Results for: be the change
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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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Nothing the Medical Examiner Can Report Will Change Nex Benedict’s Cause of Death
It feels safe to say that Nex died as a direct result of trauma from the physical altercation at the school. Maybe not just the one, maybe so many more. Maybe years of bullying, of ostracization, of feeling unwelcome and out of place at the school he was required to attend every day.
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Extra! Extra!: Some of the Changes We Can Already See as the Trump Era Drags On
In this week’s Extra! Extra! we continue following America’s election 2020 saga, the havoc the Trump administration continues to wreak in its final two months and a few encouraging outcomes from the 2020 election. We also have some States-side updates on the COVID-19 pandemic and other situations unfolding around the world.
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Extra! Extra!: What’s Changing – and Staying the Same – in Minneapolis After George Floyd’s Death?
This week’s Extra! Extra! takes us back to the state where George Floyd died to check on the progress towards justice. We take a look at some of the implausible stories concocted by the same people who ask us to believe them when their body cams mysteriously fall off. We look at what’s happening — or what’s not happening, as the case maybe — on addressing corruption, police brutality and immigration. And, of course, a look at how the virus continues to impact our lives.
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Extra! Extra!: America Is Anti-Black, but We’re Fighting Like Hell to Change That
This week’s Extra! Extra! looks at police instigating even more violence at protests about police violence, can we defund the police altogether, Iyanna Dior, and the meaning of voting when America is inherently built on anti-Blackness.
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Be The Change: Music For the Revolution
How to use music to make your activist action 100% better! Plus some tips you maybe definitely haven’t thought of!
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Be The Change: We Are Our Own Legacy
The moral of this story is that despite this column very much aligning with the rise of the Trump administration, it’s never been about Trump.
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Be The Change: Allies, Accomplices and Collective Liberation
What’s the difference between ally and accomplice? How can you use these terms to think about how you’re in solidarity with others?
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Be The Change: The Art of the Ultimate Letter to the Editor
A letter to the editor can be an effective tactic to get the word out about an issue, show support for a bill, speak up about something in your community, or to get free publicity for your activist work!
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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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Be The Change: 5 Ways to Create Safer Activist Spaces For Everyone
We have to commit to always learning and growing and doing more all the time to make our spaces better and better.
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Be The Change: The Key to Unlocking Your Power
To truly do the work from our standpoint, from a place of strong objectivity, is crucial. So what does that look like? What does using our individual standpoint to make change look like?
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Be The Change: Battling Activist Burnout
“I share all this because I feel like everyone I know is struggling to keep it together lately, to have-it-all or to be-everything-to-everyone or to fight-the-good-fight.”
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Be The Change: We Like to Party! 5 Activist Ideas For Your Best Birthday Bash
Birthdays are the perfect time to ask people to take action. Why? People like you! They want to celebrate you! And on your birthday, they feel slightly more-obligated-than-usual to do what you ask of them!
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Be The Change: A Simple Guide to Lobbying Your Elected Officials Like a Pro
A step-by-step guide to lobbying your elected officials. Ready your power suit!
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Be the Change: 10 Tips for Super Smart Tabling
Are you ready to take your activist tabling to a whole other level?!
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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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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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Trans Texans Are Being Surveilled, This Is Everyone’s Issue
On anti-transness, surveillance, and why we should all be paying attention.
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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.