Results for: patrisse cullors
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Dispatches From The Millions Marches: Thousands Show Up For #BlackLivesMatter Nationwide
“While it is definitely tragic we still have to march, there is something beautiful and hopeful about the fact that I am fighting for [my mom’s] freedom as much as mine, and we’re both out here so that my nephew, who just turned one, hopefully won’t have to march when he grows up.”
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“Good Trouble” Episode 302 Recap: Arraignment Day
This week’s Good Trouble shines a worthwhile light on the problem with cash bail.
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Also.Also.Also: Kamala Harris Picked as VP, Officially Becomes Straight Bette Porter
Kamala Harris has become first Black woman and the first person of Indian descent to be nominated for national office by a major party. (Also, did you know, women of color are running for congress at an all-time high? I like to call it the “Squad Effect.”)
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Reading List for the Revolution: Angela Davis & Radical Inspiration for 2021
What if we all committed to a radical reading list for 2021? What would we learn? And with this, what could we do? This collection of books will set you up with hope and pathways toward radical change in 2021.
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Black August: A Feminist and Queer Syllabus for Black Liberation
There’s a long and proud Black radical history of fighting back against the prison industrial complex and criminal (in)justice systems. So why is it that most of the voices that are upheld come from cis men?
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Black Trans People Have Been Modeling Mutual Aid Before It Became a Buzzword
For the Gworls is a prime example of how Black trans organizers have found ways to keep one another safe, housed, and healthy despite violence at every turn.
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Pop Culture Fix: Booksmart’s Beanie Feldstein is Queer IRL, FYI
Plus: New trailers for new seasons of Claws, Pose, and Jessica Jones; stabby Killing Eve news and interviews; Amber Benson’s playing gay again; Gentleman Jack has been renewed; that murdery lesbian cello Netflix movie, and more!
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Some Answers to Some Things You’ve Been Asking Us #31
How do non-D&D Discords even work?!
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Some Answers to Some Things You’ve Been Asking Us #30
Theres been a lot of hate for “hard pants” lately…
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“Good Trouble” Episode 208 Recap: Disruptions
The mideason finale of Good Trouble showcases the hard, un-glamorous, often solitary work of becoming an adult — something it does better than most shows on television.
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Lez Liberty Lit Is Going South
Finding queer southern lit, how the queer writers of the ’60s and ’70s shape Patrisse Cullors’s political work, the best of 2018 book lists and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit: The Work Is Bigger than Backorder
Readings and reading lists on Black radicalism, dismantling white supremacy, antiracism, police brutality and more.
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15 Activists to Follow Right Now for Some Much-Needed Hope and Empowerment
I don’t scroll mindlessly through Twitter and Facebook anymore. What I do instead is engage with the women activists who are leading our way in the battle through the darkness.
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80 of the Best Queer, Lesbian and Bisexual Books of the Decade
It sure has been a decade! Mainstream publishing has become much more open to queer stories, especially perhaps in YA, and the drive and determination of indie and queer publishing projects has meant that less saleable work that is sometimes more resonant to our lives has been able to make it to our shelves. Here are some of the brightest highlights!
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50 of the Best Feminist Books of 2018
Here are 50 of the best books from this year that are by and about women, feminism or gender and related intersectional issues. There seem to be strong recurring themes of dystopia, anger, and navigating violent structures of power. What a coincidence!Â
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Sunday Funday is Wearing Rainbow Chucks to the Frontline Awards
U.S. national soccer is sporting rainbow letters for pride, super gay sneakers from Nike and Converse if that’s your thing, self-care according to the laaaadies, Astrea’s Fueling the Frontlines Award are intersectional feminist fire, a new album from artists living in countries where being gay is dangerous or illegal, and more good queer stuff!
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Read a F*cking Book Club: Let’s Talk About “When They Call You a Terrorist”
Let’s talk about black studies, queer studies, black queer lives, and When They Call You A Terrorist!
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Protests, Parties, and What We Have to Be Proud of at LGBT Pride 2017
“Our rage and our joy aren’t at odds with each other; they’re both integral to our history, our present, our future.”
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Read a F*cking Book Club: We’re Reading “When They Call You A Terrorist”!
We’re gonna read Patrisse Khan-Cullors’ new memoir and it’s gonna be great!
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Laverne Cox’s “Doubt” Love Story Imagines a Better World for Trans Women
CBS already canceled Doubt, but the full first season is airing this summer and it’s breaking major ground for trans representation.