Gender & LGBTQIA+

556 posts

From the 19th century through today, Black women in the South are always leading

Since the earliest days in the history of the United States and up through the present, Black women have been at the forefront of shaping and reshaping our nation into a more equitable, more just, and more inclusive democracy. Nowhere is that more true than in the South. Even while

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5 Min
By: LaTosha Brown

Just a photo op? Task forces to find missing Indigenous women have been ineffective from the start

In November 2019, with Indigenous supporters by his side, President Donald Trump signed an executive order touted as a solution to the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and people. One of the objectives assigned to the task force was to “develop model protocols and procedures to apply

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4 Min
By: Angelina Newsom

U.S. immigration policy is meant to kill women like Miriam Estefany Girón Luna—and it’s working

In a short statement released to the media on Mar. 11, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reported that a pregnant Guatemalan woman died after falling Mar. 7 from a steel mesh border barrier in Clint, Texas. Her name was Miriam Estefany Girón Luna. She was 19 years old, 30 weeks

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7 Min
By: Tina Vásquez

How state ID laws harm trans voters

When it comes to voter ID laws, activists tend to focus on racial and ethnic minorities who often lack the resources to obtain photo identification. The media focuses far less, however, on one group that is disproportionately affected by these ID requirements: the transgender community. A new report from the

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7 Min
By: Orion Rodriguez

From the other side: Oklahoma abortion rights advocates weigh in on harassment by ‘abolitionists’

A deeply troubling anti-abortion movement is quickly gaining steam across the United States, going from the fringes to the mainstream in just a matter of years. As Prism reported yesterday, the so-called abolitionist movement’s beliefs and ideologies are shaped by men like Rusty Thomas and Matthew Trewhella, pastors and

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8 Min
By: Tina Vásquez

The anti-abortion abolitionist movement is dangerous. Here’s what you need to know

June Medical Services v. Russo, the Supreme Court case regarding Louisiana’s 2014 admitting privileges law, has serious ramifications for the future of abortion rights in the United States. But there is a segment of the anti-abortion movement that doesn’t appear all that concerned with the outcome. If this

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9 Min
By: Cloee Cooper, Tina Vásquez

‘A cry for help’: Cameroonian women allege medical neglect, discrimination in ICE detention

In a letter written last month by Cameroonian asylum-seekers just one day before they protested the conditions in which they were being held at a Texas detention center, the women alleged that they were being forced to sign their own deportation orders and that they were experiencing medical neglect and

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5 Min
By: Tina Vásquez

Per(Sister) exhibit highlights the stories of incarcerated women in Louisiana through art and sound

Dolita Wilhike’s portrait is cast in sepia, her head tilted to the right and eyes fixed upward. The image evokes the iconic portrait of activist Angela Davis. However, surrounding Wilhike’s face is an image of the American flag. From afar, the image is simple: Wihilke’s face superimposed

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6 Min
By: Tamar Sarai

Across the country, women of color are leading the movement against voter suppression

The 2020 election is less than nine months away. With so much at stake, and with Black and brown communities holding so much voting power, efforts to place roadblocks in front of the ballot box seem to be never-ending. One of the major roadblocks came in 2013 when the Supreme

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1 Min
By: Carolyn Copeland

CPS took my kids. Low access to evidence-based addiction treatment keeps families like mine apart

Losing a child to state custody is akin to a haunting. Only in this case, you are on both sides of it. You are forced to haunt your own self, shadow-walking with your life—not fully in it, not all the way gone—scrambling to complete the series of events

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8 Min
By: Elizabeth Brico

‘This is retaliation’: ICE transfers Cameroonian women asylum-seekers after protest

More than 40 Cameroonian women—all of them asylum-seekers—were transferred more than 200 miles away because they protested conditions at the facility where they were being detained. The T. Don Hutto Residential Center is a detention center in Taylor, Texas, that has been dogged by allegations of human rights

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5 Min
By: Tina Vásquez

From #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen to ‘Hood Feminism’: A Q&A with author Mikki Kendall

Her voice catching in a moment of petty glee, Mikki Kendall remembers how several prominent white women writers told her that her frequent tweeting about the failures of mainstream feminism would doom her writing career. It was 2013, and the Chicago native had established herself as an elite member of

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10 Min
By: Cynthia Greenlee

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