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The Real, Sinister Political Threat of Tennessee’s New Anti-Drag Law
Politicians have never needed precise laws to brutally police who can and cannot exist freely in public.
Natasha Lennard
Natasha Lennard is a columnist for The Intercept. Her work has appeared in The Nation, Bookforum, and the New York Times, among others. She is the associate director of the Creative Publishing & Critical Journalism graduate program at the New School for Social Research in New York. She is the author of “Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life.”
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DeSantis-Stacked Medical Boards Ramp Up Bans on Care for Trans Youth
Last Friday’s public hearing featured impassioned pleas from trans kids, who stand to lose access to lifesaving care in Florida.
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Reproductive Rights Activists Charged Under Law Intended to Protect Abortion Clinics
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The Crackdown on Cop City Protesters Is So Brutal Because of the Movement's Success
One protester was killed by police, 20 were charged under a “domestic terror” law, and Georgia’s governor gave himself broad “emergency” powers.
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LAPD Held Down Keenan Anderson, Repeatedly Tased Him — Then Suggested His Death Was His Own Fault
That the LAPD is confidently deploying this public relations tactic nearly three years after George Floyd’s death is a grim reflection of how little has changed.
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Biden’s Border Plan Drapes Trump Policies in Liberal Rhetoric
The U.S. border regime is cruel whether it is enforced by a president spewing racist slurs or one appealing to “safe and orderly processing."
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Liberals Rose to Fight the Assault on Abortion — but Not Trans Rights
2022 has seen right-wing attacks on trans rights increasingly aided by the tacit, if sometimes unwitting, transphobia of liberal institutions.
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Why Queer Communities Are Welcoming Armed Antifascist Protection
After the Club Q massacre, there’s no comparing far-right violence and community self-defense.
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Black Liberation Elder to Be Freed From Prison — but Only on His Deathbed
Mutulu Shakur should have been released long ago, but the cruelties of carceral system know no bounds.
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Midterms Show Republican Anti-Abortion Agenda Relies on Minority Rule
But that doesn’t mean we can rest easy in the fight for reproductive justice.