Out-FM show aired on Tues., February 17, 2026 

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Fighting Back at Stonewall: Reinstating the Pride Flag

 

Art by Mimi Rosenberg

 

Out-FM is proud to rebroadcast our colleague Mimi Rosenberg's Feb. 12 edition of WBAI's "Equal Rights and Justice." In this segment, transgender veterans and activists from Arm the Dollz, Emmy and Afia, explained how they are fighting to restore the Pride flag at the Stonewall National Monument after its removal under the Trump administration — defending LGBTQIA + history and visibility. The removal was widely seen as an attempt to sanitize and depoliticize the very uprising that launched the modern queer/trans liberation movement. Stonewall was led not by the powerful, but by the marginalized trans women, queer People of Color, street youth. It was a rebellion against the state violence and police repression.

 

Today, as Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives are dismantled, and as transgender lives are targeted through legislation and rhetoric, many see a coordinated effort to erase both history and protection. Arm the Dollz is a trans-led collective committed to defending queer and trans visibility and justice. 

 

Arm the Dollz: 

https://www.instagram.com/armthedollz/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2akCRdWp3oA

https://sophiefrommars.substack.com/p/arm-the-dolls-but-what-does-it-all

 

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European Parliament Stands with Transwomen

 

Photo by Pauline Park

 

On February 11, the European Parliament voted in favor of a non-binding resolution recognizing trans women as women in a challenge to transphobic governments of the European Union member states — including the British government of Keir Starmer. Transgender activist Pauline Park will discuss the significance of this vote with her Out-FM colleague John Riley.

 

Music:

Bilal Hassani, "Il ou Elle" (2022)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeZco5oY7CA&list=RDDeZco5oY7CA&start_radio=1

 

Motta, "Sei bella davvero"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMvya1Mk4eA&list=RDLMvya1Mk4eA&start_radio=1

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The Ida B. Wells Media Defense Network presents an urgent online screening of Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist — the searing story of artists and organizers who refused to bow to McCarthyism.

Then stay for a live, no-holds-barred discussion with world-renowned historian Dr. Gerald Horne and filmmaker/educator Pamela Sporn, connecting the blacklist then to Trumpism, repression now - the new McCarthyism — and asking the only question that matters: What is to be done?

 Fri., February 20, 2026

Online via Zoom

 8 PM ET • 7 PM CT • 5 PM PT (waiting room opens at 7:45)

 Register here

 $15 suggested — no one turned away

 

Out-FM producers Stahimili Mapp and Naomi Brussel interview Tareq Baconi, Palestinian writer, scholar and activist about his memoir

Fire in Every Direction". The book centers on his teen-age love relationship with another young man as they approached adulthood. Baconi discusses his family and community relationships in Jordan as well as the political position of Palestinians in the diaspora. He emphasizes the link between the Palestinian struggle and world-wide progressive movements.