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Today I was reminded that even our friends hold / promote #Islamophobia + Islamophobic tropes (a “liberal,” gay, Jewish, well educated + traveled doctor). cnn.com/2021/09/11/us/…
As @DMogahed says, “‘Fear kills freedom, so Islamophobia is bad for democracy, not just Muslims.’”

#Islamophobia, subtle or overt, latent or virulent, is not a friend.

Excise it, don’t excuse it.

amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/09/11…
Maybe it’s helpful to rethink what being a friend, a promoter of justice * fairness, means + could look like.

learningforjustice.org/magazine/ally-…
We are all on the menu.

The purveyors of hate and division love nothing more than seeing their targets fight amongst themselves.

We can unite in the face of hate, or feed that hate ourselves.

thedailybeast.com/ron-desantis-p…

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More from @kamalfizazi

Jan 11
.@blakehounshell’s death by suicide after battling depression spotlights broader issues: as a culture, we stigmatize #mentalillness + laud stoicism (or #toxicmasculinity?). #RIPBlakeHounshell
+ basic #ableism centering identity on work and productivity. Normalize telling your friends and family when you’re not ok. Normalize telling your caregivers. Normalize taking a break. Normalize asking for help, normalize receiving it. #RIPBlakeHounsell
61 million adults in #USA live with a #disability = 1 in 4. You are +/or know someone living with a disability. Do we talk about it? Or is it a shameful, secret thing? Internalized #ableism, #stigma kill.

cdc.gov/ncbddd/disabil… via @CDCgov #RIPBlakeHounsell
Read 9 tweets
Jan 9
“NYC’s private sector hospitals are run more like private equity firms than the nonprofits they’re meant to be. They lavish their executives with six- and seven-figure salaries and bonuses…”

nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-ope… via @NYDailyNews #NYCNurseStrike
“they jack up fees for services, and they prioritize their bottom line above patient care.

Hospital executives seem to forget that their mission is to provide quality care to the community. Nurses are here to remind them.”

nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-ope… @NYDailyNews #NYCNurseStrike
“Mount Sinai Health System alone now has more than 700 nursing vacancies. With this level of understaffing, it is nearly impossible to deliver the quality and compassionate care our patients deserve.”

nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-ope… via @NYDailyNews #NYCNurseStrike
Read 4 tweets
Jan 8
My 30’s and 40’s I lost 100+ people to suicide, overdose, etc. I remember a #LGBTQ+ fellow organizer grieving with me about @brandonlacycamp — that was 10 years ago. It was her first such loss. Not mine by far (tho he was a bestie so it was brutal).
Our #LGBTQ communities (plural) are diverse. We don’t live identical lives or have the same struggles. We each have our own journeys, facing hate + bigotry. Trauma. Homelessness. Murder. Sexual violence. Chaotic drug and alcohol use.
We each have difference resources and access to community or legacies of trauma and capacity differentials. Some of us are more resilient. Some of us are more courageous. It’s not a competition, of course. #LGBTQ
Read 5 tweets
Oct 8, 2022
My mom or one of her relatives from Crete gave me a tiny silver labrys (or pelekys / πέλεκυς). I later learned lesbians claimed the symbol too.

Happy #InternationalLesbianDay!
I don’t remember learning that the pelekys also was the symbol of the fascist Metaxas, as it is an ancient Hellenic (actually — Minoan) symbol. metaxas-project.com/doube-axe-labr…
The Hellenes also gave the world Sappho, who gave us some of the earliest recorded or preserved love and erotic poetry about women by a woman.

Happy #InternationalLesbianDay!!!
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Oct 8, 2022
Imagine being born in a secular #democracy & agitating, organizing, & pursuing establishment of a #theocracy — claiming ‘persecution’ bc a majority want to keep Church & State separate. #USA #religiousliberty #Christian #Christianist #DefendDemocracy @americansunited @RNS
Clearly we don’t all agree on who the ‘us’ is in #USA, who belongs, who matters, who should vote, what I means to be, ‘an American.’ pewresearch.org/religion/2021/…
#FirstAmendment to the #Constitution mandates that the #USA shall have no official religion.

Despite this, about 20% say the federal government should stop enforcing the separation of church and state a that the Constitution was inspired by God. #DefendDemocracy
Read 4 tweets
Oct 7, 2022
I would love to hear @POTUS @JoeBiden use the bully pulpit to articulate a redemption narrative around his shift in policy. #USA #drugs #law #policy #amends #repentance #repair
It is the right thing to do — the #USA is in a revolutionary, transformational moment, change is happening so quickly — and would be an example of accountability for past harms done, of #repentance and #repair, an #amends. #drugs #law #policy @POTUS @JoeBiden
Heavens knows former Pres. Trump used the bully pulpit to spew hate, slurs, mockery; he never accepted accountability nor showed contrition or #repentance, nor made #amends for problem behavior. #USA #drugs #law #policy #accountability #repair
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