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I think about this kind of thing a lot. When I started at the Voice, I earned $35K/yr (2009). In NYC. At a union mtg 2 yrs later, found a

A way to avoid fatigue as you move through life working towards justice is to pick One issue and use it as a prism. Ppl I admire to do this

I find it odd how many white people responded to me referring to “This Land is Your Land” as a ballad of settler colonialism somehow saw an attempt to “cancel”

I've a hard time talking to ppl who are against vaccinations, but I try to articulate it this way: 1) I say I don't understand. Not that I hate them,

I do think it’s strange that California is swamped w COVID deaths & so many businesses are closed & hospitals are bursting at capacity & disabled ppl are frightened abt

Narratives emerging at many levels & in many ways that coronavirus is something sloppy, irresponsible people let happen to them. Not sure what to do about it. But separating worthy

Regarding “defund the police” & other “snappy” slogans:It’s OK to lose some ppl, especially if they’re holding power and standing in our way and if we want to take it

Today is #WorldAIDSDay, when we remember the tens of thousands in Chicago & tens of millions around the world who are living w HIV or have died of AIDS. Here's

1. So for ppl not deep in the weeds who want to know why Neera Tanden was my final straw, a bit of explanation & clarification. I haven't voted for

1/ A thread of things I will read & re-read this weekend, thinking thru the production of the viral underclass w newly published research & who we should reading to

Not to be a killjoy, but to be a killjoy:There's been good HIV meds for 25 yrs. Yet, the better part of a million (mostly nonwhite) ppl still die of

It's been good to be in communication w friends in the UK. At the start of COVID, I assumed the NHS would address the pandemic much better than US patchwork

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