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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.
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Fighting fascism in feminism
I was first introduced to the power of far-right ideologies within feminism through the work of so-called feminists who were dead set on criminalizing sex work, even if it cost women their lives. Back in 2004, I was new to sex work organizing, spurred by the massacre of street-based sex workers on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
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Stop the war on LGBTQ teachers
It’s hard enough being a teacher at all, but cruel new laws are putting dedicated LGBTQ teachers in particular danger. When will the madness end?
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#LetHerSpeak: Rep. Zooey Zephyr and supporters defy anti-trans bigots
On April 26, the far-right-dominated Montana state legislature in Helena censured the state’s first elected trans representative, Zooey Zephyr, after silencing her for several days and threatening her with expulsion.
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These Queers Bash Back: Pittsburgh anarchists organize in response to transphobic hate
Report on recent demonstrations in Pittsburgh against anti-trans grifter Michael Knowles.
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The Culture War doesn’t exist
Call it what it is: class war.
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Fascists threaten, Biden concedes: organize and fight for trans rights!
The Trans Day of Vengeance was a long-planned protest in Washington, D.C., scheduled for April 1. People were coming to D.C. from across the country to participate. It was called in response to the growing legal and extralegal violence against the transgender community, egged on by far-right politicians and corporate media.
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My feminism is Trans inclusive
Attacks against Trans women are attacks against the women’s movement and the fight for better equality and justice.
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Trans rights are under attack
There is a dangerous escalation of transphobia happening right now. The political right in the United States and the United Kingdom are rolling back civil rights for trans people specifically and LGBT people more broadly. This is being driven by an amalgamation of mainstream conservative parties, the far right, Christian fundamentalists and right-wing shock jocks and tabloids.
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I am a trans Texan
A state resident ties the current gender panic to fascist politics through the lens of their own experience.
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Challenging binary gender roles using Nkrumahism-Toureism-Cabralism
Gender binary–the classification of gender e.g. a “man” or “woman” into two, distinct, and opposite categorie–is a construct of class development and division and is therefore inconsistent with the humanist values of our Nkrumahist/Tureist/Cabralist ideology.
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The crisis of trans health care in Canada
Public health coverage in Canada needs to expand to include a wider range of interventions and gender affirming procedures.
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NYT trans letter a fight for media democracy
In a letter to New York Times leadership (2/15/23), more than 180 of the paper’s contributors (later swelling to more than 1,000) raised “serious concerns about editorial bias in the newspaper’s reporting on transgender, non-binary and gender nonconforming people.”
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Who will speak up for my child, the drag queen?
And the Non-Binary and Transgender Folks Among Us, Too.
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Indonesia’s new criminal code: An attack on human rights and marxism
In early December, last year, the Indonesian government legislated a new criminal code to replace the old code that the country inherited from its past colonial oppressor, the Dutch. The government has claimed that the legislation of the new criminal code was an effort to “decolonize” Indonesia’s criminal justice system from the legacy of the Dutch East Indies colonial era.
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The right turns anti-LGBTQ hate up to 11
In the past few years, the right-wing media have become laser-focused on transgender issues, not always attacking trans people individually, but instead claiming that children are being “groomed” to adopt “radical gender ideology,” and that rights for the trans community are infringing on the rights of children, women and Christians.
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The war on Christmas drag shows
GOP endorsed anti-LGBTQ+ “groomer” rhetoric inspired armed fascist groups to harass queer events, spurring a diverse, celebratory community response.
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The moral panic around drag makes even less sense in the UK’s pantomime season
The moral panic around drag queens currently sweeping America has arrived in Britain.
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Brittney Griner and the U.S. State
Brittney Griner’s ordeal in Russia is over. But she has been secreted away for “reintegration” and the U.S. continues its own brand of international hostage taking.
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It’s time to hold news media accountable for transphobia
Five people are dead and more than a dozen others injured after a gunman opened fire at Club Q, a LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs in the early hours of November 20.