The Power Issue

The Power Issue is full of stories that explore the micro and macro ways that power does its work in our world.

Dykes Rule the Night

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Dykes Rule the Night

Summer of 1990

I remember it all because for that one hour of that one day in that…

Vikki Reich

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Dec 18, 2019
Trans Women of Color Organizers Are Building a Movement to Decriminalize Sex Work in D.C.

These trans women activists have banded together in support of a city council bill that,…

Neesha Powell-Twagirumukiza

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Dec 13, 2019
“Tired!” or How I Ran For, and Queered, My Union’s Politics

After my frustrations grew, I ran for a seat in SAG-AFTRA’s delegation and became our…

Kylie

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Dec 12, 2019
BOOK LISTS

8 Amazing Books about Queer/Lesbian/Bi/Trans Women with Superpowers

Is it too obvious to say that reading books about queer women with superpowers can…

Casey

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Dec 9, 2019
Toward an Applicable Theory of Just Not

On refusal, rest, and resistance.

Rachel

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Dec 3, 2019
Clockbeat

If you could have any superpower, what would it be?

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Dec 2, 2019
On Saying No

Saying yes almost destroyed me, but I was still afraid to say no.

Jen Bates

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Nov 26, 2019
ASTROLOGY, TAROT & WITCHCRAFT

Finding Personal Power and Magic in Tarot

Church leaders wielded the idea of “the will of the Lord” in ways that forced…

meg

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Nov 25, 2019
Writing Queer Ugandan Futures into the Present

The story of queerness in Uganda, bound as it has been to fictions about who…

Kirabo

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Nov 21, 2019
Warning: Someone’s Body

I am coming to believe that my body is where my knowledge of the Divine…

Adrian

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Nov 20, 2019
The Color of the Sky

I could be anything, my mother taught me. I could be anyone I wanted. Except…

Allegra Jackson

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Nov 19, 2019
The Unfortunate Power to Confuse

An autobiographical comic.

coz frimpong

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Nov 18, 2019
How to Fry Potatoes

When Thanksgiving rolled around I spent all my money on alcohol, and was left eating…

danijanae

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Nov 15, 2019
Anatomy of a Power Lesbian

I don’t think there was a specific cultural inception, but rather a percolation of various…

Sally

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Nov 14, 2019
Small Waves

I don’t think anyone looks at the introverted, disabled woman, and thinks she’s powerful. But…

Abbey

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Nov 13, 2019
ASTROLOGY, TAROT & WITCHCRAFT

I Want Co-Star to Tell Me What to Do

Astrology was too complicated. I decided to place my trust in Co–Star.

Drew Burnett Gregory

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Nov 12, 2019
The Power of Change

“I told myself that moving was not going to actually fix my life, that living…

Christina Tucker

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Nov 11, 2019
When Walking It Off Stops Working

This was the way we found power over pain: Move.

Marissa H

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Nov 6, 2019

Astrology, Tarot & Witchcraft

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The Power Issue is full of stories that explore the micro and macro ways that power does its work in our world.

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