rabbi eli kulka’s blessing “signals the holiness present in the moments of transitioning that transform jewish lives and affirms the place of these moments within jewish sacred tradition.” accessed via trans torah, which also lists other reading materials for trans/genderqueer jews

read rabbi eli’s blessing here

“we question the uses of queer theory in sociology and show how previous iterations miss/ignore multiple genealogies of the field, like black feminist thought, women of color feminisms, and the queer of color critique. ‘a queer sociology’ centers power relations belong gender and sexuality, recognizing the invisible and overarching work of whiteness and the US”

read this article by ghassan moussawi and salvador vidal-ortiz here

“drawing upon an ethnographic study of an hiv/aids prevention and supports center, this article describes the center’s culturally responsive pedagogical work with black and latino urban queer youth, and it identifies several implications for how educational and community stakeholders who work with urban youth might engage this particular population in a culturally responsive manner”

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read ed brockenbrough’s article here

writer meth monthary reflects on their identities as a southeast asian person, queer person and buddhist in a short, intimate article.

read meth monthary’s writing on p. 62 here

the university of hawai’i at mānoa gives a brief description of colonization’s impacts on queerness within the aapi community and features some queer terminology from different groups of people.

read their introduction here

this article analyzes the barriers that trans women sex workers face when trying to access health care.

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read neena k. aggarwal et. al’s article here

“we are advocates of a diversity of tactics, meaning effective combinations drawn from a full range of tactics that might lead to liberation from all the components of this oppressive system: white supremacy, patriarchy, capitalism, and the state. we believe that tactics should be chosen to fit the particular situation, not drawn from a preconceived moral code.”

read here

black queer poet, activist and author audre lorde uses her invaluable lived experiences, intelligence and feminist theory in a piece that works to dismantle lesbophobia + create powerful black feminist unity.

read audre lorde’s piece here

read their manifesto that shares the purpose of the organization, points of unity and their vision here.

this article covers aapi and indigenous erasure, mapping, colonization, and intersectional feminism to form a framework of growth and pacific islander/indigenous power.

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read lisa kahaleole hall’s article here

dr. lyra monteiro’s analysis of the ways styles of architecture represent white supremacy, how “heritage” is not inherently separate from hate, as well as how certain types of statues and buildings act as physical reinforcements and symbols of white power.

read here

“historian blair imani examines the intersection of her black, queer and muslim identities.”

watch blair imani’s tedx talk here

“can the social-democracy be against reforms? can we contrapose the social revolution, the transformation of the existing order, our final goal, to social reforms? certainly not. the daily struggle for reforms, for the amelioration of the condition of the workers within the framework of the existing social order, and for democratic institutions, offers to the social-democracy the only means of engaging in the proletarian class war and working in the direction of the final goal – the conquest of political power and the suppression of wage labour. the struggle for reforms is its means; the social revolution, its aim.”

read rosa luxemburg’s piece here

“this framework—called ‘respectable queerness’—suggests that public recognition of gay people and relationships is contingent upon their acquiring a respectable social identity that is actually constituted by public performances of respectability and by privately queer practices.”

read this article by yuvraj joshi here

vietnamese anarchist collective méo mun speaks on the nomination of jurist and lgbtqia2s+ rights activist lương thế huy for vietnam’s national assembly elections in 2021. while he was ultimately not elected, the article provides a take on this nomination from a queer anarchist perspective and features commentary on western leftist peoples’ ignorance towards exploitation and oppression in vietnam. read here.

the harvard crimson writer ogechukwu c. ogbogu writes from her experience as a black women on the space that she insists needs to be made for black trans women + femmes in black womanhood.

read ogechukwu c. ogbogu’s article here

two-spirit speaker geo neptune talks through the history of two-spirit identities and culture within indigenous communities.

watch geo neptune’s video here