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Adam Robersmith

@adamrobersmith.bsky.social
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Teacher, scholar, artist & clergyperson (UU & AODA); gardener, forest-dweller, contemplative & epicure; queer, progressive, earth-centered & Universalist. I have alphabet soup before & after my name: Rev, DMin, PhD. #Ecotheology #PublicIntimacy #UUABoard

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Unitarian Universalists for Social Justice @uusj.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You can make sure we have safe, fair, efficient elections for all: step up and become a poll worker for the next election in your community today. Help Staff Your Local Polling Place: www.powerthepolls.org/uuthevote
writing: Power to the Polls in a battery. 

Help Staff Your Local Polling Place:

Our elections depend on ordinary people who make sure voting runs smoothly and everyone's vote is counted—people like you.

You can make sure we have safe, fair, efficient elections for all: step up and become a poll worker for the next election in your community today.

Learn More: https://www.powerthepolls.org/uuthevote
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 12/09/2026
The DHS just posted a vehemently racist image attacking Sikh Americans. This impacts all of us and we need to stand united and reject it.
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Cassandra Jaramillo @cassandrajaramillo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
New reporting from my colleagues: Ectopic-related deaths in abortion banned states are increasing. One expert said deaths from ectopic pregnancies should “really be a never event.” www.propublica.org/article/ecto...
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Woodhull Freedom Foundation @woodhullfreedom.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It's September 1, and the first day of our favorite month of the year. Happy Sexual Freedom Month! 🪩💃🕺
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Unitarian Universalists for Social Justice @uusj.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
In the last few days, ICE has escalated its efforts to round up, cage, and deport members of the Haitian community in Springfield, OH, who have recently lost the Temporary Protected Status designation. #UnshackleSpringfield 🔗 www.sidewithlove.org/newsroom/act... @uusc4all.bsky.social
In the last few days, ICE has escalated its efforts to round up, cage, and deport members of the Haitian community in Springfield, OH, who have recently lost the Temporary Protected Status designation. The local Haitian community asked allies to act, to show up, and show out in solidarity. Yesterday, Unitarian Universalists for Social Justice  joined UUs from across the country for a vigil and to bear witness to this cruelty. 
 
#UnshackleSpringfield 

Please Use the Link Below for Actions to Take in Solidarity with Haitians in Springfield, Ohio Mass Mobilizations:

