Centering Queer (Self) Care in the 2024 Election
Leaning into lineages of resilience and care can be a balm for election-related anxiety for LGBTQ people鈥攁nd everyone.
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Serious About Gender Exploration? There鈥檚 a Doula for That.
Just like birth doulas, gender doulas support people at all stages of their gender journey.
We Are All Responsible for Making Bathrooms Safer
Transgender and nonbinary people need more than policies to protect their safe access to bathrooms. They need allies.
Exposing Israel鈥檚 Attempted Pinkwashing of Genocide
Queer liberation goes hand-in-hand with anti-colonialism and anti-Zionism, says a growing movement working to expose Israel's pinkwashing.
No Pride in Genocide: Calling Out Israel鈥檚 Pinkwashing
Israel continues to paint itself as a pro-LGBTQ haven in the Middle East, using this alleged tolerance as justification for its genocide in Gaza. Queer activists around the world are pushing back.
Menopause Matters
The end of menstruation has been stigmatized and misunderstood. The 鈥渕enopausal multiverse鈥� can change that.
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Can Workplaces Work Better for Gender-Expansive Employees?
A new study finds that anti-LGBTQ and transphobic policies and rhetoric negatively impact trans and gender-expansive workers. What can workplaces do to improve this environment?
The Art of Queer Joy
What does queer joy look like in this political moment? Three queer artists respond.
Murmurations: Lessons from Pride and Parades
In a world obsessed with the concept of forever, Cherizar Crippen encourages us to recognize the beauty in impermanence.
A Summer Solstice Spell for Prideteenth
To mark the summer solstice, Juneteenth, and Pride month, Junauda Petrus offers a spell rooted in the erotics of abolition.
Drag Bans Are Rooted in Conservative Culture Wars
Drag bans like the one passed in Tennessee rely on fearmongering tropes about 鈥減rotecting children鈥� and 鈥渢raditional values.鈥�
Beyond the Binary: Retelling the 顿颈苍茅 Creation Story
鈥淎long with the power of creation, we were given the power to choose.鈥�
Healing the Land and Themselves
Indigenous, Black, and queer farmers are buying land with the aim to restore and nourish nature along with their cultures and communities.
Growing Up Gay in North Dakota
For the author of a new memoir, North Dakota was a place of beauty and danger.
Happy Endings for Queer Characters
An interview with the playful, prefigurative, beloved and sometimes banned author, T.J. Klune.
States Advance Anti-Transgender Agendas鈥擯art of a Longtime Strategy by Conservatives to Rally Their Base
Some 30 states initiated anti-trans legislation in 2021, and 7 more in 2022.
The Importance of Knowing AIDS History
To understand the AIDS crisis that started 40 years ago, we need to listen to those who experienced it.
Queering Climate Activism
鈥淎t the end of the day, how does the gender binary and heteronormativity support the extraction and moving of wealth to this handful of global elites?鈥�
What I Learned When I Came Out to My Asian Mother
鈥淲e all have a story to share, and I believe knowing someone鈥檚 story creates connection.鈥�
How Relationships Can Turn Faith Leaders Into LGBT Allies
A grassroots group in Kenya has found a slow-but-effective formula for converting anti-LGBT faith leaders into LGBT advocates.
On Board with Queer Labor and Racial Solidarity
It was okay to be gay in the Marine Cooks and Stewards. And in the 1940s, MCS integrated to become one of the most progressive unions in the United States.
The Trans History You Weren鈥檛 Taught in Schools
Often erased from history, scholars are now realizing that transgender and nonbinary people have existed in most human societies across time.
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Queer Latinx Youth Amplify Their Voices Using Telenovelas
A new digital telenovela aims to put queer Latinx youth in charge of telling their own stories.
The Queer-Led Groups Modeling a New Form of Land Access
Changing ownership and wealth distribution, even at a small scale, presents a model for how to ultimately address the climate crisis.
Support and Solidarity on Trans Day of Visibility
鈥淕ive us our roses while we鈥檙e still here.鈥�
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