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Dispatches From The Millions Marches: Thousands Show Up For #BlackLivesMatter Nationwide
“While it is definitely tragic we still have to march, there is something beautiful and hopeful about the fact that I am fighting for [my mom’s] freedom as much as mine, and we’re both out here so that my nephew, who just turned one, hopefully won’t have to march when he grows up.”
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Also.Also.Also: Kamala Harris Picked as VP, Officially Becomes Straight Bette Porter
Kamala Harris has become first Black woman and the first person of Indian descent to be nominated for national office by a major party. (Also, did you know, women of color are running for congress at an all-time high? I like to call it the “Squad Effect.”)
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Black Trans People Have Been Modeling Mutual Aid Before It Became a Buzzword
For the Gworls is a prime example of how Black trans organizers have found ways to keep one another safe, housed, and healthy despite violence at every turn.
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Pop Culture Fix: Booksmart’s Beanie Feldstein is Queer IRL, FYI
Plus: New trailers for new seasons of Claws, Pose, and Jessica Jones; stabby Killing Eve news and interviews; Amber Benson’s playing gay again; Gentleman Jack has been renewed; that murdery lesbian cello Netflix movie, and more!
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15 Activists to Follow Right Now for Some Much-Needed Hope and Empowerment
I don’t scroll mindlessly through Twitter and Facebook anymore. What I do instead is engage with the women activists who are leading our way in the battle through the darkness.
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Sunday Funday is Wearing Rainbow Chucks to the Frontline Awards
U.S. national soccer is sporting rainbow letters for pride, super gay sneakers from Nike and Converse if that’s your thing, self-care according to the laaaadies, Astrea’s Fueling the Frontlines Award are intersectional feminist fire, a new album from artists living in countries where being gay is dangerous or illegal, and more good queer stuff!
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Be the Change: Using Your Words as Weapons of Resistance
How to use a message triangle, come up with impactful slogans, and why we need to sharpen our words to fight back.
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Also.Also.Also: You Deserve These Holtzmann Outtakes and Other Stories for Your Weekend
GBBO hamsters, Kate McKinnon’s Ghostbusters outtakes, so much abortion talk, Michelle Tea, single mother by choice, domestic violence shelters, Eileen Myles, horror maps, horror movies, horror Trump, and so much more!
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We’re All Exhausted: Minneapolis Police Kill Jamar Clark, Is All Too Familiar
Protesters in Minneapolis demand to see video evidence of how Jamar Clark died, Jackie Biskupski is the first openly gay Salt Lake City mayor, student action at Yale and other universities and more.
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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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25 Women Who Shook Things Up in 2014
From mounting revolutions to redefining realness, these are 25 women who made waves in the world this year.
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Audre Lorde Project Hosts Vigil and Flashmob To “Free Our Sisters, Free Ourselves”
“To be clear, we are not here to change the system. We are here to SHUT IT DOWN.”
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Pop Culture Fix: Ellen DeGeneres Flattered By Tabloid Gossip, Bangladesh Gets First Lesbian Cartoon Character and More Super-Important Stories
Chris Brown stands up a gay party for being too gay, Ellen DeGeneres talks to Caitlyn Jenner about same-sex marriage, Bangladesh gets its first lesbian cartoon character, new music from Christine & The Queens, queers are all over The Root 100, SO MANY new queer movies to look forward to AND SO MUCH MORE!