Tag: police brutality

Quickies: Autistic Trans Man Shot by Police, Transgender Activism in Romania, LGBT Rights in India

By Jac

In Quickies

On February 8, 2016

Police Shoot Autistic Trans Man After Being Alerted to Suicide Risk – The media have been misgendering and dead naming Kayden Clarke all over the place. In a story that’s become all too common in the USA, the police respond to a person having a mental health crisis by escalating the situation and then executing the person they […]

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Quickies: Jerusalem Pride Attack, Trans People on Jenner, DeLari on Bowie

By Jac

On August 3, 2015

“Jerusalem Gay Pride: Six stabbed ‘by ultra-Orthodox Jew’” – Only weeks after completing a 12-year prison sentence following a similar attack, Yishai Schlissel stabbed 6

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Quickies: Mozambique Legalizes Gay, Police Killing the Mentally Ill, LGBT History

By Jac

On July 6, 2015

“Mozambique Decriminalizes Homosexuality” – “Mozambique has scrapped a colonial-era law which outlaws homosexuality in the country for a new penal code which came into effect o

Quickies: Queen Latifah as Bessie Smith, NYPD Editing Wikipedia, Jazz Jennings Fronts Clean&Clear Ad Campaign

By Jac

In Quickies

On March 16, 2015

“Boston St. Patrick’s Parade To Include Gay Groups For First Time” – Boston Pride and OutVets will march in this year’s St Patrick’s Day Parade. Study Documents Challenges of LGBT Women – Among those, “trans women are 3.8 times more likely to live in poverty than cisgender women.” Queen Latifah to Play Bessie Smith in HBO […]

Activism , Education , Race

Constraints and Conversations

By Elsa Roberts

On December 7, 2014

What does it mean to have an advantage? Let me tell you. What advantage allows is a lack of constraint. And because it is a lack, an absence, it is hard to imagine that others might be constrained in