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ICYMI: I wrote about my journey of unlearning the Zionist myths I grew up with, and coming to solidarity with Palestinians, for the online magazine Worlds of Possibility.
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This is entirely ridiculous - I'm Jewish and I have multiple of these octopus plushes.
Ocotpus imagery *can* be used in antisemitic ways - e.g., depicting Jews with tentacles reaching around the world - but octopi on their own are not inherently antisemitic.
See that little stuffed toy above her shoulder?
Greta is now being accused of antisemitism because some are claiming octopuses are always an antisemitic symbol for Jewish people.
Except it’s a plushy toy used by MANY autistic people to convey feeling states nonverbally:
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Thinking a lot about how much suffering is going to come - is already happening - from the combination of these two truths:
1.) We live in a fatphobic and ableist society that pushes exercise as the answer to everything
2.) Exercise often exacerbates long covid.
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@CallaWalsh
Wow, that's so fucked-up! Good for her for pointing out how horrifying the assignment is.
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One thing that drives me up a wall is how climate breakdown disproportionately affects disabled people, and yet able-bodied people keep proposing climate "solutions" - like banning cars - without taking disabled people's needs into account.
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@socialistdogmom
This is super gaslight-y. Black people around the country are saying that they're experiencing a level of extreme noise from fireworks that they've never heard before.
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If you're in the Boston area, check our Yafa Bakery and Cafe, a Palestinian cafe in Somerville. I picked up a bunch of pastries and a cheesy bread there today, and they're all SO GOOD.
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There's a growing consensus that the best way to prevent long covid, or at least reduce its severity, is to rest and avoid exercising for a few weeks after having covid.
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@socialistdogmom
You could try believing them instead of telling them that they must be wrong and this is just normal.
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@linayevaa
Why are you trying so hard to convince your friends that Zelensky is bad? He's leading a country that's under imperialist attack, and the Ukrainian people deserve solidarity and support for their anti-imperialist fight whether or not their leaders have perfect politics.
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But so much of our society encourages people to exercise even when they don't feel up for it - especially fat people.
It breaks my heart to think of all the people exercising while they have covid or shortly after, thinking that it will improve their health (because
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Today's reminder that climate breakdown and social justice are inextricably linked, and anyone who thinks we can decarbonize first and fight oppression later is both morally and strategically wrong.
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Or even worse, never learning about the connection between exercise making post-viral conditions more severe, and continuing to push themselves to exercise, causing their condition to worsen, and blaming themselves.
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we're bombarded with messages that eating "healthy" and exercising is necessary for health, and if you don't, you'll get fat and die), and then learning that it actually caused or exacerbated their long covid.
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FYI, the "lizard people" thing comes from an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory. Please don't use it when talking about Stephen Miller (or anyone Jewish)!
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Zionists are really grasping at straws to try to shut down any criticism of Israel.
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@Remember_Sarah
I hope the babies do organize, and end up taking away their parents' wealth and redistributing it!
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@Remember_Sarah
As someone who has worked in daycare: NOPE NOPE NOPE, being around this many babies is extremely stressful and exhausting, and I can't imagine why anyone would do it for funsies.
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@daydreamsrocio
I mean, I have relatives in Argentina because when my family members fled the Holocaust, some went to the US and some went to Argentina.
It's weird to assume that Argentinians are descendants of Nazis, when many are actually Jewish descendants of Holocaust survivors.
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Massive crowd protesting for Palestine in Copley Square, Boston 🇵🇸:
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Fuck banning cars, ban ableism instead.
Let's design transit systems that meet everyone's needs - which will involve far fewer cars than we have now, but not none.
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Cars are an access need for some disabled people. Other disabled people rely on public transit and need it to be accessible. There's no one method of transit that works for all disabled and/or chronically ill people, and listening to a wide variety of such people
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It boggles my mind how some people can follow fat activists, claim to respect their work, and still encourage intentional weight loss.
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As a Jew with one grandfather who survived the Holocaust, and one who barely made it out in time, this is what breaks me the most. 💔
"4000+ children killed" does not capture the damage being done. The dead can rest in peace. The living are forever broken. There are 1.1 million children in Gaza who are traumatized forever. They could live until they're 100 years old and the trauma will never leave their bodies.
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@GaydolphS
@socialistdogmom
Considering all the ways that the CIA has suppressed Black protest in the past, it's actually not that much of a stretch.
It's not the only plausible reason, but it is one of them, and I think it's best to keep an eye on the situation and listen to Black ppl on the ground.
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So I looked at the criticisms of Hannah Gadsby's Picasso exhibit, and...mostly it seems like people were just looking for a reason to pile on a queer, trans, autistic person.
