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Published in: TransformationAre Mormons villains, or just people with a different story about their identity?
The Church has declined to accept same-sex couples and their children as full members. What’s going on? Mette Ivie...
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Published in: TransformationTrans ™: how the trans movement got sold out
From Zoolander 2 to Brewdog, now being transgender is cool, corporations are co-opting the sexy bits to turn a profit.
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Published in: TransformationWhy does religion turn from beauty into beast?
Trauma and abuse are common in faiths supposedly built on love. What's going on?
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Published in: TransformationShaker Aamer and the future of Guantanamo
His fear, to his last days at Guantanamo, was that he would not make it out alive.
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Published in: TransformationFrom Orlando to Suffragette: how feminist films transform their audiences
What propels a person to whole-hearted engagement in social change?
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Published in: TransformationIs Pope Francis an ecofeminist?
Integrating ecology with feminism is the only way to implement the Vatican’s newfound enthusiasm for environmental concerns.
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Published in: TransformationWhy I glued myself to a ticket barrier and shut down the Eurostar
Last Friday I joined 300 migrants' rights protesters gathered at St Pancras station, spilling fake blood and...
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Published in: TransformationHeart and soul: meet the UK groups changing activism
We can't change where we're from, but building a mass movement means confronting power and privilege.
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Published in: TransformationI take my orders from 23-year-old queer women
A leading activist pastor speaks about the emerging face of civil rights leadership in 21st century America.
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Published in: TransformationTo succeed, movements must overcome the tension between rationality and emotion
Avoiding conflict disempowers those who suffer oppression. We have to develop the muscles to fight for our own liberation.
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Published in: TransformationMeet the dancers who are making refugees welcome
The Islington Centre for Refugees and Migrants uses the arts to support refugees to make new lives - but government...
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Published in: Transformation#Blacklivesmatter and white progressive colorblindness
White supporters of Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign don't see that white progressive politics is identity...
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Published in: TransformationFreedom Side’s emerging radical democratic imagination
A new coalition of young activists of color is emerging under Black Lives Matter. (4,000 words)
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Published in: TransformationScience fiction and social justice: giving up on utopias
We make fiction that disrupts the status quo, examines change as a collective bottom up process, centers...
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Published in: TransformationIs Australia going backwards on gender equality?
I left Pakistan to live in a society that was supposedly free from bias and discrimination. What happened?
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Published in: TransformationWill you commit class suicide with me?
Recognizing that privilege is unearned is essential to dismantling the white saviour complex.
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Published in: TransformationWashboard abs and crash diets: how the beauty industry is hurting men
We ask each other: "do you even lift, bro?" It’s about being big or being shredded. Preferably both.
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Published in: TransformationIntersectional pain: what I’ve learned from hospices and feminism of colour
Might pain and oppression be like love—a simple thunderbolt at times, and in other circumstances complex and slow...
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Published in: TransformationThe overwhelming whiteness of Portland's World Naked Bike Ride
Seeing a mass of drunk and high naked white people celebrating their newfound liberty with police officers standing...
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Published in: TransformationThe problem with safer spaces
When you make your trauma a crucial aspect of your identity, it becomes harder to heal from it.
Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job