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We are so thrilled to see When We All Get to Heaven featured on Apple Podcasts this week. Follow the story of a queer church as it faces AIDS in 1980s and ’90s San Francisco. Listen now: apple.co/WhenWeAllGet...

Episode 3 is out!! Come for Tammy Faye Bakker. Stay for an epic meet cute over a hymnal. slate.com/podcasts/whe...

How did religious spaces provide care and community during the AIDS crisis? Lynne Gerber looks at the Metropolitan Community Church of SF, a queer church that became a center for activism during the AIDS epidemic. Don't miss "Building Resistance: On Church, Space, and Crisis." tinyurl.com/a2acsjhh

Very delighted that this project, so many years in the making, is out in the world today. Listen to learn more about AIDS, about progressive religion, and about how a community gets through a crisis. We all need to know more about that last thing. slate.com/podcasts/whe...

The Revealer's 2025 special issue on "Religion, Activism, and Community Action" features insightful and informative articles from @gillianfrank.bsky.social, @dkruzman.bsky.social, @thislynne.bsky.social, @simranjeetsingh.bsky.social, and others! Check it out!

This is such a useful resource from @penamerica.bsky.social "What To Do If You’ve Been Doxed Or Placed On A Watchlist" Please consider letting others know that this exists. pen.org/what-to-do-i...

For the Sept. 16 marathon, global HIV experts will unite online to warn about massive federal budget cuts and help the public understand the benefits of HIV research. @avac.org www.poz.com/article/acti...

Stopping dictators later means guns and bombs and the bodies of hundreds of thousands of people in the streets. Stopping them now means legislative tricks and pissing off people who already hate you. I wish the remaining sane members of Congress and the judiciary woukd realize that.

Very happy to say that we met our fundraising goal over the weekend!!!! Thanks to everyone who donated, shared, sent good vibes or otherwise supported us. We can't wait for you to hear When We All Get to Heaven in the fall!!

I just sent this out. The Jewish people have moral frameworks for this moment. It is a choice not to heed them. Please let us meet this moment, let us see the shattered Temple around us, right now, and our responsibility to it.

We have one week left and less than $1500 to raise. Please help out if you can and share with folks who might be interested. Thank you!!!! givebutter.com/heavenpodcast

When Joe Biden referred to "shylocks" in 2014, the ADL admonished him. I look forward to seeing the group similarly criticize President Trump for using the term today.

We just hit the halfway mark in our fundraiser for When We All Get to Heaven!!!! Want to learn about an amazing experiment in sexuality and spirituality? Want to support queer history in a moment of queer erasure? Help us meet our goal and tell this untold story. givebutter.com/heavenpodcast

Yuriana Julia Pelaez Calderon, an organizer with the Los Angeles-based Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, was picked up by men in an unmarked car last Wednesday, and nobody knows where she is. She made a phone call late Friday and the information she gave is chilling:

every single member of Congress should be pushing for Trump’s impeachment. and every single Democrat who isn’t calling for impeachment should be primaried

We're bringing a new piece queer history to your podcast feed in the fall. Please support us in getting there. Thanks!! givebutter.com/heavenpodcast

Hey, Bluesky! When We All Get to Heaven tells the story of a queer church in San Francisco and how it got through AIDS in the years before treatment. We'd love your support to help us complete the project done and release it in the fall. Thanks! givebutter.com/heavenpodcast

This is a good question and it's one I'm getting a lot. The answer is going to depend, in part, on your risk tolerance and the role you plan to play I've just pushed out a newsletter article with recommendations and advice. Here's a thread with the cliff's notes 🧵

This week, my Somerville constituent Rümeysa Öztürk was abducted in broad daylight by DHS officials and sent to Louisiana to be locked in a detention center. She has not been charged with any crime.

California: Schiffy finally cleaned out his DC voicemail inbox! Fill it up again: (202) 224-3841

This is shaping up to be the largest of the events outside Senator Padilla's San Francisco District Office asking him to start fighting with every tool available. 12:45pm on Wednesday, outside 333 Bush St San Francisco. www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

National call this Sunday to strategize with Indivisible, MoveOn, WFP, and a ton of other groups. We choose to fight. www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

One thing I did today: reconnected with 5calls. bsky.app/profile/5cal...

A soft, small, hopeful thing.

Places to donate for disaster relief: This page of resources is from my friend and colleague Ludovic Blain, executive director of the California Donor Table. More to come. 1/ www.philanthropyca.org/2025-califor...

“”100% of the people who died — the first thousand who had AIDS were people who were addicted to poppers,” Kennedy (falsely) told an audience of supporters in a video posted by the watchdog social media account PatriotTakes in 2023.”

@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social posted this this morning. I found it helpful. wagingnonviolence.org/2024/11/10-t...

Re-posting for future orienting and re-orienting.

FFS. No. No, no, no. Y'all, Elise Stefanik has actively pushed Great Replacement Theory. It is WILDLY irresponsible of political media to allow her to be the face of this push without acknowledging her own role in perpetrating antisemitism. Do better, @politico.com

Me and Mark! Tomorrow night! Join us! www.lgbtqreligiousarchives.org/events/queer...

Doing this one over too. For the picture. Come hear me and Mark Jordan chat about his fantastic new book! www.lgbtqreligiousarchives.org/events/queer...

Reposting because it's important. And because I didn't know how to get the picture/link thing to be in a bluesky post. Or whatever these things are called. Anti-zionism does not equal antisemitism. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Excited to be part of this conversation next week. Join us!! www.lgbtqreligiousarchives.org/events/queer...

"Jewish identity is not a weapon to wield in a fight for statist power but a fount of generational wisdom that says justice, justice, you shall pursue. Tzedek, tzedek, tirdof. We object to the exploitation of our pain and the silencing of our allies." www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

The Crossroads Projects new site, Spirit House, is rich, deep and gorgeous. So excited to spend some time with it. If you want to connect with vital, new art and scholarship on Black religion, check it out. www.crossroads-spirithouse.org

This is a good slogan. “My grief is not your weapon.”

An incredible essay by Arielle Angel, EIC of Jewish Currents: jewishcurrents.org/we-cannot-cr...

The occupation is an intolerable crime, and resistance to it is a fundamental right, and murdering civilians is wrong, and collective punishment of an entrapped population is immoral. We live in a world of ands, not ors.

Grant writer here 👋🏼 Does anyone know of NGOs / nonprofit orgs led by & for Palestinians who could use support with getting grants for emergency aid, evacuation, etc.? I have about a dozen grant writers who would be willing to put in the time to help during this horrific time. Please reskeet 🙏

"This is a war extremists want. The hopelessness feeds their narrative that there can be no peace, that strength is the only way to security, that the other side (whichever side that is) has no respect for life. As one rabbi put it, this situation is terrible for everyone except terrible people."

Fabulosa Books in San Francisco is raising money to send boxes of queer books to LGBTQIA+ centers in red states. (Twenty incredible books pet box.) This makes such a huge difference. Every dollar helps! Please give! www.fabulosabooks.com/books-not-ba...

Kaiser is ---- complicated. But the people who work there deserve our support. Especially those of us who get our care there.

A great response to this clear bait.

So this is wild. jweekly.com/2023/09/27/m...

I got to interview a deeply thoughtful artist and I'm still thinking and feeling about it.