Tag Archive for: LGBTQ+

On Amazon Women and Sinister Wisdom
“It was a place where women knew they could come and be very welcome, and if they were lesbian, they could maybe find other lesbians or work written by lesbians,” Weiser says. “So many times I've had people come up to me and say, ‘It just saved my life [when I was] coming to town.’”

Pride in Rural Communities
Queer folks have always been in Southwest Minnesota. We are excited to celebrate the entirety of their identities in community together.

From Grand Rapids: Local Media Talk About Political Leadership, Housing, LGBTQ+ Acceptance, and More
"We know that the people often behind those keyboards are presenting their deepest, darkest, angriest self. By interviewing people, having conversations, actually looking into what the issues are, you put the actual facts and information out there."

VIEW: A Relentless Pulse
Ellie Krug (she/her) is author of "Getting to Ellen:…

CALL: Talking About LGBTQ+ Health, Aging, and Rights
Frustration is why it is crucial to sometimes take a step back and consider the change that has happened.

Sisterhood, Not Cisterhood
Coming out is a big change, and it’s natural to have questions. If you’re close enough to a person, you can usually feel out if a question is okay.

Faith & Fight: Barbara Satin Spent Decades Advocating for Trans Inclusion in Church Communities
As a devout Catholic who spent time in the seminary in her late teens, Satin says she knew that there was little room for women in leadership in the Catholic church and absolutely no acceptance of a transgender person.

CALL: Being Authentic Even When You Are Afraid
We are all survivors of the human condition. All of us are attempting to make our way through the world. If we could go across the room and ask everybody to tell us "what makes you happy, what makes you sad, what challenge you have had in life, what success you have had, what makes you tick" — three things would happen.

CALL: Ellie Krug on Breaking Barriers
How you can help me is get me in front of people who think that I am odd, and I will show them that I am not.

Who Controls Your Stomach?
I think this was his way to tell me that in my life, there were people who would try to control my stomach, my Black body. I have been taught that we, as Black people, reflect and realize what destiny is and how people in power can never take that away.

Undoing Heterotemporality
In a heteronormative, capitalist society, there is an expected sequence of life events that form the human experience.

VIEW: Hot Mess
For me, it is about wanting to be loved as the true, real me — a woman with a way-too-deep-voice, who is an idealist trying to change the world for the better with what time she has left.


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