Heike Peckruhn
@heikepheike.bsky.social
Religious Studies, Gender, Disability, Sexuality, Race. Love coffee, dogs, and woodworking.
Rest in Power, Alice Wong. We owe you.
November 15, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Rest in Power, Alice Wong. We owe you.
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Alice Wong, Presente. Thank you for everything.
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
November 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Alice Wong, Presente. Thank you for everything.
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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"Courage is collective, and requires us to come together as often as possible in community." —our co-founder @dreanyc123.bsky.social in our latest "This Month in Criminalization" newsletter
Read for more, as well as recent policy info/updates re: criminalization, resources, and ways to take action:
Read for more, as well as recent policy info/updates re: criminalization, resources, and ways to take action:
This Month in Criminalization — Interrupting Criminalization
The October edition of Interrupting Criminalization’s This Month in Criminalization newsletter shares a message from IC co-founder Andrea J. Ritchie amid the torrent of horrible, alarming news and dev...
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October 31, 2025 at 9:00 PM
"Courage is collective, and requires us to come together as often as possible in community." —our co-founder @dreanyc123.bsky.social in our latest "This Month in Criminalization" newsletter
Read for more, as well as recent policy info/updates re: criminalization, resources, and ways to take action:
Read for more, as well as recent policy info/updates re: criminalization, resources, and ways to take action:
Reposted by Heike Peckruhn
This is how.
Every Dem, please, this is how.
EVERYONE in the media, please!!
Every Dem, please, this is how.
EVERYONE in the media, please!!
October 31, 2025 at 1:48 PM
This is how.
Every Dem, please, this is how.
EVERYONE in the media, please!!
Every Dem, please, this is how.
EVERYONE in the media, please!!
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She’s the real deal.
Please pay attention.
Please pay attention.
Here it is:
A guide to understanding our new concentration-camp era and how to fight it.
From Andrea Pitzer, drawing from her global history of concentration camps, a history of how humanity turned to camps and what it takes to turn away from them.
A guide to understanding our new concentration-camp era and how to fight it.
From Andrea Pitzer, drawing from her global history of concentration camps, a history of how humanity turned to camps and what it takes to turn away from them.
What's in a Concentration Camp? | The Name Game | Andrea Pitzer | Next Comes What
YouTube video by Degenerate Art by Andrea Pitzer
www.youtube.com
July 10, 2025 at 1:55 PM
She’s the real deal.
Please pay attention.
Please pay attention.
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BIG NEWS!! CRDJ just launched Justice Junction—a new online hub for racial & disability justice! Connect, organize, and mobilize with others building collective power.
Join us: www.crdjustice.org → Click “Log In” to make your profile. #JusticeJunction
Join us: www.crdjustice.org → Click “Log In” to make your profile. #JusticeJunction
April 18, 2025 at 7:23 PM
BIG NEWS!! CRDJ just launched Justice Junction—a new online hub for racial & disability justice! Connect, organize, and mobilize with others building collective power.
Join us: www.crdjustice.org → Click “Log In” to make your profile. #JusticeJunction
Join us: www.crdjustice.org → Click “Log In” to make your profile. #JusticeJunction
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“…know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience.”
One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.
March 29, 2025 at 10:22 PM
“…know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience.”
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This is correct, and is talked about in the book “The Frailty Myth”.
There is a history of men changing the rules of an entire competitive sport after a woman wins.. I’d have to go back and find it.
There is a history of men changing the rules of an entire competitive sport after a woman wins.. I’d have to go back and find it.
One thing I read that I think about a lot is that they didn't separate the genders to protect women, but rather to protect men from losing to women. I don't know how true that is, but I can see how boys would lose status if they "got beat by a girl."
March 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM
This is correct, and is talked about in the book “The Frailty Myth”.
There is a history of men changing the rules of an entire competitive sport after a woman wins.. I’d have to go back and find it.
There is a history of men changing the rules of an entire competitive sport after a woman wins.. I’d have to go back and find it.
Chauncey Devega is the sharp on-point analyst of our time: his tips on resisting the induction of despair. Everyday things I/we can do: divest, connect, practice being, and seek moral accountability. Check out his full article. Dog Pic instead of pic heading article (c:
www.salon.com/2025/02/28/s...
www.salon.com/2025/02/28/s...
