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Trayvon Martin and Sandra Bland. These and other names inform their most mundane moments. “Don’t put that hoodie on!,’” one woman thinks as she watches her son get dressed for school, ready to move beyond her reach. “He could look like anybody from behind.”
While misgivings over a presidential candidate are a healthy part of an engaged political process, this year’s GOP convention has showcased numerous instances of sexism thinly veiled as political critique.
From gay conversion therapy to building a wall with Mexico, the Republican Party just embraced a set of positions that are unlikely to win many new allies or patch over the divisions in their party.
With tensions running high in this unique election cycle, take a look at the policy differences separating the two major candidates as their parties head toward the nominating conventions later this month.
Headliners and activists came together at an emotional time, two days after the massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. “We know that our lives and our stories are intertwined and connected,” said a speaker at a vigil.