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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 14h
What has changed about today’s backlash is that technologies are more ubiquitous. Michael Bronski tells @lgbtqnation.com that technology literacy is now an important part of queer resistance. buff.ly/OYHm21p
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The right’s "last-ditch effort to assert itself”: Historian says we are winning the culture war - LGBTQ Nation
The right will cause great harm in the process," says Michael Bronski, "but they will lose."
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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Please remember that for every VE Schwab and Stephen King, there are a lot of banned Black, queer, and POC writers you've never heard of, to whom it is maybe not a badge of honor but a denial of their voice. Being banned is not a marketing opportunity, unless one is already rich.
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 16h
NO NEW YORK brings us along for the wild ride of Adele Bertei’s career. From touring with the girl group, The Bloods, to producing her own solo records, and doing backup and writing for other popular artists, Adele was hungry to make it @oldstermag.bsky.social buff.ly/XBW2SyK
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Adele Bertei’s Supernova Years
A chat with the author/musician about her recent memoir, “No New York: A Memoir of No Wave and the Women Who Shaped the Scene” and the fierce feminism of the late 70s to early 80s East Village.
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 18h
Glad to see WE WANT TO DO MORE THAN SURVIVE and TOWARD LIBERATION made it onto this wonderful list! buff.ly/V0ROvjy
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10 Books by Black authors that explore what it means to be Black in the classroom
As social media debates what Black children need from schools, these books examine the history and systems behind those conversations.
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 19h
Happy #PublicationDay, @drstaceypatton.bsky.social! STRUNG UP, an unflinching exploration that forces readers to confront lynching as a devastating legacy of white childhood conditioning, is “a clear-eyed, tour de force.” — @publisherswkly.bsky.social, ⭐️Starred Review
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 05/10/2026
The goal in detaining these children, a former official says, is “to make sure no one ever sends their kids to the US again.” Read @samanthamichaels.bsky.social + @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social report on the administration's new family separation policy that targets children in the nation's interior.
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“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 20h
American society is too often unforgiving, preferring to cast out those we consider irredeemable. Joseph Margulies wrote CAST OUT to make us truly see those society locks away and to recognize the humanity we all share. buff.ly/111uZIg
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WCPT 820 Interview: Author Joseph Margulies - Chew's Views with Richard Chew
Richard Chew is joined by Joseph Margulies, civil rights lawyer, professor of the Practice of Government at Cornell University, and author of the 2026 book "Cast Out: A Call for a Forgiving Society…
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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
For #BannedBooksWeek & all year: We offer an interactive Teach Truth pop-up display to raise public awareness about the threat of anti-history education laws & book bans; and the connection between education censorship & the gutting of the Voting Rights Act. ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/teach-t...
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Teach Truth Campaign Display
To raise awareness about the threats to teaching people's history, we offer an interactive pop-up display. Learn more and order a box to display at Pride festivals, bookstores, farmers's markets, scho...
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 22h
@gemmahartley.bsky.social has written a new memoir that follows her from a strict evangelical upbringing through a traumatic sexual assault that made her question her faith, and into the belief that a woman’s anger isn’t anything to apologize for. buff.ly/rFElPBn
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Finding Art in Life with Gemma Hartley
In today’s edition of Finding Art in Life, we’re talking with Gemma Hartley, the author of Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward, which stemmed from a Harper’s Bazaar essay that got…
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It’s here! Reading @editrixemma.bsky.social’s LOVE NEVER DIES is like having your best friend tell you about how the various representations of love and monsters mirrored where society and art were at the time. 💀❣️💀 buff.ly/zIalXlX
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Horror Book Recs for Romance Readers
Do you love a love story and also want to lean into the immaculate spooky vibes of the ‘ber months? Here’s some of my favorite horror romance reads to get you started.
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Flingjore @flingjore.com · 05/10/2026
The reversal of Roe v. Wade drives American doctors into direct political action, reshaping state-level abortion battles. Propelled by widespread bans, physicians mobilize across the political spectrum to launch ballot measures, lobby lawmakers, file lawsuits, and run for public office.
