Results for: dead to me
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Talking About Trayvon
Some things we read and saw on the internet on #trayvon and race in America.
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#BlackLivesMatter: A Longform Reading List
Fifty years of words I liked reading and you will too! Authors include James Baldwin, bell hooks, Kiese Laymon, Roxane Gay, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Toni Morrison, Bayard Rustin and Dr. Brittany Cooper.
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The 12 Best Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans Latinx Pop Culture Moments of 2017
Whether you’re Mexican, Puerto Rican, Costa Rican, Cuban, Panamanian or Argentinian, there were great examples of queer Latinidad for you.
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Black History Month Roundtable: Imagining Our Bright, Bold Black Queer Futures
In the second and final part of our Black History Month Roundtable series, we’re ready to look forward. We’re asking, what are our hopes for black queer futures?
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Queer Activists are Taking Down Racist Symbols in the South
“While there have been no arrests yet of the white supremacists who mercilessly beat a counter-protester in Charlottesville, there have already been at least three arrests for the removal of the Confederate monument in Durham, and two of them are queer activists of color.”
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Digital Mixtapes and Protests: Oh, To Be A Queer Black Millennial
“For a moment, I forgot about the summer of 2015. I forgot about the panic I experienced, the insomnia, the depression. We watched the new season of Orange is the New Black together and by the end of episode 12, it suddenly all came back.”
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Queer Latinxs Share Love, Rage, Sadness and Strength For Our Family Lost in Orlando
Here are just a few of the many, many LGBTQ Latinxs in our community who are speaking up and speaking out to make sure that queer Latinxs are not erased.
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India Beaty, Queer Black Woman, Killed By Police in Norfolk, Virginia
India Beaty, a queer black woman, was fatally shot by Virginia police for carrying a replica handgun, bombs in Brussels kill at least 31 people, a new study finds Canadian LGB people have chronic stress and drink heavily, The Bronx Trans Collective opens and more news!
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Amnesty International’s Policy Calling for Decriminalization of Sex Work is a Move in the Right Direction
Amnesty International’s Board has put together a draft policy on sex work that could lift up and protect some of the most vulnerable and marginalized folks around the world – and feminists and human rights advocates alike could learn a lot from it. The only problem is that they’re too busy speaking over the sex workers and researchers who emphatically support the proposal to really do so.
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Immigrant Trans Women Can Now Be Detained in Women’s Facilities, But the Fight Isn’t Over Yet
U.S. Immigration officials announced they’ll allow detainees to be housed in facilities that match their gender identity. While this announcement sounds good, many think it will have minimal effect on the lives of actual trans detainees.
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Pay Us Some Mind: On the “Tragic” Humanity of Black Trans Women
“The queer and trans community can’t continue to strip us of our racial oppression, just like the black community can’t solely blame our deaths on our gender identities. We’re targeted for both.”
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Marissa Alexander To Be Released from Jail; Struggle for Justice Continues
On January 27th, activists from around the country will converge on Jacksonville and in their home cities to stand in solidarity with Alexander on the day of her release and bring visibility to women who have been targeted for their resilience and survival.
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Burials in the Mist of Dawn
“But unlike the missing 43 from Ayotzinapa, I was going home. And it’s what I store in my memory each time I read an article or update about the disappeared. I am home. They are not.”
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The QTPOC Speakeasy: On Community Care During Times of Civil Unrest
“It’s so important to do what makes you feel centered and strong again as a QTPOC trying to deal with this country right now. It would have taken Herculean levels of self-care to come close to what one Speakeasy Google Hangout did for me last night.”
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Cards Against Harassment Creator Better at Recognizing Sexism Than Institutional Racism
One woman’s well-intentioned crusade to end street harassment has some racially insensitive side-effects.
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The QPOC Speakeasy Speaking Out With Love To Mike Brown
“It is a crystal clear, paint-by-the-numbers picture of chronic police hostility toward African-Americans. This is anti-blackness in America. Make no mistake.”
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Top 10 Instances of Open and Unapologetic Celebrity Cultural Appropriation in 2013!
“Oh, wait, so you’re not dressing in a mass-produced stereotypical ‘Native’ costume, and instead were just dressing as one of the most racist caricatures depicting an Indigenous person in the history of American cinema?”
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What Happened To Mitrice Richardson
The recent discovery of Mitrice Richardson’s body finally put an end to the speculation about her whereabouts – but there are still important questions that need to be asked about how she disappeared in the first place.