Jessica Willard (she/her)
@jessdwillard.bsky.social
PhD student @ RU. Violence prevention + tech. Safe. 🏳️🌈 🖤 🍉
Completing the requisite higher ed harassment prevention training…the bit about civil rights protections hits REAL different today.
July 3, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Completing the requisite higher ed harassment prevention training…the bit about civil rights protections hits REAL different today.
As #pridemonth2025 🌈 wraps up, I’m pleased to share a new study centering the voices of LGBTQ+ MSW students.
Please consider sharing with your networks (looking at YOU, Southern friends). 💗
🏳️🌈 Interested participants, get started here: go.rutgers.edu/e3k4dpv6 🏳️⚧️
#academicsky #socialwork #lgbtqia
Please consider sharing with your networks (looking at YOU, Southern friends). 💗
🏳️🌈 Interested participants, get started here: go.rutgers.edu/e3k4dpv6 🏳️⚧️
#academicsky #socialwork #lgbtqia
July 1, 2025 at 10:13 PM
As #pridemonth2025 🌈 wraps up, I’m pleased to share a new study centering the voices of LGBTQ+ MSW students.
Please consider sharing with your networks (looking at YOU, Southern friends). 💗
🏳️🌈 Interested participants, get started here: go.rutgers.edu/e3k4dpv6 🏳️⚧️
#academicsky #socialwork #lgbtqia
Please consider sharing with your networks (looking at YOU, Southern friends). 💗
🏳️🌈 Interested participants, get started here: go.rutgers.edu/e3k4dpv6 🏳️⚧️
#academicsky #socialwork #lgbtqia
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As a reminder, firearms are the leading cause of death in children and adolescents publichealth.jhu.edu/2024/guns-re...
May 22, 2025 at 4:06 AM
As a reminder, firearms are the leading cause of death in children and adolescents publichealth.jhu.edu/2024/guns-re...
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📢 If you’re able to get to Newark: Protest outside Department of Homeland Security office! 📢
620 Frelinghuysen Ave.
Newark, NJ 07114
Organizations and community members on the ground are asking for support and for all of us to stand with them now.
620 Frelinghuysen Ave.
Newark, NJ 07114
Organizations and community members on the ground are asking for support and for all of us to stand with them now.
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey mayor is arrested at ICE detention center where he was protesting its opening, acting US attorney says.
May 9, 2025 at 7:55 PM
📢 If you’re able to get to Newark: Protest outside Department of Homeland Security office! 📢
620 Frelinghuysen Ave.
Newark, NJ 07114
Organizations and community members on the ground are asking for support and for all of us to stand with them now.
620 Frelinghuysen Ave.
Newark, NJ 07114
Organizations and community members on the ground are asking for support and for all of us to stand with them now.
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A gun lobby-backed bill that would gut state laws and allow people with dangerous histories to carry hidden, loaded guns across the country is making its way through Congress right now.
Take action in under a minute today and urge your lawmakers to stop this bill: etwn.us/44rd6hP
Take action in under a minute today and urge your lawmakers to stop this bill: etwn.us/44rd6hP
May 3, 2025 at 8:01 PM
A gun lobby-backed bill that would gut state laws and allow people with dangerous histories to carry hidden, loaded guns across the country is making its way through Congress right now.
Take action in under a minute today and urge your lawmakers to stop this bill: etwn.us/44rd6hP
Take action in under a minute today and urge your lawmakers to stop this bill: etwn.us/44rd6hP
I mean, this is the bare minimum.
We shouldn’t pay the price for adults’ irresponsible gun ownership with our lives. Storing guns unloaded, locked, and separate from ammunition—prevents unintentional shootings, youth gun suicides, and school shootings. Learn how to pass a secure storage resolution at your school: buff.ly/Ydrzy6k
May 4, 2025 at 3:00 AM
I mean, this is the bare minimum.