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The Fall of Roe Changed Doctors. Now They’re Changing Politics.
State-level abortion debates have activated physicians as a political force like never before.
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Lissa Warren @lissawarren.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"I had read a lot of books about lynching, & there was this silence about the impact of lynching on children who were actually murdered or who lost family members." Hear @drstaceypatton.bsky.social on Salt Lake Dirt discussing why she wrote her book STRUNG UP: bit.ly/476ZkRs @beaconpress.bsky.social
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“When we talk about changes that make prisons better, the solution is not simply to eliminate scarcity. The solution is to eliminate the mindset that produced the scarcity in the first place.”—Joseph Margulies buff.ly/xXKW0CL
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Compassion over cruelty: a call for empathy in incarceration | Cornell Chronicle
In his new book, “Cast Out: A Call for a Forgiving Society in an Age of Incarceration,” Joseph Margulies from the College of Arts and Sciences explores compassion and empathy, and the idea that…
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Unite Against Book Bans @uabookbans.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Banned Books Week starts today! This year’s theme is: #LetBooksBe What do you think books should be? Share your answer in the comments: ✨ Let Books Be Free 🎉 Let Books Be Fun 🌎 Let Books Be Diverse 💡 Let Books Be Thought-Provoking ❤️ Let Books Be Themselves
Drawn image of a woman reading, surrounded by books, birds, flowers, clouds, vines, stars. Text reades: Protect the Freedom to Read - Let Books Be - Banned Books Week, Oct. 4-10, 2026. American Library Association. ala.org/bbooks
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Spirituality and Practice has stamped A PROTEST HISTORY OF THE US as being a book for “reform-minded readers who may have become cynical about the value of protest” buff.ly/OndxlSb
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A Protest History of the United States by Gloria J. Browne-Marshall | Review | Spirituality & Practice
How struggle for change has defined the United States from the start.
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
AFI points out that BEING HEUMANN is based on true events. More specifically, it’s based on the memoir Judy Heumann herself wrote with Kristen Joiner also called BEING HEUMANN. That’s where the biopic gets its name! buff.ly/Di7JzdI
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Academy Award® Winner Siân Heder’s BEING HEUMANN to Close AFI FEST 2026 Presented by Canva | American Film Institute
Academy Award® Winner Siân Heder’s BEING HEUMANN to Close AFI FEST 2026 Presented by Canva PASSES ON SALE AFI announced that Apple Original Films’ BEING HEUMANN will close the 40th edition of AFI…
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Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Discover #SmallPress #books: The Lesbian Bar Chronicles by Rachel Karp, @beaconpress.bsky.social & Woman, Wolf, Carbon Capture by Noelle Catharine Allen, @blacklawrence.bsky.social. See alt-text for book details. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #booktok #bookstagram
The Lesbian Bar Chronicles: The Living History and Hopeful Future of America's Dyke Dives and Sapphic Spaces by Rachel Karp, Beacon Press: Lesbian bars are so much more than a place to get a drink. For over a century, they’ve acted as community posts, political organizing grounds, and sanctuaries. Yet whereas in the 1980s there were an estimated 200 lesbian bars across the US, the current count sits at a few dozen. The author embarks across the country with her wife and best friend to chronicle the stories of the remaining US lesbian bars, and finds many of the places they visit to be thriving, their communities sustaining themselves over decades of change and challenges. https://www.beacon.org/The-Lesbian-Bar-Chronicles-P2460.aspx

Woman, Wolf, Carbon Capture by Noelle Catharine Allen, Black Lawrence Press: It’s a beautiful September day in Seattle, but Tiny isn’t happy. Lung damage recently ended her dream career as a wildlands firefighter, and she’s grieving the person she loved most, her grandmother. Things take a turn when a city employee arrives at Tiny’s doorstep with an unexpected proposal: become a beta-tester for a program designed to pull carbon from the atmosphere, counteracting global warming. Despite her skepticism, Tiny agrees. What ensues is stranger and more wondrous than she could have imagined—but when the city decides to abruptly end the program, Tiny must decide if she will follow orders, or if she will resist and follow her heart. https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/woman-wolf-carbon-capture/
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gayatripat.bsky.social @gayatripat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Another strong media hit for @drstaceypatton.bsky.social's STRUNG UP, this time from @thegrio.com.web.brid.gy. STRUNG UP is officially on sale tomorrow from @beaconpress.bsky.social and is sure to spark some very necessary conversations. thegrio.com/2026/10/02/d...
