Results for: lip service
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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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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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Not Just Murder Victims: A Plea on Trans Day of Visibility
“If we are going to mourn our lost trans siblings, family and community members publicly, we need to do right by our community and contextualize their deaths with accuracy and intention.”
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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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Be The Change: Love Without Power Will Never Bring Justice
Let’s let love win, but not let love be our only strategy. Why we need to understand love and power together to win intersectional justice for all.
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Shooting at Orlando Gay Nightclub Leaves 50 Dead
One thing is clear — this was a homophobic attack.
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We Won A Thing: Nebraska Judge Strikes Down Same-Sex Marriage Ban, Gay Cornhuskers Could Begin Marrying Next Week
U.S. District Judge Joseph Bataillon called the ban an “unabashedly gender-specific infringement of the equal rights of its citizens.”
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Queer Histories Matter: How Ancient History Played a Starring Role in the Marriage Equality Case
“Queer histories matter not only for our own sense of identity and pride, but because they impact our legal realities, too.”
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Barneys New York Pays $525,000 in an Attempt To Be Less Racist
Barneys New York has been fined $525,000 by New York State Attorney General’s office in response to several incidences in which brown and black customers of Barneys were pursued, cuffed and detained under grounds of suspicion of credit card fraud and/or shoplifting.
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Stonewall Begins Work On Trans Inclusion, Asks for Your Feedback
#TransStonewall, a closed door conference attended by 50 trans activists and community members, hopefully signals a positive future for Britain’s largest LGB charity and its relationship with the trans community.
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The New Yorker’s Skewed History of Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminism Ignores Actual Trans Women
Michelle Goldberg’s coverage of radical feminists’ attack on trans woman is disturbingly one-sided.
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It’s Time for White Feminists to Stop Talking About Solidarity and Start Acting
“When will white feminists take collective responsibility for educating themselves? When will they understand the power at play that sings in their skins? We don’t exist in a vacuum and women of colour don’t exist to hold their hands and explain in painful detail why their behaviour continues to hurt us. Intersectional feminist politics are not for white women to co-opt as their own.”
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DNC Gives Lesbians Their Very Own Leadership Council
Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Democratic National Committee chair, announced the creation of a Lesbian Leadership Council that would focus on cultivating lesbian participation in the Democratic party, which has had a broader LGBT leadership council since 2000.
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State of the Struggle: First Come LGBT Legal Protections, Then Comes Marriage
The new Momentum Report from the Movement Advancement Project proves that gay marriage is just the tip of the iceberg. How is the LGBT community doing when it comes to everything else?
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Queer Catholic News Recap: Five and a Half Things To Know
Pope declares commission on sex abuse scandal, ACLU sues American Bishops, Cardinal Dolan declares he was “outmarketed” on gay marriage, and more.
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What’s Really Going On With Gay Tags and Tumblr Censorship — And Why You Should Care
Tumblr’s quest to track adult content is taking down some innocent bystanders. Queer bloggers are calling BS — and rightfully so.
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What The Heck Are LGBTs Gonna Do About The Sochi Olympics?
Russia just passed draconian anti-gay legislation. They’re also about to host the biggest international event in history. We look at the history of international responses to controversial Olympic hosts and ask — what now?
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Obama Calls for Public Housing for All, Queers and Trans People Included
Did you know that one in five trans people does not have stable housing? Obama’s administration does!
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Occupy Wall Street and the 99% Took to the Streets and I Was There
“Now that the movement is gaining some mainstream members beyond the ragtag band of activists who began the occupation three weeks ago, will the Occupy Wall Street movement galvanize real change impacting the economic disparities in the country they are protesting?”