#Maya Wiley

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Donald Trump Wants to Give Police Officers 'Federal Immunity'

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New College’s academic year ends with community-focused celebration of students

On the evening of May 18, over 400 members of the New College community—encompassing students, staff, faculty, alumni and parents—gathered at the Sarasota Art Museum to celebrate the graduation of the cohort of 2019. It was a ceremony held on their own terms, aptly titled [NEW] Commencement. In the words of co-organizer KC Casey (‘23), the student and alum-run celebration sought to make graduates…

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Listen 🎶 Fuck the mayor 🎶 is a BOP! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🙌🏾

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New College of Florida Revolt

New College of Florida Students Revolt Against Republican Overreach

New College of Florida students are hosting a rebel graduation ceremony in protest over the school’s chosen speaker, Trump adviser Scott Atlas. Early this year, Governor Ron DeSantis ousted the elected board of trustees for the New College of Florida, replacing it with six appointees of his own, four of them well-known conservatives with no ties to Florida. Since then, the board has denied tenure…

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It’s my responsibility, isn’t it? The oldest sister, always supposed to be able to figure things out.

[girl4music]

There needs to be more stories about sisters in TV art/entertainment. God damn. I don’t even have a sister!

So why do I feel like this watching these sister stories?

Also, Cam, why isn’t Elsa and Anna from Frozen in this? They’re the ultimate sister narrative in my eyes.

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*✶   uncommon names:

a  list  of  uncommon  names that  i’ve  been  compilating  from  pinterest.  please  note  the  names ( not sorted  in f/m). are  from  a  variety  of  origins  and  it’s  best  to  research ,  in  accordance to  naming  your  character  appropriately .

a - d :

ada, althea, amaya, amalia, anita, anya, aspen, ayla, baker, boheme, bria, bondi, cade, calliope, cara, caroline, celosia, charlotte, cleo, coral, coco, dakota.

e - i :

elena, ellie, esme, everlee, enzo, ford, genevieve, gracie, haven, harlow, hazel, inessa, isla, ivy, izzy.

j - n :

jasper, jolene, josephine, josie, kaia, kate, katie, lexie, lilac, lina, luxe, malia, maya, mila, nala, naomi, nova.

o - r :

oakley, oaklynn, quincy penelope,penn, poppy, raina, ruby, ruthe.

s - v :

sage, savannah, scout, sienna, skye, sonnet, sutton, vienna.

w- z :

wiley, wren, zella, zoe, zola, zoriana.

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Mach (Regretevator) ID Pack

Requested by Anon

Names

Adolph, Anansi, Annie, Bio, Bion, Bonaventure, Chance, Charm, Cidvilasa, Clover, Dolon, Dolos, Finn, Fortunato/Fortunata, George, Henry, Hulda, Isaac, James, Johnathan, Lakshmi, Liraz, Maya, Mech, Naiche, Nell, Norman, Philip, Phineas, Rossa, Sentinal, Theora, Tommy, Vikadan, Wiley, Wyle

Pronouns

12/12s, 7/7s, calm/calms, carnival/carnivals, chance/chances, cir/circus, circuit/circuits, cyber/cybers, leader/leaders, mis/mischief/mischiefs, power/powers, ringmaster/ringmasters, trick/tricks, watch/watcher/watchers, ☁️/☁️s, 🌊/🌊s, 🍀/🍀s, 🍿/🍿s, 🎪/🎪s, 👁️‍🗨️/👁️‍🗨️s, 🕸️/🕸️s, 🥇/🥇s

Titles

The Calm Ringmaster, The Forced Android, The One Who Watches The Destruction, The Purple Leader, The Ringmaster with Robotic Eyes, [prn] Is Bound By [prn] Employers, [prn] Who Wields The Ban Hammer, [prn] Who Will Test Your Luck

Genders

Bitcommitic, Chaosean, Circusmusic, Comfevoidic, Dioxogender, Luckthiefic, Nightchaosial, Tricklexic, Viodicecardic, Warningicon, Wtfgirlic

Other mogai

Alderdex, Alderdroid, Aldernumb, Androidperspesque/Chaosperspesque, Assigned Chaos at Birth/AChaAB, Blipdernic, Chagodernic, Chaos Omninoun, Chaosvior, Regretevatorhearthic

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Last week, K.C. Casey stood on a small stage dressed in gold Rocky Horror Picture Show shorts and a see-through blouse to give their college commencement speech. It was a speech that wasn’t supposed to happen, and it almost didn’t. The ceremony, which took place in front of hundreds of the New College of Florida’s graduating students and their family members on May 18 at the Sarasota Art Museum, wasn't the school’s official commencement event, but an alternative graduation, organized by students as an act of exuberant defiance.

