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Chris Ash (they/them)

@christianashnc.bsky.social
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SA/IPV/HT expert, queer activist, survivor, storyteller, fire spinner. Violence prevention, public health, and harm reduction. Trying to make the anti-trafficking sector (& the world in general) suck less. CHAOTIC GOOD linktr.ee/chrisash

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Chris Ash (they/them) @christianashnc.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Questions my 2 year old asked today: - Do you know the truth (asked unprompted and out of nowhere) - Where does the future come from? - What caused the big bang?
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Chris Ash (they/them) @christianashnc.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
This is a profound loss. I am so lucky to have known and learned from Emi. ❤️‍🩹
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Chris Ash (they/them) @christianashnc.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
first in my bloodline to see someone get excommunicated by a community note
"Magataotao" on Twitter writes: "I am Catholic. This👇is not my Pope."

Attached is a video of the Pope saying that we should search for peace and reject war.

A community note under their tweet says: "You are not a Catholic if you do not accept the Pope, but rather a schismatic.

Canon 751: “Schism is the refusal of submission to the Supreme Pontiff,” ie. the Pope.

https://www.vatican.va/archive/cod-iuris-canonici/eng/documents/cic_lib3-cann747-755_en.html"
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Chris Ash (they/them) @christianashnc.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
I’m going to need all these buskers to either coordinate and start a band or take turns because the sensory overload of multiple competing songs in one location is a lot.
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Chris Ash (they/them) @christianashnc.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Original post: bsky.app/profile/did:...
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@kattenbarge.bsky.social on Bluesky
“Why aren’t college students protesting” stories are almost always wrong (they are protesting), omit crucial context (they were brutally punished for protesting before), and somehow suggest that 19 yr olds have more moral responsibility than elected officials three times their age
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Chris Ash (they/them) @christianashnc.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
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@adamserwer.bsky.social on Bluesky
Why'd the Confederates fight? They told us
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Mitildide 🧌 @mitildide.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Les transphobes : et si je m'identifie à un hélicoptère de combat ? ptdrrrrrrrrrrr Les transphobes : Les pronoms de l'hélicoptère de combat sont il/lui
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Chris Ash (they/them) @christianashnc.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
"The first person to be executed for treason in the US was not a spy or someone who sold secrets to a foreign government. It was not a Confederate general who took up arms against his government. It was an abolitionist named John Brown." from @nhannahjones.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/m...
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The Transformative Power of the White ‘Race Traitor’
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Chris Ash (they/them) @christianashnc.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
It took me an embarrassingly long time to realize this was a training ad for therapists to support clients with feelings of emptiness and not just capitalist “self help” propaganda to keep the labor gears turning during global collapse.
Image is an ad for a NICABM training. It’s a drawing of a sad man walking and the title is “How to Work with Deep Feelings of Emptiness”
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Chris Ash (they/them) @christianashnc.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
It took me an embarrassingly long time to realize this was a training ad for therapists to support clients with feelings of emptiness and not just capitalist “self help” propaganda to keep the labor gears turning during global collapse.
Image is an ad for a NICABM training. It’s a drawing of a sad man walking and the title is “How to Work with Deep Feelings of Emptiness”
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 24/01/2026
Mm-hm.
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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 08/01/2026
Everything happening now has a precedent. This is not new. Please understand that everything happening now is very American. The only change is that it is happening on camera to middle income white people. Ask BIPOC and low income white people about abuses by the state.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
The problem with ICE is not insufficient training or even training content. It’s creating an agency where you give people guns and tell them to terrorize Brown people and then recruit people excited to do that.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
This is the point of the video leaked by the shooter. It is a rationale for erasing her humanity, thus making her murder justifiable by any standard, no matter how meaningless. She was a person with a life. Jonathan Ross stole it. See this thread for me.
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richard68.bsky.social @richard68.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Fox News claims to be airing the "entire video" -- but they're cutting off before the officer says, "fucking bitch."
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Chris Ash (they/them) @christianashnc.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
How is this a real story, and who is turning it into a musical ASAP? www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Austrian nuns win reprieve in abandoned convent - if they stay off social media
The three nuns say they were taken out of the convent against their will and placed in a care home.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
The Department of Education, led by the wife of a former head of the WWE, has declared nursing to no longer be a professional degree. It’s a war on so called women dominated professions It’s also devastating for the disability community We need nurses They’re an invaluable part of the care team
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Chris Ash (they/them) @christianashnc.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
If you are watching NC’s incredible resistance against ICE with awe (possibly with surprise because you think we’re all right wing hillbillies) donate to Siembra NC. They’re the ones providing specific ICE resistance trainings to community members. secure.actblue.com/donate/siemb...
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Donate to Siembra NC
Show your support with a contribution.
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Chris Ash (they/them) @christianashnc.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Delighted to co-author this piece urging the de-silo-ing of anti-trafficking work, & genuine solidarity with grassroots movements.
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Dr Ella Cockbain @drellac.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Despite huge sums spent on anti-trafficking, there are staggeringly few evaluations of interventions & growing evidence of harms caused. This new edited book with @uclpress.bsky.social is our attempt to help change that. 1/ Open access with free digital downloads: uclpress.co.uk/book/evaluat...
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Evaluating Anti-Trafficking Interventions
Explore the complexities of trafficking and the importance of effective evaluation in anti-trafficking interventions and measures.
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Chris Ash (they/them) @christianashnc.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Excited to see this published: peer reviewed publication on trafficking survivors’ experiences with journalists. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
