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Dr. Christy Perez

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Atlanta
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...

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

loveblackgirls.org — Retellings of Dr. Mamie Phipps Clark's work, which became the "doll tests" that helped shape the constitutional challenge to segregation, have blurred Mamie Phipps Clark into the background and ushered her husband Kenneth to the foreground.
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"Erasure is not neutral": The inextricable link between LGBTQ+ rights & a functioning democracy -...

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

LGBTQ Nation — "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

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

loveblackgirls.org — A cohort of young BIPOC women in the Lighthouse's Reese|Brooks|Gilbert Collegiate Leadership fellowship (RBG) is preparing to launch a new giving circle in partnership with the Mississippi Alliance for Nonprofits and Philanthropy.
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Black Maternal Care Under Renewed Scrutiny After Viral Video

Black Maternal Care Under Renewed Scrutiny After Viral Video

loveblackgirls.org — A now viral video shows a young Black woman in visible distress as a white nurse continues asking administrative and deeply personal questions rather than providing immediate medical attention. Moments later the woman delivered her child. Her mother, standing beside her, confronted the nurse asking whether this was how she treated all patients or only the Black ones.
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The Aesthetic Trap of CleanTok

The Aesthetic Trap of CleanTok

loveblackgirls.org — Sinking into the calming rhythm of Cleantok, many viewers miss the actual reality: The entire aesthetic rests on a labor structure that is racialized, gendered and shaped by algorithmic forces deciding who becomes visible,
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"Close Ranks and Fortify": Black Liberation Scholar Dr. Charity Clay Advises on Memphis Complicit...

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

loveblackgirls.org — For over 10 years, Dr. Charity Clay has studied non-fatal police violence. In conversation with BGX, Dr. Clay lays out what is happening on the ground in Memphis, the story that is being buried and what Black communities. especially Black women, need to understand about the rise of state sanctioned abductions in this moment.
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TDOR must honor trans lives beyond our borders. Anything less is colonial violence. - LGBTQ Natio...

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

LGBTQ Nation — 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

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

LGBTQ Nation — When lawmakers spread falsehoods about trans people, they are not participating in legitimate debate. They are weaponizing public office.
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Undocumented and LGBTQ+ in America - Assigned

Undocumented and LGBTQ+ in America - Assigned

assignedmedia.org — To be both undocumented and queer in America is dangerous. And in this political climate, that danger is only growing.
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Atlanta Activists Help Black, Trans, and Queer Americans Acquire Passports - Assigned

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

assignedmedia.org — As the government declares war on black, brown, gender diverse, and impoverished communities, activists in Georgia are working to secure people's ability to travel out of a country that is increasingly hostile to their existence.
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Released from Prison, but Not Free

Released from Prison, but Not Free

loveblackgirls.org — Amanda Hill served 10 years in prison - more than a decade of her life behind bars. And like many others, she believed when her time was up, she'd be free but that's not quite what has happened.
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Miss Georgia USA’s first trans contestant spends her free time fighting anti-trans bills

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

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

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

Filter — Lawmakers have unveiled a proposal they claim will improve safety and security in prisons by addressing rampant sexual abuse-referring not ...
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How Georgia Prisons Habitually Cover Up Murders

How Georgia Prisons Habitually Cover Up Murders

The Appeal — A Department of Justice investigation confirmed the GDC hides the number of people killed inside Georgia Prisons.
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Years Pass in a County Jail, Asking for Public Defenders Who Never Answer

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

Filter — In the three years and two months that Pareshkumer Desai has been detained pretrial, the only time he's been inside ...
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Georgia Probation Is an Alternative to Something, But Not Jail

Georgia Probation Is an Alternative to Something, But Not Jail

Filter — For the next 16 years Christy can be arrested for missing curfew, driving alone or renting a PO box without prior approval.
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Confronting GA's Practice of Housing Trans Women in Men's Prisons

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

Filter — It's possible that other trans women have been sent back to GDC after similar gender-affirming procedures, but none have taken it to court.
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Enough With the Sex Offender Registry

Enough With the Sex Offender Registry

Filter — With less than five months left on parole, Christy is in county jail right now-ostensibly because she's not allowed to access adult websites.
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No Time for Anti-Vaxxers: Black Women Disproportionately Dying From HPV

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

loveblackgirls.org — Human Papillomavirus Virus (HPV) is still a promiscuity joke in some circles, despite the fact Black women suffer the highest mortality rate from the cervical cancer it causes. In fact, studies show Black women are almost twice as likely to die from cervical cancer compared to their white counterparts.
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Prisoners Need Civilian Review Boards, Too

Prisoners Need Civilian Review Boards, Too

Filter — 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

Guards Delegate Security to Prisoners as Understaffing Crisis Evolves

Filter — Corrections officers (COs) have long relied on prisoners to do various parts of their jobs. But since the onset of ...
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James Earl Jones and the Confederacy Behind Celebrity

James Earl Jones and the Confederacy Behind Celebrity

loveblackgirls.org — Actor James Earl Jones once used his iconic deep voice to tell a protagonist in the cringy blackface comedy, "Soul Man," how social standing and wealth should be coupled with accountability. "A Harvard law graduate has great power," Jones boomed beneath Professor Banks' piercing brown glare.
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Trans Health Care Requires You to Be "Sick." In Prison, You Can Work That.

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

Filter — Over time, I learned that the more my identity was medicalized, the more I could access treatments that administration never provided before.
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Unions Still Stronger Together

Unions Still Stronger Together

loveblackgirls.org — President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris celebrated Labor Day at a stuffed Pittsburgh union hall. "We celebrate unions because unions helped build America, and unions helped build America's middle class," Harris told the crowd, before lauding organized labor's part in making the nation better, safer and more economically robust.
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