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Is LGBTQ community infighting a sign we’re becoming our abusers?
When reading the personal attacks against “our own,” I must ask myself, “Have some of us taken on the characteristics of our abusers by perpetuating the abuse?”
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Republicans told Elizabeth Warren to shut up and sit down, and that is violence
49 Republican Senators voted to censure a woman for not following a rule they don’t expect men to follow.
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Why LGBTQ people should be in the streets protesting Trump’s Muslim ban
While some argue that LGBTQ people should celebrate Trump’s immigration ban from countries with horribly homophobic governments, stop and take a second look.
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In the Trump age, civil disobedience is cast as ‘terrorism’ to squelch protest
A North Dakota proposal equates nonviolent protests with “terrorist” tactics.
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American fascism will fail because ‘We the People’ won’t let it win
History shows us that progress, rather than moving forever forward in a linear fashion, deploys more like a continuing stretched out spiral.
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Trump’s Muslim ban in context: America’s history of racist immigration policies
Politicians and most other citizens alike, from every rung along the political spectrum, generally agree on one issue: our immigration system is severely broken.
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Donald Trump’s grim first week was a prelude to a dangerous presidency
Trump’s first week has paved the way for a “governing” style concerned more with bravado and bluster than measured actions emphasizing shared power with potential negotiating partners.
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Trump’s enablers will cause more damage to the country than he ever could
Each time you enable an addict, you keep them and ourselves further from the truth and from help.
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Killers aren’t the only ones to blame for the murders of transgender people
When we enforce or fail to be critical of societal gender roles, we become co-conspirators in violence against transgender people.
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GOP efforts to ban abortion, limit LGBTQ equality, mirror Nazi Germany
Though I rarely offer comparisons between Nazi German and the contemporary United States, I am haunted by certain parallels that demand voicing.