-Displacing the #Maasai (The Atlantic)
-The death of an #Alabama#pastor (Esquire)
-Alaska's little brown #bats (Hakai Magazine)
-A dispatch from an #AI conference (n+1)
-Remembering #ShaunOfTheDead (British GQ)
In 1959, there was an uproar in #Alabama and other segregationist circles about The Rabbits Wedding, about a black rabbit and a white rabbit who got married. Written by the same author who drew pictures for Charlotte's Web and Little House on the Prairie, it struck too close to home. Now, it has been turned into a play. Piss off a Republican -- place the book in your local library and attend the play. #Books#Theatrehttps://eugeneweekly.com/2024/04/11/very-little-theatre-offers-an-unusual-view-of-segregation/
I had a GYN checkup along with my annual physical. The nurse filling in forms asked me about history of births, stillbirths, miscarriages, abortions. I told her in this state of #Alabama I'd never tell a doctor if I'd ever had an abortion bc one day the state will come for all women's medical records & start attacking even old ladies like me. So I said the answer for your computer data is NO. I had several miscarriages and didn't even tell her that. #fascism#theocracy#abortion#VoteBlue
"This is a story about just that—what God thinks. It’s also a story of identity and exposure, of revenge and public humiliation. Of deep love and senseless loss, and the unending grief of a small town."
Public library staff in an Alabama town have locked up the library and walked off their jobs after the library's director was fired. The director had refused to remove 113 books with LGBTQ+ content from circulation after being ordered to do so by a library board dominated by right-wing Christian fundamentalists.