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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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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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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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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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Walkouts, Sit-Ins, and Merry Outlaws: A History of Student Protests, 1924-2024
We’re now over seven months into Israel’s escalated attacks on Gaza and a month into the nationwide campus protest movement against the genocide. Let’s take a look back at the history of student activism throughout the past century.
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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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‘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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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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Florida Teachers Fight Anti-LGBTQ Policies As the State Punishes Schools That Dare To Resist
All of DeSantis’ efforts to silence and oppressively legislate students and educators in the state are connected and should be confronted simultaneously.
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Conservatives Will Try to Paint Trans People as Violent Extremists, We Cannot Let Them
Conservatives are going to try to leverage this tragedy to further paint trans people as violent extremists, to try and equate queerness and leftist ideals with domestic terrorism. We cannot let them win.
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Remembering Minnie Bruce Pratt’s Legacy as a Radical Southern Femme
She might have left the South, but she never forgot it, scorned it, or neglected it.
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Where To Give Money and Take Action To Support Palestinians Right Now
The current circumstances are beyond the point of silence or inaction — they have been for a long time.
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New Guidelines on Childhood “Obesity” Represent Latest Big Pharma Attacks on Fat Kids
The weight loss industry — not necessarily the act of weight loss in and of itself — is extremely fatphobic and anti-fat.
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The Queer Feminist Case for Palestine
When I say queer, I mean hostile to the military industrial complex that generates profit by manufacturing weapons designed to kill people.
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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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Cynthia Nixon Joins Hunger Strike for Permanent Ceasefire in Gaza
More than a dozen activists and local lawmakers are hunger striking in Washington right now to call for President Biden and Congress commit to a permanent ceasefire, Cynthia Nixon is one of the them.
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61 People Allegedly Associated with the Stop Cop City Movement Indicted on RICO Charges
The fight to Stop Cop City is a test case for whether domestic terrorism — and now RICO charges — can be used to stop activists and protesters from engaging in any kind of resistance, especially when it comes to resistance against the police state.
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ACT UP NY Calls on GLAAD To Oppose Genocide, Drop the ADL
On May 11, GLAAD hosted its annual awards ceremony, celebrating queer and trans media and celebrities. But outside the doors of the venue was where the real queer activism took place, an action organized by ACT UP NY taking shape.