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From Athena Addams’ Twitter.

This the client who stabbed & robbed Athena Addams. Sex workers, especially trans sex workers, please be careful & watch out for this man if you are in Southern California or Nevada, especially the Hollywood & LA area.

Please boost for the safety of FSSWs.

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Immigration has been suspended from seven Muslim countries.

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I don’t think one could wake up to find out worse news than this…two women killed in one day. Both Black - the group that is oppressed and disrespected the most in our country..

#SkyeMockabee   #KorrynGaines   #SayTheirNames

#BlackLivesMatter   #Amerikkka

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(via Saturday Morning Cartoons: Baopu #15) by Yao Xiao

words to remember

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Source: http://www.selfhealgo.com/soul-food/

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Calling All Abundant, Fat, Plus Sized, Succulent, and Thick Peoples From All Over!

This year at the Allied Media Conference 2016 (June 16-19 in Detroit, MI) we are coming back together to continue our conversations, share skills, experiences, stories, media, knowledge and strategies to build a more beautiful, body accepting and abundant loving future!

The Abundant Bodies Track challenges the ongoing ways mainstream media shames and harms abundant bodies, name fat phobia in our organizing and activism, and create media and practical strategies for resistance, healing and community building. We will broaden the conversation around fat activism by centering this track on the voices of indigenous, Black, people of color, dis/abled, super-sized, trans and queer fat folks. Abundant/thick/fat bodies are the target of so much hate, policing and negativity, even in our organizing communities. 

How can we work together to deconstruct fat stigma and other forms of marginalization while building a stronger and more inclusive fat community? How can we challenge ourselves to decenter whiteness, capitalism, ableism, cissexism, heterosexism and classism while we explore what it means to be fat?

We will explore these questions and create spaces to challenge the ongoing ways mainstream media shames and harms abundant bodies. Our goal is to create media and practical strategies for resistance, healing and community building.

We are looking for a variety of session proposals that may include, but are not limited to, the following:

Fat community 101

How to love your body

Ally building for thin folks and privileged fat folks

Body autonomy and social media

Anti-racist fat activism

Skillshares and tools for surviving and thriving

Bodies, health and movement

Breaking down connections between health and weight

Body movement / dance / practice for all bodies

Fat sexuality

Super-sized community members

Fatness at its intersections

Fatness and femme identity

Fatness and masculinity

Sci-fi bodies as fat, queer and people of color

Dis/ability and fatness

History of indigenous / people of color / Black / trans / dis/ability / supersize fat activism

Tools for young fat folks

Breaking down discussions about obesity through race, class, gender and other identities

Proposals are due March 11th, 2016 at midnight. Submit YOURS by filling out the form linked here.

If you have any questions regarding your proposal or this track, please contact us via on the Abundant Bodies Discussion Page on AMP Talk or at abundantbodies@gmail.com.

**Abundant Bodies and the Allied Media Conference is committed to creating a space that allows for access to all community members regardless of economics. We will be fundraising in the near future to make sure we can support all of the session coordinators who need it in order to give as many voices in fat community the platform they deserve.

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Please share this and stop the hate!

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URGENT AND TIME-SENSITIVE

Anyone speak Quechua in or around NYC? An Indigenous minor is seeking asylum & needs urgent support in deportation proceedings!

Please contact me @starklyinaccurate if you can help, asap!

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Planned Parenthood is giving out FREE water filters to Flint residents. 

As you might have heard, Flint is currently undergoing a water crises due to negligent city officials.  

The crisis is causing elevated levels of lead in children. It is not safe for ANYONE to drink. 

Once again, Planned Parenthood comes through for community health. 

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#SaveTheTrees

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The second Latina Women's Encounter is hitting the bx! Encuentros are key spaces for sister and movement building. We're putting all our time, energy, and $$ voluntarily. Support and promote your work by securing a table! #artists #nyc #feminists #womanists #latinas

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Daaaaayuum!

Tattoo done by James TattooArt.

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LGBTQ barber shop

This is a story of a black queer barber trying to realize her dream, opening a barber shop for LGBTQ community in New York City.

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Watch: Key & Peele show how great life would be in a 100% black utopia 

They’re starting off season 5 on the exact right note.

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SIGNAL BOOST!!!!!!!!!!!

There is a hate crime going on in elementary school P.S 174 in FOREST HILLS, NEW YORK against a Muslim boy in 1ST GRADE. His name is Mohammed.

It started with the mother of another (white) child inviting their classmates to a birthday party. She sent the invitations to school with her child along with a note that stated “please give one to everyone EXCEPT Mohammed” the teacher was disgusted and sent it back and said she refused. She would either give it to ALL of them or NONE.

The mother in fury showed up to the school and called 911, she said her child’s classmate and mother is a terrorist. Police showed up but couldn’t do much due to lack of proof. The mother then spoke to the principal and HER ONLY SOLUTION was telling her to give out the invitations slowly throughout the week so Mohammed doesn’t notice.

THIS WAS THE PRINCIPALS RESPONSE TO BLATANT RACISM AND ISLAMOPHOBIA.

Mohammed’s classmate even went up to him and told him “my moms gonna call 911 and put you mom in jail” and he cried his eyes out. They are terrorizing a 1st grader.

The invitation is for the party at their home but they are having a party in the classroom IN ONE WEEK. WE ARE SCARED FOR THIS CHILD. We don’t know what actions we can take yet but for now you can call PS. 174 and speak to the principal about your disgust and let her know you are taking action.

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👏👏👏

Jesse, again, went all in on Twitter. Food for thought.

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White rioters are usually called “revelers,” “celebrants” and “fans.” They’re not even called “rioters” in many cases. They’re not derided as “criminals,” “thugs,” “pigs” or even “violent.” Those descriptors, as events in Baltimore Monday night reveals yet again, are only reserved for black people. And the disparate reasons for rioting are just as eye-opening.