My bus driver just called out the people watching videos on speaker and I think we should make him mayor

I am usually pretty unmoved by the president's failures of decorum, because I find it creepy that people are generally unmoved by fucked up presidential shit if it's discussed in a tasteful manner and everyone adheres to fancy, historic norms, but that "Quiet, Piggy" shit was something.

Epistemic violence against sexual abuse accusers—smearing them as deluded, crazy, or incompetent—is something rapists know works, and they conspire to do it.

No specific individual I’m happier for tonight than @lindseyboylan.bsky.social

www.podbean.com/eas/pb-zjtx5... @carolineheldman.bsky.social @aliadastagir.bsky.social @tracyexplains.com @legalafmtn.bsky.social #blacksky #politics #podcast

beware of people who want to "protect" the children but are vehemently opposed to empowering children, giving them information so they can have agency, teaching them about consent, and actually listening to them

I hear what she’s saying, but her comments do obscure the way online hate is connected to systems of misogyny, racism, anti-Blackness, transphobia, fatphobia, homophobia, and other forms of oppressive violence. Logging off/tuning out can be individually healthy but it isn’t a collective answer.

Just reading @aliadastagir.bsky.social and this grabbed me: ‘Many men suggest women and especially feminist women are humourless, that we don’t make good comedians. But they don’t understand how much laughing we have to do just to survive.’

In this week’s PEN Ten interview, @aliadastagir.bsky.social discusses her new book, To Those Who Have Confused You To Be A Person (@crownpublishing.bsky.social, 2025), which documents the stories of 14 women — herself included — who have faced online abuse. Read more: pen.org/alia-dastagi...

“And when women join the mob, we all burn.” spitfirenews.com/p/blake-live... Yes. Depp/Heard all over again. @kattenbarge.bsky.social

Survivors: we fight and win together. You are never forgotten. ✊✊✊

Lindsey Boylan has been tirelessly driving this message home since Cuomo first announced, all while knowing first-hand how he and his loyalists smear women who tell the truth. And she’s never backed down, even when pundits were portraying him as inevitable. Please, NYC - don’t screw this up.

Tonight I’m thinking of @lindseyboylan.bsky.social, the first woman to publicly accuse Andrew Cuomo of sexual harassment. Lindsey was abused in her workplace, and she was further abused online after speaking out. She told me she “equated leading as a woman with a willingness to handle pain.”

I ran a series of four interviews with women whose books are tackling gender, violence, and authoritarianism. This one with @aliadastagir.bsky.social was about online harassment and how it threatens journalism and democracy. spitfirenews.com/p/online-har...

I remember having this conversation over and over again during Depp v. Heard! Journalists would ask me what made that case so unusual. My response was always nothing! It was an extremely typical and straightforward case of IPV. It felt unusual because the media hardly ever depicts IPV accurately.

“Online abuse doesn't stay online. It follows users into every classroom, therapy session, and nightmare. … I survived. But what about the kids who did not survive?” @leahjuliett.bsky.social mashable.com/article/meta...

Outrageously deserved. Sarah Wildman’s @nytimes.com piece asks crucial questions about the forms of care families of sick and terminally ill children deserve, exploring how we balance the human desire for truth with the human need for hope. What an honor to read her. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/25/o...

It’s vital to understand that this kind of abusive online speech has real, physical effects on the mind and body. It is violence. And it makes people affected more vulnerable to other forms of violence. I talked to @aliadastagir.bsky.social about her book on this spitfirenews.com/p/online-har...

excited to be one of the keynote speakers at the @irms.bsky.social conference this week, talking resistance to male supremacism and authoritarianism under Trump—with @sorayachemaly.bsky.social and @aliadastagir.bsky.social, chaired by @kylietcheung.bsky.social. program + registration at the link:

Thanks to @alyssamilano.bsky.social and @benjackson.bsky.social for such a smart and urgent conversation about violence against women (online and off). Listen here: www.facebook.com/share/r/18sY...

This is SO IMPORTANT. As society, we haven’t grappled with the significance of the fact that women, POC and LGBTQ people face so much more harassment and abuse online than straight white men do. And it’s dramatically impacting society and democracy.

We're excited to have Alia Dastagir speaking on our keynote panel next week! Check out this article to hear from her about her work, and register to join us via Zoom on April 24 for the keynote panel and audience Q&A. www.theirms.org/conference

Before #MeToo there was #Gamergate and before that, #EverydaySexism If you followed these movements, you'll be familiar with the points made in this article. The internet is male-dominated. It's never been safe for women. Online harassment leads to a culture of silence. Anti-speech tool is accurate.

Online harassment is an anti-speech tool that has been a longtime weapon for Trump and his allies. I talked to @aliadastagir.bsky.social about her book and the consequences of online abuse for women, journalism, and democracy itself. spitfirenews.com/p/online-har...

