Four victims of the shooting at an LGBTQ+ club in Colorado Springs have been named, including two Club Q bartenders, Derrick Rump and Daniel Davis Aston, as well as Kelly Loving, Raymond Green and Ashley Paugh, who had an 11-year-old daughter.
Once again, a place that provides refuge to the LGBT community has been visited by violence and tragedy.
What you’ll find here is not just people writing about the ins and outs of what makes Thanksgiving the bullshit holiday that it is, but also people just writing about their cultures, about being who they are, about how they survive, what makes them keep fighting, and what gives them hope for the future.
In the face of dehumanizing rhetoric and violence that turns our community members into statistics, it is our responsibility to care for one another and change the conditions that impact trans people’s quality of life right now.
A red wave was coming, they told us. But they didn’t account for a new record for out LGBTQ candidates, who ran the table all across the country.
Today is Election Day, and if you’re feeling stressed, worried, anxious, scared, I want you to know that those feelings are valid.
Whiteness needs to be decentered from the fight for reproductive justice. History is a powerful tool for transformation and rethinking – I want to share the history of mass sterilization and reproductive genocide of Puerto Rican women between the 1930s to 1970s.
End this nightmare. Bring BG home.
Today is the fucking day to give to an abortion fund.
There’s a lot of confusion going around about what this all means and as someone who worked in repro and/or civil liberties work for over fifteen years, I’m here to demystify the moment we’re in right now.
As the visibility of Polish nonbinary people increases, and the political situation becomes more hostile, we continue to find new ways of resisting.
I’m not running away from this fight.
The backlash that ensued after a trans-inclusive education manual was released demonstrated that post-independence India still reckons with the legacy of British colonialism.
We need to make sure that every Democratic senator votes to end the filibuster and that Republican senators know their constituents oppose their obstructionism. Here’s a how to guide for calling and making your voice known.
On Lil Nas X, fake pregnancy, and projections on social media.
This month we’re looking at the climate crisis, big tech, gun violence, democracy, the Delta variant and yes — saying goodbye (for now).
This week we’re talking about the political strife in Haiti, the US’s messy exit from Afghanistan, the development of new COVID variants, your bimonthly legislatively institutionalized moral panic report — and the attacks on citizens’ rights plus the attempts to hold them at bay that are rocking Texas legislative chambers.
I thought about what it meant to be part of Black sex working community and our long history of organizing, mutual aid, protests and movements. I thought about what it meant to stand beside one another screaming at the top of our lungs.
The Gap did not steal lesbian artist Carrie Moyer’s design and put it on a Pride shirt… because Carrie sold it to them.
Given the poor protections for tenants, the economic fallout and the chronic lack of access to affordable housing and healthcare, America’s housing crisis has only deepened since the pandemic began.