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@inwaves.bsky.social
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Former academic, current international philanthropic & NGO strategist for social change. She/her. 🏳️‍🌈intersectional feminist, ADHD,🏄🏻‍♀️🐾 Bay Area, California, USA. Twitter: @zvakanaka_

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
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Florida Has Deemed All Existing Intro to Sociology Textbooks Illegal and Produced Its Own
The Board of Governors overseeing the new curricula includes roofing contractors, insurance execs, and no professors.
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Kewpie 🍼🖍️🌈 @kewpieart.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
I need people to really pay attention to what ones are getting publicity and why. Every name on this list is just as important. Every name deserves a riot. Nothing changes if we don't stand up for everyone, every single time.
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Nora Benavidez @attorneynora.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
"Quiet, Piggy" reactions from yours truly: 1. Soft misogyny in public is a tell for hard misogyny in private. 2. Not a single male reporter clapped back at Trump's "quiet piggy" comment. 3. I've seen no main page coverage from the biggest outlets. Absolutely part of the problem.
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Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
It’s the seduction of the “silver bullet,” the belief that there remains a fact yet to be revealed that’s so damning that it will break Trump’s spell. But he’s not a witch, he’s a fascist. It’s not magic, it’s an awful movement, and you beat it not with counterspells but with better organizing.
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Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
This @jamellebouie.net essay is beautiful and tragic. Well worth your time. Well worth sharing broadly. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o...
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Opinion | The Death of the Fourth American Republic
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Yourqueerprof @drcompton.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Excited about this roll out! Get your SOGI Data here! Knowledge is survival. Access is power. And our history is not anyone’s to erase. #SOGIData #LGBTQ+ #DigitalPreservation #resist
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Home | The LGBTQ+ Archive
Preserving federal and crucial information about the LGBTQ+ community in an accessible way. This site independently preserves critical LGBTQ+ health, legal rights, and safety resources originally hos...
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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 22/04/2025
Tomorrow, a certain online mega-retailer launches a book sale, just days before Indie Bookstore Day on 4/26. This is no coincidence; Bookstore Day is one of the largest revenue drivers for indies. Indies need our support to thrive & build community spaces for all...mega-retailers do not.
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Ryan Burge @ryanburge.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Can you trust an average person? The strongest predictor of folks saying 'yes' to that question is: Educational attainment. That was true in the 1970s. It's true today. However, notice how much interpersonal trust has dropped across the board in 50 years.
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Michael Yarbrough (he/him) @mwyarbrough.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Also important, the tactic of weaponizing civil rights against equality movements is identical: "protecting" Jewish people requires punishing pro-Palestine "protecting" women requires eliminating trans "protecting" white + Asian students requires eliminating Black and Latin affirmative action
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Hannah Kellsey le Roux @hannahkleroux.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
The British National Archives folk have kindly shared this 1943 infographic to explain how they won the war. Catalogue ref: CO 875/15/12/f46
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 26/11/2024
No, I don't believe that acquiescing to the right-wing framing of trans women as sexual predators who are inherently threats to cis women is in our best interests, or in any way reflective of reality.
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Sameer Padania @sdp.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
People of Bluesky - @thecontinent.bsky.social is your thing: a *finishable* weekly English-language paper, readable in Signal/WhatsApp, full of crisp, excellent #journalism from across #Africa. 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾
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Dr. Devon Ojeda @drdevonojeda.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
The amount of people who don't know what is happening on Dec 4th is quite… alarming. Everyone needs to understand what this case is going to mean for us- www.aclu.org/cases/l-w-v-... www.them.us/story/suprem...
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L.W. v. Skrmetti/U.S. v. Skrmetti | American Civil Liberties Union
Samantha and Brian Williams of Nashville, TN and their 15-year-old transgender daughter are challenging a Tennessee law banning gender-affirming care for transgender people under 18. Tennessee is home...
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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
This holiday season, are you looking for books for young readers about #womenartists? Visit #ArtHerstory's regularly updated post: Recent Books for Young Readers About Women Artists artherstory.net/recent-books...
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Children's Books About Women Artists | Published c. 2018 to 2024
An illustrated list, with descriptions, of books about women artists, written for children and/or young readers.
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 11/11/2024
Bluesky, Today is my 2nd day on here as an escapee from The Bad Place. I am BEGGING y’all to repost this I have $80,000 in scholarship money to give away to women and girls NATIONWIDE. I worked so hard to raise this money. Applications open THIS week. I’m scared the mass migration will impact this
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Yale ISPS @ispsyale.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
Think you're as good/bad as political pros at predicting which messages persuade voters? According to a new study co-authored by @jkalla.bsky.social, you're probably correct. bit.ly/48y7iTo
Illustration of a hand with a thumbs up and another with a thumbs down on either side of a computer with an empty cartoon dialogue bubble
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Z @inwaves.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Phone-banking for ballot curing in PA & just got a guy who said he was too depressed to handle this and the fascists won. But he stayed on the phone with me for 15 min & did take the info about how to cure. I hope he does it.
