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Let's talk about sex, #Kavanaugh & Venn diagram overlap of male entitlement.
I've written a lot about sex in various contexts. In the late 80s/early 90s I also gave safe sex workshops back when folks my age were dying 24/7 from #AIDS. My 1st book was on juvenile prostitution.
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I've written a lot about sex in various contexts. In the late 80s/early 90s I also gave safe sex workshops back when folks my age were dying 24/7 from #AIDS. My 1st book was on juvenile prostitution.
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Most of us know consensual and non-consensual sex differ. The entirety of #Kavanaugh's defense and his defenders' outrage is predicated on the presumption that no teenaged boy knows what consent is.
THEY. KNOW.
Some, like their adult counterparts, don't care.
This is key.
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THEY. KNOW.
Some, like their adult counterparts, don't care.
This is key.
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Since #MeToo we've seen egregious serial rapists like #BillCosby and #HarveyWeinstein exposed & attempts made to prosecute them.
But there are "lesser" sexual assaults we've given a lighter hand to: Matt Lauer, Charlie Rose, Mark Halperin, Louis CK--too many to list.
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But there are "lesser" sexual assaults we've given a lighter hand to: Matt Lauer, Charlie Rose, Mark Halperin, Louis CK--too many to list.
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Why have we heard nothing about nuns being sexually assaulted by priests before this?
It's outrageous that these complaints have been filed for decades with no response.
#MeToo #TimesUp
It's outrageous that these complaints have been filed for decades with no response.
#MeToo #TimesUp
Cardinal #McCarrick spent SIXTY YEARS in a position to assault teens and young seminarians. The culture of protection of these abusive clergy has not ended. Pope Francis has not done nearly enough to help those who've been abused nor to punish the abusers.
nyti.ms/2OkARhQ
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Nuns have been used as "safe" for priests to sexually use and abuse, particularly in countries in Africa where #AIDS is rampant.
Priests who reported the abuse were sanctioned by the Church.
Nuns are always in a position of subservience to priests.
apnews.com/bb86b675b1b646…
Priests who reported the abuse were sanctioned by the Church.
Nuns are always in a position of subservience to priests.
apnews.com/bb86b675b1b646…
@SurvivorsnetBtn @RASASC_London @survivorstrust @Danvers07943910 @ObjectUK @BrightonSurvivorsNET “In the light of a highly disturbing increase of #transphobia locally & nationally…” IF everything anybody says or does is #transphobia, of course you can say it is rising. Any reputable statistics?
@SurvivorsnetBtn @RASASC_London @survivorstrust @Danvers07943910 @ObjectUK “…so the date @Womans_Place_UK event feels like a concerted effort to make #trans ppl, & particularly #transwomen, feel #intimidated and #invalidated” Is it the position of SN that the sensitivities of #transwomen mean that #democracy should be suspended any time they say so?
@SurvivorsnetBtn @RASASC_London @survivorstrust @Danvers07943910 @ObjectUK @Womans_Place_UK #Transwomen do face special challenges but they remain #bio #logical #males but it is fine for them #Gender express as ‘women’ but with the best will in the world, they remain #bio #logically #male @WomenEqualities @Commonswomequ @PennyMordaunt @MariaMillerUK @LesleySemmens
My friend #AssottoSaint was a beautiful magnificent talented writer & gorgeous queen.
I miss him to this day.
If you watched #PoseFX
tonight, you might want to read this.
He wanted to raise the voices of the suppressed till his last breath.
And did.
lambdaliterary.org/features/06/19…
I miss him to this day.
If you watched #PoseFX
tonight, you might want to read this.
He wanted to raise the voices of the suppressed till his last breath.
And did.
lambdaliterary.org/features/06/19…
This is one of those pieces that I am so grateful to have written. It tells a story of a time, a place, an urgency.
#AIDS was with us 24/7. It was a war. It was a terror. It pulsed through our lives.
#AIDS was with us 24/7. It was a war. It was a terror. It pulsed through our lives.
Watching #PoseFX brought it all back in a rush--the memories, hospital rooms, losses, funerals.
The last gay funeral I went to--for the husband of a co-worker--I couldn't stop crying. I cried for days.Curled in a fetal position.
Those lives & stories remain with us. Always. 💜
The last gay funeral I went to--for the husband of a co-worker--I couldn't stop crying. I cried for days.Curled in a fetal position.
Those lives & stories remain with us. Always. 💜
I'm one of a few million Americans awake when we should be sleeping because of the pain of #cancer or some other chronic illness.
Adding to our sleeplessness is knowing #healthcare is under threat. We may not be able to afford it due to the #GOP's actions.
It's terrorizing.
Adding to our sleeplessness is knowing #healthcare is under threat. We may not be able to afford it due to the #GOP's actions.
It's terrorizing.
My parents were Civil Rights workers. My father was a Freedom Rider. As a small child I was taught the legacy of #MLK.
I watched people invoking MLK on Monday. Not in defense of #votingrights or in outrage over how the #SCOTUS ruled on two pivotal cases on gerrymandering.
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I watched people invoking MLK on Monday. Not in defense of #votingrights or in outrage over how the #SCOTUS ruled on two pivotal cases on gerrymandering.
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MLK wasn't being invoked for #votingrights but for Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who lies to America every day about policies that could very well kill me & others.
Policies that are hurting millions.
Policies that have kept me a citizen without equal rights in my own country.
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Policies that are hurting millions.
Policies that have kept me a citizen without equal rights in my own country.
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I have been battling a new health crisis since my surgery was postponed June 15.
There is no way to adequately articulate--even as a writer--the breadth of hardship inflicted on sick Americans by the Trump presidency & Trump-led #GOP, like lame-duck @SpeakerRyan.
#healthcare
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There is no way to adequately articulate--even as a writer--the breadth of hardship inflicted on sick Americans by the Trump presidency & Trump-led #GOP, like lame-duck @SpeakerRyan.
#healthcare
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The @CDCgov cites 133M as the number of chronically-ill Americans who have #cancer, like I do, or another illness that impedes their daily lives.
The majority of that 40% of the US population still have to work despite often disabling illness because we cannot afford not to.
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The majority of that 40% of the US population still have to work despite often disabling illness because we cannot afford not to.
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I've been writing about #healthcare in America since I was a cub reporter and put on a small story in the mid-80s that turned into a much bigger story: #AIDS.
When you're in your 20s writing about other 20somethings dying, it changes you.
Then I got #breastcancer at 26.
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When you're in your 20s writing about other 20somethings dying, it changes you.
Then I got #breastcancer at 26.
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1 - right, this is my 1st attempt at a long thread. I feel I’ve discovered something interesting & a penny has dropped! Some things #DeepState are doing doesn’t make sense on its own but when you put them together, it begins to fit. Happy reading!
2 - okay, here’s a thought... what’s #foodsafety ‘use by’ dates got to do with #chemtrails #GeoEngineering? Chemtrails would fall on everyone including the evil. I believe they only react with certain other chemicals; those in drugs popular with us non-elite...
3 - #ibuprofen (ans to physical pain) & depression drugs (and to psychological pain). Most of us covered! The aim of chemtrails it to react & weaken our #immune system while #vaccines reduce our #fertility as well as weaken us. @BillGates even admitted in a @bbc interview...
