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How Wrestler Mack Beggs Found a Higher Calling as a Trans Activist

By Mack Beggs, as Told to Sydney Bauer — 2021

In 2018, high school wrestler Mack Beggs made international headlines with a photograph showing him performing a winning move against an opponent in the Texas State girl’s wrestling tournament. At the time, Beggs was transitioning, but he was barred by Texas law from competing in boys’ wrestling competitions. Now, after wrestling in college for a few years, Beggs has refocused on activism, helping young trans kids across the country be the best versions of themselves.

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How to Stop a Power Grab

As democracy hangs in the balance, activists are drawing lessons from the study of civil resistance.

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How the World is Proving Martin Luther King Right about Nonviolence

Clearly, there is much more to learn about nonviolent resistance: It is an emerging phenomenon, and research on the topic is likewise emerging within the social sciences.

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The Subtle Power of Nonviolent Activism

Violent responses to social justice protests require protesters to be even more focused on peaceful tactics.

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Nonviolent Resistance Proves Potent Weapon

Erica Chenoweth discovers it is more successful in effecting change than violent campaigns

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Embodiment as Self-Care in Activist Movements

Embodied practice creates the potential for a unifying perspective and it can inspire new ways for activists to participate in community outreach, sisterhood, and self-care.

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How Can Activism Be Self-Care?

I learned very early that to survive in this broken world there is a never-ending need to “support, nurture, and protect what we hold dear” to keep it from being damaged, hurt, or destroyed ……which also includes myself.

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Gay War Veteran Speaks Out for Equal Rights in Ukraine’s Military

Viktor Pylypenko has become a role model for dozens of LGBT+ Ukrainian war veterans and their supporters since he organised their participation in Kyiv’s largest ever gay pride march.

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Self-Care, According to a Black Queer Social Justice Advocate

Candace Bond-Theriault says her work supporting the rights of others like her has taught her how and why taking care of herself is important, too.

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Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition

Social entrepreneurship is attracting growing amounts of talent, money, and attention, but along with its increasing popularity has come less certainty about what exactly a social entrepreneur is and does.

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A Guide for Co-Creating Access & Inclusion

This guide is for people who are considering working with and for disabled people, perhaps for the very first time. It includes a brief introduction to disability justice, and then focuses on artistic and pedagogical work with the disability community.

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Transgender Well-Being