February 28, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Chauncey Devega is the sharp on-point analyst of our time: his tips on resisting the induction of despair. Everyday things I/we can do: divest, connect, practice being, and seek moral accountability. Check out his full article. Dog Pic instead of pic heading article (c:
www.salon.com/2025/02/28/s...
www.salon.com/2025/02/28/s...
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Out of the 12,000 civil rights complaints the Education Department has put on hold since Trump took office:
• 6,000 relate to mistreatment of disabled students
• 1,000 are specific to sexual harassment/violence
• 3,200 pertain to racial discrimination
• 6,000 relate to mistreatment of disabled students
• 1,000 are specific to sexual harassment/violence
• 3,200 pertain to racial discrimination
“We’ve Been Essentially Muzzled”: Department of Education Halts Thousands of Civil Rights Investigations Under Trump
Since Inauguration Day, the Office for Civil Rights has only opened about 20 investigations focused on Trump’s priorities, placing more than 10,000 student complaints related to disability access and…
propub.li
February 19, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Out of the 12,000 civil rights complaints the Education Department has put on hold since Trump took office:
• 6,000 relate to mistreatment of disabled students
• 1,000 are specific to sexual harassment/violence
• 3,200 pertain to racial discrimination
• 6,000 relate to mistreatment of disabled students
• 1,000 are specific to sexual harassment/violence
• 3,200 pertain to racial discrimination
slate.com/news-and-pol...
Time to strike
Time to strike
It’s Not Time to Protest, It’s Time to Strike.
This would be so different from the Women’s March.
slate.com
February 19, 2025 at 12:58 PM
slate.com/news-and-pol...
Time to strike
Time to strike
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We are fighting an administrative coup. The top question we keep getting asked is WHAT CAN I DO?
The basic answer: resist every unjust, unfair, and unconstitutional policy at every level.
We've organized a few simple actions on our website > choosedemocracy.us/what-can-i-do/
The basic answer: resist every unjust, unfair, and unconstitutional policy at every level.
We've organized a few simple actions on our website > choosedemocracy.us/what-can-i-do/
February 12, 2025 at 6:45 PM
We are fighting an administrative coup. The top question we keep getting asked is WHAT CAN I DO?
The basic answer: resist every unjust, unfair, and unconstitutional policy at every level.
We've organized a few simple actions on our website > choosedemocracy.us/what-can-i-do/
The basic answer: resist every unjust, unfair, and unconstitutional policy at every level.
We've organized a few simple actions on our website > choosedemocracy.us/what-can-i-do/
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Over 50% of nonviolent movements to overthrow governments are successful within one year of their peak.
The key is to engage over 3.5% of the country, a cross-section of society—clergy, kids, grandmas, teachers) using DIVERSE & CREATIVE tactics, with women in leadership.
We can do this.
More:
The key is to engage over 3.5% of the country, a cross-section of society—clergy, kids, grandmas, teachers) using DIVERSE & CREATIVE tactics, with women in leadership.
We can do this.
More:
On Organizing
time to level up / an early draft of a playbook
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
January 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Over 50% of nonviolent movements to overthrow governments are successful within one year of their peak.
The key is to engage over 3.5% of the country, a cross-section of society—clergy, kids, grandmas, teachers) using DIVERSE & CREATIVE tactics, with women in leadership.
We can do this.
More:
The key is to engage over 3.5% of the country, a cross-section of society—clergy, kids, grandmas, teachers) using DIVERSE & CREATIVE tactics, with women in leadership.
We can do this.
More:
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1. Breaking News: Donald Trump has signed an executive order targeting trans youth and teachers in schools who teach for them.
It goes after "social transition" and threatens arrests.
I will go through line by line, as I have the last 3 nights.
Find the EO here:
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
It goes after "social transition" and threatens arrests.
I will go through line by line, as I have the last 3 nights.
Find the EO here:
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling – 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. Purpose and
www.whitehouse.gov
January 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
1. Breaking News: Donald Trump has signed an executive order targeting trans youth and teachers in schools who teach for them.
It goes after "social transition" and threatens arrests.
I will go through line by line, as I have the last 3 nights.
Find the EO here:
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
It goes after "social transition" and threatens arrests.
I will go through line by line, as I have the last 3 nights.
