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Round-Up: June 7, 2016
by
Jarrah Hodge
|
June 7, 2016
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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).