“The very humanity of people who use drugs is at stake when public discourse conflates them with monsters. And visual depictions can be every bit as harmful as words.” filtermag.org/social-media-k…

(1/5) We're thrilled to announce our new report! 📰 Our Lives, Our Care: The Report & Recommendations of The Re-Queering Harm Reduction Project is an appraisal of the state of care for queer and trans people who use drugs and/or do sex work (QT-PWUD/SW).

Basically, if you support abortion funds and want to help them outside of donating, engaging with our content helps us get the word out and helps people find out we exist so we can help them.

Most poorly planned movement work can be brought down by one question: What about disabled and elderly people?

“...five decades into the “drug war,” the United States simultaneously incarcerates more of its residents than any other nation and loses more of them to drug overdose." truthout.org/articles/dont-…

Andrew Burgess stuck up for a student who was being bullied. His school district's response? Spending more than $1 million in taxpayer money to fund a sham investigation and attack this beloved teacher's character.  aclupa.org/en/news/why-ce…

Disabled people exist beyond a long list of inequitably impacted communities, but their needs are largely being ignored in the reproductive rights space. kelseydotorg.bsky.social's latest ⬇️ rewirenewsgroup.com/2023/09/13/bey…

Watching this unfold while in the middle of reading Alicia Kennedy's "No Meat Required" was... something. And I will never not appreciate @[email protected]'s patience and skill at unpacking and contextualizing this kind of utter horse shit.

Zero drag queens have been arrested in Tennessee this year for raping or sexually abusing children. Over 30 faith leaders have. wsmv.com/2023/09/20/eva…

“Punishing students for substance use won’t work, and could make the problem worse. We must change the way we respond when young people use drugs.” -Sean Fogler inquirer.com/opinion/commen…

Free Ebooks for a Free Palestine 🇵🇸 haymarketbooks.org/blogs/495-free…

thinking about bourdain’s episode in palestine today. CNN almost didn’t air it but he fought like hell to keep the episode and share their stories since mainstream media so rarely gave the opportunity to empathize with the every day of palestinians.

Unfortunately, this piece I reported years ago for @npr (longer version on NPRCodeSwitch) is “evergreen” as we say in journalism. It’s about the use of dehumanizing language: npr.org/2018/06/28/624…

"Black students with disabilities are substantially more likely than any other group to experience the most extreme forms of discipline [in schools]" @HaroldJordan_pa aclu.org/news/racial-ju…

I always teach about ACTUP’s GC & Dan Rather actions, in courses on race & US foreign policy. There’s also a particular dynamic, between intersectionally-queer activist networks & a universalist solidarity — which links then & now. Scholars like Emily Hobson interpret this… 🧵

Before things start getting wild: thank you. We are so deeply grateful for our community. We'll always have abortions. We'll always have each other.

Y'all, antis literally tried to require a 60% vote to change the constitution. They put "unborn child" in the ballot summary. They tried to get our signatures thrown out. They they tried to stop us at every fucking turn, and we STILL WON. A 56% YES VOTE FOR ABORTION!

"...but what really damaged Moms for Liberty was that they underestimated the intelligence of the people in the communities they were targeting."

🚨UPDATE: Kate Cox has officially fled the state of Texas for care because waiting for the Supreme Court to validate expert medical opinion is just not an effective way to perform essential health care. reproductiverights.org/texas-woman-wh…