“When the dark comes rising, six shall turn it back; Three from the circle, three from the track; Wood, bronze, iron; water, fire, stone; Five will return, and one go alone.”
As you may know, all public schools in the entire state of West Virginia are closed due to a teachers strike. As you may not know, those teachers have a fund going to keep them up and running while the strike is ongoing. You can donate here to help support the fight, and hopefully help inspire others to follow and take back control of our own goddamn lives.
Update Feb 28:
Yesterday the teachers won a 5% pay raise, but with their state Healthcare plan still on the chopping block and worries that the 5% will just get eaten up by rising expenses, they’re still gonna be out on March 1 in all 55 counties, against the wishes of some state union officials.
Donations are as helpful now as ever, but don’t let that be your only way of interacting with the strike! Raise awareness, make connections with teachers in your area, organize a force which will keep on rolling. We have nothing to lose but our paper-mache chains
Taylor Richardson, a fourteen-year-old Black girl who’s already been making waves as she pursues her dream to become an astronaut, is raising funds to bring 1,000 girls to see A Wrinkle in Time.
Why? I have a lot of reasons but the main ones are:
1. It shows young, black girls deserving a chance to be a part of the scifi cultural canon. 2.
It has a female protagonist in a science fiction film. A brown girl
front and center who looks like me in the role of Meg, a girl traveling
to different planets and encountering beings and situations that I’d
never seen a girl of color in. 3. Most impressive and importantly,
it’s a fantasy film that is not about some white boys fighting evil, but
about a black girl overcoming it.
I'd Much Rather Have a Dragon 