The Release of “When I Come Home” Was a Huge Surprise. Solange’s Talent Isn’t.
Daniel DeSlover/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This week: When I Get Home by Solange (Columbia Records, 2019) Why we’re into it: Look, it’s Solange. We had to. We’re sure you’ve already seen it plastered all over the music sites, and on your friends’ Instagram stories, and trending on…
A New HHS Rule Aims to Strip Planned Parenthood’s Title X Funding
Brennan Linsley/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a sweeping effort to defund health care centers that provide abortion services, the Trump administration issued a rule Friday that will bar clinics from critical federal funds if they perform the procedure or give abortion referrals. Under the new directive, groups like…
Portraits of America’s Genderqueer Community
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Her whole life, Chloe Aftel has been told she doesn’t behave like a lady. Plainspoken and assertive, she realized in adolescence that adults expected her to be demure. As Aftel grew into herself in a binary-focused, heteronormative world, she found herself asking: “Who made up…
South Dakota Lawmakers Are Trying to Ban Schools From Teaching About Transgender Identity
LGBT activists hold a “We Will Not Be Erased” rally in front of the White House on October 22, 2018. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The South Dakota House of Representatives voted Tuesday to ban “instruction in gender dysphoria” for public school students in kindergarten through the…
She Started Selling Abortion Pills Online. Then the Feds Showed Up.
Alvaro Dominguez Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For two years, before she headed off to her full-time job as a web developer, or after she put her daughter to bed at night, Ursula Wing ran a business selling abortion pills from the bedroom of her New York City apartment. The…
You Know the Name Cyntoia Brown. But Have You Heard of Maryanne Atkins?
Washington State Patrol/Handout Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When, in January, then-Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam granted clemency for Cyntoia Brown, advocates cheered. Brown had been sentenced to life in prison for killing a man who solicited her for sex when she was 16. Her case had become a symbol for…