A female plumber discusses how race and gender barriers still dominate US workplaces and institutions.
LGBTQ
Ron DeSantis — his cruel bigotry threatens everyone
“DeSantis has been steadily turning Florida into an autocracy run by white supremacists.”
Celebrating the bottom-up evolution of language
Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English in review.
Letters to the editor, August 2023
The International African American Museum opens, plus feedback and opinions from FS readers.
Reviving Stalin’s big lie
Freedom Road Socialist Organization goes all in with attack on Trotsky.
A pioneer activist answers transphobes in the feminist movement
How about more solidarity and less cooperating with the enemy?
Bigots and books and drag — oh my!
The angry mobs are out in force. This Soapbox from a Friend of Dorothy has a message for them: “We will not back down!”
The past is not dead
Right-wing legislators continue to expel opponents.
Farewell Fabian LoSchiavo (1949-2023)
A public sector worker and unionist who lived in Sydney, Fabian was a legend of the LGBTIQA+ community and radical causes.
Posie Parker in Australia: TERFs, Nazis and the fight for trans liberation
The flawed and blinkered ideology of trans-exclusionary radical feminism leaves its adherents open to far-right and fascist opportunism.