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For media covering the #Kavanaugh vote: Here is an important resource on best practices for covering stories around sexual violence. bit.ly/1fwZKxA Need expert commentary or your staff trained? Email: chitaskforce@gmail.com #StopKavanagh #CancelKavanaugh #MeToo

If you'll be covering the issue of race-based affirmative action in advance of the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court decisions, you'll want to check out our new tip sheet. 6 tips for covering race-based affirmative action in college admissions: journalistsresource.org/education/affi…

Photos from today's packing day! Thanks so much to all the volunteers who came out to pack books for incarcerated young folks in Illinois and to talk with us about why we don't believe anyone should be incarcerated. Want to support our work? Donate here: gofund.me/d0d65a36

Metro is throwing a star-studded drag show fundraiser to fight anti-drag, transphobic laws in Tennessee and beyond. buff.ly/418DYOn

Get some of the deepest solutions journalism training possible, then go share it with others. Apply by April 23 to become a solutions journalism trainer. Get all the details here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Check out our latest zine - The Prison Rebellion Years - an adaptation of Rethinking the American Prison Movement by @dnbrgr and @thetous. It was an all-star collaboration, written by @Safear215 with gorgeous cover art of comrade George by Paul Lacombe. studyandstruggle.com/s/Rethinking-t…

Over the moon about my student #Wikipedia projects, like this one on the San Diego Blood Sisters, a group of lesbian activists who organized blood drives in support of gay men during the AIDs crisis. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego…

Yikes, @FryeArtMuseum, what is this nonsense?!! The gender-neutral restrooms are temporarily discontinued while looking into "best practices"?!? Spoiler alert: the best practice is that all restrooms should be gender-neutral! That's it, that's all you need to know.

ICYMI: I did a deep dive on the LAPD's abortion squad, which operated in the 1950s and 60s, before #RoeVWade Officers questioned women. They went on stakeouts and kept dossiers on hundreds of abortionists. They posed as boyfriends or brothers to trap people into confessing.

Free Society People’s Library?! Where can I sign-up to support this excellent initiative? Below 👇

EMERGENCY MOBILIZATION: A federal judge in Texas ruled against medication abortion last night. We’re hitting the streets on April 15th and calling on the FDA to keep mifepristone on the shelves. Pledge to march at the link in the followup!