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Well! Been a busy few weeks but seems like a good time to formally announce the sale of @TheLi_st! (Formal as in Insta -official, obvs.) It’s been a wild ride over these ten years (first #changetheratio email April 2010, and lo, on it went), in turn hilarious and hilarious in retrospect, but we are both extremely proud of what we built together - based, as Glyn wrote, “...on our own friendship and habit of collecting awesome people at various events (when there were still events) who also were operating without any formal support system or expense account. We would end up bringing these folks along with us wherever we went - be at hotel rooms, parties, conferences, or many late-night fries – in an attempt to share whatever access we had.” Or, as I like to say, a rising tide lifts all boats, and that has been the ethos of The List, and of mine and Glyn’s friendship ever since we met in a Mediabistro writing class and went on to find ourselves at the intersection of media, politics, tech, and amazing women. Because everywhere we went we kept meeting amazing women who were also wildly under appreciated, and under-compensated. We hope we have been part of changing that! And now we are delighted to hand the reins over to @annshoket to take TheLi.st onward and upward, and can’t wait to see what’s next. (For us, we will remain as advisors supporting Ann & TheLi.st as it grows, Glyn will continue to write trenchantly about New York, and I am looking forward to writing more (musical theatre & paying work) and doing some consulting (plug!)(no seriously, plug). Thank you to Glyn and to our amazing friends and advisors over this time (you know who you are) and to Ann for seeing what TheLi.st can be. Exeunt! https://www.instagram.com/p/CIjy8a8HUXf/?igshid=106v7uambxwyb

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Had a phenomenal time at @girlbossrally moderating the "I See Me" panel about representation with @nafessawilliams @amani & @allanaharkin and hanging with some seriously amazing women like @morraam @financefriend @yourpalmal @killlahcam @huangbettina @hiiamkathryn @sutiandong @sallie.krawcheck @muse.ave @nas_muse + a sweet jeans purchase thanks to @elyssadimant - met such great people, ate very healthy food, and learned a lot. Thanks to @nehaintown @sophiaamoruso @girlboss for inviting me and @taniametti for wrangling it all with such chill. Great event! (Photo credits: Cindy Ord/Getty for green room shots, Janice Yim/Getty for stage shots. Thank you ladies! The photos from the event are beyond.) (at Knockdown Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqWFY7rHPpw/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1cd47luaw0zbw

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Why You Should Actually Be Terrified Right Now

Stripping citizens of their passports is a precursor to genocide.

It’s what happened to Jews in Germany in 1938 when their passports were declared invalid. That is what is beginning to happen here, now, to Hispanic citizens along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Oh, is it bad to compare the GOP to Nazis? Well, if members of the GOP do not like being compared to Nazis, they should consider not behaving exactly like Nazis.

Hispanic U.S. citizens, some of whom were in the U.S. military, are not being allowed to renew their passports. This is reportedly happening to “hundreds, even thousands” of Latinos, according to a report in the Washington Post. They’re getting letters from the State Department saying it does not believe they are citizens. The government claims their citizenships are fraudulent. “I’ve had probably 20 people who have been sent to the detention center—U.S. citizens,” Jaime Diez, an attorney in Brownsville, told The Washington Post.

The Washington Post also reports on ICE officials coming to citizens’ homes and taking their passports away. This is an escalation from a few months ago, when Americans were detained by ICE officials just for speaking Spanish to one another.

The administration is currently launching an effort to take citizenship from people who they suspect of fraud in obtaining it. Fraud in these cases is exceedingly rare. The last time the government tried to strip people of their citizenship was, according to Columbia Professor Mae Ngai, during The Red Scare of the 1950s. As Ngai remarks, McCarthyism is not typically remembered as a good period in American history.

There is good reason to believe that this could portend still worse things to come for the U.S. Hispanic population, unless people begin to speak out loudly, and fast.

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It is important that we all create inclusive places of higher education for all people. Perhaps a good place to do so would be with the most invisible.

https://www.hcn.org/articles/indian-country-news-when-colleges-let-down-Indigenous-students

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For me personally, the fact that you have an Asian girl on the poster of Mean Girls as one of the plastics is one of the biggest things. I think it’s a really big deal. I wasn’t cast because of the way that I look but I also wasn’t not cast because of the way that I look. And the fact that that shouldn’t be a headline, it should be a norm. I’m so glad that in 2018 everybody, not just young ethnic women, but everybody who comes to see the show sees that young women of color not only have the right to be heard but have the right to take up space. That’s something that I didn’t really have growing up. I think it’s really important to tell stories about race and racial divide and historical stories, but the fact that this truly does take place in a high school in 2018 and you see that represented on the stage, I think that’s really important and I think that is subversive in its own way and political in its own way without calling any attention to it.

