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They removed all Transgender references references from the Stonewall website.

It's not on Trans people to fix this. If we're not here for each other, what are we here for?

This doesn't stand with me. If it stands with you, you can leave this page and never return.

Get the word out. For Marsha. Let's become a problem.

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"Punishment feels like a necessary ingredient toward being able to get back to right relationship in some way. And transformative justice challenges those values quite a bit. And it's hard to hold. I too am conditioned in this culture and was punished myself as a child. Very hard to think of what else to do when violence or harm occurs in the world but to punish. It permeates so much that when somebody chooses to do something else, we sometimes react violently toward that person who doesn't choose to punish, who says actually I want to try a different way. Then it's like, 'You aren't holding up your end of the bargain here. What are you saying about my values if you refuse to go after this person in a punishing way?' It's really complex. It's really complicated. It's something I do think a lot about on a regular basis. I'm working actually currently on a resource. It's tentatively titled 'Interrupting the Punishment Mind-set,' and it's intended to be a resource for teachers to work with younger people and help them to think about punishment differently, to move from a focus on punishment to a focus on accountability and consequences. I've been working on it for a long time now. And it's been a struggle because it's so hard to find materials that are the opposite of the thing that we do, which is to punish."

Mariame Kaba, "Moving Past Punishment: Interview by Ayana Young" in We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

Original talk was on episode 151 of the For the Wild podcast, December 27, 2019

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URGENT MUTUAL AID REQUEST

Julian is a Latine child with down syndrome & needs life saving heart surgery that is going to cost upwards of $9000! Carl, his dad, hasn’t been able to find consistent work and seriously needs help getting the money so Julian can get the care he needs.

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Quietly losing my mind over the fact that Elon Musk has straight up orchestrated a coup of our executive branch and like....I don't even know what, if any, system we have in place to fix this. Like... He's just taken control of the money and locked out the actual appointed officials. What the fuck.

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~ zine culture and handmade art are more important than ever ~

"Zines are handmade, self published booklets and — unlike magazines and books — can be made by anyone with a message, a bit of artistic vision, and access to a printer. Zines also have the benefit of being as short or as long as the creator wishes and can cover any subject matter and be of any style, much unlike traditional publishing."

•• to delve more deeply into the importance of zines & DIY publishing check out my recent article on these topics >>

•• find my collection of zines & sewing kits on Etsy ••

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source

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just as a general reminder

learn how to fact-check for yourself, cause soon enough, most online sources won't be reliable

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Take care of yourselves everyone 💚🏳️‍🌈

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Okay so we have this huge problem with forgetting about everything that’s happened by the time the next election rolls around so I’d like to keep a running list of things as they’re happening to help remind us when the 2026 midterms roll around. And please add to this if I’ve missed anything.

January 2025:

Donald Trump pardoned 1500 people who participated in the insurrection of January 6th, including those who violently assaulted and nearly killed police officers.

Donald Trump has declared that trans and non-binary people don’t exist.

Donald Trump is working towards firing everyone in the government who isn’t loyal to him.

Donald Trump has effectively fired everyone who he claims is an “illegal DEI hire” …whatever that means

Donald Trump pulled out of the Paris Climate Agreement and the World Health Organization

Congress are trying to pass the Laken Riley Act to, effectively, round up every immigrant in the country, including LEGAL immigrants

Donald Trump removed caps on prescription drug prices.

Donald Trump wants to withhold federal aid to help combat the LA wildfires and help the thousands of people who have been displaced and lost their homes.

The Department of Justice has put a hold on all civil rights cases.

Donald Trump has cut off aid to Ukraine.

Laken Riley Act has been passed by Congress and is awaiting being signed into law by the President. Here’s the breakdown of the votes: House Senate

Donald Trump purged a dozen inspectors general from the federal government and intends to replace them all with people loyal to him.

Pete Hegseth has been confirmed as Secretary of Defense. Here’s the breakdown of how the Senate voted. Note, it was a 50-50 tie that JD Vance had to break.

Donald Trump imposed a 25% tariff on Colombia after the Colombian government turned away two airplanes carrying migrants. Columbia has retaliated by imposing a 25% tariff of its own on US goods.

Donald Trump has also issued a travel ban for Colombian citizens and revoked visas from Colombian migrants coming to the US.

Donald Trump has now backed off the tariffs and other threats against Colombia. Note for future reference: this comes just hours after Trump made the threat in the first place and he and the Colombian president got into a big fight on social media.

Nearly 1,000 migrants were arrested mostly in Chicago on January 26th by ICE and ICE has been told to meet a quota of 75 migrant arrests every day.

Donald Trump rescinded an anti-discrimination executive order from Lyndon B. Johnson

Donald Trump signed an executive order banning trans people from serving in the military and also ordered that people who were discharged for refusing to get mandatory vaccines be reinstated.

Donald Trump has frozen all federal grants to institutions.

After pressure from state governments, activist groups, and the general public, the White House has rolled back some of the freezes on federal funding.

This.

Donald Trump is trying to fire all federal employees who don’t want to return to the office (work-from-home saves the federal government millions of taxpayer dollars in overhead). He also sent an email to federal employees saying that if they’re not loyal to him, they’ll be investigated.

Donald Trump has signed the Laken Riley Act into law.

Donald Trump has said he doesn’t think Palestinians should be allowed to return to Gaza but instead should be sent to Egypt and Jordan.

Also this.

Donald Trump has ordered undocumented immigrants to be sent to Guantanamo Bay

Donald Trump signed an executive order to expand federal funding for school choice programs. [x]

Donald Trump signed an executive order saying that he will deport visa-holding students who protest against Israel. [x]

Donald Trump has blamed DEI for the plane crash that killed 67 people in Washington D. C. [x]

Donald Trump signed an executive order that schools should no longer teach about racism and discrimination. And that schools should only teach history that is “patriotic” [x]

Florida Representative Anna Paulina Luna wants to add Donald Trump’s face to Mount Rushmore. [x]

Trump’s Department of Education has called book bans a hoax. [x]

The Department of Justice has barred certain news outlets from receiving information from the Pentagon. [x]

The Trump administration has fired multiple FBI officials who investigated the January 6th insurrection. [x]

February 2025

I’ll keep adding to this list as new things come up and, again, please feel free to add anything I’ve missed. I know that in this world of constant news it’s easy to forget, so let’s give our future selves a little help!

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It’s been almost two weeks since the ceasefire in Gaza has gone into effect on January 19, during which Israel has violated the ceasefire deal multiple times in different ways, the most blatant of which is Israel’s continuing to block aid from entering Gaza in a manner as per the humanitarian aid protocol section of the deal.

This has so far meant that no medical supplies were allowed in (although many are waiting at the border), no building material and not enough fuel to allow water and power plants to function again. In an interview earlier, the spokesperson of Gaza’s civil defence said that while the north of Gaza needs about 130,000 tents, it has only received 200 tents so far.

The ceasefire only halts the active, more obvious violence but Gaza remains under brutal Israeli siege, as it has been since 2006. The day the ceasefire started I recall so many people sharing the same sentiment: first ceasefire, second lift the siege. Where is your advocacy with that today?

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all abotu getting coffee and walking around with your headphones or airpods on so no one will talk to you

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Was trying to capture her sweet silhouette in the golden light but uhhhh I guess this works

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Latest sketchbook pages 🌻🌸

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So I was drunk on snapchat last night crying