Posts tagged transgender experience
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(For part one of this discussion, please see *here*.)
I SOOOO feel like I didn't get the memo that there was such a thing as being intergender. Did you get that memo? (And, if so, why didn't you forward it to me??) I'm utterly amazed there was this graphic in the internet, above! And there's something else later on in this post that I found out about just a little while ago.
SPHERE
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We live inside someone's realised idea. We live inside someone's realised physical idea for what the home or village or town or city you are in was be designed to look like. We live inside someone's realised social and economic idea of what the civilisation you live in was designed to do. We live inside
WHAT DO
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What follows is a collection of questions and interrogations. I welcome your respectful input.
I've grown up hearing terms like homosexual, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and more recently queer and transgender used to describe a population of people impacted negatively by heteropatriarchy. I'd add to that people who identify and are genderqueer,
GLF at Christopher Street Liberation Day 1971
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Lesbian and Gay Pride, LGBT Pride, Queer Pride events have been happening for 40 years in many places in the U.S. this year. Here's a sampling of some events in 2010. I won't get into the whole political history except to say that I wish the Gay Liberation Front was still alive and well. That
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There have been a few occasions now where some of the visitors to this blog, and others, have let me know, in sometimes not terribly subtle ways--and more power to them--fuck subtlety!--that "I appear to be associating with transphobes".
Yes, well: don't we all?
The argument, to me, is "but these are known transphobes". And my reply has been, well, on your blogroll I
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Caption to the photograph above:The Astraea Foundation funds LGBTI social justice activism both in the US and globally. (photo courtesy of Astraea)
I LOVE that the "I" is in there! And Two-Spirit is in the heading!! And that the "L" comes first!!! YAY! -- Julian
What follows may be found at its home site by clicking on the title just below, which was found on the Audre
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What follows is an excerpt of a recent post from The Curvature blog. Thank you, Cara!
Demand for Open Investigation Into Death of Aboriginal Trans Woman in Custody
Filed Under Australia, International, LGBTQ, bigotry, discrimination, race and racism, trans, transphobia and trans misogyny, violence against women and girls | Posted by Cara |
One year ago,
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The following article is already a year old. So it is worth revisiting to see what, if anything, has happened regarding U.S. government policy and practice with regard to Reproductive Rights centered on the experiences of the most marginalised and disenfranchised women facing reproductive health, support,
The poster is from the LAGAI website, here.A bit on LAGAI before moving on. What follows next is from that website, linked to just above.
Who We Are
We are a small independent radical queer activist group. We started in 1983 as Lesbians and Gays Against Intervention and have been through a bunch of name changes, but kept our acronym, even though no one can figure out what it stands for any more
"Women and men are made, not born" -- Simone de Beauvoir, French white cisgendered feminist.To read an essay based on that quote, go here.[the image above is from here, an astoundingly racist, sexist, and classist and "unaware of gynocide or genocide" webpage]What follows is a reply I was going to post to a commenter here, but decided to make a separate post because it ended up bringing up issues
