As a Girl in Prison, I Experienced Degrading Health Care Getting health care in prison is challenging at the best of times. In the worst of times, it is degrading and disparaging.

7️⃣ As a Girl in Prison, I Experienced Degrading Health Care

Are Sex Workers the Original Feminists? ‘Sex workers are the original feminists’, say Juno Mac and Molly Smith in Revolting Prostitutes. It’s an incendiary claim–not least because tracking ‘firsts’ is a fraught pursuit–but it might well be ...

"Are Sex Workers the Original Feminists?".....Yes. The answer is yes.

#WomensHistoryMonth (Canada)

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In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."

GET RID OF YOUR RING CAMERAS www.yahoo.com/news/article...

There’s a chilling trend emerging in the job market: Women are dropping out of the US labor force at some of the highest levels in history. https://cnn.it/4o5CD71

There is a common misconception that sex workers cannot be survivors of domestic violence. But, research shows they experience DV at high rates due to the intersection of anti- sex worker stigma, criminalization, racism, queerphobia, and gendered stereotypes.

#DomesticViolenceAwarenessMonth

Early dropoff in girls' school sports linked to new gender confirmation forms Province's new requirements are already having impacts on girls' sports in junior high

Fewer girls are playing sports after govt erected barriers for girls to play sports.
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EXCLUSIVE: Someone Waived Ghislaine Maxwell's Sex Offender Status to Move Her to a Minimum Security Camp in Texas According to sources, you can't move someone with a Public Safety Factor (PSF) designation - which Maxwell had - without waiving it. That's what happened here.

BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: A higher up at the Bureau of Prisons WAIVED Ghislaine Maxwell's sex offender status in order to transfer her to a minimum security camp in Texas, per source. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...

Welcome to the wonderful world of "trafficking."

The grift is in no way limited to Epstein. Anti-trafficking in general is a faith-based morals campaign serving as cover for state surveillance and increased criminalization of sex workers.

Services and justice survivors is the lowest priority.

If you grew up in a household with an evangelical right-wing parent, as I did, you already know that the dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education, like the reversal of Roe v. Wade, is the culmination of a 50-year project.

I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.

New rule: no criticizing the way others choose to resist unless you have a better, actionable idea and kind, constructive feedback. New ideas are good! Performative contrarianism is useless.

Pie chart titled: Only 8% of confined people are held in private prisons

Private prisons are bad, but they’re a small part of the system.

Mass incarceration is driven by public policy & spending — choices made by YOUR elected officials.
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The “Homeland” is not a thing, it was made up by GW Bush and anti-Arab warmongers to help the climate for militarization after 9/11, Dept of “Homeland Security” was invented 22 yrs ago and widely seen as creepy and propagandizing at the time

It’s only ever been bullshit

The Grand Opening of an American Concentration Camp The Republicans are proudly calling it “Alligator Alcatraz.” Let’s call it what it is.

I wrote about the day the president attended the opening of an American concentration camp:

this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely

Top Ten Myths About the Adult Industry-

MYTH 1: All sex work is trafficking

This myth ignores the distinction between consensual labor and coerced exploitation.
Policies built on this myth lead to increased policing, harmful rescue raids & mass criminalization—none of which protect victims.

Evasion of peer review is a hallmark of pseudoscience.

But even more insidious is the obviation of scientific scrutiny by publishing in pseudoscientific journals that exist to provide an illusion of scientific legitimacy.

There’s nothing new about MAHA’s propaganda tactics.

The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA): Frequently Asked Questions - A Better Balance 1. What is the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act?

May is Maternal Mental Health Awareness Month. Under the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, new and expecting moms nationwide have the right to the accommodations to manage their health needs, including mental health needs like postpartum depression: www.abetterbalance.org/resources/pr...

Help support Adriana Smith’s family as they navigate the growing costs of this tragedy:

A brain dead woman in Georgia is being kept 'alive' against her family's wishes because of the state's abortion ban.

They don't see us as human beings. (Clip via 11 Alive in Georgia.)

Yes agree with this! I let students re-do as many times as they want tbh as long as they’re showing they’re learning

Calling all researchers!

Join us THIS THURSDAY as SSN member @mememedianmode.bsky.social & Danielle Farrie of @edlawcenter.bsky.social discuss how to develop impactful partnerships with organizations focused on legal advocacy.

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What's happening with these grants is much more complicated and mostly unknown. None of the NIH have been officially cancelled. The NIH was just ordered to stop paying. They got the Unis to enforce silence on their own campuses because they thought they were "negotiating" and cld get the funds back.

Pulitzer Prizes Public Service Winner: ProPublica. Image (right) displays headline that reads: Their States Banned Abortion. Doctors Now Say They Can't Give Women Potentially Lifesaving Care.

JUST IN: ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, which exposes the fatal consequences of abortion bans, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...

The Truth Of The Matter And They Are Not Bringing Jobs Back….

I have but three moods these days:

1) depressed

2) enraged

3) panel discussion moderator

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Reform Group Urges Decriminalization of Sex Work, Citing Public Health, Safety, and Human Rights - Davis Vanguard Washington, D.C. — A growing chorus of prosecutors is calling for a bold reimagining of how the criminal legal system treats sex work. In a new issue brief

A growing chorus of prosecutors is calling for a reimagining of how the system treats sex work. Fair and Just Prosecution (FJP), argues criminalization of sex work undermines public safety, increases vulnerability of marginalized communities, and diverts resources.
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Black maternal health advocates, researchers press on amid federal funding cuts • Stateline In its bid to eliminate federal diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, initiatives, the Trump administration has terminated community health grants and closed federal offices that support state…

The Trump administration has cut funding for maternal health research and studies on health disparities in communities of color and the LGBTQ+ community.

They’re “turning their back on science, on compassion, on caring about women,” said Diana Greene Foster.