The Asian American Lit Festival is so important. - Smithsonian and Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center leadership, this is shameful!

Sometimes I forget that not everyone was raised on a picket line and the lack of respect for basic strike etiquette on twitter is astounding to me. Y’all. Let’s have a quick lesson. 1. No crossing picket lines. Ever. This is the action the striking union has picked. Respect it.

Important thread about understanding our mothers and the difficult choices they were forced to make in a society that does not value Indigenous women and women of color.

Next stop.... BROOKLYN. This tour has been everything and more. Come join us for the Finale! Tomorrow, Friday, and Saturday at Brooklyn Steel. The venue released a few tickets for each night that they were holding, so get em while they are hot!

Rest in power to the realest! ✊

Ryan Gosling as geese. A thread.

Week of 7/30 in Gemini: You can find the part of the way in to be purple. This isn’t exactly what you expected and that’s the point. Make time for the surprise because surprises carry love with them. You will love this part and that’s the point.

Heterosexuality.

Two year postdoctoral fellowship Brown University, due October 15! Please share and repost. apply.interfolio.com/128485

#MarshaPJohnson is the original mother of the gay liberation movement. Her courage to speak out against transphobia & bigotry during the AIDS movement will forever cement her as an icon. On her birthday, we honor her and the undeniable mark that she’s left on the world. 👑

This is amazing work! Not everyone can afford to buy high quality masks regularly. If we want more people to wear masks, high quality masks should be available for free everywhere. Having them in public health vending machines in NYC is a great first step!

Just this week was talking about Judy Chicago’s smoke plume disaster at the DeYoung in 2021; reading Barbara T. Smith’s autobiography and am shocked to see that Judy basically ripped off her idea from 1968! hyperallergic.com/686421/did-jud…

It is important to remember there were so many worlds before capitalism, so that we can be the future architects for the worlds yet to be imagined after capitalism and the climate crisis.

Presente, Salvador Allende! 50 years today since the coup in Chile. jacobin.com/2023/09/salvad…

WATCH: On the 51st anniversary of the declaration of martial law, congressman Edcel Lagman corners House appropriations vice chair Stella Quimbo into admitting there can be no forgiveness for martial law atrocities 'without remorse and repentance.' rappler.com