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Alice Wong, disability activist and luminary, dies at 51 - The Sick Times Alice Wong platformed and uplifted people with Long COVID in her final chapter as a lifelong disability advocate and storyteller.

Just came back here to share a more detailed obituary written by her friend for the @thesicktimes.org.

It includes her activism in support of 🇵🇸, and her advocacy and support for people with Long Covid.

thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...

Real Food Not Bombs hours

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

I am once again here to hype your public library! Most of my local organizing takes place in those free meeting rooms. Free, no alcohol like bars, you can get leftist literature right there, and potentially free or low cost printing for those zines!

White men stop making shit up challenge is not going well.

Me today:

Once a year we fundraise to help the littles in our community consider making a donation to our community for school supplies

Consider making a charitable donation to the snack society

$InvitationAMEZ

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1. This History Thread on Karenni Military History updates my 2019 Karenni History Thread. Posts 2-9 are adapted from that thread & 10-20 are on developments after 2021 Myanmar military coup, as #Karenni revolutionary forces have made impressive gains. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

If it feels overwhelming to choose individuals to help in Gaza while not being able to help others, I am a regular donor to the Sameer Project and really vouch for the on the ground mutual aid work they have been doing.

Books-for-Prisoners project bridges volunteers and prisoners - The Independent Florida Alligator Independent nonprofits across Florida push for access to reading materials, which foster education, entertainment and personal growth during prison time. 

"Gainesville Books to Prisoners mails books to incarcerated individuals in prisons and jails across the state. [...] Every other Tuesday, volunteers do their best to find books to fit inmates' requests."
www.alligator.org/article/2025...

Legal Fees | Palmetto State Abortion Fund (Powered by Donorbox) We are raising funds to cover the cost of legal fees for a South Carolina woman who is being charged "desecration of human remains" after miscarrying her pregnancy a few weeks ago. She faces up to 10 ...

Today @jessicavalenti.bsky.social shared about a South Carolinian who was arrested for her pregnancy outcome, I’ll link that story below, but I wanted to come on here and let y’all we will be posting her bond tomorrow at 8:30 am. If you can help at all: donorbox.org/legal-fees

Bindery Books | Books About Resistence To Read With You... Dismantling systems of oppression one book at a time.

I don’t have the capacity to offer any real thoughts at the moment, but here is a long list of books to help you think about a wide variety of subjects we desperately need to be talking about with our neighbors right now.

If you (most of you are) are someone who likes to think about the world and reality and perception (sprinkled with a little fantasy) …. I URGE you to read piranesi. I read this book 2 years ago, I literally still think about it all the time.
It’s a masterpiece

‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops A free tool that allows anyone to upload a photo of an LAPD officer to get their name and badge number.

New from 404 Media: 'FuckLAPD.com' is a website that lets anyone use facial recognition to instantly identify cops. Point camera, take photo, upload to site. It provides their name and salary information. Creator also rebooting their tool for identifying ICE employees www.404media.co/fucklapd-com...

Learn how to identify ICE, document ICE activity, and support one another at the next Migra Watch Training organized by Pilsen PUÑO! July 1st, 7-9 pm, Pilsen Community Books. Register here: bit.ly/migrawatchtraining

How to Win a Fight These days it feels like the next fight is always just around the corner. What matters is picking your battles—and knowing how to win.

For months, @wired.com has been working on something about this moment's big fights: pushback against immigration raids, Tesla Takedown, LGBTQ+ rights. When we started, we didn't expect to publish following some of the biggest protests of Trump’s second term.

www.wired.com/how-to-win-a...

just a reminder that only water goes in your eyes, don’t wear contacts to a protest if you can help it, hot showers will hurt like hell if you have mace or gas residue on your skin. turn off face ID on your phone. pick a buddy & never leave their side. if detained, ask for a lawyer & then shut up.

Are We Still Free? Living in the new American fascism.

After Patron blocked my latest review, I tried to write about censorship. Then I tried to write about aesthetics and the sexual politics of fiction.

What I ended up capturing was the violent silence of the moment - the grief and helpless fury of living in a world that marches on toward genocide ⬇️

It Could Happen Here @coolzonemedia.bsky.social

Something Good in the World: Let’s Celebrate Independent Bookstore Day This Weekend I was going to write something else for today’s column, something complain-y but righteous that would allow me to get some stuff off my chest and maybe even get some rage clicks. Shit is bad. But I…

I needed to write about something that’s giving me hope, so I wrote about Independent Bookstore Day which is this Saturday. lithub.com/something-go...

BOOK DRIVE FOR INCARCERATED YOUTH No Borders is partnering with a local librarian to bring requested books to youths ages 12-18 who are incarcerated at Crossroads Juvenile Center in Brooklyn. To help, you can: • Buy books from our Bookshop.org registry • Donate funds to The Rolling Library • Donate gently used paperback young adult novels, manga, and comics wishlist: tinyurl.com/2025bookdrive donate funds: tinyurl.com/tridonate contact: nobordersbooks@proton.me

last year @nobordersbooks.bsky.social sent 600+ books to Rikers; this year our book drive is for teens who are incarcerated in Brooklyn. please purchase a book if you can—most of these are requested titles, and a $7 Goosebumps book would mean A LOT to a kid in detention bookshop.org/wishlists/70...

If you love your library, listen up…

thick sock with the heel mended/darned with thick interlacing yellow and purple thread

here is a darning (mending) zine I learned from

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Cover page of ULU's Drag Story Hour Planning & Safety Support Guide, featuring a black & white image of books on a library shelf.

We're resurfacing our Drag Story Hour Planning & Safety Support Guide in honor of Trans Day of Visibility. Trans people and trans stories belong in our libraries without fear for safety or censorship. urbanlibrariansunite.org/drag-story-h...

You're welcome.

The Birth of American Anti-Trans Law – A Brief History of Transfeminine Literature, Pt. 4 A hyperbolic descent into the Antebellum period in search of the origins of American anti-trans law.

After hundreds of hours of writing and research, I am done with my long form exposé on the early roots of American anti-trans law.

Looking both local and national, I picked apart America's first five anti-trans laws.

These obscure laws helped shape policing, slavery, book bans, AND transphobia 😐