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Calls for ICE to #FreeMarichuy After Failing to Respond to Report of Sexual Assault

Marichuy Leal Gaminogrew up undocumented in Phoenix, Arizona and dreams of attending cosmetology school. For over a year, she has been detained at the Eloy Detention Center, a men’s detention facility run by the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), in Eloy, Arizona. Gamino is transgender, and she has reported being raped by her cellmate. CCA and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have…

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When We Talk Reproductive Justice, We Need to Talk About Surrogate Parents

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Surrogacy affords many people an alternative way to bring a child into the world. Whether a person is infertile or cannot deliver a baby without medical risk, or a couple is biologically unable to reproduce together without medical intervention — as may be the case for some queer couples — surrogacy enables a person with a uterus to carry a child on behalf of the…

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Rebel Girls: The Illustrated (And Quite Condensed) History of Women’s Studies

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Women’s studies. What the fuck is that? I want to show you today a short explanation of how today’s most feminist classrooms came to be — but first, let’s define the damn thing.
Let’s stick with the Wikipedia definition. (I always loved encyclopedias. Remember Encarta? Good times, y’all.)
Women’s studies, also known as feminist studies, is an interdisciplinary…

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Cards Against Harassment Creator Better at Recognizing Sexism Than Institutional Racism

One brave Minnesotan, Lindsey, is doing the thing we have all wanted to do: giving catcallers a taste of their own bitter, shameful medicine. She does this by handing her street harassers clever little calling cards informing them of their transgression. Not only that, but she is secretly recording her interactions with them and putting them on the Internet. The whole wide web is now privy to the…

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Emily Rios Is Gay, Relates to Her Lesbian Role in “The Bridge”

Emily Rios, who plays lesbian reporter Adriana Mendez in FX series The Bridge, came out during an interview at TCA’s FX day.
In the show, a crime drama about a bi-national police force attempting to catch a serial killer plaguing the Texas-Chihuahua border, Emily Rios plays reporter and Juarez native Adriana with a female partner who is a nurse named Lucy. About their dynamic, Rios says, “You’re…

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Laverne Cox on Her Emmy Nomination, Music Video and Fighting for TWOC: The Autostraddle Interview

Talking to Laverne Coxis pretty much the best. It’s just that simple. Not only is she incredibly funny, kind and charming, but she also always has incredibly important things to say. She’s been working hard in the public spotlight for over five years, and now she’s seeing the fruits of that labor. For this interview, I was able to find out about what it’s like to be nominated for an Emmy, what…

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White Gay Man Publishes Epically Stupid Response To “Stop Stealing Black Female Culture”

In a TIME article published last week, University of Mississippi student Sierra Mannie clearly articulates why it is wrong for white gay men to appropriate black female culture and why they are not allowed to “claim blackness or womanhood.”
“At the end of the day, if you are a white male, gay or not, you retain so much privilege… The difference is that the black women with whom you think you…

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Even At Highest Level, STEM’s Leaky Pipeline Failing Women and Black People

Among STEM Ph.D. holders, women and black people are leaving the field in disproportionate numbers, finds a new study by the American Institutes for Research (AIR). The research uses data from the National Science Foundation’s 2010 Survey of Doctorate Recipients, which includes 400,000 participants who earned doctorate degrees in STEM between 1959 and 2010. The analysis shows that a full 20% of…

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Azealia Banks Released from Interscope in Long Battle to Defend Her “Black Girl Craft”

Badass bisexual rapper Azealia Banks is finally getting out of her record deal with Interscope, as reported by the artist on July 10th. Banks took to twitter last Thursday and announced (in all CAPS), “IM ABOUT TO GET OUT OF MY DEAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THATS THE BIG SURPRISE!!!!! (sic).”
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From January of 2014, Azealia Banks has voiced her frustration with Universal, Interscope…

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Seriously Though Laverne Cox is Having the Best Week of All Time

When you’ve starred in an amazing Netflix series, you win an award from GLAAD, you just made the cover of Time, you’re producing and hosting a TV show coming to MTV soon, you’ve been on talk shows ranging from Melissa Harris Perry to Katie, President Obama mentions you by name during his Pride Month speech and you’re one of the faces of the modern trans movement in America, it’s really quite…

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It’s Time for White Feminists to Stop Talking About Solidarity and Start Acting

I wasn’t always a feminist, let alone one with intersectional awareness and a politicised pride in my Blackness. When I first dove hungrily into feminism, starved as I was of any meaningful understanding of my life, it was the work of radical feminists such as Andrea Dworkin and Germaine Greer that I devoured. I feasted on their anger for it spoke to me deeply but their messages didn’t nourish…

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Rebel Girls: Your Handy-Dandy Map to the Feminist Movement

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To discuss feminist theory, you first need to be able to visualize a roadmap of what the fuck feminism is. For just like you and I contain multitudes, so does the movement which advocates for women’s empowerment and equality. Feminism itself is made up of lots of itty bitty (or super major) factions, although they aren’t necessarily at war; it’s also come a long way, and is…

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Web Series “Twenties” and Lena Waithe, its Queer Black Writer, Are Headed For BET

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Remember that time we told y’all to check out this cool web series called Twenties because it was developed by a queer Black woman and told the story of a twentysomething-year old queer Black woman and her friends?! Remember!? Well… Twenties will be making its way to BET now that the series’ writer, Lena Waithe, who is also a queer Black woman, has signed a deal to…

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Most Important Ugly: Becca, Bekah, Angels and Masks

Hey babes. Thank you so much for the overwhelmingly positive response to the first post — I’m so glad that more people can see the exhibition now, especially those who have been following the project and couldn’t make it to the opening themselves (which is still up, by the way, at American Two Shot in NYC). Today, I want to talk to you about two other sitters for the project: the Beccas. Well…

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“R&B Divas” Star Monifah Carter Marries Longtime Girlfriend, Makes History

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On the June 25th season finale of TvOne’s “R&B Divas” star Monifah Carter completed a journey that viewers had joined her in since the 2012 pilot episode: she married her girlfriend Terez Mychelle.
For those of us who had been following her career since her first hit, “Touch It,” we were excited to see her joining the talented cast of this show.…

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