Triumph of the Girl

State laws are quickly materializing to prohibit athletic competition between cisgender girls and transgender girls, among other things. But nobody seems to mind girls besting boys. Another look at how society views girls and boys, and what it says to them.

Respect. Protect. Do Not Neglect.

Being Black, being transgender, and being a woman puts one on three different paths to danger in our society, and society as a whole has a long road to travel for change. But Maude asks, locally, who’s responsible for the mistreatment of Black trans women?

Liberation

As long as Americans question Black History, our observations will need to remain. I ask America: when will Black History be history?

Three Days in America

In a long-term memory that’s both extensive and detailed, I have just a palmful of “JFK moments”–the ones in which you remember exactly what you were doing and how everything felt at an historic moment, so well you can instantly, mentally put yourself right back in it.

Mauve Quarterly: Volume One!

December 2020: A Year in . . . what was that exactly? How’s America doing? Read how The Mauve Report got started, and how it really got going. Plus, the Best of Autumn. And what are we looking forward to for Winter? Maude reports.

Vote. Certify. Elect!

In an event that normally doesn’t receive nearly this much attention, the Electoral College votes today, in the third phase of our Presidential election process! But because it doesn’t normally receive this much attention, it may have escaped notice that there is more to the process, to take place between now and Inauguration Day.

Thirteenth of March — Part Three

Louisville and America wait for a fresh, young Attorney General to deliver justice for Breonna Taylor.

Fifty-Three

Every year, November 20 is observed as the Transgender Day of Remembrance, in honor of transgender people lost in the previous year. Transgender Day of Remembrance, or TDOR, is preceded by Transgender Awareness Week. The goal is to bring national and worldwide awareness to anti-transgender violence, and put a stop to it.