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Hi, I’m Erika (she/her) 👋 Later abortion patient advocate and Co-Director of Patient Forward WhoNotWhen.com AbortionJusticeNow.com

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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I am very tired of people saying “inevitable” about problems that are entirely avoidable. drilled.ghost.io/the-unbearab...
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The Unbearable Bleakness of "Inevitability"
My entire adult life people who are supposedly sensible have been telling me some catastrophe or another is “inevitable.” Nuclear war, climate change, and now the AI takeover. Apparently the “end of r...
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RHAvote @rhavote.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It’s not that I don’t care how you feel or even your opinions regarding abortion later in pregnancy….its that your feelings don’t fucking matter if that makes sense
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.
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RHAvote @rhavote.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Does anyone know of nice meeting spaces (to accommodate around 14 people) in NYC that are open and available over weekends? TIA for any leads!
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 03/09/2026
ok I had to force down a tear with this one reskeeting with alt text
Image of a page in a book with text reading as follows


THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO:

Dr. John Sharpe of London, who in 1957. a decade before physicians in England could legally perform an abortion for any reason other than the health of the woman, took the considerable risk of referring for an abortion a twenty-two-year-old American on her way to India.

Knowing only that she had broken an engagement at home to seek an unknown fate, he said, "You must promise me two things. First, you will not tell anyone my name. Second, you will do what you want to do with your life."

Dear Dr. Sharpe, I believe you, who knew the law was unjust, would not mind if I say this so long after your death:

I've done the best I could with my life.

This book is for you.
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RHAvote @rhavote.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Many years ago we spoke at a rally in NYC and Gloria was the closer. I got to thank her and tell her how much she meant to my mom. She graciously and immediately said “let’s get her on the FaceTime.” Very cool memory I’ll always be grateful for 🥹
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 25/08/2026
I'm so tired of being right.
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton's family asked that, in lieu of flowers, fans make a donation to the singer's Imagination Library. Here's what the charity does ⬇️ www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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Turning Pages: Inside Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
Core team of 15 staff and thousands of volunteers and partners help the country-music philanthropist deliver books to kids around the world.
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RHAvote @rhavote.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
What was the first album you immediately put on? Mine is Little Sparrow 🥺
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RHAvote @rhavote.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Very cool to see this debate alongside a cover story about challenging the status quo within the Dem Party. We need that same energy around abortion. The Roe standard is old thinking. Our abortion policies should reflect the world we live in now—not the world of 1973.
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ر ت ت ت @raniawrites.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Nearly every past atrocity was legal, nearly every liberatory movement to end it was not. Resistance is criminalized because oppressors write laws that protect their cruelty and make our objection to it illegal.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I’m seeing a lot of people hang their hopes and all their attention on the midterms. Electoral organizing matters, but full-time spectatorship won’t build the power we need. I wrote about checking in with yourself about where your attention is going and what you’re doing with it.
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Resisting Total Electoral Absorption
It may be worth checking in with ourselves, from time to time, about what, if anything, our attention is cultivating.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 10/08/2026
Fantastic feature on harm reduction doulas providing care to pregnant people with substance use disorders and supporting them postpartum. In a country that penalizes and criminalizes people with substance use disorders, this is such important work.
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Harm reduction doulas want you to ask: What makes a good parent? - The Sunday Long Read
Editor’s note: This story was written by Celeste Hamilton Dennis, with photography from Florence Middleton, and was published alongside a photo series as part of a project about harm-reduction doulas ...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Anyway, the thing to remember about Riley Gaines is that competing against a trans swimmer was the best thing that ever happened to her. If she'd just finished fifth on her own, she'd have been immediately forgotten forever. But *tying* for fifth because of a trans competitor? CHA-CHING, baby!
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The Onion @theonion.com · 07/08/2026
Chick-Fil-A Raptured theonion.com/chick-fil-a-raptured
Chick-Fil-A Raptured
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RHAvote @rhavote.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This is cool! www.merriam-webster.com/time-travele...
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Time Traveler by Merriam-Webster: Words from 1979
See which words were first recorded in 1979. Or search for other words by the year when they were first used.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 31/07/2026
"While the [New York law] sailed to victory in 2019, Garin and I started grappling with a new reality. By supporting a limited state law with mostly symbolic exceptions, our advocacy helped uphold a ban for patients needing the same care we did under different circumstances." - @rhavote.bsky.social
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10 Years Ago, My 32-Week Abortion Story Went Viral. Here’s What I’ve Learned Since.
After sharing my experience with Jezebel, I became an advocate focused on eliminating barriers to abortion care throughout pregnancy.
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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
HIRE HUMAN BEINGS TO ANSWER YOUR FUCKING BUSINESS PHONE
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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
there’s my president rooting for his future home argentina
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
This is why Dems are reluctant to run on retribution, despite its popularity. They want the power he accrued and the surveillance infrastructure he formalized. Period.
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
My god. The Heritage Foundation, which mercilessly attacked transgender kids in order to protect the "integrity of women's sports," is now attacking the legal basis for women's sports. The transgender student decision is barely 2 weeks old.
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Maybe I'm not overthinking, maybe I'm just regular thinking about stuff that’s overhappening
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
counterpoint: the dead should make it harder for me to speak ill of them
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Opinion Editor @ Bluesky @dly.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
most of my life lately is whispering “what the fuck” to myself and then reluctantly persevering
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
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RHAvote @rhavote.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
One kid. What a punk.
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RHAvote @rhavote.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
It’s ok to feel morally conflicted about abortion—you can even change when you consider abortion at different points in pregnancy. It’s NOT ok to attempt to reconcile that conflict through controlling other people’s bodies.
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RHAvote @rhavote.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
What is “heaven” for you? For me it’s during the few seconds in a theatre when the lights go down and come back up on a scene that immediately lets you know you’re in for it 💓
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Trump’s GOP is trying to remake the wnba over into wwe’s image. Racist stereotypes, symbolic race wars, and everyday eugenics. it’s a sign of how popular the sport is and how captured everything is. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...
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Republicans ask WNBA to protect Caitlin Clark from possible ‘racially motivated’ attacks
Eleven Republican politicians have written to the WNBA asking the league to protect Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark from ‘multiple attacks’ on court
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Jessica Shortall @jessicashortall.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
This woman has been the subject of three NYT pieces in 2025-26
screenshots of three NYT articles featuring Emma Waters of Heritage Foundation, two of which were written by Caroline Kitchenerscreenshots of three NYT articles featuring Emma Waters of Heritage Foundation, two of which were written by Caroline Kitchenerscreenshots of three NYT articles featuring Emma Waters of Heritage Foundation, two of which were written by Caroline Kitchener
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RHAvote @rhavote.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
We’re packing up to move and just wondering what people do with their eleventybillion Playbills? 😬
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/07/2026
there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
There are so many guys out there! The numbers are good we don’t actually have to keep all the bad ones! There are endless guys! Toss the bad ones out I promise there will still be more guys! You’re not gonna run out of guys!
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Alicia Spencer-Hall @aspencerhall.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
You too can have an accessible conference! Accessibility makes things better for everyone! Open access guidelines, compiled by Alexandra R. A. Lee & me, here 👉 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... #MedievalSky #IMC2026 🗃️
Alexandra R.A. Lee and Alicia Spencer-Hall

