Jessica A.S. Letaw

Can’t say this enough. “Luxury” housing is either branding by developers or low-information/bad-faith anti-housing advocacy by community members.

We do all levels of housing affordability a service when we know and can speak accurately about what market-rate housing is.

I’m at a Women In Tech event tonight specifically to talk up public boards and commissions!

Think you don’t know enough? Yes you do.

Think you don’t have enough time? It’s probably a smaller commitment than you think.

Think it’s not for people like you? You are EXACTLY who should get involved!

Listen.

Ever. Green.

Shoutouts to everybody multiscreening the NFL and a city council meeting

The tracking what people check out from public libraries thing!!

The library of the suburb where I lived in 2001 stopped storing checkout records very long in response to it. They said NOPE

We've actually sent enough emails, I've just got the news that we hit our quota and never have to send another email again, good job everyone we did it, we can stop now

hard same

I *strongly* advise not having this app on your phone or uploading media to it that you haven’t stripped of metadata beforehand - someone with 10 years experience investigating commercial surveillance

The background of the photograph is a sunny morning on a tree-lined street. Centered in the image is a white moving truck with the company’s name “Two Men and a Truck” printed on the side.

Sometimes

endings

and beginnings

look the same.

the morning’s first banger

That is exactly the Venn diagram of my humor

jokes 🤝🏻 public meetings
me

Dordplane

My Oxford encyclopedia article on Black Power and organized labor was also published today. It's accessible for free (for now).
oxfordre.com/americanhist...

That is exactly the Venn diagram of my humor

jokes 🤝🏻 public meetings
me

The way I just hollered.

One day it finally did and now I still can’t use it because it means explaining every time!

Can, should, and will.

This is canon.

Police Brutality in America Teach-Out The tragic deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery have sparked a wave of renewed protests against police brutality across the United States. These nationwide uprisings have transfor...

Morning Bluesky!

Since #academicsky & #abolition are finding their way here, I'm sharing a resource - I created a course on Police Brutality in the US in 2020 with tons of content, conversation guides & tools - it's all Creative Commons and can be used whole or in part in your courses.

I mean…yeah

🧪 ⚒️ SoCal!
If you felt that M5.1 earthquake near Ojai (which is completely unrelated to the tropical storm) a few minutes ago, please fill this out! Citizen science like this helps show the extent of earthquake effects.
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/ci39645386/executive#dyfi

When people ask how I am, I keep telling them that I am fine, not fine, fine.

I even had it in my email signature for a while.

I, too, want a word that means okay and not okay

Hey bsky besties, please vote for this session!! @jessicaletaw.bsky.social is one of the community catalysts I admire most and I need her and her wisdom to get this platform, for all of our cities and towns struggling with housing issues. vote vote vote ✨

PanelPicker | SXSW Conference & Festivals PanelPicker® is the official SXSW user-generated session proposal platform. Enter ideas and vote to help shape Conference programming for SXSW and SXSW EDU.

When I'm not on the internet, I spend about 107% of my time talking about housing: the issues, the levers of change, and how anyone in any community can get involved in making things better.

Now I wanna do that at SXSW. Vote for me! Please! https://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/132207

More like char-cute-rie

Screenshot of a news article titled “Ann Arbor bikeway clicks record-high 10,000-plus trips in July.”

GET IT, Ann Arbor.

Joon forever.

Had an *intense* dream about being the staff manager for a women’s NCAA volleyballpong team. I’m not sure what school but it was the Big 10 conference. In Amsterdam. The dream was a series of vignettes of interacting with frontline staff during playoff seasons.