“Homelessness has been recharacterized as streetlessness. Not the poor deprived of homes, but the homed being deprived of their streets.” — Toni Morrison, 1994
The FDA has approved a powerful medicine that uses the gene-editing tool CRISPR to treat sickle cell disease The devastating illness affects more than 100,000 Americans, the majority of whom are Black
The groundbreaking approval has been eagerly anticipated by patients and doctors alike. The treatment is expected to be extremely expensive.
Hearing from Art Friends this year that their holiday art sales are pretty low -- maybe in part the economy, but I'm also guessing it's how AI has fucked some shit up. As such, if you can spend money on real art by humans this holiday, please do.
At the end of the day I remain a Sydettist and come back to the question @blackamazon.bsky.social offers for centering the work one does in the world: does baby have hat? I can't fix the goddamned world but that's OK. I can put some hats on babies, some food in bellies, offer comfort.
The people I know panicking most about Trump possibly winning in 2024? Not white liberals. Immigrants. Iranian. Chilean. Argentinian. People who know that governments can turn on a dime, go from a democracy to a dictatorship in a day. They’ve seen this happen before, and they know the signs.
I occasionally get incredibly tired of living in a political world mostly populated by people who either didn’t get the kind of civics/history/poli-sci education provided by my school next to the state capitol, or who weren’t listening to all the practical bits about the warts and imperfections. 1/?
It's the only correct answer.