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Where's the Revolution? (Racism and Discrimination, Social Justice, Gay and Lesbian Issues and Organizing, Sex and Sexuality, Society)

When I came out in Boston in the mid-l970s, I had no way of knowing that the lesbian and gay movement I was discovering was in many ways unique.

Barbara Smith

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Interns' Favorite Articles of the Week (4/28/13)
StudentNation

Gender segmentation still prevails in the workplace, the greenery of West Virginia hides the scars of strip mining and Canada's border service holds off on capturing terror suspects until new terrorism legislation came up for debate.

April 28, 2013
Fat-Shaming All Around Us
Chloe Angyal

There’s nothing healthy about shaming people for their bodies.

April 25, 2013
Tell President Obama: Halt Deportations Now
Take Action

While Congress debates, President Obama could make a real difference in the lives of the 11 million undocumented immigrants who have made their home in the United States.

April 23, 2013
Let's Not Normalize This Thing Called 'Terrorism': A Conversation With Sohail Daulatzai
Aura Bogado

The way communities of color respond to the logic of antiterrorism can make us part of the problem—or the solution.

April 22, 2013
Anti-Prostitution Pledge Heads to Supreme Court
Melissa Gira Grant

The Supreme Court will now decide: can the government force aid recipients to oppose prostitution?

April 19, 2013
Interns' Favorite Articles of the Week (4/19/2013)
StudentNation

As Glenn Greenwald and others have written, this week is a time for checking racial stereotypes. Elsewhere from Boston, as this week's Nation intern roundup indicates, world-turning questions abound.

April 18, 2013
The Senate’s Drone and Trigger-Happy Immigration Bill
Aura Bogado

Legal permanent residency and eventual citizenship will be conditional on expanded border security—including the use of drones.

April 17, 2013
Greg Kaufmann: After Sequestration, Where Will Poor Families Sleep?
Nation in the News

Housing programs are getting the budgetary knife—a crisis for seniors, people with disabilities and poor families.

April 17, 2013
Undocumented Youth Infiltrates Another Immigrant Detention Center
Aura Bogado

Twenty-seven-year-old Claudia Muñoz checked into a Michigan facility—to fight for the release of those being unfairly held.

April 15, 2013
Interns' Favorite Articles of the Week (4/12/13)
StudentNation

In the latest picks, activists organize around education, economist Richard Wolff tells it like it is and Farc and the Colombian government make progress towards peace. Who said no news is good news?

April 12, 2013