Occupy Wall Street

• Mecca Jamilah Sullivan writes about the media's tragic de-queering of a Harlem youth basketball star.
• Attention activists: The Sylvia Rivera Law Project recently released a guide for trans activists, and those who support trans activists, for staying safe in direct action protests (thanks, @kulandaybarrett!)
• At Ain't This Livin, s.e. smith talks about the responsibility of pop culture analysis and the argument that pop culture is "just entertainment."
• Nadra Kareem Little talks about the mainstream media's lack of coverage on race and the imbalance of representation in the Occupy movement for the East Bay Express.
• Lauren Bruce, Feministe founder, talks teen motherhood, motherhood as a feminist issue and blogging at Pushback.org.
• Collier Meyerson moves past the forehead-slap responses to Cat Marnell's awful Plan B post and looks at the racial and class implications of her screed.
• Jos at Feministing saw the news about the trans health win and talks about how "it's about time" to see trans inclusion.
• Reninaj J at the Crunk Feminist Collective questions the connections between rap and activism, in response to Jay Z's "Occupy All Streets" shirt.

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Not so good morning, America. I woke up yesterday to discover that on Monday night the police had cleared Zuccotti Park. As of this morning, Zuccotti Park remains largely unoccupied and quiet, thanks to a judge's ruling that the city needn't allow them back in. At a press conference yesterday, NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended his decision to effectually shut down the protest, which had lasted 61 days and counting, saying that the "health and safety conditions became intolerable." In a statement made yesterday morning, Bloomberg said: "I have become increasingly concerned ... that the occupation was coming to pose a health and fire safety hazard to the protestors and to the surrounding community." Hey, disease is no joke, Bloomberg seems to be saying. Politics aside, you've all heard of the black plague, right? Who wants that to happen again!!? Certainly not our mayor! Sounds pretty rational, until you consider how sanitation and the interest of public safety, including fear of the risk of communicable disease, is a rationalization our country has relied on historically to control its population, particularly minorities.

Fighting for social justice doesn’t need to stop when you give birth. In fact, in my opinion, we should fight even harder if we have to raise a kid or two in this world. Also, by continuing our activism postpartum, we’ll set kick-ass examples for our children. It’s win-win all around.