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Don’t Call Me A Lesbian

A question recent posted on Lesbian Life at About.com asked “Question: I am at the very early stages of being a transsexual, and I want to be a woman. I also love women. Could…

Community and organizingCulture, identity, and representation
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Wyoming (IN)Equality

What the heck is up with Wyoming Equality? From their front page: An equality group is promoting The Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival? For those that don’t know, the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival is a…

Healthcare and medicineMedia, rhetoric, and discourse
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Woman’s Space To Hate With Heart

Things I learn from the radical feminist blogosphere: -” Male-to-female transsexuality/transgender is really about men’s rights. It has nothing to do with feminism. As such, as feminists, just as we oppose men’s rights, in…

Feminism and gender politicsLaw and civil rights
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Transman Civil War Hero?

I won’t lie, I’m a lover of history. One of the the blogs I regularly read is Civil War Women. The blog is thick with biographies of women that lived and thrived in the…

History, archives, and memoryScience, evidence, and expertise
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Bush Doesn’t Care About America

When Kayne West said “George Bush doesn’t care about black people!” , he was partly right. George Bush doesn’t care about the majority of Americans or what they care about. From HRC’s “Back Story”…

Culture, identity, and representationLaw and civil rights
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Radical Feminist Hate, Fear, or Loathing?

Typically, when reading about radical feminists on various blogs, it’s an “us verses them” type of debate. I’ve been thinking a lot about that, as witnessed by my last post, Michfest Music Melodrama I’ve…

Culture, identity, and representationEducation and youth
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You Can Still Fire Me

Chris Crain has repeatedly suggested 1, 2, 3, 4 that transgender people don’t need to be included in the Employee Non-Discrimination Act because “existing federal civil rights laws have already been interpreted by some…

Culture, identity, and representationLabor, economics, and institutions
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Truth In Numbers, Hate Crimes Statistics

From a recent report out of UCLA entitled: Comparison of Hate Crimes Rates Across Protected and Unprotected Groups ( by Rebecca Stotzer, Public Policy Research Fellow at the Williams Institute) Current proposed legislation would…

Culture, identity, and representationPublic policy and governance
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Isn’t It Ironic, Don’t You Think?

During the HRC/LOGO Presidential Forum John Edwards was asked: MR. SOLOMONESE: Susan Stanton is in our audience tonight. She was, for 17 years, the city manager in Largo , Florida . She did her…

Family and relationshipsLabor, economics, and institutions
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For Matters of Disclosure, I Open Myself To You

The post that follows this will discuss Alice Dreger’s “The Controversy Surrounding The Man Who Would Be Queen: A Case History of the Politics of Science, Identity, and Sex in the Internet Age.” As…

Culture, identity, and representationHistory, archives, and memory