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Of expectations and education

I recently posted the following to my FaceBook page: Is it me or is there a lot of “JESUS! STFU already! I’m complementing you and think you should have rights! What, now I have…

Community and organizingEducation and youth
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Lateral violence in the trans community

[su_lbtop] Lateral violence is displaced violence directed against one’s peers rather that one’s true adversaries. Our true adversaries are kyriarchy and all those who perpetuate it. We live in an interlocking system of oppression;…

Community and organizingCulture, identity, and representation
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In Revolution, The Trans Terms Sylvia Rivera Used

I look to Sylvia Rivera, who passed in 2002, was an activist icon whose action approach to civil rights is one I admire. I like to think I’ve emulated part of her action approach…

Community and organizingEducation and youth
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Faggot Ru Paul: trannys need to “get stronger”

The faggot, RuPaul Andre Charles, claims that trans people are “bitches” who need to “get stronger” with regard to his use of tranny. In an interview on WTF with Marc Marron, RuPaul said: You…

Community and organizingCulture, identity, and representation
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TERFs are the new Westboro Baptist Church

The Wesboro Baptist Church. It’s been a nuisance to the LGBT community since 1991 when it took its first steps to publicly advocate against gay people. We’ve all heard of them. They were a…

Family and relationshipsFeminism and gender politics
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Mom confronts TERF bigotry aimed at her family

By Debi Jackson Although I have been part of the LGBT community for the last three years since my daughter transitioned from male to female, I still seem to learn something new every day.…

Community and organizingCulture, identity, and representation
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TERF hate and Sandy Stone

Sandy Stone was a problem that Janice Raymond, author of The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male, decided to take care of. Raymond felt that Stone — an out trans woman who was…

Community and organizingFeminism and gender politics
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Making trans-hate sound reasonable

By Natacha Kennedy Michelle Goldberg’s awful article in The New Yorker will be considered by many to be just another example of the sort of biased rubbish trans people have come to get used…

Feminism and gender politicsMedia, rhetoric, and discourse