The full quote is important. "It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and you spend twenty years proving that you do" The distraction is in forcing us to prove we are good enough, civilized enough "objective" enough

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Science for the Radical(s) ...... can someone please write this book!!!!

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"The mobility data also revealed disparities in exposure when evaluated in terms of demographics, with income disparities present but disparities by ethnicity larger." - Senseable City Lab dusp.mit.edu/news/tracking-…

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To conduct the study, researchers collected air pollution by mounting sensors on New York City’s civic services vehicles in operation in the Bronx. “This strategy shows that cities can use their existing fleet as environmental sensors" dusp.mit.edu/news/tracking-… Centric Lab

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48% of people receiving universal credit ran out of food within the last month, new research has found. 📊 Benefits are supposed to provide a ‘safety net’, but the payments from the DWP are simply not enough to live on, The Trussell Trust has warned. 👇 bigissue.com/news/social-ju…

Homes should be a place of comfort, health and security. Instead, across the UK, homes have become sites of illness by rendered cold and damp by poor insulation and sky-high energy prices. Check out Medact's latest toolkit and sign the campaign petition! medact.org/2024/blogs/hom…

Describing a place as a food desert “implies that this is a natural phenomenon—that the lack of healthy, fresh, nutritious foods in certain neighborhoods is par for the course, normal, organic.” Food apartheid” is closer to the truth shareable.net/reclaiming-foo…

We're down at CIVIC SQUARE' B16 Lunch neighbourhood festival this Saturday. Come say hi 👋🏾