by Francesca Rome-Marie | Jun 10, 2022 | Marginalized Groups
On Thursday, April 7, 2022, the legislature of Alabama, in which the Republican party has a majority, approved a bill that would make it a crime for doctors to prescribe hormone blockers or hormone replacement therapy to transgender children. The sentence for what is...
by Francesca Rome-Marie | Apr 20, 2022 | Marginalized Groups
MMIW (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women) is a North American movement raising awareness of the disappearance and deaths of Indigenous Women and seeking justice for those whose voices have been taken. To help draw attention, red handprints have become a symbol of...
by Francesca Rome-Marie | Mar 24, 2022 | Marginalized Groups
Black Lives Matter (BLM) first emerged after the 2013 acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. The movement gained momentum from 2013 to 2014 in response to the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO. In 2020 the world was...