“I feel wild and lonely, and wonder if that’s how I am desired: unknown and at a distance. It’s easier not to care from that far away.”—Michael Torres #AbolishICE @literaryhub.bsky.social
When it comes to health advice, more people trust the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Medical Association than they do federal health agencies, according to a new poll
3 people dying a day from police and carceral violence is not the shocking news. What @terencekeel.bsky.social says is more shocking are the cover-ups and misreporting that literally bury this horrible truth.
James Baldwin was insistent on turning the mirror toward cis-het white men because he did not want to be the body on which they projected their fantasies of racial deviance and sexual immorality. @crileysnorton.bsky.social
Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died.
Growing up in the pro-life movement, Sara Moslener learned what it meant to be a good Christian woman. Years later, she realized that the pro-life movement is about protecting motherhood as a source of authority. #PurityCulture
First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, seated, surrounded by nearly 30 other women, seated around her and standing behind her. 1933. Harris & Ewing, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
As the Great Depression threatened the tenuous foothold of women on newspaper staffs, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt instituted a weekly, women-only press conference at the White House to force news organizations to employ at least one woman reporter.
The first was held on this day in 1933. 🧵
Getting artsy on 🎨COVER REVEAL Friday🎨 with @fernham.bsky.social!
HER OWN VOICE tells the stories of 8 radical women who responded to social oppression and helped create the modernist movement.
Watch this space in August! 👀
Cover design: Louis Roe
The pathway out of poverty can only be cleared—and forged—when we all are involved and recognize parents in poverty as capable and worthy. The parents Nicole Lynn Lewis refers to are student parents who are raising kids while getting a degree. @literaryhub.bsky.social
Caroline Light on the new 10th annviersary edition of "Stand Your Ground" (@beaconpress.bsky.social) with a preface by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Who knew SYG's the same logic as the fear-fueled fascist Iran War?
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Given the integral role trans people of color have played in queer liberation, the Progressive Pride flag really is the way to go.
March 26 in Brooklyn: PEN America & Liz’s Book Bar will bring together NYT bestselling authors Jason Stanley and Nikole Hannah-Jones to discuss authoritarianism, censorship and Stanley’s Erasing History https://pen.org/press-release/on-erasing-history-conversation-jason-stanley-nikole-hannah-jones/
Everyone should have access to read Atef Abu Saif’s DON’T LOOK LEFT to understand what’s happening in Gaza. Book bans help nobody. This is why libraries are essential!
I’m joining Angee Noel on Twitch to discuss Indigenous women as storytellers on March 11 at 11:00 a.m. PT. Stream it at twitch.tv/AngeeNoel
Less well recognized today is the way early women’s rights activists, namely the women of “first-wave feminism,” were shaped by American Indians. #WomensHistoryMonth @dinagw.bsky.social
To maintain the Montgomery bus boycott for 382 days, Montgomery's Black community organized an elaborate car pool system with 40 pickup stations giving 10,000-15,000 rides a day coordinated by volunteer dispatchers (Rosa Parks was one for a time). It required a tremendous amount of fundraising.
May 26 can’t come soon enough!
That’s when Rachel Karp’s THE LESBIAN BAR CHRONICLES hits the bookshelves online and IRL. @publisherswkly.bsky.social calls it “a bracingly optimistic chronicle of modern queer life.”
If they can do this to one of us, they can do this to ALL OF US.
If Betsy Rubiner doesn’t write a diary, she doesn’t feel alive anymore. Other lifelong diarists feel the same way.
Rosa Luxemburg’s mug shot
Rosa Luxemburg was born March 5, 1871.
In the wake of his passing, Rev. Jesse Jackson’s oft-repeated instruction to “keep hope alive” is even more important, as is his emphasis on unity. It’s especially important in these times. *waves wildly at everything*
“What happens when feminism excludes the very women it claims to liberate?”
Listen to Shahed Ezaydi discuss The Othered Woman at the @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social:
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Sara Moslener wrote AFTER PURITY to help people connect the personal with the political in the wake of significant reckonings with religion, sexuality, and racism. #PurityCulture
If Viktor E. Frankl’s MAN’S SEARCH FOR MEANING changed a few lives in the college classes David Brooks taught, think of how many more lives it’s changed the world over. #WednesdayWisdom
Before there was Elvis's "Hound Dog", there was "Big Mama" Thornton's "Hound Dog"
DJ Lynnée Denise on the Legacy of Rock 'n Roll Pioneer Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton
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#LeftOfBlack
#WomensHistoryMonth
#BlackWomensHistory
Rev. Jesse Jackson’s death will make people realize that we cannot rely on the work and sacrifices of other generations. That we must push forward with a vision for democracy, diversity, literacy, and health.
My latest for @theappeal.org
Women imprisoned in AZ went on hunger strike for more than 2 weeks, issuing 21 polite requests: theappeal.org/arizona-perr...
It’s been 3 years since we lost Judy Heumann on this day. 💔
Despite all she’d faced, she never lost faith—not in herself or her fellow activists, and not in our democratic government.
Huzzah! @kevinkreider.bsky.social is part of the Beacon fam!
