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24 Actions You NEED to Take to Help Trans Women of Color Survive
This isn’t just exhausting. This is intergenerational trauma, oppression, and maybe even genocide. This violence is specifically targeted against black and brown women, gender non-conforming folks, and especially trans women of color.
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“We Don’t Want To Live in a Police State”: Stop Cop City Still Needs Your Help
Don’t live in Atlanta? Don’t live in the U.S.? If Cop City gets built, it will still effect you. Activists have been fighting the creation of this proposed police training ground since 2021, and they need your help.
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Also.Also.Also: LGBTQ+ Students Walk Straight Out of School for National Coming Out Day Protest
The fight for equal pay in women’s soccer is not stopping at the USWNT, the GIF is on its deathbed, and a place called “Camp Dyketopia” that you absolutely must know about.
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Also.Also.Also: What to Do When You Get the ‘I’m Not Gay Enough’ Blues
“Raven’s Home” made history with the Disney Channel’s first trans character, the WNBA All Stars said “We are not going to stop until everyone understands how serious this really is,” and more to read.
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Florida’s Latest Ruling Against “Don’t Say Gay” Law Isn’t Enough
While the ruling does help make working in schools for teachers and going to school for students just slightly easier, the material realities for trans people in Florida continue to deteriorate as a result of these laws.
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The Complicated History of Reed Erickson, A Different Kind of Trans Resistance
When I think about people who had the power (and money) to do something and then did, I think of Erickson and all he accomplished.
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Cecilia Gentili Showed What It Means To Care About Sex Workers, Immigrants, and Trans People
She saw organizing and her work within her communities not as something she had to do but as something she needed and wanted to do.
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How Bluestockings Bookstore Is Fighting To Keep Serving Queer, Trans, and Houseless Communities
I wish this were just a piece on how a longstanding queer bookstore and refuge is finding ways to continue practicing care and love for their community. Unfortunately, this is also a story of gentrification and white supremacist capitalism not caring about what’s right and medically safe.
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Pop Culture Fix: Reneé Rapp and Coco Jones New Year’s Performance Is Living in My Head Rent Free
In case you missed it, queer artists like Reneé Rapp, Janelle Monáe, and Cardi B really gayed up New Year’s Rockin’ Eve. Also, Jodie Foster on True Detective, noted bisexual Kate Siegel on recasting Roderick in The Fall of the House of Usher and more!
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How To Get Mutual Aid and Bail Funds into the Hands of Student Protestors Now
What follows below is a living document, it is purposefully incomplete because the work is not done. We need everyone on deck. Go out there and tell me what you find, and I will update it accordingly. Here is a list of over 60 protests and encampments to start.
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‘Be the Change’ Creates Network of Care in Tennessee Prisons
Be the Change offers programs inside like support groups for trans women, addiction and recovery support, and those facing lengthy or lifetime sentences.
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This Trans Day of Remembrance, Show Up With Material Support (And Every Other Day, Too)
In the face of dehumanizing rhetoric and violence that turns our community members into statistics, it is our responsibility to care for one another and change the conditions that impact trans people’s quality of life right now.
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Also.Also.Also: Georgia Police Who Killed “Stop Cop City” Queer Indigenous Activist Tortuguita Will Not Face Charges
Despite an independent autopsy finding Tortuguita was shot over 50 times with their hands raised, no criminal charges will be brought against the cops.
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Mira Bellwether, Author of ‘F*cking Trans Women,’ Has Died
It’s clear that Bellwether wrote this zine because it absolutely needed to be written. Now it’s her legacy.
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Also.Also.Also: “Save Women’s Sports Act” Lacks Plan to Save Women’s Sports
Stop letting them hide behind “women’s sports” to terrorize trans kids. Also, a friend doesn’t have to be toxic to be bad for you and the midlife renaissance of women in Hollywood.
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Also.Also.Also: Trump & Crew Charged With Felony Racketeering in Fourth Indictment
Also, Ron DeSantis had a bad weekend :)
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Also.Also.Also: Here’s All the Gay Parts That Were Cut From “Wakanda Forever”
If you’re trying to keep friends as an adult (it’s hard!), start with an eight minute phone call. And guess what’s trending for 2023? Dystopian Fashion! Why? Who knows!
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How To Cope With Election Day Anxiety Spikes
Today is Election Day, and if you’re feeling stressed, worried, anxious, scared, I want you to know that those feelings are valid.
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Also.Also.Also: Megan Thee Stallion Genuinely Thought People Would Believe Her
It’s rare that we’re able to hear a Black woman speak about her survival with as much breadth, nuance, and abundance of care that we get here. Also, Molly Kearney — SNL’s first nonbinary cast member — calls out anti-trans laws on air, and it’s a must see.
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Also.Also.Also: Lily-Rose Depp Confirms Relationship With 070 Shake in “4-Month Anniversary” Instagram Post, That’s Gay
Being gay and messy in your 20s is fun if you let it, so I’m wishing Lily-Rose and 070 Shake all the best. Also: a new podcast about gay music culture that I think you’ll love, and spotting a toxic boss while applying for jobs.