Tell Discord: online ID checks don’t keep anyone safe. Don’t comply with surveillance and censorship.

“Schools can and should continue to include transgender students equally in all educational programs,” writes Chase Strangio.

The Issue On Monday, July 20th, 2026, Advocates for Trans Equality (A4TE) sent an email to the Union for Trans Liberation (U4TL)—A4TE’s staff union—giving notice of the organization’s “economic retren...

Review a draft, open it in Gmail, Outlook, or your mail app, and send it yourself. No sign-in, no data collected.

Review a draft, open it in Gmail, Outlook, or your mail app, and send it yourself. No sign-in, no data collected.

Explaining the “maximalism” of trans rights

A 20-poem manuscript by Allison Armstrong that follows a past-present-future trajectory of loss, grief, and healing through the lens of femme queerness, magic, and ritual Limited to 20 copies

From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a...

The US and Europe, over and over, leave room for fascism to rise again.

The Issue On Monday, July 20th, 2026, Advocates for Trans Equality (A4TE) sent an email to the Union for Trans Liberation (U4TL)—A4TE’s staff union—giving notice of the organization’s “economic retren...

A dozen people who took part in a weeks-long international student protest in northeast Calgary have been flagged as "being possibly inadmissible" and, according to an immigration lawyer, could be for...

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