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#BreonnaTaylor #SayHerName Today is another injustice. We see it. We know it. We reject injustice and stand for our sister.
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Zora Neale Hurston detailing her conjure fieldwork in New Orleans to Langston Hughes (November 1928) talking about “Yes, I WILL conjure you too”🤣🤎
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I spent years investigating and prosecuting sexual assault cases. That experience makes this decision almost unfathomable to me. According to the transcript, this young woman swatted away one man’s hand because she was uncomfortable. She told another “no” multiple times or that she was too tired. She described what happened as coercion and said she was “completely and totally incapacitated.” Then there are the group-chat messages. At 1:42 a.m., a message suggested a woman was available for sex. Later, someone asked: “Shop still open?” The response: “Yea.” And yet the District Attorney concluded there wasn’t enough evidence to even seek an indictment, let alone attempt to prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt. That is simply staggering. I understand the evidentiary challenges of prosecuting sexual assault. I lived them. But if these facts aren’t even enough to put the case before a grand jury, we have to ask survivors what exactly we expect them to do to be believed and protected by our criminal justice system. This is also why civil sexual assault cases matter so deeply. When the criminal system fails to provide accountability, the civil justice system can give survivors another path to seek it, not only from those who harmed them, but from the institutions whose actions or failures may have enabled that harm. cbsnews.com/newyork/news/cor…
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It has to be Kierkegaard
If philosophers were tweeting today, who would be posting the most bangers?
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Now it's Robin Morgan who has died. From Blake Morgan: "My mother Robin Morgan died peacefully in her sleep early this morning. Surely, she will be remembered for designing the iconic image of the women's movement (the fist in the circle of the women's symbol) and for her formative anthology, Sisterhood Is Powerful, for co-founding the Sisterhood is Global Institute with Simone de Beauvoir, for co-founding the Women's Media Center with Gloria Steinem and Jane Fonda, for a lifetime of fierce feminism and fierce friendship. But first and foremost, she was an artist. Her art fueled her politics, fueled her feminism, fueled the way she raised me. She taught me that how one does anything is how one does everything—that the personal is the political, and that as she once wrote, 'Hate generalizes, love specifies.' I'll have more to say and more songs to write about her, but for now, I'll express my love and gratitude that so many of you knew and loved her as both my mother, and as your friend." "In 1970, Robin created the first feminist anthology, Sisterhood Is Powerful, which gave voice to widely diverse women activists and writers when there was no national feminist forum. It was later cited by the New York Public Library as one of the 100 Most Influential Books of the 20th Century. She used funds from its immediate best-seller publishing success to provide grants to women's groups. Following with a second anthology, she assembled Sisterhood Is Global, to provide an opening for a global women’s movement which to this day amplifies women’s voices from Europe, the Middle East, Africa, South America, and Asia. Together with her friend and colleague, Simone de Beauvoir, she then co-founded The Sisterhood Is Global Institute, still going strong today. She went twice into Gaza with UNRWA during the first and second Intifadas to work with and write about Palestinian women. In the midst of all this national and global organizing and activism, Robin wrote twenty widely read, translated, and course-taught books of political theory and reportage, as well as books of poetry and fiction. She was a former editor-in-chief of Ms. magazine. She hosted and produced “Women’s Media Center Live with Robin Morgan,” an award-winning podcast heard for 13 years in 112 countries. This was her influential, intelligent way of continuing a lifetime of activism, although she was in the second decade of living with Parkinson’s Disease."
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June Jordan’s 1979 criticism of Michele Wallace’s “Black Macho and the myth of the superwoman” should be required reading—especially as folks insist upon singular straw-man characterizations of feminism reducible to girl bosssuits. Jordan, Bambara, and Cortez always get ignored.
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A poem by Wendell Berry, who died yesterday at age 92. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/vV…
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please, wear your nice clothes everyday. the special occasion is being alive.
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The first paragraph of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s concurrence is a devastating takedown of Justice Thomas’s heinous opinion: “The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery.”
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Want to enrich your summer reading list with new perspectives? Shaylee, from our customer support and success team, charts a decade of the International Booker Prize longlists by language group and shares her favourites. 📚 🤓 🗺️ To fully enjoy the interactive visualizations and see a detailed list of all books, head to the Datawrapper blog: buff.ly/pSOzJui
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everyone thought New York would turn into Gotham City and it’s been nothing but Sesame Street all month lmao
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FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 53 YEARS, THE KNICKS ARE NBA CHAMPIONS 🏆 New York defeats San Antonio 4-1 in the NBA Finals, capturing their third championship in franchise history!
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“Tenderness is the most modest form of love. It is the kind of love that does not appear in the scriptures or the gospels… It appears wherever we take a close and careful look at another being, at something that is not our ‘self.’” Superb read: themarginalian.org/2022/11/2…
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Although not a mass shooting, on this date (Apr 19) in 1995, a white supremacist and gun rights zealot bombed a federal building in Oklahoma City, killing 167 people (including 19 children) and injuring at least 592 others: 💔😡💔 #DisarmHate en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklaho…
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We're going around the Moon. Come watch with us. Artemis II's four-astronaut crew is lifting off from @NASAKennedy on an approximately 10-day mission that will bring us closer to living on the Moon and Mars. The launch window opens at 6:24pm ET (2224 UTC). xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1jxXgeyMk…
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STILL DANCING #DukeDUB
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Win wall’s ELITE
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Fascinating paper just published in Science. The authors analyze the career trajectories of top performers across multiple domains, including Nobel laureates, elite chess players, Olympic gold medalists, and more. Their central finding challenges a common belief. Intensive, single-discipline training at a young age does confer an early advantage, but this advantage fades over time. By contrast, individuals exposed to multidisciplinary practice early in life tend to start more slowly. Yet, over the long run, they are more likely to reach world-class performance, eventually overtaking early specialists, who often plateau just below the very top. An important reminder that breadth early on can be a powerful investment in long-term excellence. Link to the paper in the first reply.
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