http://www.theintervalny.com/interviews/2018/05/an-interview-with-ashley-park/

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Join me in supporting hands-on (not just screens-on) play with RaceYa. On Kickstarter Now. thndr.me/eibXNg CONGRATS ABIGAIL EDGECLIFFE-JOHNSON! http://thndr.me/eibXNg

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Black infants in America are now more than twice as likely to die as white infants — 11.3 per 1,000 black babies, compared with 4.9 per 1,000 white babies, according to the most recent government data — a racial disparity that is actually wider than in 1850, 15 years before the end of slavery, when most black women were considered chattel. In one year, that racial gap adds up to more than 4,000 lost black babies. Education and income offer little protection. In fact, a black woman with an advanced degree is more likely to lose her baby than a white woman with less than an eighth-grade education. This tragedy of black infant mortality is intimately intertwined with another tragedy: a crisis of death and near death in black mothers themselves. The United States is one of only 13 countries in the world where the rate of maternal mortality — the death of a woman related to pregnancy or childbirth up to a year after the end of pregnancy — is now worse than it was 25 years ago. Each year, an estimated 700 to 900 maternal deaths occur in the United States. In addition, the C.D.C. reports more than 50,000 potentially preventable near-deaths, like Landrum’s, per year — a number that rose nearly 200 percent from 1993 to 2014, the last year for which statistics are available. Black women are three to four times as likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than their white counterparts, according to the C.D.C. — a disproportionate rate that is higher than that of Mexico, where nearly half the population lives in poverty — and as with infants, the high numbers for black women drive the national numbers.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/11/magazine/black-mothers-babies-death-maternal-mortality.html

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In 83 Million Eviction Records, a Sweeping and Intimate New Look at Housing in America

A Princeton sociologist chronicled the human toll of eviction in one city in a 2016 book. A new project may reveal just how widespread the problem is.

Important update to Matthew Desmond’s “Eviction.”

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#womensmarch

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2017 will see a standing army of women who came out of a bruising 2016 campaign hardened and scarred and with a mandate not unlike a 2.8-million vote lead in the popular vote. The mandate is to be loud. Listen for it.

“Women Are Going To Get Loud” - Nieman 2017 predictions

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#imstillwithher (at 14 Street - Union Square)

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"Feminism. Feminism makes you a feminist icon." (at CNN)

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Well this just arrived so at least there's that.

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I want to buy this for every woman I know

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"Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul." - Coretta Scott King. The art from the @womensmarch is 💯. And ethos. By @kimothyjoy via @sarahsophief. #womensmarch #whyimarch

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The best kind of mad libs. Freedom, Justice, Equality, Hope, Respect, Rightousness, Honor, Love, Family, All Of It. #womensmarch via @jess___mc @zerlinamaxwell #signalboost

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On the Women’s March ‘Guiding Vision’ and its inclusion of Sex Workers

I am proud of the work I’ve done as part of the Women’s March policy table – a collection of women and folk engaged in crucial feminist, racial and social justice work across various intersections in our country. I helped draft the vision and I wrote the line “…and we stand in solidarity with sex workers’ rights movements.” It is not a statement that is controversial to me because as a trans woman of color who grew up in low-income communities and who advocates, resists, dreams and writes alongside these communities, I know that underground economies are essential parts of the lived realities of women and folk. I know sex work to be work. It’s not something I need to tiptoe around. It’s not a radical statement. It’s a fact. My work and my feminism rejects respectability politics, whorephobia, slut-shaming and the misconception that sex workers, or folks engaged in the sex trades by choice or circumstance, need to be saved, that they are colluding with the patriarchy by “selling their bodies.” I reject the continual erasure of sex workers from our feminisms because we continue to conflate sex work with the brutal reality of coercion and trafficking. I reject the policing within and outside women’s movements that shames, scapegoats, rejects, erases and shuns sex workers. I cannot speak to the internal conflicts at the Women’s March that have led to the erasure of the line I wrote for our collective vision but I have been assured that the line will remain in OUR document. The conflicts that may have led to its temporary editing will not leave until we, as feminists, respect THE rights of every woman and person to do what they want with their body and their lives. We will not be free until those most marginalized, most policed, most ridiculed, pushed out and judged are centered. There are no throwaway people, and I hope every sex worker who has felt shamed by this momentarily erasure shows up to their local March and holds the collective accountable to our vast, diverse, complicated realities.