Olympic gold medalist and two-time FIFA Women’s World Cup champion Megan Rapinoe:
These bills are some of the most intense political assaults on LGBTQ people in recent years. Sports have become another avenue to attack the rights of trans people. These efforts cause incredible harm to trans youth, who, like all kids in a global pandemic, are feeling isolated and need compassion and support. Even before the pandemic hit, 1 in 3 transgender youth reported attempting suicide, as one national crisis-prevention organization reported in 2019.
These bills are attempting to solve a problem that doesn’t exist. Transgender kids want the opportunity to play sports for the same reasons other kids do: to be a part of a team where they feel like they belong. Proponents of these bills argue that they are protecting women. As a woman who has played sports my whole life, I know that the threats to women’s and girls’ sports are lack of funding, resources and media coverage; sexual harassment; and unequal pay.
On this day, 29 March 1986, anti-fascists got wind of a secret meeting which was due to take place in the small Dutch town of Kedichem to reunify two fascist political parties: the Centrum Partij and Centrum Democraten. They initially threw a smoke bomb into the hotel where the meeting was taking place, however it accidentally set the curtains on fire and within minutes the building went up in flames, causing the fascists to have to flee into the rioting outside. The proposed merger didn’t take place.
More info in this short history of Dutch anti-fascism: https://libcom.org/history/history-dutch-fascism-militant-anti-fascist-responsehttps://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1682842915234185/?type=3
Mortuary will be released on Blu-ray on July 6 via MVD’s Rewind Collection. It comes with a mini-poster. The first pressing includes a retro-style slipcase.
Also known as Embalmed, the 1983 slasher film is directed by Howard Avedis (They’re Playing with Fire), who co-wrote the script with Marlene Schmidt. Mary McDonough, David Wallace, Bill Paxton, Lynda Day George, and Christopher George (in his final film role) star.
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