@Ruth_HHopkins
"Educators and families on reservations said the move to reopen is shortsighted and politically driven...restarting in-person teaching could have irreversible impacts on a culture that has already been devastated by the virus."⚡️
h/t
@Ruth_HHopkins
@nbcnews
cc:
@brettachapman
#WomentoFollow
! PRAISE!📽️4 of the 5 Best Documentary Feature titles were co-directed by women: “Honeyland” (Tamara Kotevska of Macedonia); “For Sama" (
@waadalkateab
of Syria); “The Edge of Democracy” (
@petracostal
of Brazil); “American Factory”(Julia Reichert, American).
#Oscars
@abbydphillip
@LindseyGrahamSC
There was a strong agenda in her questions. She refused to acknowledge how Palestian civilians are being sacrificed to protect Hamas militants.
“The climate was set up...It led to the attack,” says
@brianstelter
, talking about Jan. 6 & new paperback edition of “Hoax.”
“So many staffers at Fox were leaking to me and are leaving the network but that’s moving it even more to the right.”
@CuomoPrimeTime
cc:
@sree
Hearing multiple reports of rape and murder of women at hands of Russian occupiers in Kherson, Kyiv regions. These are war crimes too
#PutinWarCriminal
#StopPutinNOW
Chemical warfare?
“You can kind of differentiate what is a false flag operation vs. propaganda. I've been raising alarm for past few weeks..They’re going to eventually cause a chemical attack & blame the West for it."
-
@OlgaNYC1211
🇺🇦
#WomenToFollow
3/x
How did
@JQT_web3vc
go from being a Vietnamese refugee to becoming a Wall Street founder at 23?
By 27, Ta grew Vantage Investments to $250M in assets.
She is now CEO of
@OfficialGalaxE
, an NFT marketplace & blockchain network.
Tues., July 26, 8 pm ET/5 pm PT
#WomenToFollow
1x
Many women are allergic to self-promotion, says entrepreneur
@amanda_hirsch
. “We are taught from the time we are little girls to take up as little space as possible.” Here’s my profile of Hirsch, who also loves performing improv, for my
#WomentoFollow
weekly thread (4th ed)💃
Thrilled to announce the inaugural
#WomenToFollow
flagship event kicking off Women’s History Month.
AMPLIFY!📢
Talking women’s impact in the world, entrepreneurship, & tech.
Using
@streamyardapp
’s new webinar feature.
⤵️
Register:
Prod.
@epodcaster
1x
#WomenToFollow
on Ukraine
Introducing a Twitter list of women journalists covering invasion of Ukraine, academics, activists, & organizations.
Where are the women?
National & international reporting is dominated by men.
Amplify women's voices!
1/x
Live!
“Yesterday, blood-thirsty bastards opened fire from their rusty tanks straight at my crib, my motherland...”
Talking w/ two young writer-activists in Ukraine:
@YuliaTymosha
, graduate,
@NYUAbuDhabi
@Boochelnikova
, a creator of
#WomenToFollow
"We have to talk about anti-racism and homophobia in our communities. We have to look inwardly at our own communities," says Vanita Gupta
@vanitaguptaCR
.
"My kids are biracial. They are afraid immigrants will not be welcome in this country anymore."
#VOTE
#DesisVote
“Whatever I am doing, I am only doing for you,” Michelin chef
@TheVikasKhanna
told his mother in India on our show in May (
#54
episode
#SreeCovid19Call
)
So honored & excited to have Vikas Khanna - humanitarian, filmmaker, & chef - joined us in 1 hour!
@TheVikasKhanna
is a gem💎
Happy Independence Day,🇮🇳! We are interviewing the amazing Michelin chef
@TheVikasKhanna
, who has distributed more than 25 million meals across India.
12:30p ET/10p IST. Watch on my Twitter,
@scroll_in
Twitter or my FB:
ASK HIM ANYTHING!
@tribelaw
@AWeissmann_
Absolutely.
@tribelaw
As I watched the Trump rallies and his blaming of "the other" to exploit economic issues, I side w/
@AWeissmann_
. These images & the fanaticism they represent are an apt comparison.
I was fortunate to hear Elie Wiesel speak in college.
Mind his words.
Susan S. Richardson, new CEO of D.C.-based Center for Public Integrity, has spent most of her career covering local news, poverty, & communities of color. “It's important nationally to learn from local communities (how) to build bridges...” My
#WomentoFollow
thread (12th ed). /1
Women could make a much greater impact on Twitter, but men do not elevate their voices. Take a few minutes this week to find fantastic women on Twitter and share their messages far and wide. Here's some help to get you started.
