On March 26, 2026, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it will be investigating prisons in California and Maine to determine whether housing transgender women in women’s prisons violates the Constitution. According to the DOJ, there are concerns that prisons that house transgender women violate cisgender women’s constitutional rights, such as the First Amendment, […]
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Humor in the Woke World: Harmful or Hilarious?
Within the first ten minutes of Dave Chapelle’s “The Closer,” he critiques Black people for “beating up his beloved Asian people,” laughs about black police brutality, and describes a plot to a movie he devised in which aliens who were banished from earth come back to reclaim it as their own and titles it “Space […]
Past Due: Queering the Democratic Party
In an inspirational feat this past summer, a lesbian Native American attorney bested five other Democrats to secure the Party nomination in Kansas’ 3rd district. Her background is nothing short of remarkable: a Cornell Law graduate raised by a single mother and Army veteran, Sharice Davids went on to be a key political player whose […]