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Apr 1, 2022 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
A thread of things DAME *doesn’t* do as an independent media outlet.📰🧵
We don’t hire people who sought to destroy democracy and lie with impunity washingtonpost.com/media/2022/03/…
Mar 31, 2022 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
On this #TransDayOfVisibility we have a thread of some pieces we’ve published that we’d love for you to read and share.🧵👇
It's no coincidence that Republican-controlled states that criminalize abortion are also criminalizing gender-affirming care for trans people. And it's only the beginning of their pronatalist white supremacist agenda. From @chgrimaldi damemagazine.com/2022/03/28/the…
Mar 30, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
We couldn't agree more. @BrynnTannehill has written extensively for us on these issues. Yes, it's all terrifying but it's just essential for folks to understand. damemagazine.com/author/brynn-t…
A thread of some of @BrynnTannehill's recent work for us. The GOP have focused their vitriol on the trans community, whom they depict as an existential threat to justify their plans to eradicate their existence from society. damemagazine.com/2022/03/15/tra…
Mar 29, 2022 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
One of the reasons we ran our series on American vigilantism was so that we could help folks understand its history. Please read this thread. And the series. damemagazine.com/2022/03/07/whi…
Since this country’s founding, white people have taken the law—that they created—into their own hands to terrorize and brutalize Black people. Part 1 - the history by @thejournalistadamemagazine.com/2022/03/07/whi…
Dec 2, 2021 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
Yesterday, we spent some time perusing all of the stories we’ve published on the fight for abortion and reproductive rights. A theme emerged. 🧵
1/ In the more than 400 stories we've published on the topic over the years, our Cassandra-like contributors have been shouting from the mountaintops that these rights could be stripped away. damemagazine.com/?s=abortion
May 21, 2019 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
It's #NationalRescueDogDay every day here at DAME with the team's very good boys and girls ... 1/
2/ First up, Founder & Publisher @JenniferReitman's Goliath, found on the side of the road in Apple Valley, California. Also goes by The
Jan 27, 2019 • 16 tweets • 5 min read
In the month of January alone, we’ve seen extraordinary, deadly violence against women and families perpetrated by young men. #ARealCrisis <Thread>
1/ On Saturday, 21-year Dakota Theriot was accused of killing his parents and suspected of murdering another family of 3, including Summer Ernest, believed to be his girlfriend. npr.org/2019/01/27/689…
Last night, the @CommerceGov said it would add a citizenship question to the #2020Census. In theory, it’s about getting an accurate count for purposes of the Voting Rights Act. In reality, it’s a racist xenophobic move with severe long-term consequences. commerce.gov/sites/commerce…
The census is an incredibly important tool that touches so many aspects of American lives. It’s the foundational data for everything from voting rights for black people, median earnings for women versus men, fertility rates, and more. damemagazine.com/2017/05/15/cen…#2020Census
40k people a year die from breast cancer. That number, despite all the pink ribbons money can buy, has not changed since 1970. #Thread
Stage-4 breast cancer is also called metastatic breast cancer. Metastasis occurs in about 30% of women diagnosed with breast cancer...
Oct 21, 2017 • 7 tweets • 5 min read
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. #DVAMTurns30 this year, but the #DVFacts show there's still work to be done. #Thread
.@NCADV reports that 1 in 3 women & 1 in 4 men will become victims of physical domestic violence in their lifetime. #DVFacts
