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Crystal N. Dunivant

@crystalndunivant.bsky.social
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Social Worker • Consultant and Trainer • We do not talk about psychosis enough • Lover of good books📚💙

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Crystal N. Dunivant @crystalndunivant.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
My reread of Sula was enlightening. I was less judgmental and more empathetic during this second reading. The theme of placement and how it can dramatically shift but also feel familiar was missed completely the first time. I enjoyed writing this one. open.substack.com/pub/crystaln...
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Reading Sula During Mental Health Awareness Month
“I sure did live in this world.” Sula Mae Peace
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Crystal N. Dunivant @crystalndunivant.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
When discussing the celebration of love and life in the middle of chaos, one of my favorite authors said, “We did not know what else to do but keep living.” I thought about these words when I hit the publish button. open.substack.com/pub/crystaln...
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Life Is Good on This Side - Turning 50
I am turning 50 this year.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
SCREAMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 31/03/2026
The Supreme Court did not strike down conversion therapy bans today. Not nationwide. Not in Colorado. Not anywhere. Here's what actually happened in Chiles v. Salazar—and why the coverage you're seeing serves the conservative legal movement more than it serves you.
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Crystal N. Dunivant @crystalndunivant.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
There are external forces causing the world to feel upside down. I had to also acknowledge that I hadn’t seen the woman whom we affectionately call Nana. I wrote this essay a couple of months ago about me leaning into acceptance but I realized I missed her. open.substack.com/pub/crystaln...
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Dementia Is Not a Bad Word
“How is your mom doing?” My grandmother is no longer with us.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
It’s one of the easiest things to game if you want to dabble in a little wage theft. And they are fundamentally anti-labor. I get why people feel morally obligated to do them but it’s not great. jacobin.com/2021/04/cust...
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How Customer Service Surveys Are Eroding Workers’ Rights
The use of customer reviews to evaluate workers is rising across the service sector. Once you get past the shiny rhetoric of consumer empowerment, it’s a new variation on an old story: enlisting custo...
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Crystal N. Dunivant @crystalndunivant.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Nana and I had a good time over the weekend. Don’t forget to like, share, and click the subscribe button. I appreciate you. open.substack.com/pub/crystaln...
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Dementia Is Not a Bad Word
“How is your mom doing?” My grandmother is no longer with us.
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Crystal N. Dunivant @crystalndunivant.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
The timeline is upside down and still I write. At first I thought the essay was late but New Year’s Eve was just yesterday, right? open.substack.com/pub/crystaln...
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I Brought In the New Year by Myself and Had a Good Time
“Are you sure, sweetheart, that you want to be well?
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Crystal N. Dunivant @crystalndunivant.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
I had to laugh at myself as I shared this little piece. We need more laughter right now. open.substack.com/pub/crystaln...
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Journal Entry - The Oil Running Down His Beard
This is another short entry from my journal archives.
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Crystal N. Dunivant @crystalndunivant.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
I had to laugh at myself as I shared this little piece. We need more laughter right now. open.substack.com/pub/crystaln...
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Journal Entry - The Oil Running Down His Beard
This is another short entry from my journal archives.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing. You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics. That is all.
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J. K. Lambo @jklambo.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
If anyone would like to support my writing/publishing journey and has spare change leftover from the holiday season, a coffee (or two) may keep the writer’s block away ✏️ 🥰 ko-fi.com/jklambo #booksky #blackbooksky #writingcommunity 💙 📚 👀
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Crystal N. Dunivant @crystalndunivant.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
My last essay of the year. I shared last week. I think it was last week. What is time? Anyway I want to share again before we enter this new year. Thank you for your ongoing support. Don’t forget to like, share, and click the subscribe button. open.substack.com/pub/crystaln... #BlackBookSky
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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 27/12/2025
If this season can be hard for you, here are my presentation slides from Holding Space for the Holidays, which offers some ideas for coping if your life does not resemble a Hallmark movie! 🫂 docs.google.com/presentation... Holding Space for the Holidays Bingo Card! ✨ docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Holding Space for the Holidays
Holding Space for the Holidays Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW. Link to slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Hh6FYg_-rsOSWPZe76J3aQngi4i-8hPUO9czrGd3W-E/edit?usp=sharing Dana Chan for Disabled An...
