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A flyer with a dark turquoise blue background, an orange-red rose and two purple and yellow flowers decorating it’s lower half. In the top half is a cream colored box with pink, green and blue text that reads: The Decolonial Sex Worker Empowerment Project BIPOC + PGM SWer meet up Gather with fellow local CT and New England based sex workers of color, then head to a community event held by trusted comrades where we’ll hear from and be in dialogue with Indigenous Elders, and nurture relationship with one another. Wednesday August 13th, 2025 from 3:30-5:15pm New Haven, CT - Location to be shared after registration for security purposes Go to bit.ly/BIPOCSWERHANG0825 (all capitals) to learn more and register Questions can be sent to dswep@protonmail.com

BIPOC/People Of The Global Majority Sex Worker Meet Up

August 13, 2025 from 3:30-5:15pm in New Haven, CT - Location to be shared after registration

Learn more and register at bit.ly/BIPOCSWERHANG0825

#newhaven #newengland #ct #sexworkisrealwork #thevelvetglade #sexworkerorganizing #connecticut

29.07.2025 03:34 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Can There Be a Lived Experience “Community” We do not need more invitations to white-led tables; we need to build our own spaces, on our own terms, free from institutions that have historically harmed us.

"We do not need more invitations to white-led tables; we need to build our own spaces, free from institutions that have historically harmed us."

New blog: NSUN member Leila examines the ways in which the lived experience space fails to disrupt power.

www.nsun.org.uk/can-there-be...

23.04.2025 09:34 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Why we need the 10 Disability Justice principles of Intersectionality, Leadership of Those Most Impacted, Anti-Capitalism, Cross-Movement Organizing, Wholeness, Sustainability, Cross-Disability Solidarity, Interdependence, Collective Access, & Collective Liberation! 🫂
sinsinvalid.org/10-principle...

23.04.2025 18:17 — 👍 7    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

#disabilityjustice #ocd #bipocdisability #ocdawareness

23.04.2025 17:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Black text in white highlight with a picture of a park with trees blooming cherry blossoms as the sun sits low in the sky.

A light complected, mixed race person of color with dark brown curly hair, wearing a dark black and purple shawl, a black shift, and pink and brown speckled square glasses looking with their eyes to the right with hot pink text on light pink highlight right placed under their mouth in the image.

White text on a black highlight, with a photo of a carrot cake muffin on brown wax paper and a wooden table as the texts main background.

A photo of the ceiling of a coffee shop, with a clothesline of fabric orange carrots, chandelier and wooden furnishings as the background for white text in a black highlight taking up the majority of the photo.

More thoughts on being a person of color with OCD while waiting for my court hearing (prt 2/2)

#disabilityjustice #ocd #bipoc #pocanddisabled

23.04.2025 17:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A screenshot of an Instagram story with black text in white highlight, with a picture of golden stained glass in geometric patterns in the background.

An Instagram story with black text in white highlight on a photo background of white granite with turquoise blue square/geometric trim adornment.

Black text in white highlight on a biege/cream white background, accompanied by a photo of a marble facade

Black text in white highlight on a photo background of golden square, geometric stained glass on the ceiling of a building.

Some thoughts on having OCD themes related to criminalization and incarceration as a person of color while waiting for a court hearing (Post 1/2)

23.04.2025 17:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

the notoriously kind and calm chukar

10.04.2025 01:29 — 👍 357    🔁 75    💬 3    📌 0

The SAVE Act is just the latest example of a string of schemes to make voting more difficult for millions of eligible voters, all while perpetuating lies about our elections. Call your Member of Congress now and urge them to vote NO on the SAVE Act.

#ProtectVotingRights
#HandsOffOurVote

09.04.2025 19:40 — 👍 48    🔁 21    💬 0    📌 1

The SAVE Act would require citizens to provide documentary proof of citizenship to register for federal elections, but 146 million Americans don't have passports — nearly as many as the 153 million who voted in 2024. Vote NO on SAVE Act.

#ProtectVotingRights
#FreedomToVote
#HandsOffOurVote

09.04.2025 19:20 — 👍 145    🔁 62    💬 11    📌 6

This conversation becomes more relevant by the minute.

So grateful to @haymarketbooks.org for hosting, to the brilliant minds & seasoned organizers who agreed to join me, & to Democratizing Justice & Funders for Justice for sponsoring

Tomorrow! Don’t miss it!

www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

08.04.2025 19:12 — 👍 77    🔁 31    💬 1    📌 2

Liberation Line

www.liberationline.org "The Liberation Line provides free mental health support calls to organizers.These are confidential, non-crisis, non-therapy phone calls facilitated by a trusted volunteer w/experience offering mental health support and who aligns with Palestinian and collective liberation."

09.04.2025 02:09 — 👍 34    🔁 15    💬 0    📌 0

a vibrantly colored work in progress illustration focusing on the face and hand of a man holding a quill. His eyes are bloodshot rainbows, his skin is blue and his hand is wearing a bright red glove. There's a ribbon of darkness coming from the tip of the quill

goodnight 🌙

04.04.2025 08:31 — 👍 6488    🔁 1088    💬 43    📌 9

a howl's moving castle mock poster. Howl is mid-transformation with sophie hanging on behind him. The stars are dancing around them. Fangs border the poster

one of my favorite studio ghibli pieces that i made with my two hands

31.03.2025 16:34 — 👍 6461    🔁 1249    💬 57    📌 9

Cesar Chavez was born #OTD in 1927. A tireless advocate for workers' and immigrants' rights, he dedicated his life to justice and fair labor conditions.

