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Bill Steber

Yazoo County

Mississipi

Intimacy isn’t just experienced through sex. It’s crying together. It’s whispering late at night. It’s talking about growing up and what used to scare you. It’s going places that remind you of your childhood. It’s feeling each other without touching. It’s exchanging energy.

‘Disinfect Your Country’

Beautiful artwork by @corinne.dodenhoff

Ilya Kaminsky, “A City Like a Guillotine Shivers on Its Way to the Neck”, Deaf Republic

united states citizens who are married to immigrants are being denied stimulus checks

These people are taxpayers with ITINS (individual taxpayer identification numbers) but they and their families are ineligible because stimulus checks are only granted to couples filing jointly if both individuals have SSNs ( UNLESS one spouse is in the military, but that’s a different post)

Not only is that policy driven by racism, It’s also a violation of the fundamental right to marriage ( Loving v. Virginia, Oberfell v Hodges). A precedent has been set that discrimination based on who someone is married to is unconstitutional.

An idaho man going by John Doe for anonymity has filed a class action lawsuit against Trump, Mcconell, and Mnuchin on behalf of “All United States Citizens married to immigrants that file joint taxes wherein the immigrant-spouses file tax returns using an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number whom would have otherwise qualified for the Stimulus Check.”

Stay informed and don’t let mixed status families lose out on potentially lifesaving money because of the U.S government’s discriminatory policies

We’re more than taxpayers we’re people. We deserve stimulus money because we’re humans and shelter safety and food are human rights.