Update from The House of Plague, Day 87

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Watching this is the calmest and happiest I've been in months:

(Destroys racist statues while Enya plays in the background) pic.twitter.com/euZWN8Vsyk

— angy. BLM! (@uheeuhaha) June 11, 2020

And then lots more under the cut, because I don't want to clutter up your flist! But GOOD things and useful things. <3

OK moving the cut, because you need to watch this:

Non-Black folks, especially white folks, please watch every single second of this video. Please give it, and Kimberly Jones, your full attention. #BlackLivesMatter

pic.twitter.com/ofWEjUA1Ew

— Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg (@TheRaDR) June 10, 2020

And then an uplifting one about how it's all going global:

#defundthepolice #DefendBlackLife pic.twitter.com/AkOUSAUpSq

— dream hampton (@dreamhampton) June 10, 2020

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Back to the UK, and here's to Diane Abbott:

33 years on since being elected @HackneyAbbott is still a source of inspiration and strength to so many. A true trailblazer for our city and country.pic.twitter.com/6saNTuQEII

— Sadiq Khan (@SadiqKhan) June 11, 2020

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And then lengthy thread here for anyone who wants to read up on trans issues:

So I've spent the last several years addressing pretty much every factual claim made in JK's essay. I have several JK essays worth of debunkings citing extensive clinical literature. Your time would be much better spent reading these and actually learning something:

— Zinnia, adult demon female (@ZJemptv) June 11, 2020

And a more personal thread, with a different angle:

I am here to tell you that I, a bisexual cis woman in Pride Month 2020, am harmed by JKR's terrible essay, which I thought I would force myself to read in a spirit of allyship never thinking it would make me fall apart by mapping on exactly to the homophobia I lived in the 90s.

— Amal El-Mohtar (@tithenai) June 11, 2020

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Sidebar: watch Staged, if you can (all of it on iPlayer, have only seen the first three episodes so far!!). It is very funny and Michael Sheen is an acting god. (DT is good, but MS has the edge here.) Also VERY FUNNY. Look at their lovely faces! <3



Also STAY UNSPOILED! It's worth it.

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And finally. Malaysian artist Koo Yean Ni, 'Floating over the sea', 2015:


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