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ditriech @ditriech.blacksky.app · 06/02/2026

This whole video is important but the first line is something I learned about 7-8 years ago at a program called “rethink masculinity” that I learned about via my friend @thezararaven.bsky.social. Masculinity is generally something, like whiteness honestly, that is formed in opposition.

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Concepts of a Rae @alsorae.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Because this fundraiser needs a boost. Again, if you have the means, tap on that link and donate.

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LegalEagle @legaleagle.tv · 24/01/2026

Alex Pretti’s last words were “are you ok?” said the woman next to him who ICE also pepper sprayed in the face.

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Artie Vierkant @avierkant.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

a call to healthcare workers from “Health Fascism and the Anti-State State” in December: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/...

Transcript Death Panel episode “Health Fascism and the Anti-State State” (December 22 2025):

“Second: we fight by recruiting defectors from inside the house. This is a call to healthcare workers: betray your training when your training demands cruelty. If it means someone gets what they need to live—betray your bosses, your licensing board, your EMR, your scope of practice. Care is not your credential, it’s your calling, your skills, your knowledge, your access, your obligation to your community. And sometimes that obligation will mean disobedience.

If we are to build the world we need, we need you on our side, not on the side of your administrator. We need you willing to take risks, not just for your reputation, but for the material survival of those around you. The struggle is already here and you can either enforce the harm or interrupt it. We need insurgent care. And we needed it yesterday. If you have access pass it on. If you have knowledge, share it, weaponize it. If you have creativity, run with it.”

Transcript Death Panel episode “Health Fascism and the Anti-State State” (December 22 2025):

“This is where the real transformation begins. Not just in asking the system to care, but also in building the world we wished we lived in. A world where care is not determined by billing or zip code, or citizenship, or employment status, or formulary, or diagnosis codes. A world where no one is surplus. Where illness is not a source of shame or debt or punishment—but simply a part of life, and a part of being and feeling cared for.”

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Abolish ICE is not enough. It's not about training -- Ross who killed Renee Good was a TRAINER. It's not about body cams -- we saw Alex Pretti killed with our own eyes. We have to abolish the idea that violence ever made us safer, before it's too late. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Abolishing ICE isn’t enough – it’s time to center people’s humanity | Heba Gowayed and Victor Ray

It’s far from radical to reject a system predicated on violence – despite what thinktanks might claim

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Artie Vierkant @avierkant.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

It seems clear Alex Pretti, a healthcare worker, was murdered for engaging in the exact kind of community care we hope all care workers to embody: the kind that doesn’t stop at the threshold of the hospital, the clinic, but that aims to care for and support the community where and how they can

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tru @thetrudz.photo · 18/01/2026

Thought about history/perspectives on BW being home/doing communal care work (compared to working for yts)…but during CRM “domestic workers became central to the movement’s success.” Care work is racialized and gendered, why some ppl downplay its role in movements vs. protest, hypervisible roles.

Newspaper clipping from The Greenville News
Greenville, South Carolina, 1918, reads: “Negro women to be put to work. City ordinance soon be passed requiring them to be regularly employed. Many complaints.”

Article screencap “Domestic Workees and the Civil Rights Movement” by Ashley Everson in Black Perspectives published by AAIHS.

Photo at the bottom: “Women riding on the subway in New York City, July 1958, photographer Angelo Rizzuto (Courtesy of the Library of Congress)”

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

a major american city is being forced to close schools because armed government agents are raiding and pepper spraying and terrorizing children and teachers for social media content

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Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك @joandark.com · 26/12/2025

Tomorrow is Bluestockings's last day open! If you've been holding off and have a chance to go, NYC, now's your last chance!

Updated Bluestockings closing sale graphic circling 12/27, and new text reading LAST DAY in the bottom-left corner.