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@HurnPubBooks
@bostonlibsox
@DormantLime
@_TallieRose
You could have literally just believed the author when she told you that she was bisexual, instead of claiming that she was writing about a community she wasn't part of.
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@_HannahRitchie
There was indeed a sustainable way of living (or rather, multiple ways) in the past - they were practiced by many Indigenous cultures. Despite colonialism's efforts to destroy their worlds, Indigenous people still protect the majority of Earth's land and water.
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At Harvard to protest the university's crackdown on free speech in support of Palestine, including suspending a Black grad student and taking away his housing. 🇵🇸
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I used to believe that Israel had a "right to exist," because I conflated the existence of a Jewish ethno-state with Jewish safety.
Turns out, no state has a right to exist!
*People* have a right to exist, not government configurations.
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It's 20-fucking-23 and it drives me up a wall that people are still saying this.
*No one* should be forced to live in poverty, period, whether or not they're able to work full-time.
If you work full-time, you should be paid enough to afford survival basics: food, housing, healthcare.
It’s really that simple.
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about their needs is an important first step.
And yet people are still out here saying "ban cars." 🙄
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@Eve_Barlow
Why would Jews be tired of Palestinians demanding their freedom from a violent apartheid state? I'm Jewish and I support them.
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I don't know how these dogs got up there - there really isn't mushroom for them.
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I think about this all the time. I learned so much from feminist, fat acceptance, racial justice, sex-positive, queer, disability, etc blogs in the early 2000s - to be honest, a lot more than I learned from my college classes around the same time.
it's a real cultural studies problem that it's easier to find and reference a new yorker article written in the 1930s than it is to find blog posts written in the late 1990s and early 2000s
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Today's worldwide climate strike felt like a tipping point. The kind of tipping point beyond which a movement becomes unstoppable. The kind of tipping point they write about in history books.
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Yeah it's been driving me a little crazy that Congress is literally debating our future right now and it feels like no one outside the climate movement is paying attention.
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At
#Lights4Liberty
Boston
#JewsAgainstICE
#CloseTheCamps
#EndUSConcentrationCamps
#NeverAgainIsNow
#NeverAgain
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@Katamabob
Yes exactly!! It really is infuriating.
The octopi are so cute - I actually have three of them!
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I hate when people are like, "My quirky personal definition of Zionism means [something other than what it actually means, which is supporting the existence of a Jewish ethno-nationalist state], therefore you can't say Zionism is bad!" 🙄
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@Mentha_Blu
@DarkLiterata
At least for me (cis as far as I know, although I'm aware that could change someday), the descriptor "woman" just feels accurate.
Like, I recently saw someone talk about being non-binary by saying that they had felt unhappy in the boxes marked "girlhood" and "womanhood,"
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Today I'm saying the Mourner's Kaddish, a Jewish prayer that honors the dead, for the 100,000 people we have lost to COVID-19 in the US. May their memory be a blessing.
#WeGrieveTogether
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@FiveFiveFiver
@dereckapurnell
It's not paid for by big oil, it's paid for by an oil heiress who is using her family's ill-gotten wealth to fight the fossil fuel industry.
Which is exactly what more oil heirs and heiresses should do!
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@Mentha_Blu
@DarkLiterata
and my immediate reaction was, "Huh, girlhood/womanhood never felt like a constraining box to me - it just feels like an accurate descriptor of who I am."
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Ready for tonight's
@NeverAgainActn
protest in Boston!
#JewsAgainstICE
#AbolishICE
#CloseTheCamps
#NeverAgainIsNow
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@Mentha_Blu
@DarkLiterata
I lean toward a feminine presentation, but that's not what makes me a woman - I still feel like a woman (albeit a not-very-well-decorated one) when I'm wearing ratty pajamas and no makeup or jewelry.
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Me, getting dressed to go to a botanic garden: I have to make it clear to the flowers that I'm one of them! 💐🌷🌻🌸🌼
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It boggles my mind that authors like Sandra Newman have so little imagination, so little compassion, that they can create a world where half of the population disappears into a hell dimension and instead of being devastated, the survivors are happier without them.
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Huge protest for Palestinian liberation in Copley Square, Boston, including a group from
@JVPBoston
!
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Honestly I hate this kind of "activism," both because trying to shame people into making different individual choices is both ineffective and assholish, and because cars are an accessibility aid for some (not all) disabled people.
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@lingerie_addict
All feelings are valid, *but* not all actions based on those feelings are.
If people are using "all feelings are valid" to mean "all actions based on my feelings are justified," then yeah, that's ridiculous.
