On this #TransDayOfVisibility we have a thread of some pieces we’ve published that we’d love for you to read and share.🧵👇
It's no coincidence that Republican-controlled states that criminalize abortion are also criminalizing gender-affirming care for trans people. And it's only the beginning of their pronatalist white supremacist agenda. From @chgrimaldi damemagazine.com/2022/03/28/the…
The GOP have focused their vitriol on the trans community, whom they depict as an existential threat to justify their plans to eradicate their existence from society. From @BrynnTannehill
GOP lawmakers around the country claim they’re “protecting women and girls” in school sports. But, as @Matilda_Y28 writes these humiliating, discriminatory laws can have devastating consequences on our kids.
The Department of Corrections fails to acknowledge incarcerated trans identities. @AbolitionJess on the fight for prisoners to have their authentic selves be documented. @EmpowermentAve
Transgender people have been under assault from every angle - by GOP legislators, the Religious Right, white nationalists - and it just continues to escalate writes @BrynnTannehill
We couldn't agree more. @BrynnTannehill has written extensively for us on these issues. Yes, it's all terrifying but it's just essential for folks to understand. damemagazine.com/author/brynn-t…
A thread of some of @BrynnTannehill's recent work for us. The GOP have focused their vitriol on the trans community, whom they depict as an existential threat to justify their plans to eradicate their existence from society. damemagazine.com/2022/03/15/tra…
In their dangerous quest to control the American narrative, the GOP is attempting to criminalize any teaching in the classroom that can potentially hurt their white, Christian, cishet feelings. damemagazine.com/2022/02/24/rep…
One of the reasons we ran our series on American vigilantism was so that we could help folks understand its history. Please read this thread. And the series. damemagazine.com/2022/03/07/whi…
Since this country’s founding, white people have taken the law—that they created—into their own hands to terrorize and brutalize Black people. Part 1 - the history by @thejournalistadamemagazine.com/2022/03/07/whi…
Part two from @brooklynmarie on disinfo and vigilantes.
Citizen militias at the U.S.-Mexico border rely on social media to spread lies about immigrants and validate their belief—and desire—that violent policing equates justice. damemagazine.com/2022/03/14/how…
Yesterday, we spent some time perusing all of the stories we’ve published on the fight for abortion and reproductive rights. A theme emerged. 🧵
1/ In the more than 400 stories we've published on the topic over the years, our Cassandra-like contributors have been shouting from the mountaintops that these rights could be stripped away. damemagazine.com/?s=abortion
2/And let’s be clear: it’s not just abortion rights. Today it’s Casey and Roe, but tomorrow it’s Griswold (birth control), then Obergefell (same-sex marriage). The progress we’ve made is actively being chipped away by leaders who prioritize the values of white, cis male supremacy
In the month of January alone, we’ve seen extraordinary, deadly violence against women and families perpetrated by young men. #ARealCrisis <Thread>
1/ On Saturday, 21-year Dakota Theriot was accused of killing his parents and suspected of murdering another family of 3, including Summer Ernest, believed to be his girlfriend. npr.org/2019/01/27/689…