Results for: be the change
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Nicaraguan Lesbians Make Visibility Dreams Come True With “Cuando Las Lesbianas Hablamos”
In Nicaragua, homosexuality is decriminalized, but queer people have few legal protections. This project provides a new avenue for people to understand the experiences of Nicaraguan lesbians.
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This Media Campaign Is As Awesome As Trans-Exclusionary Medicaid Regulations Are Terrible
I hope in a couple generations, kids look at us like we are insane when we tell them about the current state of health care in this country. For trans people, especially trans women of color, the picture is particularly dire.
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Monica Jones Found Guilty of “Manifesting Prostitution,” Will Be “Rescued” from Sex Work by Incarceration
“In May of 2013, Monica Jones became one of the people arrested by Project ROSE; the charge was “manifesting prostitution” for accepting a ride home to her neighborhood from men who turned out to be undercover cops. This week, Jones was found guilty, and faces the possibility of serving time in a men’s prison as a trans woman.”
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Ending Violence Against Queer Black Women Is Everybody’s Responsibility
Moore’s article challenges Black men, but it also challenges us all — especially queer folk — to examine the way we enact violence upon each other.
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Poet Jade Foster’s Revival Tour Takes You to Church
“Every person who comes up and asks to share, has never left me. Every friend or colleague who said I’ll watch your door, I’ll send that email, I’ll pick y’all up, y’all can stay at my house, has never left me.”
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Four Immigration Activists and UndocuQueers to Watch Out For
Many young activists are leading the charge for immigrant justice. As they come out for immigrant justice, many are also coming out as queer.
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Colorlines’ Applied Research Center Races Forward By Becoming “Race Forward”
Why can’t every social justice organization be more like these guys?
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Not Just A Flicker: The Rise Of The New American Left
Grassroots leftist organizing is happening all over the U.S. right now, across generations, race, gender, sexuality and class.
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At Last, NYC’s “Stop And Frisk” Policy Ruled Unconstitutional
“Many police practices may be useful for fighting crime — preventive detention or coerced confessions, for example — but because they are unconstitutional they cannot be used, no matter how effective.”
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American LGBT Workers of Color Are Part of a Broken Bargain
For queer women of color, intersectionality isn’t just a “concept” or a “framework” for theorists to use for mind exercise — it’s a lived experience.
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From India to Singapore, Queer Visibility in South and Southeast Asia is On the Rise
It’s been a big summer for South and Southeast Asia when it comes to LGBT/queer news. The most important aspect of this news, however, is that it was reported at all.
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Joy and Rage: Why the Fight for Queer Equality Doesn’t End with Marriage
The struggles of queer and trans* people are no less important than the struggles of gay people, and if they move forward without us, they are not moving forward at all.
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Educar, No Lucrar: Students In Chile Demanding Change
”We do not want to improve the actual system; we want a profound change – to stop seeing education as a consumer good, to see education as a right where the state provides a guarantee.”
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Saudi Arabia’s Working Women Propose Their Own City Because They’re Tired of Waiting
If you can’t beat ’em, move out and show ’em they fucked up. And maybe it will work.
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Autostraddle’s Women of Color Ask: What Does WOC Mean To Me?
“When I see lesbian couple after lesbian couple with not only matching haircuts and clothes but matching skin colours, I feel alone.”
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Queer Texas Rep. Mary Gonzalez Is Hope and Action and The Coolest Politician Ever
“We never ask young people what they are willing to sacrifice to make the world better and that’s one of the biggest problems in this country.”
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Latina Queer Democrat Mary Gonzalez Voted into Texas House of Representatives
Mary Gonzalez is a Latina Lesbian and Texans voted for her.
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CeCe McDonald Sentenced to 41 Months in Jail for Surviving Transphobic and Racist Attack
CeCe McDonald will go to jail after agreeing to plead guilty to second-degree murder, although she maintains she acted in self-defense.
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Supreme Court Considers Rejecting Affirmative Action From College Admissions Process
Affirmative action is going to the Supreme Court — maybe for the last time.
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I’m from Driftwood Shares Black LGBT Stories Online and in NYC This Week
Check out the Black Community Spotlight at Gallery Bar on Tuesday, Jan. 31st if you’re in NYC, and online if you’re not!