Results for: dead to me
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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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Talking About Trayvon
Some things we read and saw on the internet on #trayvon and race in America.
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“I Can’t Stop Hearing the Shots,” Mass Shooting at Colorado Gay Club Leaves 5 Dead, 25 Wounded
Once again, a place that provides refuge to the LGBT community has been visited by violence and tragedy.
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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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“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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The Fall of Roe Is For All Of Us
There’s a lot of confusion going around about what this all means and as someone who worked in repro and/or civil liberties work for over fifteen years, I’m here to demystify the moment we’re in right now.
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Anti-Capitalism Won’t Save Us If We Can’t Confront White Supremacy, Transphobia and Colonialism
Endless conversations on dialectical materialism, class wars, and late-stage capitalism do little to address the current realities that plague visibly non-white people, trans people, and sex workers. The violent realities of capitalism have real, tangible consequences for people most affected by white supremacist violence and the constant refrain of “do the reading” does nothing to address them.
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Extra! Extra!: All Eyes on the Legislative Battle for Texas
This week we’re talking about the political strife in Haiti, the US’s messy exit from Afghanistan, the development of new COVID variants, your bimonthly legislatively institutionalized moral panic report — and the attacks on citizens’ rights plus the attempts to hold them at bay that are rocking Texas legislative chambers.
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Extra! Extra!: How to Begin to Process the Unfolding Horror of COVID in India?
COVID returns to the forefront of this week’s Extra! Extra! as we look at the outbreak of COVID in India and the threats posed by variants across the globe. We look at the one thing that’s proving stronger than COVID: capitalism and how that’s impacting our recovery. The team also examines new developments on the immigration and criminal justice fronts and ponder what it means to hear the president tell transgender Americans he’s got their backs.
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Extra! Extra!: Can We Even Begin to Untangle the Multiple Messes at the Border?
This week’s Extra! Extra! brings you news on a smattering of issues: more anti-trans legislation and rising transphobia in the U.K. alongside a ruling in Japan striking down the ban on same-sex marriage, more perspectives on the shooting in Atlanta, what exactly is happening at the U.S. border, an early look at the Chauvin trial and more.
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Extra! Extra!: Everything Not the Election It’s Been Hard to Keep Up with
This week’s Extra! Extra! looks at a whole slew of non-election related news, including LGBTQ+ rights and the trifecta of global pandemics: police violence, climate change and COVID-19. And then, of course, we do take a look at election-related news too.
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The Elf On The Shelf Is A Cop: We Need ‘The Anti-Fascist On The Bookcase’
The Elf on the Shelf as we knew him is dead. We need the Anti-Fascist on the Bookcase.
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34 Feelings You Have About Voting For Joe Biden
“I would vote for a dead dog if it was running against Trump.”
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The Quiet Parts Get Louder and Louder
The insurrection in DC on January and making sense of this chapter of the story of power in the US.
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Extra! Extra!: Making Sense of What’s Actually Happening with the Stimulus Package
Extra! Extra! is on a bit of a holiday schedule, so we’re here today to round out 2020 with the news from the last couple of weeks. In this week’s Extra! Extra! we cover judicial actions on LGBTQ+ rights in the U.K. and the U.S., the latest in Trump corruption scandals and pardons, updates on the COVID-19 pandemic and the recently passed stimulus package and more.
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Extra! Extra!: As the Dust Settles, Here’s What We’ve Learned So Far in the 2020 Election
Last week I was full of the nervous anxiety you feel when you know something big is about to happen, and you’re just counting down the clock. This week I’ve been full of the nervous anxiety of indefinite waiting. And yet, in that time, so much has happened in the world. In this week’s Extra! Extra! we share some reflections on the 2020 election and news on events from Vienna to Poland to Ethiopia to the Philippines to New Zealand to Chile.
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Extra! Extra!: Making Sense of a Summer Shaped by Violence
The state-sanctioned violence continues, people protest peacefully and are attacked and even killed by law enforcement and vigilantes (who are also, more or less, supported by law enforcement). We also bring a brief update on the state of the US election after both the Democratic and Republican National Conventions wrapped up, an update on some of the situations we’ve been following in Lebanon and Russia and, finally, on the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Extra! Extra!: What We’re Seeing on COVID-19 and Accountability So Far from Biden’s Administration
This week’s Extra! Extra! continues to unpack the insurrection while also looking at some of Biden’s actions these last two weeks as president. We look a little more closely at the latest on police accountability, immigration and COVID-19, as well as a smattering of international news.
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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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Extra! Extra!: What Do We Actually Know About a COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout?
This week’s Extra! Extra! returns with some LGBTQ+ news from both sides of the Atlantic; an update on the COVID-19 pandemic, the havoc it’s wreaking in so many areas of life and the vaccine arms race; and rapidly deteriorating situations the world over.