This alternative event was a way for students to take a stand against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his plan to make New College the latest target of his public education culture war.

For the last few months, students at the small college in Sarasota have been locked in battle against the Governor and the DeSantis-appointed right-wing board of trustees who have been working to transform the liberal school into a conservative campus in what was called a “hostile takeover” by the college’s former president. The new board closed the Office of Diversity and Equity at the college, and promised to make the school more like Michigan’s Hillsdale College, a private Christian college that doesn’t take any public funds or accept students who need government aid so that it can circumvent federal rules, including Title IX policies against sex discrimination. And while students and faculty fought back against their machinations, DeSantis continued waging his offensive, recently culminating in the Governor’s signing of three education-related anti-LGBTQ bills on New College’s campus.

These changes inspired Casey and their peers to organize the alternative commencement, an event that is the latest example of ways students on campus, including a large group of LGBTQ students, have pushed back against efforts to restrict their rights and educational freedom across Florida.

“It's as simple as I didn't wanna shake hands with someone who is trying to destroy our school,” they said. “The inspiration was a middle school field trip [because of] that sense of innocence and joy that is really hard to find at a time like this.”

Other students wanted graduation to emulate their years on campus. “It's the goal to graduate on our terms,” said Kacie, a student at New College whose last name has been withheld for safety reasons. “The school they want to create is not the one students have been going to.”

In spite of everything, the alternative graduation was also a moment to celebrate. “I am in awe of the freedom and strength that can be found through community and self-expression,” Casey told the crowd during their speech. “At an event like this, it’s just a bit easier to remember that we deserve to feel joy and love, and we deserve to be celebrated.”

Because DeSantis has been targeting LGBTQ people in Florida and at the college, the event was explicitly about queer joy, and organizers went out of their way to make sure LGBTQ students would feel safe and celebrated. There weren’t any caps and gowns at the graduation, but a whole lot of rainbow and pink and blue flags. The event was an undeniable success: Of 119 graduating New College students, 90 showed up, Casey said, adding that about 60 professors also attended. Upon arrival, students, encouraged to wear whatever they wanted, were greeted with piles of pronoun pins and white t-shirts for their peers to sign. The event included college bands and a series of speeches, including a keynote speech from Maya Wiley, the president of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. Organizers and Attendees said the event highlighted how queer joy is the ultimate act of resistance.

"That meant celebrating art, celebrating our identity, fighting for our values, fighting for what we believe is the truth and what we believe to be free and educational freedom," Casey said.

While DeSantis' efforts would make New College less tolerant, students at the school have defied himn by hosting inclusive chess tournaments, dances, garage sales, rallies, and, of course, protests. In February, about 300 students and parents, some dressed in Handmaid's Tale outfits, protested a board meeting held by the new right-wing administration, the Associated Press reported. Students say it all amounts to the same thing: a commitment to maintaining the New College's reputation for being a safe, alternative space.

Though the tiny New College may not seem like a likely battle ground for LGBTQ and civil rights, the school was once known as a safe haven. DeSantis previously said he “rejects woke ideology” and will “fight the woke in the schools.” So it’s not surprising he targeted New College, a school where three quarters of students identified as liberal or very liberal, according to a 2019 survey. The school also boasts the slogan “educating free thinkers, risk takers, and trailblazers,” and Casey described it as “a place that allowed [students] to explore themselves and a vast range of identities and perspectives.”

Right now, Florida is one of the most politically hostile states towards LGBTQ people in the country: Republican lawmakers have introduced an onslaught of anti-trans bills, including major restrictions on education. Last year, DeSantis ushered in the “Don’t Say Gay” bill that prohibits discussion of LGBTQ issues and gender identity. This year, it’s been hard to keep track of the sheer number of anti-trans policies introduced in the state and together the bills restrict gender affirming care, criminalize healthcare providers who provide gender-affirming care, threaten gender affirming parental custody, and ban the use of public funds for gender-affirming care for people of all ages.

Last week, when DeSantis signed the bills on New College’s campus, he also signed SB 266, which increases the power and duties of the board, adds more reviews for tenured professors, and updates the core curriculum to restrict courses that teach “identity politics” or are “based on theories that systemic racism, sexism, oppression, and privilege are inherent in the institutions of the United States.”

