Posts by gabrielarana@texasobserver.social
(DIR) Post #AUVzWRabLBoq2hlSIy by gabrielarana@texasobserver.social
2023-04-10T16:46:43Z
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“School choice” = they want to take our taxpayer money and give it to religious schools that teach people to hate queers and control women. More from David Brockman @TexasObserver: https://www.texasobserver.org/school-choice-is-just-a-ploy-to-defund-public-ed/ #education
(DIR) Post #AUiQzw8izlt2nh1Fc8 by gabrielarana@texasobserver.social
2023-04-16T16:30:53Z
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(DIR) Post #AUzGtH4t3NbVrDj9ii by gabrielarana@texasobserver.social
2023-04-24T17:53:04Z
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In one week, the @TexasObserver’s Spring membership drive has generated 495 new Observerites! 🥳 Help us reach 1,505 more to meet our goal: https://texasobserver.org/join. #TexasNeedsAnObserver #newmembermonth
(DIR) Post #AUzZ1ruPnZbPZw4p9c by gabrielarana@texasobserver.social
2023-04-24T22:14:05Z
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Very important scoop from @oconnell @TexasObserver on Texas Ag Dept. attacks on trans, non-binary, and gender nonconformimg employees. I bet I’d be shown the door with my highly subversive French tips. https://www.texasobserver.org/sid-miller-department-agriculture-dress-code-transgender/ #txlege
(DIR) Post #AV5RbGuRCqVsZBDYIq by gabrielarana@texasobserver.social
2023-04-27T19:00:13Z
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We're almost halfway to reaching our goal of 2,000 new @TexasObserver subscribers! Sign up for as little as $4 a month to get the magazine, which has a special thanks to the readers who kept our doors open: texasobserver.org/join #TexasNeedsAnObserver #newmembermonth #jointhefight
(DIR) Post #AVKc5Z2qFyOKPfdAEy by gabrielarana@texasobserver.social
2023-05-05T02:31:22Z
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Attempts to muzzle journalists always backfire, but companies try anyway. Here’s why reporters needn’t fear. https://www.cjr.org/watchdog/journalists-nda-nondisclosure-harassment-metoo-newsrooms.php An old hit of mine from @CJR #WorldFreePressDay #freepress
(DIR) Post #AVYLZqXjGlAGvdezGS by gabrielarana@texasobserver.social
2023-05-11T17:57:57Z
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I’m proud of the beautiful diversity we’ve cultivated on staff @TexasObserver, and we make sure to disclose our DEI stats. Always more work to do, but we believe in intersectionality and the staff page is shaping up rather nicely. texasobserver.org/home/staff/ #TexasNeedsAnObserver
(DIR) Post #AVeS7ZoviOXxaFvrHc by gabrielarana@texasobserver.social
2023-05-14T16:39:55Z
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Miss writing about linguistics. Been thinking of a column on all the interesting Texas linguistic features I notice day to day. https://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/01/creaky-voice-yet-another-example-of-young-womens-linguistic-ingenuity/267046/
(DIR) Post #AVgWMxp9XaNaVRY6F6 by gabrielarana@texasobserver.social
2023-05-15T16:25:59Z
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Read @josephinelee on the pitched battle over how to teach Texas history. https://www.texasobserver.org/those-who-dont-know-the-past/ @TexasObserver #education
(DIR) Post #AW7UHvYnSB5xe1jRya by gabrielarana@texasobserver.social
2023-05-28T16:48:22Z
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It seems like a lifetime ago but two months ago, the @TexasObserver board tried to shut us down and we raised $350K from readers to stay open. It was like a Disney movie. I wrote about it for @thenation: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/death-resurrection-texas-observer/
(DIR) Post #AYzmz6XOg1YY5tI252 by gabrielarana@texasobserver.social
2023-08-22T01:45:34Z
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We are not free here in Texas. Only straight, white, men have the freedom of assembly. Thanks, @texasgop
(DIR) Post #AYzxYisn6N02hDv4me by gabrielarana@texasobserver.social
2023-08-22T17:44:46Z
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“Drag can be appropriate for all ages,” Brigitte Bandit, an Austin drag queen who frequently performs at birthday parties, told the @TexasObserver. “It’s simply a way to express yourself and have fun, and why not allow kids to see something like that?” https://www.texasobserver.org/drag-ban-sb-12-aclu-lawsuit/ Another must-read from @oconnell
(DIR) Post #AYzzVicXorYqvI1200 by gabrielarana@texasobserver.social
2023-08-22T19:38:04Z
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@jeff @feld @oconnell @TexasObserver No one is suggesting kids watch a typical, bawdy drag show, which means they are not being involved in an activity with overtly sexual themes. @texasgop wants people to think anything a drag queens does or wears is sexual. It’s just not true. Unsophisticated viewers are the problem, not the multitalented queens imho
(DIR) Post #AZ02aisGbURl1IRnaS by gabrielarana@texasobserver.social
2023-08-22T20:12:32Z
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@jeff @feld @oconnell @TexasObserver I respectfully disagree. It seems to me that you, as the viewer, are insisting the content is sexual whether it is or not. It makes it easy to scapegoat us gays, which is of course the point of all this.
(DIR) Post #AZ02buhs646K0U9Xeq by gabrielarana@texasobserver.social
2023-08-22T20:13:15Z
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@feld @jeff @TexasObserver @oconnell Yes that’s why anyone who sings or dances must pay queers royalties
(DIR) Post #AZ08oHuGGWyV9yER2e by gabrielarana@texasobserver.social
2023-08-22T21:17:31Z
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@jeff @feld @oconnell @TexasObserver Because if I were a parent, I’d want my kid to be properly socialized and not hyperventilate when a drag queen reads Grimms’ Fairy Tales.
(DIR) Post #AZ0ACTMLR39jaJSo6q by gabrielarana@texasobserver.social
2023-08-22T19:39:15Z
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@jeff @oconnell @TexasObserver I think this mischaracterizes what drag queens want to do. They are not adopting sexual shows for kids. They are instead performing no sexual shows for kids, which is why this isn’t a problem that needs government intervention.
(DIR) Post #AZ0DrEdpMRkhfmlmjo by gabrielarana@texasobserver.social
2023-05-03T16:32:38Z
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Sometimes I wish I’d chosen a more stable profession but, quite simply, I couldn’t be happy doing anything else! Thanks to @TheGuardian_us for including @TexasObserver in it’s roundup for #WorldPressFreedomDay https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/may/03/blocked-censored-jailed-or-laid-off-why-its-never-been-harder-to-be-a-journalist
(DIR) Post #AZsHU5GjuvFkmhCCAK by gabrielarana@texasobserver.social
2023-09-17T17:33:14Z
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.@TexasObserver Cartoonish Ben Sargent’s gut reaction to the Paxton news summarizes how I feel.
(DIR) Post #AdDOiDF5v0hBvLv996 by gabrielarana@texasobserver.social
2023-12-25T16:28:02Z
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Aaand a caramel spiral apple tart. Thinking for name it should be Apple Cyclone.