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Exhibit:Play @exhibitplay.com · 13/06/2025
Happy Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈 While we're in the process of new specific collection of LGBTQ+ focused games, we come across countless games on itchio. We'll use this thread to share some of the small LGBTQ+ games we find that don't fit any list we're making at the moment, but still wish to highlight.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 22/03/2025
In this corner of the internet, hope and optimism abounds so here is your weekly round up of good things you may or may not have heard about. A thread/
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
The problem with pieces like this, which are countless, is the prevailing media assumption that left-of-center Americans need constant corrective instruction about how to be in and engage with the world, whereas right-of-center Americans are simply to be observed in awe, like rainbows or mountains.
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Arcas De Disco @puckarks.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
The Brooklyn Public Library has announced that any teenager in America is now eligible for a Brooklyn Public Library card.
Teens can sign out ebooks + audiobooks 
The move is designed to combat censorship, with some titles listed as "always available." www.bklynlibrary.org/media/press/...
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Brooklyn Public Library Offers Free eCards to Teens Nationwide Facing Book Bans in Local Communities | Brooklyn Public Library
Librarians and Teen Volunteers Spearhead Books Unbanned Initiative to Combat Censorship
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SassyMetisChick @sassymetischick.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 13/02/2025
This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument. (Scroll down.)
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Stonewall National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)
Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in the quest for LGB civil rights a...
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
I can’t find any archival evidence that that the Langston Hughes poem circulating here today is authentic so here is a sourced Hughes poem, Beaumont to Detroit, 1943, published that year in the magazine Common Ground, in which he compares Hitler and Mussolini to American Jim Crow and the KKK
COMMON GROUND
BEAUMONT TO DETROIT: 1943
Looky here, America What you done done—
Let things drift
Until the riots come.
Cause everything that hitler And mussolini do
Negroes get the same Treatment from you.
Now your policemen
Let the mobs run free.
I reckon you don't care
Nothing about me.
You tell me that hitler Is a mighty bad man.
I guess he took lessons From the ku klux klan.
You jim crowed me
Before hitler rose to power—
And you're sTiLL jim crowing me
Right now, this very hour.
Yet you say we're fighting For democracy.
Then why don't democracy
Include me?
You tell me mussolini's
Got an evil heart.
Well, it mus-a been in Beaumont That he had his start—
I ask you this question Cause I want to know How long I got to fight
BOTH HITLER-AND JIM CROW.
-Langston Hughes, syndicated by the Associated Negro Press, in New York People's Voice and other papers, July 3.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
I will also add that people in Congress are not volunteers. They are being paid. They have health insurance. They have retirement. They have ONE JOB—to serve their constituents. And if they cannot figure out how to push back politically they don't deserve to be in office.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
"Black people made up half of all births in D.C. but accounted for 90 percent of pregnancy-related deaths between 2014 to 2018...white people constituted 30 percent of births but did not experience a single maternal death." @urbanbushwoman9.bsky.social for @51st.news 51st.news/study-shows-...
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Study shows Mamatoto Village’s culturally relevant care can improve birth outcomes for Black people
The non-profit's home-visiting program, Mothers Rising, brings maternal and infant care to the doorsteps of underserved communities.
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Renée Graham 🏳️‍🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Read Audre Lorde, Barbara Smith, Jewelle Gomez, Pat Parker, Nikki Giovanni, and Jacqueline Woodson. Watch films by Marlon Riggs and Dee Rees. Listen to Sylvester, Bessie Smith, Luther Vandross, Big Freedia, Brittany Howard, and Janelle Monae. We've always been here. We will always be here.
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ProfKori @profkori.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
LIVE TODAY AT 1PM EASTERN VIA YOUTUBE!!! #WinWithBlackWomen
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
My MLK day piece is up. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
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It Is MLK Day. Do Not Despair. This Year Especially, We Have Work To Do.
With delicious anticipation, we imagined it.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Tomorrow noon east-coast time, 9am Pacific: we'll be here to talk about beloved community, power, storytelling, and enter this next era of US history together, heads held high, friends held close. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf_y...
