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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.

By Riese| June 9, 2020 | 4 Comments
News + Politics

Also.Also.Also: Citizen Telling LA Police Chief “Suck My Dick and Choke On It” On Zoom Call Truly Speaks For Us All

The thread of videos of police violence against peaceful protestors is miles long now, over 10k protesters have been arrested, Trump sheds more allies, Kristen Stewart marches with BLM, Public Health officials know anti-Black police violence is a national health crisis and more.

By Riese| June 4, 2020 | 2 Comments
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Also.Also.Also: Police Brutality Rages at Protests Against Police Brutality — What’s Happening Now and How To Help

In today’s Also.Also.Also link roundup: many accounts of police violence against protesters, and resources for educating yourself, supporting black businesses, providing jail support, donating to mutual aid funds and more.

By Riese| June 2, 2020 | 11 Comments
Society + Culture

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Cynthia Nixon on Mike Pence, money in segregated school districts, Hannah Gadsby, queer communities in red states, queers and money problems, T Kira Madden, arsenic panic, and more!

By Laneia| March 4, 2019 | 9 Comments
Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: Megan Rapinoe and Sue Bird Will Show You What Crazy Can Do

Queer truckers, Facebook mods with PTSD, Jackie Shane, talking queer money with the Nancy podcast, Sleater-Kinney, I’m willing spring, workism is killing us, and more!

By Laneia| February 25, 2019 | 8 Comments
Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: Do We Still Need Queer Media? Yes Next Question

Monica Roberts, Indigenous journalists, The Baby-Sitters Club and its gayness, Indya Moore, gay Catholic priests, restaurant criticism, let’s go on this Golden Girls Cruise, and more!

By Laneia| February 21, 2019 | 15 Comments
Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: WE DESERVE LESBIAN ROMCOMS AND WE DESERVE THEM NOW

A lot to do about romantic comedies as a lifestyle, forgetting how to read, Sharon Mattes has died, Indiana is sooooooo pious, how the children of anti-vaxxers are coping now, and so much more!

By Laneia| February 18, 2019 | 16 Comments
Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: Get In We’re Going to This Queer Diner in the Desert

Gender-neutral and menopausal, remembering Parkland, Indonesia’s government is cracking down on LGBTQ content, Roxane Gay, and more!

By Laneia| February 14, 2019 | 14 Comments
Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: Finding Marijuana at the Intersection of Trauma and Queerness

Dogs before Insta, TV’s trying to make us better, teen girls are trying to save us, Preeti Mistry, Ellen Page, a cure for HPV, and more!

By Laneia| February 11, 2019 | 7 Comments
Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: How British Feminism Is Being Eaten Alive by TERFs and Other Stories for Your Day

Schitt’s Creek, a period emoji FINALLY, queer families are growing, VR and the trans body, a hole under a glacier (and other ways I describe my emotional state), the nightclubs of Harlem, and more!

By Laneia| February 7, 2019 | 44 Comments
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Also.Also.Also: Ellen Page Is Fired Up and Coming for Mike Pence, Plus Other Stories for Your Week

Planned Parenthood, Evan Rachel Wood, Black legacy wrapped in fur, Patrisse Cullors on burnout, Hannah Gadsby on tour, the promise of sleep, NJ teaching LGBTQ history, Super Bowl ads, and so much more!

By Laneia| February 4, 2019 | 8 Comments
Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: Navajo Grandparents Fight the Effects of Colonialism for LGBTQ Family

King Princess + Fiona Apple = 😭, queering the vote, why are we pretending to love work, creepy children’s stories, a GLAAD award for LGBTQ video games, Holland Taylor slides into DMs, and so much more!

By Laneia| January 28, 2019 | 7 Comments
Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: Racial Segregation and the Anti-Abortion Movement Are Fucked Up Bedfellows

Catherine O’Hara, right-wing terrorism is killing us, Kristen Stewart’s new hair, Xena, Broad City, how we got to queer, iconic teen bedrooms in pop culture, Spice Girls, and so much more!

By Laneia| January 24, 2019 | 7 Comments
Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: Melissa Etheridge Dons Gayest Pants Ever to Sing National Anthem at AFC Championship

Ellen Page, LGBTQ health training, Tracy Chapman, toxic shock syndrome lies, Fyre Fest et al, fake Gawker, Kamala Harris is running, and so much more!

By Laneia| January 21, 2019 | 12 Comments
Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: New York Bans Conversion Therapy and Other Stories for Your Whole Deal

LGBT crisis in Chechnya, lesbian is fired for looking gay, teachers + guns, sunscreen, the Influencer, the shutdown, a deeper look at AfterEllen’s dangerous transphobia, and more!

By Laneia| January 17, 2019 | 27 Comments
Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: Ellen DeGeneres and the Prison of Her Own Making, Plus Other Stories for Your Week

Starving college students, what to do with stuff you don’t want, banning conversion therapy, surviving depression, the BRIT awards, and so much more!

By Laneia| January 14, 2019 | 28 Comments
Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: Man Asks Lesbian Couple at Football Game If They “Need a Man In Their Life,” Assaults Them, Gets Charged With Hate Crime

Trans in the South, Desiree Akhavan’s discman, decolonizing fitness, Marielle Franco’s widow, The Green Book but actually, Kamala Harris’s hat in proximity to the ring, and more!

By Laneia| January 10, 2019 | 9 Comments
Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: Anti-LGBTQ Bills for Which to Gird Your Loins in 2019 and Other Stories That Exist

Trump’s trans military ban, zero, 90s smooth jazz, bisexual poverty, LGBTQ folks and their guns, queer gaming history, Surviving R. Kelly, the burnout generation, animal actors, and more!

By Laneia| January 7, 2019 | 12 Comments
Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: Bolsonaro Wasted No Time Fucking Over Indigenous and LGBTQ Brazilians

Sparrows, Hayley Kiyoko, California’s new nonbinary ID marker, getting sober, holding grudges, the farthest thing we’ve ever known, make your apartment look like a glamorous and complicated murderer might live there, and more!

By Laneia| January 3, 2019 | 13 Comments
Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: The Internet Is Fake But We’re Keeping It Anyway, and Other Stories to End 2018! 🎉

Food on TV, keep your holiday lights up, safe chest binding, anti-abortion laws are killing us, LGBTQ censorship, Andrea Gibson, and the story of a lesbian cable guy. Oh, and more! There’s also more.

By Laneia| December 31, 2018 | 9 Comments
Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: 2018 According to Women and Nonbinary Photographers and Other Stories From Your Week

A queer Rose Parade Queen, a year of resistance, Kristen Stewart’s shirts, LGBTQ substance abuse, weird NYE facts, a year of wholesome viewing, and more!

By Laneia| December 28, 2018 | 2 Comments
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