m running for Congress because we need leaders who will fight, not fold. I recognize this moment, and I’m ready to meet it. #FightDontFold #LanderForNYC #LanderForCongress
December 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
YESSSSSSSSSS!!! So excited to vote for @bradlander.bsky.social again (this time for Congress)!
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One way to think of the Trump Admin is as having SHIFTED the $$ we used to spend on curing cancer (and providing care to Veterans and protecting nature and etc) to snatching brown people off the streets.
Amid NIH funding delays, reversals and uncertainty, a scientist at Harvard who studies breast cancer has lost one-third of her lab employees and wonders if she can continue her research experiments. n.pr/4a4N3zD
After NIH grant cuts, breast cancer research at Harvard slowed, and lab workers left
Amid NIH funding delays, reversals and uncertainty, a scientist at Harvard who studies breast cancer has lost one-third of her lab employees and wonders if she can continue her research experiments.
n.pr
December 9, 2025 at 10:10 AM
One way to think of the Trump Admin is as having SHIFTED the $$ we used to spend on curing cancer (and providing care to Veterans and protecting nature and etc) to snatching brown people off the streets.
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"All is lost" narratives are popular because people generally do not want to take action. Taking action is tiring so if all is lost, you are off the hook. Nothing is more seductive than not having to do anything.
December 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
"All is lost" narratives are popular because people generally do not want to take action. Taking action is tiring so if all is lost, you are off the hook. Nothing is more seductive than not having to do anything.
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Trans women has been welcomed at the Women's Institute since the 1970s and one member is in her 80's and has been a member for decades. This is pure bigotry pushed by legal threats backed monetarily by JK Rowling.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Women’s Institute will no longer accept trans women as members from April
Exclusive: CEO says decision taken with ‘utmost regret and sadness’ after supreme court ruling on definition of a woman
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Trans women has been welcomed at the Women's Institute since the 1970s and one member is in her 80's and has been a member for decades. This is pure bigotry pushed by legal threats backed monetarily by JK Rowling.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
TBH, I feel like everyone should have the option of these types of accomodations. Let folks use whatever concentration tools necessary and take the time they need to demonstrate their learning.
These debates about accommodations for autistic and ADHD people always seem predicated on the false idea there is some generous but zero-sum basket of resources.
There isn’t.
We’re usually talking about things like extra time, instruction clarification, wearing headphones, or using fidget tools.
There isn’t.
We’re usually talking about things like extra time, instruction clarification, wearing headphones, or using fidget tools.
December 3, 2025 at 12:56 AM
TBH, I feel like everyone should have the option of these types of accomodations. Let folks use whatever concentration tools necessary and take the time they need to demonstrate their learning.
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be the bitch doing something yourself that you want to see in the world
there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything
December 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM
be the bitch doing something yourself that you want to see in the world
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They're not hiding it, folks—straight up neo-Nazi advertising, from the font to the language to the 11 stars for the Confederacy. Then you have the DHS openly using white nationalist language of "remigrate", which means ethnic cleansing.
This is who MAGA is now.
This is who MAGA is now.
November 30, 2025 at 6:43 AM
They're not hiding it, folks—straight up neo-Nazi advertising, from the font to the language to the 11 stars for the Confederacy. Then you have the DHS openly using white nationalist language of "remigrate", which means ethnic cleansing.
This is who MAGA is now.
This is who MAGA is now.
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Not a single major news outlet has covered this story. There is such a blatant, obvious attempt to suppress any and all news that deals with the actual facts about transgender life and experience. As the government rolls back our rights on an unprecedented scale, we have been left out to dry.
"[G]ender-affirming care saves lives."
"Suicidality scores among the [study's] patients who provided responses dropped by over 67 percent."
"[O]f the hundreds of patients who started hormone therapy, only seven discontinued their treatment."
#USA #Healthcare #Suicide
"Suicidality scores among the [study's] patients who provided responses dropped by over 67 percent."
"[O]f the hundreds of patients who started hormone therapy, only seven discontinued their treatment."
#USA #Healthcare #Suicide
New Study: Gender-Affirming Care Dramatically Lowers Suicide Risk for Trans Kids
Twenty-seven states in the US ban gender-affirming treatments for trans youth, including hormone therapy.
truthout.org
November 28, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Not a single major news outlet has covered this story. There is such a blatant, obvious attempt to suppress any and all news that deals with the actual facts about transgender life and experience. As the government rolls back our rights on an unprecedented scale, we have been left out to dry.
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for context Alex Vitale is the author of the much-cited (including by me) book The End of Policing
I'm excited to announce that I have been asked to join the Mamdani Transition Team to work on community safety issues. A New Era for NYC.
November 24, 2025 at 10:53 PM
for context Alex Vitale is the author of the much-cited (including by me) book The End of Policing
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Someone is going to have the write the thing about how “vibe” has become a substitute for meaningful theory in a world where the theory is so clear — grift and power — but we collectively refuse if because it isn’t sophisticated enough to generate make work for empiricists.
November 22, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Someone is going to have the write the thing about how “vibe” has become a substitute for meaningful theory in a world where the theory is so clear — grift and power — but we collectively refuse if because it isn’t sophisticated enough to generate make work for empiricists.
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The only truly irreversible thing a trans child is likely to do is take their own life. "What if they do something irreversible?" actually means "theyre not allowed to make a decision!"
You cant undo or reverse any decision you make, you can simply change your mind later and handle the consequences
You cant undo or reverse any decision you make, you can simply change your mind later and handle the consequences
November 22, 2025 at 11:57 AM
The only truly irreversible thing a trans child is likely to do is take their own life. "What if they do something irreversible?" actually means "theyre not allowed to make a decision!"
You cant undo or reverse any decision you make, you can simply change your mind later and handle the consequences
You cant undo or reverse any decision you make, you can simply change your mind later and handle the consequences
Nothing in the research supports these invasive requirements. Do you know what does have a ton of evidence supporting it?? Gender affirming care, where we trust young people and support their bodily autonomy!
Under new NHS puberty blocker trial protocols, trans youth are being subjected to more than 50 assessments, intrusive exams, and over 13 hours of intrusive testing - just to access lifesaving healthcare
It demands young people re-live distress & undergo intimate examinations
#ConversionPractices
It demands young people re-live distress & undergo intimate examinations
#ConversionPractices
Trans Young People Face 50+ Tests and Hours of Intrusive Assessments in the PATHWAYS Puberty…
The publication of the PATHWAYS puberty blocker trial protocols reveals how trans young people are required to complete more than fifty…
medium.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Nothing in the research supports these invasive requirements. Do you know what does have a ton of evidence supporting it?? Gender affirming care, where we trust young people and support their bodily autonomy!
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this would assume those folks had good political instincts. Say all the terrible things you want about the fascist in chief and you'll be right but he has good political instincts.
The weird thing is with Donald Trump just said about Zohran Mandani is what every Democrat should’ve said about Zohran Mamdani the moment he secured the Democratic nomination.
November 21, 2025 at 9:58 PM
this would assume those folks had good political instincts. Say all the terrible things you want about the fascist in chief and you'll be right but he has good political instincts.