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.
U.K. Prime Minister Represents a Dangerous Anti-Trans Minority — But It Is a Minority
These talking points aren’t just emotionally painful. They’re also connected to policy.
How To Fight Back Against Book Bans
However you choose to engage with Banned Books Week, I hope you’ll think about the books that have led you to the person you are today.
Laphonza Butler Will Replace Dianne Feinstein, Becoming America’s First Black Lesbian Senator
The appointment, which California Governor Gavin Newsom confirmed late Sunday night and will announce later today, is historic — though potentially short lived.
61 People Allegedly Associated with the Stop Cop City Movement Indicted on RICO Charges
The fight to Stop Cop City is a test case for whether domestic terrorism — and now RICO charges — can be used to stop activists and protesters from engaging in any kind of resistance, especially when it comes to resistance against the police state.
“We Don’t Want To Live in a Police State”: Stop Cop City Still Needs Your Help
Don’t live in Atlanta? Don’t live in the U.S.? If Cop City gets built, it will still effect you. Activists have been fighting the creation of this proposed police training ground since 2021, and they need your help.
Black Queer Communities Send O’Shae Sibley Home in Love, Resistance, and Vogue
Love has brought together so many Black queer communities over the last 10 days, sending our sibling home not in the violence of the last few minutes of his life — but in the light, movement, vogue, and resistance that defined him. Defines us.
Remembering Minnie Bruce Pratt’s Legacy as a Radical Southern Femme
She might have left the South, but she never forgot it, scorned it, or neglected it.
Supreme Court Sides With Anti-Gay Wedding Website Designer in Another Blow to Equality
“Today is a sad day in American constitutional law and in the lives of LGBT people,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in the dissent.
In Today’s Heartbreak, the Supreme Court Ended Affirmative Action as We Know It
I have been told that Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson does not often use words like “let-them-eat-cake” in her legal writing, but she’s right and she absolutely should say it. Today is a day for being Big Mad.
Sarah McBride Seeks To Become First Trans Person in House of Representatives
Delaware State Sen. Sarah McBride, the highest ranking trans elected official in the United States, has announced her candidacy for Congress.
Colorado Club Q Shooting Suspect Pleads Guilty to LGBTQ+ Mass Shooting
As part of a plea deal, Anderson Lee Aldrich will serve life in prison.
How a Far-Right Moms Group Is Threatening Queer Liberties in Schools
And what we can learn from them this Pride.
Also.Also.Also: Queen Latifah Becomes the First Woman Rapper To Be Given Kennedy Center Honors
It was L Word Day at the WGA Strike, so Ilene Chaiken announced that “Corporate Greed Killed Jenny.” Also, the 100 most significant political films of all time.
Gay at Work: Queer People and the Labor Movement
All these movements, whether for Black liberation, queer liberation, abortion rights, affordable housing, or labor, are intimately connected, and the struggle of queer labor organizers makes that abundantly clear.