Steven W Thrasher
Steven W Thrasher is writer-at-large for Guardian US. He was named Journalist of the Year 2012 by the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Village Voice, Rolling Stone, BuzzFeed, the Advocate and more. Follow him on Twitter at @thrasherxy or visit his website.
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Black genius is having an unapologetic moment, allowing our intelligence to shine without shame or reservation
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The famous festival in Nevada has a policy of ‘inclusion’ yet you won’t see many ‘burners’ who are black. Is it unwelcoming, or are there other matters in play?
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Hundreds of full-time New York City workers are homeless and in San Francisco bus drivers sleep in their cars to save money: this is a never-ending crisis
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Canonisation follows papal confrontation of sex abuse scandals, climate change and immigration in Washington – and a hug with a 5-year-old girl
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As Ted Rall’s book on Edward Snowden hits shelves this week, parallels are visible between his own story – involving a police encounter over jaywalking – and that of his subject, the NSA whistleblower
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John Kasich wants to take lounges away from teachers. He is just the latest Republican to make an enemy of America’s educators
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From Selma to Ferguson and Charleston, the civil rights leader marched with Martin Luther King, prayed with Bill Clinton and ran for president before Obama. So what does he think of the black activist movement now?
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Patrolman investigated over Facebook post in which he shows off about extra cash made working during protests in Ferguson this week
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The tiny victories so far were achieved only by having very low expectations of what justice should be and what it should look like for African-Americans
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There are many reasons to doubt that Sandra Bland’s death in police custody was suicide, not least of which because it’s hard for the black community to imagine killing ourselves when living in the US means dying early anyway
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Once their exchange started, the man in the uniform had to prove to the black woman who was boss
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The president seems imbued in his penultimate year with a fierce urgency of now – much like he did when he was running for office
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It may not be hope and change, but isn’t it amazing how much grace there is in Barack Obama’s United States right now?
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One chapter in our fight is closed. Love has triumphed. Let’s enjoy the moment, then march forward until there is full equality for all LGBT people
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In America, you can be subjected to white supremacy for driving while black, walking while black, swimming while black and now praying while black
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Steven W Thrasher column Rachel Dolezal exposes our delusional constructions and perceptions of race
The apparent daughter of two white parents passed herself off as mixed race for years in black circles because everything we think we know about race is wrong
Steven W Thrasher column 'Ban the box' is a band-aid on a gaping wound that is mass imprisonment