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Happening Now: Trans-Led Coalition Shuts Down Chicago Pride Parade

Featuredby Benji Hart 5 Comments

A trans-led coalition of Chicago-based organizations–headed by the Trans Liberation Collective and including the BTGNC Collective, Black Lives Matter Chicago, Jewish Voice for Peace, Assata’s Daughters and Pilsen Alliance–are shutting […]

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Economic Justice, Ethnic Studies, Liberalism, Queer Power

Guest Post–Dirty Art Boi Speaks at the Trans Liberation March

March 8, 2017by Benji Hart Leave a comment

On March 3rd, 2017 in Chicago, IL, the Trans Liberation Collective in conjunction with Brave Space Alliance, BTGNC Collective, Black Lives Matter Chicago and the Trans United Fund hosted a historic […]

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Economic Justice, Ethnic Studies, Liberalism, Queer Power

#TurnUp4TT: A Public Statement from the Organizers

October 5, 2016by Benji Hart 10 Comments

On September 11, 2016 TT Saffore, a young, Black, trans woman was found murdered in a park on Chicago’s West Side. Today, a coalition of Black, trans and gender-nonconforming community […]

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Ethnic Studies, Queer Power, Uncategorized

D’Angelo Vogues Down: A Memorial

March 16, 2016by Benji Hart 8 Comments

This very short story is written in memory of a youth member of the Chicago queer community we lost in the summer of 2015, and will appear alongside other pieces in the forthcoming zine honoring […]

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Queer Power, The Arts, Vogue Studies

Lesson Plan – Vogue and Abolition: Understanding the Prison Industrial Complex Through the Ballroom Scene

May 6, 2013by Benji Hart 1 Comment

This lesson is part of a larger vogue studies curriculum, a unit aimed at teaching ballroom scene history to the ballroom scene, other queer people of color, and our allies. […]

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Curriculum, Ethnic Studies, Queer Power, Vogue Studies

Working Girls: Or; What, Exactly, Is Dangerous About Sex Work?

February 9, 2013by Benji Hart 7 Comments

A friend of mine recently shared with me that she is thinking about registering with an escort service to make some extra money. We had a long conversation about what […]

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Economic Justice, Queer Power

Where Are Queer Cis* Men in Radical Activism?

August 17, 2012by Benji Hart 2 Comments

Last week I attended a community meeting for queer people of color in the Chicago area. Held in a QPOC-owned cafe on the west side, the gathering was organized by […]

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Queer Power

Making Our Own Movements: Queer Activism in the Gay Marriage Era

May 22, 2012by Benji Hart 7 Comments

Recently reemerging debates in mainstream media about gay marriage have had me thinking about the state of my own identity in our current political moment. As a queer person of […]

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Economic Justice, Liberalism, Queer Power

A Radical Approach to Veterans Day

November 11, 2011by Benji Hart 1 Comment

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. […]

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Economic Justice, Education, Queer Power

We Are All Subversives: Femme Strength and Queer Solidarity

September 4, 2011by Benji Hart 34 Comments

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 […]

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Queer Power

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