I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.
The Atlantic should be ashamed of publishing this nightmare piece from Liz Bruenig, whose callous dismissal of Adriana Smith's dignity is one of the most shocking things I've ever read.
Even a corpse in the morgue has rights - you can't harvest its organs or donate it to science without consent of the family or prior consent from the deceased. To say her choice is irrelevant because she is no longer making choices is appalling. Pregnant women now have less rights than the dead.
Anti-abortion measures deny pregnant women the bodily autonomy we grant the dead. No one, even a corpse, can be forced to be an organ donor, no matter the lives that could be saved. But a pregnant woman is expected to donate her blood supply, at not inconsiderable risk, to a potential person.
STOP: Don’t panic–organize!
@thefreeradical.org and I consulted for weeks with experts about the bill attacking Medicaid for trans people.
We find that advocates can still kill the bill or mitigate its impacts through direct action and community solidarity. 🧵👇🏽
www.madycast.com/p/dont-panic...
Before you ask what I think we should do, please take a look at my work & words over the past years: container gardening, Infosec, organizing, building offline/online communities, re-educating ourselves/other, boycotting & divesting, our own businesses - it's all to build literal People power.
Who needs (or wants!) a roommate for MLA in Philly?? I would be happy to split the cost of a hotel room! Also pls put *Return of the Repressed: New Psychoanalytic Approaches to Early Modern Literature* Fri 1/5 5:15pm, and *Re-Reading Marlowe!* Sun 1/7 10:15am, on your MLA dance card!
omg hi! That's such a kind thing to say. It's even free: https://manifold.umn.edu/projects/the-shapes-of-fancy I don't know what's going to happen to the bird site / the internet / the world, but I couldn't risk losing thousands of my closest friends, on whom I eavesdrop every day!
