Without abortion, pregnancy is too dangerous to attempt. Building a family safely requires abortion. The reason pregnancy doesn’t kill more people is because OB/Gyns are good at their jobs. And abortion is part of the job.

BREAKING: After nine months of organized protest, awards withdrawals, mass staff defections, and sustained boycotts in solidarity with Palestinian writers, PEN America CEO Suzanne Nossel resigns.

"Imperialism is a system of exploitation that occurs not only in the brutal form of those who come with guns to conquer territory. Imperialism often occurs in more subtle forms, a loan, food aid, blackmail." Thomas Sankara

I have been waiting for these words without knowing i was waiting. Deeply essential to understand. #MedTwitter

Very concise, very compelling

Woof. We are really unleashing our internalized cops & puritanical hellfire on each other. I offer into the void, that we feel our grief & anger then connect irl. We can build solidarity, scheme, practice fruitful conflict skills & organize ✨️

Paulo Freire was preaching when he said teaching cannot be neutral it either dismantles systemic inequities or perpetuates them

Folks talk a lot about shame. Whether it's useful or not. I've talked about it before. But I'd love to offer us all -humility- as an option. Sincerely offer it as powerful antidote to poisonous supremacy cultures, to self-centered settler politics, to ego-centered organizing.

People poo-pooing mutual aid networks like u just showed up this afternoon bro to condescend to people org for years, these "hang out friends" were on the ground distributing water food & aid in a hurricane way before the national guard did anything. them.us/story/queer-ap…

Physicians are labor, & like all labor, value generated by our labor is extracted, controlled and directed by third (nonmedical) parties (who do not gaf about you or your patients). Because we do not control the means of production. Build solidarity accordingly.

Oh heeeeeey class consciousness in response to unchecked parasitism of capital 💗

Its insane how blatantly predatory big-name insurance companies are behaving towards vulnerable patients, completely unchecked. People are put off by my leftist rhetoric but it is not even proportional to the criminally bureacratic violence & extraction we witness

I like it better art critics were honest about being rich dandies who didn’t care about anything but aesthetic power. Denounce dumb political art all you like but don’t pretend to care about aesthetic freedom when all you really care about is being in and in group

if you aren’t reading absolutely everything Mary has written, you should be

Miss u old id and research twitter, but also, its limits were the one of the larger academia context. via anne helen petersen

I urge medical professionals worldwide to pursue the severance of all ties with Israel as a concrete way to forcefully denounce Israel's full destruction of the Palestinian healthcare system in Gaza, a critical tool of its ongoing genocide. #FreeDrHussanAbuSafiya