Reina Sultan is a Lebanese American Muslim woman working on gender and conflict from nine to five. She believes in smashing the patriarchy and eating the rich. Her work can also be found in Wear Your Voice, Vice, Rewire.News, and Greatist. Josie Duffy Rice is president of The Appeal, a news outlet that produces original journalism about the criminal justice system. Mariame Kaba is an organizer, educator, and curator who’s active in movements for racial, gender, and transformative justice. She’s the founder and director of Project NIA, a grassroots organization with a vision to end youth incarceration. She has cofounded multiple organizations and projects over the years and her work has been recognized with several honors and awards.
“In a year marked by social upheaval, growing white supremacist movements and a global pandemic, organizations led by and for people who are queer, transgender, Black, Indigenous, and people of color are creating transformational change in communities,” according to a press release announcing the series. “
What Makes Pride focuses the lens on their stories, their work and the QTBIPOC leaders who embody Pride in 2021.
PFLAG National Executive Director Brian K. Bond said, “As the nation’s largest organization for families and allies of LGBTQ+ people, it’s our role to signal boost.
What Makes Pride builds on this action, and elevates the ‘who’ behind transformational work.
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What Does Accountability Look Like Without Punishment?
May 25, 2021
Demonstrators link arms during a protest on April 23, 2021, in Washington, D.C. Activists with the group Freedom Fighters D.C. gathered on Friday for the first of three days of rallies calling to abolish the police.
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When most people are introduced to abolition, they first want to know how prison-industrial-complex abolitionists propose handling violence in a world without police or prisons. These conversations often become extreme: What about rape, murder, and hate crimes? What if the victim were a member of your family? Though it might not seem this way, we
Reina Sultan
Reina Sultan
is a Lebanese American Muslim woman working on gender and conflict from nine to five. She believes in smashing the patriarchy and eating the rich. Her work can also be found in Wear Your Voice, Vice, Rewire.News, and Greatist.
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