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@dinagw.bsky.social teaches about the Doctrine of Discovery, and her university students are always outraged to find out that they didn’t learn about it sooner. US history classes gloss over this chapter. Why is that? 🤔 #America250
Ari Berkowitz goes over this in the 3rd chapter of his book, THE BINARY DELUSION, which comes out this August: www.beacon.org/The-Binary-D...
✅️ To be read for the 250th anniversary of the US.
✅️ To be read for Juneteenth.
✅️ To be read if you love science fiction.
✅️ To be read if you love historical fiction.
✅️ To be read if you love Black women writers.
This is Octavia E. Butler’s KINDRED.
We have a soft spot for Cobb Public Library for giving a shout-out to Catherine Ceniza Choy’s ASIAN AMERICAN HISTORIES OF THE UNITED STATES! 🫶🏼
“As far as the bars that are still around today, they tend to have leaders who have been able to balance the history and the legacy and their own personal quirks with the evolution of the community’s needs.” — @cruisingpod.bsky.social’s Rachel Karp #HappyPride
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Special thanks go to Alvin at Fabulosa Books in San Francisco, CA, who recommends @crileysnorton.bsky.social and Darius Bost’s A BLACK QUEER HISTORY OF THE US! 🙏🏽 On @bookshop.org, it’s 15% off with code Pride26! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
“Sexual assault is never about sex; we know that it’s about power & control. How would that not be a tool that [ICE & CBP] would use?”
DHS routinely describes undocumented immigrants as sexual predators while employing men accused of child sexual abuse & rape, @nicolefroio.bsky.social reports.
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Take action this Pride Month. Submit a public comment opposing a proposed HUD rule that would make federally funded shelters less safe for transgender, nonbinary, two-spirit, and intersex people.
Learn more and comment by June 28: http://uusc.org/pride-in-action
#PrideInAction
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At his Pride reception, the mayor spoke exclusively with The Advocate about solidarity with LGBTQ+ residents and attacks on transgender health care.
Trump continues to whitewash the history of the US by embracing the Doctrine of Discovery ahead of this country's so-called 250th birthday. How are scholars responding?
In honor of America’s 250th birthday, we polled PW’s staffers and freelance reviewers, as well as members of the National Book Critics Circle, on the most essential books published in the U.S. since...
The Olympics' new transgender ban could end up excluding more intersex women than transgender athletes.
"The rarity of transgender athletes in elite competition suggests their exclusion is a solution in search of a problem."
#LGBTQ #sports #transgender
In her new book, ‘The Lesbian Bar Chronicles,’ author Rachel Karp takes readers on a gigantic bar crawl around America’s sapphic spaces
Every year around Juneteenth, I think about how Black communities survived in the years after emancipation. Freedom and survival are not the same thing. Emancipation ended slavery, but it did not provide safety. www.linkedin.com/pulse/beauty...
Every Juneteenth, some Americans celebrate freedom. This year, as stories about voting rights, democratic backsliding, attacks on higher education, and the erosion of civil rights protections fill the...
