The Dominance of the White Male Critic

“It’s 2019 and we are in the middle of a renaissance in black artistic production. And you are telling me the best people to evaluate that are the same ones who basically ignored black artists for decades?” the art critic Antwaun Sargent tweetedin May. He […]

Stonewall Hasn’t Ended

  The New York police commissioner, James O’Neill, apologized this month for police harassment 50 years ago Friday at the Stonewall Inn, where trans women of color led the resistance that started the national L.G.B.T.Q.-rights movement. But trans women don’t want empty apologies. We want […]

Lesbian couple beaten in homophobic attack

  One of the victims, Melania Geymonat, posted a photo on Facebook of herself and her girlfriend, Chris, covered in blood, along with a detailed account of the assault in English and Spanish. The incident happened in the early hours of on May 30 on […]