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Creating space for queer joy. 🏳️‍🌈 she/her 📍Orlando
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As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.

Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Episode 46: Sapiens

It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
Sapiens
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 11/20/2025 · 1h 38m
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November 20, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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After hundreds of hours of reading and research, my 2025 Starter Guide to transfeminine literature is finally live!

No matter your experience level, there's a book for you! 🏳️‍⚧️📚 #transbooks

The list covers a vast range of genres. There are 78 handcrafted recs on this list, and I've read all but two.
Start Here (2025 Edition)
Are you questioning your gender and searching for fiction that’ll help you figure out what a transition might look like? Are you a trans woman or a femmeby who’s never seen herself on the tradition…
thetransfemininereview.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.

Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵
October 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Beautiful art in my neighborhood #art
August 24, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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This month's bonus episode is about how the anti-trans panic turned a series of unhinged tweets into a whole Supreme Court case.
The Supreme Court Goes Full TERF | If Books Could Kill
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June 30, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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TODAY is pub day for Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays & Writings! I’m having some big feelings about releasing this emotional book into the world but I’m so happy & grateful it’s here!

I’ll be posting and sharing up to the point of obnoxiousness, so get ready—& please give me some grace. 😊💜🙏🏾
June 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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No matter what, extreme heat, bad air quality, storms and power outages are hard on my body.

More often than not disabled people aren’t factored in to emergency planning.

Include us & plan for us. It’ll make everyone safer.

www.disabledginger.com/p/disabled-p...
Disabled People are the Canaries in the Coal Mine
When it comes to natural disasters, pandemics, or disruptions to "normal" life, disabled people are proverbial canaries. We get hit harder and faster than others. Why aren't we factored into plans?
www.disabledginger.com
June 19, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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[Exit King.]
June 14, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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"Juana" is harvesting raspberries in CAs Central Coast. I've been doing this job for 10+ years. It's very tiring work. I have to move my hands very quickly. I get paid piece rate. The number of boxes I harvest, means how much money I take home to feed my family. #WeFeedYou
June 14, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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NEW: In the last few hours, Minnesota authorities warned people against attending protests, with a killer on the loose.

This is the current view of the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul.

DEFIANCE. 👏

#NoKings #50501Movement

(📸 Daviss)
June 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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We’re excited to announce Disability Unbound: A Lecture Series! Join us via zoom, June 17, with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha to explore Care Webs—what they are, why they matter, and how we build them together!🫂
Register for FREE here:
www.newdisabledsouthrising.org/lectureseries
Disability Unbound Lecture Series — New Disabled South Rising
www.newdisabledsouthrising.org
June 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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This is a fantastic article from @mharrisondupre.bsky.social that lays out the core issues with ChatGPT and psychosis. I really appreciate the point that the industry’s own claims about AI technology are not rooted in reality and reinforce delusional thinking. futurism.com/chatgpt-ment...
People Are Becoming Obsessed with ChatGPT and Spiraling Into Severe Delusions
A startling number of ChatGPT uses are developing intense, reality-bending AI delusions. The impacts on their real lives are often disastrous.
futurism.com
June 10, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Thanks to Carole for reminding me that I hadn’t posted the Langston League #Sinners syllabus yet! Erica Buddington and her team on top of it, as always: drive.google.com/file/d/1Ks_t...

There’s a whole page on each of the major characters.
SINNERS UNOFFICIAL SYLLABUS (Instagram Post (45)) (2).pdf
drive.google.com
April 29, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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@amlibraryassoc.bsky.social released NEW censorship data this #NationalLibraryWeek, finding that 72% of book bans in 2024 were initiated NOT by parents, but by organized groups and elected officials.

Read more on the #UniteAgainstBookBans blog: uniteagainstbookbans.org/ala-releases...
April 10, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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For National Library Week, we can't recommend enough @shannonmattern.bsky.social's 2014 essay "Library as Infrastructure."

A decade on, it remains a potent argument for libraries as social, technological & intellectual infrastructure — part of a critical network of institutions buoying public life.
Library as Infrastructure
Reading room, social service center, innovation lab. How far can we stretch the public library?
placesjournal.org
April 7, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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I already knew they had my stuff. The last time I complained about it I got called an "ideas landlord" for believing I should get paid for the work they stole.
March 20, 2025 at 4:08 PM