@drleydavis
She/Her/Hers Texan 🤠, Southern Black culture enthusiast 👒, nature lover 🌲, womanist 🫶🏽, Longhorn🤘🏽, and women’s sports enthusiast 🏀. Areas of interest: Racial justice, health equity, social justice, human rights, and public health 😷 DrPH, MPH
Idc about people being motivated by spite as long as they can also be motivated by love. It doesn’t have to be the fuel you use every time you hit the gas. I don’t really care what gets you there, I just want you to have a full set of tools. Dependence on one kind of motivation is self-destructive.
Awful and horrific!!! Everyone involved in not bringing charges needs to be held accountable
With funding from the Initiative, Michele Decker, Bloomberg Fellow Janice Miller, and House of Ruth Maryland, set out to quantify the "undercount” of intimate partner violence survivors experiencing homelessness in publicly available survey data. Read more: americanhealth.jhu.edu/news/underco...
I'm not teaching my grad course 'Civil Resistance: How It Works' this semester. But here is an abridged version of the course schedule, readings, and films I used the last time I taught it (in 2022). Just in case it's useful. drive.google.com/file/d/14RRJ...
Dear Democratic Party: why are you not screaming this from every rooftop? Why are you not holding press conferences with these poor fired people - putting a face on what the richest man is destroying?
Giving infectious disease research a break, as promised by the MAHA agenda.
Let's break down what exactly this Executive Order is *really* saying.
Fortunately, I speak fluent anti-vax grifterese & can translate.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
soon enough, the mere presence of black and latino students on campus will be illegal racial discrimination against white students www.insidehighered.com/news/diversi...
The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here.
HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻
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I guess Barbara Jordan didn’t exist? Fannie Lou Hamer? You ever heard of an organization called the Southern Poverty Law Center? The NAACP? Please review their historic and present-day work on disabilities and let know what you find. I am unsure how many times I need to say anti-DEI is ableist.
“The Black community never has our backs.” Meanwhile, Black and Indigenous people have the highest disability rates. Who is our? Maybe learn to be intersectional and stop letting your whiteness fuel your desire to disrupt conversations by centering your own experiences. That’s why we are here now!
The person you responded to wasn’t talking about Trump, they were speaking more broadly, hence the hard -er reference. Just because they reshared a post that was doesn’t mean their point was lost. The convos yesterday were ableist, but again, that’s not what that person was referencing more broadly.
A professional headshot of a woman in a navy suit with long black hair.
I’m sad to learn that my law school classmate, Kiah Duggins, died in the DC plane crash last night.
Kiah was an exceptionally talented civil rights lawyer and aspiring legal scholar.
I hope you’ll read about her work and the causes she cared about, some of which I’ll 🧵 below.
What an immense loss
Screengrab of a Washington Post article: “Trump launched air controller diversity program that he now decries At news conference, Trump read a list of disabilities he calls disqualifying, but his administration started such hiring in 2019”
A screengrab of the FAA press release: “FAA Provides Aviation Careers to People with Disabilities Thursday, April 11, 2019 The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today announced a pilot program to help prepare people with disabilities for careers in air traffic operations. A key focus for the FAA's Office of Civil Rights is to identify specific opportunities for people with targeted disabilities, empower them and facilitate their entry into a more diverse and inclusive workforce.”
DEI programs and people with disabilities did not cause the midair collision in DC. Trump gutting the FAA did that.
But the DEI program Trump is trying to blame was started in 2019 — by Trump.
Okay, I’m going to stop engaging with you because you are bringing up a topic the person I was responding to was not discussing. The hard “er” is a racial reference; I’m unsure why you are overlooking that, but I see why people say BlueSky has white liberal energy 😩.
The poster said DEI was a way for people to say the hard er, that’s a race reference. That’s not to say that anti-DEI rhetoric is not used to be ableist, sexist, homophobic, etc, but when someone is called a “DEI mayor” for example, I can make assumptions about their race. Largely is accurate.
Working on a grant application and mid-draft, I’m notified by a colleague that the CDC’s social vulnerability index tool has been removed from their site. For a party who claims they want a small government, they are taking big efforts to suppress essential training, documents, and resources.
I honestly think Caste made them sit up in their chairs, then when Juneteenth became a federal holiday, it was all downhill from there.
i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country
Don’t forget “woke!”
Not just race but largely and that’s okay to name
this is mutual aid:
* seed libraries
* tool lending libraries
* book/toy recycling
* meal distro
* bail funds
* disaster response
* cmty health clinics
* reciprocal childcare
* senior outreach
* direct $ asst
* translation svcs
* job training
* repair cafes
* wifi share
Oh what a beautiful life you are living!!!!! Happy to be following another Texan as well!
I heard that nonprofit mentioned at the end of The Grift as one of the orgs doing real change and I cringed 😔
1. Wow, the bios! Such amazing people on here, so happy to be connected.
2. Outside of social justice and human rights, how and where do I find the sports dolls and those with questionable taste in television shows like myself? Love & Marriage Huntsville, Traitors, RHOP, M2M, etc?
Oh no 😂, hate I missed the scandal!
Tailed tucked and all 🫣😂. Okay, I see you’re the King of this here app!
Well hello again Blue Sky 🌌
A selfie with myself Joe and Ashley
A sunglasses selfie with Joe and Ashley
A night picture in a tent of Christmas lights
I have cool friends we do cool things w @ashnic917.bsky.social and Joe