Hi there, American Celebrity! As someone with a lot of money and influence, there are many causes to which you could dedicate your considerable resources: adopting children, having children, saving children—ah, that’s a good one. No one can ever dispute the value in saving children, particularly when those children are female because everyone knows females… Continue reading Attention Celebrity White Knights
Category: Activism
Quote of the Week
Like those murdered, we’re not disposable, bad people – we have lives that matter and people that love us. No matter who we are or what we do to make ends meet, we don’t deserve to die – we deserve good lives. From SWOP-NYC and SWANK’s official statement on the Long Island murders. Read the… Continue reading Quote of the Week
“86 the Violence” performance celebrates UPR Recommendation 86
We agree that no one should face violence or discrimination in access to public services based on sexual orientation or their status as a person in prostitution, as this recommendation suggests. The above language, derived from Recommendation 86 of the U.N.’s Universal Periodic Review is now an official part of U.S. human rights policy thanks… Continue reading “86 the Violence” performance celebrates UPR Recommendation 86
The Week in Links: March 4
Studies are being conducted to evaluate whether some lubes might increase risk of HIV transmission. Louisiana currently requires citizens convicted of having oral or anal sex in exchange for money register as sex offenders. But the law is now being challenged. (Deon Haywood, who is quoted in the linked article, spoke on this very same… Continue reading The Week in Links: March 4
I’d Rather Go Naked Than Wear LYCRA®
Koch Industries is one of America’s largest privately owned companies and a major funder of conservative political causes. You can read about the Koch brothers (there’s family drama in addition to coverage of their Tea Party-supporting ways) in a couple of thorough articles from last summer in New York and the New Yorker. Currently… Continue reading I’d Rather Go Naked Than Wear LYCRA®