Kenai Peninsula friends: this is happening on Saturday in Homer. I saw the film on Sunday in Anchorage & it was powerful. This showing is a little more expensive bc it’s also a Pamyua concert (they did the score for the film) & fundraiser for this film non-profit that tells stories re. justice.

If you don't want to be called a Nazi, maybe you could call off the Brownshirts.

I'm feeling moved that this documentary @joshalbeza.bsky.social & I shot last winter in the living rooms, kitchens, playrooms, & offices of Infant Learning Program participants is playing tonight to a SOLD OUT audience. I'm moved that people will hear the stories of these babies, toddlers & families

This is very accurately the level of health literacy and general attitude the Trump admin has towards women & pregnancy. Well satirized, @clhubes.bsky.social. Not well done, 🇺🇸/ majority of ⚪️ voters.

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AK journalists! You should've gotten a press release today from Mat-Su Health Foundation re. this event on Wednesday. If not, please comment or DM & I can fwd it to you. Some of you may've also gotten earlier emails from me. #akleg & ~125 community there @adn.com @alaskapublic.org @alaskabeacon.com

why are we murdering fishermen, is anyone asking this

Yes & yes! We can’t work for equity & liberation if we’re wasting Black people’s time arguing “Well not *me*!” If we see a criticism of white people that we think doesn’t apply to us, then we can just take note of it as something to avoid doing in future & to teach other white people about not doing

There are still a few seats downstairs & a dozen or more seats upstairs for today’s Anchorage premiere of “In the Wake of Justice Delayed,” dir by a Homer-based filmmaker & including @coffeeandquaq.bsky.social. 4 pm today at Bear Tooth. Up-close personal stories of a major inequity in AK. #alaskaSky

I think line dancing is such a path to joy & spiritual well-being bc it combines the pleasures of an achievable mental challenge, movement and music, exercise, and communion/synchronicity with others, along with culture & community.

These are precedented times and the precedent is a loud ass warning www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

Got my COVID & flu vaccines at the Costco pharmacy in Anchorage, AK. (I made the appt online a day or two ago.) I wish it were much easier still for adults and especially for children, but those of us who want to do our part to prevent the spread & reduce morbidity can get the 💉 through pharmacies.

So we can’t afford groceries or appliances or tools or shoes or rent or coffee, but Trump’s policies have dropped the price on cocaine. Great. Who needs food when you have that? 🤦🏻‍♀️

ADHD management tip: My stress drops & my timeliness/readiness improves when I set timers to make myself put down my work, put on real pants, & leave the house on time for whatever it is I have to do/whatever kid I need to pick up.

It's 2025; can web designers and systems engineers finally figure out how to consider hyphenated last names "valid"?

What the Debate Me bros have done is found a way to filibuster the self-evident humanity of a person or group by making it an endless topic of debate. As Toni said: "None of this is necessary. There will always be one more thing." It's not my job to prove my equality to those who think me inferior

This news has been heavy on my heart since I heard it. Two men hung from trees in Mississippi on the same day, two men from two different marginalized groups, deaths occurring on the heels of terror threats against HBCUs & escalating violent rhetoric & physical violence against the homeless.

Alaskans came to the rescue & explained the low angle of the sun hitting more of the body. Makes sense. It's such an intense feeling & the light is so gorgeous. I've been coming & going from this region for 14 years but it was my first September visit, so the light hit in new ways.

I was 19 & very alt/didn’t watch TV or read magazines, so when I saw these beautiful, stylish young Black women in first class while I was going to the bathroom & the blonde one smiled at me, I just blushed & went about my way. I get off the plane & everyone is whispering about “Destiny’s Child!!!”

#AlaskaSky - want to make a big difference w/ only a few min of effort? Sep 24 we're screening "ILP" w/ free 🍕🍿 & panel discussion in Wasilla & we need your help w/ constituent invites to #akleg. You make a big difference -- esp. if you're from Mat-Su, Eagle River, or if your Sen. is on Sen Finance.

I unplug for a day or two and come back to a full-on fascist crackdown on free speech.

Can someone scientific explain to me why the sun in the Arctic feels SO INTENSE? I got sunburnt yesterday even though I had applied sunscreen in the morning, & today walking in the sun made me feel so tired. It also creates light in ways that are uniquely beautiful. I don’t understand any of this.

Went to the Northwest Arctic, unplugged, and touched grass today (well, tundra — and wild blueberries & cranberries). It was so quiet on the tundra that we could hear the ravens’ wings flapping.

This is remarkably well-worded because it contends with the reasons they gave for not supporting the release and finds those reasons insufficient — &, IMO, rightly mocks them as beltway partisan stuff that no one in Alaska cares about. We can’t afford more cover for predators, for any reason.

Bc different platforms are built differently & bc my Instagram grid has always been only for art/photography, it makes me feel soooo different on a nervous system level to look at the last few weeks or the last 9 months over there versus here. I think: “oh right, there are so many things I ❤️.”

In all seriousness, I'd love to see a reporter try to get comments from all of these people about their initial impulse to declare a literal war on half of their fellow citizens and to see if any of them regret it, apologized for it or learned anything at all from it.

