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Cisgender activists speak: Why is supporting trans rights important?
A mere decade after the Stonewall Rebellion, as the LGBTQIA+ community was winning some victories, the right wing began mobilizing to take them away. It began in Dade County, Florida, as former Miss America Anita Bryant led a campaign called “Save Our Children.”
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Schools should protect trans youth, not ‘out’ them
Young people from California to Alabama are under threat from policies that require school staff to alert parents if a student identifies as trans.
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Conga against Homophobia and Transphobia in Cuba defends peace in Palestine
Representatives of Cuban LGBTI activism and friends from other countries joined the parade calling for “All rights for all people”, organized by the National Center for Sex Education (Cenesex) as part of the Cuban Days against Homophobia and Transphobia, May 3-18.
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Beyond the binary of race and class: A Marxist Humanist perspective
The emergence of a new generation of antiracist activists and theorists seeking to advance an anticapitalist agenda creates a new vantage point of reexamining how racism relates to the logic of capital. This essay explores sources in the work of Marx, twentieth century Marxists, and Frantz Fanon that can provide direction for overcoming the binary of class and race.
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Opinion: England’s anti-trans Cass review is politics disguised as science
The recent report borrows from DeSantis bans on transgender care in Florida and appears designed to provide political justification for further attacks on transgender care.
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Pope Francis has abandoned transgender Catholics
In a recent official Declaration on Human Dignity, Dignitas Infinita, the Pope has endorsed a document that effectively outlaws sex change for transgender Catholics. The Declaration is both harsh and unrelenting in its tone, dismissive of new science and judgemental of those Catholics who in good faith make life choices contrary to the edicts of the Church. Nothing new here, but just another slap in the face for people who seek to live their God given lives as authentically and honestly as possible.
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Rest in power Nex Benedict
Last week we were made aware of a possible hate-motivated attack in the Owasso school district, leading to the death of the targeted student. While the information we have been able to gather leaves us with a still incomplete picture, we know that Nex Benedict, the student who died, faces being deadnamed and misgendered in […]
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Which side are you on? Far-right deepens threats to trans lives, Biden stays silent
Threats of violence by neo-Nazis grow in tandem with the “official” attacks. Incursions by hate groups aimed at queer events and spaces are becoming more common even in “safe” cities like Los Angeles and Boston.
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How ‘parental rights’ language smuggles anti-LGBTQ hate into mainstream politics
‘Parental rights’ is a hateful piper’s tune to commandeer the minds of adults who are supposed to know better.
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File under ‘s’ for solidarity: Union members defend local library
When the MAGA right planned to protest a drag event at a local library, North Shore Labor Council members showed up to fight back.
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‘Standing up for trans people is self-defense for every worker’
Interview with Oct. 7 organizer.
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‘Kokomo City’ review: An unfiltered look into the lives of Black trans women sex workers
The new documentary Kokomo City is a raw and unfiltered look into the lives of Black trans women sex workers. In a time when legislative persecution of those belonging to the LGBTQ community is running rampant in a number of states, the film arrives unapologetically, daring viewers to hear the truths of its subjects.
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Hate is taught, whereas love is automatic
VA writer Andreína Chávez takes stock of worrying attacks against the LGBTQI+ community and argues that the Bolivarian Process should not let them fester.
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Everybody should see “Every Body”
A wave of exclusion is sweeping the nation, in state legislatures and federal courts, including the Supreme Court.
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The Supreme Court and political corruption
The Supreme Court has always been a political institution. Racism, political expediency, and outright corruption have always dictated its decisions.
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Late night thoughts from a dialectical transfeminist
An economy of representation has done folks like Jordan Neely and Banko Brown an incredible disservice. TERFs have seized upon their deaths to justify carceral deputization among non-police actors, triangulating their respective forms of manhood and their overall embodiments with a threat to public safety and to asset protection.
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A trans person reflects on Cuba and Florida
Melinda Butterfield: “As I sat in Miami, I was keenly aware that Gov. Ron DeSantis was preparing to sign several laws aimed at banning trans people from public life and getting the health care they need to live.” (DeSantis did sign these laws just a few days later, not by coincidence, on May 17 – the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia.)
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Anti-trans politicians are following the Nazi playbook
Right-wingers don’t have any answers for the issues that matter, so they’re viciously attacking a vulnerable minority.
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The hand of God in Uganda – Part 1
President Biden condemned anti-gay laws in Uganda but forgot to blame the actual guilty party.
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LGBTQ+ Ugandans face deadly threat as “Anti-Homosexuality Act” signed into law
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has approved an anti-LGBTQ+ law that makes the “offense of homosexuality” punishable by life imprisonment and even death.