Nature Welcomes Queer People When Society Doesn’t
For the city’s LGBTQ community, Toronto’s outdoor spaces have been sites of both liberation and violence
Social Justice
Little Gaza’s Kitchen Brings a Taste of Home to Displaced Palestinians
Palestinian refugees are settling in the Philippines, and bringing their cultural foods with them.
Tech Must Embrace Racial Justice in the Wake of Affirmative Action
Tech companies can help offset the loss of affirmative action by proactively investing in Black and Latinx students.
How Three Young Women of Color Took on Power
Journalist Sonali Kohli’s new book centers the life and work of three young women of color who refused to let powerful elites shape their lives and communities.
Murmurations: Queering Abolition
”Atoms Never Touch“ offers a revolutionary premise: The love between trans women is the key to the new world we imagine.
Trans Youth Are Teaching Schools How to Actually Support Them
The education system is failing transgender youth, but one school in Canada is striving to create a new support model.
Pride Is Power: How Queer People Are Defeating Anti-LGBTQ Laws
Faced with unprecedented numbers of anti-LGBTQ bills, queer people are taking to the state houses, courts, and communities to prove that love wins.
Back When TV Was Gay
Despite political repression in the 1980s and 1990s, LGBTQ people enjoyed surprising freedom on public access television networks.
Serj Tankian Says “Down With the System”
System of a Down lead singer Serj Tankian has performed in front of millions, but, as he explains in his new memoir, his real passion is social justice.
Can Elections Still Help Defund Police?
Efforts to invest in “care, not cops” continue in advance of the 2024 election—albeit at a slower pace than in 2020.
A New Hollywood “Origin” Story
With her latest film, Ava DuVernay is modeling a new way of financing impactful films and ensuring creative freedom.
Why the Boy Scouts Are Rebranding
The Boy Scouts of America earned a reputation of exclusion and bigotry over years of homophobia, sexual abuse, and racism. Can the organization move past it?
Going Back Outside for Pride
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.
Communal Care in Action
Tamela Gordon’s new book, Hood Wellness, shows what it looks like to hold others—and be held—in community.
Colorado Prisons Just Got a Little Safer for Trans Women
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.
Lessons From Pitzer’s Gaza Solidarity Encampment
“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.
Marking Father’s Day From Behind Bars
Father’s Day is a special time for many families. But what about those families separated by incarceration?
Tips for Cultivating Trans Joy
When everything that brings LGBTQ people joy is under attack, dancing, laughing, and celebrating our persistent existence are direct acts of resistance.
Planning Parenthood for Incarcerated Men
An innovative sex-ed curriculum in Southern California is teaching incarcerated men about consent, birth control, and dismantling masculinity.
What Trans Men Found at Camp Lost Boys
This annual summer camp for trans men of all ages offers community, connection, and masculinity that’s rooted in love.
How Black Parents Got Cops Out of Oakland Schools
After adopting the George Floyd Resolution for Police-Free Schools, Oakland-area schools saw significant reductions in racist criminalization of Black and Brown kids.
Does Biden’s Border Policy Look Like Trump’s?
Attorney Laura Flores-Perilla explains what‘s behind President Biden’s harsh new border policy restricting asylum-seekers arriving via Mexico.
The Complex Reality of the Boy Scouts’ Gay Ban
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.
Justice by and for India’s Women
Long harmed by patriarchal, casteist norms within the legal system, women in India are implementing women-centered forms of grassroots justice.
Toward a Multiracial Immigrants’ Rights Movement
A formerly undocumented Salvadorian American immigrant and organizer assesses how the immigrants’ rights movement can address anti-Blackness and white supremacy.
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