amita swadhin
@aswadhin
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Founded @mirrormemoirs to end child sexual abuse. Guided by love. Mostly on here to shout into the void, and exchange ideas/resources when possible. they/them.
Tovaangar & Lenapehoking
Joined June 2010
If you have disposable income, @MirrorMemoirs is still running our Member Support Fund, distributing $500 grants to BIPOC trans and non-binary survivors of child sexual abuse, priority to immunocompromised folks: https://t.co/1j3ywIrfEy (donations are tax deductible)
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A loving reminder: 1. I'm so proud of my love @thepatmanuel + glad to see him celebrated 2. I already know there's a terrible cost to visibility, esp. for Black trans folks - don't tag me in troll posts re: Pat 3. To support Pat, donate to his GoFundMe:
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My name is Patricio Manuel, but most people call me Pat. In the boxing … Patricio Manuel needs your support for #LetsGoPat - Support 1st Transgender Pro Boxer
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My beloved @thepatmanuel is returning to the ring March 18 in Long Beach CA on a @GoldenBoyBoxing card! We're hoping Pat's fight is streamed on @DAZNBoxing for fans across the world to cheer him on virtually. Tickets to attend live at: https://t.co/HGgzXQBxuF
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Breaking: Patricio Manuel, the first pro trans boxer, will make his return to the boxing ring years after his historic 2018 debut on March 18 in Long Beach. In his announcement, Manuel notes that this comes amid a national fight for trans rights.
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STILL on the fence about abolishing the police? Last month a white man (a Republican former city council member in Caldwell, NJ) called the cops on a 9-year-old girl bc she was spraying lanternflies. Cops = weapons for white supremacists. https://t.co/HijfHAkz2C
A NJ resident called police on a 9-year-old Black girl using a homemade spotted lanternfly repellant to try and stop the invasive species from harming trees in her neighborhood. The girl's mother and sister described the ‘traumatic’ experience at a local council meeting.
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BREAKING: A federal judge in Texas has temporarily struck down Biden's student debt forgiveness program after a plaintiff filed a suit claiming it was “unfair for people who didn’t qualify.” The kicker: this same plaintiff received almost $50,000 in PPP loan forgiveness.
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Eli Lilly stock isn't just tanking because of a satirical Tweet on Musk's hellscape, it's tanking because millions of people are asking why we have to pay for insulin, when it was made to be free. That's why other insulin stocks are falling too. Happy Disability Awareness Month
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BREAKING NEWS: Mutulu Shakur, movement veteran, member of the Black Liberation Army, stepfather of Tupac Shakur, was paroled & will be released after 36 years behind bars, to spend his final days outside of prison walls. Mutulu has been diagnosed w/ terminal cancer. Free Em All
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In theory, we knew repeated COVID reinfections were bad, but a study out today in @Nature of 5.8 million people shows that each reinfection significantly increases the risks of complications, like diabetes and kidney problems, hospitalizations and death. https://t.co/944ptMzXdo
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The risk of death, hospitalization and serious health issues from COVID-19 jumps significantly with reinfection compared with a first bout with the virus, regardless of vaccination status, a study...
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Also I’m already on IG @amitaswadhin - find me there if you’re on Instagram.
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I’ll be on social media platforms as long as possible for these reasons. I learned AOL chat rooms, MySpace, Friendster…I’ll learn whatever comes next. But here as long as I can be.
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And so many more connections for info & resource sharing, for the creation of mutual aid networks for $ and emotional support. With folks around the entire world. I eventually met many of the people from social media IRL. Many are now my friends and collaborators.
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Over a decade+, social media allowed me to: Connect w/ thousands of other child sexual abuse survivors (esp. other QTIBIPOC ones); Rapidly share info re: need for intersectional, abolitionist responses to CSA w/a huge # of people; Raise/redistribute >$350K to QTIBIPOC survivors…
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BREAKING: A federal judge rules that President Biden's plan to cancel hundreds of billions of dollars in student loan debt is unconstitutional and must be vacated https://t.co/8BXsNP8wEm
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A federal judge in Texas on Thursday ruled that President Joe Biden's plan to cancel hundreds of billions of dollars in student loan debt was unlawful and must be vacated, delivering a victory to...
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Guys, let me make it very clear The average adult gets flu once every 5 years Before Omicron, covid was estimated to infect every 16 months Covid dysregulates far more than flu, it infects T cells and depletes dendritic cells What do you think the cumulative effect will be?
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Twitter is "collapsing in real-time". Reserve your place on Project Mushroom — which will be launching in the coming days to waitlisted folks: https://t.co/uZ6LfV26ha We are building this place explicitly to be anti-racist, anti-harassment, and advancing justice. 🍄🍄🍄
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currently an emergency twitter all-hands going on with Elon Musk answering employee Q's Elon was asked: "How are you going to deal with the expected attrition and align everyone on a shared vision?" Elon Answer: "I don't know....we all need to be more hardcore."
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