Working on a story now about my hometown’s Women Fund conducting a study that revealed 45% of women in the county, between the ages of 18-64, have experienced domestic violence and/or intimate partner violence.

The average lifetime cost & expenses for a rape victim is $122,461. So if you have a problem with me having a GoFundMe, or needing financial assistance, you have free will to block or unfollow me. GoFundMe is there for people who need help. My medical treatment and expenses were thousands alone.

a man that will strangle you is a man that will kill you. this is the biggest red flag there is that a woman life is in danger.

Creepers actually come on here to defend Bill Clinton, yammering about how we don’t have all the facts to condemn him of abuse. Um, I spent all of 1998 listening to the press luridly describe how he sexually harassed a 22 y.o. when he was 49…and the mofo admitted to it.

From our family to yours. 😊

One of the biggest epiphanies I ever had that made the world make more sense is that people who abuse their power aren’t happier for it. They’re trading their happiness for that power. That’s part of why they cling to it the way they do—and it’s also why they can see themselves as victims.

- this is a generative AI hate account.

Brigitte Bardot can French fry in hell.

One of France’s most famous racists dies

You can do a lot locally with a dedicated group of 15 to 40 people. Regular people should be thinking at that scale rather than at the scale of thousands.

Happy holiday from me and my new soil knife! 🔪🎄

The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

The American Federation of Teachers is teaming up with a company under investigation for promoting murder suicides whose product, which it admits is based on stolen work, has been used to create nudes and harass students. And kids are supposed to take ethics guidance from them. Ok!

This is horrific. It also describes typical conditions in US jails and prisons. These sites exist to torture and steal, not detain or rehabilitate.

This is why yelling at girls to fight back without joining the fight on their side backfires.

Remembering everyone assuring me it'd get better when the Boomers die off and then this pendeja is five years younger than me and has more money than I'll see in a good long while to do this hamhanded and heinous shit.

Federal immigration agencies were involved in at least 33 deaths this year. The full story: lataco.com/33-deaths-fe... By Aisha Wallace-Palomares

Every U.S. neighborhood houses enough abusers to merit its own “Epstein list.” The only unique thing about those men is that they traffic using jets, not dented Hondas.

I don’t understand the purpose of publishing pictures of billionaires and heads of state abusing girls and women other than titillation. Those pictures invite us to participate in the abuse.

This framing is unethical and disgusting. Survivors are not taking anything away from students by seeking justice. This piece shits on survivors instead of the people who enabled the abuse: adults

It has been super weird watching how racialized perceptions of full lips have changed over my lifetime. When I was a kid, white kids tortured me for having thick lips. Now, the whitest of white ladies who want them can buy them. Thinking of this bcuz of Vanity Fair.

Latinos continue to be underrepresented in streaming shows, new UCLA report finds

Myriam Gurba is a writer, teacher, artist, and activist of Mexican-American descent. Her work frequently mirrors her experiences as a queer woman of color, utilizing her cultural background to explore intersections of race, gender, and sexuality. @lesbrains.bsky.social #booksky #readingcommunity

Anger management doesn’t treat misogyny.

The U.S. school system is trauma factory. From mass shootings to serial sexual abuse, it’s got you covered.

I survived.

Today I am once again making loads of new Bluesky friends by insisting on one of my most sincerely held beliefs that makes way too many people fucking furious: that teenagers are autonomous beings who are not their parents' property and who possess independent volition and interiority

Christmas night: "But Santa, you've hardly touched your Zardoz cookies."

Nothing dulls critical thinking skills faster than nationalism! Whew!

They used to "laugh and call him names." Now they're all dead

Pray for me, I just asked my mom to buy me a Chinga La Migra shirt for xmas and i just know she's going to ask me what it means.

the world has changed

It’s her day today. 🌹

of course I know her… she’s me!

When I taught HS, a student once said that middle aged and elderly folks who can’t afford health insurance deserve to d!e because they should’ve planned better during their youth. 🙃

Open industry secret: most political non-fiction books get purchased by foundations or non-profits to be given out with giftbags at events. 100,000 people aren't buying a book by Lauren Boebert on the future of America. GOP operatives are and giving them away for free as "gifts." BEST SELLER!

another thing I can't go to BECAUSE GEOGRAPHY but if you can go to this go to this!!

See you on Sunday!

Post you from a different era in your life.

Egg foo young 🤠

I’m a survivor advocate and I find this take to be depressing and deeply misguided…

'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.' Photograph by Daniel Ibanez

"there's a new serif in town"

www.kqed.org/news/1206519... it's going to be a month in a few days which is surreal and wild. I cried reading this, and, got a lot out of people sharing how we are carrying @sfdirewolf.bsky.social 's work forward.

You had me at intolerable..

Sorry, I just think it's Toilet Paper USA when I see TPUSA.

People who defend abusers are defending themselves.

Many abusive men are well-adjusted, nice looking guys with good jobs and tidy houses. When I work on the DV hotline and counsel survivors, I learn about the nightmares that unfold in these houses. Sometimes they end in murder.

Hate is a strong word. I need a stronger one.

Marci Vogel’s TBR includes works by Joy Harjo, Myriam Gurba, Hua Hsu, and more.