Despite political repression in the 1980s and 1990s, LGBTQ people enjoyed surprising freedom on public access television networks.
La poeta Julie Quiroz ofrece un hechizo de solsticio de verano que celebra la nacimiento de la luz.
Poet Julie Quiroz offers a summer solstice spell that celebrates the story of light.
Efforts to invest in “care, not cops” continue in advance of the 2024 election—albeit at a slower pace than in 2020.
With her latest film, Ava DuVernay is modeling a new way of financing impactful films and ensuring creative freedom.
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.
Tamela Gordon’s new book, Hood Wellness, shows what it looks like to hold others—and be held—in community.
A new database of tribal constitutions tells a more nuanced history of self-governance than the one explained in textbooks.
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.
“By raising the Palestinian flag we force our universities to confront their complicity in Israeli apartheid and the ongoing genocide in Gaza,” writes recent graduate Bella Jacobs.
When everything that brings LGBTQ people joy is under attack, dancing, laughing, and celebrating our persistent existence are direct acts of resistance.
Finding our way to a viable human future will require the guidance of a true eco-nomics, grounded in biology and ecology rather than finance and capital.
An innovative sex-ed curriculum in Southern California is teaching incarcerated men about consent, birth control, and dismantling masculinity.
This annual summer camp for trans men of all ages offers community, connection, and masculinity that’s rooted in love.
After adopting the George Floyd Resolution for Police-Free Schools, Oakland-area schools saw significant reductions in racist criminalization of Black and Brown kids.
This author learned that he was one of many queer kids who gravitated toward Scouting, only to later discover his identity rendered him an outcast—or worse, a scapegoat.
Long harmed by patriarchal, casteist norms within the legal system, women in India are implementing women-centered forms of grassroots justice.
Participants in a Massachusetts guaranteed income pilot said the program provided them a financial cushion and increased time and bandwidth for parenting.
There’s power in a viral clapback. But what of the already-marginalized people whose identities again become a public punchline?
The vast majority of U.S. polling locations are not fully accessible. Disability justice activists are working to change that.
Nicole Young argues that Black people’s conscription into America’s endless war-making machine only ensures they will never be safe.
Switzerland’s “No Blame” approach eschews punishment, instead focusing on empathy, tolerance, and respect.
Holding on to home and humanity in the face of occupation, displacement, and genocide.
The freedom to move is a survival strategy.
Making workplaces more inclusive requires normalizing accommodations like those offered at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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