Author: Melinda Butterfield

Since mid-September, Donald Trump’s presidential campaign reportedly spent more than $30 million on television ads promoting anti-transgender hate. These have aired primarily in contested “swing states” and during high-viewership national sports broadcasts, including the World […]

 In the imperialist era, the Olympic Games were never just about athletics or international goodwill. The United States and other Western imperialist powers dominated the bodies that planned, organized and carried out these events, […]

 Meet danger with resistance LGBTQIA+ people greet Pride Month this year with a mixture of joy, fear, and anger.  Joy at the annual celebration of our vibrant, diverse community and our struggle for liberation, […]

May 2 marks the 10th anniversary of one of the biggest crimes of 21st century fascism – the massacre of nearly 50 activists at the House of Trade Unions in Odessa, Ukraine. Despite extensive video […]

On International Workers’ Day 2024, workers in the U.S. could swear that Senator Joe McCarthy and Minister Cotton Mather had returned from the dead. More than 35,000 Palestinians, including 14,000 children, have died in just […]

 Trans and queer activists and allies mobilized to defend a family Trans Day of Visibility event in Brooklyn, New York, on March 30. The event at Marsha P. Johnson State Park included arts and […]

Two weeks ago, I had a gender-affirming surgery called an orchiectomy (google it if you’re curious). It’s rude and not a good idea for cisgender people to ask trans people, “Have you had x, y, […]