"White supremacist policies, masquerading as color-blind policies, do not provide resources according to need, and, at best, favor equal distribution of resources over severely unequal landscapes." —Michelle Morse and Camara Jones loom.ly/X6wYSCQ

"Achieving health equity is a process and not an event. Medicaid employment requirements are structural racism, just like the rest of American healthcare." —Michelle Morse, MD, MPH loom.ly/7CDtGOc

Michelle R. Simmons is a patient, mother and grandmother who understands firsthand the impact of health disparity. loom.ly/-KVz5jU

"There is a delicate but important balance between advocating for ongoing American engagement in addressing global health inequities, while also addressing domestic health care threats." —Michelle Morse, MD, MPH loom.ly/rIJp48I

"The emotions in the unit with the Comfort Care women were off the charts. We were stomping at the bit to get to Angel Marie." —Michele Rene Scott  loom.ly/hbBXRjE

"These activities elevated the mood inside the unit and out on the facility yard! I was given permission to go down the hallways to pick up finished cards." —Michele Rene Scott  loom.ly/hbBXRjE

"A practice and a politic, abolition is working toward the obsolescence of prison...this paradigm surfaces necessary questions and opportunities for action." —Alice Kim, Erica Meiners, Audrey Petty, Jill Petty, Beth Richie, and Sarah Ross loom.ly/BXSZexY

"The campaign to free Angela Davis illuminates how prisoner defense campaigns are foundational components of broader freedom struggles." —Dan Berger loom.ly/KaHl36s

"Even though it never disappeared, the political rhetoric of “law and order” has come back around with a particular vengeance since the presidential election of 2016. This is something we cannot ignore or wait out." — Jennifer Ash loom.ly/g_myJoA

"This June, we celebrate LGBT History during Pride month and Juneteenth in the midst of ongoing protests against anti-Black racism and violence." —Mako Fitts Ward & Marlon M. Bailey loom.ly/Ygu2zgg

"These alternative and counterspace actions are more than acts of solidarity, they are a reminder that queer liberation is Black liberation, and justice for Black lives translates into justice for all." —Mako Fitts Ward & Marlon M. Bailey loom.ly/Ygu2zgg

"Thanks to this long legacy of work lifting up the lived experiences of criminalized LGBTQ people, we are in a time of unprecedented attention to LGBTQ people’s experiences of policing, prisons, and immigration detention." —Andrea Ritchie loom.ly/e2qcYdQ

"The aftermath of the massacre at a gay club in Orlando, Fla., by a Muslim man has some Muslims in the LGBTQ community fearing targeted homophobia and Islamophobia." —The Current loom.ly/V_-RHBI

"Together, we must carve innovative pathways through the many institutions that encumber and thwart our youth. Get ready. Noah and Kev deserve nothing less than an all-out, all-gender celebration." —Jaime Grant loom.ly/eSFEmmM

KAYLA MOORE’S STORY in BAD FORM: QUEER, BROKE & AMAZING!, a new doc by C.A. Griffith and H.L.T. Quan, directors of MOUNTAINS THAT TAKE WING-ANGELA DAVIS & YURI KOCHIYAMA. Bad Form: Queer, Broke & Amazing! will be out soon, BUT KAYLA’S STORY CAN’T WAIT. youtu.be/lH-2p0obAg0

"In the name of containing infections, we have witnessed enactments of emergency laws and orders. We believe that these extraordinary measures have been misused, in part, to perpetuate persecution of the LGBTQ people." —Sarah Suhail and Michelle Yesudas loom.ly/or7zU4Q

"These strict employments of sex and gender binary policies have dangerous consequences: those who fall outside stipulated gender norms risk being exposed, becoming visible, feeling unsafe, and being harmed as a result." —Sarah Suhail and Michelle Yesudas loom.ly/or7zU4Q

"Amidst all this, the Pakistani LGBT community is figuring out its own way through different platforms of engagement." —Urooj Arshad loom.ly/L6lt7jk

"Even if they did follow the memo’s guidelines, having your gender recognized by your jailer isn’t the respect that’s needed. What’s needed is freedom." —Jorge Gutierrez, Jennicet Gutierrez, and B. Loewe loom.ly/krBkhSs

"f we created the system, we can also dismantle it. And today there should be no doubt that the end of policing is what is needed, not more of the same: reform." —Therese Quinn and Erica R. Meiners loom.ly/pjaCcgo