#Marginalized

Scott Madin 🩸🦷

ScottMadin

every day I think about how if how if the federal government had wanted to keep the COVID-19 pandemic from being a catastrophe, we'd have done all the things we

Wagatwe Wanjuki 🇰🇪 🇧🇸

wagatwe

No. this kind of both sides-ing is offensive to the people the far right literally want to obliterate. Do not blame polarization on the victims of far right violence. This

Joyce Cheung MD

jtwcheung

I work in the hardest hit areas in TO by #covid19 lower income area & marginalized pts. Families UNABLE to get to testing centre without exposing others on public transit!

Kathleen Rushall

KatRushall

Can we as an industry get on the same page that competitive works clauses based on ethnicity, culture, or religion of a main character, ESPECIALLY if this reflects that of

Anand Giridharadas

AnandWrites

I don't know who needs to hear this, but in the wake of @KamalaHarris's historic selection, it is a moment to hold rival truths in balance.Representation matters, and structure matters.Representation

Kitty

jellyfable

Okay, I'm going to make a calm and collected thread about the Leigh Bardugo thing because I always just emotionally subtweet but I actually do want to explain to everyone

Linda Epstein (is taking a break)

LindaEpstein

Can I kvetch a little?So, you'd think this isn't still the case and yet... books centering Jewish main characters are still often seen as niche by publishers. A reason for

Steve Faguy

fagstein

OK time for some omnibus judgments:- Should a professor use the N word in class? No.- Does it mitigate the issue that it’s used in a dry academic context? Yes.-

Christine Artemisia Kelley

ballardiangorse

LRT: This is what I fucking mean when I say that Twitter crowds are allergic to nuance. And frankly encourage abusive discourse. A favorite example for me was how Natalie

Clark Kent Hugging Martha & Lois

thebravestheart

It's honestly so funny how the new internet feminism is the obligation to comment on literally everything and be informed about nothing. That's what gets your tweets seen and these

brittany packnett cunningham ain’t here for real.

MsPackyetti

I'm not a fan of using social justice language as a litmus test or a poker than thou competition.BUT, as I grow, I try to learn in public. Words matter.

Fran Tirado

fransquishco

As much as I honor the ancestors/activists who clocked hella hours just so we *could* come out, I also want to be future-minded and work to one day place less

Da’Shaun | they/them

DaShaunLH

and what are straight Black men doing to not give other Black folks a reason to hate them?https://twitter.com/makonnentendaji/status/1309371347554844673 the issue i have with this statement is that even when it

March For Our Lives

AMarch4OurLives

Stop censoring us. Understand that anger drives change. History has shown that without anger no one will listen.--Thread on Tone Policing and it's effects on organizers, particularly BIPOC Tone policing

Lynda Lopez

Lyndab08

My initial thought is that we lack spaces making room for honest questions without placing the burdens on marginalized people to educate. Social media is good at shaming people, but

Anarkoautism

Eremitpurpur

Intelligence is an ableist concept.Describing people in terms of intellectual inferiority is ableist.And "stupid" is a slur Now you ask: How can it be a slur when everyone uses it?To