“We are citizens of the most powerful country in the world, and it is a country that stands upon the wrong side of every liberation struggle on Earth. I want you to feel what that means.” ―Audre Lorde

Roughly one-third of people booked into jail report an annual income below $10,000 – the median amount needed to pay a felony bail. To make it worse, many of the nearly 500,000 people currently detained pretrial are being held simply because they can’t afford money bail.

I was born a Black woman and now I am become a Palestinian against the relentless laughter of evil there is less and less living room and where are my loved ones? It is time to make our way home. —June Jordan, "Moving Towards Home"

“In an era [of] “manuscript-based” dissertations… some scholars now seem to view the production of a systematic review as sufficient to “know” the literature in their field, bypassing the hard intellectual work of reading & reflecting on a wide range of writings on their topic.”

Somehow managed to work a #StarWars reference into a paper/poem in TheHPPJournal that somehow got published on May 4th 🧐🤔🤷🏽‍♂️🤓 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/15… #Maythe4thBeWithYou #PoetryIsNotLuxury

45 years ago, May 21 1979, over a dozen cop cars burned as thousands marched and rioted in San Francisco after word broke that Dan White received the most lenient verdict for murdering George Moscone and Harvey Milk. The evening would become known as the White Night riots

part of being an academic of color is discerning what advice is just meant for white people

I am once again forced to confront my beef with the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), specifically how they measure gender/sex! And will be complaining about that in this thread! I'll mainly reference the 2022 wave since that's the most recent available data. 1/

Re-upping this📕 Health Affairs piece. Sincerely hoping folks in the "data rescue" camps recognize that the these data systems were not designed to "rescue" us to begin with, let alone see, hear, or care for us. They must be radically reimagined or left behind 🧐✌🏽

Happy #FathersDay to all those building builders of better tomorrows 🫶🏽✊🏽🌈🤸🏽‍♂️ (Full version: medium.com/resistance-poe…)