Noor Adwan
Opinion Audience Editor
Adwan is Opinion Audience Editor and a member of the Minnesota Star Tribune Editorial Board. She creates and optimizes Strib Voices content for digital platforms. She graduated from the University of Minnesota in 2023, and spends her free time painting and collecting rocks.
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Meet our new Opinion audience editor
How can we better serve you, Opinion readers? I want to know.
August 18, 2025
Adwan: Trans panic zealots are following girls into the bathroom now, I guess
A recent incident at a restaurant in southern Minnesota shows just how far the hysteria has gone.
August 13, 2025
![Natalia Garcia, of Minneapolis, listens to speakers during a rally Thursday, March 9, 2023 at the Lake Street/Midtown Transit Station in Minneapolis, Minn.. “Seeing all the bills and injustices towards Tran community last few years has been tough to witness,” said Garcia. “Our community is under attack.”
Community members gathered to celebrate and defend transgender people after a transgender woman was brutally assaulted last week near the Lake Street light rail station and amid a flurry of new legislation being proposed and passed throughout the country restricting access to gender affirming healthcare. ] AARON LAVINSKY • aaron.lavinsky@startribune.com](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/Z6XN4ZQ6NNGSZA7RVD62RLHHVA.JPG?&w=252&ar=3:2&fit=crop)
Noor Adwan: Target finds waffling bad for business
While the retailer is able to opt out of marketing and product decisions that rouse homo- and transphobes, LGBTQ+ individuals don't have the choice to opt out of their identities.
August 21, 2023
Harsher sentencing may not prevent car killings
But a mesh of preventative policies just might.
July 23, 2023