Making Conferences More Accessible

Introduction

Many who work in academic settings live with impairments and/or chronic con-ditions, which mean that attending conferences can be a difficult issue. This can be the case for students, early-career researchers, independent scholars, tenured academics, and support staff. All require their needs to be taken into account so that their conference experience is as good as it possibly can be. After the first meetup of Medievalists with Disabilities in 2017, we crowdsourced ideas of how to make conferences more accessible. The ideas presented here came from this meetup, Twitter discussions with the community, and from the Medievalists with Disabilities Slack channel, an online communication platform. This document is the result of that collaborative work, which we have edited together into a more cohesive format. We have revisited and updated the original document, particu-larly bearing in mind the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the nature of con-ference attendance.

These guidelines aim to make conference attendance easier and indeed just simply possible for disabled people and people with chronic conditions by imple-menting certain strategies. If these guidelines are followed, it should mean less work for disabled and chronically ill people. Also, if they became standard, it would significantly improve accessibility. Many of the suggestions do not require many changes or much effort or expense but would make a huge difference to those they would support. You will notice that we have taken guidance from around the world, and a multitude of different contexts: while we are medieval-ists, after the first section, the guidance we offer is not disciplinary-specific and is universally applicable for academic events.2
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RHAvote @rhavote.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Ref is about to TURN THIS CAR AROUND if they don’t start acting right
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Himbo Beefcake, PhD 🔞💪 @jendrawscomics.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Reminder to myself and for everyone who needs to hear it you can restart progress to your goals any time you want. It's July, the midpoint, so do a half year reset if you want! Do a reset each month! Each week/day if you need it! January doesn't need to hoard all the reset/restart energy to itself🤠
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
even if it was good policy, this shit is completely ancillary to the goal of actually limiting the power of big tech. Elon Musk has a trillion dollars and is trying to start a global race war, your response to that can’t be “kids should be on their phones less”
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Democratic centrists seem more freaked out about losing primaries to left-leaning Dems than they have been to losing control of the entire government to Republicans.
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Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
"A Democratic supermajority, dominated by [the DSA], can sweep to power in 2029, but without a well-developed theory of power, their agenda will die. If not by billionaire and trillionaire propaganda, then by filibuster; if not by filibuster then by juristocracy" www.offmessage.net/p/shared-the...
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In Search Of A Shared Theory Of Power
The liberal establishment is not the left's biggest obstacle, and the left is not the liberal establishment's biggest obstacle. The biggest obstacle to both is a rigged political system.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/06/2026
Inside a women’s prison, a domestic violence victim began collecting others’ stories of abuse. 156 women answered her call. Together, they became “survivor sisters” — and helped shape a new law offering them a path toward freedom. But would it work? Listen to the full episode:
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Convicted of Killing Their Abusers, These Women Got Another Chance at Freedom
A new law gave people sentenced for the murders of their abusive partners a rare pathway to freedom. That wasn’t the end of the story.
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RHAvote @rhavote.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
But they’ll throw the door wide open for anti-abortion “moderates”
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sadvil 😎 @sadvil.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
literally watergate
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Bavovna Buff 🇵🇱 🇬🇧 🇳🇴 @global-news-junkie.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
You can and should try convincing people.
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RHAvote @rhavote.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
And yet the mainstream reproductive rights field continues to put forth middling policies for the “moderates.” There’s never been a better moment in time to sell good policy but nobody gets fired for doing what the last guy did…even when it sucks.
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RHAvote @rhavote.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
ITS IN THAT .4% THAT WE GO TO WORK 😭
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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
I love my country New York City!!!!!!!
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RHAvote @rhavote.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Watch vids of NYC turning every street into an impromptu Knicks watch party love fest and then watch this. We will win.
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Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
did you guys know they still allowed good news
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Solar generates more energy than coal in US for 1st time: Report
The amount of solar power generated in the U.S. is continuing to grow.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
GREATEST CITY IN THE FUCKING WORLD!!!!!
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
IT WORKED!! www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Knicks fans burning sage outside MSG ahead of Game 4 to purge the bad luck left behind from Trump's attendance
'It felt so dark yesterday, I was like, this is not the Garden that I know, the fan said
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