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IssueVol. 087 Issue 003 (June 17 2023)
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Paid article'Until Everybody's Free'
Boddiger, David
EDITOR’S NOTE ‘UNTIL EVERYBODY’S FREE’ A s we enter into Pride Month with this special issue devoted to both celebrating the LGBTQ+ community and highlighting the barrage of threats against...
Paid articleComment Representative Mark Pocan
COMMENT by U.S. REPRESENTATIVE MARK POCAN CELEBRATING PRIDE BY FIGHTING BACK E ach year, I celebrate Pride Month with the LGBTQ+ community by focusing on how far we have come and how far we...
Paid articleFurther Comments
Goetz, Laura
FURTHER COMMENTS from PROGRESSIVE PERSPECTIVES MAKE ROOM FOR THE NONBINARY BY KIKI MONIFA I am a Baby Boomer, born in 1957, who grew up in a very binary world. Everything from party...
Paid articleNo Comment
NO COMMENT Down on Rainbows An elementary school in Waukesha, Wisconsin, a conservative-leaning suburb of Milwaukee, pulled the Miley Cyrus and Dolly Parton duet “Rainbowland” from an upcoming...
Paid articleLetters
LETTERS Miscellaneous The April/May issue was excellent, but I wish you had corrected Jodie Evans’s misstatement (“We’ll Stop When Wars Do”) about the lame duck period from “the end of [George...
Paid articleBlast from the Past
BLAST FROM THE PAST In 1998, Anne-Marie Cusac, then managing editor of The Progressive, traveled to Los Angeles, California, to interview radical gay rights activist Harry Hay. Hay was a...
Paid articleOn The Line
Wylie, Niki Chan
ON THE LINE by NIKI CHAN WYLIE LOVE, HOPE, AND DRAG IN UTAH “Drag is activism,” Tara Lipsyncki says after co-hosting an all-ages drag show in April at a restaurant in Logan, Utah. “Drag is a...
Paid articleMiddle America
Conniff, Ruth
MIDDLE AMERICA by RUTH CONNIFF REPUBLICANS RETREAT TO THE BATHROOM TO DEFEND MINORITY RULE R epublicans and rightwing groups just lost the most expensive state supreme court race in U.S....
Paid articleSmart Ass Cripple
Ervin, Mike
SMART ASS CRIPPLE by MIKE ERVIN PLAYING GOD O ne of my friends is quite deft when it comes to jug­gling his life. In addition to working and doing all the other things he has to do every day,...
Paid articleWork Won't Love You Back
Jaffe, Sarah
WORK WON’T LOVE YOU BACK by SARAH JAFFE EVERY DRAG PERFORMER IS AN ORGANIZER T he attacks on gender non­conformity of many types have come fast and brutal this year, in the form of street...
Paid articleFirst Things First
LUEDERS, BILL
FIRST THINGS FIRST by BILL LUEDERS ACTUAL MALICE S everal times a year, in my role as president of the Wis­consin Freedom of Infor­mation Council, I get to meet with small delegations of...
Paid articleSmoking Gun
SMOKING GUN ANTI-LGBTQ+ LAWS ARE ALL THE RAGE Cracking down on the rights of people based on their sexual orientation or gender identity has become something of a new national pastime. The...
Paid articleThe Coordinated Attack on Trans People
Tannehill, Brynn
The Coordinated Attack on Trans People Inside the pre-2024 Republican strategy, a decade in the making. BY BRYNN TANNEHILL M ore than 500 anti-transgender bills were filed at both the...
Paid article'I Will Not Apologize'
Stockwell, Norman
‘I Will Not Apologize’ BY NORMAN STOCKWELL O n April 18, Democratic state Representative Zooey Zephyr spoke out on the floor of the Montana legislature against Senate Bill 99, a bill that...
Paid article'You Care About Us, and That Makes Me Proud'
Moore, Andy
‘You Care About Us, and That Makes Me Proud’ “It’s not only our liberty that’s at stake, it’s our lives,” Dina Nina Martinez-Rutherford said at the Day of Resistance to Trans Genocide...
