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“You sound like a white girl”

Mexico introduced me to the lies of whiteness, but it was the United States that taught me just how corrosive white supremacy truly is.

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