@arielabergriger.bsky.social
Visual Storyteller / Author of AMERICA REDUX (2023 Kirkus Prize, 2024 YALSA Nonfiction finalist)
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15.02.2025 20:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
During the AIDS epidemic, gay rights activists in San Francisco transformed an SRO into a center for holistic care & community. The residential hotel, which accepted people no matter their ability to pay or their degree of sickness, became a refuge for queer kinship.
The latest, from Stathis Yeros:
My latest.
As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality.
I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI.
Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
This is a big deal, it shows DOGE trying to do the thing that I and @nathantankus.bsky.social and everyone freaking out suspected: using the payment system to cancel spending they don't like edition.cnn.com/2025/02/06/p...
06.02.2025 17:00 — 👍 955 🔁 435 💬 25 📌 19It's about damn time. Keep up the pressure on their asses and don't let up.
05.02.2025 23:13 — 👍 78 🔁 29 💬 1 📌 0
Stop Musk Coup sign
Sign saying Musk has your SS#
Sign saying Musk stole your tax data
Sign saying Musk raided the Treasury
Meanwhile, somewhere in New Jersey…
I love the Visibility Brigade.
Musk raided the Treasury
Musk stole your tax data
Musk has your SS#
Stop Musk Coup
A facebook post from Lisa Murkowski: I want to thank Alaskans who have been reaching out to my offices in D.C. and across Alaska. The U.S. Senate phone system has been receiving around 1,600 calls each minute, compared to the 40 calls per minute we usually receive, which has disrupted our call systems. Thank you for your patience as my staff works to review your messages and share them with me. We’re all working to get this issue resolved as quickly as possible.
Murkowski says call volume to the Senate is now 40x higher than normal:
05.02.2025 19:18 — 👍 6801 🔁 1568 💬 253 📌 384
"Stop the Coup!"
Scene at Treasury.
But the order is only that—a promise, not a law. “President Trump’s Executive Order has not made it illegal to prescribe puberty-blockers or hormones to transgender people under the age of nineteen,” Chase Strangio, co-director of the ACLU’s LGBT & HIV Project, said via email Monday. “What the executive order is attempting to do is coerce institutions and providers to stop providing the treatment they believe is medically necessary for their patients by threatening all federal funding to an institution that treats transgender patients under nineteen with gender affirming medical care.”
Hospitals that are cutting off care to trans people under nineteen are the very definition of "complying in advance"—some, as I report in this story, even claiming, incorrectly, that Trump has "prohibited" gender-affirming care. He has not. They are caving. More here: newrepublic.com/article/1910...
04.02.2025 16:47 — 👍 1216 🔁 441 💬 19 📌 12I’m a part time librarian and I just want to echo what I’ve seen other librarians say recently: there is a HUGE uptick in requests for social justice, climate justice, abolition, history, etc books and I just want to say nobody is giving up the fight. If anything people are fighting harder #library
04.02.2025 14:41 — 👍 32744 🔁 5626 💬 62 📌 32
Picture of protest crowd, trans pride flags
There’s a strong crowd here, I’d say 1-2,000 people. Cynthia Nixon, whose son is trans, just spoke.
Event is protesting NYU Langone cancelling appointments for trans patients, following Trump White House order.
hellgatenyc.com/nyu-langone-...
Elon Musk Quoted tweet: Career Treasury officials are breaking the law every hour of every day by approving payments that are fraudulent or do not match the funding laws passed by Congress. This needs to stop NOW! Mario Nawfal Quote tweet: Should the treasury be put on the blockchain so this doesn't happen? Elon Musk Reply: Yes!
We are in such, such profound danger. They are doing the Reichstag fire to the most crucial and foundational payments layer of the Federal Government.
02.02.2025 23:59 — 👍 3344 🔁 905 💬 88 📌 119When brilliant educators get inspired by America Redux and collage the book into their notes the way I collaged the archives into the book—I just love this so much!
28.01.2025 22:39 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Sarah, I am so late to finding this, but I LOVE IT!!
28.01.2025 22:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Image of an open book surrounded by collaged historical images that says in handwritten lettering: "American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it."—James Baldwin, A Talk to Teachers, 1963 from the book America Redux
Hiiiiiii. Brand new here and still getting set up, but wanted to say that if you're in Boston at #ncte24 this weekend there is a RAD America Redux poster at the @harpercollins.bsky.social booth. Go get it! So bummed I can't be there with you all 😭
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