Results for: work in progress
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Indigenous Resistance Movements From the 20th and 21st Centuries We Can Learn From
As the national and international conversations on colonialism, imperialism, and decolonization progress and spread, I think it’s important for us to continue reflecting on the big and small ways Indigenous groups in the U.S. and abroad have challenged and fought against the occupying, colonialist, imperialist forces that have attempted to wipe those groups off the map entirely.
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Virginia’s Election Results Push Back Hard Against Anti-Trans Agendas in the South
Virginia flipped the Senate, elected the first trans Senator in the South, and ensured the Governor can’t dismantle LGBTQ rights.
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Palestinian Liberation Is Queer Liberation
Queer people are everywhere, and to wield homophobia as a tool to justify the oppression or destruction of others is in fact to just replicate hate, harm, and oppression, not fix it.
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How To Fight Back Against Book Bans
However you choose to engage with Banned Books Week, I hope you’ll think about the books that have led you to the person you are today.
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How a Far-Right Moms Group Is Threatening Queer Liberties in Schools
And what we can learn from them this Pride.
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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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Where To Give Money and Take Action To Support Palestinians Right Now
The current circumstances are beyond the point of silence or inaction — they have been for a long time.
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In Today’s Heartbreak, the Supreme Court Ended Affirmative Action as We Know It
I have been told that Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson does not often use words like “let-them-eat-cake” in her legal writing, but she’s right and she absolutely should say it. Today is a day for being Big Mad.
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Ron DeSantis’s Fascist Overhaul of Florida’s Institutions Isn’t New but It Is Terrifying
If Desantis and his people are successful in accomplishing their goals, then this will mean further repercussions for the other public institutions in the state — and beyond.
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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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Senate Passes Respect for Marriage Act, Here’s What’s Next
The bill will now move to the House, where it is expected to be voted on — and passed — as early as next Tuesday.
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Cynthia Nixon Joins Hunger Strike for Permanent Ceasefire in Gaza
More than a dozen activists and local lawmakers are hunger striking in Washington right now to call for President Biden and Congress commit to a permanent ceasefire, Cynthia Nixon is one of the them.
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Remembering Minnie Bruce Pratt’s Legacy as a Radical Southern Femme
She might have left the South, but she never forgot it, scorned it, or neglected it.
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Once Again, Journalistic “Objectivity” Is Failing Us — Especially Queer and Other Marginalized Writers
Three queer writers and editors recently resigned from the New York Times Magazine.
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New Polls Reveal Alarming Number of Americans Are Wrong About Trans People, I Wonder Why
Most Americans support bans on gender-affirming medical care for trans youth and participation in sports for trans women — an agenda heartily endorsed by the media they consume.
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On the Front Lines: Alternative Forms of Protesting Police Violence
Alternative forms of protest are necessary to make activism accessible. Sometimes, they’re even more effective at creating change than a permitted march.
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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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I’m Sick of White Women Centering Themselves in the Struggle For Reproductive Justice
Whiteness needs to be decentered from the fight for reproductive justice. History is a powerful tool for transformation and rethinking – I want to share the history of mass sterilization and reproductive genocide of Puerto Rican women between the 1930s to 1970s.
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24 Actions You NEED to Take to Help Trans Women of Color Survive
This isn’t just exhausting. This is intergenerational trauma, oppression, and maybe even genocide. This violence is specifically targeted against black and brown women, gender non-conforming folks, and especially trans women of color.
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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.