When word got out that DeSantis was on campus, New College students quickly mobilized. Kacie said around 70 students showed up at the school’s administration building, where DeSantis was holding a live streamed press conference. In the livestream, audible chants for academic freedom can be heard in the background.

“It was a beautiful moment of collective solidarity and action. Our actions were made communally, and it felt like they opened up the cracks of possibility and hope,” Ellie, a graduating student who was present, told VICE News.

“We are fighting as hard as we can to keep our dignity,” said Kacie. “We won't back down and let it be taken away from us easily.”

Now, students like Kacie fear that the school they love is being destroyed, and wonder if they should leave.

“It's been really, really difficult because like, even if I do leave New College, my grandparents are here. I’m five minutes away from one and 30 minutes away from the other,” Kacie said. “I'm really connected with my family. And so it's really difficult trying to make this hard decision of leaving.”

No matter what, though, Kacie said they will keep protesting on behalf of the college.

“Joy is a form of resistance,” they said, adding that politicians are “doing all of these things to make us lose our motivation and to make us lose our drive. And the fact is we are incredibly resilient students. We are queer students living in Florida…We have survived through this before and we're going to continue surviving through it.”

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Both Crow & Leo have refused a subpoena to sit before the Senate Judiciary Committee. It looks like the next step is the DOJ. Will Garland finally grow a pair & make Crow & Leo show up.

Personally I wish that President Biden would add 4 or 5 more Supreme Court Justices to the bench. I would like to see Maya Wiley as one of them.

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'Imperial presidency is now concrete': Eddie Glaude rips Supreme Court's immunity decision

MSNBC

July 1, 2024

Former federal prosecutor Paul Butler, MSNBC's Katie Phang, Princeton University distinguished professor Eddie Glaude and former assistant U.S. attorney Maya Wiley join Katy Tur to discuss the Supreme Court's ruling on presidential immunity.

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The media,

@NYCMayor

and

@GovKathyHochul

tried to protect a murderer.

Shameful.

These two “leaders” in New York need to either step down or get voted out of office

NYC I love you but you could have Tish James as your governor and Maya Wiley as your mayor.

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APRIL Celebrity Birthdays & Events

All Month Long: Autism Awareness Month | Black Women's History Month 

April Birthdays

Aries Stars (Mar 21-Apr 19) 1: Cece Show 2: Nikki Perkins, Amber Gray 3: Catherine Lough Haggquist, Jaimi Gray, Sarah Jeffery, Young MA 4: Lorraine Toussaint, Jill Scott, Khadi Don, Maya Angelou 6: Simona Brown, Lauren Ridloff 7: Billie Holiday 8: Skai Jackson, Femi Taylor 9: Jazmine Sullivan, Bianca Belair, Keshia Knight Pulliam, Tanerélle 10: Dana Heath, Jasika Nicole, April Weeden-Washington, Zuri Adele 11: Anita-Joy Uwajeh, Summer Walker 12: Imani Lewis, Janee Michelle, Retta, Suzzanne Douglas, Tracy Camilla Johns 13: Marci T. House, Precious Mustapha 14: Da Brat 15: Ester Dean, Samira Wiley 16: Valarie Rae Miller, Kron Moore, Ebony Obsidian, Tanya Moodie, Jojo T. Gibbs

Taurus Stars (Apr 20-May 20) 21: Gugu Mbatha-Raw  24: Francheska (Hey Fran Hey), Reagan Gomez Preston, Jeanta Godlock, Joséphine Jobert 25: Gina Torres, Jayden Rey, Leyna Bloom 26: Debra Wilson 27: Lizzo 28: Aleisha LaNaé Allen, Simbi Khali, Cheslie Kryst, Madge Sinclair 29: Shahadi Wright Joseph, A'zaria Carter, Jo Martin 30: Jemima Osunde

April Events: 

African American Women's Fitness Month | Celebrate Diversity Month | National Deaf History Month (March 13 to April 15) | National Minority Health Month | Sexual Assault Awareness Month | Stress Awareness Month 

1. ANNOUNCEMENT: WE DO NOT CELEBRATE APRIL FOOL’S DAY HERE, Personal Day of Rest | 2: World Autism Day | 9: Unicorn Day | 11-17: Black Maternal Health Week | 16: Emancipation Day | National Cat Lady Day | 22: Earth Day | 24-30: Lesbian Visibility Week | 26: Lesbian Visibility Day, Alien Day | 28: Superhero Day

30: Black Femme Character Dependency Anniversary: 

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