Politics
Holy Sanctimony: The Hypocrisy of the Fight for Marriage Equality
The fight for the right to marry, to raise kids—to embody the heterosexual nuclear family—has largely eschewed our fight for the right to be otherwise.
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Picketing Equality: Non-religious Queer Storylines Still Rule the TV Roost
We need more sophisticated storylines pertaining to religion and tolerance.
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Political Possibilities: Black Feminism Offers a Path to Abolition
Black feminists and abolitionists teach us to demand more, even in a moment when it seems like we’re already fighting for so much.
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A Fresh Framework: The Feminism of the Abolition Movement
The police are not a feminist institution—they’re both the footsoldiers and the benefactors of racism, sexism, misogynoir, colonialism, and violence.
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Being Ableist toward Donald Trump Only Hurts Disabled People
Every time a politician stumbles, stutters, or misspeaks, we seemingly return to that toxic notion that to be ill is to be less than.
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Changing Tides: Black Feminists Are Mobilizing for Trans Women
The fight for racial justice can only be enriched by feminist strategies developed with an eye toward trans inclusion and empowerment.
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Many Deaf Women Aren’t Safer at Home
48 million deaf or hard of hearing people in the United States at risk of domestic violence during the lockdown.
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No Crime, No Punishment: #8toAbolition Imagines a Future without Police and Prisons
Societal definitions of the violent and criminal are designed to absolve the violence and criminality inherent to our white-supremacist capitalist system.
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(Un)safe Refuge: The Built-In Ableism in Queer Spaces
There’s still a huge chunk of the population who have trouble accessing Pride events and LGBTQ safe spaces: disabled queer people.
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What Just Happened?: The Supreme Court Sides with LGBTQ Americans
In a surprising twist, the Supreme Court decided that Title VII has always covered gender identity, meaning that it’s illegal to terminate a trans person’s employment because they’re trans.
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