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The Cut: How to Support the Struggle Against Police Brutality
Mic: 5 ways to support Black Americans if you can't protest in person
Rolling Stone: Resources for Those Seeking to Help Anti-Police Brutality Protesters
Teen Vogue: How to Support the Protesters Demanding Justice for George Floyd
Really captures White House response to 2020, doesn’t it. (I typoed that as “202” – still accurate.)
Abortion
Puerto Rico overhauls 1930 civil code amid sharp criticism
Dánica Coto | AP
For the first time in nearly a century, Puerto Rico overhauled a series of laws that regulate rights in the U.S. territory including marriage, abortion and property ownership without having held any public hearings.
As the FDA Continues to Restrict Remote Abortion Access, Doctors Are Fighting Back
Erin Heger | Rewire.News
The pandemic has "really laid bare the fiction" that physical clinics are needed to safely provide abortion services. Doctors are finding innovative ways to provide medication abortion without subjecting patients to unnecessary visits to a medical facility.
LGBTQ
As Pride Month gets underway, the LGBQT+ community mobilizes against racism
Tony Morrison | ABC News Radio
In a largely unprecedented move during an extraordinary time in our nation’s history, more than 100 LGBQT+ organizations have united in solidarity to combat racial violence and injustice as Pride Month gets under way.
How LGBTQ+ Pride went from movement to marketing
Dain Evans | CNBC
With all of the changes to this year's Pride lineup, many are left wondering how these virtual events will maintain their support of small LGBTQ+ owned businesses, like restaurants, bars, and brick-and-mortar stores, as well as LGBTQ+ focused nonprofits, many of whom heavily rely on the revenue spike in June to keep their doors open and services running.
LGBTQ organization’s office building torched during D.C. riots
Bil Browning | LGBTQ Nation
“Black lives matter more than any building or its contents,” Pride At Work Executive Director Jerame Davis told LGBTQ Nation. “While we are saddened that a building that symbolizes the fight for working-class values was targeted during the unrest in Washington, D.C. last night, our resolve is unwavering.”
5 Ways to Support the 2020 Protestors Wherever You Are
Mikelle Street | Out Magazine
Resistance and protesting is nothing new for the LGBTQ+ community or any marginalized community. It has been and continues to be necessary in order or us to live our lives as fully as anyone else. As such our community, out of all communities, knows what it means for Black folks to fight against systemic oppression. Not only because we have experienced similar things by virtue of being LGBTQ+, but because we have Black queer and trans people among us who encounter this in their daily lives.
(via Molly Crabapple)
How you can observe LGBTQ+ Pride Month with nationwide events canceled
David Oliver | USA Today
Celebrations are alive and well — they will just happen virtually, and where possible, in small and distanced groups. Pride also comes as many around the country are protesting the death of George Floyd, police and systemic racism: further opportunity to remember Pride's roots of protesting inequalities.
Michigan
LGBTQ rights campaign challenging Michigan's signature requirements for ballot initiative
John Riley | Metro Weekly
Organizers behind a proposed initiative to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in Michigan have sued the state over requirements that require them to collect in-person petition signatures to appear on the November ballot.
Pregnancy & Parenting
How To Raise Your Kids To Be LGBTQ+ Allies
Stephanie Kaloi | Little Things
If you don’t have friends who identify as part of the LGBTQ+ community, it might feel extra hard to figure out how to have a conversation about being an ally with your child. After all, one of the best ways to foster empathy is to know and love the people you are empathizing with. With that in mind, I thought it would be helpful to put together a list of ideas and resources for heterosexual parents who are hoping to raise LGBTQ+ allies.
Parents and child care providers are falling apart. It could get much worse
Jen Rose Smith | CNN
Without significant government support, the pandemic could wipe out nearly 50% of America's child care capacity, according to a recent analysis by Center for American Progress, using survey data from the National Association for the Education of Young Children.
Reproductive Health & Justice
Racism Is Root Cause Of Health Inequities Between Whites and Blacks, Says L.A. County Director Of Public Health Barbara Ferrer
Tom Tapp | Deadline
“Science also tells us that a lifetime of stress associated the experiences of daily acts of discrimination and oppression play a major role,” said the health director. “It starts at birth with higher rates of black infant mortality and shockingly higher rates of maternal mortality among black women and extends to adulthood, when we see black residents in L.A. County experiencing earlier onset of heart disease, hypertension and diabetes and earlier deaths.”
Work & Money
Immigrant women workers on the frontlines of meatpacking COVID-19 outbreaks speak out
Tina Vasquez | Prism
Prism’s coverage of COVID-19 outbreaks in North Carolina poultry processing plants began with an online tip, but soon multiple workers came forward—risking their livelihoods—to talk about the unsafe working conditions they faced inside the plants. All of them were women.
Coronavirus Is Already Impacting The Hiring Gap For Millennial Women
Whizy Kim | Refinery29
Though many Americans are feeling the financial effects of lockdowns, it’s women, particularly women of color, who are bearing the brunt of joblessness. Women made up 55% of layoffs in March and April, and women who are still employed are more likely to be working in dangerous, low-wage essential roles that offer little to no hazard pay and no paid sick leave.
Left Behind After 2008, Women Must Not Be Excluded From the Coronavirus Recovery
Shanu Hinduja | U.S. News & World Report
As governments look to support women during the coronavirus crisis, having failed to carry out the necessary long-term policies, they pursue short-term stop-gap measures that will likely evaporate once the immediate crisis is over. This short-termism has led to women being kept in the same vulnerable and unequal position every time there is an economic crisis.
Indiana
Paid family leave left off the legislative summer study list
Erin Macey | Howey Politics Indiana
When Sen. Alting’s bill to provide women with more protection in the workplace faced opposition during the short session, the Senate transformed the bill into a study proposal instead. With such a stark crisis on our hands and strong, broad-based support for the proposal, surely Indiana lawmakers would be motivated to use an interim study to figure out how to join the 29 other states with protections for pregnant workers? Pregnancy accommodation: Not on the list.
More, More, More
Looting Is the American Way
Reina Sultan | Bitch Media
Squashing rebellion and sanitizing our collective memories of successful riots is as American as apple pie. … Though liberal politics may have conditioned us to believe that nonviolent direct action is the only way to effectively make change, history shows that’s not the case. Destruction of property as protest is woven into the fabric of this country.
Philanthropy's Racial Funding Gap Was a Problem Before Covid-19. Now It's Even More Crucial to Close It.
Cheryl Dorsey, Jeff Bradach, Peter Kim | The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Many grant makers try to take a colorblind approach to reviewing grants as a well-meaning effort to advance equity. But that is actually the crux of the problem. Race is one of the most reliable predictors of life expectancy, academic achievement, income, wealth, physical and mental health, maternal mortality, and so much else that make a difference for a person to achieve well-being.