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Marriage Equality: Race, Family Values, and the 99%

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…lso benefit from segregated neighborhoods, schools, tax credits for middle class homeowners, and higher-paying jobs. Complex families of color that are either headed by single gay or straight parents are marginalized as inherently dysfunctional, welfare-dependent, and socially borderline. Loving gay partners of color with children are nonexistent. This media white-out has insidious implications for both straight and gay children of color. If gay c…

Conservative Catholics Unhappy About New Book on LGBTs and The Church; and More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ous parameters and little culture of human rights, and a fearful political class that does not dare to push these policies because of the political cost they entail,” laments Magalys Castillo, activist and representative of the Network of Human Rights of Panama. Panama’s First Lady, Lorena Castillo de Varela, announced that she would attend a gay pride march this summer. France: National Front reaches out to gay voters; still reportedly harbors an…

Religious Right Loudly Protests LGBT ‘Day of Silence’

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…parents have taught them it’s okay to disregard the feelings of their LGBT classmates because they are “immoral” by their standards. Either way, the children who will stay home on Friday are reinforced in their bigotry, and reinforce the atmosphere of bigotry faced by LGBT students. Some parents, however, may send their kids to school thinking that it will be good to have a “voice of opposition” in the classroom during the Day of Silence. That’s n…

Why I Fear The Post-Trayvon Martin Sermon

By Elizabeth Drescher

…culture rigidly segmented and stratified on the basis of race, ethnicity, class, gender, and other social categories. I expect that she won’t, for instance, offer tepid prayers for the comfort of the Martin family and a promise of compensatory goodies at some heavenly banquet in the hereafter where, in one of the stupidest prayers I came across on Facebook in the wee hours of the morning, we are promised, “there is no death, pain or sorrow; nor p…

The Death of a Black Man at the Hands of Black Officers Unveiled Something More Complex Than Whiteness

By Willie Dwayne Francois

…al that supplants preexisting identity stigmas related to race, ethnicity, class, or gender. Irrespective of the racial identity of an officer, the systemic nature of racial profiling which occasions instances of anti-Black police violence regularizes and perpetuates anti-Black and anti-poor biases as features of the job. To an extent, Blueness assumes to temporarily and conditionally absorb the disadvantaged aspects of one’s social location as sa…

Beverly Cleary, Author of the Ramona Series, Understood Children, Shoes, School, Words, and How it Feels to be Heard, or Misunderstood

By Amy Laura Hall

…so catches grown-ups speaking earnest nonsense. Virginia Lee Burton’s 1939 classic Mike Mulligan and the Steam Shovel may be about, as her teacher tells her, “digging the basement of the town hall,” but Ramona knows that her pressing question, namely, “how did Mike Mulligan go to the bathroom when he was digging the basement of the town hall?” stands: Ramona knew and the rest of the class knew that knowing how to go to the bathroom was important….

Are Michael Moore’s Films Inspired by His Catholicism?

By Rosemary R. Ruether

…hael Moore’s films inspired by his Catholicism? Moore grew up in a working class Irish Catholic family in Flint, Michigan and in high school considered going to seminary and studying for the priesthood. He readily declares that his social justice perspective is inspired by nuns and priests from his high school days in the late sixties who told the students that, as Catholics, they should be concerned for the poor. In a recent interview on Tavis Sm…

RDBook: Darwin and Slavery

By Arri Eisen

…s teacher, added a whole unit on the American Civil Rights Movement to our class—because this bit of history was not mentioned in our text. My mother was part of a group of women—a Jew, a Catholic, and an African American—that toured high schools to talk on race and religion and allow the students to meet people who were not like themselves, in many cases for the first time. These are the type of experiences that shaped me, that shape all Southern…

Wearing White is Not Enough: A Conversation with Cherisse Scott of SisterReach

By Anita Little

…r women’s lives and the lived experiences that we have—regardless of race, class, or gender, social economic status, or even sexual orientation. None of those things seem to matter to this administration. The only thing that seems to matter to them is undoing some of the very important work that was done during the Obama administration to ensure that women and girls have access to the health services that we need. Our autonomy is an afterthought….

The People’s Temple, the Black Church, and the Tragic Legacy of Jonestown

By Anita Little

…ally what anchored the movement. It was the investment of everyday working-class and middle-class African-Americans but also the investment of black politicians, of black power brokers, of black activists. You have said that Jim Jones fashioned himself as the “ultimate white savior.” Why do you think he felt this draw to proselytizing African-Americans, black women especially? Part of his personal lore was that his father was a klansman, and he wo…