#genderavenger
On Monday, Rashida Jones will become the first Black woman to run a major cable news network when she becomes President of
@MSNBC
.
Four women, two of whom are women of color, will become chief White House correspondents at ABC, CBS, NBC, & CNN.
👇💃
.
“Listen, all of this already happened. In Europe. All of this happened during Nazi times when the German army rolled through Europe and everyone gave the Jewish people away.” -
@ZelenskyyUa
Remember this📌🇺🇦🌎
Imprisoned Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi is the 19th woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
She hasn’t seen her twin daughter and son in 8 years.
Amplify women in the 🌎 fighting oppression of women’s rights anc human rights.
#WomenLifeFreedom
…
A
#WomenToFollow
🧵celebrating 7 Latinas!
#HispanicHeritageMonth
⤵️💃
@Maria_Hinojosa
on her new children's book:
"The median age for Latinos & Latinas is 11...When I talk to young people, they feel invisible. We're the 2nd-largest voting cohort in the United States."
1x
#RuthBaderGinsburg
graduated 1st in her
@ColumbiaLaw
class of 1959. Not one firm offered her a job.
“...to be a woman, a Jew, and a mother to boot, that combination was a bit much.”
She will become the 1st woman to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol.
#ThursdayWisdom
+ fun!
I’m allergic to cat fur and my boyfriend, now husband, gave his cat Tempy to my best friend. It was sort of a dealbreaker. Lol.
But I loved learning in this 🧶 by
@bunsenbernerbmd
how cats use their whiskers and why they purr as babies!🐈🐱
⬇️👀
A misdemeanor mental health court “will serve as a practical and humane alternative for individuals who commit low-level crimes and are in need of treatment and services."
-
@Mimirocah1
Thank you for sharing
@JudgeWren
#mentalhealt
#justice
Proud to interview & book so many amazing
#WomentoFollow
on 250 consecutive
#SreeCovid19Call
shows.
More than 50% of our 457 guests were women from around the country & world. Gratitude!
Tight team, hard work.💪
TY to
@sree
& co-producer
@vandana_menon
.
To a happier New Year!
“Women are seen as property,” says law professor Michele Goodwin.
@michelebgoodwin
hopes her book, “Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood,” which will be published tomorrow, March 12, will spark outrage.
#WomentoFollow
(16th ed.) 1/
“The most interesting part of the case will be Trump’s defense.”
-
@brianstelter
Stelter said he bought $30K of Trump Media stock but sold it in a day or two.
“I did donate my $100 profit to the
Committee to Protect Journalists,” he
tells
@SRuhle
.
Always enjoy Friday’s…
Excited to introduce my weekly thread profiling a
#WomentoFollow
, a movement to amplify women’s voices on social media. I talked w/Soraya Chemaly, author of “Rage Becomes Her ” to be released this fall & director,
@womensmediacntr
. Here's how this started:
@PostOpinions
@vkaramurza
"In this sense, nothing has changed since the dissidents of the 1970s. I wrote this phrase and thought, So we’re walking in the same circle. We never managed to break out of it in the short window of opportunity in the ’90s. But we’ll get out one day..."
@vkaramurza
#Russia
@anneapplebaum
“Russian occupation of more territory would continue to mean what it has meant for the past two years: torture chambers, random arrests, and thousands of kidnapped children.”
-
@anneapplebaum
#UkraineAidNow
What can leaders do to help w/ heightened threats in Jewish and Islamic communities?
Younger people, people on college campuses, model their behavior on us - the adults. It’s incumbent on us to tame the temperatures that have been released.
—
@juliettekayyem
on
@CNN
Thrilled to launch premiere of my livestream
#WomenToFollow
show:
Tues., July 27, 8 pm ET / 5 pm PT
I'll be talking how, when, & where to travel w/ amazing L.A.-based photographer & blogger
@KirstenAlana
. She left her job as a wedding photographer to travel the world✈️🌎
Celebrate the first anniversary of my show🎉
Tues., Sept. 20, 8 pm ET / 5 pm PT
3 amazing entrepreneurs:
•
@epodcaster
- Why is she a
#web3
evangelist?
•
@Jia_Elhassan
- What is Decoding Twitter Spaces?
