Despite how reproductive rights have historically been co-opted to advance eco-fascism, and continue to be weaponized to this day, reproductive justice is inherently at odds with eco-fascist ideologies. By Kylie Cheung At the end of April, more than 140 organizations submitted a letter calling on President Biden to lift the Helms Amendment, a policy that...
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COVID-19 Vaccine Inaccessibility Highlights Barriers To Abortion Access
It’s not a coincidence that both barriers to the vaccine and abortion access have disproportionately affected communities of color. By Kylie Cheung Throughout the United States, many COVID vaccine appointments have been made available to everyone over the age of 16. By April 19, all adults throughout the US became eligible for the vaccine. But...
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Derek Chauvin’s Guilty Verdict Won’t End Police Violence
Individualizing the system by blaming these actions on a single bad cop like Derek Chauvin misses the point entirely. Getting one violent police officer off the streets doesn’t do anything to stop police violence because policing is violent. CW: policing, murder, Black death Yesterday, after about 10 hours of deliberation, the jury found Derek Chauvin...
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The Helpless Democrat Is A Liberal White Supremacist Myth
The Democrats are a capable group with resources most common people don’t have. They are in possession of power; they just use it to appease moderates. By Frances Coppin-Thom The grassroots #Fightfor15 has been going on for over 8 years now, with its aim being to increase the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour—and...
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Abolition Now: Black and Brown Children Will Never Be Protected By The State
The police don’t need any help demonizing Black and brown children. Society and the state treat them as older than they are, dangerous, irredeemable, and disposable. CW: policing, state violence, murder of Black and brown people, racism On March 29, police chased 13-year-old Adam Toledo into an alley around 2:30 A.M. After a seconds-long interaction,...
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Black Lives Still Matter to NBA Players Even If The League Doesn’t Think So
What has been obscured by statements about NBA progressivity is the fact that players, and not the league itself, are leading the resistance. This essay discusses state-sanctioned violence and Black death By Aja Witt Positioned at the intersection of a global pandemic, a presidential election, and nationwide protests against the repeated killing of Black people...
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Laïcité: Islamophobia, Policing Muslims and The Myth of French Secularism
Laïcité and its rules have never been about protecting Muslim women and girls, they’re always about French control and justifying police surveillance of Muslim communities. When I lived and worked as an English teacher in France, one of the first rules we learned was not to talk about religion. Laïcité—or secularism—is based on a 1905...
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The new Tina Turner Documentary is not as subversive as it thinks it is
When does Tina Turner get to focus on the fruits of her survival? When will we as onlookers crave that story? By Sika Wheeler With the recent release of HBO MAX documentary TINA , many are either seeing Tina Turner in a shining new light or discovering her for the first time. Much of the...
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Official Statement of Samaria Rice and Lisa Simpson
Official Statement from Samaria Rice, mother of Tamir Rice, Lisa Simpson, mother of Richard Risher, and the Collective After Tamir and Richard were murdered, when we had to bury our sons, we didn’t see ‘Black’, ‘Lives’, or ‘Matter’. Our DNA changed when our sons were murdered. It took breath out of our bodies. When y’all...
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#KillTheBill: Lessons for Movement-Building from Abolitionist Feminist Organizers in the UK
Abolitionist feminist organizers are turning a moment in the aftermath of a murder into a visible movement connecting gendered violence to the importance of #KillTheBill. This essay discusses murder and police violence By Maya Bhardwaj Over the past week in the UK, the South London abduction and murder of a young middle-class white woman, Sarah...