My takeaways from the pandemic is that 1. We need Free Universal Healthcare 2. We need universal basic income 3. We need rent/ home price stabilization Things could have panned out so much better if we had these things already in place.

Around 100 young people held a "die-in" in Dorchester today to bring attention to rising rates of youth violence in Boston's communities of color. "Today we're disturbing the flow of traffic, as violence disturbs our lives, our schools, and our communities every day." GBH News

TW: deadly homophobia and transphobia. I need my cis het friends to understand how terrifying this is. This bill means that an EMT can simply refuse to treat me in a life-threat emergency. That I cannot assume I will get help if I go to the ER.

Union organizing is the most powerful—empowering workers—when there’s multiracial solidarity. So, capital manipulates White workers into believing they lose when workers of color gain. One of the worst instances of White labor resentment happened eighty years ago #OTD in 1943. 1/

"Nearly half of filings — 43 percent — targeted titles with LGBTQ characters or themes, while 36 percent targeted titles featuring characters of color or dealing with issues of race and racism."

Leading figures in the trade have questioned the industry’s commitment to publishing commercially successful Black writing after it emerged there has been a downturn in the number of bestselling Black-authored books published in 2022. Read more here: buff.ly/43kqYGU

The Little Mermaid, my mama, and me. bostonglobe.com/2023/05/26/art…

Pride month is almost upon us so here's your reminder to support QPOC books!!! Here are a few 2023 books featuring QPOC that I have loved OR I'm very very excited to read!

...and a few more! There are so many great QPOC books out/coming out this year and I'm sure I've missed loads. Make sure to support us, read and buy our books, put us on your lists, invite us to your panels!!!

Anonymity allows "Patients search for health information without fearing public embarrassment. Domestic violence victims seek help online, shielding their communications from their abusers." Plus, kids can access information that their guardians may actively be blocking them from

Hello wonderfuls & happy #PRIDE Month! Let's uplift queer writing by #Transgender & #Nonbinary writers & celebrate with me at my HYBRID ASSEMBLAGE workshop in hybrid poetry approaches at 130pm ET hosted by @Tin_House on 6/18/2023. Register here: tinhouse.com/product/spring…

A Legal Nonprofit Steps Up. Democracy Forward Talks to SLJ About Book Bans, with Advice on Countering Censorship ow.ly/LerW50OFLgO

✨NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT✨ I get to write YA!! I’m incredibly excited to be working with Cameron Kellogg & the Bloomsbury team on my queer nautical adventure duology (a.k.a. the story that's turned me into a person who cares an absurd amount about 19th-c. sailing ships) 🌊⚓️🏳️‍🌈

This is what people mean when they say AI art is theft. It isn't just a machine trained on artists it literally just takes work from artists and says it's new

Today's style inspo

Media outlets are going to rush to ask Black people to react to this. Meanwhile, white women benefit the most from affirmative action and DEI policies. Y’all should also be sticking the mics and cameras in their faces. But yall won’t because we all kn… *signal drops*

The Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act ten years ago on the belief that race-based voter suppression wouldn't happen. They were dead wrong. Now they've gutted race-based admissions on the belief racism doesn't keep minorities from succeeding in society. Dead wrong again.

July 4th, like every year, is a hollow day for Black Americans. It’s hard to celebrate “independence” in a country where our ancestors' blood soaks the soil and the marble sculptures that dominate areas like Washington, D.C., a city named for a slaveholder.