Audible.com • April 9, 2024

AUDIO: New York's Legal Weed Rollout Gets Complicated

New York has only around 90 legal cannabis shops while an estimated 2,000 stores are believed to be selling marijuana illegally. Eli Northrop, director of the Bronx Cannabis Hub, helps explain why the state's legalization rollout has been complicated from the start.

Audible.com • January 9, 2024

AUDIO: Why 2023 Was the Year of the Strike

2023 was a big year for union workers. The Bureau of Labor says that there were more work stoppages involving more than 1,000 workers last year than any other year in the past decade. Why did so many go on strike?

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.

AudioFiles • December 9, 2022

AUDIO: Washington Heights’ Migrant Holiday Market

One holiday market in Washington Heights is featuring art by migrants who recently arrived in New York City.

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.

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.

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 • 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.

The Texas Observer • May 20, 2021

Fighting Anti-Trans Legislation Takes a Toll on Texas Kids and Families

A record-breaking wave of anti-LGBTQ bills have been introduced by state legislatures across the country this year. Texas lawmakers filed the most of any state, the majority of them attacking trans youth.

Texas Monthly • April 16, 2021

10-Year-Old Activist Kai Shappley on Fighting for Trans Kids in the Texas Lege

“I do not like spending my free time asking adults to make good choices,” ten-year-old Kai Shappley told a roomful of Texas legislators on Monday. “It makes me sad that some politicians use trans kids like me to get votes from people who hate me just because I exist,” she told the Senate Committee on State Affairs.

Autostraddle • October 7, 2020

Letting Go of Latinidad

I’m not here to celebrate Latinx Heritage Month. During a year full of grief, anger, and despair exacerbated by a pandemic and a near fascist government, it’s time instead we look inward and let go of our concept of Latinidad.

Remezcla • September 22, 2020

Tejas Made: What Reproductive Rights Look Like For Latines In Texas

Abortion is legal in Texas, but over the last decade, state legislation has drastically restricted access to both abortions and reproductive healthcare overall.

Autostraddle • June 26, 2019

What the Border Wall Destroys

I know the Rio Grande Valley intimately; it’s where I’m from and who I am. I’ve been thinking about the complexities of the borderland my entire life, trying to make sense of it — to make sense of myself.

Autostraddle • November 2, 2018

Lupe Valdez Is a Gay Latina Running for Texas Governor; That’s Something at Least

Let’s take a look at Valdez’s past, her record as sheriff and what she hopes to stand for as governor.

Autostraddle • October 22, 2018

What You Need to Know About Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s Homophobic Presidential Frontrunner

Brazil is headed to a high-stakes runoff presidential election on October 28th that will have huge implications for the largest country in Latin America, perhaps even the world.