Rachael Rose described her decision to transition beginning in 2013, joining the Steering Committee as a Transgender Activist in the Stonewall Democratic Club, being elected to the Board of the Rampart Village Neighborhood Council, first meeting with CD13 incumbent and political opponent Mitch O’Farrell, and her decision to run for LA City Council.
Hollis Evans: When you joined the Rampart Village Neighborhood Council in 2017, did you encounter any transphobia or any kind of awkwardness from other Board members?
Rachael Rose Luckey: I did not.
Hollis Evans: You didn’t? Your experience has been one of openness? People have been open to you?
The Postage Stamp that Could Tank a Ceasefire and Why Angelenos Should Care Details
VOICES-Call it the postage stamp that could tank a ceasefire, or peace agreement.
When the Republic of Azerbaijan unveiled a state-issued postage stamp at the end of 2020, commemorating the country’s fight against COVID-19 and what it sees as its military heroes of the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War, it took the first step in undermining the November 10 peace agreement it signed with the Republic of Armenia, and the Armenian-supported breakaway Republic of Artsakh, nestled within Azerbaijan’s borders. But with the stamp arrived something more sinister:
A graphic displayed on Azerbaijan state-issued stamp sheets and postcards depicts an Azerbaijani official, in full hazmat suit, fumigating a ”contagion” or infestation inside the Artsakh/Nagorno-Karabakh region an area containing a large ethnic majority of Armenians.