Palestinian refugees are settling in the Philippines, and bringing their cultural foods with them.
Tech companies can help offset the loss of affirmative action by proactively investing in Black and Latinx students.
鈥滱toms Never Touch鈥� offers a revolutionary premise: The love between trans women is the key to the new world we imagine.
The education system is failing transgender youth, but one school in Canada is striving to create a new support model.
Faced with unprecedented numbers of anti-LGBTQ bills, queer people are taking to the state houses, courts, and communities to prove that love wins.
Despite political repression in the 1980s and 1990s, LGBTQ people enjoyed surprising freedom on public access television networks.
La poeta Julie Quiroz ofrece un hechizo de solsticio de verano que celebra la nacimiento de la luz.
Poet Julie Quiroz offers a summer solstice spell that celebrates the story of light.
Efforts to invest in 鈥渃are, not cops鈥� continue in advance of the 2024 election鈥攁lbeit at a slower pace than in 2020.
With her latest film, Ava DuVernay is modeling a new way of financing impactful films and ensuring creative freedom.
We can no longer accept Pride events that only make room for one type of queer person鈥攐r that cater primarily to the corporations more invested in rainbow capitalism than collective liberation.
Tamela Gordon鈥檚 new book, Hood Wellness, shows what it looks like to hold others鈥攁nd be held鈥攊n community.
A new database of tribal constitutions tells a more nuanced history of self-governance than the one explained in textbooks.
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.
鈥淏y raising the Palestinian flag we force our universities to confront their complicity in Israeli apartheid and the ongoing genocide in Gaza,鈥� writes recent graduate Bella Jacobs.
When everything that brings LGBTQ people joy is under attack, dancing, laughing, and celebrating our persistent existence are direct acts of resistance.
Finding our way to a viable human future will require the guidance of a true eco-nomics, grounded in biology and ecology rather than finance and capital.
An innovative sex-ed curriculum in Southern California is teaching incarcerated men about consent, birth control, and dismantling masculinity.
This annual summer camp for trans men of all ages offers community, connection, and masculinity that鈥檚 rooted in love.
After adopting the George Floyd Resolution for Police-Free Schools, Oakland-area schools saw significant reductions in racist criminalization of Black and Brown kids.
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鈥攐r worse, a scapegoat.
Long harmed by patriarchal, casteist norms within the legal system, women in India are implementing women-centered forms of grassroots justice.
Participants in a Massachusetts guaranteed income pilot said the program provided them a financial cushion and increased time and bandwidth for parenting.
There鈥檚 power in a viral clapback. But what of the already-marginalized people whose identities again become a public punchline?
The vast majority of U.S. polling locations are not fully accessible. Disability justice activists are working to change that.
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