Questions my 2 year old asked today: - Do you know the truth (asked unprompted and out of nowhere) - Where does the future come from? - What caused the big bang?
Chris Ash (they/them)
@christianashnc.bsky.social
SA/IPV/HT expert, queer activist, survivor, storyteller, fire spinner. Violence prevention, public health, and harm reduction. Trying to make the anti-trafficking sector (& the world in general) suck less. CHAOTIC GOOD linktr.ee/chrisash
This is a profound loss. I am so lucky to have known and learned from Emi. ❤️🩹
Sophie Lewis@reproutopia.bsky.social · 2mo agoI don't post much anymore but I found out a few hours ago that the wonderful Emi Koyama died, I'm away from home, and I'm so very sad about it. I would like to share that grief together with others on here who are indebted to Emi (which is: all of us feminist queers against cisness). Rest in power.
first in my bloodline to see someone get excommunicated by a community note
I’m going to need all these buskers to either coordinate and start a band or take turns because the sensory overload of multiple competing songs in one location is a lot.
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@kattenbarge.bsky.social on Bluesky
“Why aren’t college students protesting” stories are almost always wrong (they are protesting), omit crucial context (they were brutally punished for protesting before), and somehow suggest that 19 yr olds have more moral responsibility than elected officials three times their age
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Les transphobes : et si je m'identifie à un hélicoptère de combat ? ptdrrrrrrrrrrr Les transphobes : Les pronoms de l'hélicoptère de combat sont il/lui
"The first person to be executed for treason in the US was not a spy or someone who sold secrets to a foreign government. It was not a Confederate general who took up arms against his government. It was an abolitionist named John Brown." from @nhannahjones.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/m...
The Transformative Power of the White ‘Race Traitor’
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It took me an embarrassingly long time to realize this was a training ad for therapists to support clients with feelings of emptiness and not just capitalist “self help” propaganda to keep the labor gears turning during global collapse.
It took me an embarrassingly long time to realize this was a training ad for therapists to support clients with feelings of emptiness and not just capitalist “self help” propaganda to keep the labor gears turning during global collapse.
Everything happening now has a precedent. This is not new. Please understand that everything happening now is very American. The only change is that it is happening on camera to middle income white people. Ask BIPOC and low income white people about abuses by the state.
The problem with ICE is not insufficient training or even training content. It’s creating an agency where you give people guns and tell them to terrorize Brown people and then recruit people excited to do that.
they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.
Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 7mo agoIn the video that the shooter took, which I believe was leaked to be exculpatory, he appears to yell “fucking bitch” after he shoots Renee Good.
This is the point of the video leaked by the shooter. It is a rationale for erasing her humanity, thus making her murder justifiable by any standard, no matter how meaningless. She was a person with a life. Jonathan Ross stole it. See this thread for me.
The Editorial Board@editorialboard.bsky.social · 7mo ago9. Renee Nicole Good's humanity needs to be the first thing that’s said before anything else, because the regime started erasing it from virtually the moment it murdered her.
Fox News claims to be airing the "entire video" -- but they're cutting off before the officer says, "fucking bitch."
How is this a real story, and who is turning it into a musical ASAP? www.bbc.com/news/article...
Austrian nuns win reprieve in abandoned convent - if they stay off social media
The three nuns say they were taken out of the convent against their will and placed in a care home.
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The Department of Education, led by the wife of a former head of the WWE, has declared nursing to no longer be a professional degree. It’s a war on so called women dominated professions It’s also devastating for the disability community We need nurses They’re an invaluable part of the care team
If you are watching NC’s incredible resistance against ICE with awe (possibly with surprise because you think we’re all right wing hillbillies) donate to Siembra NC. They’re the ones providing specific ICE resistance trainings to community members. secure.actblue.com/donate/siemb...
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Blue Horizon@phds2.bsky.social · 9mo agoMarch in Durham, North Carolina demanding that Miller’s masked marauders leave! Thank you!
Delighted to co-author this piece urging the de-silo-ing of anti-trafficking work, & genuine solidarity with grassroots movements.
opendemocracy.net@opendemocracy.net · 9mo agoWhy can't anti-trafficking be more radical?
Despite huge sums spent on anti-trafficking, there are staggeringly few evaluations of interventions & growing evidence of harms caused. This new edited book with @uclpress.bsky.social is our attempt to help change that. 1/ Open access with free digital downloads: uclpress.co.uk/book/evaluat...
Evaluating Anti-Trafficking Interventions
Explore the complexities of trafficking and the importance of effective evaluation in anti-trafficking interventions and measures.
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Excited to see this published: peer reviewed publication on trafficking survivors’ experiences with journalists. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
It’s almost like they knew this would happen. The cruelty is the point.
Laura Dean 🇱🇻🇺🇦@lauradean.bsky.social · 9mo agoAttended an Illinois #HumanTrafficking Task Force meeting yesterday. Social service providers reported a decrease in foreign born forced labor survivors/victims coming forward because they are afraid to seek help due to immigration enforcement. Many orgs now have to offer online services!
Canada’s Supreme Court ruled to uphold laws criminalizing sex work, ignoring voices of 23 sex worker-led and migrant advocacy groups. The ruling perpetuates unsafe conditions, isolates workers, and reinforces vulnerability to abuse and exploitation. www.freedomunited.org/news/canadas...
Canada's Supreme Court ruling ignores safety and lived experience - FreedomUnited.org
Canada rules to reaffirm the criminalization of many aspects of sex work—and once again silences the very people most affected by these laws.
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Searched on Google for @drewkadel.bsky.social’s new book to snag the link, & Google AI was very helpful in reassuring me that I should not literally try to baptize a whale.
