Brianna Ghey’s Murderers Have Received Life Sentences — Is That Justice?
The truest form of justice is prevention.
The Queer Feminist Case for Palestine
When I say queer, I mean hostile to the military industrial complex that generates profit by manufacturing weapons designed to kill people.
Los Angeles Gay Bar The Abbey Faces an Overdue Reckoning
In a detailed report from The 19th, over 70 people describe being drugged at The Abbey — including many queer women.
How Bluestockings Bookstore Is Fighting To Keep Serving Queer, Trans, and Houseless Communities
I wish this were just a piece on how a longstanding queer bookstore and refuge is finding ways to continue practicing care and love for their community. Unfortunately, this is also a story of gentrification and white supremacist capitalism not caring about what’s right and medically safe.
This Bookstore Is Giving Banned Books Back to the Florida Community They Were Removed From
A school district in Florida expunged thousands of LGBTQ and BIPOC kids books. This radical anarchist bookstore is giving them back.
The Most Important Movie of the Year Is a Documentary From 1976
The Memory of Justice draws parallels between the Holocaust and the more recent horrors of the French occupation of Algeria and the American occupation of Vietnam.
“Queer People Are No Friends to Israeli Apartheid”: LGBTQ+ Artists Sign Open Letter for Palestine
The letter also crucially includes a commitment to a cultural boycott of Israel.
Florida Teachers Fight Anti-LGBTQ Policies As the State Punishes Schools That Dare To Resist
All of DeSantis’ efforts to silence and oppressively legislate students and educators in the state are connected and should be confronted simultaneously.
Susan Sarandon, Melissa Barrera, and the Troubling Pattern of Punishment for Advocating for Palestine
More news surfaces about the timeline of Melissa Barrera’s removal from Scream, and Susan Sarandon has issued an apology for her wording. Both continue to stand with Palestine.
Julianna Margulies Sure As Hell Has No Business Speaking for LGBTQ People
Juliana Marguiles said on a podcast that “as someone who plays a lesbian journalist on The Morning Show,” she’s offended by LGBTQ+, Black and Jewish people supporting Palestinian liberation.
Cynthia Nixon Joins Hunger Strike for Permanent Ceasefire in Gaza
More than a dozen activists and local lawmakers are hunger striking in Washington right now to call for President Biden and Congress commit to a permanent ceasefire, Cynthia Nixon is one of the them.
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.
Indigenous Resistance Movements From the 20th and 21st Centuries We Can Learn From
As the national and international conversations on colonialism, imperialism, and decolonization progress and spread, I think it’s important for us to continue reflecting on the big and small ways Indigenous groups in the U.S. and abroad have challenged and fought against the occupying, colonialist, imperialist forces that have attempted to wipe those groups off the map entirely.
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.
The Complicated History of Reed Erickson, A Different Kind of Trans Resistance
When I think about people who had the power (and money) to do something and then did, I think of Erickson and all he accomplished.
Virginia’s Election Results Push Back Hard Against Anti-Trans Agendas in the South
Virginia flipped the Senate, elected the first trans Senator in the South, and ensured the Governor can’t dismantle LGBTQ rights.
Your Fear Doesn’t Matter
No amount of money given to the police or the military will cure the world of its dangers. It will, however, make things worse.
Palestinian Liberation Is Queer Liberation
Queer people are everywhere, and to wield homophobia as a tool to justify the oppression or destruction of others is in fact to just replicate hate, harm, and oppression, not fix it.
Where To Give Money and Take Action To Support Palestinians Right Now
The current circumstances are beyond the point of silence or inaction — they have been for a long time.
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.