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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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I’m A Bitch, I’m A Lover

Meredith Brooks once sang: “ I’m a bitch, I’m a lover I’m a child, I’m a mother I’m a sinner, I’m a saint I do not feel ashamed I’m your hell, I’m your dream…

Community and organizingHistory, archives, and memory
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Closets Are For Clothes, Stealth Is For Planes

Recently, I read a blog post about an FTM complaining about being judged by other transgender people about living “stealth.” To those of you who feel the need to live secretly, I say this;…

Culture, identity, and representationTransgender identity and history
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With “Defenders” Like This…

Alice Dreger Destroys Academic Freedom in Order to Save It It is an old adage that “crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.” This appears to be the thinking behind Alice Dreger’s…

Community and organizingHistory, archives, and memory
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Freak Of The Week: The Tabloid Media

Give ’em an act with lots of flash in it And the reaction will be passionate Give ’em the old hocus pocus …. Give ’em the old three ring circus” — Richard Gere as…

Community and organizingFamily and relationships
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With Apologies to Radical Feminists

Recently, I commented on a post at Bilerico: You want to get technical Sue? In the strictest definition, you’re not female. The distinction between the “sexes” is that a female has the ability to…

Community and organizingFamily and relationships
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The (lack of) space between homophobia and transphobia

I asked to cross post this post from Bilerico. It was written by Alex Blaze Through an unlikely chain of blog posts, Waymon’s entry about a gender identity inclusive anti-discrimination ordinance in Montgomery County,…

Culture, identity, and representationFamily and relationships
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Can You Ever Leave Behind the Evil Twin?

Don’t you just love that phrase, “used to be a man?” GARRICK Jacobson was in custody at Sydney’s Surry Hills police station when he apparently discovered his girlfriend used to be a man. Within…

Healthcare and medicineLaw and civil rights
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Targeted Families, Targeted Lives

I really can’t believe all the ridiculously negative things I’ve been hearing about the 2nd grade student that is transitioning at school. Here are a few examples: Public schools have been involved in a…

Culture, identity, and representationEducation and youth