Trying to put together a list of shows in Richmond these days is becoming a pretty hard thing to do. The city has gotten really busy, but at least it’s not boring. There are more shows, festivals, DJ nights, and random Tuesday concerts happening in the River City than...
So much for performative well-wishes that do nothing to improve the day-to-day lives of marginalized communities -- today, the Biden administration rolls out a slate of rule changes that offer concrete improvements for transgender and non-binary Americans while pushing back on recent state-level anti-trans legislation. March 31, 2022, marks the...
The bill that will do this, known in a masterpiece of doublespeak as the "Alabama Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act," will also make providing gender-affirming medical care to trans youth a felony. Imagine you’re a high school freshman English teacher and your best student from last year confides in you their biggest secret: they...
It's been a tough time for the LGBTQ community around the United States lately -- especially for LGBTQ youth. From Florida's infamous "Don't Say Gay" bill, which attempts to restrict all discussion of non-hetero sexual orientations and non-cis gender identities from Florida public schools (and make teachers criminally liable if they do speak...
"Investigate them without exception" is what administrators of Texas's Department of Family and Protective Services were told about reports describing the providing of gender-affirming care for transgender youth as "child abuse" -- even if they thought the complaints were without merit. Texas District Court Judge Amy Clark Meachum Friday...
A bill aiming to protect the right of government employees to oppose government policies advanced to the House floor this week. “The cancel culture has gotten to such that if you don’t agree, society wants to go and push that you’re penalized, even though it has nothing to do with your job,” Del. Glenn R. Davis, R-Virginia Beach said. Davis...
Virginia lawmakers blocked legislation that would allow school boards to opt out from policies and guidelines developed by the Virginia Department of Education to make K-12 environments more inclusive for transgender and nonbinary students. Committee votes for the similar House and Senate measures mostly came down to party lines. The Senate bill...
The world is healing in more ways than one. All over the world, people are standing together to fight against injustices, and the same is happening within the tattoo community. Once an exclusive subculture, tattoos are becoming more accepted in mainstream society and culture. What used to be an industry full of gatekeeping and hazing run...
A verified social media account for Glenn Youngkin‘s campaign “team” has attacked a high school student who posted a tweet critical of the Virginia Republican Governor. Ethan Lynne appears to be a politically-active high school senior whose bio says he is a Democrat. Pinned to the top of his page is a 2020 tweet with a photo of him and Dr. Jill...
It’d be an understatement to say that we as a society, or, frankly, as a species, have had a depressing couple of years. In 2020 alone, Covid-19 reared its head, Australia caught on fire, California caught on fire, murder hornets were rumored to be invading the U.S., and we lost figureheads like Kobe Bryant, Chadwick Boseman, Ruth Bader Ginsburg,...