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Crystal N. Dunivant @crystalndunivant.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
More backlist books please. I’m excited more people are talking about Toni Morrison, the editor. Through these conversations they are also learning about the great works of Toni Cade Bambara and Gayl Jones. #BlackBookSky #BookSky
Corregidora by Gayl Jones and Gorilla, My Love by Toni Cade Bambara.
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Crystal N. Dunivant @crystalndunivant.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
2025. Here is my last essay of the year. Thank you for your ongoing support. Don’t forget to like, share, and click the subscribe button. open.substack.com/pub/crystaln...
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Crystal N. Dunivant @crystalndunivant.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
I read Elite Capture by myself the first time. Now I am reading it with community members as we continue to learn how to work across our different identities. #BlackBookSky #BookSky
Book cover of Elite Capture in black letters (except for the letter “i” which is red) with a black hand on the left dotting the red “i” in Elite.
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Georgina Kiersten @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Read my cozy plus size m/m romance 'More to Love right now for FREE on Koboplus or Everand. Wrestling coach Emmy Park is content living romance through books—until he meets Jamir Cunningham, the charming owner of his favorite shop. bit.ly/moretolovero... #blackbooksky #romance #mmromance
More to Love - A Cozy Plus Size M/M Romance Jamir and Emmy couldn’t be more different. Jamir with his constant smiles and Emmy with his resting bitch face. Yet, the moment their paths collide, the attraction between them is undeniable. Can they find happiness together despite their differences? - Kobo Plus
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Crystal N. Dunivant @crystalndunivant.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
2025. Here is my last essay of the year. Thank you for your ongoing support. Don’t forget to like, share, and click the subscribe button. open.substack.com/pub/crystaln...
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Cydney | Author Services, ARC Reader @cydney.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
#BookSky 💙📚 #BlackBooksky #Wishlist
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11/12/2025
Trump’s America. Mubashir is a 20-year-old Minneapolis resident and a U.S. citizen. ICE assaulted him and grabbed him off the street anyway. Cruelty and incompetence, and an unlawful detention. A kidnapping. ICE gets to do this with zero accountability. 1/2
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Ryan Coogler explains why he declined the invitation to join the Academy www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/m...
Still, there is nuance to all the awards hype. Though “Sinners” looks to be a major Oscar player, that voting body has never nominated Jordan for his acting or Coogler for his directing — indeed, no Black filmmaker has ever won in the latter category. Asked to join the academy in 2016, Coogler declined the invitation.

“It’s not out of animosity,” he told me, noting that he’s stretched thin with commitments to his film school and unions. “And I’m not good at judging things, bro. The act of ‘Hey, pick the best thing’ is very stressful for me, even when there’s no stakes involved.”

He is more drawn to the everyday elements of his career than to the glamorous ballrooms. “People see the tuxedo, they see the red carpet, but it’s real blue-collar folks making these movies happen,” Coogler said, adding that he truly fell in love with filmmaking once he understood that, at its core, it’s a job.A photo of Ryan Coogler
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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
More special announcements will be disclosed soon. We ain't done yet. Apply ASAP. It's only me working behind this laptop and I'm reading everything.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
What does it say about this country that that the kind of open, rank bigotry Trump administration officials regularly express towards black immigrants apparently has no social cost because of the number of Americans who quietly agree or don't care.