I'm always nervous to invite keynote speakers, because I'm so in awe of them! So I am THRILLED that @sorayachemaly.bsky.social @aliadastagir.bsky.social & @melissagiragrant.com accepted our invitation to keynote our virtual conference. April 24-26. You can still register here: bit.ly/IRMS2025

Effective immediately, the government says it will begin screening immigrant social media for activity that officials think indicates support for antisemitism.

So grateful to Kirkus for this review. If you’ve experienced online abuse, if you’ve witnessed violence online, if you care about how the Internet is reshaping life, if you are looking for a return to that fragile humanity so easily dismissed, I hope you’ll pick up a copy. I wrote it for you.

Regardless of anything else about the Wisconsin race, it's just a relief to learn that money can't always buy elections

very cool!! very normal!!! www.theverge.com/news/642068/...

It has now been 30 days with NO humanitarian aid getting into Gaza. No food, no water, no medicine, no fuel. That is barbaric. The U.S. must end our complicity in these atrocities.

Trump and his administration embody and glorify discrimination and sexual violence, so it’s no surprise he has weaponized Title IX to give collegiate perpetrators even more ways to retraumatize their victims and punish schools that allow trans athletes spitfirenews.com/p/title-ix-t...

The spread of incels' ideology can have deadly consequences. Platforms must stop enabling the spread of extreme misogyny in online forums, such as the incel forum studied by CCDH. Our research in @metro.co.uk 👇https://metro.co.uk/2025/03/26/men-incel-website-reveal-really-think-women-22795407/

As women’s history month comes to a close, thinking about @kimberlecrenshaw.bsky.social telling me how crucial it is to continue to be shocked by things, to be disappointed. “That’s got to be what holds people to a commitment to insist women’s lives matter, even when it seems like they don’t.”

The conversation about free speech has been manipulated by a party who deports people who express dissent, wants to use the FCC to shut down journalism, manipulates social platforms to privilege self interest. The people who value this right are the ones who have had to fight for it. They still do.

I think a lot of folks who are not high profile enough to regularly receive hate mail and death threats do not really appreciate how serious that shit is, esp in a country where guns are wildly easy to acquire and mass shootings are so common as to be normal. So yeah likely targets are leaving

This moment is quickly peeling away from precedent. People are being sent to prison camps on ethnicity alone, being stripped of legal status, accused of “terrorism” on ethnicity & protected speech. This isn’t an immigration anymore, it’s not deportation. It’s something else entirely.

I wrote a book about bureaucratic violence and if there’s one thing I wish everyone knew right now, it would be: The people most harmed can’t tell what’s happening or why. Their lives unravel and, more often than not, they are taught to blame themselves—or other victims.

A shame on us all. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Alright @aaron.bsky.team, @safety.bsky.app and @jay.bsky.team I am baffled as to why you have labeled @monahijazi.bsky.social not as a spammer (which she isn’t but that’s the usual email they get) but as a fraud. Mona is one of the most documented people from Gaza on here- she will videochat you

A great read from @aliadastagir.bsky.social. We need to pay more attention to the massive increase in online threats and harassment, and the way they often target women. Many sad and compelling stories are included. I don't think we do enough to reckon with this new cost of speaking up.

Online abuse of women is often framed as exclusively a problem of misogyny, but the stories of women of color show that violence online is also linked to a struggle over the structural power of white supremacy. www.newsweek.com/michelle-oba...

“The first victims of all new technology are women. But they’re never the last. If you want to understand what’s coming down the line in the future, you need to look at what’s already happening to women now."

On this International Women’s Day, a reminder to never accept what is unacceptable.

Wonderful to be included in @aliadastagir.bsky.social's courageous book What's one reason that online harassment can be so hurtful? It can happen within places you're lucky enough to be otherwise safe in--like your home www.bu.edu/ssw/electric... www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737402...

“They maintain their positions because people who are very powerful themselves are still afraid of them—a dynamic that speaks to our political moment. Every day, we see this in Washington, DC: People who should be saying no are instead doing nothing.” www.vanityfair.com/news/story/n...

Re-upping this story I wrote in 2021. Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women with actions that included kissing, groping, hugging and inappropriate comments, according to a long-anticipated report from the state Attorney General's Office. www.usatoday.com/story/life/h...

For women, and especially for Black women, online harassment and abuse is increasingly prominent, and ignoring it doesn’t make the problem go away. (@aliadastagir.bsky.social)

“Language can be used to maintain power or to resist it. It can be used to keep certain people in their place or to fight a system that ranks human life. Language influences how we see ourselves, how other people see us, how they treat us. Language shapes public life. So do silences.”

Critical hearing today at the CA state assembly on male violence against women & girls online. @safiyanoble.bsky.social called the abuse “a massive threat to our civil and human rights,” @moiradonegan.bsky.social referred to its “dignity tax” & @cagoldberglaw.bsky.social called for accountability.

Was so enriching to speak with @aliadastagir.bsky.social about attacks, pain, and perseverance while she was writing the book Cannot wait to read "To Those Who Have Confused You To Be A Person" --as timely as ever, may we continue to fight for our dignity and humanity together