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@Eve_Barlow
What I'm tired of is Zionists claiming that Palestinian freedom is a threat to Jewish safety.
It's bullshit - our safety as Jews will never come from oppressing another group of people.
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The only way I can imagine a Gender Plague book being not-terrible: if it's about a TERF witch who magically banishes all men, and a scrappy band of trans witches (and maybe some werewolves and vampires too) who team up to undo her spell.
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Tiny purses are so 2019. The in accessory for 2020 is tiny kittens!
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I get frustrated when I read articles about the dangers of climate change that are like, "we need to change everything!! mainstream climate advocates' policies don't go far enough!" and completely fail to mention that there is a entire grassroots climate movement that has been
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@thewashistation
I'm part of a penpal exchange (
#penpalooza
) and I use washi tape for decorating letters and envelopes!
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@DanRiffle
This is a really, really bad take. What people are reporting goes far beyond normal fireworks - it's constant, extremely loud noise that goes all night.
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I hate when people are like, "My quirky personal definition of Zionism means [something other than what it actually means, which is supporting the existence of a Jewish ethno-nationalist state], therefore you can't say Zionism is bad!" 🙄
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This happened in Boston too, when
@NeverAgainActn
protested outside the Suffolk County detention center. 💔
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@rrrents
@theashleyray
@MargaritaNicko1
Right?? It seems like a lot of people have a really transactional view of dating, where they want dates to spend a lot of money on them rather than like...wanting to find out if they click as people. It's honestly sad.
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@femoidwitch
Special permits aren't good enough, though - many disabled or chronically ill people have a hard time getting a diagnosis, and may not be able to get a doctor or other gatekeepers to sign off on the need for a car.
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@michaelharriot
Um, there's nothing wrong with being fat, and plenty of us were already fat before the pandemic.
Fatness is a normal body size variation, not something shameful that needs to be hidden away.
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@nhannahjones
There's one coming up on Wednesday:
If you have lost someone to COVID-19 who you would like honored in our
#WeGrieveTogether
twitter vigil next week, you can share that info with us here:
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The weird/jarring thing about doing climate activism: swinging back and forth between excitement about everything we're working on and deep sadness about what we're facing.
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I love when people judge the choices that marginalized people make to survive oppressive systems rather than the people in power who designed, and profit from, those systems. Especially when they've never had to make those choices themselves.
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Here's one good piece about how banning cars harms disabled people:
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@LadyofLilacs
@thewashistation
I also keep a washi swatch book! (Well, a few washi swatch books at this point...)
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@HurnPubBooks
@bostonlibsox
@DormantLime
@_TallieRose
She said she was bi in her query, so you didn't so much assume as you disregarded her self-identification.
@T_MECE
I said I was bi in my query so if they didn't know I don't know what to tell them. I've been out for twenty years.
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I'm not Palestinian. I'm Ashkenazi Jewish. But my ancestors survived European pogroms and the Holocaust. And so I advocate for Palestine, because I can't stand by as history is repeated BY MY OWN PEOPLE, in the name of our collective safety.
I’m not Palestinian. I’m South African. But my ancestors survived European invasion, Dutch and English settler colonisation, and Afrikaner nationalist white supremacist Apartheid. And so I advocate, I can’t stand by as history is repeated. In that way, I’m also Palestinian. 🙏🏾
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@AnaMardoll
I'm glad you got away from him! ❤
It's so ridiculous - and so racist - how white people are conflating Will Smith's act of standing up for his wife with spousal abuse.
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@l_u_n_a13
@dreamsofskies
It depends! The more you rest in the first few weeks of recovery, the greater your chances of recovering completely and being able to resume exercising.
But people who already have long covid should be really careful, because they may experience long-term negative effects
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Dear men,
If you're going to go to an event that's explicitly for the purpose of talking about climate feelings...please don't change the subject every time someone talks about their feelings.
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The demand for a ceasefire comes directly from Palestinians in Gaza. It's the number one priority thay they're asking allies to uplift, in order to save lives.
“ceasefire” has already become a safe(r) and liberal demand in the ways that “defund the police” did in 2020. palestinians should be free from the siege supported and funded by our governments, and ultimately released from the constraints of this nuclear white ethnostate.
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This is especially tricky for fat people, because most of the "sustainable," "eco-friendly," etc brands don't make plus sizes.
Climate Twitter, you all know that the fashion industry is a big source of waste and CO2. Where do you get sustainable, climate friendly, fair trade clothes? Seems like there should be a list that goes beyond the obvious (Patagonia, thrift stores etc.).
