If left unacknowledged, persistent racial and gender disparities in HIV transmission and treatment will continue to thwart any effort to curtail the pandemic.
The global gag rule doesn’t just drastically limit access to safe and legal abortion. It jeopardizes access to all health care offered by the same providers.
With no women, lay people, or survivors invited, nothing will change and everyone will go home feeling righteous about having "done" something. The something will be more prayer than policy, more story than analysis, more circling the wagons than opening the doors to the light of justice.
Conservatives in Missouri are unsatisfied with the roughly 20 anti-choice restrictions they have to consider this session, so last week they added a few more to the mix.
The California measure would be the first mandate of its kind after state legislators last year passed the first-ever legislation to address the rights of intersex people.
Candice Crowder, a 33-year-old Black trans woman, says prison staff beat her and placed her in solitary confinement, as well as in housing units closer to the prisoners who assaulted and abused her.
So predictable to suspect Black queer men for "provoking" violence against them. But here we are—with much of Twitter speculating he's lying about a hookup gone awry.
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