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MOMENTUM & CRITICAL MASS

6/27/2015

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I definitely want to echo what so many have been saying on social media about three crucial issues moving forward after the SCOTUS decision on same-sex marriage yesterday:

1) We need to work for marriage equality for people with disabilities, and address the marriage limitations, restrictions, and disincentives that exist so that people with disabilities have the same right to choose whether to get married or not without fear of how it will affect their benefits, employment, or housing.

Click here for a great blog about this issue by Dominick Evans. 
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2) We need to acknowledge and rectify the deep history of appropriation and suppression of people of color and trans voices within LGBTQ spaces and communities. 

Click here for an interesting article that counter-positions the reaction of many in the LGBTQ community to the SCOTUS decision to the reaction towards the trans advocate,  Jennicet Gutierrez, who has since become known as the "White House Heckler." By Bea Esperanza Fonseca at Black Girl Dangerous.

Click here for an interesting article on the "bleaching" of the history of the Stonewall riots by Irene Monroe.
3) We need to ensure employment non-discrimination protections for both sexual orientation and gender identity. Many assume that such legislation is already in place, but according to the National LGBTQ Task Force it only exists in 19 states and Washington, DC (an additional 3 states having protections only on the basis of sexual orientation). Somewhere along the line ENDA (the Employment Non-discrimination Act) that would have addressed this lost momentum. It could have been last year when, in response to the Hobby Lobby decision, many LGBTQ organizations pulled their support. Click here to read more. 

Click here for an interesting article on how people who are LGBTQ that are caught celebrating the SCOTUS decision can still legally be fired in most states. By Naomi Shavin at The New Republic.
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    A Philadelphian living in Chicago and doing the Disability Studies thing. I'm still figuring out what to do with this space.

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