Month: June 2020

Cars drive past a billboard featuring Black trans model and activist Jari Jones in an advertisement for Calvin Klein. (Angela Weiss / AFP via Getty Images) Popping a bottle of champagne, a Black trans plus-sized woman looked up at a billboard on Lafayette Street, in New York’s lower Manhattan, to see herself. Model Jari Jones was surrounded
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When Sanders delegates first started their organizing effort, the California governor was widely viewed as the expectant heir to the chair. “Everybody I talked to had the assumption that Gavin Newsom would be the chair of the delegation,” Norman Solomon, a Sanders delegate and the national director of RootsAction.org, told me. “It was seen like
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Paris Jackson discussed her sexuality during the premiere of her new docuseries, ‘Unfiltered’ with boyfriend Gabriel Glenn on June 30. Paris admitted she ‘never’ thought she’d ‘end up with a dude,’ and revealed she’s been with more women than men. Paris Jackson got candid about her sexuality and past relationships with both men and women on
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The White House has apparently known of possible Russian bounties on Americans in Afghanistan since early 2019, pushing the timeline back a full year earlier than when the administration was initially thought to have learned of the intelligence. The shocking findings that a Russian military intelligence agency offered rewards to Taliban-linked militants for attacks on
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As LGBT+ Pride Month closes, a new hero in the form of Post Office comms employee ‘Courney’ has emerged and she is effortless in fending homophobes off. (Twitter/PAUL ELLIS/AFP via Getty Images) In life, there are moments where we look to leaders to provide guidance, motivation and inspiration in trying times. And today, a member
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Beverly Glenn-Copeland has announced a new record. Transmissions: The Music of Beverly Glenn-Copeland is out September 25 via Transgressive, a new label for the singer, composer, and transgender electronic pioneer’s past and future catalog. The career-spanning album is led by the single “River Dreams,” which is Glenn-Copeland’s first new track in over 15 years, according
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Leonardo DiCaprio really, really didn’t want to be seen going out with his girlfriend Camila Morrone to Nobu in Malibu yesterday, as Los Angeles’ coronavirus cases hit over 100,000. The couple was photographed by paparazzi arriving at the restaurant together. Both sensibly wore masks, which is the minimum the CDC is recommending people do to
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Only hours after posting public praise for Stephen King on her Twitter account, British author J.K. Rowling deleted her remarks on Sunday as the fellow novelist showed support for transgender women on the social media platform. Rowling, who has become the subject of widespread controversy after repeatedly making transphobic comments last month, commended The Shining writer after
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In the 1970s, French artist César, known for his large-form hydraulically compacted sculptures that used automobile parts, scrap metal, and other discarded items, began a series of small totemic compressés made from family heirlooms and friends’ jewelry. Now, more than two decades after César’s death, Hedi Slimane, the artistic, creative, and image director of Celine,
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WARNING: This video contains explicit language. YouTuber Shane Dawson has addressed the criticism he has received for using blackface, saying the N-word and other racial slurs, insulting people living with disabilities, joking about pedophilia and more. In a 20-minute video released on Friday, titled Taking Accountability, the 31-year-old YouTuber issued public apologies to his 23
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Reddit, after years of piling pressure, clamped down on boards that, under new guidelines, promoted hate speech. A transphobic “gender critical feminist” forum was one of them. (Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Reddit, one of the largest social networking and imageboard websites, has banned one of the most prolific “gender critical” communities as part
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