Results for: queer parenting
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Alabama’s Anti-IVF Ruling Quotes God To Conclude Embryos Are People and Queer Parents Are F*cked
Alabama’s Supreme Court rules that embryos are people because God said so, and the implications for prospective queer parents in the state are dire.
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Florida’s Latest Ruling Against “Don’t Say Gay” Law Isn’t Enough
While the ruling does help make working in schools for teachers and going to school for students just slightly easier, the material realities for trans people in Florida continue to deteriorate as a result of these laws.
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How a Far-Right Moms Group Is Threatening Queer Liberties in Schools
And what we can learn from them this Pride.
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Also.Also.Also: Queen Latifah Becomes the First Woman Rapper To Be Given Kennedy Center Honors
It was L Word Day at the WGA Strike, so Ilene Chaiken announced that “Corporate Greed Killed Jenny.” Also, the 100 most significant political films of all time.
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Florida Parents’ Concern Over David Statue Resembles Long History of Homophobic Obscenity Claims
The anti-pornography crusade by reactionary conservative politicians has long been a strategy they’ve used to try to conserve and consolidate power.
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Don’t Say Gay Was Never About Children — But We Already Knew That
With new proposed legislation, Florida is ushering in a new Lavender Scare.
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Laphonza Butler Will Replace Dianne Feinstein, Becoming America’s First Black Lesbian Senator
The appointment, which California Governor Gavin Newsom confirmed late Sunday night and will announce later today, is historic — though potentially short lived.
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Reneé Rapp Calls for “Immediate and Permanent Ceasefire in Gaza” From GLAAD Awards Stage
What most struck me about Reneé Rapp’s willingness to say the words “ceasefire in Gaza” from the GLAAD stage is how rare it is, even now, to see eventhat level of advocacy at all.
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Cecilia Gentili Showed What It Means To Care About Sex Workers, Immigrants, and Trans People
She saw organizing and her work within her communities not as something she had to do but as something she needed and wanted to do.
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How To Fight Back Against Book Bans
However you choose to engage with Banned Books Week, I hope you’ll think about the books that have led you to the person you are today.
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Remembering Minnie Bruce Pratt’s Legacy as a Radical Southern Femme
She might have left the South, but she never forgot it, scorned it, or neglected it.
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Conservatives Will Try to Paint Trans People as Violent Extremists, We Cannot Let Them
Conservatives are going to try to leverage this tragedy to further paint trans people as violent extremists, to try and equate queerness and leftist ideals with domestic terrorism. We cannot let them win.
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Once Again, Journalistic “Objectivity” Is Failing Us — Especially Queer and Other Marginalized Writers
Three queer writers and editors recently resigned from the New York Times Magazine.
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Disasters as Experiences of Care: How to Pack a Go Bag, Give Mutual Aid in Crisis, and Rethink Queer Preparedness
When I was a teenager, my parents prepped for the y2k crisis. Now I’m trying to understand what queer preparedness looks like in an uncertain time.
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As a Jewish Anti-Zionist, Here’s What I’ve Been Reading This Week
A lack of expertise should not be an excuse to turn away — it should be an invitation to learn.
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The Fall of Roe Is For All Of Us
There’s a lot of confusion going around about what this all means and as someone who worked in repro and/or civil liberties work for over fifteen years, I’m here to demystify the moment we’re in right now.
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There Were 122 Lesbian, Bisexual, Queer and Trans Candidates in the 2022 Midterms, Here’s How They Did
A red wave was coming, they told us. But they didn’t account for a new record for out LGBTQ candidates, who ran the table all across the country.
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I’m Coming Out as an Anti-Zionist Jew
Going viral holding a sign that reads “My grandpa didn’t survive Auschwitz to bomb Gaza,” is not how I planned to start a conversation with my family condemning Israel’s actions against the Palestinian people. I’m not the only Jewish person who has long chosen to self-silence rather than stand with my values, but it’s not too late for other Jewish people to join me. The moment for Jewish-Palestinian solidarity is now.
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Queer Latina Tiffany Cabán Is Running For NYC Council, Bringing Hope To 2021
She ran a progressive campaign for Queens DA that put New York’s establishment on notice, and now has NYC Council in sight. “It’s not about good people or bad people, it’s just about people. We need to divest from policing and incarceration and invest in the true sources of safety.”
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Extra! Extra!: Everything Not the Election It’s Been Hard to Keep Up with
This week’s Extra! Extra! looks at a whole slew of non-election related news, including LGBTQ+ rights and the trifecta of global pandemics: police violence, climate change and COVID-19. And then, of course, we do take a look at election-related news too.