We’re baaaaaack! After a hiatus due to vacation, we’re resuming our regular #NewstodonFriday thread. In case you’ve forgotten, its purpose is to highlight the work of newsrooms that are active in the fediverse. Please boost the posts you like, follow the profiles you discover, donate money, comment, and let us know about other newsrooms and journos that we should feature.
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50 years ago, Boston began to desegregate its schools and bus Black students across the city. This led to two years of protests and riots. @gbhnews@mastodon.social reports on another story that played out in the shadows — the busing of Chinese students who had recently arrived in the U.S. from Chinatown to Boston’s North End.
https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2024-09-05/50-years-ago-chinese-students-were-an-underserved-afterthought-in-bostons-busing-crisis
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How can poets write about the unspeakable horrors in Palestine? Gabriel Fine writes for @TexasObserver about poetry’s function in wartime as a beacon of moral clarity, and the work of writers including himself, Fady Joudah, Mosab Abu Toha and Refaat Alareer, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike last year.
https://www.texasobserver.org/palestine-israel-texas-poetry-gaza/
#Palestine #Israel #Poetry #Literature #Culture #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
If you’re on Flipboard, you can now follow Texas Observer over there: https://flipboard.com/@texasobserver.
Four Thieves Vinegar Collective is an anarchist collective that teaches people how to make low-cost versions of pharmaceuticals — a philosophy they call “right to repair for your body.” @404mediaco@mastodon.social’s @jasonkoebler@mastodon.social spoke to chief spokesperson Mixæl Swan Laufer about the group’s motivation, technology, and his hopes that they could eventually disband. “Charging astronomical prices to people who are dying is immoral, and Four Thieves seeks to normalize the idea of making some types of medicine yourself,” writes Koebler.
https://www.404media.co/right-to-repair-for-your-body-the-rise-of-diy-pirated-medicine/
#Science #Medicine #Healthcare #Pharmaceuticals #USHealthcare #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
For @thexylom@journa.host, Ellie Rose Mattoon writes about Anatomical Venuses — wax models that were once used to teach female anatomy, and the ongoing issue with gendered images in medicine. “As late as 1986, an analysis of anatomical textbooks showed that 11% of gendered images outside of the chapter detailing the reproductive system were of women. Never mind that women have different skeletons, different manifestations of cardiac disease, and different rates of drug metabolism. The percentage of female images among images that are gendered in anatomy textbooks rose to an average of 32% in a 1994 analysis, then crept to 36% in a 2017 one.”
https://www.thexylom.com/post/this-barbie-is-a-dolled-up-wax-cadaver
#Science #Medicine #Healthcare #Feminism #Sexism #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
And finally, our @ArtPhotosDesk@flipboard.social shared this Flipboard Storyboard on how to manage all those thousands of photos you take, from using AI for organization to the joy of making an annual photo book of your kids — plus, digitally decluttering without guilt.
https://flipboard.com/@photographers/photo-management-in-an-era-of-overwhelm-ekco179s9ps9bagd
#Photography #Photos #LIfestyle #Organizing #Declutter #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
@Flipboard@flipboard.social @404mediaco@mastodon.social @jasonkoebler@mastodon.social
That sounds like a terrible idea.
@Burnt_Veggies@mstdn.social @404mediaco@mastodon.social @jasonkoebler@mastodon.social It certainly speaks volumes about the pharma industry that people have to go to such lengths to access lifesaving drugs.
@Flipboard@flipboard.social @404mediaco@mastodon.social @jasonkoebler@mastodon.social
I’m definitely not shilling for the pharma industry. They have been ripping people off for decades. But, people who have not been through medical school or pharmacy school diagnosing themselves and preparing their own medication is a recipe for disaster.