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Several years ago I happened to sit next to Salman Rushdie at dinner when he was at UC-Santa Barbara to give a talk. I asked him why he didn’t have any security guards around him. “I have to live my…

EuroPride is scheduled to take place in the Serbian capital of Belgrade next month . It’s the first time that EuroPride will take place in a Southeastern European country and the first time it will be…

From fighting White Evangelical Racism to searching for A Wider Type of Freedom, here’s what PRA’s been reading in 2021.

Shane Burley talks to Kathleen Belew about the book she coedited: A Field Guide to White Supremacy. They discuss the broader picture of White supremacy, the definitional work missing in reporting, and community-based solutions to far-right violence.

PRA convened a panel of leading analysts and practitioners preparing for the next year in this historic fight for trans justice. Watch the recording today.

We’re not used to thinking of Ron DeSantis , Florida’s rabidly culture-warring governor and a possible 2024 frontrunner for the Republican presidential candidate, as a Catholic politician. He clearly…

When it was published in 1988, The Satanic Verses wasn’t immediately controversial. But the charged politics of Islam and the West meant some kind of blowback to Salman Rushdie’s novel was likely: The…

The influence of organized anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim movements is readily apparent in policy changes over the last two years.

Regular readers of Religion Dispatches will likely be familiar with my fairly frequent forays into media criticism. In addition to unpacking the ways in which the legacy media and elite pundits…