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Lucy Jane Bledsoe

@lucybledsoe.bsky.social

Author, avid reader, voting rights advocate, and tree hugger.

117 Followers  |  108 Following  |  46 Posts  |  Joined: 15.10.2023  |  1.7617

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Stand up, fight back! Join us this Saturday for an intergenerational LGBTQ+ town hall. Allies welcome. Youth and elders come together to speak out. Details in the poster. See you there.

16.07.2025 17:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Oakland! We're doing another LGBTG+ Town Hall! The last one brought 86 people together to talk about safety, solidarity, and strengthening alliances. It was inspiring. Join us! Details in poster.

26.06.2025 21:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Author Lucy Bledsoe on courage and celebrating Pride Month with books, making world-class white wines in Paso, ECOSLO's annual fundraiser, and Central Coast farmworkers' struggle with food insecurity For his segment Bookwaves, KCBX's Brian Reynolds speaks with award-winning author and activist Lucy Jane Bledsoe about how attitudes towards the LGBTQ community have or have not changed and about one ...

Stand up, fight back! My take on courage in this moment: shorturl.at/BGd3o

12.06.2025 15:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

ICE arrests are happing NOW at both San Francisco and Concord courts. Bay Resistance is calling on everyone who can to come immediately to participate in a mass peaceful sit-in.

SF Court location: 100 Montgomery in San Francisco
Concord Court location: 1855 Gateway Blvd in Concord

10.06.2025 18:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The current s*#tshow between T and M is downright Shakespearean. 🀣🀣🀣

05.06.2025 21:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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We're taking the LGBTQ+ Town Hall to Sebastopol, in partnership with LitCrawl Sebastopol and Copperfield's Books Join us this Saturday May 17, 2:00 @Third Pig Bar (116 S Main St, Sebastopol, CA). Resist with stories! Come listen, share, and mobilize.

14.05.2025 14:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Nice crowd on the freeway overpass. Pat (@pattbonemullan.bsky.social) holds up the UNITE TO FIGHT banner while cohorts fly the American flag in distress mode.

04.05.2025 19:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Writing is "a medium of understanding suffering." -- Ocean Vuong

03.05.2025 18:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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TODAY! Can't wait to hear everyone's ideas on safety, solidarity, and courage. Everyone welcome -- trans, lesbian, gay, bi, allies, plus. Join us for a community town hall. Time and place details in poster below.

26.04.2025 16:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I love your art posts.

13.04.2025 01:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m with you, cuz.

13.04.2025 01:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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My sister Laura made the news! She's organizing her smallish town in Oregon to amazing effects.

08.04.2025 15:20 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Great signs held by Gar McVey-Russell snd Pat Mullan

05.04.2025 22:31 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oakland! See u there πŸ’™

05.04.2025 14:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This little guy, who I met on one of my trips to Antarctica with the National Science Foundation, is worried. Show him that COURAGE IS CONTAGIOUS. Tomorrow #Handsoff demo. Be there.

04.04.2025 16:41 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Cory Booker is a hero! THANK YOU for speaking loud and clear and TRUTHFULLY. πŸ’™πŸ’™πŸ’™πŸ’™πŸ’™

01.04.2025 15:31 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I'm working with Indivisible East Bay and we're putting on a Town Hall for the LGBTQ+ community. Please feel free to distribute this poster widely. And join us on April 26!

25.03.2025 15:44 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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So much shining beauty here. Can we please work hard to rid our home of the heinous, greedy haters?

25.03.2025 00:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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American hero.

06.03.2025 18:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Vance looks haunted. Johnson just looks stupid.

05.03.2025 02:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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5 Calls Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

Call and/or write your reps and senators every single day. Easy with this app: 5calls.org. Ask them to DO THEIR JOBS. If you do nothing else, please do this.

03.03.2025 20:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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All Out Against ICE in Dublin - March 1- 12pm - 2 pm. Meet at the corner of Dublin and Arnold Road, in Dublin. EspaΓ±ol abajo Come out to stop ICE from reopening the abuse-ridden Dublin Federal Prison -- as an ICE Detention Center. This will be a nonviolent protest with speeches, music, chants, signs - with no ...

Join @indivisible.org this Saturday March 1 in Dublin, CA from 12 - 2 to protest ICE taking over the decommissioned (because of black mold and asbestos) women's prison to use for their own arrests.

27.02.2025 17:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Yesterday my friend Estelle Freedman released her new film at just the perfect moment. The justice movement needs art and music and books, and examples of others who've stood up with courage.

23.02.2025 16:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Photos: β€˜Distress flag’ towers over Yosemite to protest cuts as crowds view firefall Saturday’s protest sought to bring attention to the thousands of federal job cuts made by President Donald Trump’s administration this month.

Good for these federal workers, concerned about the sabotage of a functioning, safe park, for us and for nature. www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...

23.02.2025 16:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1339    πŸ” 227    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 9
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Stand up, fight back! Huge crowd greeted Leader @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social last night in Oakland asking him to step up and get tougher in fighting the coup. Enormously gratifying to use our voices in community.

22.02.2025 16:56 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Uh, I mean LEADER Jeffries.

20.02.2025 17:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Speaker Hakeem Jeffries is in Oakland tomorrow, Friday Feb 21. Join me in asking him to STEP UP, LEAD, as he's been elected to do. Indivisible East Bay protest from 6:00 - 7:00 PST at 10 10th Street (Kaiser Bldg) Oakland. Instructional signage for Jeffries is welcome. I'll be there.

20.02.2025 16:57 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Huge crowd in Oakland protest today. πŸ’₯πŸ’₯πŸ’₯ I love my community. β­οΈπŸ’™β­οΈπŸ’™β­οΈ

18.02.2025 01:13 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Today! National Day of Protest. Not my President Day. We need everyone in the streets. East Bay protest is near the Grand Lake Theater from 12:00 to 2:00. Peaceful show of strength.

17.02.2025 15:41 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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