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Rain Dove wants to be boring. They grew up in rural Vermont where they had a wild stint pretending to be a male firefighter. Rain took up modeling after losing a bet to a friend. That bet, turns out, landed them on front pages around the world for being a model actively redefining gender in a field notoriously in love…
In Pennsylvania’s rural Lancaster County, a group of nuns has staunchly refused to let an energy company build a natural gas pipeline through a cornfield – a place the whole community cherishes. Now the company is appealing to ’eminent domain’ as a way to work around their protest and build it anyway. The nuns replied “not so fast” and, on…
Recently, Mullen urged Congress to reject the Trump administration’s attempt to ban trans folks from serving. Mullen’s been in the corner of the LGBTQ community for a long while, heading the repeal of the ignominious ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy’ and a speaking out against a recent bill that would have cut funding of gender-related medical expenses for trans folks…
Deedra Abboud, long-time lawyer and first-time political candidate, is a Muslim-American running for a 2018 Arizona Senate seat. A recent campaign video published on her Facebook page received a slew of offensive comments. Ironically, the attacks drew more media attention to her campaign than ever before and people from both sides of the aisle are now in her corner. Her…
Pinky Weitzman knows how to lead the resistance without burning out. Her trick is to make time for art. She’s deputy digital director at the American Civil Liberties Union, an organization that defends people’s rights and liberties, and that Fast Company has recently deemed as “Leading the Resistance.” She’s been there for 3 years, with a leave of absence to…
There’s a video of a speech he gave a while back (published by prolific LGBTQ advocacy group Equality Texas) that’s now going viral. Ballard talks about discovering that his trans son, Ashur Ballard, had attempted suicide. Realizing that Ashur was truly a boy, Ballard says, “Was I gonna try to be a bully? Was I gonna try to put him…
He said funding the arts shouldn’t be a priority. But then something happened. Kansas City Mayor Sly James responded with his own public letter, saying that art is very much a priority. “The arts are vital to our city’s collective personality and history and we must support this industry if we wish to remain a world-class city that welcomes and…
BART’s (Bay Area Rapid Transit) most recent campaign “Bay Area Rides Together” gets loud and proud about inclusivity. Their posters in stores, businesses, and BART cars all over the Bay rep the quote “On this train, everyone is welcome.” Hundreds of thousands of riders see this everyday. “[The public] wanted us to reaffirm that BART is a safe place for…
Meet Resilient Coders (RC) tech advisor, Alec Ortega. Like many who work for RC, he has an unusual life story. “Do stuff” was the simple mantra that helped Ortega find a way back up when the bottom dropped out of life just after high school graduation. He had just come out to his parents and let’s just say they didn’t take…
David Delmar, founder and executive producer of Resilient Coders knows that sustainable social justice can’t be achieved just by charity – economic empowerment is the ticket. Talent doesn’t always equal success. From the get-go, even the most ambitious people of color, LGBTQ individuals, and young adults of less economic advantage don’t have equal access to education, exposure, and opportunity. Resilient…
