The first Stonewall anniversary march, held on June 28, 1970. The annual march continues to this day. This International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia, we refuse to let our struggles be sanitized into matters of understanding and conversation; instead, we continue to wage a relentless fight for gender and sexual revolution. In Hebrew, the acronym for this day is הבנ”ה, pronounced Havana - meaning "understanding." This name is a mistake. Undeniably, as queer people, we...

The Nazi Looting and subsequent bookburning of the Institute of Sexology. 6 of May 1933, Berlin. Knowledge, its production, reproduction, development, distribution, and maintenance, form the veins of human societies across the earth. For this exact reason, when states, institutions, corporations, and global systems seek to weaken, subjugate, or erase a culture or a people, one of their first targets is the means of production and distribution of knowledge: books, bookshops, libraries, print...

Israel is a nation of immigrants—a thin stretch of land where Jews from every corner of the globe suddenly found themselves huddled together. In the early decades of the state, the Ashkenazi elite (hailing from Eastern and Central Europe) viewed themselves as a "modernizing, civilizing force." To them, Jews arriving from Middle Eastern and North African countries were often seen as "primitive" relics of the past. Yet, this was a complex relationship: even as they sought to "modernize" these...