https://www.sidewithlove.org/newsroom/actions-to-take-today-in-solidarity-with-haitians-in-springfield-ohio
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Adam Robersmith @adamrobersmith.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I plant milkweed in my garden because it means moments and new life like this. Welcome to the world, monarch butterfly!
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Curly sue @moocowsue.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
More than 1.2 million Texans' voter registrations were suspended. Check here to make sure you are still registered to vote in Texas: www.texas.gov/living-in-te... If you have been removed here is what you need to do: www.kxan.com/news/texas/w...
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What to do if you’ve been wrongfully removed from voter rolls in Texas
An investigation from our media partners at the Texas Tribune highlights why all voters should confirm their voter registration status while there’s still time. The Texas Tribune, in partners…
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
They’re trying to intimidate people; to keep them from voting. It’s up to us to make sure it doesn’t work. joycevance.substack.com/p/revisiting...
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Revisiting: Can Federal Troops Be Stationed At The Polls In 2026?
On September 2, 2025, as Trump continued to deploy National Guard troops in American cities and openly blustered about militarizing American streets, I wrote an explainer about the law prohibiting fed...
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The cruelty is the point with this evil fucking regime. jojofromjerz.substack.com/p/theyre-sla...
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They’re Slaughtering Wild Horses
Nothing is sacred to people who believe everything is disposable.
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Rev. Deanna @everrevde.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
"Despite being touted as “nonlethal,” the gloves pose significant danger; according to the company’s own manual, the shocks “may cause or contribute to death or serious injury.” Death is lethal, so...? #AbolishICE
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The Unitarian Universalist Association @uua.org · 20/08/2026
Federal court records reveal that First Universalist Church of Minneapolis was secretly surveilled by DHS. The UUA condemns this intrusion into a house of worship and the targeting of people exercising their constitutional rights. Read more in UU World: bit.ly/4gmoDDo
Graphic with a cream textured background framed by sweeping red, teal, and deep blue shapes. A large, faint UU chalice watermark fills the right side. Red quotation marks appear at upper left. Centered text reads, “Free societies protect houses of worship; they do not spy on them.” “Protect houses of worship” is emphasized in red; the rest is dark blue. Below are “Unitarian Universalist Association” and “August 20, 2026.” A dark blue wave anchors the bottom, with the white UUA chalice logo and name at left and “UUA.ORG” at right.
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
1/ The man who sparked the firestorm that ended Jason Arday's career once wrote that under "real" meritocracy, Black professors at Harvard would basically disappear. He said the quiet part out loud, then helped build a network to make it happen. 🧵 #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy
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Adam Robersmith @adamrobersmith.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Y’ALL. I know I post a lot about my research and teaching and what’s going on in the world…and that’s all very important…but this video has just changed my life! youtube.com/shorts/kjdK5...
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The 10 Cent Fix for Your Stand Mixer
YouTube video by America's Test Kitchen
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Jessie Sage @sapiotextual.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I was in last years cohort and it was an amazing experience. I highly recommend that more sex workers who are interested in the intersection of our labor and other forms of care work take this class!
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
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Adam Robersmith @adamrobersmith.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
In an interview with Julica from @uuministers.bsky.social, we talked about #PublicIntimacy, the idea of Intimacy as labor, and what you might learn about in our 26-27 cohort on Leadership & Public Intimacy from LIGHT through @meadvillelombard.bsky.social meadville.edu/light/public...
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Adam Robersmith @adamrobersmith.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Sometimes the tools we once used need to be replaced: a patio umbrella or wellness strategies. If you're wanting to build a healthy relationship between your public role & your private life, please join our cohort discussing Leadership & Public Intimacy in September! meadville.edu/light/public...
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Adam Robersmith @adamrobersmith.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Having a public job can be wonderful, challenging, & exhausting, no matter how much you love it! #PublicIntimacy is complicated by identity & social location. If you'd like to learn more about how to be in public well & with well-being, join us this September! meadville.edu/light/public...
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Adam Robersmith @adamrobersmith.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
More from the garden! I got some lupine seeds this spring. I love lupines, but have terrible luck with transplanted ones...so I put the seeds in a random spot in the yard to see what would happen. I have babies--probably seven of them. Here's hoping for blooms in a couple of years!
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Adam Robersmith @adamrobersmith.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
As a child, I read the encyclopedia. (No surprise if you know me!) I read about ghost pipes...plants without chlorophyll that grew in forests. For almost 50 years, I never saw them outside of a photo. Now I see them at home! I'm in love with them & always a little surprised that they truly exist.
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Adam Robersmith @adamrobersmith.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Having a public job can be wonderful, challenging, & exhausting, no matter how much you love it! #PublicIntimacy is complicated by identity & social location. If you'd like to learn more about how to be in public well & with well-being, join us this September! meadville.edu/light/public...
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
BOOK BAN BILL THREAD FOR JULY 27. The House is not currently in session. Representatives are spending the next month working in their own home districts. What does this mean? We won't see action on three of the federal-level book ban bills. That also means go see these people IRL if you can.
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Adam Robersmith @adamrobersmith.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Turns out that even on sabbatical, I can't help but write a homily! You can read the whole post here: www.linkedin.com/posts/adam-r...
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In conversations with clients, congregants, and colleagues, I often hear people wondering why we should pay attention to anything other than the One Big Terrible Thing that they’ve identified as the… ...
In conversations with clients, congregants, and colleagues, I often hear people wondering why we should pay attention to anything other than the One Big Terrible Thing that they’ve identified as the o...
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Adam Robersmith @adamrobersmith.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
No one just knows how to thrive in a public-facing role. It's not about "bringing your whole self to everyone." Learning to BE your whole self and knowing what to share, when, and why? That's the key to a sustainable career in the public sphere. Learn more: meadville.edu/light/public-intimacy/
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Adam Robersmith @adamrobersmith.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Frederick Buechner talked about the place where "your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.” Do the good and necessary work of justice, and if that's not what gives you life, then also do what does! Gardening creates a nursery for bees and butterflies. Art can help build community.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
NYT: “.. The stunning admission offered an unvarnished glimpse into the way President Trump has .. sought to leverage the budget as a tool to assist its allies — or as a cudgel to hurt the president’s foes.” @tonyromm.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
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Jake Wildstrom @dwildstr.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Between this and the discovery that solar panel shade can actually _increase_ certain crop yields, people are discovering that there are truly extraordinary opportunities to make better use of the earth's surface area with solar panels. There's so much power waiting to be harnessed!
