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D'Anne Witkowski

D'Anne Witkowski is a writer living in Michigan with her wife and son. She has been writing about LGBTQ+ politics for nearly two decades. Follow her on Twitter @MamaDWitkowski.

Men Are From Mars, Women Need a Penis: Life on Planet Shapiro

Let’s take a trip in the way-back machine to “Saturday Night Live” in the late 1970s. Specifically to the recurring skit featuring The Coneheads, a family of aliens with giant bald heads shaped like, you guessed it, cones. Dan [...]

If You Chose Not to Vote, You Made a Bad Choice and Will Be Punished

If you’re reading this it means you survived election day. Congratulations.At the time of this writing it is Election Eve. Not to be confused with Christmas Eve, though it would be pretty cool if Santa showed up tomorrow.There is so much at [...]

Conservatives Are Lying About Transgender People and Think You’re Dumb

Look, the Republican Party has no ideas. Republican candidates can’t campaign on the issues that matter to people because their positions are wildly unpopular: banning abortion, banning contraception, banning fertility treatments, giving the [...]

Hate Democracy and Yourself? Vote Republican.

If you’ve been driving around Michigan lately you might have seen some crazy billboards and signs claiming that kids are going to get gender reassignment surgery without parental consent if Proposal 3 passes. It’s a lie, but it’s [...]

My Teachers Tried to Make Me Straight. It Didn't Work.

Hello to everyone except for Florida, a state that never tires of finding new ways to ostracize LGBTQ+ students, teachers, and other Floridians.October is National LGBTQ+ History Month. Except in Miami-Dade County schools where the school board voted [...]

Don’t Mess With Texas Because Texas Is Busy Messing With You

In the United States, everybody knows that you don’t mess with Texas. That’s because you don’t have to. Texas will undoubtedly mess with you.Honestly, you could just be someone who needs, say, electricity on a regular and reliable [...]

Mean Girl Tudor Dixon Campaigns on the Backs of Trans Kids

Midterm elections are upon us, my friends. People in Michigan already have ballots in hand. In fact, mine just came today. I can’t wait to vote for competent leaders who’ve been doing a damn good job running this state and deserve to be [...]

U.S. Radical Right Totally Jelly Of Iran’s Morality Police

In Iran, Islamic religious police detained Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman, for wearing her hijab too loosely. Reports say that some of her hair was visible. That is forbidden.Amini died while in custody. Her family says she was beaten. The [...]

A Baby: Gift from God or Punishment From Hell? That Depends on You, Slut. 

In the assault on reproductive freedom in the United States, there’s one thing I can’t really wrap my brain around. According to the people who claim to be “pro-life,” being a mother is a gift from God; the most esteemed role [...]

Double, Double Toil And Trouble: Radical Right Claims Words Are Black Magic Mind Control

Words. What are they? Are they simply a collection of letters arranged in a particular way to symbolize places, things, ideas, feelings, people and the like so that people can communicate with one another?Or are they DARK MAGIC overtaking our minds [...]

Right-Wing Extremists: Sound the Alarms! Teachers Indoctrinating Kids with 'Kindness'

Right-wing radicals love to rail against “identity politics” while at the same time asserting that the United States is a white, Christian nation. As if being white or Christian or a white Christian is not an identity. To them, identity [...]

The Latest Fad In Radical Right Harassment Campaigns? Children’s Hospitals, Of Course. 

I don’t know about you, but when I want to blow off some steam and air some grievances, there’s just no more perfect target than a children’s hospital. Whether it's the staff, the administration, the families, or even the children [...]