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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 22/05/2025

URGENT: ICE Detention Surge in MA - Toolkit Link to share: bit.ly/icesurge-ma-525 Context: Since the start of the new presidency, ICE activity has surged across the United States, with close to 50,000 people in ICE detention centers.

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5/21/25 ICE Detention Surge in MA - Digital Toolkit

URGENT: ICE Detention Surge in MA - Toolkit Link to share: bit.ly/icesurge-ma-525 Context: Since the start of the new presidency, ICE activity has surged across the United States, with close to 50...

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Alternately: “it could write the best most efficient and error proof code in the history of technology, and it still would not be worth the ecological and political cost”

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Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 18/03/2025

Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.

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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

A detained US greencard holder's lawyers don't know where he is. They were told he was being held in one facility, yet when his wife went, she was told he was not there. (h/t @premthakker.bsky.social). When reporting these facts in other contexts globally, we call this disappearance.

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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

We're getting close to 200 sold, as we enter the last stage of this campaign! If you've sat on the fence, now is the time to join, to help us send thousands of dollars in raised funds to these critical orgs helping ensure trans and queer refugees to the state of MA find stable housing!

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PRE-ORDER We Will Not Be Exterminated Reprint | Boston Dyke March

We're reprinting our 2024 T-shirt design and donating the proceeds to directly support trans people in Massachusetts!Please note that this is a pre-order! T-shirts will be on sale until February 28th,...

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Okay so you know I like to remind everyone how the American immigration system has been cruel for a very long time. But loading people on flights to deport them to countries that they are not from, like Iranians to Panama, is not business as usual.

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Ali Blake @alirblake.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

sending solidarity with a rejection beer in hand, too, curled up with the cats (hell, it’s possible it could even be the same rejection)

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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 30/01/2025

Derrick Bell's reminds us: The goal is DEFIANCE. Resist oppression, harass those who seek to harm us and our communities. We will not sacrifice Black & Brown people, Trans folks, immigrants, Disabled folks, and all of us at the intersections of multiple oppressions. Defiance is the way forward.

White text on Black background: “I asked one of the organizers, Mrs. Biona MacDonald, where she and the other black families found the courage to continue working for civil rights in the face of intimidation….Mrs. MacDonald looked at me and said slowly, seriously, "I can't speak for everyone, but as for me, I am an old woman. I lives to harass white folks."…. Mrs. MacDonald assumed that I knew that not all whites are racist, but that the oppression she was committed to resist was racial and emanated from whites. She did not even hint that her harassment would topple those whites' well-entrenched power. Rather, her goal was defiance, and its harassing effect was likely more potent precisely because she did what she did without expecting to topple her oppressors. Mrs. MacDonald avoided discouragement and defeat because at the point that she determined to resist her oppression, she was triumphant.”
Derrick Bell, Faces at the Bottom of the Well, p. xii

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Ali Blake @alirblake.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Thank you! (And we’ll miss you!)

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Ali Blake @alirblake.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I'm looking forward to gathering again in a few weeks <3 Join us for collective community reflection & growing connections that can sustain our work around Queerness & Learning. I'd love to see you!

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 15/01/2025

I hope that the ceasefire deal truly means an end to the vicious, murderous bombardment of Palestine and I also know that there are not enough ceasefire deals to cover the dead. The United States supplied the weapons and Israel used them. Never forget. Free Palestine!!!

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I'm reading news of an imminent ceasefire deal. I'm praying that the violence truly stops, that we don't see drawn-out death by another name. I pray that we all stay alert and awake regardless of what comes next. None of us are free until Palestine is free and a ceasefire is not freedom.

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AERA-Queer Studies @queersig-aera.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Deadline Jan 31 for Graduate Student Travel Awards – $250 to support travel to the AERA 2025 Annual Meeting in Denver. New QTBIPOC Opportunity Awards $250 for QTBIPOC scholars attending AERA. More info in our January newsletter. www.canva.com/design/DAGcD...

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Julie J Lee @jjlee.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

New map from The Washington Post shows properties alleged to use rent-setting algorithm RealPage www.washingtonpost.com/business/int... This is what it looks like in Boston.

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Ali Blake @alirblake.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

They do make a version like this! www.3m.com/3M/en_US/p/d...

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Ali Blake @alirblake.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

If all involved may be interested in low-stakes making things, either an organized creative workshop (ex. pottery or painting studio or library crafting session) or a perhaps more intimate and/or lower/no cost DIY version bringing some materials to play with at the library // somewhere else public.

