#COMMUNITIES

Our communities have made their position clear: WE DENOUNCE THE EXPANSION AND SAY NO TO GEO! The proposed 750 bed expansion would make the Adelanto Detention Center one of the
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The propagation of fat phobia, and why the "obesity epidemic" isn't. A thread. I was listening to a health podcast today. One I often get some good tips from. Sometimes
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and that privilege we have as astrologers is part of how we get to participate in creating worlds with our clients that are kinder, more inclusive, more compassionate, more equitable,
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Excited to share that I've put my name forward for the upcoming election to the @youngfabians exec.Understanding the importance of community is core to Fabian values. I want to help
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“Support for migrant/refugee youth with disability is a Venn diagram. Some characteristics of both aspects are not supported enough...There is a need for more targeted and tailored supports.” -National Disability
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Are you from an immigrant family, and have you grown up thinking that through hard work and sacrifice, anything could be overcome - including racism? Until recently, I didn't think
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#Yale announced that despite its $30 billion endowment, it will institute a faculty hiring freeze. @Yale hoarding its wealth is nothing new. And among academic workers, it’s always POC who
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“Communities of practice are groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do & learn how to do it better as they interact regularly.Even when
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Giving more thought to the *visibility of grief* in our society and media. What is socially “acceptable”, comfortable, what is not, who is allowed to grieve and how. Grief is
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Finished the census. My kids all insisted on being reported thus:Ethnicity: Mexican, Mexican American, Chicano Race:White (Mixed European) & Native American (Huasteca Nahua / Chichimeca).There was a long conversation about
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Very late to this, but I’d highly recommend watching Sherpa, a documentary about a whole community in Nepal supporting Western climbers want to get to top of Everest (1/n) It
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Available evidence (though injuriously limited) shows that Black people are being infected & dying of #coronavirus at higher rates. Disproportionate Black suffering is what many of us have suspected and
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"LOOK CARM, REGARDLESS OF WHAT DOCTOR FAUCI SAYS IF THE BING HAS TO OPEN, IT HAS TO OPEN. WE'RE LIKE WWE, ESSENTIAL ENTERTAINMENT SERVICES, DON'T GIVE ME THIS NON-ESSENTIAL BULLSHIT"
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1/ All eyes on Hartlepool, with 3 weeks to the by-election. But away from party politics, our new briefing shows what ‘levelling up’ is really going to mean in the
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When we say "fandom should go back to 'don't like, don't read', 'your kink isn't my kink and that's ok'", etc, ppl who weren't around then really don't understand just
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How did stereotypes of criminality influence state policy towards the former “criminal tribes” (“CTs”) – now known as “denotified tribes” – in the years after Indian independence in 1947? How
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