•
@Indra_Bartona
- What is the Positivity Vibe Tribe?
#WomenToFollow
1x
“I found pulsars because I was a minority person...I was both female but also from the north-west of the country..”—Jocelyn Burnell. She’s donating prize to fund women, minority students become physics researchers.h/t
@Dr_CMingarelli
#WomentoFollow
“It’s a lot of making your voice heard,” Lauren Simmons tells
@cnbc
on being the youngest and only full-time female trader on the
@nyse
.⚡️Here’s my profile of 23-year-old Simmons for my
#WomentoFollow
weekly thread (3rd edition)💃
#simmons
/1
✳️ How can we amplify women’s voices 365 days of the year?💃🏻
✳️ What have your wins been this month?
✳️ What has Women’s History Month meant to you?
#WomenToFollow
TwitterSpace
Thurs., March 30, 7 pm ET
cc:
@epodcaster
@SpinItSocial
+++
Go to:
At
@WUSTL
Washington U in St Louis for
#convocation2018
. I heard it was colorful but WOW! Proud of my son,
#Classof2022
and member of the
#swim
team. I walked on campus for the first time & met his coach, roommate & many at this great community🔥🏊🏼♂️📚💥
“It is very much in our self-interest as women to ensure that Ukraine does not fail…
Would you want to live in a 1984 Orwellian police terror state with Stalinist torture camps where your children are kidnapped, taken from you?”
-
@AndreaChalupa
#WomenToFollow
Summit
3x
“Stigma, shame and a lack of respect for data are associated with both addiction and COVID19. But I believe that science and storytelling are the ways to address both public health crises.” –
@lipiroy
Who are your 3
#WomentoFollow
? Amplify women's voices!
"We might have regarded independence as a gift when we were children, but later in life we realized that it was not just given to us; we had to protect it with our lives...
I know my generation will prevail again."
-
@olgatokariuk
🌻
#WomenToFollow
YES! Kicking off new year w/
@LolaAkinmade
, photographer, writer, & author of novel,
@ineverymirror
⤵️
Tues., Jan. 11, 5 pm New York / 11 pm Sweden
"Curious guys use every reflective surface to check your body out instead of looking directly..." - Akinmade
#WomenToFollow
1/
Impact of U.S. & Europe freezing Putin’s Assets?
“He likely has assets around the world even if those accounts are hidden…Practical effect: he can’t buy a plane ticket to go anywhere in the world except maybe China.”
-
@HagarChemali
tells
@maddow
.
Talking w/
@TweetingGoddess
who went from being a divorced mother to an entrepreneur & Twitter expert. Dubliner Samantha Kelly will bring a bit of Irish charm & sharp business advice for this holiday episode:December 21,5 pm NYC/10 pm Dublin
#WomenToFollow
#RBG
“was at her heart a teacher,” says legendary author
@ericajong
, who taught w/her in Salzburg, Austria.
“Her students would say, “Excuse me, Justice Ginsburg,” & she’d say, “‘Call me Ruth.”
“She showed her kindness. Her down-to-earth personality was rare.”
#SreeCovid19Call
LIVE! Join us for the inaugural
#WomenToFollow
Summit, kicking off Women’s History Month. Talking women’s rights in the world, entrepreneurship, Web3 & AI. Sponsor: Tenth Avenue Holdings; Partner:
@Zealous_app
. 🎬's
@Epodcaster
@SpinItSocial
The great poet & amazing teacher to thousands, Marie Ponsot, died last night. I am overcome. I saw her a few weeks ago at a reading in Chelsea to celebrate her 98th birthday w/other poets.👇🏽 She was my Creative Writing professor at
@QC_News
, & we have been friends since.
#poetry
“Being Deaf makes me a better writer than I would be as a hearing person. ASL has made me a more visual thinker.” -
@NovicSara
Novic, author of NYT best-selling novel “True Biz” will be my guest this week:
Tues., June 14, 8 pm ET / 5 pm PT
#WomenToFollow
Sponsor:
@WITI
1x
TONIGHT:
Talking w/
@digitalsista
on Disinformation,
the Black community, and the Midterm Elections
"The racist trope of the hostile and aggressive Black person who must be controlled persists..."
Set Reminder:
#WomenToFollow
What a thrill to see
@JamesTaylor_com
perform with his superb All-Star band tonight in Conneticut.🙌🏻
The best part? The joy of seeing our children astonished by the richness and wit of Taylor’s work.