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zara raven @thezararaven.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

We’re up to $315! Thank you to everyone who has uplifted & supported this fundraiser!! We’d love to raise $2k to support GiGi’s health and wellbeing as she heals from the trauma of incarceration. Give here: bit.ly/SupportGiGi

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zara raven @thezararaven.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Merry Crima! after 10 years incarcerated in a men’s prison, GiGi is free!! she sends her gratitude to everyone who has supported her! we raised funds for her homecoming & now that she’s housed, we want to support her in rebuilding her health & healing. give what you can!! bit.ly/SupportGiGi

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zara raven @thezararaven.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

“when we love every day we do not need the eminent threat of death to be true to ourselves.” — bell hooks said this, and I needed to reread this reminder that loving is truly what makes life worth living & death feel purposeful.

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zara raven @thezararaven.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

inviting all my clients to do journaling reflections lately so i can play them some olivia dean

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zara raven @thezararaven.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

someone told me today, “it was a blessing how lovingly you met me in our conflict” bc it led them to get clear about their capacity + commitments + what a ‘yes’ really feels like in their body. it’s a reminder to me that if we allow it, conflict can transform us + our relationships in beautiful ways

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zara raven @thezararaven.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

I’m here for every glimmer of hope we can get. congrats to new york!

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

The ceasefire continues according to virtually every media outlet. Israel is demolishing entire neighbourhoods in Gaza to make sure Palestinians never go back. The genocide is ongoing

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

I talked to @biidaasamose.bsky.social about what it takes to stay human and protect each other in fascistic times, and how we can build networks of care, defend our neighbors, grieve, and make space for joy. This episode includes some Nishnaabe wisdom and music from Leanne. Transcript + audio:

truthout.org

Resisting ICE, Building Worlds: Care and Survival in Fascistic Times

“It’s all hands on deck and we have to fight. This is the only way,” says Leanne Betasamosake Simpson.

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zara raven @thezararaven.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

rest in power, miss major 💗

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zara raven @thezararaven.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

GiGi Thomas is coming home!!!! GiGi is a Black trans criminalized survivor + sex worker advocate who has been incarcerated for a decade in MD. She has survived violence and medical neglect in a men’s prison, and now she’s getting OUT! Let’s make her a homecoming fund! Pls give: cash.me/darbyhickey

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.

organizingmythoughts.org

The Emergency Is the Atmosphere

“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."

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zara raven @thezararaven.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

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Remora House DC @remorahousedc.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Connect with your people offline. Take the chats to signal but also take your close relationships offline entirely. We need to be connected when they shut this all down. What’s your organizing plan if things go dark? Where do you meet? Who picks up what work? How do we communicate?

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

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The CDC quietly scaled back a surveillance program for foodborne illnesses

As of July 1, a critical surveillance program is monitoring for only two pathogens instead of the usual eight.

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Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

It’s terrifying what we are witnessing in El Fashir. The UAE backed RSF encircling the city to starve and exterminate people, while the so-called intl. community treats the UAE as a peace broker. #KeepEyesOnSudan

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

We're going to be in movement for the rest of our lives, there's a world to win & so much between us and freedom. How do we make struggle sustainable? So ask yourself, what is the best use of my skills and resources. Limit yourself to that work, because you can't be everywhere.

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Clarkisha Kent @clarkishakent.blacksky.app · 26/08/2025

Hey y’all! We are OFFICIALLY set to face off with our ex-landlord in CIRCUIT COURT in December. In the meantime, it would mean the world to me if you would continue to donate and/or repost this fund. Our current goal is $500 - $1000.

gofundme.com

Donate to I'm Suing My Negligent Landlord, organized by Clarkisha Kent

If you’ve been following me on Twitter for the last two years in particular, then you k… Clarkisha Kent needs your support for I'm Suing My Negligent Landlord

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zara raven @thezararaven.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

so much of loving someone is accepting who they are, as they are. so much of loving myself then is determining how close you get to be to me, as you are.

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zara raven @thezararaven.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

instead of asking yourself whether you support "cancel culture" or oppose it, try asking yourself: what are my values? where do i, personally, draw the line? what are the beliefs and behaviors i will tolerate, and what will i not allow close to me?

