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Mar 20 5 tweets 1 min read
I encourage leftists to pay attention to the #TransRightsReadathon campaign, even if you’re not a book person. Decentralized organizing, which empowers people to do something that matches their skills & interests in service of a public good, is catching like wildfire 1/
People everywhere are actually pretty desperate to DO something, anything, that makes the world a better place. When we create a way that they can, whilst tapping into what they’re already good at & interested in? That’s clearly powerful. 2/
And I know some leftists will sneer because we’re just reading books & making tiktoks, not marching in the streets, but hey we’re also raising $10,000s if not $100,000s in mutual aid & legal defense funds for trans folk. That’s TANGIBLE AF mutual aid, friends.
So how can you kick off decentralized organizing in YOUR community? Can fiber people do a knit-a-thon for bail funds? Can sports people host push-ups for housing funds? Can cooks do cooking competitions to feed their communities? Make it empowering. Make it fun & irresistible.
And who knows? People dip their toes into a little anarchist organizing, have a good experience, doing something which is already their strength and their hobby? Who knows what that turns into…

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Mar 19
🔥important🔥 since authors who’ve written books w/trans MCs, but who’ve not disclosed their gender, are being included on lists of trans authors in the #TransRightsReadathon, and this could lead to forced outing, I suggest opening the guidelines to “trans books” generally 1/
So previously my messaging was “let’s read books by trans authors,” but many lists are including books by authors who don’t self-identify as trans, but write trans characters. So if you’re doing that, just say you’re reading “trans books” or “books with trans rep.” 2/
Again, I’m not in charge of this Readathon. I threw out the idea to begin with, but each person is running their own campaign. But for whatever my voice is worth, I’d like to use it to ensure we’re not pressuring anyone to out themselves!
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Mar 18
Just throwing out that I would love to see more authors participating in the #TransRightsReadathon! Idk if you’re waiting on an invite? Here it is!!! Trans or cis? slow reader? Can’t afford to donate much? It doesn’t matter! All are welcome to join however they’re able!
Because I’m seeing some authors interacting with the hashtag but not throwing their hat in the ring. Maybe you think you’re not allowed bc you’re an author? You’re totally allowed & welcomed!!!
And if you’re a trans author, please feel free to use the hashtag to do book promotion! We are trying to boost your books! Make it easier for us! Make some content and tag it so we can find it!
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Nov 22, 2022
Last week I made a video thread called “Why do they hate us?”, a brief history of anti-Semitism that went viral on ⏰, and I was overwhelmed by the sheer # of people who commented they had no idea that anti-Semitism goes back millennia or had never heard about Blood Libel🧵
I almost didn’t post the videos because the info seems so obvious to me, but of course that’s because I’m Jewish, and many of us are taught our history through our family. Meanwhile Christians have no clue their history has always been inextricably intertwined w/our genocide. 2/
This erasure is extremely relevant, because Christians justified genociding us for at least the last millennia by accusing us of abducting and harming children—blood libel. They accused Romanies of the same. This has been Christians’ genocidal playbook for 1,000+ years. 3/
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Oct 28, 2022
My kid is 5. We're a still-masking family. At the beginning of the year, she was one of about 5 kids in her school still masking, so she told me she was going to stop. I said okay. Then she got sick for a month straight. On her own, she decided to start masking again. 1/
Since she started wearing masks again (kn95s), about three weeks ago, she hasn't been sick. So she told me she's going to keep wearing a mask, because she doesn't like being sick. How can a 5yo figure this out but grown-ups really struggle?? Being sick SUCKS?? Like even colds?!?
I'm sure things would've played out differently if she were being bullied for wearing a mask, but we're lucky that the kids in her grade all seem chill with whatever they each want to do.
Again...grownups...struggling with that.
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Aug 14, 2022
Let’s talk about how the vast majority of white characters written by white authors are super dishonest when it comes to whiteness. A 🧵.
We live in a white supremacist society. Regardless of what they tell you, white people are absolutely aware of their whiteness and their lifetime’s worth of racial biases and understanding of racial power dynamics any time they’re encountering non-white people. HOWEVER… 2/
But most white people were taught it’s wrong to have any thoughts or awareness of race whatsoever. So in a social situation with nonwhite people, there’s one subroutine in their mind running all these racial anxieties, but there’s another subroutine silencing the first. 3/
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Jun 14, 2022
My disaster-queer, revolutionary punk kids are going to be published!!! This book was born from so much love and grief over all my years of activism in Texas.
THE FREE PEOPLE'S VILLAGE insists there is no climate justice without abolition!
Coming Fall 2023 from @LevineQuerido! Image
I am beyond thrilled to work with @capaciousmood as the acquiring editor on this book. Irene is a nonbinary Afrolatine Houstonian, with organizing experience in Houston. Irene knows these neighborhoods and communities, and what Gulf Coast activism is all about.
My new agent, @RebeccaPodos, negotiated the contract and was an invaluable help throughout that process. Thank you, Becca!
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