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CommentaryChris Rock made a whole documentary about Black women’s hair & still insulted Jada Pinkett Smith
But Will Smith’s violence – as well as the assumption that Jada Pinkett Smith couldn’t defend herself – is part and parcel of heteropatriarchy.
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PoliticsRep. Ayanna Pressley read the names of 46 trans people murdered this year on the House floor
“There is no place for hatred because someone is brave enough to show up exactly as they are and to live their truth,” Rep. Ayanna Pressley said in a speech about the Transgender Day of Remembrance.
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PoliticsAnti-LGBTQ abortion opponents are getting more extreme. These 4 political moves could stop them.
Approximately six percent of abortion seekers in 2014 were LGBTQ-identified.
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News (USA)Black queer girl possibly lynched after five teens jumped her in bloody attack
Mikayla Miller was attacked by a group of teens, including a girl she used to date. The next morning, she was found hanging from a tree.
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PoliticsHouse Democrats pass Violence Against Women Act. It includes transgender women.
All of the 172 Congressmembers who voted against it were Republicans.
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CommentaryThis year’s elections are about Donald Trump, not internal Democratic fights
Progressives are facing moderate Democrats in tomorrow’s Massachusetts primary. But the real battle will come in November.
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CommentaryPeople were dying faster than we could funeralize during the AIDS pandemic. It’s happening again.
And, once again, African American women have been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic.
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CommentaryRep. Ayanna Pressley reveals she has no hair in a culture obsessed with black women’s hair
The Congresswoman’s braids are an inspiration to many, but she now she wants to be “free from the secret and the shame.”
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PoliticsHouse Democrats call for ICE to release transgender detainees from ‘inhumane’ facilities
Rep. Mike Quigley is behind a letter with over 40 Democrat signatures that requests that ICE either complies with its own regulations or release all trans inmates.
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Bias WatchA judge wants to make sure 36 people pay for the crime of protesting Straight Pride
Even prosecutors are flabbergasted that the judge upheld all the charges against the protestors.
