We also have a narrative podcast on this pioneering case, featuring in-depth interviews with members of the Fields family & the Durham DA's Office.

It includes the most extraordinary sentencing hearing I've ever witnessed

With Tom Glasser & homa khaleeli

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In 2016, Donald Fields Jr killed his father & faced a life sentence.

Despite the horror of the killing, his family pursued restorative justice. Earlier this year he avoided a prison term.

I wanted to understand how a family could forgive after murder:
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NEW: I hung out with Miss Major, the trans icon who survived Stonewall + prison abuse + became a mother to so many trans folks in 50 yrs of activism. She hasn't stopped fighting: “All these people who challenged me, they’re gone. I’m still fucking here.'🧵 theguardian.com/us-news/2023/j…

I’m not really hanging out here any more but if you wanna come hang with me and georgie (tentative) we’re on Bluesky staging.bsky.app/profile/joolia…

Does anyone know of a good (ie feminist) history of the diagnosis of hysteria?

even my co-star is getting all psychoanalytical these days

maybe one reason why there might be a “surge” in trans youth is that millennial parents are less bigoted and abusive toward their gender non-conforming kids than previous generations I dunno just a thought

“A chorus of influential voices portrayed this killing as part and parcel of a city awash in violent crime. While Lee is one of a dozen homicide victims in SF this year, his is the only killing that has garnered national coverage — or, in most cases, even cursory local coverage.”

NEW: Video reveals Indiana jail guards left Josh McLemore, 29, naked in solitary confinement for 3 weeks straight before he died of malnutrition. He was in a state of psychosis and had no bed or bathroom while trapped in a windowless cell w lights on 24/7

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Harvard is renaming its graduate school after Ken Griffin, a close associate and major backer of Ron DeSantis, whose policies include banning Florida's colleges and universities from teaching an academic theory developed at Harvard Law School. theguardian.com/us-news/2023/a…

went a little nuts and put pink glaze on top of blue glaze on top of green glaze and I don’t hate it?

“I hope this creates a blueprint for other organizations or cities. Even if they ...don’t have a big LGBTQ community .. they have to stand up to Nazis.”

How folks came together to defend an Ohio Drag Queen Story Hour threatened with violence Julia Carrie Wong theguardian.com/us-news/2023/a…

A neo-Nazi tried to burn down their church with Molotov cocktails. They held a Drag Queen Story Hour anyway. theguardian.com/us-news/2023/a…

NEW: After Kelsey Carpenter lost her child in a home birth, police arrested her + San Diego prosecutors charged her with murder.

She faces a life sentence if convicted.

“I had cherished the idea of this baby .. I mourn every day,' she said from jail. 🧵theguardian.com/us-news/2023/a…