Gender, Race and Identity

Editor’s Note: Given the limited technology and communication pathways afforded prisoners, this manuscript was edited by Reed Miller of Black and Pink, Inc. LGBTQ people are sent to prison for a wide range of convictions, with most tracing their first incarceration to their juvenile years. LGBTQ youth are disproportionately represented in the juvenile “injustice” system. […]

Jessica Xavier has been a leading trans activist, scholar, and artist for more than 25 years. She was the co-founder of the first nationally organized grassroots political action and lobbying group for transgender people, It’s Time, America!, in 1994, and also co-founded Gender Education and Advocacy in 2000. Jessica is also a pioneer in transgender-related […]

Kevin Kantor (they/them) is a genderqueer non-binary director, actor, and performance poet working to challenge, deconstruct, and reimagine traditional semiotics of gender on stage and in performance. They are currently in rehearsals at the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, where they are originating the role of Mia in the American Premiere of Things I Know To Be […]

It doesn’t matter that it was two summers ago. It’s still hard to write about. And it doesn’t matter that Anita Bryant’s Save the Children Campaign, which successfully mobilized enough Miami residents to rescind an anti-discrimination ordinance protecting LGBTQ employees, was 40 years ago. Her campaign reverberates today. Especially in schools. Bryant’s motivation for Save […]

The objective of this paper is to determine whether Georgia’s HIV-specific criminal exposure law leads to an increase in HIV transmission among Black men who have sex with men (MSM) in the Atlanta metropolitan area. This analytical paper utilizes systematic reviews, epidemiological studies, behavioral theoretical frameworks, and other sources to demonstrate the link between Georgia’s […]

My mom delivered me onto a kitchen floor at 4 AM. She had spent the previous day working as a farm laborer, but I arrived before the paramedics could. When she peered into my face, she knew I was PaHua. In Hmong, the name refers to the cool breeze that blows pollen and leaves adrift […]

In 1993, women represented only 1% of all UN uniformed personnel deployed in peacekeeping missions. In 2017, women peacekeepers remained at 4%, far from the UN target of 15%. The role of women in peacekeeping operations (PKOs)—not only as a matter of principle, but as a necessary condition for their success—has only become widely accepted […]

Alfonso Cuaron’s most recent film is named after one of Mexico City’s upper-class neighborhoods, Roma. For those who live abroad but call Mexico City home, watching the film is like taking a nostalgic trip to our past, uncovering buried memories. For me, it was a specific memory of when I lived in the neighborhood of […]

Women’s spaces are stronger when they include transgender voices. When I returned to my home city after college, I found community in the feminist collective. I attended radical craft nights, “ladies only” urban bike rides, and late-night discussions in garages where women led conversations on topics like rape culture, and men sat on the outside, […]

BY DENNIS FUNES “Students like YOU end up working rather than going to college.” As a young male of color at a middle school in the Los Angeles School District, a teacher had already predicted my future, or so he thought. Fortunately, I had positive role models, such as my father and my Algebra teacher, […]

BY SAM BARRAK This past November, Massachusetts made history as the first state to affirm transgender non-discrimination protections in a public referendum. To those voters who said yes on Question 3, thank you for making the state that I love a safer place for me to live as a transgender person. While we rightly celebrate […]

BY ALLIE DICHIARA Over one million women demographically go “missing” each year around the world as a result of sex-selective abortion and female infanticide. This trend is especially prevalent in India—a recent report by the Asian Centre for Human Rights found that India’s sex ratio was one of the most skewed in the world,[1] and […]