Results for: meet up
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Extra! Extra!: How to Begin to Process the Unfolding Horror of COVID in India?
COVID returns to the forefront of this week’s Extra! Extra! as we look at the outbreak of COVID in India and the threats posed by variants across the globe. We look at the one thing that’s proving stronger than COVID: capitalism and how that’s impacting our recovery. The team also examines new developments on the immigration and criminal justice fronts and ponder what it means to hear the president tell transgender Americans he’s got their backs.
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Extra! Extra!: Amidst COVID-19, 62% of Black Trans Women Surveyed Are Also Living with HIV
This week’s Extra! Extra! takes a look at the latest criminal justice news in the wake of more police brutality and the Chauvin ruling, more perspectives on capitalist exploitations after the failed Bessemer union vote, LGBTQ+ news and, of course, the pandemic.
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Extra! Extra!: Untangling the Staggeringly Long List of Culpable Parties for the Insurrection
So much has happened, and in many ways it feels impossible for me to not look at everything through the lens of the insurrection in the U.S. Capitol. This is just one of those times where it’s as much as I can do to look at all the many ways America is, quite simply, falling apart right now. So this week’s Extra! Extra! is pretty much limited to American news: several angles of breaking down everything that’s horrifying about the insurrection, the Trump administration’s parting shots and how COVID continues to rage amid American incompetence.
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This Is on Us: 7 Things for White People to Commit to Right Now to Protect Black Lives from the Police
The pandemic has many of us feeling, in some ways accurately, that we’re helpless, or that there’s nothing we can do. The good news is, there is; there always has been. To that end, I’d like to ask you, a white person reading this, to make a public and material commitment to what you’ll do to end state violence and the endless targeting of Black people by the police apparatus.
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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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Also.Also.Also: Dyke Ice Drama! Meet the Multiple Ex-Wives of the US and Canadian Olympic Hockey Teams
According to the CDC more gays and lesbians are vaccinated than straight people, there is no climate justice without trans rights, and WTF happened to glossier?
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Also.Also.Also: Fiona Apple Put Her Money Where Her Mouth Is, Tells Hollywood to Redistribute Wealth
Fiona Apple is out here doing it. Also: Rep. Ilhan Omar, Angela Davis, and Shea Couleé. Thinking about what it means to be young, Black, and in the Trayvon Martin Generation. The WNBA is back in action. And more!
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Extra! Extra!: If Trump’s Administration Is So Incompetent, Why Is It So Efficient at Enacting Anti-LGBTQ Policies?
This week’s Extra! Extra! reports another bit of news that flew under the radar, this time regarding gun control (it’s not good, you guys). We also cover the heinous violence against three trans women in LA this week, USAID’s erasure of LGBTQ+ people and an update on what’s going on around the US regarding police violence and the protests. And then we turn to the elections – by which I mean Russia, Belarus and the US.
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MedSupplyDrive Relief Work Started with COVID-19, Now Includes Support for Protestors
We cold-called and emailed hundreds of places, heart in mouth, praying for someone to be generous. And people came through, offering gloves, masks, and more.
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Also.Also.Also: Megan Rapinoe and Sue Bird Will Be the Sexiest Hosts in ESPY History
Megan Rapinoe and Sue Bird keep taking their cute couple act on the (virtual) road! Plus, Christian Cooper — the survivor of that racist verbal attack in Central Park — is already a black gay icon, sex workers in favor of you using hand sanitizer, and so much more!
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24 Actions You NEED to Take to Help Trans Women of Color Survive
This isn’t just exhausting. This is intergenerational trauma, oppression, and maybe even genocide. This violence is specifically targeted against black and brown women, gender non-conforming folks, and especially trans women of color.
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Also.Also.Also: ‘Jane Roe’ From ‘Roe v. Wade’ Got Paid to Change Her Mind on Abortion
Norma McCorvey, better known as ‘Jane Roe,’ says she was paid to be an anti-abortion activist (she also had a relationship with a woman for 35 years, a fact that I never knew!). Plus: the history of black twitter, André Leon Talley, and 14 ways to find joy in spite of everything.
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Also.Also.Also: Former Viral Video Star Rebecca Black Comes Out as Queer, Just Before “Friday”
Pop music has always been queer, meet the smart women at the Library of Congress who are archiving your dumb memes, R.O. Kwon on grieving a pandemic, and the world is hard enough — here are some hot photos to celebrate Kristen Stewart’s 30th birthday.
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Also.Also.Also: 2020 Black Lives Matter Protests Are “Unprecedented In Scope” and Just Getting Started
In today’s link roundup: Minneapolis will dismantle its police department, Trump truly could just refuse to leave office, justice for Breonna Taylor, #8toAbolition, more on what defunding the police means, an interview with the “I yield my time” guy and more from the thousands of really important stories in the world today.
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Extra! Extra!: Some of the Changes We Can Already See as the Trump Era Drags On
In this week’s Extra! Extra! we continue following America’s election 2020 saga, the havoc the Trump administration continues to wreak in its final two months and a few encouraging outcomes from the 2020 election. We also have some States-side updates on the COVID-19 pandemic and other situations unfolding around the world.
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Southern West Virginia Harm Reduction Gets Creative to Survive the Pandemic
“I can’t speak for all harm reduction efforts, and I think the impacts can be different depending on who you’re doing outreach with or who you are centering, but here in rural West Virginia, it’s a small community; the impact is so apparent.”
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Bed-Stuy Strong: How to Start a 3,000-Member Neighborhood Mutual Aid Network
“Nobody may come to help us in time; we are all we’ve got. We need to organize, quickly, online, and geographically.”
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Extra! Extra!: As the Dust Settles, Here’s What We’ve Learned So Far in the 2020 Election
Last week I was full of the nervous anxiety you feel when you know something big is about to happen, and you’re just counting down the clock. This week I’ve been full of the nervous anxiety of indefinite waiting. And yet, in that time, so much has happened in the world. In this week’s Extra! Extra! we share some reflections on the 2020 election and news on events from Vienna to Poland to Ethiopia to the Philippines to New Zealand to Chile.
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How to Start a Mutual Aid Fund
I know that collective care is the future because it has made my past and present possible. We must acknowledge that mutual aid is not original—or optional—for chronically dispossessed people and therefore, always already political.
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Extra! Extra!: Where to Start, Trump’s Tax Avoidance or COVID Superspreading?
This week’s Extra! Extra! gives an update on the latest scandals from Trumpland, some reflections on what happened in Minneapolis this summer, another setback in the fight for Indigenous rights and sovereignty and news on some of the growing conflicts in the Western world.