Hannah Ensor
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poet. they/them. https://www.quarterlywest.com/issue-108-ensor
Zhang Shan won the gold medal for the mixed skeet shooting event in the 1992 Olympics. The International Shooting Union *immediately* banned women from competing against men.
bex@blueraccoon.bsky.social · 4mo agoFun fact: Women's sports are segregated not to protect women, but to protect *men* from losing *to* a woman. Don't believe me? Look up Jackie Mitchell. Struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. Then suddenly women were unfit to play baseball.
Fun fact: Women's sports are segregated not to protect women, but to protect *men* from losing *to* a woman. Don't believe me? Look up Jackie Mitchell. Struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. Then suddenly women were unfit to play baseball.
Aliette de Bodard@aliettedebodard.com · 4mo agoThe existence of women's sports is a historical one that was reinforced at regular intervals by patriarchal assumptions that women are more fragile and need to be "protected" It doesn't reflect any statistical truth (1/2)
The existence of women's sports is a historical one that was reinforced at regular intervals by patriarchal assumptions that women are more fragile and need to be "protected" It doesn't reflect any statistical truth (1/2)
Aliette de Bodard@aliettedebodard.com · 4mo agoBy the way here is some data on trans people's performance in sports bjsm.bmj.com/content/58/1... And here are some interesting articles on sex categories in sports journals.library.wustl.edu/lawreview/ar... www.researchgate.net/publication/... Spoilers: there are no good reasons to segregate
By the way here is some data on trans people's performance in sports bjsm.bmj.com/content/58/1... And here are some interesting articles on sex categories in sports journals.library.wustl.edu/lawreview/ar... www.researchgate.net/publication/... Spoilers: there are no good reasons to segregate
failure to identify presents tc tolbert & peachy fingernail a brunch event with poetry and song at basket books + art 115 hyde park blvd, houston, tx 77006 on sunday march 29, 2026 - 10am - 11:30am i'll bring coffee and some tacos! come out come out
Thank you to everyone who has spoken up for the thousands of children and families imprisoned at Dilley. ICE admits that no one at Dilley has committed a crime, especially not the children. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u...
Joaquin Castro Is on a Quest to Get Detained Immigrants Released
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*taps internet microphone* After months of work, a project i've been coordinating for @literaryhub.bsky.social in conjunction with @maris.bsky.social is now live ... We've commissioned 13 reviews of books by LGBTQ folks not covered by the NYTBR under Pamela Paul ... lithub.com/what-was-los...
What Was Lost: A Queer Accounting of the NY Times Book Review, 2013-2022
“Goodbye, Pamela Paul,” was the headline of Andrea Long Chu’s now-iconic, recently ASME-nominated New York Magazine farewell to the former NY Times Book Review editor, when Paul left the paper two …
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Happy Saturday! Here's the Noemi author events and book signings scheduled for today, including SPECIAL EVENT collaborative off-site reading at @redemmas.org tonight at 8PM!
This is it. Way past time for everyone in this country - literally everyone - to find practical ways to support trans people and immigrants, this regime's primary targets. Starting right now, find something practical to do to actually help people.
while the NYT and The Atlantic support trans genocide, and Kansas has abruptly stripped trans people of their driver's licenses, the work of @assignedmedia.org is more vital than ever: www.assignedmedia.org/newsletter
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Going to reshare this again for no real reason whatsoever. www.vox.com/policy-and-p...
Stop worrying about what happens if we let kids transition. Worry about what happens if we don’t.
What’s so scary about a transgender child?
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Audre Lorde, in a 1989 commencement address, said, "Remember this, despair is a tool of your enemies. That rumor, 'You can’t fight City Hall,' is circulated by City Hall. Facing the realities of our lives gives us the motivation for action, it gives us the power to change. You are not powerless."
Abolish ICE is now the moderate minimum position, Prosecute ICE is where Dems should be at next.
Going to throw a few more out here to add to Twin Cities Bookstores: Black Garnet is a newer bookstore in St Paul that specializes in BIPOC literature and has done a lot already to build a community space and there's also Louise Erdrich's Birchbark Books in Minneapolis
Maris Kreizman@maris.bsky.social · 6mo agoI would absolutely love to give you a personalized book recommendation if you promise that tomorrow, not today, you purchase from Bookshop.org to benefit a Twin Cities bookstore.
I’m sharing this video again because people don’t really get what these data centers and ai are doing to our planet and our communities. Especially Black communities because they were strategically placed there. I need you to listen to these people. STOP USING AI. STOP SUPPORTING AI.
CNN@cnn.com · 7mo agoThe world has entered “an era of global water bankruptcy” with irreversible consequences, according to a new United Nations report. https://cnn.it/4qxGTNX
We're writing the UM regents! Please join us! Management's disgraceful offer is both less than what we have received the last three years without a union (11.35%) & significantly less than what other unions on campus have gotten in their first contracts (~17%). UM staff deserve better!
UM Regents! Hear Us! USU Needs a Deal by Friday!
University Staff United, a union of 1800 student & instructional services staff on UMs campuses, have been negotiating a contract with UM HR since June of this year. We have made much progress on ...
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You must react everyday to what is happening. But that is no way to write a book or a sentence. -James Baldwin, intv w Joe Walker, 1972
This is quite interesting as it ends the CTC and EITC and creates a big child allowance (5600/y), a 2k baby bonus and a 3k/y UBI for adults 19-67. The Policy Engine (CC: @maxghenis.bsky.social )folks did an analysis of the net impacts... www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/11/20/r...
Rep. Tlaib’s Economic Dignity for All Agenda Would Bring Economic Security for Millions
The agenda would lower poverty by 42% and child poverty by two-thirds.
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One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.
Jane Shi | 皮爬高 echolalia echolalia is out now@pipagaopoetry.bsky.social · 9mo agowe are around $8K CAd in the red. help us catch up! bit.ly/eSimsRUs #ConnectingGaza
We just created a round-up of organizations providing food help for Detroiters! Here it is, feel free to share to anyone who needs it. 🫶🏾
Outlier Media@outliermedia.org · 9mo agoSNAP funding is on pause. That means thousands of Detroit families who rely on the food assistance program will face a challenging November. Do you need food resources? Here’s how Detroiters are showing up for each other:
"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness) As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)
Did you know that the university of Michigan is building the world’s largest supercomputer for Los Alamos National Labs’ nuclear weapons production programs, and paying for $830 million of it despite not being able to use >90% of it? I wrote about it here: www.michigandaily.com/opinion/umic...
UMich says the Ypsi Data Center won’t “manufacture nuclear weapons.” What does Los Alamos think?
University administration must make a choice: Will it side with the public and live up to its stated ideals of serving the public good and public interest? Or will it side with LANL and spend hundreds...
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The Wall Street Journal needs to issue a full retraction and apology to the trans community for this. Nothing less will suffice. They put us all in danger and recklessly put out incorrect information.