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Governor Mills to Trump: "I'll see you in court"
Trump: "Actually, no, lets settle."
Trump: "Actually, no, lets settle."
Trump administration settles with Maine over funding freeze after dispute over trans athletes
Trump administration settles with Maine over funding freeze after dispute over trans athletes
In response, the state will drop its lawsuit that had been filed against the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
www.nbcnews.com
May 2, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Governor Mills to Trump: "I'll see you in court"
Trump: "Actually, no, lets settle."
Trump: "Actually, no, lets settle."
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I like telling authoritarians where to shove it in multiple languages
The fact that there's an ASL interpreter there.... Thank you @aoc.bsky.social 🥹😍🤟🏼
May 3, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I like telling authoritarians where to shove it in multiple languages
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There are steps we all can take to help minimize our digital footprint and guard ourselves from surveillance.
Learn more on the latest episode of At Liberty.
Learn more on the latest episode of At Liberty.
Know Your Digital Privacy Rights with Esha Bhandari and Daniel Kahn Gillmor
End-to-end encryption. Burner phones. Biometric authentication. Our technology is more advanced than ever, but what does that mean for our digital footprints—and how our data is tracked, whether we’re...
www.aclu.org
April 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM
There are steps we all can take to help minimize our digital footprint and guard ourselves from surveillance.
Learn more on the latest episode of At Liberty.
Learn more on the latest episode of At Liberty.
This.
This is unconscionable. Where are the members of Congress speaking about this? Esp the ones who call themselves Christian (yeah, I mean Speaker Mike Johnson). Does the media even ask about it?
For nearly 60 days, no food, fuel, medicine or other items has entered the Gaza Strip, blocked by Israel.
Aid groups are running out of food to distribute. Markets are nearly bare.
Palestinian families are left struggling to feed their children.
Aid groups are running out of food to distribute. Markets are nearly bare.
Palestinian families are left struggling to feed their children.
April 28, 2025 at 12:36 AM
This.
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Tomorrow I'll be speaking about our terminated NIH grant on Charlotte Talks, a local live podcast that airs on WFAE at 9am and 7pm, and can be streamed here:
www.wfae.org/show/charlot...
#academicsky
#terminatedscience
www.wfae.org/show/charlot...
#academicsky
#terminatedscience
Charlotte Talks With Mike Collins
00000174-9e19-ddc3-a1fc-bedbe3020001Launched in April 1998, Charlotte Talks with Mike Collins has become the region's exclusive forum for the discussion of politics, growth, the arts, culture, social ...
www.wfae.org
April 27, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Tomorrow I'll be speaking about our terminated NIH grant on Charlotte Talks, a local live podcast that airs on WFAE at 9am and 7pm, and can be streamed here:
www.wfae.org/show/charlot...
#academicsky
#terminatedscience
www.wfae.org/show/charlot...
#academicsky
#terminatedscience
“Most people in this country know and care about someone who is LGBTQ+, even if you’re not aware of it. This could be a kid you teach, a kid you coach on a sports team, a kid who attends your church…These kids and their families deserve to have access to high-quality prevention and treatment, too.”
The Trump Administration Just Made Catastrophic Cuts That Will Affect You Or Someone You Know
"I deeply regret not doing more as a researcher until now to share the goodness, humanity and impact of our work with the American public. I hope it’s not too late."
www.huffpost.com
April 27, 2025 at 8:08 PM
“Most people in this country know and care about someone who is LGBTQ+, even if you’re not aware of it. This could be a kid you teach, a kid you coach on a sports team, a kid who attends your church…These kids and their families deserve to have access to high-quality prevention and treatment, too.”
The Trump Administration Just Made Catastrophic Cuts That Will Affect You Or Someone You Know
"I deeply regret not doing more as a researcher until now to share the goodness, humanity and impact of our work with the American public. I hope it’s not too late."
www.huffpost.com
April 27, 2025 at 7:45 PM
“Most people in this country know and care about someone who is LGBTQ+, even if you’re not aware of it. This could be a kid you teach, a kid you coach on a sports team, a kid who attends your church…These kids and their families deserve to have access to high-quality prevention and treatment, too.”