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 28/11/2025
Black Friday reminder: You can support independent bookstores and get great deals without lining the pockets of billionaires 😌
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Flying Phoenix @alchemistmioglasi.myatproto.social · 28/11/2025
While most folks were kicked back enjoying their feasts & family, a lot of Natives are out here suffering on our own homelands: homeless, health crises, barely surviving as our lives slowly implode. #Share my cousin’s post and #help in any way you can. She’s entering winter life in a car with 🐈‍⬛ 🐈‍⬛
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Monarkie @monarkie.blacksky.app · 28/11/2025
Price updates for Black Friday! Please consider supporting an independent author! Sci-fi short stories: Paperback - $5 / eBook - $1 | Children's book (paperback) - $10 Pick one up today, tomorrow, whenever you like! #SciFi #SelfPublished #booksky 📚🤏 #BlackBooksky 🔗 books.kielenking.com
2 books by Kielen King. L to R: Broken Hourglass (composite cover art consisting of a Black woman with a serious expression superimposed over a blending of tropical village, abstract digital design, and a hand holding a technological cube), Disposable Dagger (composite cover art consisting of Black man with determined, intense expression looking at the viewer standing in front of a futuristic window frame with a city skyline visible on the other side of the window)
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Jonathan Forney (JB 🕵🏾) @jb4nay.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Reviews like this are great reminders why we need Black writers and critics to properly analyze Black art www.vulture.com/article/revi...
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Brandon Taylor’s Limited Notions of Blackness
His Black characters treat whiteness as all-powerful but also blameless and beyond reproach.
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Crystal N. Dunivant @crystalndunivant.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Patricia Smith just won the National Book Award for Poetry for this collection. The first couple of poems had me in a chokehold. Smith is giving me new life right now.
Book cover of The Intentions of Thunder by Patricia. Beautiful person with dark skin, big hair, and bright green eyeshadow. National Book Award sticker is on the bottom right.
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Crystal N. Dunivant @crystalndunivant.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Nana turns 92 years old today. I wrote this last year but it still holds true. “I see my love reflected in the face of the woman who not that long ago yelled across the hall “Nikki are you still there?” “I am here.” open.substack.com/pub/crystaln...
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Celebrating Love and the Quiet
Hope is not a substitute for strategy. Percival Everett
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Looking for a way to help this holiday season? The fabulous Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (FRIDAY BLACK; CHAIN-GANG ALL-STARS) and Proyecto Faro are raising money for families in Spring Valley & Rockland County, NY, who've been targeted by recent ICE raids. Learn more and if you're able, donate here:
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Donate to Support Families Devastated by I.C.E, organized by Nana Adjei
For the last several years, with your help, during the holiday season we’ve raised mon… Nana Adjei needs your support for Support Families Devastated by I.C.E
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Lawrence Coates📚🐦📚💙📚🖋️📚 @lwcoates.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Not official yet, but there will be a tenured or tenure track teaching position in Fiction at Bowling Green State advertised soon. Please share. #writingcommunity #booksky
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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 19/11/2025
A bill regulating certain medications, which could include medication abortion drugs, was passed out of an Ohio House committee on Wednesday, on its way to a full House vote. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/19/b...
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Bill regulating drugs including medication abortion pills passes Ohio House committee • Ohio Capital Journal
A bill regulating certain medications, which could include medication abortion drugs, was passed out of an Ohio House committee on Wednesday, on its way to a full House vote.
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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 19/11/2025
Despite Ohioans overwhelmingly protecting access to abortion, Republican lawmakers are moving to restrict the procedure by ending telehealth prescriptions and mail-order pills ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/18/o...
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Ohio GOP lawmakers move to ban telehealth, mail-order abortion pills • Ohio Capital Journal
Despite Ohioans overwhelmingly protecting access to abortion, Republican lawmakers are moving to restrict the procedure by ending telehealth prescriptions and mail-order pills.
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Imani Barbarin @imanibarbarin.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Hello! Please help and share for my friend! www.gofundme.com/f/support-my...
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Donate to Support My Journey to Safety and Wellness, organized by Lenée A. Voss
Hi, I'm Lenée. I am an organizer and cultural worker. I need your help to get … Lenée A. Voss needs your support for Support My Journey to Safety and Wellness
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Aiyana Ishmael @aiyanaish.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
It was announced on October 16, 2025 that VIBE was "joining forces" with Rolling Stone. As a result, the majority of VIBE employees were laid off. If you have the means to give, this team could use the support! www.gofundme.com/f/support-vi...
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Donate to Support VIBE Staff After Sudden Layoffs, organized by Mya Abraham
It was announced on October 16, 2025 that VIBE was "joining forces" with Rolling S… Mya Abraham needs your support for Support VIBE Staff After Sudden Layoffs
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 15/11/2025
May my friend @sfdirewolf.bsky.social rest in power. I will especially miss texting with her about Star Trek. We were lucky, all of us, to have Alice and her warmth and enthusiasm. www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
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Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
6,794 likes, 536 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at th...
