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As calls for abolition grow louder, the queer and women of color-led movement for transformative justice offers a glimpse of a future beyond policing.

To End Mass Incarceration, We Need to Bust the Myths That Prop It Up CatEyePerspective / iStock / ChuckSchugPhotography / E+ / Getty Images / Truthout By One of the most pervasive myths about incarceration is that it makes a society safer. Now, a leading journalist who focuses on the criminal legal system has taken on that question in her new book. Victoria Law is a prolific reporter who is perhaps best known for spending years in the trenches exploring the experiences of women in prison. Her work always centers the voices of impacted people, while maintaining a broad lens on mass incarcerat...

Posted: Mar 16, 2021 9:44 AM ET | Last Updated: March 16 Francesca Ekwuyasi (left) and Billy-Ray Belcourt are two of the Canadian finalists for the 2021 Lambda Literary Awards.(Submitted by Francesca Ekwuyasi, Tenille Campbell) Francesca Ekwuyasi, Vivek Shraya and Billy-Ray Belcourt are among the Canadians nominated for the 2021 Lambda Literary Awards. The Lambda Literary Awards annually celebrate the best in LGBTQ literature from around the world. There are nine Canadian books nominated across 24 categories. Francesca Ekwuyasi is a finalist in the lesbian fiction category for her de...

Disabled LGBTQ+ Creatives Imagine a Better Tomorrow The Ford and Mellon Foundations invest in queer disabled cultural creatives. January 29 2021 7:08 PM EST In the fall of 2020 the Ford Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation announced an 18-month initiative to increase the visibility of disabled creatives and elevate their voices. Developed after the foundations spent a year researching how to better serve disabled artists, writers, filmmakers, and other creatives, the initiative will invest $1 million in supporting 20 disabled creators whose work “advances the cultural landscape,�...

Kwame Spearman Villarosa, now ninety years old, says she’s thrilled to be back in Denver. “I love the city,” she says. “I love the people. And I loved being a bookseller. The light in the children’s eyes when they saw the books. They were pretty, they were well-illustrated, and [the characters] looked like them.” Villarosa’s Hue-Man Experience bookstore had a notable run at the edge of Five Points, at Champa Street and Park Avenue West. That successful store inspired local readers from its inception in 1984 until Villarosa sold it in 2000 and moved to Harlem in New York City to ...