🚨 UPDATE: 8 people charged in Sex Ring “Underground Bunker” for Paying adults to Rape their Children and Pets — Ages 3-16. Trial delayed as mom pleads guilty and flips on co-defendants
In Bibb County, Alabama, eight suspects ran a sex trafficking ring out of an underground bunker where children as young as 3 were drugged, bound, and raped with adults paying to abuse them.
Animals were also targeted.
Rebecca Brewer and mother of some of the victims, pleaded guilty to sexual torture and nine counts of first-degree kidnapping. As part of the deal she agreed to testify against the other seven defendants.
The trial for the remaining suspects has been delayed while the case expands, including a federal investigation into at least one of them.
These monsters turned their own kids and pets into victims for profit.
How long will it take for every last one of them to face real justice?
Love grows where it is allowed to bloom.
I painted this scene of a Patlacheh and their lover beneath cacao trees heavy with fruit. In Nahua tradition, Patlacheh refers to people assigned female at birth who follow a masculine path. Historical sources preserve only fragments of their lives, but those fragments remind us that Indigenous understandings of gender have always been more diverse than many people imagine.
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A field of flowers.
I painted Xochihua for Pride Month. In Nahua tradition, xochihua refers to people assigned male at birth who follow a feminine path. Here, two lovers meet among flowers, carrying blossoms gathered from the earth and offering affection freely beneath the open sky.
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It would take far more than a month to honor the contributions of queer and transgender New Yorkers.
From the Cercle Hermaphroditos in 1895, the first trans advocacy group in the United States, to the drag balls of the Harlem Renaissance, to the Stonewall uprising, to the Lesbian Herstory Archives, to ACT UP!, founded in 1987 as queer people fought for their lives while the Reagan administration looked away, New York City's history has long been shaped by queer and trans New Yorkers.
To all our queer and trans neighbors: you deserve a City where you can afford to live safely, openly, and joyfully.
Happy Pride, New York City.