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Feb 14, 2025 | 
truthout.org | Dean Spade |Samantha Borek
In this frightening time, let’s dedicate ourselves to true love and liberation, caring for each other and the world.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
lithub.com | Kim Kelly |Dean Spade |Ruth Gilmore
For all of humanity’s many, many flaws, one of our most redeeming characteristics as a species is an almost-universal desire to connect with one another. When terrible things happen and communities find themselves under threat, people invariably step up and offer to help. Beloved children’s television star Fred Rogers famously told us to “Look for the helpers” after a tragedy, because he knew we’d see them.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
truthout.org | Dean Spade
When Trump was elected in 2016, the ACLU’s website featured a photo of him and the words “We’ll See You in Court.” They also rolled out an online campaign asking people to take an oath pledging to defend the Constitution (no specifics about how to do that).
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
truthout.org | Dean Spade
In June, a Florida appeals court upheld Gov. Ron DeSantis’s anti-rioting law. The law, which both increases penalties for existing crimes and creates new crimes aimed at, in DeSantis’s words, ending “the bullying and intimidation tactics of the radical left,” was challenged in a lawsuit that argued it would undermine free speech rights of protesters.
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May 29, 2024 | 
electricliterature.com | Armistead Maupin |Cookie Woolner |Dean Spade |Torrey Peters
Reading Lists These books, both fiction and nonfiction, remind readers of what collective power has achieved in the past, and to imagine what it could do in the future I wrote much of Lesbian Love Story during the Covid-19 lockdown, when I was desperate to build queer community inside the walls of my own home. From my living room, with the cat making the occasional interjection as she strutted across the keyboard, I slowly connected with a community of archivists at libraries, universities,...
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Nov 3, 2023 | 
mskellymhayes.substack.com | Dean Spade |Kelly Hayes
Photo: Kelly HayesFrom Israel’s ongoing, genocidal assault on Gaza to prison organizing, reproductive justice, and the far-right infiltration of Palestine solidarity protests, here are some important stories you may have missed this week. I’m a Pediatrician in Gaza. Please Save Us From This Horror by Hussam Abu Safyia. “When the fuel runs out, we will no longer be able to function at night after the sun goes down.
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Nov 2, 2023 | 
znetwork.org | Dean Spade
Global temperatures have reached new record highs, flooding and wildfires reaped widespread destruction this summer, and rainwater was declared, for the first time, unfit for human consumption around the globe. Amid these crises, I delved into two novels portraying our current and developing ecological and societal crises: The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson and The Deluge by Stephen Markley.
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Nov 1, 2023 | 
inthesetimes.com | Dean Spade
Global temperatures have reached new record highs, flooding and wildfires reaped widespread destruction this summer, and rainwater was declared, for the first time, unfit for human consumption around the globe. Amid these crises, I delved into two novels portraying our current and developing ecological and societal crises: The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson and The Deluge by Stephen Markley.
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Oct 9, 2023 | 
shareable.net | Dean Spade
On August 29, 2023, Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr filed an indictment against 61 members of the movement to Defend the Atlanta Forest and Stop Cop City. The indictment alleges a vast criminal conspiracy on the part of the activists, weaving them together in a legal scheme so fantastical that one of the accused is cited for being reimbursed for Elmer’s Glue.
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Oct 9, 2023 | 
shareable.net | Dean Spade
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