by admin | May 29, 2014 | Articles, Equality, Gender, LGBTQIA+, News
Laverne Cox, one of the most influential and visible contemporary transgender advocates, and one of our favorite “possibility models” made history today by becoming the first transgender woman to cover TIME Magazine. Talk about a wonderful birthday present, as the...
by admin | May 23, 2014 | Articles, Equality, LGBTQIA+
Idaho, Michigan, Texas, Arkansas, and Virginia. These are just a handful of the states that have been making headlines for their role in the fight for marriage equality in the United States. Just this week, the ban against same-sex marriage in both Oregon and...
by admin | May 22, 2014 | Articles, Equality, Gender, LGBTQIA+, Power LGBT, Resources & Info
For more than a decade, Manila-born model Geena Rocero has found tremendous success working in the fashion industry. Discovered by a fashion photographer in New York City at age 21, she spent then next 12 years building a successful career, all while keeping a...
by admin | May 14, 2014 | Articles, Equality, LGBTQIA+, News
Gay and lesbian couples and allies in Idaho cheered earlier this week when news broke of a federal judge ruling the state’s ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional. According to Freedom to Marry, “On May 13, 2014 U.S. Magistrate Judge Candy Dale, a federal judge in...
by admin | May 7, 2014 | Articles, Equality, Gender, News, Women's Rights
Melissa Harris-Perry is one of our very favorite leaders to an equal world. Harris-Perry is the founding director of the Anna Julia Cooper Project, a program that addresses gender, race, and politics in the South. She is also the author of Sister Citizen: Shame,...
by admin | May 2, 2014 | Articles, Equality, News, Racism
Last month, a Michigan proposal to rid of affirmative action in the state’s public universities proved successful with backing from the Supreme Court. According to Adam Liptak for The New York Times, “In a fractured decision that revealed deep divisions over what role...
