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Meg Stone

@megstoneimpact.bsky.social

Executive Director, IMPACT Boston, author, THE COST OF FEAR Why Most Safety Advice is Sexist and How We Can Stop Gender-based Violence. Beacon Press, Feb 2025.

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November 22 MAMAS Free Clothing Store at East Somerville Community School (50 Cross Street) Form / Formulario para la tienda de ropa gratuita de MAMAS en el East Somerville Community School (50 Cross ... Please fill out this form if you'd like to volunteer. The event will take place at the school playground. Setup 7a-10a, Free Store open 10a-2p, cleanup 2p-3p. / Favor de rellenar este formulario si de...

sharing a couple ways local folks can keep the β€œhell yeah we are building stuff!” momentum in the next few weeks:

1) @mutualaidmamas.bsky.social is holding a free store on 11/22 at the East Somerville Community School and there are LOTS of volunteer opps starting now: forms.gle/aPEaRKZ4u6nb...

06.11.2025 13:30 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Stand Strong: A night of self-defense training and empowerment Every year, nearly one in four women will experience sexual violence on college campuses, but research shows that empowerment self-defense programs reduce these assaults by 50% or more. Join us for a ...

Practical safety skills for living a bigger life! Hope to see you at @wburcityspace.bsky.social!

www.wbur.org/events/10312...

18.09.2025 17:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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All the most ridiculous advice you've ever heard about avoiding #Violence, repackaged for the 2020s. Come see what #TikTok is telling young people about crime, violence and safety!

Spoiler alert: it's ridiculous.

08.09.2025 16:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A little behind, but it was an honor to present at this year's National Sexual Assault Conference #NSAC2025 last week. Thank you @valor.us for inspiration, challenge, critical conversation and fun!

04.09.2025 16:54 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What the ACTUAL?!?!?!

04.09.2025 16:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œI knew this was a bullsh*t story, but I went along with it”: Police violence after Katrina and how it was covered up - Salon.com The truth behind the Danziger Bridge killings in New Orleans has been hard to unravel . Here's how it went down

20 years ago, Hurricane Katrina thrashed lower Louisiana in the eerie early morning hours of August 29.

6 days after landfall, NOPD officers shot 6 Black citizens on the Danziger Bridge and hatched a cover-up with their supervisors. #TDIH

29.08.2025 18:26 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Texas GOPer Who Blocked Filibuster Shared Approach to Immigrants: β€˜Shoot, Shovel and Shut Up’ Read more here.

NEW: The Texas Republican lawmaker who blocked Democrats’ effort to filibuster the state’s gerrymander suggested β€œshoot, shovel and shut up” as a way to deal with immigrants β€” a comment that could boost legal efforts to block the state’s map.

From: @jenrice.bsky.social

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Episode 29: The Cost of Fear - with author Meg Stone - Breaking Down Patriarchy we save our own lives

There’s not enough evidence about what makes us safer. But @megstoneimpact.bsky.social says the evidence we do have is that self-defense programs that are explicitly feminist and that focus on familiar sexual assault reduce sexual assault by 50% or more.

21.08.2025 16:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How to Turn Your Advocacy Into a Book That Demands Attention Learn how Meg Stone turned decades of advocacy into a bold, publishable book - and how you can turn your mission into a message that gets noticed.

It is not compliance that makes us safer, but resistance, critical thinking, self-advocacy, and choice. - Meg Stone
That’s true for safety. It’s also true for visibility.
🎧 Hear how Meg wrote a bold, brave book - and got published without playing small. www.lanelit.com/blog/how-to-...

19.08.2025 14:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Fascinating history. I didn't realize the role the AIDS crisis and the Reagan administration played in our current sex ed landscape. Can't wait to read this book!

14.08.2025 17:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Episode 29: The Cost of Fear - with author Meg Stone - Breaking Down Patriarchy we save our own lives

In the world we’re living in now, every definition of gender-based violence has to be inclusive of trans people, non-binary people, and men. @megstoneimpact.bsky.social

14.08.2025 13:13 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ghislaine Maxwell raped over a thousand little girls and right now she's at a Club Fed in Texas eating better food and receiving better health care than America's working poor. A clear symptom of a terminally ill society. If this doesn't piss you off, you are sub-human scum.

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This.

12.08.2025 22:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Empower Hour-Meet the Author Meg Stone Join NBC10's Tracy Davidson in a powerful conversation about safety and regaining personal power with author Meg Stone

#PHILADELPHIA people... join me September 16th to support a great cause!

www.eventbrite.com/e/empower-ho...

12.08.2025 22:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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America’s Largest Landlord to Stop Using RealPage Rent-Setting Software, Makes Deal With DOJ Greystar, which manages nearly 950,000 apartments, has agreed to stop using β€œanti-competitive” algorithms to suggest rents. ProPublica previously showed how such software lets landlords set rents in a...

NEW: Greystar, which manages nearly 950,000 apartments, has agreed to stop using β€œanti-competitive” algorithms to suggest rents.

ProPublica previously showed how such software lets landlords set rents in a way that could result in cartel-like behavior.

By @heathervogell.bsky.social

12.08.2025 15:41 β€” πŸ‘ 3674    πŸ” 1307    πŸ’¬ 174    πŸ“Œ 96

I am really looking forward to reading this book!

12.08.2025 16:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

#womensafety #safetyhacks #personalsafety

06.08.2025 16:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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If you're tired of racist, sexist, fear-mongering, stranger-danger safety advice (or you just want to know what your teenager is seeing online) check out this free workshop! TOMORROW 8/7, 7pm Eastern. (And again in September)

06.08.2025 16:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

This.

05.08.2025 20:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
[The Cost of Fear] Meg Stone offered strategies on how to discern between fact and fiction when it comes to promoting safety and stopping gender-based violence. Fountain Bookstore in Richmond, Virginia, hosted this even...

More #Lateadopter catch-up. Here I was on CSPAN.

www.c-span.org/program/book...

05.08.2025 20:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sounds about right.

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πŸ’―.

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Local author talks 'Art above everything' Local author, Stephanie Elizondo Griest talks 'Art Above Everything' and her journey as a writer.

Throughout her travels across the globe, @sgriest.bsky.social observed that art holds many meanings for women artists. Art is a form of reconciliation. Art is a form of dissent. For her, art is a form of healing.

04.08.2025 18:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This is (Almost) 52: Empowerment Author Meg Stone Responds to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire "Nothing is surprising about being a childless, queer Gen-X-er in my early 50s, because I grew up having no idea what my life would look like."

Ever the #Lateadopter trying to catch up on BlueSky! Here is my piece on @oldstermag.bsky.social . Thank you @saribotton.bsky.social

04.08.2025 19:03 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It takes so much more heart, energy, and creativity to fix a problem than to point it out and diminish imperfect solutions.

03.08.2025 22:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Episode 29: The Cost of Fear - with author Meg Stone - Breaking Down Patriarchy we save our own lives

That time when I broke down patriarchy.

breakingdownpatriarchy.com/episode-29-t...

03.08.2025 19:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Trying to get used to this platform. #LateAdopter

15.01.2025 03:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0