In 2014, President Obama declared March 31 a federal commemorative holiday in his honor. #TheMarchContinues

31.03.2025 14:00 — 👍 103    🔁 32    💬 3    📌 3

I dabbled in some audio work this weekend, and uploaded a short piece on how to support the CT HUSKY4Immigrants campaign this legislative session! Check it out on SoundCloud at the link below.
#disabilityjustice
#medicaidforall
#nooneisillegalonstolenland

on.soundcloud.com/G36p4Xrg1Qan...

31.03.2025 22:06 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Referring to your lived experience without self-reflection and accountability C. C. da Cunha Lewin explores the implication of clinical researchers claiming a LE without critically acknowledging it as embedded within psychiatric positionality.

"If I do not strive towards introspection with clarity and humility – and the discomfort that brings – my lived experience is meaningless."

C. C. da Cunha Lewin explores the implications of clinical researchers claiming LE without critically examining it.

www.nsun.org.uk/referring-to...

26.03.2025 11:36 — 👍 10    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

A police officer is grabbing a woman standing up to protest at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation hearing. She is wearing a KN95 mask and holding a cardboard sign reading, “Vaccines save lives, no RFK Jr.” The text reads, “The Sick Times. Trump administration set to abolish the Office of Long COVID Research and Practice. By Miles Griffis and Betsy Ladyzhets.”

“Losing [the OLC] is a devastating blow—not just to the Long COVID community, but to public health as a whole,” said Karyn Bishof, founder and president of the COVID-19 Longhauler Advocacy Project, in a statement. “They were our strongest allies: deeply empathetic, mission-driven, and true partners in the fight to understand, address, and prevent Long COVID.”

The Trump administration is set to abolish the Office of Long COVID Research and Practice. The termination follows other steps that appear to target and erase federal responses to the Long COVID crisis.

Read more from @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social and @mileswgriffis.bsky.social: bit.ly/4l0RZIT

25.03.2025 17:32 — 👍 88    🔁 47    💬 1    📌 5

I’ve had to make the tough call to cancel my attendance as artist guest of honour at the Fantasy Art Workshop in Milwaukee in June… why? Because it’s no longer safe

25.03.2025 20:46 — 👍 11648    🔁 1736    💬 676    📌 137

A yellow background and a meter indicating moderate wastewater levels of SARS-CoV-2. The graphic reads: “THE SICK TIMES: This Week’s COVID-19 Trends Update. COVID-19 levels in the U.S. have remained at about the same, moderate level for the last couple of weeks. However, COVID-19 levels right now are much higher than we normally see at this time of year. That’s partially due to a lower-than-usual winter surge, but it’s also thanks to human behavior: the coronavirus continues to spread wherever people gather in close quarters. Without collective health measures, the “baseline” between COVID-19 waves continues to get higher. In other disease news: flu rates continue to drop. Bird flu remains a threat. Measles cases continue, too — more than 400 cases have been reported across 19 states, and the U.S. may “lose its measles elimination status.”

COVID-19 levels in the U.S. have remained at about the same, moderate level for the last couple of weeks. However, COVID-19 levels right now are much higher than we normally see at this time of year.

This week's full COVID-19 trends report: bit.ly/4iFWCq3

25.03.2025 22:13 — 👍 306    🔁 102    💬 5    📌 10

Aside from the BIPOC Poetry Gems page I was compelled to compile as Trump came back into office, I have neglected my website, but since 8 folx have already paid for workshops, I forced myself to update the store for folx unable to use PayPal, so please clap! 🥹
www.equitableforall.com/purchase-vir...

26.03.2025 03:55 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Science has learned that grant termination letters went out last night to principal investigators of 29 awards made by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), including nine grants that were part of a program hoping to deliver antiviral drugs to prevent future pandemics.

Other terminated grants involved research to develop improved COVID-19 vaccines and to address Long Covid, the mysterious lingering aftermath of some SARS-CoV-2 infections. “The research is being treated like we already have all the answers we will need in the future and that the current vaccines work well enough and don’t need improvement, which we know is not true,” says an investigator involved with one of the NIAID grants who asked not to be named for fear of retribution. “Some of the studies being canceled were attempting to make a pancoronavirus vaccine, which would hopefully be available the next time a novel coronavirus jumps species into humans.”

Folks, very bad news for #LongCOVID. Deep breath.

29 awarded grants to do with COVID and Long COVID have been rescinded by NIH. 🧪

www.science.org/content/arti...

25.03.2025 23:13 — 👍 1071    🔁 475    💬 43    📌 52

For 400+ years, over 15 million people were victims of the transatlantic slave trade—one of history’s worst atrocities. On this International Day of Remembrance, we honor their lives & acknowledge the lasting impact of this tragedy. #TheMarchContinues

25.03.2025 12:00 — 👍 216    🔁 95    💬 7    📌 9