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Toggle Sidebar New Book—Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance by Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes has just been published by University of Michigan Press (2021). [I love the cover, which features great photo of the outstanding performance artist Freddie Mercado. As soon as we get more information of the cover art, we will share!] Description: Translocas focuses on drag and transgender performance and activism in Puerto Rico and its diaspora. Arguing for its political potential, Lawrence La Fountai...

People take part in the annual Gay Pride parade in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on June 3, 2018. (Ricardo Arduengo/AFP/Getty) Puerto Rico governor Pedro Pierluisi declared a statement of emergency in the US territory Sunday (24 January) amid a spate of targeted killings against trans people as well as cis women. Pierluisi, a member of the pro-statehood New Progressive Party sworn in earlier this month, announced the executive order that will provide sweeping protections against gender-based violence. According to a news release from the governor’s office, the state of emergency will be in effect ...

there is a verdict in that wrongful death lawsuit against virginia tech. today, the jury found that the school was negligent in its response to the '07 campus shooting that left 33 people dead, specifically, the school delayed a campus warning after the first shots were fired. the verdict came after a 3 1/2-hour deliberation. the parents of two students killed in that attack filed this lawsuit. each family was award $100,000 in damages. virginia tech released a statement saying it is disappointed with today's decision. a spring convenient in the nation's capital will happen here ah...

a.m. 61 balmy degrees this time of the year. a little sprinkle of rain this morning. tom, is it going to last all day? >> just off and on this morning. we may get thunderstorms developing by later this afternoon. just a small chance. i don't think they're going to be severe thunderstorms if they do get going. right now we are dealing with the aftermath of passing showers that have been moving through the past 12 hours. you see the sky is clearing far to our west. right now where you see the area in color in the green, that is rain. we are getting some of this light rain right now jus...

prince george's counties. in the district of columbia, right now in the upper 50s. here's your day planner. our sunrise at 7:22. we're still trying to recover from going to daylight time. temperatures will be gradually climbing to the mid 60s by 9:00 with some sunshine breaking out. by noontime, we'll have a lot of sunshine. should be near 70. and then even warmer by mid-afternoon. we ought to hit the mid to upper 70s. then late afternoon, there's a possibility of a passing thundershower coming through. there's a small chance of that. that may linger into this evening. a look at the ...