No ill regrets
Today…
was the birthday of Phyllis Ann Wallace (1921-1993), the first Black woman to graduate with an economics PhD from Yale, and the first woman to be a full, tenured professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Her research focused racial and gender discrimination in the workplace.
in 1949, Georgia Neese Clark was the first woman to be confirmed as U.S. Treasurer.
plenty of ways to be helpful, some of them not even involving dollars.
Entertainment Tonight | Pride 2020: A Guide to Virtual Events and Ways to Donate
Hello Giggles | How To Support Protestors From Home
Mother | 10 Ways To Be An Anti-Racist Parent, Starting Right Now
Romper | 6 Ways To Celebrate Pride At Home While Still Honoring Black Lives Matter
Romper | 7 LGBTQ+ Etsy Sellers To Support During Pride Month
is National Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie Day.
We were back from the quiet country farmhouse only a few hours yesterday when a neighbor posted a picture of a big snake crawling into a drainage pipe in our alley – but it’s fine, she said, all good, “let it be in the end the way Mother Nature intended, for the snake to eat the rat.” Welcome home!
Abortion
Lies and Hypocrisy: Anti-Abortion Arguments to Restrict the Abortion Pill
Carrie Baker | Ms.
The anti-abortion movement is pressing the Trump administration to rescind changes and even more severely tighten restrictions on the abortion pill.
LGBTQ
Waiting for the Supreme Court’s Major LGBTQ Decision Has Become a Nerve-Wracking Monday LGBTQ Ritual
Tim Teeman | The Daily Beast
Are there any LGBTQ fingernails left? On Sunday nights and early Monday mornings the online LGBTQ chatter is focused on whether the Supreme Court will issue—at 10 a.m. on that Monday morning—its long-awaited decision about whether it is OK to fire someone because they are gay or transgender. Nerves are shredded.
The Harry Potter Franchise Needs to Move on From J.K. Rowling
Jenna Anderson | ComicBook.com
Unfortunately, there will never be a way to completely separate J.K. Rowling from what Harry Potter has become, despite current fan push to suggest otherwise. But given her alienating real-life politics, and her varied track record with subsequent sequels and spinoffs, there is no reason why she should be as significant of a part of what the franchise still has in store.
Gizmodo | How Much of J.K. Rowling's Transphobia Will Be Too Much Transphobia for Warner Bros.?
Variety | Daniel Radcliffe Responds to J.K. Rowling’s Anti-Trans Tweets: ‘Transgender Women Are Women’
Oprah Magazine | J.K. Rowling's Tweets About Trans People Have Drawn Major Backlash
Us Weekly | Harry Potter’s Katie Leung Reacts to J.K. Rowling’s Anti-Trans Remarks
Gay widower’s court win ensures survivor benefits for LGBT couples
Tobias Salinger | Financial Planning
Hundreds of older LGBT Americans shut out from Social Security benefits after the death of their spouses are set to gain access to them under a federal court decision.
Older Gays, Lesbians at Higher Odds for Drug, Alcohol Abuse: Study
Robert Preidt | HealthDay
Alcohol and drug use is more common among older adults who identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual than among their straight counterparts, a new study finds. LGBTQ adults were more than twice as likely as heterosexuals to use recreational marijuana (13.9% versus 5.5%), and twice as likely to use prescription tranquilizers nonmedically (3.6% versus 1.1%). They were also more likely to use prescription opioids nonmedically (4.7% versus 2.3%).
Federal court hears oral arguments over gay couple's daughter's citizenship
John Riley | Metro Weekly
On Friday, the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland heard oral arguments via video conferencing in the case of the Trump administration’s refusal to recognize the U.S. citizenship of the daughter of a gay married couple.
Business of Pride: How LGBTQ Pride Month went from movement to marketing
Dain Evans | NBC News
June is LGBTQ Pride Month, and in the past 50 years, it has grown into a massive money-making machine with an estimated 1,500 Pride events globally.
Gay Liberation Needed the Civil Rights Movement
Michelle Garcia | VICE
Fifty-one years ago, New York’s LGBTQ community engaged in a days-long rebellion against police brutality at the Stonewall Inn, sparking what’s considered the modern era of LGBTQ rights history. But prior to that stand, countless other insurrections, protests, and demonstrations had been orchestrated by Black activists taking a stand against racism and oppression.
Alabama
In Alabama, Pride Is a Protest for Queer Survival—Even If That Means Protesting Alone
Justin Kirkland | Esquire
As quarantine casts a shadow over its community, Montgomery Pride United is fighting to protect every LGBTQ person who feels isolated, lonely, or unseen.
California
All Black Lives Matter March to Proceed Without L.A. Pride
Evan Real | The Hollywood Reporter
Christopher Street West, the nonprofit behind L.A. Pride, dropped out of the event after a permit application to the L.A. police department drew backlash on social media. The All Black Lives Matter solidarity march will continue — but without L.A. Pride, the latter's organizer, Christopher Street West, announced on Monday
Indiana
Indianapolis City-County Council will recognize queer and trans people of color in Pride Month resolution
John Riley | Metro Weekly
The LGBTQ Caucus of the Indianapolis City-County Council plans to introduce a resolution recognizing queer and transgender people of color as part of this year’s Pride Month resolution.
