a digital rendering of a town at dusk, at the foreground, a red building with amber lighting, in front of railroad tracks

Asian America’s (Gender)queer Origins: The Connective Power of Knowing Our Histories

September 12, 2022

TLGBQ Asian Americans rallied their communities and shaped collective politics by exploring their entangled, lesser-known pasts.

Such conversations are currently being threatened with widespread censorship in many U.S. public school classrooms.

PEN America reported that, in 2022, 36 states introduced 137 bills “to legally restrict education on topics like race, American history, gender, and LGBTQ+ identities in K-12 and higher education.” Such policies not only deny students crucial knowledge of their pasts and potential futures, but can also impede their understandings of how they fit into the world and how they might relate to one another. This is not an accident of censorious policies, but a deliberate consequence. White supremacy thrives on division and on isolating the multitudes that it harms.

Jo, a trans nonbinary Taiwanese American, in a hospital bed and gown with an IV in their right arm

Long COVID, ME/CFS, and Patient-Led Care: Jo’s Experience of Post-Viral Chronic Illness

July 30, 2022

The limited studies (and many experiential anecdotes) place ME/CFS patients, like trans people, at significantly higher risk for suicide. As with trans people, this risk is not an inherent part of who we are– it is built into structures designed to ignore or even magnify our pain. Studies find no elevated risk of depression among ME/CFS patients, but rather, an elevated suicidality caused by lack of resources and understanding, loss of employment and community, and the general hopelessness that descends with so much loss and forced isolation.

Trans woman murdered in Augusta, GA

July 21, 2022

Officers were called to the Augusta hotel for a possible homicide on Wednesday July 20, 2022 for a possible homicide. Officers arrived at the Knights Inn in Augusta, GA around 10:28am to find 26 year old Keshia Chanel Geter of Eastover S.C. who identified as a Black trans woman. Investigators say that she was traveling […]

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