“Access to gun.” Full stop.
The FSU gunman was known to “go on diatribes about how he hated the feminist movement, members of the LGBTQ+ community, people of color and immigrants.”
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
FSU shooting suspect had extremist views, access to gun. What to know.
The suspect, the stepson of a sheriff’s deputy, allegedly had a turbulent family life and shared bigoted views.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 20, 2025 at 1:49 AM
“Access to gun.” Full stop.
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I think there are scientists who would like to apply for this position…
@standupforscience.bsky.social
@standupforscience.bsky.social
April 19, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I think there are scientists who would like to apply for this position…
@standupforscience.bsky.social
@standupforscience.bsky.social
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Queen Stevie Nicks revealed during her Pollstar Awards speech that she’s working on a new album about “real stories of memories of mine of fantastic men.” One of them is Prince ✨🎩🔮 www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...
April 19, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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April 15, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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I think Trump will send a US citizen to the El Salvador concentration camp before the end of the month. Once protests pick up in the summer, that'll be the next escalation to send organizers there.
We're heading down a truly dark path.
We're heading down a truly dark path.
April 14, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I think Trump will send a US citizen to the El Salvador concentration camp before the end of the month. Once protests pick up in the summer, that'll be the next escalation to send organizers there.
We're heading down a truly dark path.
We're heading down a truly dark path.
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If Jeff Bezos can send Katy Perry into space, he can pay a wealth tax so every American has debt-free healthcare.
April 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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i do not think the mainstream press is equipped or capable of covering ideological white nationalists and eugenicists as such, or even capable of noting that this is what they are. it is related to the wide belief that racism is simply a matter of manners.
It would appear CNN was also at the eugenics conference? Why are all these mainstream news orgs at a 200-person event where all the speakers are eugenicists and racists? www.cnn.com/2025/04/11/u...
April 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM
i do not think the mainstream press is equipped or capable of covering ideological white nationalists and eugenicists as such, or even capable of noting that this is what they are. it is related to the wide belief that racism is simply a matter of manners.
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"What emerges is a more intimate picture of Öztürk and how a child development researcher charged with no crime ended up in a crowded cell in Louisiana." www.propublica.org/article/rume...
American Rendition: Rümeysa Öztürk’s Journey From Ph.D. Scholar to Trump Target Languishing in Louisiana Cell
“So horrifying and so heartbreaking”: Öztürk’s close friend provides an intimate look into one of the hundreds of foreign students who have had their visas revoked — and in dozens of instances have be...
www.propublica.org
April 13, 2025 at 6:31 PM
"What emerges is a more intimate picture of Öztürk and how a child development researcher charged with no crime ended up in a crowded cell in Louisiana." www.propublica.org/article/rume...
See y’all in court. 🏳️⚧️ ✊
HUGE WIN: A federal judge just issued a lengthy TRO prohibiting the Trump administration from freezing federal funds to Maine over their policies protecting transgender youth.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
April 12, 2025 at 3:01 AM
See y’all in court. 🏳️⚧️ ✊
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We wrote this in 2020. @profsamperry.bsky.social
"Christian Nationalism Talks Religion, But Walks Fascism"
religioninpublic.blog/2020/02/05/c...
"Christian Nationalism Talks Religion, But Walks Fascism"
religioninpublic.blog/2020/02/05/c...
April 11, 2025 at 5:35 PM
We wrote this in 2020. @profsamperry.bsky.social
"Christian Nationalism Talks Religion, But Walks Fascism"
religioninpublic.blog/2020/02/05/c...
"Christian Nationalism Talks Religion, But Walks Fascism"
religioninpublic.blog/2020/02/05/c...