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Search ArticlesTrans joy in 2025: Community leaders share their hopes for the New Year Original
There’s no sugarcoating it: this year was not without a commotion for trans, nonbinary and gender-nonconforming people nationwide. 2024 saw the worst anti-trans legislation to date, with 669 bills introduced as tracked by Trans Legislation Tracker. Bullies killed 16-year-old nonbinary student Nex Benedictas a result of a fight at school in Oklahoma, while a community in Pennsylvania grieved 14-year-old trans girl Pauly Likens, whose body parts were found scattered across a lake.
Border shelters relieved the pressure during migrant surges. Under Trump, they could become a target
When Roselins Sequera’s family of seven finally reached the U.S. from Venezuela, they spent weeks at a migrant shelter on the Texas border that gave them a place to sleep, meals and tips for finding work. “We had a plan to go to Iowa” to join friends, said Sequera, who arrived at the Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley in October.
Asian Americans are increasingly choosing whiteness over liberation. What comes next? Original
Former President Donald Trump’s return to the White House comes with unprecedented support from Asian American voters. About 39% of Asian American voters turned out for Trump in the 2024 presidential election, up from 27% in 2016. Despite his racist, xenophobic record, including anti-Chinese rhetoric early in the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to a spike in violent attacks against East and Southeast Asian Americans more broadly.
How are we getting our birth control in 2025? Original
In the days following Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 election, Americans stocked up on their birth control and pregnancy management options amid the looming threat to access by the president-elect’s association to conservative playbook Project 2025. According to ABC News, Google searches for “birth control” and “Plan B” spiked the day after the election, with the surge starting as early as Nov. 2.
4 ways Black joy will shine in 2025
This time last year Black Joy unintentionally started a new tradition. I was challenged by my team to predict how we would celebrate the legacy of our joy in 2024. While I may have appeared confident in that article, I was hyperventilating with anxiety internally. I’m no crystal ball, y’all. We don’t have any fancy analytic software to tell us what people are researching near the tail end of the year. But I gave it a go, did my best and the result?
Biden’s final actions as president leave transgender community feeling unsupported
President Joe Biden began his term in the White House with a broad promise to protect transgender Americans against Republican policies that painted them as a threat to children and sought to push them out of public life. “Your president has your back,” Biden assured trans people in his first State of the Union address in 2021 and he repeated a version of that statement in subsequent speeches.
An aspiring nurse, a football star, a single mother and a father of 2 killed in New Orleans attack
An 18-year-old girl dreaming of becoming a nurse, a single mother, a father of two and a former Princeton football star suffered fatal injuries when the driver of a white pickup truck sped down Bourbon Street, packed with holiday revelers. Officials have not yet released the names of the 15 people killed in the New Orleans New Year’s Day truck attack, but their families and friends have started sharing their stories.
January 6 Committee members to receive medals from Biden
By COLLEEN LONG, The Associated Press President Joe Biden is bestowing the second highest civilian medal on Liz Cheney and Bennie Thompson — the lawmakers who led the congressional investigation into the violent Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot by Donald Trump’s supporters, and who Trump has said should be jailed.
For many rural women, finding maternity care outweighs concerns about abortion access
In what has become a routine event in rural America, a hospital maternity ward closed in 2023 in this small Oregon town about an hour from the Idaho border. For Shyanne McCoy, 23, that meant the closest hospital with an obstetrician on staff when she was pregnant was a 45-mile drive away over a mountain pass. When McCoy developed symptoms of preeclampsia last January, she felt she had the best chance of getting the care she needed at a larger hospital in Boise, Idaho, two hours away.
A queer therapist’s guide to surviving 2025: Forget resolutions, we need resistance
With the approaching inauguration of Trump looming overhead, many Queer people—and yes, we capitalize that word to represent our resistance to being labeled, categorized, or contained—understandably, are fearing what’s to come. It’s important to remember that although the Trump administration is more overt about its cishet white supremacy - we have been navigating cishet white supremacy all along. Those rainbow-lit White Houses and corporate Pride banners?