Kim Simmons
@kmsmmns
Maine Feminist Sociologist Mother Climate Justice Part-Time Faculty Title IX & ERA advocate Welcoming & Belonging
Stop using so much plastic. Stop buying plastic. Stop making plastic. www.breakfreefromplastic.org
Judith Enek is so funny - and so smart! @beyondplastics.bsky.social offers model legislation and a lot of solutions
Getting a pep talk from @ejeancarroll.bsky.social - Ask E. Jean movie streaming now
We have an amazing array of candidates for Maine Governor (Dems!) and Ranked Choice Voting. Getting to the nuance of their differences is a challenge in these debates. #MEPolitics
@pingree.house.gov an absolute rock star for Maine and reproductive justice - bringing home Olivia, fighting family separation and supporting @ppfa.org (PPNNE) are all parts of her leadership
Every person who receives a mammogram also receives a big blue plastic bag to hold their clothes for 15 minutes and then people put the bag into the trashcan. And I’m sure this is true for the gazillion other procedures also done at Beth Israel - how do we connect dots about environmental health?
Sometimes the headline writers get it so wrong, in this case the Portland Press Herald. Maine is so done with Sen Collins and so done with ICE We see through her waffling and recognize she set us up but we are not settling or capitulating. We demand our full slate of constitutional and human rights
Senator Susan Collins don’t decades defending the importance of “civility” - remind her!
I’m obsessed with this book - They didn’t See Us Coming : the Hidden History of Feminism in the 90s by Lisa Levenstein I missed so many of these really important events by literally a minute, but I can also trace how much they shaped my intellectual political and personal life
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However, most men don’t seem to know how much advocating for all this costs. Feminist nonprofit/political work is hard and underpaid and less than 2% of philanthropy is directed toward groups working specifically on gender justice. www.mainewomen.org/donate
Instead of focusing on the top of the ticket, I’m thinking about all the races that might help us move closer to establishing a multiracial feminist society and politic. The ERA is a tool to push us forward. electequality.org #IndependenceDay #ElectEquality #ERANow
The summaries of disclosures and public reports that have been distorted to make us more sorry for and concerned about protecting harassers and abusers and the conditions within which sexual violence thrives is enraging. An excellent book but we really need to fund our movements for change. #metoo