Listen to Black Folks About The Slap
A gentle reminder about the slap discourse:
If you’re white, you need to be quiet and listen. This is not our space to share opinions, especially those that involve pearl-clutching.
Instead, lift up Black folks and their voices.
LGBTQ+ care providers calling for advocacy, education to push back against anti-transgender efforts by Anastassia Gliadkovskaya
Why Do We Only Pay Attention to Women’s Sports When Trans Women Excel at Them? by Emma Specter
Texas superintendent tells librarians to pull books on sexuality, transgender people by Mike Hixenbaugh and Jeremy Schwartz
Utah Lawmakers Are Overriding A Veto In Order To Ban Transgender Students From Playing In Girls Sports by Paige Skinner
Articles You Need to Read This Week
Group of physicians combats misinformation as unproven COVID-19 treatments continue to be prescribed by Soo Rin Kim, Laura Romero, Dr. Mark Abdelmalek, and Steve Osunsami
Even Carole Baskin’s Tigers Had COVID. Here’s How It’s Affecting Animals In Zoos And Sanctuaries Across The US. by Patrick Waechter
Black Tesla employees describe a culture of racism: ‘I was at my breaking point’ by Margot Roosevelt and Russ Mitchell
The secret police: Cops built a shadowy surveillance machine in Minnesota after George Floyd’s murder by Tate Ryan-Mosley and Sam Richards
5 People Describe Their Experience With Dissociation by Michelle Hyun Kim
Gwyneth Paltrow’s Former CCO Spoke Out About Leaving Goop And Said That “Toxic” Wellness Culture Led Her To Punish And Chastise Her Body by Ellen Durney
Microplastics discovered in human blood for first time by Emma Gatten
A Disability Is Not Something You Have To “Fix” — This Influencer Is Working To Change That Thinking by Andrea Chang
Google adds doctors’ appointment availability to search by Nicole Wetsman
Most Physicians Lack Ability, Time to Properly Address Patient SDOH by Sarai Rodriguez
Dozens Of Men Got Sick During A Secret Training Exercise At A Nuclear Site In 1991. They're Still Fighting For Answers. by Zahra Hirji
LGBTQI+ Nondiscrimination Laws Improve Economic, Physical, and Mental Well-Being by Lindsay Mahowald
Ginni Thomas Pressed Trump’s Chief of Staff to Overturn 2020 Vote, Texts Show by Danny Hakim, Luke Broadwater, and Jo Becker
Ketanji Brown Jackson Reminded Republicans They Could Fix The Range Of Grievances They Aired by Zoe Tillman
Republican Attacks on Ketanji Brown Jackson Rely on Familiar Racist Tropes by Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman and Katie Camacho Orona
Progressives Want to Put Medicare for All Back on the Table by Aída Chávez
Your Right to Film the Police Is Under Attack by Trone Dowd
This TikTok features the best use of the Jurassic Park theme song that I’ve seen in a minute.
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Intersectional Infinity Summit
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20 Banned Black Films you need to see. 15 years of African Odysseys
April 3 - 12:30-2:45 pm Eastern
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Until next time,
Grayson