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1/ The South is home to more LGBTQ+ people than anywhere else in the U.S.
Meanwhile, Southern legislators are pushing violent policies to hide this truth.
Trans kids in particular are being threatened—and not just in Texas.
🧵 A thread on how to show solidarity in this moment:
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We’re all singing “Thank You for Being a Friend” at midnight. That’s just the rules.
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McClaren Hospital where Oxford community is gathered to support the family of Justin Shillings, one of the four teens killed this week. Justin is an organ donor and the crowd is here so that when his body is moved for surgery his family can look down and see the love and support
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Women in Afghanistan, and those living as refugees in Pakistan or Iran have become so accustomed to war they have often replaced traditional motifs of flowers and birds in their rug weaving with images of war, including drones, tanks and guns #WomensArt
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My grandfather spent his life savings to buy an apartment in the second tallest tower in Gaza: the same building housing the AP and Al Jazeera bureaus that was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike on Saturday. I wrote about all the homes he lost for @nytimes nytimes.com/2021/05/20/opini…
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We strongly support @UNCHussman faculty statement on Knight Chair #NikoleHannahJones tenure decision. There is an opportunity to reverse course and do the right thing. link.medium.com/7CkyEycmogb
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Anybody who thinks destroying Al Jazeera offices will stop Al Jazeera from reporting hasn’t been watching the past 20 years.
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And on a world poetry day we have lost a great voice.
*
And now in a hurry just
pack, always, each day,
and go breathless, go to Lvov, after all
it exists, quiet and pure as
a peach. It is everywhere.
--Adam Zagajewski
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some of ya'll have brilliant ideas for media, tech, + culture and should take a year to develop those ideas by putting in for a 2022 @annenberglab Civic Media Fellowship
(applications due Mar 19) annenberglab.com/civic-media…
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For @vulture, I spoke with @TriciaLockwood about her life on the internet and her extraordinary novel out Tuesday: No One is Talking About This vulture.com/article/patricia…
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Ballerina @KittyPhetla performing a rain dance in the middle of the nearly empty Theewaterskloof Dam in South Africa in 2017. About a week after her dancing at the reservoir, it started to rain in the Western Cape.
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"Smell is a startling superpower...Intuit, just [by...] breathing, that this sweater has been worn but that one hasn’t, that it’s going to start raining soon, that the grass was trimmed a few hours back."
@brookejarvis always helps me see the world anew.
nytimes.com/2021/01/28/magaz…
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On #DataPrivacyDay, watch our Emmy-nominated investigation of Pegasus, a powerful cyber-weapons technology used by governments to spy on activists and journalists around the world.
Full documentary: bit.ly/2HpyRSY
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even if journalism doesn’t change the reason he had to traverse a treacherous jungle to get here, or how he is treated here within a dehumanizing asylum system, it can still mean something to the people who live a story: the simple act of telling it, and speaking someone’s truth.
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Meta with The Markup returns tomorrow with host @IamXavier! Here are some favorite moments from our past episodes to revisit before we bring you new conversations and opportunities to connect in the new year.
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Thursday! Join us for a discussion, moderated by @EthanZ, with EIC @JuliaAngwin, @LauraEdelson2, @dfreelon, @davidlazer, and @mozilla’s Rebecca Weiss on measuring the spread of deceptive information, and ways to assess tech platform behavior. themarkup.org/events/browsin…
ALT Invitation graphic including panel title and panelist photos.
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Remembering Elizabeth Cotten who was born 125 years ago this week. Here she is performing “Washington Blues,” a song she wrote in January 1965 at the age of 70.
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We are so saddened to hear of #barrylopez passing. In 1998 he wrote that nature writing is about much more than nature – it is about community, morality, character and hope as well. A perfect reflection on the man. hcn.org/issues/138/barry-lop… via @highcountrynews