Results for: queer parenting
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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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Black History Month Roundtable: What Does Queering Black History Mean To You?
“For me, queering Black History Month is about making sure that future generations don’t feel the same pressure to choose between their blackness and their sexuality that I once did. It’s about leaving space to be all of yourself, at once.”
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India Beaty, Queer Black Woman, Killed By Police in Norfolk, Virginia
India Beaty, a queer black woman, was fatally shot by Virginia police for carrying a replica handgun, bombs in Brussels kill at least 31 people, a new study finds Canadian LGB people have chronic stress and drink heavily, The Bronx Trans Collective opens and more news!
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Aquí Estamos: Organizing the First QPOC Conference in the Rio Grande Valley
Aquí Estamos is Spanish for “we’re here.” The first ever QPOC conference in the RGV is letting everyone know just that — we’re here and we’ll be here to organize and fight against the social and political factors that affect us.
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Daily Fix: Tamara Dominguez, Trans Woman of Color, Killed in Violent Car Attack and More News Stories
Jovana Luna, a trans Latina activist, suddenly passed away, a new startup wants to help trans people find trusted doctors, a historic Baptist church agrees to not discriminate based on sexual orientation and gender identity and more news.
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Daily Fix: No Justice, No Peace for Black Lives Killed By Police and Other News
The off-duty officer who killed Rekia Boyd is dismissed of all charges, Freddie Gray’s death brings more questions, students in Pennsylvania organize an anti-gay day and more bleak news!
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Five Reasons the Fight for $15 Matters for LGBT People
Raising the minimum wage is a critical piece in a complex puzzle of alleviating economic struggle for queer and trans people.
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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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Burials in the Mist of Dawn
“But unlike the missing 43 from Ayotzinapa, I was going home. And it’s what I store in my memory each time I read an article or update about the disappeared. I am home. They are not.”
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When We Talk Reproductive Justice, We Need to Talk About Surrogate Parents
Surrogacy agencies within and without the United States are using legal loopholes to profit from poor women and women of color’s bodies.
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10 Game-Changing Things We Learned At Facing Race 2014
2. Tension is a productive force.
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The QPOC Speakeasy Speaking Out With Love To Mike Brown
“It is a crystal clear, paint-by-the-numbers picture of chronic police hostility toward African-Americans. This is anti-blackness in America. Make no mistake.”
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Queers for Economic Justice Closes Its Doors Thanks to Lack of Economic Justice
“QEJ will always be a philosophy. If you are a queer, you can be for economic justice. …You don’t have to have a 501(c)(3).”
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American LGBT Workers of Color Are Part of a Broken Bargain
For queer women of color, intersectionality isn’t just a “concept” or a “framework” for theorists to use for mind exercise — it’s a lived experience.
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From India to Singapore, Queer Visibility in South and Southeast Asia is On the Rise
It’s been a big summer for South and Southeast Asia when it comes to LGBT/queer news. The most important aspect of this news, however, is that it was reported at all.
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Autostraddle’s Women of Color Ask: What Does WOC Mean To Me?
“When I see lesbian couple after lesbian couple with not only matching haircuts and clothes but matching skin colours, I feel alone.”
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More Schoolgirls in India Might Be Lesbians
“The fact that they are mustering the courage to come for help on their own is indeed a paradigm shift.”
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Race, Sexuality & Feminism: Autostraddle Feminist Roundtable Part 2
In which we ask: How does your race and/or sexuality impact your feminist identity? Do you ever feel you have to “pick one”?
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Right Now Lesbians Like Caster Semenya Much More Than Barack Obama
People from all over the internet weigh in on how we should feel about Obama, Scott Roeder gets a life sentence but the Pope apparently can’t be tried, the GOP is crazy, and we still love Caster Semenya.
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Local Cops Out Lesbian Soldier: Is Bigotry to Blame? Or Spite?
Gay people, especially lesbians of color like Jene Newsome, continue not asking or telling and being discharged anyways — and sidenote, Rapid City has a significant history of racial discrimination. J. Crew has discriminatory hiring practices, Elton got a death threat, gay men may or may not be able to give blood eventually, New Hampshire is standing for marriage equality, and the Paycheck Fairness may be able to make a difference for working women and their families. Also, Jon Stewart explains it all for you.