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Blog posts
Guidance for Virginia's LGBTQIA+ Communities After Trump's Inauguration
As anticipated, the new Trump Administration has issued a series of harmful and sweeping executive actions—including those targeting the LGBTQIA+ community.
Virginia's First-Ever Trans Joy Zine
Latest Press Releases
Students sue Department of Defense schools over curriculum changes, book bans
“The government can’t scrub references to race and gender from public school libraries and classrooms just because the Trump administration doesn’t like certain viewpoints on those topics,” said Matt...
Video of arrest, new details in Trump administration’s case targeting Georgetown postdoctoral fellow Dr. Khan Suri for speech on Palestinian rights
“In my work, I’ve seen lots of injustice. I just didn't think it would happen to me here," says Dr. Khan Suri.
Red Onion cannot be allowed to retaliate against incarcerated people for exercising their First Amendment rights
“Without electricity, people in solitary in Red Onion are completely cut off from the outside world, all for refusing to sign their name to something they believe is false,” said ACLU of Virginia Senior...
In the courts
Khan Suri v. Trump, et al.
The ACLU-VA and the HMA Law Firm filed an emergency motion in the Eastern District of Virginia on behalf of a Georgetown professor who has been targeted by the Trump administration for removal from the U.S. in direct retaliation for his speech in support of Palestinian rights.
