Evette Dionne (Mostly on Threads)

We Can't Live Like This Trump's ICE agents are wantonly breaking the law across the country, while he sends the national guard to forcibly occupy blue states. It's up to the good citizens of this country to oppose this uncon...

For my newsletter, I wrote about how wantonly illegal and unconstitutional ICE is, how it must come to a stop now, how it's up to all of us to stop it, and how we will need to develop a way so the federal government can never do this to us again.

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Let it never again be said that a woman with no real reporting experience who fell for a Twitter account called "Official Antifa" cannot be the head of a huge news organization

Housing Haunts Me If only getting a mortgage was as easy as opening a book.

On Friday, we brought back Spooky Flytrap Fridays, and @sesmith.lol dug into the recent growth in queer and trans horror that explicitly explores the experience of living in a marginalized body--and what that has to do with millenials' inability to buy homes.

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Will the Real Crazy Ones Please Stand Up Dismissing things we don’t like as ‘insane’ is doing the oppressors’ work for them.

Best cure for Sunday Scaries? Catching up on what The Flytrap has been up to. First up, @sesmith.lol on how talking about mentally ill people in the wake of mass shootings is a feature of eugenics and populational control: the-flytrap.ghost.io/mental-illne...

If We Valued Sex Workers, the Outcome of the Diddy Trial Would Have Been Different What if Diddy’s victims were protected by labor laws instead of relying on the lack of justice of a sexist trial?

In light of the sentencing of P. Diddy, I want to re-share @freeblackgirl.bsky.social's piece on how the court case would've gone differently if we valued sex workers as a society:

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Housing Haunts Me If only getting a mortgage was as easy as opening a book.

Happy Spooky Flytrap Friday!! You know what's spooky? The housing market! @sesmith.lol writes about how they are haunted by buying somewhere to live and how that millenial trend has spawned a new housing-related horror genre in literature: the-flytrap.ghost.io/housing-haun...

If Fat Bodies Are ‘Problems,’ Then We Need New Equations ‘The Biggest Loser’ was the worst vision of a fat future. Fat liberationists are done losing that fight.

There are 4 major patterns within media coverage of GLP-1s in the US, including:
🚫 fat people being made invisible by not being interviewed by the news media
🚫 fatness being treated as a monolith
@freeblackgirl.bsky.social

To Solve Mexico’s Cartel Problem, Look To the “Searching Mothers” “Madres buscadoras” advocate for strategies, laws, and actions to locate their loved ones and prevent future disappearances.

Rather than “declaring war” on cartels, @chantalflores.bsky.social reported long ago for @yesmedia.bsky.social that the U.S. should follow the lead of the madres buscadoras, or searching mothers, who are leading a movement to combat cartel violence.

Thank you!

Yes! I have a meeting with them on Friday. 😊

YAY! Congratulations Kate! 🥂

Out of Your League Dispatches from the intersection of queer sports and pop culture.

The fun thing about moving off S*bst*ck is that due to the increased deliverability of Beehiiv, my transition to a new platform has been met with a rash of unsubscribes & canceled paid subs.

If you wanna support an independent trans journalist by subscribing, I’d appreciate it!

I have ✨some news✨! Today is my first day co-leading the writing for liberation program at Empowerment Avenue, a nonprofit that helps incarcerated people publish their work.

I believe storytelling advances justice. And I am honored to do this work on behalf of justice-impacted journalists. Cheers!

Will the Real Crazy Ones Please Stand Up Dismissing things we don’t like as ‘insane’ is doing the oppressors’ work for them.

It's Flytrap Tuesday! co-founder @sesmith.lol writes about gun violence, the continued insistence that mass shootings are about mental illness, and how that supports eugenics approaches to neurodivergent and mentally ill people:

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On its 25th birthday, mifepristone is more under attack than ever The FDA's approval of the revolutionary drug in 2000 helped change abortion access nationwide.

Twenty-five years ago today, the FDA approved mifepristone for abortions.

Now, it's more under threat than ever. I took a look at its history and the current efforts to restrict access to the abortion pills for @motherjones.com:

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If Fat Bodies Are ‘Problems,’ Then We Need New Equations ‘The Biggest Loser’ was the worst vision of a fat future. Fat liberationists are done losing that fight.

Is it really any surprise that shows like THE BIGGEST LOSER, which trafficked in the idea that humiliating fat people can be both inspirational and lucrative, exacerbated anti-fat attitudes? @freeblackgirl.bsky.social

She managed to get a farmworker visa. Once in the U.S., she endured abuse. A Prism investigation reveals that women are routinely shut out of the H-2A program. Those who get in report doing non-agricultural labor and facing sexual violence and trafficking

I want to do a little breakdown of this investigation I published today for @prismreports.org about gender-based violence in the H-2A agricultural visa program.

The Flytrap Feminist cultural criticism against the algorithm

A reminder that @theflytrapmedia.com's Residents of the Bog get an EXCLUSIVE editorial hangout tomorrow where we will be sharing some exciting news about plans for our second year! Your subscription comes with a gift for a friend so it's basically 2-for-1, and our 10% discount is almost up!

If Fat Bodies Are ‘Problems,’ Then We Need New Equations ‘The Biggest Loser’ was the worst vision of a fat future. Fat liberationists are done losing that fight.

I see people talking about Fit for TV and The Biggest Loser and I have to hype this incredible feature from my @theflytrapmedia.com comrade @freeblackgirl.bsky.social. Truly outstanding read on this horrendous show and the profound impact it had on fat people.

Rare Portraits of Enslaved Mississippians Displayed at Art Museum The Mississippi Museum of Art now owns the only two known portraits of enslaved Mississippians that were painted before the Civil War.

The Mississippi Museum of Art now owns the only two known portraits of enslaved Mississippians that were painted before the Civil War.

"Portrait of Frederick" joins "Portrait of Delia," both hanging in the same museum together for the first time in history.

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I don't know if I am more emotional because I am getting older, but this has made me cry happy tears literally every day this week. Thank you, comrade. 🥹

a man wearing a pink and black leopard print shirt says oh i 'm gonna cry Alt: a man wearing a pink and black leopard print shirt says oh i 'm gonna cry

I have not had access to the Bitch Media archives since they went offline. Thanks to the magic of @sesmith.lol, I have been able to re-read some of that work recently. I sometimes forget the incredible work we did in my five years as EIC. We really created something special. I won't forget again.

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Thank you, comrade!

A collage of powerful Black women from throughout history, overlaid with the text of a book announcement: Author of the National Book Award Longlist and Coretta Scott King Honoree LIFTING AS WE CLIMB Evette Dionne's NO GIVING IN: BLACK WOMEN'S BATTLE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS, about the often overlooked history of the Black women who were pivotal to the development of the Civil Rights Movement, to Jenny Bak at Viking Children's by Sarah Phair of Sanford J. Greenburger Associates (world).

SO excited for my @theflytrapmedia.com comrade @freeblackgirl.bsky.social's latest book, it's going to be another banger. Stay posted for those preorder links!

Thank you, comrades! 🥹

NEW BOOK BY A FLYTRAP COFOUNDER ALERT!!