Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH

@geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app

John 3:16 | Founder of The Thurman Perry Foundation | Women’s Incarceration Expert | Political Commentator | Author: BAD GIRLS (coming soon)(Hachette) | Epidemiologist | Words: @WashingtonPost @ESSENCE #writingcommunity https://linktr.ee/gabrielleperrymph

Also I truly believe alot of Elizabeth Holmes content is funded and pushed by Silicon Valley trying to say “SEE! This is why we don’t want women around here!” Women seeking venture capital funding have been almost completely shut out even years later and across fields. This is concerted.

NYT: They Still Live in the Shadow of Theranos's Elizabeth Holmes
Female entrepreneurs said they were constantly compared to Ms. Holmes, the disgraced founder of Theranos, who faces trial soon.

ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote:

Handwritten notecard. Prompt at the top asks: What object was most devastating for you to lose, and how have you been coping? Answer below: Dentures. Were thrown away and coping isn't somthing I can do. It’s made me feel ugly, unworthy, can’t go get a job with no teeth. So how can get off the streets until another pair can be made?

Trying to get my big cousin to convince everybody to wear masks around my aunt who is fighting an infection in the hospital. Im SO disappointed on hospital staff cause not a SOUL has a mask on in that hospital in all the nights we been going. Only me and my boyfriend

Bingo! I have over 100,000 followers across platforms and I already included my network in my proposal. Every endorsement, the foreword, blurbs, ARCs, and everything else are because of ME tapping my network and (pleasantly) people excited for me and this book

Betsy Cazden@betsy-cazden.bsky.social · 2d ago

I heard one debut author say she included a marketing plan in her book proposal, because she knew how/where to promote her book better than some generic 20-something would. Unless you're a celebrity with enough name recognition to sell 100,000 copies, publishers won't do the work for you.

The toughest lesson I had to learn for my upcoming debut book is that just because you’re signed to a Big 5 publisher doesn’t mean they’re gonna do anything for you. Ive been left foot, right footing it for a YEAR all over the country to secure my book tour locations & have stores ready to stock me

Chantal James@chantalalive.blacksky.app · 3d ago

I take tons of initiative in my writing career. I'm not here sitting back waiting for the companies who publish me to handle the whole job. I call bookstores directly to stock me. I reach out to people I'm acquainted with I've never had a true conversation with. I promote myself like hell on here.

I forgot all about this lmao. And it would be different if she had said what Ive said all my life which is that men should not be allowed anywhere near women’s prisons (we are one of the only nations that allow it) and that THAT is a reform could institute immediately but she was on some other stuff

castpixel ⚧️⚢@castpixel.bsky.social · 3d ago

Yes! She also wanted to build "feminist prisons" and Angela Davis herself told her it was a bad idea, but she wouldn't listen. Imagine not listening to Angela Davis

Sex workers funded my organization when no one else would. The OnlyFans girls banded together in our 2nd year of operation and probably gave me $40,000+ to start our Girl Code program to donate menstrual products to incarcerated women. So fuck Gloria Steinem.