"Call Jane" This work is an homage to the Jane Collective, which consisted mostly of Jewish women. The "Janes" provided safe, discreet abortion access to low income women in the early 1970s Chicago when abortion was mostly illegal in the USA. More in the alt.

We're not here to endorse or not endorse a candidate. But as an organization committed to ending antisemitism and protecting democracy in the U.S., we are deeply concerned by the recent conversation around Zohran Mamdani. Here is our statement:

Happy Aromantic Visibility Day!

My next workshop is coming up in a few weeks and all are welcome! Pay what you can! RedefiningIntimacyjun2025.eventbrite.com

Orientation influences behavior, but behavior does not define Orientation. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤍🩶🖤

Gabriel harvests oranges in Selma CA: I earn $24 per 900lb bin. The pay hasn't changed in 4-5 years. It doesn’t justify the hard, heavy work we do. We run back and forth and go up and down a 16-foot ladder quickly picking oranges in a bag that weighs 60lb when full. #WeFeedYou

What can it look like to make more space for uncertainty, fluidity, and forms of intimacy (closeness and connection) and pleasure (enjoyment and satisfaction) that lean into more of a "settling in" than a "revving up" energy?

I don't fancy a shag. I fancy being seen without being sexualized.

I'm so grateful that my wizard journey was in the world of author Diane Duane. With complexity and queer characters. An author who wrote an autistic character that the autistic community took her to task over & she REWROTE her book in response.

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

I don't fancy a shag, I fancy complex conversations about intimacy.

I don't fancy a shag, I fancy respect.

Can't wait!!!

Next week is Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week! We’re so excited to celebrate alongside Aubri Lancaster (Bri/she) of @acesexeducation.bsky.social ! On Monday, February 17th, at 7pm EST, we will be joining Aubri on Instagram Live to talk about two books featuring Aromantic representation.

📢 TASHRA On Demand is live! We’re excited to launch our new platform offering asynchronous workshops for: ✨ Professionals: Deepen your knowledge of kink/BDSM and earn AASECT & APA CE credits. ✨ Community: Learn about consent, empowerment, and kink's role in well-being. tashraondemand.vhx.tv/products

#GoodNewsOfTheWeek 🥳15 Democrat Attorneys General issued a statement reaffirming their commitment to protecting gender-affirming – assuring federal funding should still be available too. We celebrate every advocate making sure rights are protected for ALL! Read more shorturl.at/epg3t #EducateUS

Alejandra shows us an orange she just harvested in Kern County. She tells us: we are paid by what we pick . The below box we fill weighs around 1,000 lbs. We are paid $26 per box. #WeFeedYou

being ableist and sanist towards your enemies is still being ableist and sanist. you can call something cruel or racist or horrible and not use ableist and sanist language. It’s not great when everyone’s immediate reaction to everything awful is ableism.

Pssst.... test your links on your websites and newsletters! Including (or especially) your Social icon links! I cannot tell you how often I find broken links or links that were never customized!

So often treatment for "low desire" misses a crucial consideration. First let's talk about driving a car. 🧵

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Folks have PM'd me, so here is a very simple, (yet incredibly effective) how-to for a body-based practice of this. There are a ton of free guided meditations out there too that you can use (for all different time-lengths). There are also apps you can download like Headspace that make it easy too

Just looking for a few more #ace Christians to fill out this survey. Working through a book proposal now and excited to have had a call with someone in publishing who is excited about this! #asexual #asexuality #LGBTQ

For folks who have not been following what's going on with H5N1 bird flu, this is a basic and concise 1 minute video (with closed captions you can turn on).

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals. Take a look. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

We don’t need permission to celebrate Black History Month. We don’t need permission to learn Black History. We don’t need permission to share Black History. We don’t need permission to build Black Futures. Happy Black History Month! 🖤

Today was a day of mass censorship. Sending love & solidarity to all the amazing career scientists in government. For the rest of us: Now is not the time to self-censor or comply in advance. More than ever we need to stand by the principles of our profession and always keep speaking truth to power.

The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more. I'm trying to save them. You can find the deleted docs at CDCGuidelines.com - I'll be adding more over the weekend.

It’s important to know that a lot of productive activity is happening in person and offline, too. Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more. Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.

It’s time to advocate for better sex ed in your community! And we have just what you need. Download or request our School Board Member’s Guide to Sex Ed (now in Spanish!). Take action today! Share or request: shorturl.at/aPKQN #latinos #latinosintheus #sexed #educateus #activism

THREAD 🧵 People often talk about antisemitism like it only affects Jews. But here’s the disturbing reality: right now, antisemitic conspiracy theories are being used to justify Trump’s latest brutal immigration crackdown. Let’s break it down.

With the citrus harvest at peak, farm workers are hard at work in the Bakersfield, CA orchards. Claims that farm workers are staying home simply are not true. There is anxiety around chaotic immigration sweeps, but they continue to feed America. #WeFeedYou

Telling folks to just "plug in to community" rn is well-meaning and if you can do that, wonderful. But most people are not super connected to community for many reasons. So, if you don't have community rn that's ok, consider finding 2-5 ppl you can form a pod with. www.soiltjp.org/our-work/res...

Last call to register for my workshop on Demystifying Limerence and Romantic Love! DemystifyingLimerenceJan2025.eventbrite.com

Smarter in Seconds is now on Bluesky.

Language does not need approval to exist. If Klingon is a language then so is the language of the Gender Spectrum.

Across the country, people are starting meal preparations and traveling to be with friends and family. Tell us your favorite dish on the Thanksgiving table, and we’ll share our knowledge about the work behind the ingredients. #WeFeedYou

Hello new followers! I work on early modern lit/sci, women writers, and book history and textual editing. This year I'm on a fellowship letting me focus on asexuality and aromanticism studies; I'm writing abt ace/aro history; ace/aro reading; and also collate ace/aro research here: acearobiblio.com

Hey Aros! If you're seeing family today and they ask if you have anyone 'special' in your life, feel free to remind them that you define what 'special' means—and it doesn’t have to involve romance. Your friendships and connections are just as valid.

Ace and Aro are distinct identities. You a are who you say you are #lgbtqia #aspec

This is a very handy list to subscribe to. they were blocked within 30 minutes of account creation yesterday. bsky.app/profile/skys...

We can talk about Aromanticism in the context of Romantic Love, but let's also talk about it in the context of Parental Love. Watching our friends and family fall instantly in love with their new babies and then never having that experience as parents ourselves is painful. /1

How did I not know that the new season of What We Do In The Shadows is out?!?!? *running to Hulu* #whatwedointheshadows #jackiedaytonaisababe

Each person is the final arbiter of their own identity labels. Language is personal and contextual and you can both lean in with curiosity and make space for the gray area between how they connect to that identity and how you understand that identity.

Hello Bluesky! I'm your friendly neighborhood Asexuality and Aromanticism Educator! Questions are welcome!