Today in History

Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera founded STAR (1970); the APA removed homosexuality from the DSM (1973); Pauli Murray was ordained the first Black woman Episcopal priest (1977); Ella Baker organized the founding of SNCC (1960); the Voting Rights Act was signed (1965); Stacey Abrams founded Fair Fight Action (2018).

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"I am writing this from a place that is somehow simultaneously within me and infinitely far away." — Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House (2019)

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"The world will try to convince you that grief is something to manage. It is not. It is something to honor and be transformed by." — Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives (2019)

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"What is the body, finally, except a way of saying I was here, I was here, I was here?" — Carl Phillips, Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007–2020 (2022)

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Trump is an idiot. Pure and simple.

Also,

SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act. 22 NSF scientists fired to silence climate data. The thermometer is being smashed because the fever has a name. We can't look away. Read the full breakdown of this week's political carnage. #VotingRights #ClimateScience #scotus #TransRights #Election2024 #Politics #TransRights #Politics #FoxPoll #MentalHealth #Grounding #SelfCare #Resilience #FoodAsMedicine #Herbalism #Cooking #Community #Hope #LGBTQ #Progress #Writing #Beltane #Community #Resist #DailyExhale #trans #queer #lgbtqia #news

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