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zara raven @thezararaven.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

i have to contact the people whose disney+ account we use and tell them to cancel

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zara raven @thezararaven.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

last week, my friends and I watched Laverne Cox on Olay & Friends, and decided that instead of judging someone else for their romantic choices, we needed to reflect on our own. I wrote up some reflection questions for us, and we shared our experiences with each other.

ID: small green pieces of construction paper with handwritten questions

“Do you feel you’ve had to make compromises to access sex and romance because of identities you hold? how do the politics of desirability inform what you accept and what you pursue?

What experiences in your life have shaped how you understand romance? How have your experiences influenced your desire?

Do you think we can unlearn the ways oppressive beliefs seep into our desire? If so, how?

Have you ever dated someone whose politics radically differ from your own? What level of alignment do you need for closeness? What are your limits?

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zara raven @thezararaven.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

I’m so grateful we have this video, from 2018, where Pontianna and Louraca and Nona all share about their experiences & why we were working to decriminalize sex work. i have really come to value moments & stories we recorded, our archives. youtu.be/EtLIohf-4Ho?...

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#DecrimNow: What media should be telling you about the fight to decriminalize sex work

YouTube video by DECRIMNOW DC

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zara raven @thezararaven.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

all the harm reductionists I know are so practiced at grieving. I wish we had more solidarity, more support from people who have left sex workers & drug users, and especially those who are precariously housed, at the margins of liberation movements.

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zara raven @thezararaven.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

my heart is aching from loss these past few years. 3 Black trans women who were part of the DecrimNow DC campaign have died in the past 4 years. rest in power Pontianna. rest in power Nona. rest in power Louraca. we love you, we’ll avenge you.

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zara raven @thezararaven.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

friendship is such a powerful, grounding force.

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Toni Morrison said that professional success “will never substitute for comfort, friends and love, and doing something you respect,” and she wanted to be remembered by loved ones as “an honest, trustworthy person.” Like Ta-Nehisi Coates said, “You got to be able to go home at the end of the day.”

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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

I'm saying that Dem politicians' performative rush to condemn violence only reinforces the entitlement that the right-wing feels to a monopoly over it. Those same right-wing forces will target Dems, liberal constituents, and whoever they want by exploiting false equivalency.

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zara raven @thezararaven.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

"[Healing Justice] is not about affirming each other's disengagement with slogans like rest is resistance while people are being dragged out of their homes and put in cages. Healing Justice calls us... to move from individual relief to collective power." convergencemag.com/articles/bla...

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Black People: Healing Justice Demands Borderless Struggle

We do not need every Black person to show up in the same way. We do need to be clear about what we are naming as care.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

No one *expects* anything he says to be true. This is one of fascism's objectives—to make the truth irrelevant. His lies spin up a violent storyline that people either willingly inhabit or are trapped by. It's fiction with real-world consequences.

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Nebula Rasa @nebulanomad87.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

These people have had their lives absolutely destroyed by these charges. Years lost that can never be brought back. The ability of the government to hover a hammer over you and shatter your life with charges that they know probably won’t stick anyway should be all we talk about every day.

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zara raven @thezararaven.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

in this somatic attachment therapy course, dr. scott lyons repeats the phrase, "between stimulus and response is our freedom," and i love what it implies. how do we slow down enough to become aware of what's happening inside us and make conscious choices rather than acting from past wounds?

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SWOP Los Angeles @swopla.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

We are excited to announce that we have 2 #SWer #supportgroups this month with new facilitators zara and Tania! Please email swopla.services@proton.me to register. swoplosangeles.org/calendar/ for more info.

Image of support group facilitator zara in a black mask, kufia and black tee shirt with the text "Blowjobs are real jobs."

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swer support group with zara. Virtual. tues september 16. 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm pst. email swopla.services@proton.me
to register. a brief screening may be required.

Image of support group facilitator Tania in a black red and white striped tank top and a long braid.

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swer support group with tania. Virtual. tues september 23. 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm pst. email swopla.services@proton.me
to register. a brief screening may be required.

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tim_in_dc @timdc.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

carver langston. #FreeDC

white sheet hung on the side of a brick building with four windows visible. the sheet has red writing spelling out "free dc" with the DC flag above the words.

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