Results for: love is a lie
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Immerse Yourself in the Work of Indigenous Writers With This Anti-Colonial Reading List for Thanksgiving
What you’ll find here is not just people writing about the ins and outs of what makes Thanksgiving the bullshit holiday that it is, but also people just writing about their cultures, about being who they are, about how they survive, what makes them keep fighting, and what gives them hope for the future.
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The NYC TikTok Influencer to Gentrification Pipeline
Landlords and leaders care about nothing more than collecting bread in their pockets. TikTok influencers are tools of their capitalist schemes.
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The Yeses that Surprise You: Organizing Across the Lines of Cis and Trans
Building power across the lines of cis and trans teaches me that there are many people who will fight alongside trans people to win a better world.
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How the War on Porn Distracts Us From the Realities of Child Sexual Abuse
A former sex worker explains why new anti-porn legislation won’t stop images of child sexual abuse from proliferating on the internet.
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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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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!: Mourning Brandon Bernard and Casey Goodson Jr
In this week’s Extra! Extra! we discuss some of the recent abuses committed by the criminal justice system, revisit the topic of COVID-19 vaccine authorization (after a robust discussion on this in the comments last week) and look at a few situations unfolding around the world.
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Like Aimee Stephens, We Await the Justice We Deserve
It’s not just her death that is a tragedy; it’s that she had been waiting for justice that trans people almost never receive.
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There Were 122 Lesbian, Bisexual, Queer and Trans Candidates in the 2022 Midterms, Here’s How They Did
A red wave was coming, they told us. But they didn’t account for a new record for out LGBTQ candidates, who ran the table all across the country.
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Future Present: Perfectionism Is a Trap; Embracing Messiness Lets Us Be Whole
A pandemic is a perfect time to unlearn perfectionism. We have so many chances to practice saying no. We have ongoing motivation to work on directing our anger and action toward institutions and people in power rather than our neighbors and loved ones.
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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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“Reach Out to One Person a Day”: Feminist AIDS Activists Reflect on COVID-19
While gay men have necessary and urgent things to say about the enduring HIV/AIDS epidemic, women have always participated in AIDS activism. I spoke with two longtime feminist AIDS activists about queer community, care, and connection in the time of COVID-19.
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Extra! Extra!: There Must Be an End to the Long List of Names We Memorialize
This week’s Extra! Extra! honors all the victims – past, present and future. Oh it needs to stop – there must be an end to the long list of names we memorialize. But I’m not naive enough to think more lives won’t be lost before we reach that point.
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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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Asian Communities Must Desert the American Empire and Protect Black Lives
We have been drafted to protect white institutions that come at the cost of Black lives. We have been named a “model minority” to convince us that we’ve been saved a seat at the table among white peers — but that table was cut, assembled, and varnished by Black slaves. Asian Americans should look into the face of Tou Thao and see their own brother. It is our responsibility to bring him to justice, because he is not the only one.
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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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Honor Trans Elders: Cecilia Chung Is the Mother We All Wanted
Cecilia Chung described three ways: hilarious, survivor, and one of the mothers of the modern trans movement.
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12 Quotes About Freedom from Queer and Trans People of Color to Meditate on This Independence Day
Queer and trans people of color know more about the ugliness of America than most. But we’re still here. We’re still fighting for our liberation. Let us lift up those voices today.
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Democratic Debate #6: Klobuchar Wins, Unequivocally
The highs, the lows, and everything in between.
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Four Black Queer Writers in Conversation About Jussie Smollett and Holding Up Space for Each Other
This piece was co-written by Natalie, Reneice, Alexis, and Carmen. We’re four of the black members of The Speakeasy, Autostraddle’s collective for its writers of color.