🏳️⚧️ editor and journalist for TNN, data researcher, engineer
Exclusive
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Jul 21, 2025
MadyCast News is relaunching as the Trans News Network, a worker-run nonprofit newsroom under Community Partners, and leaving Substack for Beehiiv
Los Angeles
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Jun 1, 2025
Funding cuts to HIV healthcare threatening thousands of queer Californians and fascist attacks against trans athletes suggest Newsom's deference to the billionaire oligarchy is only just beginning.
Healthcare
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May 23, 2025
While confusion and misinformation spreads on social media, advocates offer concrete strategies to stop the GOP’s genocidal attack on trans people’s lives through community solidarity and defiance.
Donald Trump
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May 16, 2025
Some sexual violence nonprofits have bent over backwards obeying to the Trump administration to protect their funding. That strategy has hurt survivors and failed to stop DOGE from cutting funding.
Apr 2, 2025
Gov. Moore's prisons defied a judge’s order to follow standards to keep a woman safe from rape, as AG Brown has mounted "vigorous" defense against her lawsuit and lawmakers sideline meaningful reform
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Mar 14, 2025
Trump's most sweeping attack on trans healthcare so far could have devastating impacts on trans people of all ages on ACA plans, especially for those who don't live in trans sanctuary states.
Opinion
Mar 7, 2025
Newsom’s capricious rhetoric attacking LGBTQ+ Californians will be met by massive protest and resistance from within his state, and activists must mobilize to end his political future.
Feb 20, 2025
Leaked emails reveal an executive at the NNEDV ordered workers to unpublish mentions of LGBTQ domestic violence victims. Some (but not all) pages for immigrant survivors were also removed.
Feb 18, 2025
Three sexual abuse nonprofits have removed all or nearly all mentions of trans people from their blogs and articles. All three receive federal funding, but are independent organizations.
LGBTQ+ History
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Feb 17, 2025
LGBTQ+ history webpages, mental health hotlines, and resources for the victims of CSAM and hate crimes are among the thousands of censored webpages identified by my custom tool.
Feb 13, 2025
Activists protested outside of the Children's Hospital of LA last Thursday against the hospital's decision to pause gender affirming care for new patients, with several local leaders giving speeches.
HIV/AIDS
Feb 8, 2025
In an exclusive interview, two prominent members of ACT UP, which has been credited with saving millions of lives, hope to inspire younger LGBTQ activists to embark on a bold trans liberation movement
Jan 21, 2025
Analysis: Donald Trump is prioritizing a massive assault of LGBTQ+ rights during his first days. How do we triage our response? Plus, photos of protestors who took to the streets today in DC.
Florida
Jan 14, 2025
Legal documents filed by trans women reveal that trans inmates have endured widescale persecution, humiliation, suffering, trauma, and brushes with death for many years in Florida prisons.
Jan 2, 2025
The GOP is indicating that rewriting civil rights law to ban trans people from sports, who make up 0.008% of NCAA athletes, is a top legislative priority for the party this year.
Activism
Dec 14, 2024
Senate Democrats are set to sign away the basic human rights of the trans kids of servicemembers, if they are not held to account.
Dec 12, 2024
American liberals dismissed the threat Hitler posed to Jews when he rose to power on a wave of economic populism combined with genocidal rhetoric. Democrats must avoid repeating this history.
Nov 9, 2024
Our votes cannot be taken for granted.