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Chicago Chronicles Feminism Immigration Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Reporting

Chicago Dyke March Collective hosts immigration forum

Since 2008, the Chicago Dyke March Collective (CDMC) has held its annual march in locations outside the city’s traditional Andersonville neighborhood. The CDMC has also, in recent years, sought to engage communities by organizing forums on topics relevant to the area it marches in.

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Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Reporting

Florida lesbian teen won’t take plea on sex crime charge [Windy City Times Special Investigative Series: LGBTQs and the Criminal Legal System]

A Sebastian, Fla., teenager is being charged with a crime that could potentially place her on the state’s sex offender registry. At the same time, some publicly disseminated statements about her case appear to be inaccurate.

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Puerto Rican activist discusses life, poems

Luzma Umpierre-Herrera, a leading and out lesbian Puerto Rican poet and critic, was in Chicago this past week to present on her work.

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Chicago Chronicles Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Reporting

Beth Richie on race, gender and the ‘prison nation’

“Excerpt: I realized that in some ways the closing of the buildings doesn’t change all that much, because as we close more buildings, we put more people in ankle bracelets, under house arrest, or make their probation longer.”

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Chicago Chronicles Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

Howard Brown still facing struggles

Howard Brown Health Center’s (HBHC) former CEO and president Jamal Edwards departed the organization in August 2012, amid a flurry of complaints and questions about his management style and strategies.

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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Queer Politics, Culture, and History

ENDA, We Hardly Know Ya

In other words, it’s completely legal to fire someone for any reason in more states than those where it’s legal to fire someone for being gay.

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Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History

HRC and the Illusion of a Grassroots Movement

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Film, Art, Television, and Media

Stop Blaming Media for Sunil Tripathi’s Death

Stop buying this bullshit, people, and start asking the hard questions.

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Chicago Chronicles Prison industrial complex

Cut Schools! Build Prisons!

It’s also significant that the text of the bill specifically names “gang members,” code for youth of colour.

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