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
So many vulnerable people were hurt, harassed and raped by these ghouls and now—I’m worried—it’s gonna become hehe haha lurid internet circus instead of a long overdue moral reckoning. I’m scared of who we all are becoming. That man has brought us ALL low.
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Crystal N. Dunivant @crystalndunivant.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Reading and writing are helping me stay grounded right now. open.substack.com/pub/crystaln...
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I Accidentally Took Myself on a Date
“Do you have a reservation?”
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
not snark, actually asking: after pushing a comma strategy that focused on health care, what is the case for the Democrats making a deal to end the shutdown now that doesn't involve a win on health care?
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 07/11/2025
Transphobes are already targeting the biggest star in women's soccer and baselessly alleging she's a man because she's Black. This is what trans people warned would happen. Gender policing that becomes explicitly racial. www.outsports.com/2025/11/6/24...
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A women's soccer star is the target of an anti-trans activist - Outsports
Barbra Banda's peers in the NWSL stood up for her when the head of an anti-trans fashion brand tried to demean her.
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Gary Daniels @gdanielsohio.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Fresh off Election Day, the Statehouse GOP is hearing SB 293, a bill slashing early voting via mail, popular among all voters. This is the 2026 (& beyond) playbook. Politicians in power are deliberately making it harder for you to vote, for 100% political reasons.
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Crystal N. Dunivant @crystalndunivant.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
I was loving my body on Friday and by Saturday I felt a little indifferent. Both of those feelings are okay. Writing keeps me grounded so I have been writing about this evolving relationship with this body of mine. Don’t forget to subscribe, like, and share. open.substack.com/pub/crystaln...
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Who Is This Woman in the Pictures?
It is never about losing weight.Nacolle’s Emancipation is a reader-supported publication.
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Georgina Kiersten @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
TW: Suicide Realizing that I was trans saved my life. People underestimate the power of social transitioning, but social transitioning is the reason I am still here.
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
What most people outside of what passes for a safety net in the US don’t understand is that the late fall and early winter are the busiest, hardest moments for new crises. This couldn’t happen at a worse time as clinics, shelters, and food pantries are already bursting at the seams from demand.
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Crystal N. Dunivant @crystalndunivant.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Nana and I needed to ground ourselves in something familiar so we are reading If Beale Street Could Talk. We are wondering what you are reading this evening. #BlackBookSky #BookSky
Book cover of If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin.
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19thnews @19thnews.org · 28/10/2025
Immigrant women are overrepresented in jobs that have a higher exposure to chemicals that cause breast cancer, according to a new study by the Silent Spring Institute, a research organization focused on uncovering the environmental causes of breast cancer. bit.ly/4huUeTj
Image of a person cleaning a kitchen with cleaning supplies in the foreground. Below the image text reads: "Immigrant women work in jobs associated with higher breast cancer risk House cleaners and nurses face the highest potential exposure to chemicals that can cause cancer, according to a new study."
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Crystal N. Dunivant @crystalndunivant.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
I went to bed thinking about this essay. The work has never stopped so I write about joy and sorrow. Labor and rest. My neighbors are losing their health insurance and the ability to feed their families. Systems aren’t concerned about our wellbeing so community fills gaps. It has always been us.
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We are Still Here
“We will still have work to do regardless of the outcome of the election, but we are trying to influence the environment under which we do this work.” Beloved State Committee Member at our October mee...
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State Rep. Michele Grim @michelegrim.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
ICYMI: One small-town Ohio hospital sued 2,700 patients in two years - garnishing wages and charging steep interest on families already struggling. This powerful reporting shows how medical debt is devastating Ohioans and why our bipartisan Ohio Medical Debt Fairness Act is urgently needed.
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This small-town Ohio hospital sued 2,700 patients in two years for unpaid medical bills • Ohio Capital Journal
At Mary Rutan Hospital in Logan County, mass medical debt collection lawsuits totaling more than 2,700 in two years have turned injury and illness into debt, 8% interest rates, unsparing payment plans...
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