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Unlearning Queerphobia

Schools are a powerful place to begin building an LGBTQ-affirming culture, as an antidote to fear and bigotry.

Sara Youngblood Gregory | Oct 2, 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

Pride Is Power: How Queer People Are Defeating Anti-LGBTQ Laws

Faced with unprecedented numbers of anti-LGBTQ bills, queer people are taking to the state houses, courts, and communities to prove that love wins.

Sara Youngblood Gregory | Jun 24, 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

Excerpt | Joy | LGBTQ

Tips for Cultivating Trans Joy

When everything that brings LGBTQ people joy is under attack, dancing, laughing, and celebrating our persistent existence are direct acts of resistance.

Ben V. Greene | Jun 11, 2024

Serious About Gender Exploration? There’s a Doula for That.

Just like birth doulas, gender doulas support people at all stages of their gender journey.

Celeste Hamilton Dennis | Apr 15, 2024

We Are All Responsible for Making Bathrooms Safer

Transgender and nonbinary people need more than policies to protect their safe access to bathrooms. They need allies.

Kate Sosin | Mar 22, 2024

Opinion | jamaica | Murmurations

Murmurations: The Healing Power of Film

Centering healing justice in the filmmaking process offered this creator—and everyone involved in the film—a powerful way to begin to heal core wounds.

Joie Lou Shakur | Feb 27, 2024

An outline of a person appears at the center in dark pink, with lines extending behind them, and small circles indicating chat message bubbles and other outlined people, both individual and in pairs, swirl around the central figure.

The Internet Has Always Been Trans

As early adopters—and innovators—of the internet, transgender people carved out enduring, invaluable safe spaces to find community, support, and themselves online.

s.e. smith | Jan 29, 2024

Can Workplaces Work Better for Gender-Expansive Employees?

A new study finds that anti-LGBTQ and transphobic policies and rhetoric negatively impact trans and gender-expansive workers. What can workplaces do to improve this environment?

| Sep 15, 2023