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Feminism has a crucial role to play in modern life, but I sometimes wish it would leave our fairy tales alone. The results of its revisionist meddling are too often unconvincing and unsatisfying.
Remember last year’s Maleficent? It turned an age-old story on its head by revealing that the fairy (Angelina Jolie) who turned a princess into a “Sleeping Beauty” was not evil at all. No, she was merely wronged and misunderstood. Worst of all, we learned that the somnambulant princess could not be awakened by a kiss from the handsome prince, but only by a motherly peck from that same fairy.
How heartwarming. And how utterly unromantic.
Thank goodness Disney’s new live-action version of Cinderella doesn’t wear its feminism on its sleeve. It has nods to modern sensibilities, to be sure, but they’re handled with a lighter touch.
September 25 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm EDT
Stonewall Columbus, 1160 North High Street, Columbus, OH 43201
Join the Rainbow Resilience Research Group for an evening focused on queer climate issues, disaster preparedness, and community resilience in Central Ohio.
Attendees will have the opportunity to learn about local climate-related challenges, connect with vital resources, and build stronger community connections around preparedness and resilience.
Appetizers and refreshments will be provided, and attendees will also have a chance to win a starter emergency preparedness kit.
Thursday, September 24, 2026 - 6:30pm
Trinity Baptist Churchm 461 St. Clair Ave., Columbus, OH 43203
OCOS representative Morgan Harper and City Council President Pro Tem Rob Dorans are scheduled to have a community conversation on Issue 8 and Issue 9.
Wednesday, September 23, 6pm
Hagerty Hall, OSU, room 050
Join RSU Columbus for a public meeting about Flock Cameras and how students can fight back against mass surveiilence! The meeting will start at 6pm on Wednesday Sept. 23rd. The meeting is at Hagerty Hall Room 050 on OSU campus.
Learn from a local anti-Flock activist. Discuss OSU's expansive Flock contract. Workshop on how students fight back. Free snacks and drinks.
Tuesday, September 22, 2026 - 7:00pm
Zoom
Ohio is adding new utility scale gas plants to power data centers at an alarming rate -- 12 proposed and approved in the last year alone totaling 5300 MW -- plus the 9200 MW gas plant planned to power data centers at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant. If all are built to full operation, they could create 84.3 million tons of NEW greenhouse gas pollution per year – more than the country of Singapore – just as the world is entering a climate tipping point.
While the Fair Food Program (FFP) continues to change the lives of farmworkers across the U.S. and inspire worker-led human rights initiatives around the world, some of the country’s largest food corporations still refuse to bring the FFP’s proven protections into their own supply chains. Despite years of rallies, marches, shareholder resolutions, letters from customers, and mounting evidence of the program’s unparalleled success in preventing abuse, Kroger refuses to join the FFP.
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How will the Columbus Black community vote in November regarding district representation? This question has become significantly consequential to the future of Columbus.
Some argue their vote will be the deciding factor in determining whether activist candidates will ever have serious influence in the community – or if the “Columbus Way” maintains its control on policy and development. Siphoning tens-of-millions from Columbus City Schools via tax-abatements to ultra-rich developers and landlords, for example.
Two Similar Issues on the Ballot
The grassroots activists from Our City Our Say (OCOS) have forced Columbus’s traditional power structure to end the last at-large council system in a major U.S. city.
Dr. George Miller has owned Black Art Plus for forty years and for forty years it has been the go-to place for books on Black history and African art of varying kind ranging from paintings to prints, unique hand-crafted artifacts, figurines, etc.
Black Art Plus was founded against the backdrop of a renewed era of Black Consciousness. The mid to late 1980s experienced a rebirth of sorts of the 1960s and 70s Black Power Movement. Black bookstores served as meeting places for Black book clubs, were a 24-hour news grapevine for information about the Black World and the perfect spot to host local, national as well as internationally known writers, poets and lecturers. Spaces like Black Art Plus served a cultural, intellectual and social need in communities that many public libraries were unable to fill.
Sunday, September 20, 2026 - 03:00pm
Ohio Statehouse, Broad and High Streets
The rally follows the BMV's sudden decision last month to strip transgender Ohioans of the ability to update the gender marker on their driver's licenses and state IDs, as well as the wave of anti-trans rhetoric dominating Ohio's governor's race.