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Tag Archives: FIRE
Zero-Tolerance Policies Perpetuate A School-to-Prison Pipeline For LGBT Youth
The U.S. Senate held a landmark hearing Wednesday on ending the nation’s school-to-prison pipeline that affirmed that gay and transgender youth also face harsher punishments in schools than other students, which disproportionately pipeline them into the juvenile justice system.
Women of Color Policy Series: Leadership Panel Discussion with Aisha!
From the Center for American Progress website: On Thursday, November 1, 2012 please join the Center for American Progress’s FIRE Initiative and Progress 2050 at our second installment of the Women of Color Policy Series for a discussion on the … Continue reading
Black Churches May Be More Friend Than Foe to Gay Congregants: Aisha for CAP
By Aisha C. Moodie-Mills and Katie Miller | October 30, 2012 Black churches are often painted as the most vehement opponents of gay* and transgender equality, but two recent studies suggest that the lines between race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, and expression tend to … Continue reading
Why We Need A Holistic Approach to Eliminate Racial Disparities in HIV/AIDS
HIV/AIDS Inequality: Structural Barriers to Prevention, Treatment, and Care in Communities of Color The National HIV Strategy, and Implementation Plan, put forth by the Obama administration two years ago, acknowledges the role of structural factors in perpetuating the alarming rates … Continue reading
Aisha Quoted in Piece on The Black in the Rainbow for CAP
Race and Beyond: The Black in the Rainbow By Sam Fulwood III And, now, here stands this 62-year-old black lesbian, who has waged private and public battles for decades against the encrusted black leadership in Northeast Ohio, as a voting delegate … Continue reading
The Unfair Criminalization of Gay and Transgender Youth
Aisha co-authored a piece for the Center for American Progress focused around LGBT youth experiences in the juvenile justice system. Continue reading
The Real Reason Blacks Won’t Abandon President Obama Over Marriage Equality
Aisha tells everyone how it is at the Center for American Progress. Continue reading
Aisha Quoted in CAP Piece on Obama and Marriage Equality
In “Race and Beyond: President Obama Can Come Out on Gay Marriage,” Sam Fullwood III talks about the weight of same-sex marriage with voters of color. He looked to Aisha for wisdom: Or as another of my colleagues Aisha Moodie-Mills, … Continue reading
The State of Gay and Transgender Communities of Color in 2012: The Epic Report Co-Authored by Aisha
Aisha and Melissa Dunn have put together an amazing report on the state of LGBT communities of color for the Center for American Progress: Three years after the Great Recession, the United States is seeing a recovering economy and a … Continue reading
Justice for All as President Reverses DOMA Policy
Danielle and Aisha co-authored a piece on Obama’s DOMA reversal for the Center for American Progress: Remember that piece of paper called the Constitution with that little section called the Bill of Rights that’s supposed to ensure that all Americans … Continue reading