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Andrew Hume

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He/him. White. Partner, parent, grandparent, former foster parent. Experiential educator. Topics: schools, learning, child welfare, whiteness, abolition, democracy, human rights, poetry, 🎡 ⚾️ πŸ€ Protect trans kids.

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UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Eventually You're Going to Have to Stand for Something On accepting the fascist offer and being better than Ezra.

I wrote about why the regrettable conclusions of Ezra Klein pissed me off so badly in the last couple weeks.

On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...

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Black Women, White Apathy and Why a Leopard Ate Jimmy Kimmel's Face Jimmy Kimmel is not a victim of "cancel culture." But he is the perfect example of what happens when white people are silent in the face of racism.

If you're upset about Jimmy Kimmel being "canceled," I'm sure you were just as furious when you heard about Joy Reid
and Tiffany Cross
or Amber Ruffin
or Karen Attiah
or Jemele Hill

Because Kimmel might still have a job if you were

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Feeling grateful for my awesome trans family and friends and furious at the absurd, insistent effort to scapegoat & demonize trans folks.

20.09.2025 03:00 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œWe are born to dream and make the things we dream about.” - Nicola Yoon

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β€œBeing brave doesn’t mean you’re not scared.”
β€” Alynda Segarra, inspiring us and making us braver at tonight’s Hurray for the Riff Raff concert.

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I’m embarrassed by how sad I feel about the Columbia capitulation because it illuminates how desperately I want to believe in institutions and their expressed values.

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Opinion | Why Does Anyone Think Trump Will Uphold His End of a Bargain With Columbia? When the government is often behaving unchecked by the law, the idea of a binding contract is a fantasy.

β€œAnyone who thinks the administration will mutely walk away after the ink is dry needs to look at both the past behavior of autocratic regimes in general and this administration’s in particular,” writes Suresh Naidu, a professor at Columbia University.

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In short, the agreement gives legal form to an extortion scheme _the first of its kind!-that defies the relevant statutes as well as the constitutional separation of powers and the First
Amendment.

In short, the agreement gives legal form to an extortion scheme _the first of its kind!-that defies the relevant statutes as well as the constitutional separation of powers and the First Amendment.

Fantastic and timely intervention by the indispensable Dave Pozen on the true meaning of the Columbia shakedown for higher ed: replacing the rule of law with regulation by deal, which ultimately undermines both regulation and education.

balkin.blogspot.com/2025/07/regu...

24.07.2025 02:39 β€” πŸ‘ 477    πŸ” 147    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 7

Andrea Gibson, Presente! Your legacy will stretch across time and space. Thank you.

14.07.2025 22:43 β€” πŸ‘ 302    πŸ” 32    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 0

a disaster for many reasons, but I’m especially livid thinking about countless disabled students whose families who will have even less in the way of recourse when their kids’ educational rights are violated

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bsky.app/profile/andr...

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Love Letter From The Afterlife Comfort for those grieving a loved one

andreagibson.substack.com/p/love-lette...

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Andrea Gibson One of the most celebrated poets and performers of the last two decades, Andrea Gibson’s trademark honesty and vulnerability are on full display in their poetry, welcoming and inviting readers to be j...

www.youtube.com/channel/UC0k...

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Andrea Gibson Best Poems β€” Andrea Gibson, Poet, Writer, Activist, Author, Performer - Andrea's New Book "You Better Be Lightning" Available Now

Watching these poems, crying, and feeling lucky to have shared a planet with Andrea Gibson. andreagibson.org/best-poems

14.07.2025 18:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

"When a human dies the soul moves through the universe trying to describe how a body trembles when it’s lost, softens when it’s safe, how a wound would heal given nothing but time.
I can’t imagine it, the stars say. Tell us again about goosebumps.
Tell us again about pain."
--Andrea Gibson, Tincture

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Zohran Mamdani and Mahmoud Khalil Are in on the Joke What it feels like to laugh when the world expects you to disappear.

There’s no framework for any kind of discussion about the fears or the safety of Muslim New Yorkers. It’s as if there’s an entire part of the population that remains invisible until feared.” β€” Hanif Abdurraqib

www.newyorker.com/news/essay/z...

13.07.2025 21:10 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hanif Abdurraqib is one of my favorite essayists, and essays like this are why. It’s beautiful.

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the core idea that can radicalize people is so simple:

there is enough.

there is enough food to feed everyone. enough resources to house everyone. money and technology and medicine to stop the suffering of people around the globe.

once you accept that there's only one question:

why don't we?

07.07.2025 12:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2260    πŸ” 765    πŸ’¬ 39    πŸ“Œ 34

(Just excitedly ordered Niko Stratis's book "The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman")

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β€œWant to Change My Clothes, My Hair, My Face”: How Springsteen Helped Me Come Out | The Quietus In an exclusive edited extract from Niko Stratis’s new book The Dad Rock That Made Me A Woman, the award-winning Canadian writer explores trans identity, the music of the American heartlands and how t...

"There's sweetness to Springsteen's vision.Things are rough, the weight of the world a burden few shoulders can bear, yet there's love, yearning & desire amid the hardships.There will be loss & heartache, you'll love & lose but find strength to go on." @nikostratis.com thequietus.com/culture/book...

06.07.2025 23:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The New York Times was more skeptical of the academic qualifications of a black woman who had secured tenure and become the president of Harvard than they were of a white man who washed out of a grad program with a massive scandal and then became a white nationalist troll.

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If Mamdani had checked just Asian or say, Asian and white (bear with me) NYT would never have run that story.

The only reason they ran that story is because of the cultural belief that being Black gives you leg up in society despite research that says that isn't true.

04.07.2025 23:54 β€” πŸ‘ 6596    πŸ” 919    πŸ’¬ 145    πŸ“Œ 47

people seem really confused about racial categories maybe we should have some educational programs to teach how these historically constructed categories structure our entire society in insidious ways we could even do programming in workplaces to improve how people communicate with each other

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Natasha Cloud knows what it means to be a New Yorker.

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These people think they’re at the end of a story β€” that they ARE the end of a story β€” and they are wrong. More than that: the story is changing around us all the time, in the ways that people who think they will always have the power to write it cannot even begin to anticipate.

03.07.2025 19:38 β€” πŸ‘ 539    πŸ” 134    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 13

Shame on UPenn. Trans people are not a bargaining chip for negotiation with a fascist government. If they’ll trade trans people’s humanity, what else are they willing to give up?

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If you think trans people are a danger to anyone and not fascists and patriarchs and billionaires and bullies and zealots, or think universities don’t have power to resist, you are being manipulated by the bad guys or you are choosing the wrong side of history, that’s it.

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