CAN-0000-0820-7FA6
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
CAN-0000-0821-60D6112 inbound
It’s happened. TERFs and the people who DEFENDED Prop 8 have untied as one voice to proclaim that pre/non-op transwomen – as a group – are 1.) icky because 2.) they’re actually men, and…
Community and organizingEducation and youth
CAN-0000-0822-0F44
Over the last few days I’ve seen a lot of anger from the trans community over the Roseanne Barr controversy. I do understand the anger. We are often portrayed as being sexual deviants who…
Community and organizingLaw and civil rights
CAN-0000-0823-19D1
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
CAN-0000-0826-8D5E
What would you say if I told you that right-wingers on Facebook were throwing transphobic, misogynistic slurs around like this: “a nasty two cent slut ….h. mmmmmm” “Whoopie should have held her down and…
Education and youth
CAN-0000-0827-B475
As you may know, most of the TS Separatist leaders have moved on with their lives and the ones who are left seem to be the Ashley Love/Just Jennifers of the world who regularly…
Community and organizingFeminism and gender politics
CAN-0000-0818-97783 inbound
I’ve witnessed many arguments and misunderstandings explode over the conflation of these THREE dimensions of what we in trans discourse collectively refer to as gender: Gender Orientation: One’s subjective experience of one’s body, including…
Culture, identity, and representationFeminism and gender politics
CAN-0000-0813-71F4
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
CAN-0000-0814-3D56
The problem is that the very imagery of what she’s referring to is so weird that I honestly can’t tell precisely what its a threat of. Guardian columnist Suzanne Moore has launched an outspoken…
Violence, safety, and dehumanization
CAN-0000-0815-0C55
The British Transphobic Feminist Troika unleashed their hate speech upon the world last week probably thinking they would get pushback from the trans community they and their acolytes could spin and demonize them with…
Community and organizingFeminism and gender politics