Sometimes I think about how romances written during the Regency era don't have any queer or trans people in them, but we know they existed, and we know they loved. We know, because we have the arrest records. Countless romances, told between the lines of police reports.
Because the US really prefers to bury the truth. Like the average American doesn't know we had schools, or what they were, or that our languages and religions were illegal for us into my lifetime, or that forced sterilization was active into 2018. Or that our children were purchasable until ICWA.
it's a very quick way to ensure cultural erasure. also brings to mind residential schools for indigenous children in canada.
Here is the graphic I use when I teach on how the militarization of police has impacted protestors
Yes please help support your local food pantries. Also a reminder that Congress will be voting on the Farm Bill likely next month. This bill is how SNAP is funded. The GOP wants to cut SNAP benefits. Please contact your Rep + Senators and tell them no cuts to SNAP. It should be expanded not cut.
Boy howdy people do the memory of Carl Schurz, German immigrant and Union general in the US Civil War, enormous violence on the goddamned daily. The full quote is: “My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.”
Read the Palestinian Film Institute's response to International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam's (IDFA) damaging statement Adhere to their demands where you can as a filmmaker at / or attendee of IDFA please sign their petition: www.change.org/p/petition-a... and AMPLIFY their message
please no new features until search doesn’t suck