I ❤️ being part of a profession (social work) & organization (NASW, Alaska Chapter) that recognize the critical role that policy & policymakers play in creating the conditions for health, wellness, empowerment, & safety we want for our clients. Congrats @repgray.bsky.social @lgtobin.bsky.social !

I was explaining 4chan, Groypers, Pepe the Frog & this shooter 2 a friend who remarked I knew a lot about it. I replied I wish I didn’t but Anchorage AK has a school board candidate now running a 2nd time who’s deeply enmeshed in online Nazi stuff, so I had to learn it so voters would not elect him.

Yet again a young shooter is poisoned by toxic right-wing online culture & yet again the pundit class & GOP politicians & their followers attack Black, trans & leftist people anyway — with literally no basis. The online right-wing radicalization of white boys needs to be taken more seriously.

I will be so inspired to watch both places enact this (c’mon, elect Mamdani so this is possible!) & take notes on how we can do this for Alaska. P.S. Either place wanna hire me & @joshalbeza.bsky.social to continue the childcare documentary series to cover implementation?

Infants under one are too young to be immunized, so they rely on those around them to be immunized to protect them. When you choose not to vaccinate your kids — or to delay it — you put all infants at risk. Sometimes they die right away & sometimes later, like this child.

The racist right didn’t need an excuse to terrorize Black people — they’ve been doing it for centuries, after all, and Trump, Vance, Musk, Kirk, et al. have been ramping that up hard. But of course, they jumped on Kirk’s death to justify their white supremacist terrorism anyway.

Turns out they also voted specifically to BLOCK the release of the Epstein files. Real defend Alaskans work there, Senators. In AK we’ve got the highest rate of child sexual abuse in the country & this is how you vote? You prevent accountability for child sexual abusers? You protect rapists?

We can be anti-gun violence w/o whitewashing the record of 1 of the 3 people killed in school shootings yesterday. We can be against murder w/o honoring & eulogizing a man who had no honor for the schoolchildren getting regularly shot or for Black people & queer people & girls & women, etc.

Worth a frequent re-posting

I'm trying to be mindful about not only putting out posts that ramp up my and other people's nervous systems, because we're in this for the long haul & we have to last. So here's my something beautiful post -- some of this weekend's garden haul & a piece of an Ocean Vuong poem I come back to often.

I don't think it's any coincidence that the right has been working sweatily to re-define grooming and sexual abuse of children to mean accepting or affirming trans young people. They wanted to keep the cult-like fervor, while discarding the idea that the actual sexual abuse of children is wrong.

Time-sensitive ask for help w/ wording. I need a brief logline for this film for the movie poster. I'm not pithy. Basic concepts are: 1.) Without childcare, families, communities, and economies cannot thrive. 2.) As a State, we need to do better at supporting childcare. vimeo.com/1062488179?s...

Hey #akleg, it’s doable. Our states actually have a lot in common. #AlaskaSky #Childcare

If I got a few wishes from a genie but was only allowed to make personal requests (not world peace, justice, etc.), then one of my wishes would be to be funny all the time like @amutepiggy.bsky.social.

This CD was bumping in my Sony Discman when I was 15 years old and is to this day my only no-skips album I can listen to over & over & not tire of. Only Cowboy Carter competes, for me.

This image triggers me, hard. As the mother of an almost 12-year-old girl, as a person who looked like this when I was vulnerable & so so young, this image and text makes my stomach drop. It physically hurts to know that this man is the President. And that the GOP defends him still. LOOK at this.

The man that > 1/2 of voters elected is a man who gloats about his “wonderful secret” w/ a trafficker, written on the body of a pubescent girl at Tanner stage 3 or so of puberty. The man the GOP continues to be cowed by & acts in deference of has made it clear how he treats girl children.

🧵 I wish I could download from my brain to others' brains what I've learned & felt from all the times I've helped girls & women in abusive relationships & the times I've dragged myself out of them--but w/o compromising the confidentiality of everyone involved. I wish I could transfer the empathy.

Guardsmen have a choice to make: If you show up here, you'll have disgraced your uniform and tarnished your service, which you should no longer expect to be thanked for. To be sure, saying "I won't do that" isn't an easy or consequence-free choice. But it's one you'll be judged on.

I got up early this morning, feeling glum, and so I padded about my garden, marveling at the tasty little pea pods, the apples ripening on the tree, the cabbages about to burst with fullness, the sunflowers trying to flower, the cilantro flowers soon to become seeds for next year.

We were never being hyperbolic & paranoid when we tried to tell people claiming worry over egg prices that Trump wanted to usher in fascism. If only the legacy media had taken the threat seriously & been clear about what those promised lowered egg prices were coming with. (& prices are higher, btw.)

This is such a poignant (& tragic, & urgent) example. And right now we’re seeing systemic racism amplified & encouraged, like Mississippi in the 1920’s.

🧵 1/ The other night I had a nightmare in which I got drunk & embarrassed myself irredeemably in front of my partner's teenage daughters. This is unrealistic for a few reasons: 1.) I stopped drinking 3+ years ago & 2.) even when I did drink, I didn't do horrible things. But it speaks to things:

This is why they can miss me w/ the performative concern about the dropping birth rate. If they actually care about having more babies, they’d make abortion safe & legal, prevent the causes of maternal mortality & infant mortality (domestic violence, lack of mental health treatment, medical racism),