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“The Land Loves Us Back”

When I first met Robyn Ochs at a Bisexual Resource Center fundraising event in Cambridge, MA, I was star struck.

“The fact is, our identities are messy. We can pretend we’re much simpler than we are, but that doesn’t move us forward. Organizing gets more complicated, but also more interesting, when you acknowledge the messiness of identity, and take into account the various labels we use to describe our sexual orientations and genders. And people, at various points in their lives, may change their labels or add labels. There is growing resistance to the idea that you must choose one label and are required to stick with it forever. Therefore, the way to organize is around ideas and not labels, idea politics rather than identity politics. We don’t need to organize groups of people who use the same identity word, but rather, people who share values and visions.”

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Over the past few days, a lot of black girls have gone missing around the Washington D.C area.

64,000 black women and girls are currently missing in the U.S. Unfortunately, the media is doing a very poor job at reporting this. When I looked up these girl’s names, I only got about 3-4 articles. We need to do more when it comes to black girls being in danger…..We matter, our fears matter, and there is absolutely no reason this isn’t making national news. The least we can do is trying to spread this information throughout the internet, but the media needs to start heavily picking up on these cases.

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Jesus we need to find all these girls.

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“Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.”

—Toni Morrison, born on this day in 1931.

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Laverne Cox on CBS This Morning

on this 6th year, on this day, i am thinking about my mom. i am thinking about how to bring this experience of death six years ago into story and art and and resistance. i am thinking about shared experiences of grief and pain and loss. so today, i danced for my matriarchal lineage. feeling the power and relevance of telling not just my story but their story through movement. our individual histories and our shared histories. thinking about how important it is to bring softness and tenderness and honor to experiences that might sometimes feel as though/be treated as though they don't deserve such softness. but they do. and softness can be strong and courageous too. and tenderness is necessary. always and especially now. so speak out for your mamas and your grandmas and your sisters and your dear ones that have a uterus or don't but have a just-as-valid-pussy or identify with femme or are non-binary or whatever the fuck feels right. resist feminine/female-bodied/non-binary-bodied oppressions. respect vaginas and titties and cunts and pussies and feminine energies and feminine presences in this world and in your life. be gentle with your soft-tender selves. respect the softness. honor the tenderness. they are all important. we are all important. our histories are all valid. our stories are resistance. #resist #loveispolitical #artispolitical#dontstoptellingyourstory

#resist #love is political #art is political #don't stop sharing your story

can’t focus on work, so listening to ri ri’s work and dancing in my chair as i type. it’s a great method.

heading back to the states. feeling pretty damn anxious and worried that i will fall back into feeling like i did when i left 2.5 weeks ago... WHICH WAS SO AWEFUL, my functioning was at a completely different level than i am used to. no sleep, not eating, couldn't focus, didn't want to do anything, panicked driving down our road. going back to the house we broke up in and living there again and going to ALL the familiar places in town, that feels incredibly overwhelming right now. i already miss the ocean. trying to trust that it will be okay, that i will be able to feel strong and soft like i have the last few weeks. that i will still connect with the progress i have made, despite the environment change. that i will be okay with just me and my friends. that i will be happy again, even when i'm sad, too.

#process

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“ We would like to share our love and happiness. We have been blessed two times over. We are incredibly grateful that our family will be growing by two, and we thank you for your well wishes”

- The Carters

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How One Woman’s Tweet Helped Pay Student Lunch Debts Across the U.S.

New York City writer Ashley C. Ford hated knowing that thousands of school children—saddled with unpaid lunch accounts—were being offered embarrassing substitute meals in their school cafeterias. Wanting to make a difference, Ford took to Twitter, imploring her 66,000 followers to take action.

According to the Associated Press, Ford’s tweet had a major impact: She inspired hundreds of people to raise thousands of dollars. In fact, an online campaign raised nearly $100,000 for lunch debt in Minneapolis and $28,000 in St. Paul’s schools, the AP reports, while efforts in Topeka, Kansas, paid off $6,000 in debt and a movement in Bellevue, Washington, erased $2,000 in unpaid lunch dues.

As the AP noted, children from low-income families can qualify for free or reduced-price breakfasts and lunch. Some of these families, however, still struggle to pay the cost of reduced-price school meals, which can lead to their children’s lunch accounts being overdrawn (other instances of lunch debt can come from families who may not realize they qualify for discounted meals and fail to fill out necessary paperwork, or from parents who can afford to pay for meals but forget to put money in their children’s prepaid accounts).

Though most schools allow students to “run a tab” for a fixed number of meals, others will offer students an alternative lunch option, which can consist of just a cold cheese sandwich and a carton of milk.

One woman, Jill Draper, who worked to collect money for schools in Kingston, New York, told the AP she was moved to take action because Ford’s tweet made it seem easy.

“It seemed like a really easy way to make a positive difference locally,” Draper said. “It’s amazing how one tweet became this crazy movement.” And that’s exactly what Ford wanted.

“I sincerely just wanted to think of something really easy that people could do to make a difference locally,” Ford told the AP. “It was just one idea; another school might need help with uniforms or tutoring. The point was to do something that helps people in your community.”

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Brilliant!! Why haven’t I ever thought of this?? Def doing it and the other suggestions that’s bolded!

#such a good idea!!!#food justice!!!!#!!!!!!!