“There was a general understanding that we were not well and that there was nothing we could do about it. We are choosing to disrupt that narrative.”

These students are doing a better job of addressing the issues we’re confronting this year head-on than most entities in the US.

https://twitter.com/thegamecock/status/1318180089465655296

“We hope this decision will set an example for other organizations and students [people] in general: It is OK to not be OK. By refusing to accept our own limitations, we fail to actively participate in the habits we claim to prioritize.”

I’m not the best (read: not good) at this. I definitely have physical manifestations of my stress and depression. I’m on multiple stomach medications right now. It’s not good! And yet, here I am, still working through it all. It’s not healthy. These students get it.

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16 Oct

Today's reminder that Bill Barr is a menace who refuses to look at facts and evidence in his effort to cage people.

[Barr is giving a fear-mongering speech to police chiefs (again) because his biased law enforcement panel was declared as such by a federal judge (who also declared the panel’s meeting process illegal) and so now he doesn’t get to put out a biased report.]

#protip: Don't take your advice on law enforcement and public safety from this guy. He's talking about lots of cops, private enterprise, and religious schools. Seriously.

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13 Oct

Thinking about Harriet Miers tonight. I don’t know what sort of justice she would have been, but it wouldn’t have been Sam Alito, so I’d have been willing to give her a shot.

That was such a brief moment in time. How many of you had to google?

My favorite side-story of the short-lived Miers nomination was the even shorter period of time when we thought she was involved in an ex-gay ministry — but it turned out to be a totally different organization with a similar name.

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12 Oct

how it started: how it’s going:

Speaking of #NationalComingOutDay ...

I am so grateful, every day, that I have been given my unique queerness. Alas, this year, my theater-going has been limited — but, as always, we adapt. For ex, I’ve joined some of those queer friends in a remote DND game since this summer!

I am so grateful, also, that I’ve had mentors and friends who taught me that it was OK to be me, as queer as I am and with the varied interests I have, and that I’d find other queer people with similar interests to help me along the way and who I’d try to help along their way.

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