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The Passing of Egmont Fassbinder, a Pioneer of German Gay Liberation Movement 

Reviving the Spirit of Liberation Amidst Rainbow Capitalism Purple is a merely rainbow color, sisters. The color of revolution is red! Egmont Fassbinder This quote from the 1970s is from the last correspondence I had with Egmont Fassbinder. Fassbinder, a cousin of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, one of the pioneers and catalysts of the New German Cinema […]

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The Life Uprising in Iran, Imperialism, and International Solidarity

During her visit to Tehran with her family on September 13, Zhina (Mahsa) Amini, a 22-year-old from Kurdistan province, was arrested at the central metro station by the infamous “morality police” for ‘bad hijab’(wearing her headscarf slightly looser around her neck and head.) In a statement issued two days after her arrest, Tehran police said she suffered […]