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‘Love Black children like a revolt’: Dr. Stacey Patton wants America to see ‘machinery’ behind violence against Black children
In her latest book, “Strung Up,” the award-winning journalist and historian confronts America’s dark history and its impacts on its children.
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Sonia Sanchez has taught us that for true creatives, activism and art naturally go hand in hand. She has taught by walking the walk! buff.ly/yHXg773
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My Love Letter To Sonia Sanchez, Who Gives Us Permission To Be Unabashed In Our Love For Ourselves
A love letter to Sonia Sanchez, who has taught generations of Black creatives to bend language, love unabashedly, and embrace the fullness of our humanity.
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
@gemmahartley.bsky.social talks with Amanda Montei about her relationship with feeling, her creative process, and what’s keeping her sane right now buff.ly/VlFi8pW
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“Performance became integral to my sense of self”
Author Gemma Hartley does the Mad Woman Intake
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Communal living is the way in many other parts of the world except in the US. Where does the stigma of communal living come from? And how did we get here? @samanthapaigerosen.bsky.social buff.ly/A6Du60d
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Why more adult children are living with their parents - WHYY
Nearly half of 18-30-year-olds are living with their parents, pushed there by tough job market, soaring housing prices and the rising cost of everyday life.
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
YES! @drstaceypatton.bsky.social’s STRUNG UP is in the mix! 🙌🏽🙏🏽
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
As a lawyer, Joseph Margulies grew weary of society’s determination to see people who have done bad things as irredeemable monsters, as the “other.” That’s one of the reasons why he wrote CAST OUT. buff.ly/5QakhiX
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Joe Margulies- "CAST OUT"
Podcast Episode · The He's Just Podcasts · August 7 · 1h
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Let’s be clear: this is *the* fight.
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EXPLAINER: Shield Laws Under Siege
Everything you need to know about the two new lawsuits targeting abortion providers & pro-choice states
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
@ebertvoices.bsky.social is so right. BEING HEUMANN is for the battles won, the ones yet to be fought, and dares us to imagine and ask for a better world. That’s what Judy Heumann was all about! buff.ly/fWLlEqV
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Being Heumann review: Powerful message overcomes storytelling cliches
A film that wholeheartedly believes in the power of its story and message.
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Axios @axios.com · 02/10/2026
"Algorithms lack the spark": Pope Leo XIV calls on church to ally with artists against AI
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Pope Leo says AI lacks the "spark of humanity" — and wants artists and the church to fight back
The church and artists must ally, he said, "to safeguard our humanity."
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In November 1994, Anthony Graves was sentenced to death by the state of Texas for a crime he did not commit. Before his exoneration in 2010, he reached out to pen pals in Europe and friends and family—anyone who would listen to his story. #WrongfulConvictionDay buff.ly/ArtOcq7
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The Death Penalty: One of the Lucky Ones
By Anthony Graves: On August 17, 1992, I was twenty-six years old, a son to my mother, a father to three sons, a brother to four siblings, and a friend to many in my small Texas community. I was an…
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Mona Eltahawy @monaeltahawy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Anger is important. It's the 1st of my 7 Necessary Sins. I call it the “Junior Sin”: it needs a channel & direction. That’s why I added 6 more sins for my manifesto to defy, disobey & disrupt patriarchy. In this 4-week course, I show you how to practice those sins www.eventbrite.com/e/feminist-g...
