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Silence didn't save me. This record can. Follow & repost, that's how allies find me.Every share makes me harder to disappear. Thank you for keeping me here. writing about my defiance: https://substack.com/@sheisunbound 🕎🏳️🌈
this isn't a left-right thing. reducing any woman to her appearance is just lazy, dehumanizing journalism. STOP.
IrishStar.com@irishstar.com · 5d agoBarbera Thornhill may have secured a new position, but it's her appearance that has everyone buzzing.
Plus, 14 more great photos from Sun-Times and WBEZ photographers from this week in news.
How we photographed the new baby penguins at Brookfield Zoo
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Here’s something you should know about minks: They have lungs and airways remarkably similar on a cellular level to those of people. They’ve spread flus and infected humans before with COVID-19. Right now, bird flu is spreading on a Utah farm filled with thousands of them… 🧵
Gloria Steinem used her platform to challenge power; today, too many self-styled successors seem afraid to challenge the borders around their solidarity. Women’s rights don’t stop at an area code, and “that’s over there” is a choice, not a principle.
The Baffler@thebaffler.com · last wk.After Gloria Steinem was converted to the cause of women’s rights in 1969, she turned the tables on the powerful men she once covered, holding them accountable with all she had learned about sexism. thebaffler.com/latest/learn...
terrorist lover was admitted just fine, while the woman with wrong narrative needs a life, the machine doesn't just ignore her, it erases her.
Gingit ✡️@gingit.bsky.social · last wk.Bye-bye. Get these terrorist lovers out of Canada.
"defending peace..." yet ignore women asking for advocacy and amplification when their stories don’t fit the preferred narrative.
@jonathan-e.bsky.social · last wk.
Water turns to ice in a precise molecular dance, and that open hexagonal structure makes ice about 9% less dense, which is why lakes freeze from the top down.
Restoring the Ashkenazi Synagogue of Sarajevo will enrich all communities in this diverse city steeped in history
Restoring the Ashkenazi Synagogue of Sarajevo will enrich all communities in this diverse city steeped in history - The Jewish Chronicle
Born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Conservative peer and human rights campaigner Baroness Helic makes an impassioned call for support for the restoration of a landmark shul
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classic case of monopoly on suffering, and the rest of us can see the seams.
Prospect Magazine@prospectmagazine.co.uk · last wk.Proscribing Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation has had a chilling effect on literature and journalism, writes Katie Dancey-Downs
🧵let's talk about the politics of solidarity There’s a painful double standard in international human rights advocacy: some people from a region are quickly recognized as dissidents, courageous fighters, and defenders of human rights. While others facing oppression can struggle to be heard at all.
again, another outlet. the machine doesn't do justice. It does cast selection.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · last wk.Breaking News: Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University graduate who was arrested by ICE agents last year amid campus protests, appealed to the Supreme Court in an attempt to prevent his deportation.
funny how the "human rights" world has a very specific mold of an "activist". while the women who get pushed into the margins, aren't the right ethnicity, the right gender or the right narrative, get silenced not by a state but by the very people who claim to fight silencing.
New York Amsterdam News@nyamnews.bsky.social · last wk.Khalil asks the Supreme Court to overturn a ruling that keeps federal judges from reviewing immigration detentions until immigration courts finish. #MahmoudKhalil #SupremeCourt
Just three weeks before this statement, an Iranian singer was sentenced to 74 lashes just for performing without hijab.
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · last wk.Breaking news: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday night that the Iranian regime must be overthrown once and for all. So long as the Iranian regime remains standing, Netanyahu said, Israel faces an “existential threat.”
I'd love to have you read my latest article about sexist triage in int'l human-rights spaces: whose testimony gets heard, whose gets treated as credible, and whose is left waiting in silence.
Documented, Endangered, Turned Away
Patriarchal Triage in Human Rights Spaces
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🧵spent nine months reaching out to int'l orgs for help. Most attempts have ended in silence or rejection, can’t know why, and don’t wanna claim certainty about anyone’s motives. But as I read conversations around Jewish safety here/bsky. I’ve begun to wonder whether some people hear “Jewish” and
Vanderbilt football halftime show to pay tribute to Dolly Parton
Vanderbilt football halftime show to pay tribute to Dolly Parton
Vanderbilt University Marching and Athletic Bands announced Tuesday that they would be dedicating their halftime show to Dolly Parton this weekend.
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Men can never experience the constant vigilance many women live with.
NBC News@nbcnews.com · 2w agoGerman authorities open an investigation into possible sexual harassment after a robot controlled by two young men inappropriately touched a 16-year-old girl, police say.
too many western feminist spaces still fail woc especially those in the Global South. women are fighting misogyny and violence in hostile environments, often with little local support, while organizations that claim to stand with women are nowhere to be found or minimize what they’re facing.
It takes immense courage to speak out and keep going through a case like this.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w ago‘I wanted to change the stigma’: Nikita Hand on winning a civil rape case against Conor McGregor
Women too often have to do twice the work for a fraction of the recognition. it’s unjust.
The Japan Times@japantimes.co.jp · 2w agoCommentary: Criticism over the University of Tokyo's selection of its first female president should focus on the reasons and process behind the choice rather than assume gender explains it.
They need to address the conditions that make students feel unsafe and make sure they’re heard and supported.
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 2w agoCornell University banned its fraternity houses from hosting parties and social events for the remainder of the school year, its university president said. “It is clear that women on our campus continue to question whether they are safe,” he said. https://wapo.st/4yXUIJF
Pope Leo has 'peaceful night' after lung cancer surgery, says Vatican
Pope Leo has 'peaceful night' after lung cancer surgery, says Vatican
The Pope spent a peaceful night in hospital after having surgery to treat lung cancer, the Vatican said.
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wanna join the club of cool kids 😎
WIRED@wired.com · 2w agoa certain kind of person writes in all lowercase now. why?