From Gabriel Arana in 2021: This #Thanksgiving, tell your racist aunt she is a racist. Call your sexist uncle a misogynist. Inform your transphobic cousin that kids don’t deserve to suffer because of his fragile masculinity. https://www.texasobserver.org/this-thanksgiving-call-your-racist-uncle-a-racist/
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From Gabriel Arana in 2021: This #Thanksgiving, tell your racist aunt she is a racist. -
Earlier: The new #Texas "bathroom bill" not only makes it harder for trans people to exist in public, it also attempts to grant immunity from prosecution to those enforcing it, even if they violate the constitution.Earlier: The new #Texas "bathroom bill" not only makes it harder for trans people to exist in public, it also attempts to grant immunity from prosecution to those enforcing it, even if they violate the constitution. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-bathroom-bill-weaponizes-transphobia/
#law #HumanRights #genocide #fascism #politics #USpol #news #TXlege #trans #LGBTQIA+
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Out today: Students went on strike, and 8,000 of them marched in a mock funeral procession carrying a coffin with a banner that read “academic freedom” from campus to the Capitol and the governor’s mansion.Out today: Students went on strike, and 8,000 of them marched in a mock funeral procession carrying a coffin with a banner that read “academic freedom” from campus to the Capitol and the governor’s mansion. Meanwhile, conservative critics of the university continued to circulate their charges that it harbored communists, was a “nest of homosexuals,” and had plans to admit Black students. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-faculty-firings-tom-alter/
#history #DEI #racism #education #schools #Texas #politics #USpol #news
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Featured story: Everywhere I went along a 30-mile or so stretch of the Guadalupe River, there were excavators and people digging, looking, hopeful to find the missing.Featured story: Everywhere I went along a 30-mile or so stretch of the Guadalupe River, there were excavators and people digging, looking, hopeful to find the missing. The scale of the devastation, the search and recovery efforts, and the grief—all things unfathomable to me, even after I witnessed them. https://www.texasobserver.org/where-the-water-reached/
#Texas #photography #politics #USpol #news #environment #weather #ClimateChange