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How Can You Talk About LGBTQ+ Rights When There’s a War Going On?
How do we appropriately allocate our grief?
“No one cares about your posts about your child! Don’t you know there is a war happening?”
I saw this comment on an influencer’s Instagram post several months ago and it rings in my ears today.
How can we talk about Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill when:
Ukraine is under attack.
Texas governor Greg Abbott wants to start a witch hunt for transgender children and the parents who give them the medical care they need.
It’s National Eating Disorder Awareness Week and eating disorders are still one of the deadliest mental illnesses.
Police violence took 1,134 lives last year, and like every year, Black people were disproportionately killed.
Children in foster care are trafficked at alarming rates, and little is done to find them.
There have been as many as half a million homeless people at one time and hundreds die every winter from hypothermia.
Indigenous women go missing and are killed so often that murder is the 3rd leading cause of death for Native women.
