Sentencing LGBTQIA+ People to Death Recently, The Appeal analyzed criminal cases in which queer defendants faced the death penalty, examining how their LGBTQIA+ identity played into the outcome. The result of this analysis? Anti-LGBTQIA+ bias (unsurprisingly) influenced more than 50%…
“Will you marry me? Imagine that was a question you could never actually answer,” says disability rights activist Imani Barbarin, reflecting on the “marriage penalty.” The term describes the legal rule that, as Sage Howard puts it, “robs disabled people…
The conservative Justices of the United States Supreme Court (who compose six of the nine Justices on the bench) are on a rampage against our most fundamental human rights. In the past few weeks, SCOTUS has issued devastating decision after…
Pregnant workers, like all workers, deserve to work in safe and healthy workplaces, rid of discrimination. This is the bare minimum. Thankfully, on April 15, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission finalized the regulations for the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA).…
Public school teachers in the U.S. are woefully underpaid. To make ends meet, many pursue other streams of income; data suggests that teachers are about three times as likely as all U.S. workers to have multiple jobs at once, from…
