Marissa Higgins

If your fondest holiday memories also involve hiding in the bathroom (or closet, or floorboard, or passenger seat of your cool older cousin’s car) to get a moment’s peace from your [insert adjective] family, you’re probably already sold on a…

Maria Bamford doesn’t worry about being noticed at the dog park. “It’s Los Angeles,” she tells me over the phone when I ask if anyone recognizes her from her decades-long comedy career. “Nobody gives a shit if they did.” When she offers to text me a…

What’s more intimate than being yourself? Prior to reading Jenny Fran Davis‘s Dykette, I wasn’t sure. I’m still not. But I can say this deeply smart, original, and funny debut novel has permanently shifted my understanding of the relationship between…

Trans news continues to be overwhelmingly bleak and grim, thanks in no small part to Republicans—and the moderates who humor them. Trans folks already face disproportionate levels of violence, live with higher reported rates of depression and…

Republicans are always happy to reach a new low. This statement feels like an evergreen opening to most news-related articles, and I stand by it! In this case, as reported by the BBC, a Republican lawmaker serving in Alaska has been censured for…

We know Republicans have been fighting hard to silence openly LGBTQ+ folks and allies on both the state and federal levels. Conservatives have pushed—with varying degrees of success, mind you—bills that seek to bar trans and nonbinary youth from…

Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is building his campaign in curious ways. He loves parental rights and parental consent when it comes to controlling LGBTQ+ people (and especially youth) but not when it comes to, say, wearing masks to protect…

Republicans are going after books just in time for the 2024 presidential election, because of course they are. Conservatives are trying to see what issue gets their constituents the most riled up and have (unfortunately) seen some considerable…

As anyone who follows the LGBTQ+ news beat knows well, it’s … grim out here. Republicans are wasting no time pushing hateful and discriminatory anti-queer and anti-trans legislations across the nation, and while some are thankfully fading out in…

Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis is once again spending his time stomping down on vulnerable folks. In this instance, as reported by The Washington Post, the substitute teacher who went viral for posting a video of empty bookshelves in a middle school…

If you ever told yourself that Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis would stop with his insidious Don’t Say Gay legislation, I’m sorry to report that he certainly has not stopped, and in fact shows no signs of slowing down his brigade of hate. And that’s…

As Daily Kos covered on Wednesday, contributors, subscribers, and general readers of The New York Times were invited to sign an open letter calling upon the paper to do better by and for the trans community. This doesn’t mean turning into an overtly…

Mental health is (unfortunately) an extremely stigmatized subject here in the United States. For far too long, folks have written off serious health conditions like depression and anxiety as people being whiny or lazy. In reality, mental health can…

Here at Daily Kos, we do our very best to cover trans issues with a progressive lens that ultimately centers trans and nonbinary voices, especially when it comes to research, debates, and activism movements. Unfortunately, not all media outlets make…

Daisy Alpert Florin’s debut novel, My Last Innocent Year, is a rewind to the late ‘90s. Our protagonist, Isabel, is a young Jewish woman from New York pursuing a creative writing degree at a prestigious liberal arts college in New Hampshire. After…

It’s a sad, sad day in South Dakota, thanks to Republican Gov. Kristi Noem signing a regressive, restrictive anti-queer and anti-trans bill into law. On Monday, Noem signed HB 1080 (misleadingly titled the “Help Not Harm” bill, which we’ll dig into…

Anti-queer (and especially anti-trans) sentiments have really gained traction in the last few years, thanks largely to power-hungry Republicans. We’ve seen conservatives at both the local and state levels push anti-LGBTQ+ agendas seemingly as a means…

Republicans have pushed anti-trans and anti-queer agendas hard over the last few years, especially on the state levels. As Daily Kos continues to cover, for example, we’ve seen conservatives introduce (and pass, and sign into law) bills meant to keep…

Republican lawmakers are once again weighing a vehemently anti-LGBTQ+ bill that would harm public school students of all ages and all grade levels. The bill is seemingly modeled after Florida’s infamous ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill (signed into law by…

Republicans are as eager as ever to find new ways to demonize and isolate LGBTQ+ people, including—and especially—youth. We’ve watched Republicans rally against trans youth (and specifically, trans girls) having the opportunity to participate in…