Comrade card for 8/11/2024. (One of many Mariame Kaba-isms that ring in my ears on the daily—complimentary.)
Year 44 of Reagan and Thatcher at world scale. I’m tired.
As a #Section28 survivor, I feel compelled to point out that "promoting homosexuality" means acknowledging its existence.
Happy #primeweek! I just want to let y’all know that the Amazon shipping warehouse where my husband works is denying workers fans during a nationally recognized heat emergency and everything you order during time week places workers’ lives at risk.
I’m currently reading up on an old Irish term for a person who likes to stay home by the warmth and comfort of the fireplace (a person we might today call a couch potato). The term, cailleach na luatha, should immediately replace couch potato though. It essentially means “divine hag of the ashes”
"Take what works and leave the rest" ✌🏼
Also true of developing what people in ivory towers call "multicultural competence." Shut tf up and listen. Listen for a long time.
"Before Reagan" is the opening to so many sentences about how things used to be less fucked.
TBT to when @alexacosti.bsky.social and I speed-wrote my uncle's obit at work 👀