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[sidebeeashley]

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Our monthly bonus episode is out now. Ashley sits down with @travelingnun and @gregory_coles about their experiences being homeschooled. It is a fun lighthearted episode. You can listen now by becoming a patron at patreon.com/lifeonsideb Note: No homeschoolers were harmed in the making of this episode. The title is a joke and not implying any cause of sexuality.

[fainkitty]

Why defund the police? Listen to those doing the work: ----MPD 150, Instagram: @mpd_150, mpd150.com ----Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Twitter: @KeeangaYamahtta, keeangataylor.com ----Bridget Eileen, twitter.com/TravelingNun/status/1268510966116954114

And don’t forget the ICE: afsc.org/abolish-ice

Resource Compilations: ----Ways to Help, blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ ----North Star Health Collective, northstarhealthcollective.org/ ----Anti-Racism Resources, bit.ly/ANTIRACISMRESOURCES

Black Artist Collections to follow/support: https://blackartists.tumblr.com https://blackartiststudio.tumblr.com/ blackwomenanimate.com

[pern-dragon]

WOW, THIS IS A REALLY THOUGHTFUL, DETAILED THREAD!

[sophiaforevs]

Being a progressive Christian can feel super lonely in America because Conservative and Evangelical Christians are just so LOUD that it makes you think there aren't opposing forces.

So I think it's important to dip our feet into the other side from time to time to remind ourselves that there are people out there who fight for racial equality, women's and LGBT rights, and defending the oppressed in our society.

Tonight I stumbled upon Bridget Eileen's twitter feed and it just felt so good to know be reminded that people like her exist in our faith. If you need strengthening, I recommend checking it out.

@meganmate @sailor-tyene-tully @autumnsummerwinterspring @chatwiththeclouds

[twobroadstalkingpoliticspodcast]

Bridget Eileen Rivera

[tiny-floating-whales]

[ID: A series of tweets from Bridget Eileen @TravelingNun:

Abolishing the police isn't about establishing some kind of free-for-all anarchy where everybody polices themselves and you just hope that nobody decides to police themselves into robbing you or killing you.

It's about recognizing that we have taken almost every single one of our country's most pressing social issues and handed them over to the police to fix with guns and handcuffs and charges and prison.

Our cities face a housing crisis. So instead of figuring out a way to provide affordable housing, which seriously shouldn't be that complicated for the richest country in the world to figure out, we criminalize homelessness and send in the police to make arrests.

Drugs are destroying people's lives in this country. So instead of providing access to treatment and recovery support and helping people escape addiction, we criminalize and send the police. Unless they're white...in that case, they need treatment and recovery.

Our public education system is failing communities of color and students in poverty. So instead of funding schools better, paying teachers more, and reducing classroom size, we send the police to patrol public school entryways and hallways and funnel kids into juvie.

We live in a country where millions of *hard working* people don't make living wage and thus resort to desperate measures to feed their families. But instead of addressing the rampant wealth inequalities and fixing the issues that cause them, we send the police.

Abolishing the police is about recognizing that if we took away from the police every single public issue that they should have never been given to fix in the first place, the police would have literally nothing to do because we've turned them into "social workers" with guns.

It's about recognizing that we've used the police as a cover for rampant racial and economic inequalities that our country is unwilling to fix and that the ones who have paid the price for this most dearly are black people, whose communities are policed into oblivion.

And finally, abolishing the police is NOT about hating cops. Any police officer whose taken time to honestly & critically reflect upon his own frustrations with his own job *knows* that this country expects police to be social workers with guns and *that this is wrong.*

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[paulburkhart]

RT @TravelingNun: Toxic theology is toxic. Just because it's progressive doesn't make it any better.

Toxic theology is toxic. Just because it's progressive doesn't make it any better.

— Bridget Eileen (@TravelingNun) October 24, 2019

from Twitter https://twitter.com/PaulBurkhart_ October 24, 2019 at 01:27PM

[listentodelion]

Tweeted

Do you or somebody you know think that #AbolishThePolice is unrealistic? It might be because you haven’t taken the time to understand what it means, the reasons for it, and why it actually makes a lot of sense. [Thread]

— Bridget Eileen (@TravelingNun) June 4, 2020

[dengusmaximus]

TravelingNun @ June 04, 2020 at 07:52AM

Do you or somebody you know think that #AbolishThePolice is unrealistic? It might be because you haven’t taken the time to understand what it means, the reasons for it, and why it actually makes a lot of sense. [Thread]

— Bridget Eileen (@TravelingNun) June 4, 2020

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[sidebeeashley]

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@christiansocact is putting together a book club in November to go through the upcoming book Heavy Burdens with author @travelingnun.

[danielschneider]

Do you or somebody you know think that #AbolishThePolice is unrealistic? It might be because you haven’t taken the time to understand what it means, the reasons for it, and why it actually makes a lot of sense. [Thread]

— Bridget Eileen (@TravelingNun) June 4, 2020

[akalittlevoice]

Queer Kids VS. The World

Photo: AKA Little Voice

Let’s talk about books. I just picked up Jodie Patterson’s book, The Bold World. I first saw a recommendation by Girlfriends and Being Mary Jane screenwriter and producer Mara Brock Akil, and then listened to Touré interview Jodie on his podcast. It was a very enlightening interview about raising a trans child, full of love and care. I can’t wait to start reading. I also hope that it becomes clear, that a priority of the parents of LGBTQ+ kids is to protect them from harm just like any other parent. I especially hope, with this book and examples set by Dwyane Wade, Magic Johnson, and their extended families, that a frank conversation begins within the Black community about how to support and uplift LGBTQ+ children.

Photo: SNL

When I first moved to my West Village neighborhood, I saw lots of young Black kids congregating on Christopher Street near the PATH train to New Jersey, every Friday and Saturday night. I was so curious about how and why they landed in this particular area which was and still remains uber white and suburban, even in the middle of a metropolis. Yoga pants, leashed dogs, and double-wide strollers abound, but I digress. I finally realized that these kids came to the Village to be free. Free from the judgment of neighbors and family who didn’t accept them as they were, even to the extreme of threatening or inflicting violence.

I guessed that they probably stayed close to the train so that after their momentary freedom, they could conveniently hop back on a train to a place they may have begrudgingly called home. I also realized that some of these kids had already been thrown away by their family and were likely living hand to mouth. The Village was where they could meet up with their chosen family, and maybe feel just a bit of safety in numbers.

Photo: Twitter @ BridgetEileen

On the opposite end of the spectrum, I read a recent Twitter thread of LGBTQ+ kids sharing how their parents kept them under virtual house arrest to deter them from fraternizing with “ bad influences.”  (https://twitter.com/TravelingNun/status/1116659042234064896). This included tutors who provided LGBTQ+ resources to kids who were struggling not only academically, but with identity, and the trauma their parents were inflicting upon them. The mind boggles that keeping one’s child under house arrest is the best response to dealing with their sexuality and gender identity.

Photo: Viceland/”My House”

These days I miss seeing the kids down at the pier practicing their routines for the balls. If I do nothing else in life, I will dance and be entranced by dance until the day I die. I dream of experiencing a ball, and one day I will master the “dip” (not a death drop), without the fear of dislocating my entire middle-aged ankle, knee, and hip. Until then I’ll live vicariously through viewings of Paris Is Burning and Pose. And I’ ll pray for and support the kids because they don’t deserve to be thrown away or locked up. They deserve to live their biggest dreams just like everybody else. They are enough.

Photo: Jojo Whilden/FX from “Pose”