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Leia @galaxyrabbit.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Ok #booksky, let’s talk. 👎🏼Goodreads, owned by Amazon, fuels its monopoly on books. 👍🏼StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform, offers an ethical, ad-free alternative with mood-based recommendations, user control over data, and a focus on inclusivity. Support diversity over corporate power!
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Arkansas Advocate @arkansasadvocate.com · 19/01/2025
Arkansas was among the 10 states with the most children in rural areas relying on Medicaid for health insurance in 2023, and was one of only six with more than half of its rural children on Medicaid, according to a new report.
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Proposed Medicaid cuts would hurt rural areas, including Arkansas kids, researchers say • Arkansas Advocate
Congressional Republicans have also proposed work requirements for Medicaid recipients. Arkansas' 2018 work requirement was struck down in court.
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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
That guilt you feel about not being able to support every GoFundMe for folks who are suffering? That’s actually rage at a corrupt system refusing to support its people - a rage carefully steered away from the system so you struggle with yourself & not with the institutions that deserve it
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Melissa Florer-Bixler @melissaf-b.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
A poem for my last day working at the writing center for the semester (by Joseph Fasano)
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
This echo chamber nonsense is predicated on the notion that bigotry is a valid perspective. It isn’t. Grow up! Think better!
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
This obsession is unhealthy. Our horizons are fine. Also social media, for most, is not a job. It is not school. It is socializing. And it’s fine to say “I don’t want to hang out with Nazis, homophobes, transphobes etc in my free time.”
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
NEW: Georgia officials have dismissed all members of a state committee charged with investigating deaths of pregnant women. The move came in response to ProPublica having obtained internal reports detailing two deaths.
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Georgia Dismissed All Members of Maternal Mortality Committee After ProPublica Obtained Internal Details of Two Deaths
In a letter, the state’s public health commissioner said the action was taken because “confidential information provided to the Maternal Mortality Review Committee was inappropriately shared with outs...
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Markus Pössel @mpoessel.de · 15/11/2024
Let’s talk a bit about what you, an average German newspaper reader in 1933, would have learned about Hitler’s rise to power. Let’s assume you read the “Vossische Zeitung”, a comparatively liberal middle-class newspaper. In modern times, the Berlin State Library library let’s you read it online: 1/
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1933 - ZEFYS
ZEFYS, das Zeitungsinformationssystem der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin ist ein Portal für den Nachweis und Zugriff auf aktuelle und historische Zeitungen aus Deutschland und der ganzen Welt.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
The real trap here is that the Republicans have made defending civil rights seem like a frivolous thing and a whole lot of liberals are falling in line. Even if it was a culture war, so what? This would be a war worth fighting. What are we even doing here, people? Get it together.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Love to ban trans women from capitol restrooms in order to “protect women and girls” while suppressing a report about the incoming attorney general paying for the statutory rape of a minor while in congress and showing women’s nudes on the House floor
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I would also like to note that Republicans are nakedly and aggressively scapegoating trans women at a time when they’re also under fire for their rapist president giving us a slate of rapist cabinet nominees
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I think a lot about what @nanjala.bsky.social said once about oligarchy and threats to freedom: One way to stay free and resist authoritarianism is “resisting the narratives of inevitability”. We are being told to accept exploitative AI, because our tech overlords say so. We don’t have to.
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Tananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
We planned to launch in October, but I got caught up in the election. So here it is: Steven Barnes @kundalinisteve.bsky.social & I present a BRAND NEW digital download course on writing great horror. Tips, practices and analysis to help you write your #horror story before 2025. www.fearmasters.com
A picture of Tananarive and Steve with their books and movies. The course is at www.fearmasters.com
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LeVar Burton @levarburton.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Okay, y’all… I have finally decided that retreat is the better part of valor. Bringing some rainbow energy over to these blue skies. #bydhttmwdi
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a pixel art of a man standing under a rainbow on a blue background
Alt: a pixel art of Levar standing under a rainbow on a blue background
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Naomi Beinart, 16: "We girls woke up to a country that would rather elect a man found liable for sexual abuse than a woman...Where the body I haven’t fully grown into may no longer be under my control. The boys, it seemed to me, just woke up on a Wednesday."
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Opinion | I’m 16. On Nov. 5 the Girls Cried, and the Boys Played Minecraft.
