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Corporate Funding is Leaving Pride. Good.

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The Stonewall Riots were a march against police brutality, informing New York of the rights of the LGBTQ+ community and starting the Gay Liberation movement. Interestingly, queer spaces at the time were run by organized crime. This shouldn’t be a surprise; business support

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DSM + LGBTQ+ = Shenanigans

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Editor’s note: Some terms used herein aren’t great, but for the sake of describing the history should be included. Otherwise, how will we know the history of why they’re bad? Queer folk and neurodivergence have had a long history together, but they were not always different

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Shame versus Pride

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Pride Month is important for the mental and emotional health of the LGBTQ+ community as a necessary and essential counter to an increasingly hostile world. Even ordinary heteronormativity can create a feeling of unbelonging for rainbow folk; the increasingly weaponised

What Is Evil?

in Politics, Spiritual

Many people were horrified when Shirley Jackson short story ‘The Lottery’ came out, about a small town who annually practiced the ritual of stoning someone as a sacrifice for a good harvest. They cried, “How could that ever happen?” But what if instead of the lottery being

9/11, Charlie Kirk, and the Politics of Hate

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24 years ago, we were brutally attacked because of political and religious false doctrines of hate. We were horrified that people were so indoctrinated that they would give up their own lives to perform acts of terrorism. We mourned, and we engaged in the