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The woman I flew 2,486 miles to vote for
How it felt voting for Francia Marquez, Colombia’s most progressive political candidate in years
The GOP’s latest tactic for targeting trans kids
Lawmakers’ repeated invocation of the ugly history of forced sterilization to justify their anti-trans campaigns has been especially disturbing over the past few weeks
Sex tapes were never really about sex
Tracy Clark-Flory looks at the misogynist legacy of the celebrity sex tape and Carrie Goldberg explains how current laws protect and in some cases don't protect victims of revenge porn
There’s no vaccine for stupid
The crisis ought to have been a time when we got to see how good people can be, and we did. But so many others showed their cruel, narcissistic sides instead.