Round-Up: June 7, 2016

• In a powerful piece in The Atlantic, Vann R. Newkirk writes that Muhammad Ali was a radical whose legacy cannot be appropriated by those who turn a blind eye to white supremacy.
• Black Lives Matter Toronto is recommending to Mayor John Tory that the City destroy all carding data, after it’s analyzed (Toronto Star).
• Gay magazines could do a better job at cover diversity, so Manuel Betancourt at Mic has put together a list of 100 queer and trans people of colour whom they could feature.
• Ariana Vives at Bitch says Storm, Mystique and Psylocke get the short end of the stick in X-Men: Apocalypse.
• The cast and creators of the musical Kinky Boots have put together a new video called “Just Pee” in solidarity with trans people against transphobic bathroom laws (The Advocate).
• Katie Barnes is not thrilled about the commodification of Pride celebrations (Feministing).
• Good news from Ontario as the province moves to change the definition of “parents” as necessarily a man and a woman, in order to ensure equal parental rights for same-sex couples (Globe and Mail).
• And in New Brunswick, the government has announced it will start covering gender-confirming surgeries for trans people (CBC).