Gender & Sexuality
Over 15,000 Gather in Brooklyn to Declare that Black Trans Lives Matter
Over 15,000 protesters took the streets in Brooklyn on Sunday in solidarity with trans* Black victims of state and transphobic violence.
Sybil Davis
June 15, 2020President Trump Rolls Back Healthcare Discrimination Protections for Transgender People
On the fourth anniversary of the Pulse massacre and in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, the Trump administration announced it would roll back healthcare protections for transgender people. The new rule will allow healthcare and insurance providers to deny medical care and coverage to transgender people.
Nathaniel Flakin
June 15, 2020Stonewall Was a Riot
Today is the first day of Pride Month, a celebration of the Stonewall Riot in 1969. Now uprisings are breaking out all over the country. Wealthy, white gay men today might be opposed to “violence,” but the history of the LGBTQ+ movement shows that riots of oppressed people are about liberation.
Tatiana Cozzarelli
June 1, 2020Rainbow Rising: A Call for Queer Anti-Capitalist Submissions During Pride
We invite you to submit articles to Left Voice during Pride Month and contribute to the conversation around the need for socialism and queer liberation. Email us at [email protected].
Left Voice
May 27, 2020Socialist Revolution, Women’s Liberation, and the Withering Away of the Family
Some say that Marxism is only interested in economic problems and ignores oppression. But the Russian Revolution showed how Marxists tried to end women's oppression by socializing reproductive work. They believed relationships should be based exclusively on love, not social coercion.
Tatiana Cozzarelli
May 19, 2020Feminism and Coronavirus: What Next?
Feminism has already warned that capitalism brutally expands the precariousness of the work necessary for social reproduction, work that falls mainly on women, and the acute contradiction between life and profit under this system. The pandemic confirms these diagnoses. So what do we do next?
Andrea D'Atri
April 29, 2020Whither Queer Liberation?
Fifty years after the Stonewall uprising, the LGBTQ+ movement faces lots of conservative pressures. What could a revolutionary alternative look like?
Tatiana Cozzarelli
April 19, 2020FEMA Funds Ultra Right, Anti-LGBTQ+ Group to Build Makeshift Hospital in Central Park
The coronavirus crisis is shining a light on the many failings of the American healthcare system. One of those failings is the institutionalized bigotry of the system.
Signý A.
April 6, 2020Covid-19 and Domestic Violence
With stay-at-home orders in many states, one critical public health measure will be exacerbated: domestic violence, as victims are confined at home with their abusers and with fewer resources to ensure their safety.
Jimena Vergara
March 29, 2020Catalan Labor Union Calls Strike on International Women’s Day
The General Confederation of Labor (CGT) in Catalonia has called for a 24-hour strike on International Women’s Day, March 8.
IzquierdaDiario.es
March 3, 2020