#Activism

1/ This Sunday's thread on the Golden anniversary of Pride must be, of course, about the same-sex rights activist, trailblazer & Pride creator, Craig Rodwell. Craig's activism began years before
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Interested in the history of queer-Palestine solidarity politics? Here's a about 1980s-1990s Arab American Queer Activism, based on my snapshot essay in #RemakingRadicalism: A Grassroots Documentary Reader of the US,
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Harry Styles is loud loud loud. But some of you don't listen to him and don't want to listen to him. I don't know which one is worse. Stop ignoring
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You know how occasionally you get glimpses of just how casually racist the world we grew up in really was & you get like a vertiginous lurch in your stomach?
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A short thread on young Australians, their engagement in democracy and the hypocritical comments from Alan Tudge regarding students in politics. This thread is not an attack of @RurbsOz's article
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Remember when Americans shook the earth with massive protests demanding an end to the police state and the entire liberal establishment just kept saying "I hear you, I agree with
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Dr Bernard Lown has passed away at the age of 99.He was one of the world's greatest cardiologists and a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize! His death is a
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Today is 17 years since Section 28 was repealed in England & Wales (Scotland got there earlier).I was at Uni when it became law. It pushed me to come out.
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As we race towards the end of a really tough year I thought I’d do a thread for the campaigners - the people who believe we can organise our way
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Bollywood is just a bubble of privileged, tone-deaf hypocrites. You think criticising Modi is activism? You can't even call out a director accused of #metoo . What happened to your
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Jay's definition of "rigged" is extremely flawed. The MANIPULATION tactics applied to the general public is *definitely* a form of rigging. Jay, let me clue you in: people's REACTIONS to
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Welcome to Kpop for Korea Peace, a campaign advocating for a formal end to the #KoreanWar. In a time when #kpopstans have become strong forces in activism, mobilizing already passionate
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Young people on TikTok are the only thing making this day bearable A true delight The activism! The innovation! Revamping a 2016 classic I live on TikTok now
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So, fatness and bisexuality. They have some shit in common.Some notes before we begin- This thread is the product of discussion in a bi fb group I'm in. Thanks to
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Poor old Bill Morneau. Here’s my take:He gets into politics for altruistic reasons. He’s actually a human (not a lizard alien) and he decides he should bring his significant skills
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Putting this thread together for anyone like me who has been experiencing an unusually higher sense of anxiety caused by the pandemic but also supercharged and heavily linked to the
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