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Ben R Lee, PhD @benrlee.com · 21/07/2026
My team is recruiting a MSc student for a new grant investigating forested wetland responses to Hurricane Helene. The student will lead a GIS project mapping disturbance type and severity in the ETSU Geosciences dept. The catch: they would need to start this fall semester (about a month from now).
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Do it. 🕺🏻 @hamiltonmusical.bsky.social
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Meadville Lombard @meadvillelombard.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Find out why people are raving about our new lifelong learning course "Authentic Leadership & Public Intimacy" with @adamrobersmith.bsky.social. There's still time to sign up for this year's cohort, but registration closes Aug 1. Find out more on our website: meadville.edu/light/public...
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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Friends and neighbors like Ms. Rachel do everything in their power to protect children of the world at all costs 🌎 She is my hero, the library kids are my heroes. Be like Ms. Rachel, be kind. Raise your library voice for the children 💜
A smiling Ms. Rachel and Mychal take a photo together. Post on their photo from Mychal reads: “Friends & neighbors like Ms. Rachel do everything in their power to protect children of the world at all costs.
What she does takes exceptional courage. She is not fearless, rather her care & empathy tower over fear. She stands up to fear so she can take a stand for children, for people, for humanity.
She does not see herself as a hero, the children are the heroes.
But she is my hero, the library kids are my heroes.
Be like Ms. Rachel, be kind. Raise your library voice for the children 💜”
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Adam Robersmith @adamrobersmith.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
No one just knows how to thrive in a public-facing role. It's not about "bringing your whole self to everyone." Learning to BE your whole self and knowing what to share, when, and why? That's the key to a sustainable career in the public sphere. Learn more: meadville.edu/light/public-intimacy/
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Adam Robersmith @adamrobersmith.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
When people learn that I study #PublicIntimacy, first they want to know what it is (sharing a genuine self with audiences as paid labor) and then they want to know why I study it. Here's my origin story as a researcher... Come join our certificate program & learn more! meadville.edu/light/public...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19/07/2026
The Ohio Democratic party is censoring its own members from criticizing Amy Acton. This even includes the Pride Caucus chair who has to criticize her from their personal capacity. They've threatened to kick caucuses out that formally criticize Acton over her transphobic positions.
Holding the Line: An Update on the Fight for Trans Rights and Accountability in Ohio
​Over the last couple of weeks, our community has taken some incredibly painful hits from people who are supposed to be our allies. Hearing a statewide candidate validate anti-trans narratives and write off our rights as "settled law" is a flat-out betrayal. Let’s be entirely clear: absolutely no boys are playing in girls' sports. Trans girls are girls, trans boys are boys, and transphobia and misgendering must be condemned, regardless of which political party it comes from. The anger out there right now is completely justified.
​A lot of you have reached out asking why I haven’t made a loud public statement yet, especially given my role with the Pride Caucus. I want to be very clear: the public quiet right now is not compliance. It’s strategy.
​Behind the scenes, the work hasn’t stopped for a single day. I, along with many other advocates, have been on the phone constantly with state party leadership, coordinating with allied organizations, and pushing back hard. We are forcing these conversations to happen, and we are not going to let this campaign run out the clock or sweep this under the rug hoping we just forget about it.
​The harm was done in public, and I believe that requires a public resolution. I will not settle for vague, backroom promises. We are demanding real, public accountability and an absolute respect for our community's right to exist. Anything less is completely unacceptable.
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Disclaimer: To be entirely transparent, I am posting this strictly in my capacity as a trans advocate, a legislative candidate, and a trans Ohioan living this reality every day. I am not writing this on behalf of, or as a representative of, my official role as Vice Chair of the ODP Pride Caucus. So, to the ODP compliance team: you can save yourselves the phone call, because I will not be taking this down.
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Adam Robersmith @adamrobersmith.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
When I hear people say “use ChatGPT as a mental sparring partner,” I want to tell them to try divination instead— rather than a probability database telling you what you want to hear, at minimum you’ll get a weird configuration of things that asks you to think differently without harming the earth.
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Unitarian Universalists for Social Justice @uusj.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
While they: • Attack voting rights • Let ICE gun down our neighbors • Raid voter registration orgs We: • TEACH the history • REACH our communities • PREACH the good word #GoodTrouble starts now. Find an event near you: www.goodtroubleliveson.org
This is the weekend to MAKE GOOD TROUBLE
image with John Lewis
Find an event near you: 
goodtroubleliveson.org
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Adam Robersmith @adamrobersmith.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Squinting into the sun a little bit this July Friday, but I'm looking forward to seeing people without the harsh glare in the cohort group I'm leading through @meadvillelombard.bsky.social starting in September! meadville.edu/light/public... #PublicIntimacy
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Rev. Dr. Robin Tanner 🏳️‍🌈 @rockinrevrobin.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
In Louisiana, they are trying to open the largest child detention camp. Putting kids in cages, generational trauma. Say no. Sign here. #FreeFamilies actionnetwork.org/petitions/ke...
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Keep children out of the England Air Park detention facility.
LaSalle Corrections is set to run a 528-bed facility built specifically to hold migrant children and families -- the same base where our own Executive Director watched people march past a golf course ...
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jentrification ♎ @jentrification.com · 15/07/2026
Two Minnesota solar farms seeded native wildflowers under their panels, and 5 years of counting revealed native bees had multiplied twentyfold, then crossed the fence to pollinate the neighbour's soybeans
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Two Minnesota solar farms seeded native wildflowers under their panels, and 5 years of counting revealed native bees had multiplied twentyfold, then crossed the fence to pollinate the neighbour's soyb...
Two Minnesota solar farms planted 66 native species under their panels. Five years of counting revealed a staggering result that nobody had written into the engineering plan.
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Adam Robersmith @adamrobersmith.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
When people learn that I study #PublicIntimacy, first they want to know what it is (sharing a genuine self with audiences as paid labor) and then they want to know why I study it. Here's my origin story as a researcher... Come join our certificate program & learn more! meadville.edu/light/public...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Living Colour releases “Cult of Personality” today in 1988. “.. It was musings on the amoral nature of leadership,” said songwriter and guitarist Vernon Reid. “Whether these people are good or bad, why are we drawn to larger-than-life personalities?” 🎸
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Adam Robersmith @adamrobersmith.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
In an interview with Julica from @uuministers.bsky.social, we talked about #PublicIntimacy, the idea of Intimacy as labor, and what you might learn about in our 26-27 cohort on Leadership & Public Intimacy from LIGHT through @meadvillelombard.bsky.social meadville.edu/light/public...
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Amazing! ICE kills a man ~7:30 am. 1st news report is an hour later. ~1:30 pm, a group of 𝒔𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒍 𝒉𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 marches in Main Street and "storms into the Biddeford office of [U.S.] Sen. Susan Collins." Would be hard to do in NYC. Biddeford pop. = 22,000! www.pressherald.com/2026/07/13/s...
As the crowd marched down Main Street and gathered outside Sen. Collins’ Biddeford office, about a dozen people made it inside the entryway, chanting “Vote her out!” and banging their fists on the office’s locked doors.

