@katerosebee
(she/her) digital security for movements with Digital Defense Fund, building a research and community space in the PNW, rural privacy advocate, editor of the Skamania Dispatch, horror weirdo.
We don't often stand back, take stock of how powerful a change the movement created: safe abortion at home with pills.
This is how the abortion access movement across the world defies the will of even brutal carceral governments. It is not without suffering and difficulty, but it is done every day.
I think a lot about how lucky I am that I got a front row seat to a lot of this change, supporting people working every day to talk about self-managed abortion with pills, work with clinicians to build trust, refine how we distribute and support people. With strong hands, they pulled it into life.
Despite the proven track record of misoprostol (hen the combo with mifepristone) to safely end pregnancy outside of a clinical setting, it would take decades of serious, persistent grassroots destigmatization work for the establishment, esp in the US to accept it, a now critical Post-Roe lifeline.
Self-managed abortion went from often deadly risks to now safer than taking tylenol.
How it began: Brazilian feminists in the 1980s noticed on misoprostol, an ulcer medication, warnings not to take if pregnant as it could induce miscarriage. What if someone took it on purpose to end a pregnancy?
Thinking today about how the abortion access grassroots community completely up-ended the way our entire country talks about self-managed abortion, the fact that it's now standard protocol.
It truly started from the bottom up, one of the greatest organizing stories of the last 40 years.
Yes! We posted up the toolkit at RuralPrivacy.org. Here if you have any questions, and good luck!
I do appreciate that this administration is too incompetent to manufacture even the thinnest pretext for this, so we don't have to relive that 2002-2003 run when opposing an obviously idiotic war basically made you feel like the one sane person in a Twilight Zone episode.
Eisenhower
the fact that the Iranian government ALSO murders lots of Iranians does not make being bombed constantly somehow less shitty. i know this is apparently a hard concept for some
shockingly people are capable of simultaneously,
1. Hating their government
2. Hating the people who bomb and sanction their country, making regular life impossible and murdering members of their family, even more
world-altering decisions are being made by a cabal of gambling addicts hell bent on self enrichment no matter the cost to humanity, we should look into that.
Tunnel boring machine.
May man and machine be forgiven for their sins.
Agreed, why this study was so interesting to me: bsky.app/profile/kate...
What has most blown me away about Billionaire Wilderness is the deep insecurity of the wealthy, need to use both nature and aesthetics of rural life to achieve authenticity and belonging.
We have found it IMO in being hyper-locally present, but some people try with clothes and nonprofit galas.
When you are someone with a white collar job, a house, and a savings account in a rural mountain town you may ask yourself, are there some parts of the book Billionaire Wilderness that are about me?
Well, maybe some. But you also don’t own an old fighter jet you fly over the mountains for fun.
Currently reading Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West, and it has me absolutely spinning with how much it applies to the Columbia River Gorge, despite mostly being about Jackson Hole in Teton County.
Never had to hunt down mystery leaks outside in the middle of the night when I lived in a studio apartment. bsky.app/profile/kate...
Now living in a rural mountain town, I will never cease to be amazed at the idea that country life, especially farm country life is somehow “the simple life.” Keeping nature from reclaiming your house is a constant battle. Living in an apartment was very simple by comparison.
I feel like that seems most sensible. I’m sure someone has already done this with peanut butter, added whey? I have a bread machine so maybe whey/fiber added bread too?
On my list of food experiments left to pursue: developing a more nutritionally complete uncrustable.
Surely something can be done to punch up the protein and fiber without having to use some of the more texturally unpleasant nut butters etc.
every mystery of the sloppy joe revealed! i debunk its connection to ernest hemingway! we discuss the loosemeat sandwiches of iowa! the fashion movement around "sloppy joe" sweaters ca. 1940! the french concept of "nostalgia for the mud"! buttondown.com/theswordandt...
Would love to see more of it!
The global wellness industry, at $6.2 trillion a year, is 4 times larger than the global pharmaceutical industry.
What often gets missed in stories about declining birth rates is that they're due to declines specifically among young women. Young women are exercising reproductive autonomy and are making considered decisions about whether and when to have children.
This is a good thing.
I'm just a girl, incrementing the counter on the number of times I have been sent a plaintext email from a Protonmail user telling me that the message is encrypted.
it's all just art. "porn" is just art that makes you horny, in precisely the way that "horror" is art that makes you scared and "metroidvania" is art that makes you write video essays
a combination urgent care and taco bell
I'm at the combination
