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Queer & Trans Liberation

Citations

David J. Thompson (2024).  Bayard Rustin: The Links in Our Lives.  Grassroots Economic Organizing (GEO).  https://geo.coop/articles/bayard-rustin-links-our-lives

March 11, 2024

Bayard Rustin: The Links in Our Lives

Bayard Rustin, who was one of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s key advisors, as well as a planner of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a leader in social movements for peace, civil rights, non-violence, and LGBTQ+ rights, is famous today for organizing the 1963 March on Washington. In those days, owing to him being gay, Rustin’s name and accomplishments were hidden from public view. It led him to be posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama in 2013.

 

August 18, 2022

The Café That’s Upending Capitalism

Cafe Euphoria isn’t just another co-op. Its trans and gender-nonconforming owners are pursuing a vision of radical equality.

Citations

SolidarityNYC (2019).  Dismantling Patriarchy in NYC’s Solidarity Economy:  The Everyday Solidarity Experiment.  Grassroots Economic Organizing (GEO).  https://geo.coop/story/dismantling-patriarchy-nyc%E2%80%99s-solidarity-economy-0

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SolidarityNYC Collective (2018).  A Map of the Heart:  Building a Solidarity Economy Movement in NYC.  Grassroots Economic Organizing (GEO).  https://geo.coop/story/map-heart

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Malikia Johnson (2017).  Cast Down Cancel Culture:  Elitism in Millennial Social Justice Movements.  Grassroots Economic Organizing (GEO).  https://geo.coop/story/cast-down-cancel-culture

August 28, 2017

Shame & Shaming