Tina Vásquez

Tina Vásquez

182 posts
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Gender & LGBTQIA+

Q&A: Queer archivist Carlos Reynoso on consent, censorship, and the Proyecto Bathhouse archive

The public has a fundamental misunderstanding of the role bathhouses can play in queer communities, and Carlos Reynoso has had a hell of a time shifting the narrative around them because his online archive dedicated to these spaces kept getting shut down by Instagram. Despite the app’s regular practice

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10 Min
By: Tina Vásquez
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Gender & LGBTQIA+

ICE is now detaining women at one of the nation’s most deadly facilities

A Georgia detention center with the second-highest COVID-19 rate in the nation recently expanded the population of immigrants it detains to include women. In a statement to Prism, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) confirmed that as of Jan. 27, the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia, detains 11 women. This

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4 Min
By: Tina Vásquez
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Economy & Workers' Rights

Farmworker advocate tackles food insecurity in Central California’s Oaxacan community

In the early 2000s while writing her book, The Farmworkers’ Journey, which explores the farmworkers’ binational circuit that stretches from the west central Mexico countryside to central California, Dr. Ann López said she remembers having an epiphany at her computer. “Surely if the American public knew how farmworkers were treated,

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5 Min
By: Tina Vásquez
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Gender & LGBTQIA+

How the anti-abortion movement fed the Capitol insurrection

Reproductive justice advocate Jordyn Close watched with the rest of the nation on Jan. 6 as Donald Trump supporters invaded the Capitol. Some were outfitted in tactical gear and had zip ties at the ready. Others brought nooses and pitchforks and Confederate flags. The insurrectionists broke windows, ransacked lawmakers’ offices,

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11 Min
By: Tina Vásquez
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Politics & Democracy

Inauguration Day had me bracing for impact

Back when it was safe to fly, I always dreaded the landing. As a recovering Catholic, I still do the sign of the cross out of impulse, a long-lingering tic that convinces me I’m making myself safe. I’d listen for the plane’s wheels to drop and then

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4 Min
By: Tina Vásquez
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Race

Q&A: Media Matters’ Bobby Lewis talks insurrection, white supremacy, and the media

In the media ecosphere, researchers may be among the most undervalued players in the industry—especially those who focus on “opposition research,” which is the practice of collecting information on opponents. For Bobby Lewis, this means studying, tracking, and analyzing the many strands of conservative misinformation in the U.S.

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15 Min
By: Tina Vásquez
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Economy & Workers' Rights

Fast food workers to strike on MLK’s Birthday, demand 5 minimum wage

Rita Blalock has worked at a North Carolina McDonald’s for 10 years, taking the bus to and from work each day. During the COVID-19 crisis, the 54-year-old has continued cranking out food while suffering from cataracts, risking her health and her life for $10 an hour. Blalock does not

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4 Min
By: Tina Vásquez
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Gender & LGBTQIA+

Attorney who posed as Latina resigns and faces community accountability

After a Prism investigation revealed that Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan—a white woman of European descent—spent more than a decade pretending to be Latina, the prominent human rights attorney resigned from her job as senior counsel at LatinoJustice Puerto Rican Legal Defense & Education Fund. In a January 9

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12 Min
By: Tina Vásquez
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Gender & LGBTQIA+

The National Lawyers Guild’s former first ‘Latina’ president is a white woman

For years, prominent human rights attorney Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan has positioned herself as an advocate for Latinx communities, most recently identifying as a Puerto Rican woman from New York determined to aid the island and bring attention to the economic and humanitarian crises produced by colonization. Unbeknownst to many

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14 Min
By: Tina Vásquez
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Economy & Workers' Rights

COVID-19 unemployment hit Latina immigrants the hardest

To say the COVID-19 crisis has decimated the United States would be an understatement. Since March, tens of millions of people have lost their jobs and are now facing food insecurity and eviction. However, there is one group for whom pandemic unemployment has been particularly brutal and unrelenting: Latina immigrants.

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4 Min
By: Tina Vásquez
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Economy & Workers' Rights

Freelance journalists are hanging on by a thread. Could organizing help?

The specifics of freelance journalism are largely a mystery to the news-consuming public, which means many Americans are completely unaware of the conditions facing the reporters who keep them informed. In the midst of a pandemic, these journalists are hanging on by a thread.   Being a freelancer doesn’t mean

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9 Min
By: Tina Vásquez
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Gender & LGBTQIA+

Firings at Fort Hood are an important step, but advocates still demand #JusticeForVanessaGuillén

In a historic move Tuesday, the Army said it fired or suspended 14 officers and enlisted soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, and ordered policy changes to address chronic failures of leadership that contributed to a widespread pattern of violence, including murder, sexual assault, and harassment. A separate probe was also

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4 Min
By: Tina Vásquez

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