.thereidout Blog: Brittney Griner may have already spent days, if not weeks, in Russian jail. And that's a terrifying place to be for a queer, Black woman — especially when Russia is looking for every possible point of leverage over Western counterparts.
, a bond that’s aided the widespread perception of Russia as the world’s last powerful, white ethnostate.
All of these things taken together make for an incredibly worrying situation with no certain outcome. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday, “Whenever an American is detained anywhere in the world, we, of course, stand ready to provide every possible assistance, and that includes in Russia.” But Blinken
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