On Friday, June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States created a world where the bodily agency and personal autonomy of the American people does not exist. In a 5–4 ruling, the conservative Justices of the Supreme Court — Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett…

On Monday, June 20, 2022, on what would have been her 93rd birthday, we honored and celebrated the life of pioneer civil rights activist Edie Windsor. Edie, a landmark technologist and leader in the fight for LGBTQIA+ marriage equality, left her mark on the world — and left a significant…

Being Trans, Queer, Plus-Size, Tattooed, and Loud in the Miss America Organization Written by Leah Juliett (they/them), Communications Manager Owning who you are in a world that tries to keep you small is an act of revolutionary self-reclamation. Disrupting the status quo is necessary to progress. Shifting the paradigm around who counts is significant and life-saving. …

When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere” in his “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, he reminded us that our inherent struggles are interconnected. No one person is free until the collective experiences freedom. So many of us experience discrimination and oppression on the…

Last month, the Supreme Court ruled that the preservation of gun rights is more important than the preservation of reproductive rights. As our community fights back against the unjust overturning of Roe, we have another major problem to contend with :: firearms. Gun violence is a uniquely American issue and…

This week we awoke in a post-Roe America, and witnessed the legislative aftermath of the devastating Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade. On Wednesday, abortion clinics like “Pink House”, a bubblegum-colored abortion safe haven in Jackson, Mississippi, closed its doors in response to total abortion bans statewide. In…

When Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere” in his now-famous Letter from a Birmingham Jail, he went on to write, “we are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects…

The coded language developed to beat the algorithms is changing our language- and not for the better. With the news of Elon Musk buying Twitter, the hot topics of free speech and content moderation have made their way into the headlines again. Some feel that his promise of “open source…

Climate justice is an intersectional equity issue disproportionately impacting queer people of color — and the tech industry can step in and help stop the fire of injustice from damaging our planet. Squad, LGBTQIA+ equity, racial justice and climate justice are interwoven pursuits towards social good, global health, and longevity…