I made this Street Medic Resource List to serve as a point of departure for learning about lifesaving skills that we all absolutely need as there are multiple ongoing genocides and manufactured climate catastrophe disasters. Lots of great stuff here: docs.google.com/document/d/115…

🚀 I am in the process of collecting oral histories from mask bloc founders/members. Do you distribute free PPE, solo or with a group? I'd love to hear from you, answer your access/anonymity questions, listen to your stories. Please share & reach out! 😷🫡 maskblochistory.org

An exceptionally dangerous situation is underway as we enter a potentially deadly, historic, and prolonged heat event. Protect yourself during excessive heat and stay #WeatherReady. weather.gov/heat

While much of the country continues to argue over presidential candidates, Houstonians are experiencing the collapse of the State and the climate in real time, and having difficult conversations about whether it’s more sustainable to stay here and fight, or flee.

Brutal. Infuriating. Every year. And y'know what else is brutal? These stories get published every year and we repost them. It is a genre. A cycle. "A zone of triage is a zone of exhaustion." -Joy James latimes.com/environment/st…

If y'all still don't think disease is a weapon for genocide.....

More than 180k Californians struggled to keep pace with the rapid rise in Pacific Gas & Electric bills in 2023, resulting in the for-profit utility cutting off their service. All while CEO Patti Pope raked in nearly $17M in 2023 ‼️ #utilityjustice energyandpolicy.org/as-customers-s…

One way to define the Pyrocene -- when there are so many wildfires going that the WatchDuty map becomes unintelligible and nobody can keep the names straight even for incidents >100,000 acres.

My latest column for Teen Vogue on how proposed mask bans are the new ugly laws and how the mask is the new unsightly marker of deviant individuals Many thanks to Kelly 💖💄 Aoife ♿💜 Charis Hill | they/them | Free Palestine 🇵🇸 & Eman Rimawi-Doster for talking with me!

"project 2025"

Imagine if reporting like this — "not everyone can stay home" — also explained how respirator masks (N95s) protect against particulate. Some of us masked against wildfires pre-Covid & there are entire mask blocs that exist to support communities during fire season!

I asked dairy workers why they’re not getting tested. No one had heard of bird flu, never mind gotten PPE or offers of tests. One said they don’t get much from their employers, not even water. If they call in sick, they worry about getting fired. kffhealthnews.org/news/article/b…

New York has just set a very dangerous precedent and I truly hope that local organizers are able to challenge this until then prepare for unmitigated harm to be enacted ten fold against disabled, homeless, queer, and BIPOC communities.

The mask bans are about Palestine, they're about George Floyd, they're about Standing Rock... I could go on. Are you paying attention? Will you mask to protect yourself and others, or will you be on the side of the police & the genocidal state? 🖤🪨

Prisons don’t provide any PPE, they retaliate if anyone comes forward about being sick and wanting to be tested for COVID. PPE access varies across facilities. My friend got COVID a last month and they just didn’t test him… it took months for him to get access to KN95s…

Air Quality Advisory: Smoke from fires in the western United States and Canada is expected to impact air quality in the Bay Area on August 8 and August 9. Check fire.airnow.gov and take steps to avoid exposure. Learn how at baaqmd.gov/wildfiresafety.

Amid increased repression on multiple fronts, a mask ban at UC Campuses, and a threatened ban in LA, it’s more important than ever to fight the criminalization of masks and strengthen the practices we need to keep each other safe. Join us to build power for pandemic justice!

This is why there's no "safe" way to write a mask ban. Even with health exemptions, they empower "concerned citizens" to stalk and harass disabled people simply trying to exist in public. #NoNYMaskBan #StopMaskBans