Brooklyn, USA • December 14, 2022

AUDIO: The Solidarity Economy

New York state is home to more co-ops than anywhere else in the country. To wrap up our series on work and labor, we’re checking in with Brooklynites who are organizing and maintaining worker co-ops, and in the process creating a less exploitative, more equitable workplace, way of life, and world.

The Guardian • December 8, 2022

Why knowing your neighbors could save you in the next climate disaster

Across the US, communities are relying on mutual aid as a safeguard against extreme weather.

AudioFiles • December 2, 2022

AUDIO: Brooklyn Landmarks LGBTQ History

After nearly 50 years, The Lesbian Herstory Archives in Park Slope has received landmark status from the Landmark Preservation Commission, making it the first of its kind in Brooklyn.

AudioFiles • November 4, 2022

AUDIO: Respite For Deliveristas

Delivery workers zoom around the city bringing to us the food we’ve ordered. That doesn’t leave them with a lot of safe and clean places to rest. New York City officials are now planning to transform vacant news stands across the city into worker hubs where workers can take a break during shifts.

AudioFiles • October 18, 2022

AUDIO: The Rush To Shelter Asylum Seekers

How mutual aid groups and volunteers are helping newly-arrived asylum seekers find shelter in NYC.

Texas Standard • August 30, 2022

LGBTQ Texans fear Supreme Court will target same-sex marriage, leaving them legally unprotected

LGBTQ couples in Texas are setting up wills and power of attorney, as well as considering leaving the state altogether, in order to protect their rights post-Roe.

Texas Standard • August 4, 2022

Beyoncé’s ‘Renaissance’ pays tribute to Black queer roots of house and disco music

“House music and dance music is a very euphoric experience because it is a liberation from so many of the societal stressors that we experience on an everyday basis.”

Texas Standard • July 20, 2022

‘There is hope’: New documentary focuses on survivors of military sexual violence

A new Univision documentary centers on the stories of women soldiers who have been sexually assaulted while serving. #IamVanessaGuillen was inspired by the story of 20-year-old soldier, Vanessa Guillen, who went missing from Fort Hood in April 2020.

Texas Standard • July 14, 2022

Author Andrea Mosqueda on representation for queer youth in the Rio Grande Valley

The San Benito native’s debut YA novel, “Just Your Local Bisexual Disaster,” tackles shame but also has a happy ending.

Texas Standard • July 13, 2022

How Mexican activists are providing Texans with medication abortions

Las Libres, formed in 2001, has seen an increase in calls from people based in the U.S.

Texas Standard • July 11, 2022

UT researchers are gathering data to prevent drug overdoses in Texas

TxCOPE crowdsources its data from harm reduction groups across the state to help track and prevent overdoses.

Texas Standard • July 6, 2022

‘It’s an exhaustion of our humanity’: New report details forced prison labor in Texas

State and local agencies benefit from services and goods produced by people in prison.

BBC Worklife • June 23, 2022

The employees who transitioned genders during remote work

Transgender people who transitioned during the pandemic are reintroducing themselves to colleagues as they return to offices. The process isn’t always straightforward.

Refinery 29 • June 3, 2022

Familismo Kept Me From Exploring My Queerness: 4 Latines on Coming out Later in Life

For many, cultural influences can delay the process of coming out until their late 20s or 30s. Even more, religion, machismo, gender roles, and internalized homophobia and/or transphobia can impact our own understanding of our gender and sexuality.

New York City News Service • May 31, 2022

The Winding Path to Queer Pregnancy

Molly Foeman and Kayla Rodriguez decided to have a baby earlier this year. After three fertility clinics, over a thousand dollars out-of-pocket for doctor visits and tests, and emotional turmoil, their path to pregnancy hasn’t been straight-forward.

Xtra Magazine • March 11, 2022

This proposed law would ban incarcerated trans people from correcting ID documents

Mississippi lawmakers are pushing a bill that would make it more difficult for incarcerated trans people to access ID documents that match their lived gender.

Xtra Magazine • January 7, 2022

This figure skater could become the first out non-binary athlete to compete in the Winter Olympics

Timothy LeDuc set a record at the 2022 U.S. Figure Skating Championships and hopes to make the Olympic team

Xtra Magazine • December 13, 2021

Lisa Middleton is California’s first trans mayor. She wants to make history—again

Lisa Middleton made history last week by becoming the first trans mayor in California and just the third trans mayor in U.S. history.

Xtra Magazine • December 3, 2021

This Supreme Court judge is trying to exploit same-sex marriage to overturn Roe v. Wade

During oral arguments before the Supreme Court, Justice Brett Kavanaugh suggested that landmark cases protecting LGBTQ2S+ civil rights justify imperiling abortion access across the United States.

New York City News Service • November 3, 2021

The Fight to Close Rikers

A record number of incarcerated people have died at Rikers this year. Leah Faria is among the activists and elected officials calling on the city to stop sending people there over technical parole violations.