Tell me you see parenting as a way for you to exert possession, dominance and control with out saying you see parenting as a way to exert possession, dominance and control.

Ms Rachel and Mychal the librarian are out here trying to shut down a child jail. Let this be inspiration to others to do the same.

I preordered this direct from pub and got it early. I did not realize how culty Holt’s origins were. Highly recommend if you want a good understanding on the history of transnational adoption and Holt’s involvement. I also appreciate that Towers read through Bertha’s memoirs so I don’t have to. 🥚

This is terrifying.

The city council hearing re: libraries and cultural institutions on May 26 will not include public testimony. Public testimony will happen on June 10 instead. I will post a new graphic with this new information tomorrow.

No child is “saved” by a system that protects adults and agencies while ignoring the rights of the child. Placing a child into a different family doesn't justify erasing their identity, and adoption can't be considered ethical care when a child’s humanity and rights are disregarded in the process.🥚

Big protest and march at Brooklyn Criminal Court and outside Brooklyn DA Gonzales's office in protest of this woman's treatment today. Organized by the Association of Legal Advocates and Attorneys, UAW Local 2325.

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“My hypothesis is that women will use AI to do more work. Men will use AI to get out of doing more work. And, every argument that is not dealing with the preconditions of this gendered inequality is not thinking seriously about AI” @tressiemcphd.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/lost...

she’s in oakland, someone tell interpol

I’m sorry but if you aren’t sure of a citation, whether what it means or that it exists… why are you citing it. why are you referring to something you haven’t read or don’t understand? that defeats the entire bloody point

Seems to me that this is a great time for all of the 'vote or die' white people to be at the forefront of fighting for voting rights. Perfect time not to fantasize about what you would have done during the mid-century Black freedom struggle but to enact a 21st century version of it. Let's stay tuned

As a queer who grew up in the 90s, when it was completely normal to call everything you didn't like "gay," I'm begging y'all to push back on the use of homosexuality as an insult, even when it's leveled at people you hate. No, it's not more fitting because they're homophobic bigots. It's never cute.

Texas Children's caved and ended care under pressure in April 2022, over four years ago and they still got targeted by DOJ and Paxton. NYU caved and they still got served with a grand jury subpoena. Caving and abandoning will not save you. You have to fight these bastards or they will destroy you.

That's bad. You know what's also bad? People using social media to buy babies. #adoption 🥚

Contrary to what many think, banning books doesn't boost sales or interest in that book. It makes the books much harder for people to get. And almost always, it leads to erasure of marginalized stories, especially Black & brown and queer people.

Writing has been independently invented maybe four times in human history. Radiocarbon dating has found evidence that the original inhabitants of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) invented writing independently. buff.ly/PS5nm5j #ShareGoodNewsToo

If y’all collaborate with them on rehabbing Marco Rubio I will go nucleur.

So far, for a limited number of intercountry adoptees applying for Certificates of Citizenship, fingerprints are being required. Here's what to know about this development. 🥚 adopteerightslaw.com/fingerprints...

🥚The Female Refuges Act (1893–1964) functioned as a mechanism of imprisonment and facilitated the removal of babies for adoption. More on the Act here 👇

“ethical adoption,” if we want to use that phrase, would denote a form of long-term custodianship that leaves a child’s vital records intact and accessible and that is annullable at the age of legal majority. And I don’t believe there is such a thing as ethical intercountry #adoption.

