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Hip hop activists attacked and arrested for daring to hold the NYPD accountable
Sometimes there’s too much to blog and far too little time. I’ve been wanting to blog about this since I heard about it last week, but Vivir Latino and illvox and Racewire and a bunch of other folks have gotten to it already so I’ll refer to them. From VivirLatino: Last Thursday, independent, radical, revolutionary,…
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Rinku Sen on Same-Sex Marriage and Communities of Color
Qualms about the marriage equality movement aside, I appreciated this perspective from Rinku Sen at Racewire. Rather than fixating on communities of color as though we’re the last of the homophobic holdouts, we should be thinking of ways to bring people together, socially and culturally, across sexual lines. Very true. And yeah, qualms aside again,…
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Why this queer isn’t celebrating
I’ll admit it: I couldn’t help but get a bit happy when I heard that California was legalizing same-sex marriage. And today, when I heard about the first couples in line to enjoy their new rights, couples like Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin who got married again after their 2004 marriage was declared invalid, my…