Results for: be the change
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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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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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8 Disabled Women Who Are Changing the World Through Politics
We need intersectional critical thinkers to flood the political landscape and help win the war on facts. And with the most blatantly ableist President in modern history knocking on the door of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, disabled folks have got to lead that charge.
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The Riot Isn’t Over: 6 Movements and Organizations that Map Militancy in LGBT History
Regardless of whether you ultimately see the use of militant force as an admirable tactic, the truth is that any progress the queer community has made is at least in part to all those queers who refused to play by the rules, the queers who behaved badly, the queers who believed that unjust laws must be broken as a method of survival.
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10 Books on Voting, Elections and Government to Get You Ready for the Midterms
Informed citizens unite!
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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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Rebel Girls: 25 Women Who Changed the Game in 2015
These women mounted movements, won awards, told important stories, and otherwise shook the sh*t out of this planet in 2015.
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6 Things to Know If You’re Going to the Women’s March on Washington, D.C.
Going to the Women’s March on Washington or a solidarity event near you? I have some tips!
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Australia’s Anti-Same Sex Marriage Ads Ranked by Queerness
“Is this how straights think we have sex? We’re all just rainbow buckles and buckle ends, fruitlessly clacking against each other in sin.”
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10 More Disabled Women Who Are Making Political Noise
In honor of all the other crips I saw in the streets on the Women’s March on Washington, of every disabled woman who’s had it with lip service and wants to make sure this movement belongs to all of us, here are ten more who are already preparing the way.
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5 Newsletters to Help You Take Action Against Trump Today and Every Day
Get digestible action items against Trump and for your fellow citizens in your inbox each day to make it a little easier to work for justice.
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Rebel Girls: 22 Badass Black Women Who Are Leading Movements, Changing the World, Generally Awesome
Too often, paradigm shifts in the feminist movement are posited as if they come from the past.
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Rebel Girls: 10 Queer and Trans Women Who Want to Save Your State From Itself
A woman is gonna be president so soon! Get the fuck into it! And while you’re at it, vote for these queer and trans women.
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17 Science Gifs To Give You Peace, Give You Strength
We will take down white supremacy like sulphuric acid on toilet paper.
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10 Game-Changing Things We Learned At Facing Race 2014
2. Tension is a productive force.
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5 Moments from Jeff Sessions’ Senate Hearing That Show How Dangerous He Is
From voter ID laws to his anti-LGBT record to ‘obscenity’ legislation to his deeply racist history, Jeff Sessions’ hearings have demonstrated why he can’t be allowed to become Attorney General.
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Rebel Girls: 16 Women and Girls Who Shook the World in 2016
Here’s 16 women or groups of women who gave me and you and everyone we know some life in this, the darkest of years.
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16 Memories from Hillary Clinton’s 2016 Presidential Campaign That I’ll Hold in My Heart Forever
Our future is uncertain. Here’s what isn’t: We will fight on. And as I march and scream and weep and breathe and work and work and work and work for what’s right, I will carry these memories with me. Forever.
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Someone You Love Is Voting For Donald Trump — Now What?
Here are five ways you can cope with the knowledge that a person you love is making a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad decision.