Dr Abigaël
@consentcactus.bsky.social
Educator & researcher working on language use in sexual violence prevention and survivor support. Windowsill gardening enthusiast. https://acandelas.gitlab.io/
The destruction of Big Bend makes me so sad, on so many levels bigbendsentinel.com/2026/08/04/m...
More questions than answers as contractors descend upon Big Bend National Park
Terlingua Tensions are high in South Brewster County as federal contractor Southwest Valley Construction, a subsidiary of Nebraska-based Kiewit, moved heavy equipment into Big Bend National Park on Tu...
bigbendsentinel.com
BIG VICTORY! After a years of fighting, a Michigan court shut down the permit for Enbridge’s Line 5 tunnel. The pipeline would have gone through the Great Lakes, the largest source of fresh water in the world. But the Michigan Supreme Court said no.👇
Michigan Supreme Court Overturns Line 5 Tunnel Permit, Delivering Major Victory for Tribal Nations
Overview: The Michigan Supreme Court has overturned a key state permit for Enbridge's proposed Line 5 tunnel beneath the Straits of Mackinac, ruling that regulators failed to comply with Michigan envi...
nativenewsonline.net
Seeing these #accessibility supports at the @wellcomecollection.bsky.social #mademyday! I love that they are freely available to borrow, and staff were welcoming and encouraged their use. I would love to see this in every museum!
YOU MUST HAVE SOMETHING TO EAT TO HAVE STRENGTH TO WIN A RIGHTEOUS BATTLE.
HANG UP YOUR SPEAR, TODAY YOU WILL BATTLE DEHYDRATION. AND YOU WILL WIN.
This is the thing. I’d be a lot more generous about the “second chances” discourse if the same people were fighting tooth and nail to make sure victims weren’t pushed out of the institutions where they were abused.
Kashana@kashana.blacksky.app · 4w agoI wish everyone could get the same number of eighth chances as a 41 year old sex pest with a Nazi tattoo
Any time I have to buy an item of clothing, I am reminded how thoroughly inconvenient it is to buy anything larger than size 16. There’s racks and racks of sizes 0-8, but I guess everyone else is expected to just…go nude?
BREAKING: Alligator Alcatraz has officially closed. A lot of outlets won’t report on this, but the Miccosukee Tribe played a key role in the fight.
Judge bars immigration arrests at US courthouses in a setback for Trump abcnews.com/US/wireStory...
Judge bars immigration arrests at US courthouses in a setback for Trump
A judge has barred the federal government from making arrests at immigration courts, a practice that took hold shortly after President Donald Trump took office last year
abcnews.com
My article ‘You don’t have to’: a corpus-assisted analysis of modal auxiliaries in sexual consent guidance for young people is now out in print. The first 50 downloads are free: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ZC2WJ...
‘You don’t have to’: a corpus-assisted analysis of modal auxiliaries in sexual consent guidance for young people
This paper examines modal auxiliaries in a corpus of consent guidance, with two goals: firstly to explore modal auxiliaries as discursive strategies, and secondly to evaluate their effect. Drawing ...
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An NBC News investigation finds dozens of examples of criminals imitating ICE to rob and attack people www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
I don't think there should be a work requirement for SNAP. I think there should be a wage-should-be-enough-for-employees-to-eat requirement for employers.
Teaching kids social-emotional skills is working! “Studies suggest youths are more empathetic and less narcissistic than in the past, as well as more open-minded and inclusive. Drug use is down, youth violence has dropped and teen pregnancies have declined.”
The kids are all right
Surprising studies show young people are doing better than previous generations in many ways
scientificamerican.com
This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
If you’re thinking about how sexual violence, social movements, and accountability today, read this brilliant Sara Ahmed essay on the difference between consequences and punishment. I recommend this essay to people grappling with accountability proceedings more than any other.
The Complainer as Carceral Feminist
I am often asked how my arguments about complaint activism relate to the projects of transformative and restorative justice as well as abolitionist feminism. In an answer to one such question, I sp…
feministkilljoys.com
Dolores Huerta's statement on Cesar Chavez: “I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for... I can no longer stay silent and must share my own experiences"
March 18, 2026
Today, civil rights leader Dolores Huerta issued the following statement:
medium.com
Holding Dolores Huerta in my heart today and always for what she did for my people and what she endured along the way.
As Line 5 moves forward, four tribes are trying to stop it. They claim the pipeline could contaminate the Great Lakes. Their case is now in front of the Michigan Supreme Court.
Michigan Supreme Court hears Line 5 review case as opponents challenge tunnel project approval - ICT
This story was originally published by Michigan Advance. Kyle DavidsonMichigan Advance A key permit from state energy regulators approving Enbridge’s Line 5 tunnel project sat before the Michigan…
ictnews.org
Recently finished “We Survived the Night” by Julian Brave Noisecat and appreciate the way the author braids the Coyote narrative, personal experience, and regional history
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
Snowed in this weekend? Bored with nothing to do? Print some red cards! They list your rights if ICE comes to your home, and provide a way to invoke your those rights. They can be printed in a range of languages to distribute to community www.ilrc.org/redcards?fbc...
Red Cards / Tarjetas Rojas | Immigrant Legal Resource Center | ILRC
All people in the United States, regardless of immigration status, have certain rights and protections under the U.S. Constitution. The ILRC’s Red Cards help people assert their rights and defend them...
ilrc.org
The best thing about being a geek is that there’s always a bigger geek than you. For example, you might be wondering if anyone has ever used LaTeX to make an 8-page mini-zine, and would they share their template with me, and the answer is of course yes #geeksarethebest
GitHub - polychora-org/8up-zine: A LaTeX template for a single-sheet zine.
A LaTeX template for a single-sheet zine. Contribute to polychora-org/8up-zine development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
Once again, the mainstream media (The WSJ this time) is making lives harder for disabled people, instead of being furious over how disabled people's legitimate every day needs are neglected. Also, ambulatory wheelchair users are very common! TY Rachel T. www.facebook.com/tikva82/post... #disability
Rachel Tanenhaus
I have a lot of feelings about the WSJ article ostensibly about people without disabilities asking for wheelchair assistance at the airport so they can jump the line, etc. And then when it takes...
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Glad to see these plans to expunge child prostitution convictions in the UK. Hope to see more efforts to prevent child sexual exploitation and provide meaningful forms of redress www.gov.uk/government/n...
'Child prostitution' convictions to be expunged
New measures in the Crime and Policing Bill will disregard and pardon unjust 'child prostitution' convictions and cautions received before the law changed in 2015.
gov.uk