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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
californians!! there are house seats you can potentially save!
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Z @inwaves.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
If you see this, post a beach photo from your gallery.
Sandy beach, churning waves, sky filled with clouds - some with rosy post-sunrise tint, glimpses of blue between clouds. The sand is smooth with just one set of footprints. A moody scene of vastness and solitude.
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Z @inwaves.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Reskeet and recommend two brilliant Black women to follow. @shaonta.bsky.social @aasewell.bsky.social
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Z @inwaves.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
I have had to get really quiet since Tuesday, not really capable of engaging yet, but I did sign up for this phonebanking after the 3rd post I saw. Thank you to those who keep pushing.💙
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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 10/11/2024
Terrified people getting constantly re-terrified can’t think clearly. We all need to be thinking as clearly as we can. This was true in 2016 and during the early-pandemic info vacuum and it’s true now.
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 09/11/2024
For the next two weeks, we’re offering ten free ebooks for getting free Another world is possible if we fight for it www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-te...
Ten book covers: How We Get Free, Hope in the Dark, Freedom is a Constant Struggle, Palestine in a World on Fire, Let This Radicalize you, Socialism... Seriously, The Black Antifascist Tradition, Elite Capture, Class Struggle Unionism, and Unbuild Walls. More details at the included link.
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🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossbrooks.co.uk · 08/11/2024
🤩 I wholeheartedly recommend Josh's wonderful book: A Little Gay Natural History (UK)/A Little Queer Natural History (US). 🐧🌈🦋 #PrideInSTEM
Front cover of Josh L. Davis's book A Little Queer Natural History.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
The complaint about the phrase “toxic masculinity” is a classic reversal of victim and offender: the moral emergency is not the sexist violence and degradation that women are complaining about, but the way that overhearing their complaints makes men feel.
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priya chand @priyachand.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
definitely yes @propublica.org. and while you're at it, The 19th 19thnews.org has been doing some really important work as well
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Coyote / J. Stryker 🇨🇦 | Memento Vivere 🍃 @easterncoyote.bsky.social · 13/08/2024
"But these feelings don't emerge from mythical, overtaxed fight-or-flight circuits. They may just mean, in an ever changing and only partly predictable world, that you're doing something really hard." The "Fight or Flight" Idea Misses the Beauty of what the Brain Really Does tinyurl.com/e5ek26zb
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Simplistic ‘Fight or Flight’ Idea Undervalues the Brain’s Predictive Powers
The brain's primary job is to reduce uncertainty in an ever-changing world
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 07/08/2024
One time my coauthors & I developed a new way to measure families' access to child care, used it to describe access all around Minnesota, & built a site, www.childcareaccess.org, to share it with communities. Gov Walz put those access measures into the official management plan for MN.
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Home - Child Care Access
This work has benefited from dialogue with the: Minnesota Department of Human Services Minnesota Department of Education Minnesota Head Start Association Close Gaps by 5 Think Small First Children’s F...
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Bethany Albertson @albertsonb2.bsky.social · 06/08/2024
Walz advised his school's first gay-straight alliance club - in the late 90s. Vance isn't sure people without children should have full voting rights - today.
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Z @inwaves.bsky.social · 05/08/2024
@roxanegay.bsky.social Thank you for supporting East Bay Booksellers’ gofundme.💜 It’s one of my favorite bookstores and we are all so upset that it was destroyed by the fire. It’s been very heartening to see support from other bookstores and from authors like you.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 24/07/2024
Signal boost for Baltimore Abortion Fund: As of today, there are 30 people waiting on financial support from BAF who urgently need funding to access their abortions. We need to raise $25K over the next 48 hours to close their funding gaps and keep our helpline open. baltimoreabortionfund.org/urgent
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Baltimore Abortion Fund @Baltimo... • 38m
As of today, there are 30 people waiting on financial support from BAF who urgently need funding to access their abortions. We need to raise $25,000 over the next 48 hours to close their funding gaps and keep our helpline open.
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URGENT FUNDING NEEDED
Help us raise $25k
to support 30 clients and keep our helpline open!
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BALTIMORE ABORTION FUND
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The puppies Penn & Teller, and Richard @rdaily.medsky.social · 29/10/2023
This is fine...
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