For @prismreports, I wrote about prison telecom companies donating to nonprofits, particularly but not exclusively, charities focused on at-risk youth and communities impacted by incarceration. Thread🧵
I'm begging reporters covering the declining birthrate to interview feminist scholars. Much of the coverage focuses on the tax policy, the election, & the rising cost of living generally. But there's very little focus on the lack of suitable partners & the threat of misogyny.
I can't prove it, but I've felt like these layoffs are coordinated. Not because execs are actually worried about a recession, but because they want to scare workers into accepting low wages & poor working conditions again.
Femicide, childcare costs, the gender pay gap, healthcare costs, childbirth deaths/complications, the expectation that the birthing parent do most of the childrearing, the blow to career advancement, the possibility of being abandoned—none of this makes parenthood more appealing
Despite multiple reports that TSA was supposed to stop searching black women's hair, for me and other black women, that turned out not to be true. Why is it still happening? My investigation for @Cosmopolitancosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/a186…#FlyingWhileBlack
This panic feels like an overreaction to women/birthing people having the choice to be child free. There are other wonderful things that you could be in this life besides being a parent. As soon as we get the chance to pursue our happiness, BOOM! Here come the restrictions.
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Hiring journalists of color to do one or two stories regarding a source of color or subject that impacts people of color and then not commissioning that journalist again isn’t inclusion. That’s using them to look good & discarding them afterwards.
Rich people will deploy their resources to preserve themselves and their interests at the expense of everyone else, and this is why they need to be taxed until billionaires no longer exist. This is theft of land & money that belongs to the public.
Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building a massive $100 million compound in Hawaii with an underground bunker, escape hatch, and a “blast-resistant door.”
The 5,000-square-foot underground bunker will be self-sufficient with its own energy, food, and water supply, @WIRED reports.
With $18 million, "The Color Purple" had the largest Christmas Day opening for a film since 2009, and the second-biggest Christmas Day opening of all time. variety.com/2023/film/box-…
This week has made it very clear that we gotta make media literacy and media ethics a priority going forward. Too much unverified information is spreading too quickly, and too many people are falling for it.