Our podcast interview with author Anel Flores talks Monsanto’s decades of contamination in Mission, Texas, the beauty of South Texas people and places, and fiction as a practice of healing self by writing the pain of those who have wounded us.
Nonprofits that serve LGBTQ+ Texans are struggling with the limits of the old playbooks, while fighting renewed attacks on transgender and queer rights.
Inoculate yourself and our movements against anti-trans disinfo and new forms of climate denial through ‘prebunking’ comics, TikTok vids, and drinking games.
Climate denialists have long deployed the nefarious practice of ‘manufacturing doubt’ to undermine public understanding of the scientific consensus on global warming. Now anti-trans movements are borrowing the technique to poison trans healthcare research and ban care.
Reproductive rights. Climate meltdown. Attacks on trans youth. Considering what’s at stake, it’s OK to skip some rungs on the usual ‘ladder of engagement,’ Akin Olla writes.
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