Janice Best
@janbeee2.bsky.social
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LOCAL ELECTION RESULT:
Let me congratulate @zysaidso.bsky.social for her election to the Charlottesville School Board.
For those wondering: Zyahna Bryant was a student organizer who led the successful fight in removing two confederate statues from downtown Charlottesville.
Let me congratulate @zysaidso.bsky.social for her election to the Charlottesville School Board.
For those wondering: Zyahna Bryant was a student organizer who led the successful fight in removing two confederate statues from downtown Charlottesville.
November 5, 2025 at 6:42 AM
LOCAL ELECTION RESULT:
Let me congratulate @zysaidso.bsky.social for her election to the Charlottesville School Board.
For those wondering: Zyahna Bryant was a student organizer who led the successful fight in removing two confederate statues from downtown Charlottesville.
Let me congratulate @zysaidso.bsky.social for her election to the Charlottesville School Board.
For those wondering: Zyahna Bryant was a student organizer who led the successful fight in removing two confederate statues from downtown Charlottesville.
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Ask any of your favorite Black women writers from a decade ago why their bylines stopped appearing, and you’ll likely hear the same response: There is no place for us in media. In TV. In publishing or academia. For the majority of us, there’s no place but gone.
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
November 4, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Ask any of your favorite Black women writers from a decade ago why their bylines stopped appearing, and you’ll likely hear the same response: There is no place for us in media. In TV. In publishing or academia. For the majority of us, there’s no place but gone.
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The right sets the terms of our political discourse in so many ways, one of which is the idea that there isn't enough "debate" and "free speech" on campus.
We need to push back on this. The truth is (speaking for myself as a history prof), I don't really emphasize debate much in my classes/
We need to push back on this. The truth is (speaking for myself as a history prof), I don't really emphasize debate much in my classes/
September 13, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The right sets the terms of our political discourse in so many ways, one of which is the idea that there isn't enough "debate" and "free speech" on campus.
We need to push back on this. The truth is (speaking for myself as a history prof), I don't really emphasize debate much in my classes/
We need to push back on this. The truth is (speaking for myself as a history prof), I don't really emphasize debate much in my classes/
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Remembering Chevalière d'Éon for Pride. A transgender woman in the 1700s who was also a spy and who turned double agent, extorted an entire monarchy to get her gender marker changed, and lived her life as a woman in a time when such was thought impossible.
We have always been here.
We have always been here.
June 1, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Remembering Chevalière d'Éon for Pride. A transgender woman in the 1700s who was also a spy and who turned double agent, extorted an entire monarchy to get her gender marker changed, and lived her life as a woman in a time when such was thought impossible.
We have always been here.
We have always been here.
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In a healthy information environment, this would be front-page news.
June 1, 2025 at 4:27 PM
In a healthy information environment, this would be front-page news.
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Latest: Multiple people were burned, some severely, in an attack in Boulder during a vigil that called on Hamas to release Israeli hostages. A video posted on social media by a bystander shows police arresting a shirtless man holding multiple glass bottles.
Multiple people set on fire in what FBI calls ‘targeted terrorist attack’ at Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall
“It was like this fireball … it’s almost like it was a gun of fire,” one witness said of the Sunday afternoon attack outside the Boulder County Historic Courthouse.
trib.al
June 2, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Latest: Multiple people were burned, some severely, in an attack in Boulder during a vigil that called on Hamas to release Israeli hostages. A video posted on social media by a bystander shows police arresting a shirtless man holding multiple glass bottles.
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"If what you're doing is legitimate and lawful, why do you need to cover your face?”
June 1, 2025 at 1:54 PM
"If what you're doing is legitimate and lawful, why do you need to cover your face?”
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More than a century after the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, one of the most horrific episodes of racial violence in U.S. history, the city’s mayor announced a $105 million reparations package on Sunday. It is the first large-scale plan committing funds to address the impact of the atrocity.
$105 Million Reparations Package for Tulsa Race Massacre Unveiled by Mayor
www.nytimes.com
June 1, 2025 at 11:32 PM
More than a century after the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, one of the most horrific episodes of racial violence in U.S. history, the city’s mayor announced a $105 million reparations package on Sunday. It is the first large-scale plan committing funds to address the impact of the atrocity.
10 minute video giving timeline of how Elon Musk played with 2024 US presidential election.
x.com/amoneyresist...
You know this won’t get shared on X - however many people there are on Bluesky
All of them should see this
You know this won’t get shared on X - however many people there are on Bluesky
All of them should see this
x.com
x.com
November 16, 2024 at 12:15 PM
10 minute video giving timeline of how Elon Musk played with 2024 US presidential election.
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Fellow authors of sapphic fiction:
If you haven't submitted your sapphic books for the Sapphic Book Bingo 2025, please make sure to do it soon! The deadline for inclusion is November 15.
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If you haven't submitted your sapphic books for the Sapphic Book Bingo 2025, please make sure to do it soon! The deadline for inclusion is November 15.
Find out more on the Sapphic Quill website: thesapphicquill.com/current-cros...
November 13, 2024 at 7:13 PM
Fellow authors of sapphic fiction:
If you haven't submitted your sapphic books for the Sapphic Book Bingo 2025, please make sure to do it soon! The deadline for inclusion is November 15.
Find out more on the Sapphic Quill website: thesapphicquill.com/current-cros...
If you haven't submitted your sapphic books for the Sapphic Book Bingo 2025, please make sure to do it soon! The deadline for inclusion is November 15.
Find out more on the Sapphic Quill website: thesapphicquill.com/current-cros...