by Alexis Jackson I am a Black queer woman, a wife, a mother, a licensed therapist, and a doula in Virginia. And before anything else, let me be clear: my family is not outside of the norm. Love, intention, and care are not radical ideas. They are the foundation of...
"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,...
Amy Schneider has a tattoo of Princess Ozma on her shoulder. This literary character, subject of the third book in L. Frank Baum's legendary Oz series, is kidnapped as a tiny child by a witch, and forced to live her life as a boy named "Tip." That is, until Glinda the Good Witch forces her captor to transform her back into the princess she always...
Virginia’s Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares has already fired dozens of lawyers, including those working in the Office of Civil Rights, and including those who are not political appointees but career civil servants. Miyares campaigned on enforcing the law while promising to refuse to allow coronavirus mitigation efforts including masks...
The U.S. Supreme Court Monday afternoon rejected a request for a religious exemption for health care workers refusing to comply with New York State’s vaccine mandate. The state is requiring all health care workers to be vaccinated against the deadly coronavirus. Justice Sonia Sotomayor denied the request, but three conservative jurists, Clarence...