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FEMINIST GIANT Presents: The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls
Putting The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls into action to defy, disobey, and disrupt patriarchy.
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Making it count on 🌍Cover Reveal Friday🌍 with @professortkh.bsky.social! THE GLOBAL ERASURE OF BLACKNESS is a historical examination of the Black census undercount as a transnational civil rights issue. Watch this space in April 2027! 👀 Cover design: Carol Chu
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Multi Facet Fables @multifacetfables.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Different causes appeal to different people. But it is no coincidence that – if you swap out the proper nouns – the recruitment pitch to join ISIS sounds a lot like the recruitment pitch to join the ARYAN BROTHERHOOD. The imagined nobility of it all has lured countless people into extremism."
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“People are consumed with social media apps that arrange their lives according to Freytag’s pyramid. They spend so much time mining their own experience for content.”—G’Ra Asim on @fnfpodcast.bsky.social
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G’Ra Asim on 99 Problems Finding the 1
Nonfiction writer G’Ra Asim joins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to talk about his new book, 99 Problems Finding the 1: a love story (sort of). Asim discusses Afropessimism, heter…
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The invisible rules of patriarchy are the explicit rules of Christian patriarchy. One rule @gemmahartley.bsky.social heard repeatedly while growing up Evangelical was that wives had to stay with their abusers. buff.ly/dW31Zgy
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Gemma Hartley: No One Loves an Angry Woman
Gemma Hartley analyzes the way Christian patriarchy infects the wider culture, and why it’s so hard to escape.
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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Through narratives, letters, drawings, poems, & more, @beaconpress.bsky.social’s “A Queer History of the United States for Young People” introduces young readers to the LGBTQ people who came before them, & invites them to use history as a guide to the future. ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/materials/qu...
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A Queer History of the United States for Young People
Book — Non-fiction. By Michael Bronski, adapted for by Richie Chevat. 2019. 336 pages. A young adult readers edition that explores how LGBTQ people have always been a part of our national identity,…
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
BEING HEUMANN is about seeing the disabled community as people who have the right to be wanted and not as a set of limitations someone else can see from across a room. That message comes from Judy Heumann’s memoir of the same name. buff.ly/Bu3e6zr
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TIFF Opens With Siân Heder’s Crowd-Pleasing ‘Being Heumann’ — and Apple Has Its Next Oscar Contender
Siân Heder’s “Being Heumann,” starring Ruth Madeley as Judy Heumann, opens TIFF as a crowd-pleasing Oscar contender for Apple following “CODA.”
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Lorraine Boissoneault @lodrinkswater.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Honored to be among these other amazing authors and some truly great books. Love to see some on life around the Great Lakes and Chicago! @beaconpress.bsky.social
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What better book to turn to than Viktor E. Frankl’s MAN’S SEARCH FOR MEANING and its message of finding one’s purpose?
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7 Books to Help You Cope With Failure and Move Forward
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BOMB Magazine @bombmag.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“99 Problems Finding the 1” ( @beaconpress.bsky.social, 2026) by G’Ra Asim, a critical theorist, author, professor of creative writing, and a punk band lead man, suggests that love is the key to revolutionary existence. Read his interview by @sasha-bonet.bsky.social. bit.ly/4hp82AC
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BOMB Magazine | G’Ra Asim by Sasha Bonét
Reflections on chronic lovelessness and finding love in a crushing world.
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
True crime can also reveal vital new perspectives and methods for interrupting the epidemic of settler violence. That’s what Liza Black’s HOW SETTLERS GET AWAY WITH MURDER does. Now in bookstores! buff.ly/v6IetOL
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September 2026 Reads for the Rest of Us
In the September edition of Reads for the Rest of Us, Ms. shares a collection of diverse and feminist reads for the month.
