Trump's Kennedy Center Cancels Pride Events

Trump and his hierarchical followers have shown their true colors again.

Organizers and the Kennedy Center have canceled a week’s worth of events celebrating LGBTQ+ rights for this summer’s World Pride festival in Washington, D.C., amid a shift in priorities and the ousting of leadership at one of the nation’s premier cultural institutions.

Events have been quietly canceled or moved to other venues. And in the wake of the cancellations, Washington’s Capital Pride Alliance has disassociated itself from the Kennedy Center.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/26/politics/kennedy-center-lgbtq-pride-events-canceled-hnk/index.html?Date=20250426&Profile=CNN&utm_content=1745659055&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwY2xjawJ6iJZleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFRbGdBekt0U3dvTWxGQURkAR5VQHaOne4inBu1TFm2U8pLO6qTJWcSG6Qq55gCh89TJYxw_0or4Nv0ijnW6g_aem_qSdd_bdMYaIxamZN7E7xiQ

Natalism: Failure if Men Don't Step Up

According to Michelle Goldburg in an article in the New York Times,  if "Trump really wanted to arrest the decline in America’s fertility rate — which reached a historic low of 1.62 births per woman in 2023 — the best thing he could do is resign in concert with his entire administration. The crude chauvinism his presidency represents is a major impediment to the creation of healthy families."

"The administration is led by an old-fashioned sexist who has bragged that he has never changed a diaper. “I’ll supply funds, and she’ll take care of the kids,” Trump once boasted to a radio host. Elon Musk has taken this notion to grotesque lengths; a Wall Street Journal expose describes him hitting up women on the internet to incubate the legion of children he hopes to breed in advance of a coming apocalypse. While he has 14 known children, The Journal reports, the real number could be much higher."

"It shouldn’t be surprising, then, that in one 2022 survey, a majority of young women said they probably wouldn’t date a Trump supporter. The most recent season of the reality show “Love Is Blind” dramatized this political mismatch, with two progressive women ditching their fiancés over their politics. Growing alienation between the sexes will naturally make it harder for them to pair up and have kids."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/opinion/trump-fertility-birthrate-sexism.html

Men Meet to Stroll with Their Babies and Form Community

Yes, the times have changed when it was a woman's job to almost 100% care for her children. 

The Brooklyn Stroll Club in NYC is a walking club made up of fathers who want to connect with other men.

“Moms have been holding it down for so long and are so great at building community,” Joe Gonzales said. “I didn’t have a lot of dad friends in New York, and I really wanted to connect with people who were going through a similar experience,” he added. Mr. Gonzales is a senior producer at a creative agency and first-time father to a 10-month-old son named Sol.

“To be in a community with other men who are trying to figure out how to be really good dads and break cycles that have been repeated for years — it’s really important,” Rene Jimenez said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/style/brooklyn-stroll-club-fathers-new-york.html

Republicans Undermine Rights for People with Disabilities

Sign language interpreters have been noticeably absent from Trump administration press briefings. Gone, too, are the American Sign Language interpretations that used to appear on the White House’s YouTube channel. 

A White House webpage on accessibility has also ceased working.

The Trump administration has taken a slew of actions that harm those with impairments or chronic health conditions. Decades of hard-fought gains risk being undone by cuts to federal programs, freezes on research funding, and a White House ban on practices that support diversity.

GOP budget measures would likely lead to billions of dollars in cuts from Medicaid, a federal-state health program for people with disabilities and low incomes.

Republicans who insist that top-of-the-hierarchy white, able-bodied, straight, Christian males are the only ones who count are trying to destroy our diversity. Damage our lives, yes, but unless they destroy us all, we aren't going away. 

https://www.disabilityscoop.com/2025/04/10/trumps-dei-undoing-undermines-hard-won-accommodations-for-people-with-disabilities/31405/?fbclid=IwY2xjawJmeYNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHv-eHuvtqOZs-S5Nn8P34smmwOOYQP5EKzRp_kAMJhsH4Gm9ZByBOxdB_5z5_aem_HqBe6T_Yrxxz-0jI5pGMBA

University of Michigan/Flint Renames DEI Programs

The University of Michigan/Flint's office of DEI is now been renamed to HOPE - the Wolverine Hub of Opportunity, Persistence, and Excellence.

The university has spent $250 million on their trailblazer DEI strategies, but because of threats from Donald Trump to roll back funding, the DEI strategy has been terminated. 

They do not anticipate any staff changes, but some positions may be retitled.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/college-that-s-spent-250m-on-dei-is-using-new-word-to-evade-trump-ban/ar-AA1BRZfS?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=e501adff46de4e95f0ff2759195964a5&e&fbclid=IwY2xjawJVKExleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHYg82ZLhvw-Nciitcy1l07nHc308U-NWU5h2CEROHf-5mOzwuZEwUuvn1g_aem_O3M7CqXcazZteKXDU7d9tg

Female Trans Actor's Renewed Passport Says Male

The renewed passport of prominent transgender actor Hunter Schafer, 26, listed her gender as male following Trump's policy that the U.S. will only "recognize two sexes, male and female."

The gender markers on her government-issued IDs have been female since she was a teenager.

She added that she is worried about traveling out of the country in the next week and having to "out myself to Border Patrol" and for other trans people in similar situations.

People on the top of hierarchies, in this case Republicans, think that everyone wants or needs to be like them.

https://local12.com/news/nation-world/trans-actor-hunter-schafer-euphoria-hunger-games-criticizes-president-donald-trump-policy-after-passport-lists-her-as-male-executive-order-two-sexes-government-issued-ids-gender-markers?fbclid=IwY2xjawIoooFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHZP6dppbPKzLdEZjIxQtmICZnk2b9SNiq771rBEkm5rdCA7sDWNqiLA3nA_aem_cjNcUBFVjPIB2BfHdJjn8g#?-cincinnati

Wondering What You Can Do?

The White Pages offers a list of 30 actions a person can take, alone, to get involved in our turbulent times. If any of them seem pertinent, they could be an idea for even a little bit of change or resistance.  

https://thewhitepages.net/p/thirty-lonely-but-beautiful-actions?fbclid=IwY2xjawIehMJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHcKXslxzdGhKOnlNPCIyVZGGdXu6KWlaq_7nJtauu-liS2WOEk2K2Hs2ZQ_aem_mr5fG