Meg Stone
@megstoneimpact.bsky.social
Executive Director, IMPACT Boston, author, THE COST OF FEAR Why Most Safety Advice is Sexist and How We Can Stop Gender-based Violence. Beacon Press, Feb 2025.
If you receive the bogus safety tip to not go shopping alone as a woman and to get a security guard to walk you back to your car, ask if there’s a crime cluster. The answer will be no. @megstoneimpact.bsky.social
667 // The Reality of Baseless Protection w/ Meg Stone
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True crime or false safety advice? Thank you Crawlspace podcast for this conversation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIsg...
667 // The Reality of Baseless Protection w/ Meg Stone
YouTube video by Crawlspace Podcast
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I love @ifbookspod.bsky.social Became a subscriber the day you launched your Patreon and listen to every episode. I’m also an abuse and violence prevention expert. I take issue with one claim you made in your otherwise delightful takedown of The Body Keeps the Score.
If Books Could Kill@ifbookspod.bsky.social · 2mo agoEpisode 53: The Body Keeps The Score In 2014, a Dutch researcher revolutionized our understanding of trauma with insights like "don't talk about it" and "get a massage."
Many of the self-defense myths @megstoneimpact.bsky.social heard 20-25 years ago are getting a new life on TikTok. 😬 The work of busting these myths is never done.
Meg Stone on 'Don't Fight Back' and other self-defense myths
On this week’s 51%, we speak with Meg Stone, violence prevention expert and executive director of IMPACT Boston, about her upcoming book “Don’t Fight Back” And 10 Other Myths About Crime, Personal…
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Boston-area folks: I hope to see you at my book launch May 13th at @portersqbooks.bsky.social Boston edition in conversation with @bostonfdn.bsky.social's Candace Burton. @beaconpress.bsky.social
sharing a couple ways local folks can keep the “hell yeah we are building stuff!” momentum in the next few weeks: 1) @mutualaidmamas.bsky.social is holding a free store on 11/22 at the East Somerville Community School and there are LOTS of volunteer opps starting now: forms.gle/aPEaRKZ4u6nb...
November 22 MAMAS Free Clothing Store at East Somerville Community School (50 Cross Street) Form / Formulario para la tienda de ropa gratuita de MAMAS en el East Somerville Community School (50 Cross ...
Please fill out this form if you'd like to volunteer. The event will take place at the school playground. Setup 7a-10a, Free Store open 10a-2p, cleanup 2p-3p. / Favor de rellenar este formulario si de...
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Practical safety skills for living a bigger life! Hope to see you at @wburcityspace.bsky.social! www.wbur.org/events/10312...
Stand Strong: A night of self-defense training and empowerment
Every year, nearly one in four women will experience sexual violence on college campuses, but research shows that empowerment self-defense programs reduce these assaults by 50% or more. Join us for a ...
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20 years ago, Hurricane Katrina thrashed lower Louisiana in the eerie early morning hours of August 29. 6 days after landfall, NOPD officers shot 6 Black citizens on the Danziger Bridge and hatched a cover-up with their supervisors. #TDIH
“I knew this was a bullsh*t story, but I went along with it”: Police violence after Katrina and how it was covered up - Salon.com
The truth behind the Danziger Bridge killings in New Orleans has been hard to unravel . Here's how it went down
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NEW: The Texas Republican lawmaker who blocked Democrats’ effort to filibuster the state’s gerrymander suggested “shoot, shovel and shut up” as a way to deal with immigrants — a comment that could boost legal efforts to block the state’s map. From: @jenrice.bsky.social
Texas GOPer Who Blocked Filibuster Shared Approach to Immigrants: ‘Shoot, Shovel and Shut Up’
Read more here.
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There’s not enough evidence about what makes us safer. But @megstoneimpact.bsky.social says the evidence we do have is that self-defense programs that are explicitly feminist and that focus on familiar sexual assault reduce sexual assault by 50% or more.
Episode 29: The Cost of Fear - with author Meg Stone - Breaking Down Patriarchy
we save our own lives
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It is not compliance that makes us safer, but resistance, critical thinking, self-advocacy, and choice. - Meg Stone That’s true for safety. It’s also true for visibility. 🎧 Hear how Meg wrote a bold, brave book - and got published without playing small. www.lanelit.com/blog/how-to-...
