What You Missed This Week
82 Days of Silence: Why We’re Speaking Up for Marco McMillian
It’s been 82 days. [Eighty-two] days since the body of Marco McMillian, a black mayoral candidate, who was also gay, was found on the Mississippi River levee, unclothed. After 82 days of utter apathy from our collective community—the black community, the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community, our allies, and communities at the intersection—we are breaking the silence and calling out the paralyzing hypocrisy plaguing us.
Continue reading on theGrio.
Ugandan LGBT Activists Arrested While Protesting Media Censorship
A pair of LGBT activists in Uganda were arrested this morning as they peacefully protested a government blackout of independent media. According to activists on the ground in Uganda, several LGBT Ugandans and an American photojournalist joined other demonstrators in a peaceful rally demanding freedom of the press.
Details over at Advocate.
The Rise of Beyoncé, The Fall of Lauryn Hill: A Tale of Two Icons
One star proved a lyrical genius – rapping and crooning on politics, love, religion, and the resistance of corporate media – while the other preferred more superficial fanfare concerning clubbing, looking fabulous, and having her own money to spend as she fends off heartaches and trifling lovers, while occasionally championing women’s empowerment. One star refused the pop-culture make-over, preferring instead to rock her natural hair and bask in her dark-skinned beauty, while the other has made a signature look out of blond weaves and other variations on white beauty standards that her light-skinned beauty can more easily appropriate.
Read more on The Feminist Wire.
Eleven Women of Color You Should Know and Admire
We love how intentional our friends at Autostraddle are being about inclusivity. At their A-Camp, they hosted a queer women of color panel. Now they’re leaving you with ten new role models of color who have made massive and amazing contributions to this world. The bonus? Most of them are queer as fuck.
Check out the list here.
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