Progress 2025: LGBTQ Rights

Jenn M. Jackson, Ph.D., talks with Sonali Kolhatkar about what a progressive vision for LGBTQ people would look like in the U.S., as part of YES! Media's Progress 2025 intitative.

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Progress 2025: A Vision for LGBTQ Rights

The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 has promised a dystopian vision for LGBTQ rights. Its ideas are consistent with authoritarian, Christian nationalist, and white supremacist objectives. It aims to criminalize the existence

| Sep 11, 2024

Murmurations: Queering Abolition

”Atoms Never Touch“ offers a revolutionary premise: The love between trans women is the key to the new world we imagine.

micha cárdenas | Jun 25, 2024

Trans Youth Are Teaching Schools How to Actually Support Them

The education system is failing transgender youth, but one school in Canada is striving to create a new support model.

LJ Slovin | Jun 25, 2024

Going Back Outside for Pride

We can no longer accept Pride events that only make room for one type of queer person—or that cater primarily to the corporations more invested in rainbow capitalism than collective liberation.

Jenn M. Jackson | Jun 18, 2024

Colorado Prisons Just Got a Little Safer for Trans Women

A groundbreaking legal agreement mandates that Colorado cover gender-affirming health care for incarcerated trans women, and offers them the option to be housed with other women.

Candice Norwood, Orion Rummler | Jun 14, 2024

Centering Queer (Self) Care in the 2024 Election

Leaning into lineages of resilience and care can be a balm for election-related anxiety for LGBTQ people—and everyone.

Sara Youngblood Gregory | May 13, 2024

Who Is Beating Back Book Bans?

Amidst a rising tide of anti-LGBTQ book bans, activists, authors, and librarians are organizing to make sure LGBTQ stories are still heard.

Sara Youngblood Gregory | Mar 18, 2024

The Rainbow Connection

Intergenerational housing for LGBTQ elders and youth can relieve isolation and housing instability for both groups.

Greg Hernandez | Nov 30, 2023

The Deadly Consequences of Hate

LGBTQ people have always been the ones to keep each other safe. But we shouldn’t have to.

Evette Dionne, Sunnivie Brydum | Nov 22, 2022

Black Trans Women Are Being Killed. Could Paying Them Help Stop This?

A little more financial security could make the difference between life and death for these women, who are often relegated to the margins of society.

Ananya Garg | Nov 12, 2019

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