Hello and welcome! May all of our head colds and flus and periods have run their course by Sunday night, amen.
Queer as in F*ck You
Can I Be Happy With My Male Partner When I Dream About Dating a Creative, Intellectual Woman?
Trans and Nonbinary Fitness Trainers Are Building Tiny Empires on Instagram.
For These Trans And Gender Non-Conforming Youth, Trump’s Reported Word Ban Is Personal.
Welcome to the Hellmouth
Trump Reportedly Terminated All Members Of HIV/AIDS Council Without Explanation.
Doll Parts
Erica Garner Declared Brain Dead After Heart Attack. This is devastating.
How Hospitals Are Failing Black Mothers.
Recy Taylor, Who Fought for Justice After a 1944 Rape, Dies at 97.
Ink Minx: Shanzey Afzal’s Mobile Feminist Tattoo Studio.
Keep Up
Mapping Police Violence in 2017.
How Fines and Fees Criminalize Poverty.
Inside ‘Hold The Line,’ A New Publication For Parents Committed To Social Justice.
In 2018, White People Must Invest in Anti-Racism.
Tehran Police: No More Arrests for Flouting Dress Code.
Saw This, Thought of You
The College Student Who Decoded the Data Hidden in Inca Knots.
Why Black People Own Guns. This is simplistically titled but attempts to parse out the many intersections of being black in America while exercising your second amendment rights.
And Finally
Top 8 Must-See Sky Events for 2018.
Wow if that’s true about the dress code in Iran, every woman in whole family who lived there in the late 70s through the 90s deserves an apology.
Reading the article it doesn’t sound like a huge improvement.
That Catapult letter (the first link) could have been me. I was pretty much in this position with my boyfriend – he was good, but didn’t really give that kind of creative intellectual excitement I was after (we had other intellectual connections but not the same). We eventually broke up but we’re still close and it was for the best really.
And oof that exiled lesbian piece. Too close to home.
Jenn Jackson’s article on white people actively investing in anti-racism was excellent! Combination of framing ideas succinctly, with a host of practical concrete actions to take in 2018. Thanks!