Find the EO here:
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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I actually wish the media would stop using "DEI" and "diversity hiring" and just get to the essence of the thing and ask:
"Are you saying that this crash was caused by desegregating the races?"
And see what happens.
"Are you saying that this crash was caused by desegregating the races?"
And see what happens.
REPORTER: Are you saying this crash was somehow was the result of diversity hiring?
TRUMP: It just could have been
TRUMP: It just could have been
January 30, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I actually wish the media would stop using "DEI" and "diversity hiring" and just get to the essence of the thing and ask:
"Are you saying that this crash was caused by desegregating the races?"
And see what happens.
"Are you saying that this crash was caused by desegregating the races?"
And see what happens.
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Erica is utterly brilliant and this is a gift worth opening.
I'm not teaching my grad course 'Civil Resistance: How It Works' this semester. But here is an abridged version of the course schedule, readings, and films I used the last time I taught it (in 2022). Just in case it's useful. drive.google.com/file/d/14RRJ...
Readings - Civil Resistance How It Works Fall 2022.pdf
drive.google.com
January 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Erica is utterly brilliant and this is a gift worth opening.
Black and brown disabled folks already know that capitalism does not work and is heading for a crumbling demise. The question is how we will talk a out it while it happens, and who can and will listen to the stories of alternative worlds that are possible?
www.salon.com/2025/01/26/m...
www.salon.com/2025/01/26/m...
MAGA's true believers don't understand capitalism — Trump will teach them a hard lesson
Today's Republicans have swallowed so many economic myths that reality has disappeared. They face a wakeup call
www.salon.com
January 26, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Black and brown disabled folks already know that capitalism does not work and is heading for a crumbling demise. The question is how we will talk a out it while it happens, and who can and will listen to the stories of alternative worlds that are possible?
www.salon.com/2025/01/26/m...
www.salon.com/2025/01/26/m...
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For the past year, @propublica.org has been reporting on the toll when a city "sweeps" an encampment. We handed out cards so folks could write in their own words what it meant to have their belongings trashed.
We're publishing dozens of those stories here:
projects.propublica.org/impact-of-ho...
We're publishing dozens of those stories here:
projects.propublica.org/impact-of-ho...
“I Have Lost Everything”: The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps
Cities often take belongings — including important documents and irreplaceable mementos — when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so th...
projects.propublica.org
December 27, 2024 at 1:39 PM
For the past year, @propublica.org has been reporting on the toll when a city "sweeps" an encampment. We handed out cards so folks could write in their own words what it meant to have their belongings trashed.
We're publishing dozens of those stories here:
projects.propublica.org/impact-of-ho...
We're publishing dozens of those stories here:
projects.propublica.org/impact-of-ho...
People working in Religious Studies, who keep running into issues of disability justice, here is a Call for Proposals for a symposium that seeks to create collaborations and conversations.
Check it out!
drive.google.com/file/d/154Xc...
#religiousstudies
#criptheory
#disabilityjustice
Check it out!
drive.google.com/file/d/154Xc...
#religiousstudies
#criptheory
#disabilityjustice
CfP Symposium on Religion and Disability.pdf
drive.google.com
November 22, 2024 at 10:09 PM
People working in Religious Studies, who keep running into issues of disability justice, here is a Call for Proposals for a symposium that seeks to create collaborations and conversations.
Check it out!
drive.google.com/file/d/154Xc...
#religiousstudies
#criptheory
#disabilityjustice
Check it out!
drive.google.com/file/d/154Xc...
#religiousstudies
#criptheory
#disabilityjustice
People working in Disability Studies, who keep running into religion, here is a Call for Proposals for a symposium that seeks to create collaborations and conversations.
Check it out!
drive.google.com/file/d/154Xc...
#disability
#criptheory
#disabilityjustice
Check it out!
drive.google.com/file/d/154Xc...
#disability
#criptheory
#disabilityjustice
CfP Symposium on Religion and Disability.pdf
drive.google.com
November 22, 2024 at 10:09 PM
People working in Disability Studies, who keep running into religion, here is a Call for Proposals for a symposium that seeks to create collaborations and conversations.
Check it out!
drive.google.com/file/d/154Xc...
#disability
#criptheory
#disabilityjustice
Check it out!
drive.google.com/file/d/154Xc...
#disability
#criptheory
#disabilityjustice