“We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers.” - Bayard Rustin

Today, we're celebrating and highlighting Bayard Rustin, who was a prominent civil rights activist known for his key role in organizing the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. As an openly gay man,

trans people are pretty great

pass it on

It's still called the Gulf of Mexico and we're still honoring Black History Month.
Period.

Happy Black History Month. I hope Black folks get to see justice accelerate rapidly and your enemies confounded and diminished. Thanks for your bravery, sharing your stories so we can learn, leading the resistance, and inspiring us to rise.

White ppl: visit an African Am. history museum this month.

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.

I know. I was there in those camps.

LGB with the T (and the QIA+)

Always and forever.

Counterpoint: refusing to hand over the reigns to younger generations is very much their fault.

i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there

Do you know why a president would do all the most evil and heinous shit via Executive Order? Because his party can't easily make it law. And if they can't make it law, they can't make it last.

Don't let anyone make you feel like this is The End. Do not let them demoralize you. Live to see them die.

Time to post this again

For years, I thought MAGA people I know would change their minds when faced with something they find personally abhorrent. Instead, when that happens, what I see and hear consistently is, “Well, if Trump wants it, it must not be as bad as I thought it was.”

You don’t have to worship where you’re not wanted.

Heading home from another Queer Christian Fellowship Conference. You can’t tell me that the Spirit of God wasn’t constantly in it. Queer people will change the world, and queer Christians are the future of the church. #queerchristian @qchristianorg.bsky.social

• Get a library card
• Use your library card
• Support indie booksellers
• Read banned books
• Read diverse authors
• Resist
• Repeat

#booksky #resist

You don’t have to worship where you’re not wanted.

Today Christians around the world remember the “Holy Innocents” - the children massacred by King Herod as Jesus was born.

I just keep thinking of Gaza.

May we never become numb to the killing of children.

[image from COMMON PRAYER]

I recommend reading banned/challenged books so you're not like the people who try to ban books without even reading them.