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@WeWontBuildIt
@TheRaDR
@amazon
As one of the many
#JewsAgainstIce
, and a descendant of Holocaust survivors who wishes that IBM employees had done what you're doing: thank you. ❤✊
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@fatnutritionist
Yes! I developed asthma a few years ago after (presumably) having some sort of virus. I had a weird scratchy throat for a week or so, and then suddenly started having trouble breathing, and it was terrifying. Luckily once I got diagnosed and started taking medication, my symptoms
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communities had disappeared overnight.
Can you even imagine the level of devastation and grief?
And yet supposedly this world would be kinder and gentler.
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Gay male communities - which were already decimated by the AIDS epidemic and homophobic government neglect in the '80s and '90s - would be nearly entirely disappeared.
Trans gay men, and some intersex gay men, would wake up to find that the vast majority of their
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Narratives I want fewer of: white men running off to the woods to live in a cabin off the grid and find themselves
Narratives I want more of: people of all genders building community and engaging in collective action. How hard and also incredibly rewarding that can be.
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When the pandemic is over, I'm going to have a year of wild partying...and by wild partying, I mean movie nights, crafternoons, going out to eat with small groups of friends, picnics, potlucks, pub sings, blues dancing, craft fairs, and lots and lots of hugging.
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You know who else would disappear? Male and transfeminine Holocaust survivors. Survivors of a genocide that, among other things, tried to wipe out the very existence of trans people.
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One of the great things about how mainstream climate activism has become, especially with the youth climate strike, is that I have a lot less of that cognitive dissonance of knowing that we're in a global emergency while everyone is acting like everything's normal.
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@MaryHeglar
Orion’s belt is a huge waist of space!
I know, I know, it’s a terrible joke....three stars.
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@fatnutritionist
have been mild and occasional, but it was really scary to suddenly develop a new condition seemingly out of the blue as an adult.
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My paternal grandfather fudged his papers to get into the US, after spending years in a Displaced Persons camp after he survived the Holocaust.
#JewsAgainstICE
Sarah is talking about her great-grandparents, who lied in order to get their family into the US and get citizenship when they fled anti-semitic violence in Russia. So many of our people who tried to do things ‘the right way’ ended up dying, because immigration is life or death.
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*And* it would have to grapple with the extreme devastation, both emotional and logistical, that such a gendercide would cause, especially for marginalized communities.
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It's not our parents' and grandparents' generations, as a whole, who put this system in place. It's a small number of rich powerful people, mostly white men.
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Just got vaccinated, and since we don't have Krispy Kreme in MA, I celebrated with a grasshopper donut from the always incredible Union Square Donuts. 🍩
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@MsEmilyEdwards
@inLaurasWords
Cool, it's great that you assume your experience is universal despite the many, many people in this thread describing their very different experiences.
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@ASlavitt
And a serious lack of white, middle-class people realizing that their experiences aren't universal - that, because of preexisting inequalities, people of color and working class/poor ppl are being hit the hardest by covid.
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@mary_hosford
@SFdirewolf
Where do you suggest disabled people go? Most countries won't just accept random Americans, and in addition many countries have extremely ableist immigration systems that make it near-impossible for disabled people to move there.
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I've been writing
#PostcardsToVoters
, because it's a tangible thing I can do daily, and also my inner 10-year old really enjoys using colorful pens and fun stickers.
If anyone's interested, you can sign up to write postcards here:
The best curative to fury & despair is action.
Which, coincidentally, is also deeply needed.
The election is THIS YEAR. We need all hands on deck w/local, state, national races, voter registration, GOTV, everything. We need people to give time, money, skills. What can you do?
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Canvassing with
@BDSBoston
earlier today outside the office of Elbit Systems, Israel's largest weapons manufacturer, in Cambridge.
Elbit out of Cambridge!! We don't want genocide profiteers in our backyard.
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My first batch of
@sunrisemvmt
postcards to voters is ready to go in the mail tomorrow morning!
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Can you believe I've been married to this cutie for 6 years?!! 😍💖🎉
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@HurnPubBooks
@bostonlibsox
@DormantLime
@_TallieRose
Either you're lying, or you didn't read her query and assumed she wasn't LGBTQ+ without even going back to check the query letter, let alone doing any research on her. I'm not sure which is worse!
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@pirateconductor
@HurnPubBooks
@bostonlibsox
@DormantLime
@_TallieRose
Also she literally said she was bi in her query, so they could have just believed her about her own identity!
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I just wrote a piece for
@LilithMagazine
about my experiences with the climate strike,
@SunriseBoston
, and how my identity as a Jewish woman informs my climate activism!
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There's a lot that's fucked-up about Twitter, and social media in general, because of capitalism - but it's the main source of community for a lot of people who can't access in-person community during pandemic times or at all.
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