Paid articleThe Inextricable Link Between Black and Queer History
Hagopian, Jesse
The Inextricable Link Between Black and Queer History Florida’s own past is .lled with the lessons it is trying to outlaw. BY JESSE HAGOPIAN T he Florida Department of Education (FDOE)...
Paid articleHijacking Higher Education
Hsu, V. Jo
Hijacking Higher Education Eliminating university gender studies and diversity initiatives are now core components of Republican political strategy. BY V. JO HSU F lorida’s House Bill...
Paid articleOne Question
ONE QUESTION Q: How Can Progressives Respond ASH ORR Spokesperson at the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) In 2023 alone, forty-nine states have introduced...
Paid articleThe Elusivity of Health Care Equality
Johnson, Sharon
The Elusivity of Health Care Equality Founded at the onset of the AIDS crisis, one organization is still defying an antagonistic system amid new legislative attacks. BY SHARON...
Paid articleHow Corporate News Distorts Gun Violence
Voitl, Shealeigh
How Corporate News Distorts Gun Violence In Chicago as elsewhere, mainstream outlets regularly omit stories of people living in close proximity to gun violence. BY SHEALEIGH VOITL...
Paid articleReturning to Laurel
Odell, Jonathan
Returning to LAUREL A feel-good HGTV show sweeps a Southern town’s racist past, and gentri.ed present, under the rug. BY JONATHAN ODELL W hen I tell people where I grew up, they...
Paid articleInterview With Ahmed Rashid
Drake, Richard
INTERVIEW Hunger and a Lack of Diplomacy AreDriving Unrest An interview with Ahmed Rashid. BY RICHARD DRAKE O n April 6, I spoke with Pakistani journalist and historian Ahmed Rashid...
Paid articleBook Review
Stockwell, Norman
BOOK REVIEW Sharing Painful Learning BY NORMAN STOCKWELL Part memoir, part self-processing, and part call to action, and written by a survivor of the tragic Pulse nightclub shooting in...
Paid articleBook Excerpt
Reed, Scott Branson, Raven Hudson, Bry
BOOK EXCERPT The Daily Practice of Abolition Surviving the future means questioning the very institutions that betray us. EDITED BY SCOTT BRANSON, RAVEN HUDSON, AND BRY REED T he pieces of...
Paid articleRecommended Reading from a Room of One's Own Bookstore
beyond, Pride Month and
BOOKS ‘ Stories Heal and Are Powerful Tools of Connection’ Trans and queer-owned bookstore A Room of One’s Own—known for Instagram-viral book picks—shares a few for Pride Month and...
Paid articleBook Reviews
Brinks, Bill Lueders, L.
BOOK REVIEW Laying Down the Law BY BILL LUEDERS A decade ago, while he was in jail for acts of civil disobedience involving an oil rig in the Greenlandic Arctic, climate activist Kumi...
Paid articleFirst-Person Singular
Boyd, Miranda Jayne
I’m a Queer, Nonbinary Person Raised in a Red State Republicans’ ongoing assaults against queer, trans, and nonbinary people are deadly. I would know. Content warning: This article discusses...
Paid articleHemming and Hawing
Farsad, Negin
HEMMING AND HAWING by NEGIN FARSAD EVERYTHING SUCKS, BUT EVERYTHING IS FINE I ’ve noticed a trend among my friends, family, acquaintances, baristas, pharmacists, dentists, and basically anyone...
Paid articleEdge of Sports
Zirin, Dave
EDGE OF SPORTS by DAVE ZIRIN TRANS ATHLETES WERE ALWAYS JUST THE BEGINNING T he April 16 issue of The New York Times included an arti­cle that would chill even the most cynical of leftists....
Paid articlePoem
Barya, Mildred Kiconco
POEM by MILDRED KICONCO BARYA Transit 11 11 She appears like a blot of blood waltzing across the Sun’s face, daring and steady the movement she makes—the movement that marks Mercury’s...
Paid articleVox Populist
Hightower, Jim
VOX POPULIST by JIM HIGHTOWER HEY, KIDS, LET’S GO TO DESANTIS WORLD! U ntil recently, kids were thrilled when their parents said, “We’re going to Disney World!” But that was in the...
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