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I spent the morning of London’s Pride parade hand-stitching dildos onto a flag. I’d been using the sex-toy motif in my work before I made a flag of Isis out of them and brought it to the march. Previously, I’ve attached dildos onto postcards from each country where homosexuality is still illegal to point out…
View this image › A screenshot of a video by the Girl Scouts of Western Washington explains they welcome all girls, including transgender girls. Via youtube.com A stunning donation arrived this spring for the Girl Scouts of Western Washington: a $100,000 check. The staff was ecstatic, CEO Megan Ferland told BuzzFeed News, because the…
Up until a few weeks ago, I worked at a historic site in the South that included an old house and a nearby plantation. My job was to lead tours and tell guests about the people who made plantations possible: the slaves. The site I worked at most frequently had more than 100 enslaved workers…
We probably should have known this high was too good to last. One of the principle creators of Mad Max: Fury Road has responded to criticisms of sexism with the kind of comments that have us questioning whether the film is the feminist miracle we thought it was. In case you’ve been living under a rock, Fury Road has…
A destroyed piano is part of the charred remains of Briar Creek Road Baptist Church Wednesday, June 24, 2015 in Charlotte, N.C. (Davie Hinshaw/The Charlotte Observer via AP) In the week after nine people were shot dead at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in South Carolina, six churches with predominately black congregations in five southern…
Sometimes it’s possible to step back and appreciate how much has changed for the better since police raided the Stonewall Inn, sparking riots and a national gay rights movement. Yesterday’s Gay Pride parade, coming on the heels of a landmark Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage, was one such moment of joyful triumph, where dancing…
Six predominantly black churches in various cities in the South caught fire this week, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Three of the fires have been confirmed as cases of arson, two were likely accidental, and authorities are still investigating the cause of another. The College Hills Seventh Day Adventist Church in Knoxville, Tennessee…
When Facebook released its workplace diversity numbers on Thursday, the company included a somewhat heartening message. “It’s clear to all of us that we still aren’t where we want to be,” Maxine Williams, Facebook’s global head of diversity, wrote. “There’s more work to do.” But it was almost exactly the same thing Ms. Williams said…
Fires burned four predominantly black southern churches over the last week, and authorities say at least three of the blazes were the work of arsonists. Monday: The first of the fires burned College Hills Seventh Day Adventist Church in Knoxville, Tennessee. The predominantly black church suffered some damage to its lawn, front doors, and van,…