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.

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.

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.

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. 🧵

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. 🧵

Beautiful art in my neighborhood #art

This month's bonus episode is about how the anti-trans panic turned a series of unhinged tweets into a whole Supreme Court case.

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. 😊💜🙏🏾

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.

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[Exit King.]

"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

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)

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

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...

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.

@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...

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.

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.