On the day after the election, it seemed boys and girls woke to a new reality.
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Michael Trice, the Sturm Brightblade of Rhetoric @mikertrice.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Great guide on the praxis and theory of GenAI refusal as a strategy and tactic. Even for those embracing GenAI, this guide offers an excellent boundary-setting process. Also, three researchers I respect immensely. refusinggenai.wordpress.com?fbclid=IwY2x...
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Refusing Generative AI in Writing Studies
Visit the post for more.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
“Absolutely anything is possible, and we must acknowledge this, not out of surrender, but as a means of readying ourselves for the impossible fights ahead.” @roxanegay.bsky.social [This is a gift link; please just read Roxane’s piece or don’t. I don’t care about subscription politics.]
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Opinion | Enough
To suggest we should yield even a little to Trump’s odious politics is unacceptable. Even if we did, it would never be enough.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
It’s mostly white people who talk about echo chambers. Maybe you need the internet to meet people with different ideas but the rest of us do not. We know what the “other side” thinks because we deal with it every day! Everywhere! We’re fine. Carry on. Happy Saturday!
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
“It’s important not to have this place be an echo chamber” is something that sounds correct but falls apart when you realize it actually means pretending arguments done in bad faith are genuine. It’s the “I’m just asking questions” of social media
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 19/09/2023
pov: you're a regional cryptid about to have the worst day of your life
X Files publicity still of a backlit Mulder and Scully in trenechcoats looking sternly at the camera
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
A thread about feelings stuff around Our New Political Reality™. First of all, as always: eat take your meds hydrate tell your people you love them let them love you back The first three make an ENORMOUS difference in our capacity to grapple w/ All The Things; the last two are kind of The Point.
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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
I’m going to keep it real and hope I don’t get accused of overstating the issue; children’s liberation is the key to the future you want. The active, and often dismissed, oppression of children is near the root of what ails us as a nation.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism. We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/11/2024
among the important things the DoE does is try to make sure that states are actually educating children with special needs
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Mike Sakasegawa @sakeriver.com · 10/11/2024
This is a photograph of my great uncle, Jim Ida, in 1942. The photograph was taken by Dorothea Lange as part of her documentation of the Japanese American incarceration. He is sitting with his family’s bags, waiting to be taken to an internment camp. (Tanforan, I believe.) He was 17.
A black and white photograph of a Japanese American teenage boy. He is sitting on a large duffel bag tied with string, on the sidewalk next to some suitcases. He is looking out of frame over his left shoulder, his hands folded in his lap and with one foot cocked on its edges. His body language looks anxious to me.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
This narrative that the Democrats ignored the working class is really aggravating. Be specific. You’re talking about the white working class because the Black working class understood the stakes of this election just fine.
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Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
A sobering empirical piece in JAMA. Homicide has long been THE LEADING CAUSE of maternal/peripartum death. Here they show: * restrictions on divorce * restrictions on abortion… both correlate with pregnancy homicide (albeit differently, depending on age/race) 🛟🩺 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Table of negative binomial regression
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Got mad enough about this that I turned this thread into a blog. Kamala Harris did not engage in overt identity politics. Donald Trump did. It probably helped him. And yet, pundits like Weiss, Stephens & Dowd treat identity politics *only* as a failed Dem tactic. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
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Who is allowed to practice identity politics?
When the right does it, its just politics
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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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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
All these “I voted for Trump because everyone is mean to white men” takes just amount to “why won’t you people hold still so I can build my success on your backs like my father and grandfather did??”
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
Breathe with me. Yes, you. Yes, now.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
New post at CAMPAIGN TRAILS on the hard-fought history of the voting rights struggle and a reminder of what it took to make America a full-fledged democracy. open.substack.com/pub/kevinmkr...
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The Right to Vote
I know you’re sick of hearing that This Is The Most Important Election of Your Life, but as a scholar who’s devoted his career to studying American political history, I am telling you that No, Serious...
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
buckaroos know
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
“Why did they give her that name? Was it a nice day? Does it matter? It was not natural. And she was the first: Phillis Miracle: Phillis Miracle Wheatley: the first Black human being to be published in America. She was the second female to be published in America.”
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The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry in America
Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.
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