Essays

"Best Interests: How Child Welfare Serves as a Tool of White Supremacy"

The horrifying spectacle of mass detention, family separation, and the forced transfer of non-White children into White homes all recall i

From the US to Peru, these ‘parent groups’ targeting sex education are all backed by the Christian r

Across borders, well-resourced Christian conservatives are backing supposedly grassroots, ‘parent-led’ campaigns against LGBTIQ inclusive cl

A Dogma in the Fight: Why Hillary Clinton’s Half-Assed Take on Trans Identity Matters

By equivocating on trans equality and separating cisgender women from transgender women, Secretary Clinton echoed the rhetoric that has faci

Anti-Transgender Panel at Values Voter Summit Continues Shift Towards Storytelling as Tactic

Religious conservatives have begun to employ heartbreaking stories of people who have detransitioned to bolster the same old misinterpreted

Refusal of Interracial Couple Shows How Slippery the Slope of LGBTQ Refusal Really Is

After the owner of a wedding hall was caught on tape refusing an interracial couple "because of our Christian race," questions are resurfaci

House Republicans Deploy Conspiracy Theories to Attack LGBTQ Legal Protections

This article was first published on April 3, 2019 by ReWire.News. The first-ever congressional hearing on the Equality Act was a testimon...

How Conservatives Are Using ‘Feminism’ to Fight Against LGBTQ Equality

This article, written by Rev. Elena Rose Vera and Heron Greenesmith, Esq., was first published on April 3, 2019 by The Advocate. Yesterda...

Pain

This article was first published on March 29, 2019 on Medium.com. Chronic Illness Truths (working title), to be published in 2019, is a c...

House Republicans Hide Behind ‘Lesbian Radical Feminist’ to Push Anti-Trans Agenda

This article first appeared on March 8, 2019 on Rewire.News. Julia Beck has been granted a platform to give the right wing's anti-transge...

Racism in Anti-Trans “Feminist” Activism

This article first appeared on February 20, 2019 on the Eyes Right Blog. California-based epidemiologist Hacsi Horvath raised this alarm ...

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