NYC’s Homeless: The Original Occupiers of Wall Street
I made a brief visit a few weekends ago to Zuccotti Park, the original site of the Occupy Wall Street camp outs, assemblies and demonstrations which are still taking place […]
Category Archives: Queer Power
A Radical Approach to Veterans Day
This past Wednesday morning at all school assembly in the gymnasium, my school’s principle reminded the students that we would not be having classes on Friday because of Veterans Day. […]
No Justice, No Peace: Challenging ‘Diversity’ and Embracing Conflict
A teaching program of which I was recently a part held a ‘Diversity Day’ early on in the program’s duration. The goal of the day was to give the community […]
In Solidarity with the Occupation of Wall Street
Let us devise demands. Let us occupy public space. Let us engage true democracy. Let us honor our ancestors, and all struggles for justice which precede us. Let us come […]
What’s Wrong with Being Militant?
The African American Studies program in which I majored at my university was founded–like countless other Black, Brown and Ethnic Studies Departments–as the result of student, staff and faculty organizing. […]
A Timeline of the Modern Sex Worker Movement from $pread Magazine
In reference to a previous post on sex positivity, I wanted to put up this link to an incredible tool from the late $pread Magazine. In its six or so […]
Sex Positivity and a Queer Commitment to Sex Worker Rights
While I was away for my sophomore year of college, a close friend of mine back at home started working as a dancer at a local strip bar. He was […]
Happy Labor Day!
In honor of the Labor Movement, the rapid de-unionizing of labor occurring on a global scale, and the mainstream LGBT movement’s faltering commitment to workers’ rights and economic justice, I […]
We Are All Subversives: Femme Strength and Queer Solidarity
A friend of mine and I who both identify as femme were chatting the other day about the different ways our identities are understood in our various communities. She, who […]
Criminal Queers, Camp and Rasquache: Reimagined Aesthetics for a Reimagined Social Order
In December of 1997, Luis Alfaro’s play Los Vecinos: A Play for Neighbors went up in a Chicano community center in Los Angeles. The piece was staged as a means […]
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