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Politics + Activism

Be The Change: Totally Rocking Small Group Breakouts

Facilitating a small group requires skills that aren’t always intuitive. I’ve got some tips and tricks and types of small group breakout sessions to help ya’ out!

KaeLyn May 22, 2017 8 Comments
Politics + Activism

Five Lessons Today’s Queer Activists Can Learn From ACT UP

Five lessons that start to explore just how much we can learn from our queer and trans forebears in AIDS activism.

Adrian May 17, 2017 8 Comments
Politics + Activism

Here’s How Queer and Trans People of Color Are Resisting Gentrification and Displacement

Lots of people are talking about gentrification, but who’s actually doing something about it? Queer and trans people of color, of course. In Oakland and Seattle, QTPOC are creating visionary solutions to combat gentrification and reclaim land for communities of color.

Neesha Powell-Twagirumukiza May 16, 2017 31 Comments
Politics + Activism

Bisexual Adventist and Former Pastor Alicia Johnston Contemplates Ministry After Coming Out

Seventh-Day Adventist pastor Alicia Johnston knew she would lose leadership of her congregation when she came out as bisexual, but did it anyway. She talked with Autostraddle about her hopes to the future, and how she wants to continue ministering to queer people of faith.

Adrian May 12, 2017 13 Comments
Politics + Activism

Nationalism Plus States’ Rights Are a Nightmare for Queer People

Maybe the reason Trump wants to pretend nobody has studied the Civil War is because he knows even a cursory look at history will expose his tricks.

Julia May 8, 2017 6 Comments
Politics + Activism

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.

KaeLyn May 8, 2017 9 Comments
Politics + Activism

Trump’s “Religious Liberty” Executive Order Doesn’t Explicitly Target Gay People but It’s Still Horrifying

Trump doesn’t want to deal with LGBTQ activists, but he’s happy to legitimize discrimination even if he’s not legalizing it.

Heather Hogan May 4, 2017 5 Comments
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The Terrifying Part of the ACA Repeal That’s Already Affecting Trans and Pregnant People

A lot of terrible, overwhelming things are happening for our community, right now. Let’s hold one another and try to understand what’s going on.

Priya May 4, 2017 26 Comments
Politics + Activism

Congress Casually Files LGBT Rights Bill; Trump and Pence Pass “Religious Liberty” Executive Order

Trump is reportedly planning to sign a “religious liberty” executive order that has Mike Pence written all over it — in the meantime, over 200 members of Congress say they’ll just go ahead and file a bill that adds sexual orientation and gender identity to the Civil Rights Act.

Rachel May 3, 2017 12 Comments
Politics + Activism

Photoessay: May Day March in Los Angeles

This year, unions and organizations came together across the country to push back on Trump’s immigration policies and showed how labor rights and immigrant rights intersect.

Molly May 2, 2017 3 Comments
Politics + Activism

Photoessay: ResisDANCE

When we (or our siblings) are under attack, stand up DANCE BACK.

Molly May 1, 2017 5 Comments
Politics + Activism

Five Lesbians Viciously Beaten by 15 Men, Say Portsmouth Police Let Attackers Ride Off in Taxis

One woman had her jaw broken and seven teeth knocked out, another a dislocated shoulder and bruised kidney, two left with black eyes — and, the victims of this homophobic attack tell the press, police have been handling the case “completely wrong.”

Riese April 25, 2017 25 Comments
Politics + Activism

Climate Change is a Problem Much Bigger Than the US — Here’s How All of Us Can Fight It

The Trump administration’s battle against environmental regulations and denial of climate change are terrifying, but the US isn’t the only nation that needs to do better by the planet, and fast. A scientist tells us what needs to be done, and where we can start.

Maree April 25, 2017 5 Comments
Politics + Activism

Be The Change: A Community Organizer’s Glossary

From A to Z (ok, technically to W), organizing terms you may know and some you should know! Get in here and learn what positionality, patch throughs, Twitter storms, U-1 consensus, and grasstops engagement are all about!

KaeLyn April 24, 2017 8 Comments
Politics + Activism

Photoessay: SCIENCE IS AWESOME

On Earth Day, we marched for Science. We marched for space exploration and cures for disease, for electricity and for the planet, and for everything that science has a hand in which is, well, everything.

Molly April 24, 2017 8 Comments
Politics + Activism

28-Year-Old Chay Reed is the 9th Trans Woman of Color Murdered This Year

Reed, who grew up in Carol City and graduated from American Senior High School, was just 28 years old. She is the sixth trans woman of color under the age of thirty murdered this year, and the eighth Black trans woman murdered this year.

Mey April 23, 2017 8 Comments
Politics + Activism

PHOTOESSAY: The April 15 Tax March

Thousands of people across the nation showed up to say that we, the people, want to see Donald’s tax returns.

Molly April 17, 2017 7 Comments
Politics + Activism

Be The Change: 5 Tips to Plan a Damn Good Activist Meeting

How to organize a meeting that won’t result in headaches, boredom, or existential dread.

KaeLyn April 10, 2017 6 Comments
Politics + Activism

UK Government Giving Money from Taxes on Tampons to an Anti-Choice Charity, Because Of Course They Are

The government needs to know that we support increasing abortion rights, not suppressing them, and that it is absolutely unacceptable to force uterus owners to fund an organisation trying to restrict our bodily autonomy.

Siobhan April 6, 2017 11 Comments
Politics + Activism

Court Rules Title VII Applies to Anti-LGBTQ Work Discrimination; Your Move, SCOTUS

An appeals court found that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 backs Kimberley Hivey, who says she was discriminated against at work for being a lesbian. The case may make it to the Supreme Court — and be a game changer when it comes to anti-LGBTQ discrimination in Trump’s America.

Rachel April 5, 2017 5 Comments
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