Legend.
Go see his magic!
#lifelight
“I feel like I am building something for the future,” says
@MissDestructo
, chief marketing officer,
@dogheadsims
of Seattle, which makes virtual reality meeting software. Excited to profile Amber Osborne for my
#WomentoFollow
Twitter thread (6th edition).💃 @
@MissDestructo
/1
Are you in⁉️
Let's get this party started! 🎉
Inaugural
#WomenToFollow
Summit:
Tues., Feb. 28, 10 am - 12:30 pm ET
Register:
Call(s) to Action:
1. Retweet📢
2. Register🌟
3. Ask 3 people on social to register🎯💃🕺
Sponsor: Tenth Avenue Holdings
1x
“Say Yes. You never know what the future will be,”
@Chita_Rivera
told
@SethRudetsky
in an intimate concert on Sunday night.
Chita, who turned 90 last week, danced, sang, & talked about learning from greats like Judy Garland.
Thrilled to meet this
#WomenToFollow
legend!
It's Wednesday
#WomenToFollow
!
What's my ask today⁉️
🔴Follow me if you support the
#WomenToFollow
movement!
🔴 Subscribe to my YouTube channel. It's at 181.
For sponsorships, I need lots more. Can we get it to 200 by end of day?
⬇️
@epodcaster
's 3
1x
What drives leading social justice advocate Deepa Iyer? “Outrage, a very healthy sense of outrage…I have a nine-year-old son. It’s like a visual reminder of what and why this work is important."-
@dviyer
, attorney and noted author. My
#WomentoFollow
profile (15th ed). Reposting
Gratitude to my 29 guests & thousands of viewers for supporting my livestream shows.
We talked novels, travel, entrepreneurship, tech, abortion rights, women in Ukraine & more.
Huge shout out to my terrific producer
@SpinItSocial
📸
Happy 2023!
Follow me!
#WomenToFollow
🔥
1x
As we celebrate the closing of
#WomensHistoryMonth
, we must ask:
How do the civil rights of women in the U.S. today compare with the period before the election of Trump in 2016?
Listen to Nobel Peace Prize winner
@mariaressa
who I interviewed in 2020 on
@sree
’s global Covid…
@maria_avdv
Dearest Maria,
Much admiration & respect for your bravery in reporting Russia's brutal Russian attacks on Ukrainian civilians.
You show us with your video, photos & testimony what is happening in this terrible war.
@maria_avdv
From the
#WomenToFollow
community, I wish you…
.
@LizaDonnelly
, New Yorker cartoonist & writer talks humor & the evolution of her career on my show tomorrow.
Thurs., Jan. 5, 8 pm ET
“I now try to put a woman as the speaker whenever I can, in order to avoid the stereotypical every man talking,” she says.
#WomenToFollow
1x
.
@Luchina
, an award-winning documentary filmmaker’s 3 Wednesday
#WomenToFollow
:
🔴
@TananariveDue
- Writer, screenwriter, educator. Author of new novel, “The Reformatory,” winner of American Book Award for “The Living Blood.”
“She’s carrying on in the tradition of Octavia…
“If I had not been discriminated against or had not suffered prosecution, I would never have received the Nobel Prize.” My
#WomentoFollow
profile (10th ed.) of the late Rita Levi-Montalcini, just published in
@Medium
.
@NobelPrize
#science
#girlsaresmart
🎯 The late Rita Levi-Montalcini is a giant among
#WomeninScience
. She’s one of 51 women awarded the
@NobelPrize
; 853 men have been
#NobelLaureates
. We must change the perception that by 6 years old, girls say boys are “very, very smart,” not GIRLS⁉️1/4
.
@JudgeWren
, pioneer of America's first mental health court, will be my next guest on my
#WomenToFollow
livestream show:
Tuesday, September 14, 8 pm ET / 5 pm PM
“The rejection of stigma in favor of dignity is the essence of social justice.” -Judge Ginger Lerner-Wren
“Rosalynn was my equal partner in everything I ever accomplished,” President Carter said. “She gave me wise guidance and encouragement when I needed it. As long as Rosalynn was in the world, I always knew somebody loved and supported me.”
RIP.
Initiative can produce hidden motivation. My experience as a journalist, poet, mother, daughter, sister, and gardener created the groundwork for launching
#WomenToFollow
, a movement to amplify women's voices.
On
#InternationalWomensDay
, I celebrate the trailblazing women I have…