Gender & LGBTQIA+

556 posts

What life is like for Black sex workers during the pandemic

Black sex workers are struggling due to the COVID-19 pandemic, yet their needs are being ignored by the government and society at large. Sex workers have been singled out as being ineligible for relief funds by the U.S. Small Business Administration, even those who perform legal forms of sex

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5 Min
By: Neesha Powell-Ingabire

Community health workers are a ‘lifeline’ to pregnant people with COVID-19

In New Jersey’s immigrant community, doula Teresita Carrasquillo is considered a godsend. Families call her at all hours—pregnant people have questions about something they learned in their childbirth education class; new mothers want additional tips on breastfeeding or help getting diapers; and women who gave birth months prior

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9 Min
By: Tina Vásquez

In prisons, reproductive abuse and coercion are the norm

This story is part of Prism’s series on incarceration as gendered violence. Read the rest of the series here.   Jails and prisons were designed as sites of reproductive coercion. Women’s divergence from what is narrowly considered appropriate gender performance under patriarchy, particularly around sex and reproduction, has been

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4 Min
By: Briana Perry

Incarcerated women fight for a place in the #MeToo movement

This story is part of Prism’s series on incarceration as gendered violence. Read the rest of the series here.  For four women and gender-nonconforming people at California’s Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla, ongoing sexual violence was a feature of their incarceration. The prison offered scant avenues

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5 Min
By: Tamar Sarai

The system is failing Black domestic violence survivors

This story is part of Prism’s series on incarceration as gendered violence. Read the rest of the series here.  When I was fresh out of undergrad, I worked as a victim advocate with people who survived violent harm in Essex County, New Jersey, and the memories of the survivors

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5 Min
By: Ashley C. Sawyer

The COVID-19 child care crisis hits Black and brown women the hardest

One of the most pressing challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic has been the widespread closures of schools and child care centers. The loss of these mainstays of daily life has been profoundly destabilizing across the country, affecting kids’ development and threatening to derail working mothers’ careers, even as

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2 Min
By: Ashton Lattimore

Black child care workers in North Carolina demand support from lawmakers

Black child care and early childhood education workers from across North Carolina gathered Tuesday for a digital town hall demanding dignity, respect, and the passage of a “robust child care package” during the pandemic that would help protect and defend families and child care workers in the state. More than

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4 Min
By: Tina Vásquez

Trump administration rule lets homeless shelters exclude people they suspect are trans

The Trump administration’s recent move to codify transphobic and sexist rules into federally operated shelters comes as no surprise to advocates and policy experts. After all, that’s why they refer to it as the “discrimination administration.” On July 1, the Department of Housing and Urban Development proposed modifying

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4 Min
By: ray levy uyeda

Treating child care as ‘basic infrastructure’ means valuing Black and brown women’s work

As Sen. Elizabeth Warren used her Democratic National Convention remarks to argue that child care is a critical part of the country’s infrastructure and endorse plans to “raise the wages of every child care worker,” some eagle-eyed viewers noticed a subtle statement in the background: letters carefully arranged in

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7 Min
By: Ashton Lattimore

Four radical sex educators you should know

This story is part of Prism’s series on sex positivity and the arts. Read the rest of the series here. The state of sexual health education is dire in the United States. Currently, only 28 states and the district of Washington, D.C., require sex education and HIV education,

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5 Min
By: Tina Vásquez

Wage justice is racial justice—tipped workers deserve full minimum wage

The history of New York City, and thus New York state, is bound up with the history of Black Americans—for better or worse. Some of the very first enslaved African people were brought to what was then New Amsterdam, where they were sold at what was the first slave

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4 Min
By: Fatima Goss Graves

Q&A: How author and ‘pleasure activist’ Sami Schalk finds joy amidst oppression

This story is part of Prism’s series on sex positivity and the arts. Read the rest of the series here. In a conversation with adrienne maree brown featured in brown’s seminal book, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, author and associate professor Sami Schalk discusses a number

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9 Min
By: Tina Vásquez

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