Another Queer Night at the 2023 Tony Awards
In this Pride Month of 2023, marking another milestone seems just as important as continuing the ongoing struggle for full inclusion and equity for people who identify as LGBTQ+.
In this Pride Month of 2023, marking another milestone seems just as important as continuing the ongoing struggle for full inclusion and equity for people who identify as LGBTQ+.
I love Juneteenth. While it has long been embraced by the Black citizens of Texas, and parts of Oklahoma since its inception in 1865, much of the nation had no knowledge of it. But like many aspects of life in America, the seed of its existence, was well rooted in the nation and in the last 20 years has blossomed in our consciousness.
As a Black person whom society identifies as female, Women’s History Month is huge, for me. I start with Audrey Lorde’s poignant statement, “we were never meant to survive,” as valid reason for me, a Black Woman, to celebrate.
“There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals, and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision.”
~ Barbara Jordan, keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in 1976
Our gender identities are integrally connected together, we help define each other. What happens when we disconnect from the ‘woman’/’man’ binary culture subscribes, from that as an either/or identity?
Rev. Olympia Brown, a Universalist, and earliest denominationally ordained woman back in 1861 was reared in Michigan. Olympia convinced her father to afford her college using the argument that she had no marital prospects and would need to support herself or remain his dependent.
Herstory devotion for March.
For women who have forged paths toward justice and equity: may their stories be told, their sacrifices be honored, and their names be remembered with gratitude....