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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.

U.S. politics

U.S. elections: Don't shame people who don't vote, or don't want to vote for a Democrat

Please don't shame people who don't, can't, or don't want to vote. Vote-shaming is a form of settler-colonialism. Not everyone *can*, or even *wants to*, vote. Here are just a few reasons why.

recipes

Cooking in Colour — Recipe: Vegan Ratatouille!

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

diasporic & disabled

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

Diasporic & Disabled is an interview series on what it's like to be a disabled/mentally ill, especially trans and/or queer, person of colour in the diaspora. Our first interview is with a queer Black USian woman.

abolish the police

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 FOSTA-SESTA and how you can help fight it

drug policy

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.

disability justice

VIDEO: People With Mental Health Disabilities Shut Down Dangerous Ideas About Gun Violence

People without mental disabilities often talk about what should be done about "mentally ill" people and their rights without consulting those people themselves, or even seeing them as human beings who deserve equal rights in the first place.

Photograph of a pagoda in Hing Hay Park in Seattle International District/Chinatown, taken by 水仙 SHUIXIAN.

Seattle politics

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