New article in Journalism Studies “Judged, Misrepresented and Misunderstood”: Human Trafficking Survivors’ Engagement with Journalists” by Barbara G. Friedman, Andrea Lorenz, Chris Ash, & Ethan Czuy Levine. Abstract: This mixed-methods study surveyed 49 human trafficking survivors in 2024 about their experiences with media to understand why they engage (or do not) with the news media, and how they characterize those interactions and expectations. A qualitative analysis yielded five themes related to motivation, preparation, consent violations, setting boundaries, and backlash after sharing their stories with media. Based on findings, we recommend journalists adopt a power-sharing model to improve coverage and to give trauma survivors more control over how their stories are represented to the public.
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Chris Ash (they/them) @christianashnc.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
It’s almost like they knew this would happen. The cruelty is the point.
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Freedom United @freedomunitedhq.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Canada’s Supreme Court ruled to uphold laws criminalizing sex work, ignoring voices of 23 sex worker-led and migrant advocacy groups. The ruling perpetuates unsafe conditions, isolates workers, and reinforces vulnerability to abuse and exploitation. www.freedomunited.org/news/canadas...
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Canada's Supreme Court ruling ignores safety and lived experience - FreedomUnited.org
Canada rules to reaffirm the criminalization of many aspects of sex work—and once again silences the very people most affected by these laws.
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Chris Ash (they/them) @christianashnc.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Searched on Google for @drewkadel.bsky.social’s new book to snag the link, & Google AI was very helpful in reassuring me that I should not literally try to baptize a whale.
You don't baptize a whale literally; it is a metaphorical title for Episcopal priest Andrew Kadel's new book, "How Do You Baptize a Whale?: An Encouragement to Compassion". The book uses the question to explore themes of human compassion, faith, and our relationship with other living beings. 
The title is a metaphor: It is not a literal guide to performing a religious ceremony on a whale.
The book explores compassion: The title is used to prompt readers to consider their own capacity for compassion, and how they treat other humans and all of God's creation.
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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 06/11/2025
If you aren’t fond of authoritarianism, a great place to start thwarting it is your local police force. You will likely discover it is the top publicly funded vehicle for fascism in your city.
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Chris Ash (they/them) @christianashnc.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
This is not the behavior of a civilized democracy.
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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
7. Our demands are moral, just & reasonable. The Times could enact them TODAY! There’s no reason not publish in @theintercept.com @mondoweiss.net @literaryhub.bsky.social @thenation.com & other places which are not prone to genocide peddling nor to publishing shoddy investigations (ie “Screams”)
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Meanwhile my friends in government don’t have their paychecks and there’s moms in the local Buy Nothing group asking for formula and diapers because their WIC stopped
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Chris Ash (they/them) @christianashnc.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Nothing quite like having a court-ordered name change and Cashapp replying to every attempt I make to update my name with a request for a divorce decree. It doesn't matter how many times I tell them it was a court-ordered name change and not via divorce decree. Fucking wild.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 13/10/2025
Holy shit go off John Oliver youtu.be/gieTx_P6INQ?...
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Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
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Chris Ash (they/them) @christianashnc.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
“Western theorists and researchers consistently conflated indigenous peoples with past peoples; to journey to Africa or to the Americas or to the Pacific Islands was to go backwards in time, sailing towards the origin of humanity.” Great piece worth a read.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 09/10/2025
The EU has a secret weapon to counter Trump’s economic bullying. It’s time to use it | Johnny Ryan
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The EU has a secret weapon to counter Trump’s economic bullying. It’s time to use it | Johnny Ryan
The anti-coercion instrument, or ‘trade bazooka’, is designed to shield against foreign pressure, says civil liberties campaigner Johnny Ryan
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Gramsci at D4RKw0KE_$4$UkE69 @tontonpogo.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
"the imperial need for control is so desperate because it's so unnatural. It breaks, it leaks. Tyranny demands constant effort."
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a man talking to another man with the words so much going wrong so much to say and all of it happening so quickly on the bottom
Alt: Nemik talking to Cassian in ANDOR : 'so much going wrong so much to say and all of it happening so quickly'
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Anyway, learning another language is good for you because you die a thousand deaths of embarrassment and then you come out more humble and even more aware of your various human failings
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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
The biggest obstacle to learning a foreign language as an adult is accepting how stupid you will feel, in public, with other people. If you can move through that you can do anything
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Chris Ash (they/them) @christianashnc.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Am I more interested in hearing Trump tell other countries how to do their governance, address human rights, or navigate peace?
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a woman with red hair says " none of the above " in front of a netflix logo
Alt: a woman with red hair says " none of the above " in front of a netflix logo
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
My main observation from the last few hours of monitoring US social media is that Democrats are universally denouncing political violence and calling for calm while MAGA are escalating language and openly lusting for retribution against broad categories of people they identity as their enemies.
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Freedom United @freedomunitedhq.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
📢 NEW EVENT: On Weds, July 23, join us for an honest & shocking conversation, exposing one of the most uncomfortable truths of our time: state trafficking. It’s time to challenge the myth that trafficking is only the domain of criminals and rogue states. Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Chris Ash (they/them) @christianashnc.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Yikes.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Again, think about what would need to be in those files for this to be Republicans' least bad option.
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Chris Ash (they/them) @christianashnc.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
I was recently at a conference where people were promoting the idea of establishing NRMs everywhere. Clean your own house first, friends.
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Kate Roberts @k8roberts.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
When immigration policy ignores labour realities, it doesn’t end exploitation; it enables it. Read our analysis of the implementation of the Immigration White paper, planned for 22 July, and what this means for labour exploitation, here 👇
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