This is a review of the way a single story is handled by two diffident tabloid newspapers. The sensationalistic reporting style is so starkly different that I thought it would make an exceptional case study for the dos…
The HUD App Reciently, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) unveiled the first housing discrimination mobile application (app). The app provides a quick and easy way to learn about your housing rights and to file…
Equality means just that. While the trans community is invested in marriage equality, the reality trans folk face each day is described by the American Psychiatric Association thusly: Discrimination and lack of equal civil rights is damaging to…
A reader writes: I’m FTM, still in the closet, and I was wondering: What are the most common questions you get? I would like to know because I want to be able to think about questions that I…
RadFem 2013 organizer, Cathy Brennan responds to this post in a totally rational, non-hateful way. For the second year in a row, the TERF hate conference has been booted from their venue. For the second year in a…
One of the things that mystifies me is why The Southern Poverty Law Center hasn’t declared Trans Exterminationalist Radical Feminism as a hate group. Could it be because the rumor may be true that a TERF works for…
As Cristan Williams pointed out in her recent Transadvocate piece Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, segregation against trans women has been occurring at that festival for a very, very long time. Over the years, many intra-LGBT community allies of…
I recently received an email from Mara Keisling asking me to join the: “National Center for Transgender Equality and the Transgender People of Color Coalition in Washington, DC on June 17, 2013 to lobby for basic job protections…
This is a personal post regarding a known flame troll who seems to have focused on me. If this isn’t the kind of post you’re interested in, please just skip reading it. ~~A Update: Well, Jennifer Usher has…
I’ve noticed that TERFs tend to lie. Like, a lot. As in, metric tons of BS. TERFs far and wide are currently gnashing their collective teeth over the reality that their hate-fest conference (#RadFem2013) was booted from its…