The amount of work that goes into running fundraisers for things that should absolutely be covered by the government and the redistribution of wealth via taxes in a just society…it’s a lot. You need some clout, some charisma, some writing skill, and it doesn’t hurt to be conventionally attractive

Hey, I finished one project this year! ...from undergrad. ...but it's still DONE!

Pronatalism is worse than a pyramid scheme - it's a pyramid scheme based on the idea that people are just undifferentiated resources to be exploited, whose hopes and dreams and desires and wishes are irrelevant.

Abortion bans always— always — most harm those who are already marginalized in our society: People who are struggling financially; people from the Global Majority; young people; those in rural areas; im/migrants; disabled people; trans & nonbinary people. The purpose of a system is what it does.

Because of how maternal mortality is recorded and Catholic hospitals policy to send away people miscarrying if there’s a fetal heartbeat, we don’t know if those policies killed anyone before Roe was overturned. It has been a known issue. 🎁link with references.

Opinion | Why Was a Catholic Hospital Willing to Gamble With My Life? (Published 2022)

Overturning Roe v. Wade isn’t just about abortion.

We’ve fallen so far in terms of what can be said in nominally polite spaces, I can’t quite express how chilling it is to have CBS treat “kick so many people out of their homes it’ll change the national housing market” as a value-neutral counterproposal to tax and zoning policy

(By which I mean usually they report management version of numbers for compensation without context and ignore much of the rest of the contract negotiation details)

And it is incredibly unjust that we've individualized emergency preparation in this country. It costs lives. It disproportionately affects people with less (less money, less health, less flexibility in work and family responsibilities). It causes intergenerational trauma. It's also less effective.

Sometimes it’s fine to use “seminal” or “spawn” but be aware that the former refers to semen and the latter to amphibians and fish ejecting sperm and eggs. That might not be the image you want to evoke. (5/n)

We are pickled in ableism, and it pervades the English language. Avoid using health terms metaphorically, even if they aren’t used that much in health care anymore. That includes lame, crippled, blind, deaf, feeble, demented, crazy, schizophrenic, etc. (3/n)