My dad save an entire, substantial, file folder of letters written to him and @NatGeo protesting the inclusion of photos of nudes that ran with his article on…the Sistine Chapel
Having spent an unpaid summer internship working in the @NatGeo Research Correspondent department, I can confirm that most correspondence was about cranky letters from old people and school kids asking about banana slug penises. But this paper CC trail!
Many of them are exceedingly complimentary but omg the crazies!
You guys, my Dad’s clap back is pretty epic
When everybody thinks they’re a fact-checker
“What is this bag doing if not to invite comparison with the scrotum?”
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Ask your healthcare provider and/or workers themselves if they are vaccinated.
You have the right to know if they're putting you in danger.
If you go on a healthcare provider/hospital/HMO site and they list COVID precautions and it's all about testing and temp checks and cleaning surfaces, chances are very high they're not requiring staff to be vaccinated.
The FDA fully approving the vaccines would speed this along. After a BILLION people have been vaccinated, those who are in health care but refuse them are in the wrong industry. nytimes.com/2021/07/21/hea…
IRL, "Sonny" did end up paying for "Leon's" sex reassignment surgery, out of the life rights he got from film/article.
She then marries someone else, but continued to visit him in prison.
My film club has watched a lot of 70s classics that are pretty cringey (or worse) with hindsight, but on the three big themes of this movie—LGBTQ visibility, class struggles despair, police violence and overreach—it feels pretty damn fresh.
The ginned up hysteria over teaching the truth about slavery and bigotry is not just an attack on the truth, it's an attempt to drive Black educators from the classroom. Great story by @isabelaalhadeff : motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
Moral panic over critical race theory isn't *just* happening in North Carolina, of course. Still, it's hard not to draw a straight line between the attacks on Rodney D. Pierce and those on @nhannahjones.