Activism

How a small town in North Carolina celebrated drag in the face of extremism — Masked men are marching up the street. Some cars slow down at the spectacle, but others zip away before the children in their back seats can see. It’s not exactly the sort of thing you want to run into on a sleepy Saturday afternoon in small town Albemarle. Tiffany Dahle…

When the Supreme Court decided to rule in favor of gutting the Clean Water Act, I cried. When our spineless, greedy government decided to gut our oldest environmental law and further hamstring notoriously under-supported NEPA, I screamed in pure rage. There aren’t many adequate words to describe the way I…

The youth-led Raven Corps had their work stolen from them and this matters. — I will start out by saying that in our world full of soundbites and choppy, quick copy, this piece is on the longer side, though I hope it’s not longwinded. It needs to be said and it’s a complex, thorny subject that bucks against the constraints of succinctness. I wrote…

These are my impressions of the Louisiana I came to know from my recent trip there. Its pines and bayous are gorgeous. Water is everywhere. People are kind. They really do want a great state. But downriver from Baton Rouge, a lot is slipping through the cracks, right where the Mississippi crooks around Vacherie and St. James.

Wisdom and inspiration from Jane Fonda, a tireless activist from the 1970’s to today. — This week I saw Jane Fonda at the Castro Theater talk about her life as an activist, starting in the 1970’s and continuing stronger every still today, age 85. She is a legend. It started with a 1979 interview clip about why Jane was supporting gays & lesbians. Her answer…

TO: Cleveland City Council I am writing to express concern about the Special Improvement District (SID) requested by University Circle, Inc. (UCI). I live in Little Italy. …

Pride Month, a time of vibrant parades, rainbow flags, and celebrations, has come a long way since its inception. What began as a series of protests and acts of resistance has evolved into a global movement of LGBTQ+ visibility, acceptance, and celebration. …

“I would have rather been punished for asserting myself than become another victim of hatred” — CeCe McDonald In June 2012, CeCe McDonald, a Black trans woman, accepted a plea bargain for second-degree manslaughter for defending herself against a man who verbally and physically assaulted her and her friends outside…

Here are the key facts of this story, as agreed upon by ¹Yahoo Sports, ²Reuters, ³The Express Tribune, ⁴Al Jazeera and ⁵Daily Pakistan Global. On Friday, Pakistani police reported that human rights activist and lawyer Jibran Nasir had returned home safely after being abducted on Thursday. It’s not yet known…