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NPR @npr.org · 01/10/2026
A powerful El Niño is already influencing extreme weather around the planet. During the last strong El Niño, federal agencies ramped up research in the hope of improving weather forecasts. This year, they won't be matching that effort. trib.al/dkJLZ2X
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Studying this super El Niño could save lives. NOAA is scaling back research
A powerful El Niño is already influencing extreme weather around the planet. During the last strong El Niño, federal agencies ramped up research in the hope of improving weather forecasts. This year, they won't be matching that effort.
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Note to Ed Sheeran: Being “politically neutral” is not the flex you think it is, especially with regards to Palestine. buff.ly/5UHYoxH
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You Cannot Be Neutral About Palestine: Testimony of the First 85 Days of Israel’s Invasion of Gaza
By Atef Abu Saif
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Ms. Magazine @msmagazine.com · 30/09/2026
"Feminism is positive, widely embraced and global. It is spreading and growing. That gives me hope."
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No Liberation Without Community: In One of Her Final Interviews, Gloria Steinem on Her New Memoir, Chosen Family and the Future of Feminism
Gloria Steinem reflects on chosen family, feminism, resilience and the people who shaped her life in one of her final interviews.
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Salvadoran women are said to be “arrechas y aguantadoras” (capable, resilient) and it is said with a level of pride, but there is also a layer of tragedy. @alexlregalado.bsky.social explores this in verse in RELINQUENDA. #LatinxHeritageMonth buff.ly/nAoTgHQ
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Leaving Room for Mystery and for Forgiveness to Let Go
A Q&A with Alexandra Lytton Regalado | For a long time, it was either the camera or the pen. If I managed to express myself visually, there was no need to describe it in writing. But now, I use…
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Deb Haaland @debhaalandnm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My grandparents survived the terrible abuse of the Federal Indian Boarding School Era. That trauma wasn't isolated to the past—it was carried down through my family all the way to me. And there are so many families like my own across Indian Country.
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The literature of white supremacy promises what so many young men have always sought: the chance to become the hero, absolution, and most of all, validation for their rage. @literaryhub.bsky.social buff.ly/GLVOnLg
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In Prison, White Supremacist Literature Is Required Reading
To survive the box, you learn to fish. People on the outside call it solitary confinement, but it isn’t really, not even at a place like Upstate Correctional Facility, the supermax prison in Malone…
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Governor Maura Healey @massgovernor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Massachusetts’ Latino community is strong, growing, and making our state better every day. We see you. We believe in you. And we’ll always have your back. Happy Hispanic & Latino Heritage Month!
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Here is the remarkable accomplishment of Gloria Steinem’s hair: for over 50 years it weaponized a white middle-American normal ideal in the service of intersectional, sometimes radical, feminist politics.”—Sarah Mesle buff.ly/DJ7Q43p
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Gloria Steinem’s Hair
How does hair matter to feminism? Specifically, how does long, straight, brown, hair matter to feminism? I’m talking about Gloria Steinem’s hair. Steinem is not the only feminist; her hair is not t…
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Mona Eltahawy @monaeltahawy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I do not want to be protected. I want patriarchy to stop protecting rapists. How long must we wait for men and boys to stop murdering us, to stop beating us and to stop raping us? How many rapists must we kill? I call it Trickle-Up Retribution. www.feministgiant.com/p/essay-tric...
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Essay: Trickle-Down Misogyny
On the Cornell Seven
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🗣️ TODAY! @marcusrediker.bsky.social and David Lester have their conversation with educators at New Haven Museum on how to use their graphic novel, THE BLACK SCHOONER, as an educational resource and teach history from below. Come through, New Haven! buff.ly/uFsn0LF
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Exploring the Jagged Edges of History: Graphic Novel 'The Black Schooner' Launch at New Haven Museum
'The Black Schooner' examines the 1839 Amistad Rebellion, from Sierra Leone to the New Haven Trials, and an unexpected abolitionist victory.
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Bev @lolbev.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
a quote to pull you in, “Researching this book required a form of historical combat. Archives exist not as neutral repositories but rather battlegrounds where evidence can be buried alive.”
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