Dating While Trans Is Complicated. HBO’s “Euphoria” Pushed Me to Unpack My Online Romances.
Mother Jones; Eddy Chen/HBO Like most girls in her generation, Jules, a character on HBO’s groundbreaking teen drama Euphoria, falls in love through her phone. “Literally just had the most amazing night talking to Tyler,” Jules, a high school junior, texts her best friend and classmate, Rue, referring to the crush she’s been messaging for…
Getting Out of Jail After Dark Can Be Dangerous—and Sometimes Deadly
The last bus of the day pulls away from the parking lot outside the Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, California, at 8:43 p.m. Twenty minutes later, a young woman pulls up the hood of her dark jacket, pushes open the jail lobby’s heavy door, and steps out into the night, looking for a cigarette. Leah,…
There May Be More Racist Border Patrol Facebook Groups
John Moore/Getty Images On Saturday, CNN reported that it had found another Facebook group in which Border Patrol frequently posted racist and generally bigoted memes, called “The Real CBP Nation.” Thousands of members had left the group in the wake of ProPublica’s report on “I’m 10-15” according to one of the posts on CNN. The…
“The Whole Facility’s Culture Is Rotted From the Core”: What Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Saw Inside the El Paso Camps
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is swarmed by media on Monday after touring a Border Patrol station in Clint, Texas. Christ Chavez/Getty What stands out most about the budding concentration camps in El Paso, Texas, is that they don’t stand out at all. An unmarked beige-brick office building holds dozens of children, blinds shut to prying eyes…
The Mass Exodus of Top Trump Immigration Officials Continues
Customs and Border Protection acting Commissioner John Sanders speaks at a news conference proposing legislation to address the crisis at the southern border at the Capitol on May 15.Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Update: President Donald Trump is expected to name Mark Morgan the next head of Customs and Border Protection. Morgan is the acting director of…
More People Than Ever Say They Support Trans Rights. But Do They Support the Policies?
LGBTQ activists and supporters rally in support of transgender people at New York City Hall in late 2018.Drew Angerer / Getty Images A survey by the Public Religion Research Institute made headlines last week with its finding that 62 percent of Americans say they have become more supportive of transgender rights in the last five years. Media…