NEWS TO US: MS. MANNING GOES TO WASHINGTON
Gender, Identity, and #FreeChelseaManning Lauded and reviled in equal measure, Chelsea Manning is perhaps the most polarizing figure in recent news cycles, a hero to some and a traitor to others. And...
View ArticleTHE DIG’S 2013 STUDENT GUIDE: LGBTQ RESOURCES
Whatever letter of LBGTQ suits you, there’s a dancestravaganza somewhere in the city almost every night of the week. Machine and Club Cafe are all queer, all the time, while the Milky Way, Midway Cafe,...
View ArticleNEWS TO US: BOSTON PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
It’s not everyday that you’ll see a crew of drag queens interrupt their own show to start chanting the name of their favorite lawyer—but, then, Boston’s Pride parade isn’t everyday. Whitney Taylor,...
View ArticleNEWS TO US: CONNECTING FOR JUSTICE
The Social Progressive Network “Gee, I just wish I could find something to do that was actually meaningful … and someone who wants to do it with me,” you say from the depths of your ennui as you throw...
View ArticleLATE-NIGHT T SERVICE: A DEFINITE MAYBE
On the table, but remember, it’s a big-ass table Charlie seems to be hitting his pubescent growth spurt. In January of this year, MassDOT announced plans to expand the Green Line, to increase the...
View ArticleSOAPBOX: Z DAY AT THE DEMOCRACY CENTER
“If we all choose to live collaboratively rather than competitively, we can live beautifully.” Z Day is the annual awareness event put on by the Zeitgeist Movement, an organization founded on the...
View ArticleDISPATCHES OF DEMOCRACY: NO EXIT
PHOTOS TAKEN FROM THE PROJECT:PROJECT FACEBOOK PAGE Much like Ronald Reagan, theater group Project:Project seeks to tear down a major (fourth) wall. “We’re straddling the line between pulling an...
View ArticleTHE DEMOCRACY CENTER
For the people, by the people The Democracy Center‘s weekly lineup reads like a bad joke: What do you get when you combine a hardcore punk show, a blues dance group, a CSA pick-up, and two meditation...
View ArticleNEWS TO US: BODY POLITICS
The People’s Prejudice v. Michelle Kosilek “He says he’s a woman trapped in a man’s body. His argument’s not with the taxpayers of Massachusetts, it’s with his creator,” said Sheriff Thomas Hodgson of...
View ArticleDISPATCHES OF DEMOCRACY: QUEER TANGO
EVERY WEEK, CAMBRIDGE’S DEMOCRACY CENTER OPENS ITS DOORS TO THE COMMUNITY—SARAH’S DISPATCHES OF DEMOCRACY COVERS WHAT HAPPENS NEXT. A thumping beat plays, with slower harmonies layered on top that...
View ArticleTOLERATING INTOLERANCE: OS GEMEOS
Photo right by Mick Murray (In Your Face Photo) When a white supremacist targets a specific minority group in a deadly rampage, people are appalled. He was clearly a Grand Wizard of Dickery, a bigot of...
View ArticleDOWN WITH THE HOMESICKNESS: THE MID-WEST
You’re not from Boston. Come on, admit it: you’re a traitor to the West Coast, or you moved here from a dark corner of Maine or Connecticut or, like me, you’re from Minnesota or somewhere else in the...
View ArticleSOAPBOX: #OCCUPY THE POLLS
The bipartisan system has, within the past couple decades, been rejected more and more by burgeoning groups of society, shunned in favor of the Independent label or to join Nader’s Raiders or some...
View ArticleHEAVENS TO ETSY: LOVE & A SANDWICH
“The first thing I ever made was a panda head, which came out squished and awkward, out of old sheets,” Chelsea Bloxsom says, explaining her seamstressing origins. She sits behind a table at a coffee...
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