Hey yall, I’m reposting my GoFundMe with hopes of closing it out. I am one of the Black women who lost their jobs earlyyy last year. While I take freelance jobs, I’m still looking. If you have job leads, pls read my pinned skeet for more info about me. Thank you again 💙🥚

Thanks for tagging me folks. Just to let everyone know that this isn't an *increase* in the library project. This just brings the proposed budget back to FY26's level. It reverses the Mayor's preliminary budget cuts. HOWEVER, it does not meet the 0.5% benchmark AND it does not keep up with inflation

folx, I’ve been working on AI "ethics" for almost a decade now & hate to tell you there’s no such thing as "ethical AI" the only "ethical principle" that works is regulating the shit out of the industry & to take back control of our autonomy, fundamental rights, freedoms & right to exist w/out AI

Rampant consumerism of the US this always gave me “quiet part out loud” feelings. I was not sorry when the company folded.

i feel like life would be so much easier if the underclass actually had our own strong, positive identity rather than everyone feeling like a failure because they can’t keep up with folks with generational wealth that is unattainable for 99% of us

This is a really good . unroll.

From an interview I did with Penguin in 2024 about the rise of banned books, and how it feels as an author from a historically marginalized community to see books by Black authors increasingly pulled from the shelves of places where kids who need them could find them.

Sheryl Sandberg was a racist misogynist who presided over the worst of abuse online While prominent feminists ghost wrote for her And excused her choice of an unqualified , problematic 30 year old as “girl power” The only thing worse than the actions is the gross contextless framing

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

A Portland mother was falsely charged with theft. Misidentified because she and the suspect are both Black. She waited months for a public defender. 1,280 people in her county were waiting too. They lost jobs. Lost housing. Lost custody of children.

This is my take as well.

All anybody has ever asked is for them to put down the toilet seat and to wash their hands after they pee. Not whatever *gestures wildly* this is.

May God bless the 150,000 incarcerated mothers nationwide today.

My annual Mother's Day post. Because some people had great mothers but lost them, some had or have mothers who never mothered them or stopped mothering them for some reason, treated them as adversaries or as worthless, and Mother's Day can be a punitive day for all those for whom this is true.

I don't only want fully funded libraries but I want fully funded parks, public education, FREE HEALTHCARE, actual affordable housing etc... these are ALL CONNECTED.

Erase every congressional map, pass a constitutional amendment against gerrymandering, redraw fair maps that actually reflect and respect the intent of the 14th amendment, and start the fuck over. No it'll never fucking happen, but it goddam well should.

Like every Mother's Day today I am asking that you consider a donation to @nationalbailout.bsky.social to help free mamas who are separated from their families by the injustices of pretrial detention systems. secure.actblue.com/donate/freeb...

73% of mothers with kids under 18 are in the workforce. More than flowers or brunch, working moms need: -Paid family leave -Equal pay -Universal childcare -Universal healthcare (But get your mom flowers, too)

Happy #mothersday 🥚

Yr ending Mar 1964: 559 females imprisoned at Mercer—293 single, 266 married. Though framed as addressing a “child in need of protection,” the Ontario Child Welfare Act disproportionately impacted imprisoned single mothers, effectively treating sole caregiving as grounds for child removal.

The thing about “golden calfs” If you have to tell people it’s not one… it’s definitely one

industry built on unpunished mass-scale theft continues to perform mass scale theft

Taken together, these studies highlight how systemic and structural problems become mental “illness,” and suggest that interventions may best be directed towards problematic systems rather than individuals trying to survive in them. www.madinamerica.com/2026/05/when...

Once again asking you not to use the term "adopt" for MA or crowdfunding. That context is colonial, and implies ownership. Literally immediately describes a power/respect imbalance, and normalizes legalized trafficking structures. "Sponsor" and "center" and "prioritize" are right there.

My entire lifetime has seen Republicans benefit from every structural bias in the system: two republican presidents elected while losing the popular vote,the senate being biased towards small rural conservative states,house and state legislatures being heavily gerrymandered, and a captured SCOTUS.

This is an interesting discussion on the book, Children’s Right to Identity, Selfhood and International Family Law ( doi.org/10.4337/9781... ) that was published last year.

Every day brings another reason I'm happy I moved to a Blacksky server (myatproto, in my case).

The NAACP has filed a lawsuit to block Tennessee's attempt to remove the only majority-Black congressional district in the state