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Autostraddle — Immigration Reform is a Queer & Trans* Human Rights Issue

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“Current U.S. immigration laws are broken and unjust. Like in all other racialized systems of control, such as mass incarceration, the drug war, and surveillance of people receiving public benefits, queer and trans* people suffer and will continue to suffer disproportionately.

The only way that we as queer and trans* activists can fight against homophobia and transphobia as it impacts the most vulnerable members of our community is through working in coalition with other social justice groups to fundamentally change and dismantle these unjust systems.”

my lovely girlfriend wrote a thing about her work with undocumented queer/trans* immigrants!

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here’s the thing about kids: they’re not done yet. There’s a whole world of things they’ve not tried — not even been introduced to — so how could they know to put it on their wish list? They can’t, silly. It’s your job to show them a bunch of new things, and it’s not even really about seeing what holds their interest or doesn’t — it’s the fact that they met a new thing. The introduction is the important part, the thing that will help make them good and interesting people.

Laneia via Autostraddle — Holigay 2012 Gift Guide: People Who Are Younger Than You

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For me, home is the vague place where queer and Dixie overlap, often uncomfortably. This is why I’m constantly chasing after other Southern-reared queers; the kind who also had “Home Is Where The Heart Is” wood- or needlework somewhere in their childhood homes; who understand what Allison meant when she wrote, We claim our heritage with a full appreciation of how often it has been disdained; whose bodies are familiar with manual labor; the kind with at least one family recipe that is not a secret but a national treasure which is shown off whenever the opportunity to entertain presents itself.

Fonseca via Autostraddle — Going Down (South): Home Is Where The (Queer) Heart Is

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