Sierra Roussos

@Sierraroussos
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Radically hopeful. Early Childhood Educator. Doctoral student in Organizational Leadership. Live in the Midwest. Parisienne pour la vie. Married to a Greek. Would eat for a living if I could. Love exploring new ideas and new places. Enjoy taking and sharing pictures and looking at others. She/Her #EarlyChildhoodEducation #Antiracism #Abolition #Abortioncare #AntiCapitalism #FightForTransRights #Photography
Trying to capture that beautiful bluish green color of soybean, didn’t quite get it (as I see it in my mind) but… I still do love an Indiana summer farm landscape. #photography #FotoFreitag #summer #landscape

Seven years today, July 6, 2016, police fatally shot #PhilandoCastile during a traffic stop near Saint Paul, MN.

Video from a 2022 demo & vigil:
https://youtu.be/xKrHw8CrHf8

Philando Castile Remembered Six Years After Being Killed by Police

YouTube
Goldfinch on the Dahlia. (pretty amazing what these camera phones can do, this is 10 feet away, through a window, and my hands are super shaky.) #photography #nature #birds
#Fensterfreitag #WindowFriday #photography #washingtondc #ContainerHome It was interesting to me to see how modern and sleek this building looks like from the front, and how rundown it looks from the side. Although a fairly fitting analogy of our country. AND I’m glad to see the reusing and repurposing of materials, and that a major city is allowing this use, despite it, perhaps not looking perfect.
How a Grad Student Uncovered the Largest Known Slave Auction in the U.S.

Lauren Davila made a stunning discovery as a graduate student at the College of Charleston: an ad for a slave auction larger than any historian had yet identified. The find yields a new understanding of the enormous harm of such a transaction.

ProPublica

@BlackMastodon
Obviously, be careful and do your research as a White person offering a leg up and a POC person receiving that leg up in the business world.

But when a White person, especially a White person in power vouches for you in the business world, I've found all of a sudden doors fly open for you.
Its wild. 🤔

But offer to mentor a POC/Black. Offer to review a resume. Offer to put in a word for them. Mention their name and their work.

THAT is REAL ally shit.
#blackmastodon #blackfedi

👏🏻#Tennessee state lawmakers who were expelled from state legislature earlier this year for protesting gun violence on the House floor easily won their special primary elections on Thurs

State Rep. #JustinJones ran unopposed for the Dem nomination in his Nashville-area district, while state Rep. #JustinPearson sailed to victory over challenger David Page in the Dem special primary for his Memphis-area district

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4052766-tennessee-special-election-results/

Tennessee lawmakers expelled for gun protests victorious in special primary elections

Two Tennessee state lawmakers who were expelled from the state legislature earlier this year for protesting gun violence on the House floor easily won their special primary elections on Thursday. State Rep. Justin Jones ran unopposed for the Democratic nomination in his Nashville-area district, while state Rep. Justin Pearson sailed to victory over challenger David…

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