How to Turn Your Advocacy Into a Book That Demands Attention
Learn how Meg Stone turned decades of advocacy into a bold, publishable book - and how you can turn your mission into a message that gets noticed.
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Fascinating history. I didn't realize the role the AIDS crisis and the Reagan administration played in our current sex ed landscape. Can't wait to read this book!
Beacon Press@beaconpress.bsky.social · 12mo agoIn a surprise plot twist, Ronald Reagan’s surgeon general, C. Everett Koop, called for sex ed curriculum to start as early as 3rd grade. The threat of AIDS made the need critical. @literaryhub.bsky.social
In the world we’re living in now, every definition of gender-based violence has to be inclusive of trans people, non-binary people, and men. @megstoneimpact.bsky.social
Episode 29: The Cost of Fear - with author Meg Stone - Breaking Down Patriarchy
we save our own lives
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Ghislaine Maxwell raped over a thousand little girls and right now she's at a Club Fed in Texas eating better food and receiving better health care than America's working poor. A clear symptom of a terminally ill society. If this doesn't piss you off, you are sub-human scum.
#PHILADELPHIA people... join me September 16th to support a great cause! www.eventbrite.com/e/empower-ho...
Empower Hour-Meet the Author Meg Stone
Join NBC10's Tracy Davidson in a powerful conversation about safety and regaining personal power with author Meg Stone
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NEW: Greystar, which manages nearly 950,000 apartments, has agreed to stop using “anti-competitive” algorithms to suggest rents. ProPublica previously showed how such software lets landlords set rents in a way that could result in cartel-like behavior. By @heathervogell.bsky.social
America’s Largest Landlord to Stop Using RealPage Rent-Setting Software, Makes Deal With DOJ
Greystar, which manages nearly 950,000 apartments, has agreed to stop using “anti-competitive” algorithms to suggest rents. ProPublica previously showed how such software lets landlords set rents in a...
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I am really looking forward to reading this book!
Beacon Press@beaconpress.bsky.social · 12mo agoHappy #PubDay, Margaret Grace Myers! 🎆 THE FIGHT FOR SEX ED, an impassioned call to reform sex ed in US schools into a powerful tool for reproductive justice and social equality, “illuminates a history that is more vital than ever before.” — @emmastraub.bsky.social buff.ly/sJkM81W
#womensafety #safetyhacks #personalsafety
Meg Stone@megstoneimpact.bsky.social · 12mo agoIf you're tired of racist, sexist, fear-mongering, stranger-danger safety advice (or you just want to know what your teenager is seeing online) check out this free workshop! TOMORROW 8/7, 7pm Eastern. (And again in September)
If you're tired of racist, sexist, fear-mongering, stranger-danger safety advice (or you just want to know what your teenager is seeing online) check out this free workshop! TOMORROW 8/7, 7pm Eastern. (And again in September)
More #Lateadopter catch-up. Here I was on CSPAN. www.c-span.org/program/book...
[The Cost of Fear]
Meg Stone offered strategies on how to discern between fact and fiction when it comes to promoting safety and stopping gender-based violence. Fountain Bookstore in Richmond, Virginia, hosted this even...
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Throughout her travels across the globe, @sgriest.bsky.social observed that art holds many meanings for women artists. Art is a form of reconciliation. Art is a form of dissent. For her, art is a form of healing.
Local author talks 'Art above everything'
Local author, Stephanie Elizondo Griest talks 'Art Above Everything' and her journey as a writer.
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Ever the #Lateadopter trying to catch up on BlueSky! Here is my piece on @oldstermag.bsky.social . Thank you @saribotton.bsky.social
This is (Almost) 52: Empowerment Author Meg Stone Responds to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire
"Nothing is surprising about being a childless, queer Gen-X-er in my early 50s, because I grew up having no idea what my life would look like."
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It takes so much more heart, energy, and creativity to fix a problem than to point it out and diminish imperfect solutions.
Aubrey Gordon@yrfatfriend.bsky.social · last yr.If you’re rolling your eyes at a problem you observe (like a perceived lack of media literacy) without even attempting to help solve it, then you’re just judging and condescending. Usually to people who haven’t had the same access to education and resources you have.