Texas
Watch What Marriage Equality Meant to Two Texan LGBTQ+ Families
Daniel Reynolds | The Advocate
Five years ago this month, the Supreme Court brought marriage equality to the United States in Obergefell v. Hodges. The decision forever changed what it means to be an LGBTQ+ American and the freedoms their families can enjoy
Pregnancy & Parenting
Could Coronavirus Change How We Are Born? In Appalachia, It Already Is.
Alison Stine | 100 Days in Appalachia
With fears of coronavirus leading many hospitals to forbid extra visitors, including co-parents or family, from being in the room with a person in labor, and with worries of catching the virus simply from being in a hospital, home birth seems more popular than ever. Will the pandemic prompt a return to traditional birthing practices such as home birth and midwifery? Could coronavirus change how we are born?
Georgia lawmakers wary of budget cuts for maternal care, doctor training
Beau Evans | Capitol Beat News Service
Budget cuts proposed for doctor-training programs at several universities in Georgia amid the coronavirus pandemic drew pushback Monday from some state lawmakers worried maternal care and rural hospitals would suffer with less funding.
Reproductive Health & Justice
Where are the pink pussy hats when Black women are dying?
Charnessa Ridley | NC Policy Watch
The eight minutes and 46 seconds of silence honoring the memory of George Floyd was an act of solidarity that must extend every minute of every day, and must expand to include the memory of Black women, like Breonna Taylor and Michelle Cusseaux, who have also been murdered but have not been memorialized with the same energy and fervor because of the intersecting and cruel legacy of sexism and racism in America.
How Do We Change America?
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor | The New Yorker
By now, it should be clear what the demands of young black people are: an end to racism, police abuse, and violence; and the right to be free of the economic coercion of poverty and inequality.
Empower Women, Save the World
Cristina Maza | The Progressive
A group of top thinkers in foreign policy, women’s rights, global health, and humanitarian action have come together to present a new vision of U.S. foreign policy, one that replaces chauvenistic sabre-rattling with a feminist lens.
Work & Money
Enough Is Enough - Stop The Ignorance
Maria Minor | Forbes
Ignorance and doing nothing is no longer acceptable. Companies need to review their existing diversity and inclusion programs and take a hard look at if its working or not. A once a year, computer-based training program may check the box, but is it working?
Microaggressions Are A Big Deal: How To Talk Them Out And When To Walk Away
Andrew Limbong | NPR
To be clear, the "micro" in microaggression doesn't mean that these acts can't have big, life-changing impacts. They can, which is all the more reason to address them when you see them. If you can, that is.
Minnesota
“Severe or Pervasive” Standard Still the Law of the Land for MHRA Sexual Harassment Claims
Dayle Nolan | LexBlog
In the June 3, 2020 decision of Kenneh v. Homeward Bound, Inc., the Minnesota Supreme Court declined to abandon the severe or pervasive standard for sexual harassment claims arising under the Minnesota Human Rights Act.
Data show disparities between Black and white Minnesotans in education, income, criminal justice are among the worst in the nation
Rilyn Eischens | Minnesota Reformer
Minnesota boasts of its quality of life, but conditions aren’t so ideal for all residents — the North Star state’s racial disparities in education, income and housing are among the worst in the nation. And like nearly every other state, data strongly suggest Minnesota’s policing and broader criminal justice system are unequal.
More, More, More
19 facts about the 19th Amendment on its 100th anniversary
Dianne Bystrom, Karen M. Kedrowski | The Conversation
As scholars of civic engagement and women’s suffrage, we have compiled “19 Things to Know” about this landmark amendment. Together they reveal the strength and determination of the suffrage movement as it battled for this fundamental right of citizenship.
America's Social Contract Is Still Built on Racial Hostility
Eduardo Porter | Foreign Policy Magazine
White Americans’ continued unwillingness to share the country’s bounty with their black fellow citizens lies at the root of social ills.
U.S. Officials Challenge Trump Administration's Rolling Back Title IX Protections in Schools
Carrie Baker | Ms. Magazine
On June 3, 37 U.S. Senators sent Education Secretary Betsy DeVos a letter demanding that she rescind her new rules eviscerating Title IX protections from sexual harassment and assault at schools and universities.
The gender gap between Trump and Biden has turned into a gender canyon
Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Carrie Dann, Melissa Holzberg | NBC News
For all the recent 2020 focus on young voters, seniors and African-American turnout, don’t forget about the gender gap. Biden is ahead of Trump by 21 points (!!!) among women, 56% to 35%. That’s compared with Hillary Clinton’s 13-point advantage with women, per the 2016 exit poll.
Why are young black girls ‘criminalized’ at school? A new documentary, 'Pushout,' explores
Kamilah Newton | Yahoo
Monique W. Morris is the writer and executive producer of a powerful new documentary, Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools — and its recent premiere on PBS stations couldn’t have come at a better moment, she says. “For so long, black girls were really left out of the conversation about justice.”