Activists hold signs and march to the Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis
In Flourishing in the Margins, Power of Story

Queering Melt the ICE: LGBTQ+ Reflections on Minnesota’s Week of Action

By Ashton Rose

At the end of February, Minnesota-based collectives and organizers put together a massive, concerted week of action to protest continued ICE presence and violence across our state and country. As a participant in the week’s events, I want to reflect on what they felt like and reconnect us to the broader political moment/movement. 

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June 15, 2026
A crowd of Pride celebrants in front of an official building
In Flourishing in the Margins, Power of Story, Queer and Trans Literature

The Role of Big Business in LGBTQ+ Politics, Pt. 2: The Master’s Tools and Jostling Anticapitalist Politics

By Ashton Rose

In this second post, I’ll explore in more depth some of the ways reading that book made me question my own anticapitalist politics. Then I’ll extrapolate on some of the dangers of relying on corporations. Making connections to the work of Audre Lorde, I’ll assert that working with corporations, while valuable, will never let us achieve liberation. 

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October 15, 2025