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I used to be outraged when the non-profit sector of the “LGBT” community tried to exploit the Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR), but after repeated attempts (1, 2, 3, 4) I have come to…
Community and organizingMedia, rhetoric, and discourse
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I heard that question asked over and over on Twitter last night after Roseanne Barr tweeted: Well, the short answer is, “where do I start?” Barr is speaking of is Colleen Francis. Francis was…
Education and youthFamily and relationships
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By Diana O’Brien 16 Jan 2013 The third season premiere of Lost Girl just demonstrated the well-worn path for advancing gay/lesbian/bisexual themes in the media. That path continues to be walking over the crushed…
Community and organizingLaw and civil rights
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Twenty years ago, a now defunct trans newsletter captured a really interesting moment in trans history: a linguistic tipping point. As I’ve noted: “Transgender” has been around since at least 1965 “Transgender” was not…
Community and organizingCulture, identity, and representation
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Much attention has been focused on the ‘War on Women’, the anti-woman political policies the conservative movement and Republican politicians have been pushing for years and implementing once they gain political control of state…
Community and organizingHealthcare and medicine
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Multiple news outlets have reported on the recent torture, murder, and mutilation of a mid-western trans rapper. The rapper, Evon Young went missing January 2. The official story is that 5 men were arrested…
Community and organizingEducation and youth
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Why in Hades is it so hard for professional journalists to get this breathtakingly simple concept? Per the AP Stylebook: transgender-Use the pronoun preferred by the individuals who have acquired the physical characteristics of…
Labor, economics, and institutionsMedia, rhetoric, and discourse
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In the wake of the President Obama’s historic speech referencing Stonewall, NPR ran a piece asking and purporting to answer the question, “So, what was Stonewall?” The article calls upon Martin Duberman, now 82,…
Community and organizingFeminism and gender politics
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This video has been compiled by TransBareAll as a response to recent transphobic articles in the press. We don’t aim to debate the merits of freedom of speech, or the rights and wrongs of…
History, archives, and memoryLaw and civil rights
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On one of the trans Facebook groups I monitor a post was put up about the gruesome murder of transman Evon ‘Yung LT’ Young. One person remarked in the comment thread under the post…
Law and civil rightsMedia, rhetoric, and discourse