On Friday 24th June, the United States Supreme Court voted to overturn Roe v Wade, the landmark ruling that granted people the constitutional right to an abortion for the past 50 years. The decision serves as the official catalyst for abortion “trigger bans,” an automatic set of laws that have made abortion immediately illegal in the states that have voted to enact them over the years.
Abortion is now currently banned in Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Oklahoma, and South Dakota while still under the direct threat of a ban or severe restrictions in at least another 24 other states. Access to abortion is threatened in more than half of the United States.
At Protein, we believe that abortion is a fundamental aspect of reproductive healthcare and safe, secure access to abortion is necessary for all. We’ve compiled an open list of resources for our members to join the fight to keep abortion legal in the United States. You can find it here 💕
In other news, we welcomed 80 new members to the Protein Community this week with our new NFT Season Passes. They’re just completing their 8-day onboarding journey under the careful stewardship of Deniz, our community lead; so if you’d like to join the next cohort and help build our Good Growth Goals:
OK, let’s get on with the links …
- Ryder Rip’s documentary on the racist references in Bored Apes Yacht Club is mind-blowing 🤯
- Finally, radio signals have been detected in another galaxy
- If there’s one thing you should listen to, it’s Jessi Baker from Provenance on the Protein Podcast (hosted by our boy Gus)
- Gucci’s guide to web3
- How to make great soil 🐛
- Unimaginable DALL-E sneaker collabs
- W3ST is “cloud first, land next”
- How we can do better with our relationship with wildlife?
- What does the metaverse smell like?
- Buy my Cancer is brilliant
- Neal Stephenson is building Snow Crash
- We’re loving Tom Sachs’ Rocket Factory
- Some excellent weekend reading from our favourite web3 academic
- In case you missed it, Zalando bought High Snobiety
- So make sure you download all their reports before they remove them
- Wild Card is trying to rewild the UK, one Royal park and Church at a time
- Everything you need to know about Soulbound NFTs here and here
- Do you have a sea allotment?
- COWGIRLDAO is raising $3m to support reproductive rights
- Shopify is getting into the token gating game
- Essential reading on game governance structures
- How to go full-time crypto
- WTF is going on with the Radioshack Twitter? (NSFW)
- Here’s a link to some beautiful musical furniture
- Period DAO is here🩸
- How the Amapiano sound is conquering the world
- Don’t swipe, write
- Tony Lashley on curatorial governance
- Degen Events is all your guide to web3 meetups
- MDMA-like chewies anyone?
THANKS
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Until next month, your friends at Protein 💚
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