For LGBTQI Month: How QDEP Creates Options for Queer & Immigrant Detainees
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Our goal is to not just provide support, but to empower people to do what they want to do when they get out
Imara Jones’ Intersectional News: Good to the Last Drop
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The premise of the show is that answers to our most pressing problems will lie in historically marginalized communities.
Religious Right: Stop Co-Opting the UN Commission on the Status of Women
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A space built to advocate for the plurality of women’s rights is instead becoming increasingly hostile and unsafe for people whose identities and principles do not align with an extremist, Judeo-Christian, heteronormative framework.
Meet the First Transgender Judge in India
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“Those who once taunted me about my gender stand before me with folded hands waiting for a judgment on their case.”
Transgender Care Is Like Treating Anyone Else
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The experience of being mis-gendered hurts. It hurts deeply.
transgender rights
France Mulls Process for Changing Gender Identification
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The legislation under review eases the process of changing gender identification, but critics say it falls short of recommendations by the Council of Europe, an advisory body to the European Union.
LGBTQ
Black Lesbian Leaders Discuss Coming Together, Raising the Profile
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“Lumping all lesbians into the same pool has been frustrating and stagnating for us,” says the organizer of a recent gathering for black lesbians in New York. Without a single major study on black lesbians, these women say it’s time to focus.
LGBTQ
More Corporations Are Putting Money on LGBTQ Equity
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With the LGBTQ population’s annual spending power estimated in the hundreds of billions, companies don’t want to get left behind. “They’re all very competitive,” says one marketing consultant.
Transgender
Health System Skimps on Trans Health Care Training
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A scarcity of physicians with special training in the needs of one trans man left him giving his doctor guidance on his own testosterone dosage. “There’s a huge online community,” he says, “and luckily I knew from YouTube and Facebook what was typical.”
Crime & Law
For Tasha Amezcua, Safety Starts by Not Calling the Cops
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The program coordinator of the Safe OUTside the System Collective in Brooklyn, N.Y., talks about the effort to foster community wellness among queer and trans people of color contending with police violence and criminalization.