ANTIHEROINE.

How the system of oppression named by Baril structures the unjust way suicidal people are treated, and what we can do instead

Explaining Suicidism: Systemic oppression of suicidal people

How the system of oppression named by Alexandre Baril structures the unjust way suicidal people are treated, and what we can do instead.

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Street Watch LA is Dead

Street Watch LA is Dead (and White Supremacy Killed It)

Members of DSA-LA, with support from members of LA CAN, have enacted a forced "pause" of Street Watch LA, after ongoing internal dissonance — as of August 21st, 2022.

Street Watch LA is Dead

Street Watch LA is Dead: 2021 Letter from a former Street Watch member

As a majority white organization, working in solidarity with majority Black and Latinx folks, it is important to center and define our role in a manner that is cognizant of our place in society, the privileges that come with it, and what is most effective in pursuing liberation for ALL.

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FUCK THE CDC Featured

Learn the facts about hMPXV ("monkeypox"): Signs, symptoms, diagnosis, & treatment

White-majority countries didn't care about hMPXV, first discovered in 1958, until this current outbreak in 2022.

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Disability Justice

"Leftist" organizations that are not Disability Justice-centered are counter-revolutionary.

Show me a large leftist organization that isn't disability justice-centered that is actually revolutionary. Can't? They don't exist.

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White Supremacy & More, in Tech Featured

Misogynoir, White Supremacy, and more at Google. Tech has a white supremacy problem.

Google’s toxic problems are no mystery to anyone who’s been there for more than a few months, or who have been following the tech news with a critical eye. Many folks — especially Black women like April Curley and Timnit Gebru — have made clear just how deep the rot is in the institution.

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Cooking in Colour

Cooking in Colour — Recipe: Vegan Ratatouille!

A vegan recipe for ratatouille, by queer Afro-Caribbean chef Alexander Archer!

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Diasporic & Disabled

Diasporic & Disabled: Interview with a Queer Black Woman on the "Strong Black Woman" Stereotype, Misogynoir, & Mental Illness Stigma in the U.S. Black Community

Diasporic & Disabled is an interview series. Our first interview is with a queer Black woman in the U.S.

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Abolish Police & Prisons Featured

Don't Call The Cops: Equality for Flatbush's Suggestions & Tactics as Alternatives to Calling 911

Police officers are not trained to handle mental health or medical crises, and statistically close to 50% of all police murders in the US involve a person living with a physical disability or mental health condition.

Sex Workers' Rights

Why Decriminalization of Sex Work Matters: An Introduction to FOSTA-SESTA, & How You Can Help Fight It

A detailed introduction to the "Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act and Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act" (FOSTA-SESTA), why it matters, & how you can help fight it

Marijuana Reform: A New Front in the Attack on Immigrants of Color

Marijuana in the United States is now broadly legal in some form in 30 states and D.C. However, Attorney General Sessions III has emphasized the continued illicit status of the drug at the federal level, and has threatened to pursue any means necessary to curtail the legalization movement.

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Dear Seattle: I'm Over Voting for Whites. Stop Forgetting Communities of Color.

Why I won't be voting for either one of the cis white woman candidates in the 2017 Seattle mayoral election