Staffers inside could be seen on the phone as the crowd grew. Minutes later, five Biddeford police officers pushed through the entryway and placed themselves between protestors and the door.

“This is your fault Susan!” one man shouted.

“You're a fascist!” another person yelled at the officers.

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GET THE FUCK OUT
14TH AMENDMENT: DUE PROCESS FOR ALL NO EXCEPTIONS
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A group storms into the Biddeford office of Sen. Susan Collins on Monday after a man was shot in an altercation with federal immigration agents at the intersection of Hill and Pool streets. (Derek Davis/Staff Photographer)

The crowd dissipated and began marching back toward Mechanics Park after chanting at and heckling the officers.

Police did not answer questions about whether Collins’ staffers called 911 on protestors.
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Adam Robersmith @adamrobersmith.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Squinting into the sun a little bit this July Friday, but I'm looking forward to seeing people without the harsh glare in the cohort group I'm leading through @meadvillelombard.bsky.social starting in September! meadville.edu/light/public... #PublicIntimacy
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 10/07/2026
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Jul Erin Reed runs down how TERF Reem Alsalem, using her appointment as a UN researcher on violence against women, has leveraged it not a one-women hate campaign against trans people world-wide that looks like its coming from the United Nations.
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How One Woman Is Using the UN to Attack Trans Rights Worldwide
It’s no coincidence that the Supreme Court’s decision allowing trans sports bans echoes the work of Reem Alsalem, the UN special rapporteur on violence against women and girls.
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Adam Robersmith @adamrobersmith.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
"This course in Public Intimacy is essential for those in the public eye. It provides the tools and framework for managing oneself...and understanding the potential cost of being a public figure online and in person." @matthewcowden.bsky.social Come join us! meadville.edu/light/public...
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Adam Robersmith @adamrobersmith.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
If you'd like to know more about how we humans do this work -- the work of #PublicIntimacy -- well and with well-being, I'd love to talk with you about it. Join our 26-27 cohort group on Leadership and Public Intimacy at Meadville Lombard Theological School! meadville.edu/light/public...
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LEADERSHIP & PUBLIC INTIMACY – Meadville Lombard Theological School LEADERSHIP & PUBLIC INTIMACY – Meadville Lombard Theological School
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Adam Robersmith @adamrobersmith.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Keke Palmer and Hannah Einbinder (start at 10:48!) share how they bring themselves to their public roles and how that work relates to their private selves. When we bring ourselves into public view as work, we're always making choices about what we reveal to others and what we keep for ourselves.
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Keke Palmer, Lisa Kudrow, Hannah Einbinder & More at the THR Comedy Actress Roundtable
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Adam Robersmith @adamrobersmith.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Keke Palmer and Hannah Einbinder (start at 10:48!) share how they bring themselves to their public roles and how that work relates to their private selves. When we bring ourselves into public view as work, we're always making choices about what we reveal to others and what we keep for ourselves.
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Keke Palmer, Lisa Kudrow, Hannah Einbinder & More at the THR Comedy Actress Roundtable
YouTube video by The Hollywood Reporter
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