These are the feminist commercials coming at you during tonight’s Super Bowl.
If there is one thing I’ve learned in my research, it is that in the face of systemic inequities, homophobia, sex negativity, harassment, the threat of job loss, death — we find places to be ourselves. We’ll make spaces our own under the worst of circumstances, even if just for a few hours. People risk it because that’s how important it is to us to find one another, to feel human, to feel desire and love and express it openly without shame… I am mindful of the resilience of our communities, the unwillingness to accept the message of the city, that there’s nowhere we belong. History tells us that’s not true. We’ll find each other, no matter what.
See this report? It found that 100% of women of color in STEM face gender bias on top of tons of racism! ONE HUNDRED PERCENT. That means all of them, in case you didn’t realize.Every last one.
It’s hard to not have your humanity recognized by your own home, by your fellow Idahoans. And really, that’s all we want. We’re asking for so little, just the acknowledgement that we are human beings and that we deserve the same basic rights as everyone else.
Mey, our totally badass Trans Editor, testified before the Idaho House about HB2, which would add the words “gender identity” and “sexual orientation” to the state’s Human Rights Act.
Say their names: Lamia Beard. Ty Underwood. Goddess Edwards. May they rest in power.
I think the goal of the quilt being displayed at her hearing on Tuesday is to show Jacksonville and the world that she’s not alone. Awareness has been made around her case, which is really important, and there are also a lot of other women who go through a similar experience of being prosecuted for defending themselves. …The idea of a quilt is based in it being crowd-sourced. When we lay out the quilt in these spaces, we’re creating a highly visible representation of the experience of sexual assault and domestic violence that tells many stories instead of just one.
Forcing Marissa to serve even one day in prison represents a profound and systemic attack on black women’s right to exist and all women’s right to self-defense.
Alisa Bierria in Maddie’s piece on Marissa Alexander’s release today - and the work that’s left to do.
You don’t have to be a political pundit to decipher last night’s SOTU. You just need to listen to Rachel.
All of these measures are part of a statewide attempt to curtail LGBT rights through any means necessary.
It’s a new year, which means it’s time for a bunch of new anti-gay legislation. That’s why Kaitlyn summed up what’s happening state-by-state.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court will rule on the constitutionality of same-sex marriage this June. Arguments begin in April.
A study like this comes out a couple times a year and it can get exhausting to constantly realize how rocky the landscape is for bi women — a combination of poor mental health outcomes, shame, lack of resources and overt social prejudice and erasure look massively overwhelming.
But the first step is talking about it — studies like this are vital, even if they all say the same depressing thing, because they force people to confront the real impacts of biphobia and discrimination.
In 2013, LeslieAnn Manning was raped by another inmate while incarcerated in a men’s prison. Now, she’s bringing a lawsuit against the Sullivan Correctional Facility for their “deliberate indifference” in failing to prevent her assault.
We believe in civil rights for all, and really we won’t work in fear and we won’t be deterred. We’ll move on… This won’t deter us from doing the job we want to do in the community.
