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shoutout #aaja25 😌

Our large grant that has allowed @thesicktimes.bsky.social to expand runs out in the fall. We’re trying to get ahead and raise $30k this month in our summer fundraiser.

If you have the means: can you help us reach our goal?

"I can't believe The New York Times did this" Trans kids? Claudine Gay? Gaza? At some point we have to stop being surprised. The right sees the Times as a vehicle for laundering its conspiracy theories and injecting it into elite America and the Times is very happy to oblige them.

imagining a world where one of the only outlets able to hire journalists without relying on contractors, sub-$45k wages or both focused on the material conditions of the fascist state its readers live in as it ruins its safety net, instead of reporting someone's rejection from an Ivy as "news"

Did not think this skeet would age so well in just six hours

Stop reading that paper. Stop expecting them to be better. Unsubscribe. Read wired or rollingstone or the ap instead and tell people in your circle you dont read the nyt or click on nyt links and why

NY Times cited 29 times to justify decision limiting trans healthcare Meanwhile, other mainstream media newsrooms treated the U.S. v. Skrmetti case as an opportunity to center coverage around the expected result.

twenty-nine (29!!!) nyt stories were cited to support the state in the u.s. v skrmetti decision (h/t @assignedmedia.org for reporting for @objectivejournos.bsky.social) to further limit access to trans healthcare. just horrid horrid stuff objectivejournalism.org/2025/06/new-...

even if there are people there doing good work, the u.s. paper of record’s framing and its editorial priorities are only reinforcing what they’ve done historically — bolstering those who hold power and questioning marginalized groups’ right to exist in public under the guise of “objectivity”

yeah i stopped playing nyt games, i dont even touch a nyt cooking link, when i include nyt articles in the objective’s newsletter i link to an archive.ph free link

i cannot emphasize enough that there is no better time to mask up.

preventing illness before it happens is your best bet as the nets meant to catch you disintegrate before your eyes.

We, the staff of @citybureau.bsky.social, are forming a union!

A strong media system needs strong workers. We’re asking our leadership to formally recognize the City Bureau Workers Guild so we can shape the future of local media together. You can join our movement by:

thank you for having me on for oomfs on oomfs <3 you asked great questions!

new podcast out with @hashtagjames.bsky.social for @ascmediarisk.org + @asc.upenn.edu !! in this pod, james expertly spoke to the intersections between journalism and resistance in queer, disability, and anti-colonial movements. listen here:
www.ascmediarisk.org/media/disabi...

i'll be at this! come talk about better diaspora reporting!!

Donate to Support Polygon Workers and the Vox Media Union, organized by Ashok Selvam On Thursday, May 1, Vox Media announced the sale of beloved video game s… Ashok Selvam needs your support for Support Polygon Workers and the Vox Media Union

If you are pissed about the complete gutting of Polygon like I am, please consider donating to our fundraiser for all the great people who lost their jobs.

www.gofundme.com/f/support-po...

alsooooo this is the last week @thesicktimes.bsky.social will be collecting audio reflections on 5 years+ of COVID-19 for a special podcast episode!
we have some prompts here: tinyurl.com/TST5yearspod
you can also email me a voice memo at james@thesicktimes.org + text/call us at 209-627-0726!

Journalist Resource - Reporting on Marginalized Disabled Communities - Transgender Law Center This guide is intended as a resource for journalists seeking to meaningfully cover marginalized disabled people, including those of us who are BIPOC, low-income, trans, and nonbinary. To connect with ...

the complete guide to reporting on marginalized disabled communities can be found here: transgenderlawcenter.org/journalist-r...

& as services/healthcare for the most marginalized are cut + ableism rises (e.g. growing use of the r-slur… again), i spoke with the trans law center disability project’s senior organizers about how to better cover disability and modern eugenics:

🔗: objectivejournalism.org/2025/04/qa-g...

if you’re interested in:
- independent student journalism
- student media bylaws
- starting your own thing
- how a college newsroom can fall apart (and rebuild)
check out ben nguyen's deep dive on the retrograde's origin story!!

🔗: objectivejournalism.org/2025/04/ut-d...

trying to be better at sharing the @objectivejournos.bsky.social stories we publish each week so here's a short digest of last week's!

new link, through which I can get donations within two days or sooner. help me get through this struggle, which is becoming more difficult by the day. I am currently displaced and suffering indescribably. Please share so that I can survive and seek refuge as soon as possible.ً

A picture of David Lynch with the caption Fix your hearts or die

Happy Trans Day of Visibility

A drawing of a woman--Ruth Hale--in a 1920s style bedroom, wearing a simple nightgown. The bedroom has a room divider on the left, and a large boudoir with a giant mirror and a cat sleeping on it on the right. On February 18, 1921, Ruth Hale returned a passport issued to her which had the name "Mrs. Broun" -- her husband's last, without her first -- refusing to acknowledge what was on it as correct. As she put it, "I threw the government overboard, and refused flatly to go abroad"

It's time for this month's Clippings! This month is a special one though, telling some of the history of gender on passports!

HRT - Harm Reduction Toolkit A white first aid kit icon with a pastel pink cross, overlaid onto a pastel blue background. Distribute Aid Logo Link to the fundraiser (available in the post text).

Fuck it. Trans folks need MATERIAL SUPPORT.

@distributeaid.org is launching an HRT Harm Reduction Toolkit that provides 1 year of medical supplies needed to take injection-based HRT. We were planning to go live in January, but I'm not waiting.

Fund the kits here: distributeaid.org/hrt-harm-red...

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Hey folks!

We all know that trans people have a pesky habit of becoming invisible, which of course is why Trans Day of Visibility exists.

If you want to ensure that trans people don't slip from your view on the rest of the days, might I suggest Assigned Media's weekly newsletter?

#birdbot

the vibe here is very I Need To Type With Proper Sentence Case perhaps bc i have still not yet followed enough people 😔

every time i log onto bluesky i think maybe this is the time i start getting into posting But then i don’t

thank god for butch lesbians (also this is such an incredible piece of writing featuring the lovely four-word phrase “i’m sick! i’m gay!” and 1000% worth a read!!)

Our podcast producer @hashtagjames.bsky.social is looking for folks living with Long COVID (& other COVID-realist folks) to submit voice memos reflecting on LC, the pandemic, and their experiences for a 5-year-anniversary (of the public health emergency declaration) episode tinyurl.com/TST5yearspod

ofc! if you have questions or it’s easier to submit this way, you can also email me at james@thesicktimes.org