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Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Just beyond words

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

BREAKING: The biggest strike against Amazon in U.S. history is happening right now. The Teamsters are picketing facilities across the country. The union has organized workers at 10 Amazon locations AND they're putting up picket lines at hundreds of other Amazon sites nationwide.

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Raquel Willis @raquelwillis.com · 06/12/2024

Let today’s Capitol Hill bathroom sit-in spark an era of radical defiance. Trans folks refuse to bow to hate and bigotry. We demand dignity and respect. We will fight like our ancestors. We are building with our elders and peers. And trans youth will inherit a better world. 📸: Alexa Wilkinson

Activist Raquel Willis, a Black trans woman, is wearing a white shirt that says “Gender Liberation Movement” in black letters , black leather coat, and black pants. She is being escorted by a police officer in uniform. The scene takes place outdoors, with a red pickup truck and several other police officers visible in the background. She appears composed while being led away.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 04/12/2024

my latest @teenvogue.bsky.social: I interviewed trans teens across the U.S.—including L.W., the 16-year-old at the heart of U.S. v. Skrmetti—on their fears and anxieties about the threat of gender-affirming care bans and a looming Trump admin. "Trans healthcare is suicide prevention, at its core."

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U.S. v. Skrmetti: Teen At Heart of the Supreme Court's Trans Healthcare Case Calls It "Body Horror"

What trans teens fear about U.S. v. Skrmetti, reported from the steps of the Supreme Court.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 05/12/2024

Everyone should be sharing this story about the Amnesty International report because yes many of us have long acknowledged that it’s a genocide but there are still people who need the validation of a report from an org like Amnesty to believe it’s true zeteo.com/p/amnesty-co...

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Amnesty International Investigation Concludes Israel Is Committing Genocide

“We will look back and say, ‘Why did we not do more earlier?” Amnesty's director tells Zeteo.

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Ali Blake @alirblake.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

The editors, educators, & artists of "The Adventures of Trans Educators: A Comic Book Issue" would love to celebrate the comics with you! Join us virtually on Wed Dec 4th 7-8:30p ET. Per Sia & I are looking forward to sharing a bit of our collaborative process 💖✨ Register: mailchi.mp/bankstreet.e...

Cover of "Socrates and Me", a comic written by Per Sia and illustrated by Ali R. Blake. The colorful cover includes a pair of shiny black heel-less heels, a swirling wig, a marigold crown and falling marigold leaves, title script written in eyeliner, a bright friendship necklace, a green plastic bag dancing in the air, and a postcard from a parent to Per Sia thanking her for her work with Drag Story Hour.

The image is of a panel from the comic "Socrates and Me". The panel includes Per Sia posing with children and families after a Drag Story Hour event outside an Oakland, CA public library. The joyous and sparkling images are accompanied by text that reads "It feels so special to know that the books I read celebrate all kinds of people, but especially queer folks, especially during very challenging times for our community."

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Ali Blake @alirblake.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

And the full set of stunning comics are here: www.bankstreet.edu/research-pub...

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Occasional Paper Series #52 - Bank Street College of Education

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 20/11/2024

BREAKING: The US vetoed a UNSC resolution for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, which received 14 votes in favor and one against. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/lvp7pu

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

If you’re like me and think independent media should collaborate instead of compete with each other, then this is the starter pack for you. The Movement Media Alliance has been working together for a year to build each other up and better inform our collective audience. Give us a follow:

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Tonight! Last chance to sign up to learn how to do the vital and life-sustaining work of sending eSIMs to people in GZ 📲

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 17/11/2024

fascism is stopped when enough people say one of two things: 1) "nah, I'm not doing that" 2) "nah, you're not doing that" a lot of people want to imagine how they'll say the second thing, but you should *really* start practicing the first one

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Ali Blake @alirblake.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

hi! I’d love to be added, thank you for getting this going!

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Gabriel Rodríguez Lemus, Jr. @grodriguezlemus.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Figuring out ways to build community as we transition to this app. Please reply to this post if you want to be added!! #QTSE go.bsky.app/VitwfUt

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Ali Blake @alirblake.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

hi! thank you for making this, I’d love to be added

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Gabriel Rodríguez Lemus, Jr. @grodriguezlemus.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Community for Education Scholars in all areas and concentrations looking to find each other! Please reply to this post if you want to be added!! #EducationScholars go.bsky.app/BaXvoap

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Hiii, everybody! With the recent influx to Bluesky, I thought I'd reshare my Against AI and Its Environmental Harms Library. It's an open document with journalism, peer-reviewed research, podcasts, and other media about AI's climate costs. Add, share, and let's resist! pad.riseup.net/p/Against_AI...

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