Emotional Support Animals: Real or Fake?
Once I encountered a goat on an airplane. I had one short flight left to reach my destination from Nigeria to Ghana, and the old workhorse plane was [...]
Unanimous Vote in Favor of Michigan Transgender Woman is Groundbreaking
A landmark legal decision for transgender rights was issued last week. A unanimous three-judge panel of the federal Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals — covering [...]
Trump Attacks Transgender Students Through Title IX
By Anurima Bhargava and Adele Kimmel The Trump Administration's attacks on the transgender community come with real consequences. Earlier this year, Attorney [...]
BTL Endorses Dana Nessel for Michigan Attorney General
The role of the Michigan Attorney General is a powerful, important position in the state. The office represents the people of Michigan in criminal and civil [...]
Trans Sistas of Color Activists Make Positive Change in Peoples' Lives
Five days a week I pass a building whose facade is marred by a bullet hole. The reality of gun violence in our community sends chills down my spine. The fact [...]
The Lovely "The #HIVVDayShitList"
BY JOSH ROBBINS LOVE. It's a word I've been tossing around my entire life. I've said it to my parents, mostly to my mom. I've used it to describe my feeling [...]
Trump's Year of Attacking LGBTQ People
With all the racism spewing forth from the White House on a regular basis, it's almost easy not to notice that President Trump is not living up to candidate [...]
LGBTQ Rights in Era of Marriage Equality
It's been more than two and half years since the U.S. Supreme Court in Obergefell v. Hodges held that our Constitution guarantees us both the fundamental right [...]
The Curious Case of Joseph Roman
Criminals make up excuses for their crimes. We've heard so many bad excuses for crime, that many such stories have become the things of legend, like the [...]
The Social Media Exposure of Perpetrators Leads to the Catalyst of Sexual Assault Social Change
BY JACQULYN HIPPE The lack of moral decency in this administration and their supporters has reenergized social activists and advocates here to maintain those [...]
2017 Dark Days With a Glimmer of Hope and Resistance
Michelle Brown In these worst of times, I keep looking for the best of times, the best in people, the best in possible outcomes, but it's hard. Most days, it [...]
Transmission: The Return
The 21st of December is the Winter Solstice: that's the longest night of the year when light is at its scarcest. It is at this time of maximum axial tilt that [...]
