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Erin Monahan (she/her)

Three Reasons (Out of One Million Gajillion) Why We Need More Unionized Climbing Gyms

Three Reasons (Out of One Million Gajillion) Why We Need More Unionized Climbing Gyms

Cover Image: Cartoon published in the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) journal Solidarity on June 30, 1917. On April 11, 2022, the employees at the Movement Climbing Gym in so-called Crystal City, Virginia successfully created the first unionized climbing gym in the so-called U.S. I can

No Good Billionaires: Yvon Chouinard Uses Philanthropy and the Language of Environmental Justice to Secure and Maintain His Hoarded Wealth

No Good Billionaires: Yvon Chouinard Uses Philanthropy and the Language of Environmental Justice to Secure and Maintain His Hoarded Wealth

There’s nothing eco-friendly about an eco-billionaire. When you go to Patagonia’s website from a PC or laptop, and read the letter that Yvon Chouinard wrote to proclaim that “Earth is our only shareholder now,” you will see that the tab on your internet browser says “reimagining

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Was An Anti-Indigenous, Anti-Black #GirlBoss

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Was An Anti-Indigenous, Anti-Black #GirlBoss

TW: sexual violence, genocide, police brutality Who did Ginsburg advocate for? As a cishet, white woman I benefit from any inkling of WoMeN’s RiGhTs she might’ve fought for, but I’m not delusional. Ginsburg failed to advocate for ALL women. She failed to advocate for Indigenous and Black

On This Day 157 Years Ago: What Happened in Payahüünadü Then, What's Happening Now, and How It's All Interconnected

On This Day 157 Years Ago: What Happened in Payahüünadü Then, What's Happening Now, and How It's All Interconnected

Photo by of so-called Lake Sabrina in Payahüünadü by Steve Wiesner on Unsplash Not too long ago, on July 11, 1863 (yesterday about 157 years ago), 1,000 Paiutes from Payahüünadü (what settlers/colonizers consider the Owens Valley/Bishop area), were forced from their homelands

Cops Kill, Anti-Blackness Infiltrates Our Language and Headlines, and Why We Need to Support Black Women and Femmes Directly

Cops Kill, Anti-Blackness Infiltrates Our Language and Headlines, and Why We Need to Support Black Women and Femmes Directly

Image of Sergeant Jonathan Mattingly, Detective Brett Hankinson, and Sergeant Myles Cosgrove Today as uprisings and rebellions continue to bloom all over the country and globe to protest Black genocide and police murders, and advocate for police/prison abolition, Black women and femmes are being killed at devastating rates. Oluwatoyin

#BoycottBlackDiamond: Everything You Need to Know and How You Can Help

#BoycottBlackDiamond: Everything You Need to Know and How You Can Help

Image collage from The Inquirer and Unsplash. The background photo is a group of protestors who police bombed excessively with tear gas as they tried to escape, but had nowhere to go as they were pushed up against a barrier on the perimeter of highway I-676 in Philadelphia. Black

"There Are Going to be Such Explosions": What Constitutes Violence in a Settler Colonial Society, the Unethical Use of Tear Gas, and the Importance of Media Literacy

"There Are Going to be Such Explosions": What Constitutes Violence in a Settler Colonial Society, the Unethical Use of Tear Gas, and the Importance of Media Literacy

Photo by Spenser on Unsplash Black Lives, particularly Black Trans Lives, Matter everyday, all day, 365 days a year, 24/7. Tony McDadeNina PopMuhlaysia Booker Joseph Thomas Alexa RuizGeorge FloydLayleen Polanco Iyanna Dior- Black trans femme who was attacked at a George Floyd protest in Minneapolis Breonna TaylorJames ScurlockAhmaud ArberyRegis