Dr. Christy Perez

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Writer, Filter

Atlanta

Crime and Justice, Opinion and Editorial

As seen in: Filter, Yahoo Canada, Salon, Yahoo Sports Canada, HuffPost UK, Yahoo Style Canada, Yahoo Movies Canada, LGBTQ Nation, Modern Farmer, YES! Magazine, Shadow Proof and

Covers: Policing, Prisons, Drug Policy & Harm Reduction, Trans Healthcare, Theology & History

theologian, historian, journalist, policy strategist, executive director of the Dreaming Justice Project. Atlanta, GA.

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With her segregation-era "doll tests," Mamie Phipps Clark was never just the wife in the room. Sh...

Retellings of Dr. Mamie Phipps Clark's work, which became the "doll tests" that helped shape the constitution…

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"Erasure is not neutral": The inextricable link between LGBTQ+ rights & a functioning democracy -...

"When LGBTQ+ rights are attacked, it's a warning sign for everyone."

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The Lighthouse's RBG Program Prepares to Launch a New Giving Circle Partnership

A cohort of young BIPOC women in the Lighthouse's Reese|Brooks|Gilbert Collegiate Leadership fellowship (RBG)…

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Black Maternal Care Under Renewed Scrutiny After Viral Video

A now viral video shows a young Black woman in visible distress as a white nurse continues asking administrat…

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The Aesthetic Trap of CleanTok

Sinking into the calming rhythm of Cleantok, many viewers miss the actual reality: The entire aesthetic rests…

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"Close Ranks and Fortify": Black Liberation Scholar Dr. Charity Clay Advises on Memphis Complicit...

For over 10 years, Dr. Charity Clay has studied non-fatal police violence. In conversation with BGX, Dr. Clay…

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TDOR must honor trans lives beyond our borders. Anything less is colonial violence. - LGBTQ Natio...

Solidarity that stops at borders is not solidarity at all.

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Legislative hate is not speech. It is complicity in murder. - LGBTQ Nation

When lawmakers spread falsehoods about trans people, they are not participating in legitimate debate. They ar…

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Undocumented and LGBTQ+ in America - Assigned

To be both undocumented and queer in America is dangerous. And in this political climate, that danger is only…

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Atlanta Activists Help Black, Trans, and Queer Americans Acquire Passports - Assigned

As the government declares war on black, brown, gender diverse, and impoverished communities, activists in Ge…

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Released from Prison, but Not Free

Amanda Hill served 10 years in prison - more than a decade of her life behind bars. And like many others, she…

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Miss Georgia USA’s first trans contestant spends her free time fighting anti-trans bills

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The Prisons Crisis Lawmakers Want to Fix Is "Inmate-on-Staff Sexual Assault"

Lawmakers have unveiled a proposal they claim will improve safety and security in prisons by addressing rampa…

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How Georgia Prisons Habitually Cover Up Murders

A Department of Justice investigation confirmed the GDC hides the number of people killed inside Georgia Pris…

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Years Pass in a County Jail, Asking for Public Defenders Who Never Answer

In the three years and two months that Pareshkumer Desai has been detained pretrial, the only time he's been …

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Georgia Probation Is an Alternative to Something, But Not Jail

For the next 16 years Christy can be arrested for missing curfew, driving alone or renting a PO box without p…

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Confronting GA's Practice of Housing Trans Women in Men's Prisons

It's possible that other trans women have been sent back to GDC after similar gender-affirming procedures, bu…

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Enough With the Sex Offender Registry

With less than five months left on parole, Christy is in county jail right now-ostensibly because she's not a…

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No Time for Anti-Vaxxers: Black Women Disproportionately Dying From HPV

Human Papillomavirus Virus (HPV) is still a promiscuity joke in some circles, despite the fact Black women su…

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Prisoners Need Civilian Review Boards, Too

Toward the end of my sentence in Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) custody I was a clerk in the Central…

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Guards Delegate Security to Prisoners as Understaffing Crisis Evolves

Corrections officers (COs) have long relied on prisoners to do various parts of their jobs. But since the ons…

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James Earl Jones and the Confederacy Behind Celebrity

Actor James Earl Jones once used his iconic deep voice to tell a protagonist in the cringy blackface comedy, …

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Trans Health Care Requires You to Be "Sick." In Prison, You Can Work That.

Over time, I learned that the more my identity was medicalized, the more I could access treatments that admin…

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Unions Still Stronger Together

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris celebrated Labor Day at a stuffed Pittsburgh union hall.…

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