Gillian Branstetter
@GBBranstetter
opinions are my own // comms aclu
Simpson: Yes, we renamed the opera house at the Kennedy Center for the First Lady… an excellent way to recognize her support and commitment to promoting the arts
Simpson: Yes, we renamed the opera house at the Kennedy Center for the First Lady… an excellent way to recognize her support and commitment to promoting the arts
This scene goes so much harder when you remember her husband (and rapist) was actively in Vietnam
“The Summer Man” (Season 4, Episode 8)
What if--and here me out--the personal is political
We've seen much more of this lately from men on the right, but I think the ongoing efforts to turn people's dating struggles into a political issue are really unhelpful.
What woman doesn't feel safer knowing Mike Johnson will run interference for a sex trafficking ring but won't rest until he knows exactly where Sarah McBride pees
Breaking News: Speaker Mike Johnson said he would shut down the House until September to block a vote on calling for the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. nyti.ms/4nZtblR
Odds high they’re gonna trade leniency for a child sex trafficker in exchange for her false testimony exonerating Trump.
Justice demands courage. For the first time, the Department of Justice is reaching out to Ghislaine Maxwell to ask: what do you know? At @AGPamBondi’s direction, I’ve contacted her counsel. I intend to meet with her soon. No one is above the law—and no lead is off-limits.
One thing you learn reading this history is the limits placed on women athletes aren't so much about what they are physically incapable of doing but rather how their body will become more masculine if they train to do so
My mom has long talked about how she was only allowed to play half-court basketball. (Hillary Clinton is around the same age and talked about the same thing). So grateful to have started school just after Title IX, with teachers who believed girls should be active.
The first woman to run the Boston marathon runner was chased off the path by the organizer and only stopped when he came across the press line. They genuinely believed your uterus will fall out. Shout out to Katherine Switzer who didn’t even realize she wasn’t allowed to run
Reading this book about the history of women's endurance running and doctors like 50 years ago literally told women "your uterus will FALL OUT if you run more than a mile"
I don't so I'm trying to petition Judith Butler to go on
i will not be watching jubilee videos because i like myself
The NBA telling the media the WNBA lost $40M-$50M last year might be something to be skeptical of. I explain why youtube.com/live/0upaQrptH…
Was fascinated by the guy who was clearly an expert in like the Heritage Foundation economic nationalist argument against immigration but after 10 minutes of pushback he crashed out and told Mehdi "Get out, I don't want you hear"
Most men view womens sports as a kind of drag, a charade of the dominance and strength that men believe is their birthright. The idea that it should be valued and rewarded all its own contradicts all that
Why yall don’t want wnba players to make more money? What difference does it make to you ?
We are doing this. Our governments. Our taxes. Our arms sales. This is our Holocaust. Our Cambodian killing fields. Our Balkans. Our Rwandan genocide. We are doing this and history will never forgive us. Gaza:
"The cases reaching us are of people who collapsed in the streets from lack of nutrition."
There is enough food to feed every person in Gaza sitting in trucks in Egypt but the Israeli military will not let them in. This is a disgrace to Jewish tradition and what the Torah and Talmud say about just war.
The World Food Programme says around 1 in 3 people in Gaza are not eating for days at a time. Spoke with a senior Israeli official today about the situation and concern of rising hunger among Palestinian civilians. We’ll have some new information soon.
Almost as if its a cynical ploy to obtain the legal precedents necessary to expel trans people from public life perpetrated by the same people who overturned Roe v. Wade
Funny how all that protect women’s sports energy goes right out the window when women ask for more of the revenue they generate.
My new book is out today :) With Coercion I wanted to dedicate a book to unpacking at the most granular level how abortion bans aren't just some abstract political debate but state gender-based violence w/ material consequences that can't be ignored. more about the project below: