When James Becomes Janice: What Not to Ask a Transgender Friend
From The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/05/booming/when-james-becomes-janice-what-not-to-ask-a-transgender-friend.html By STEVEN PETROW Published: March 5, 2013 This question, slightly...
View ArticleOp-ed: Transgender Dinosaurs, Part Deux: The Revenge of Judith Butler
The Continuing Saga of Riki and Judith as they struggle to find their way through the morass of irrelevance. Actually we were never “feared” more abused and held in contempt. Further outside of a few...
View ArticleA President Who’ll Cut Social Security – And Liberals Who Love Him Too Much
From Campaign For America’s Future: http://blog.ourfuture.org/20130308/democrats-whod-cut-social-security-and-the-liberals-who-love-them-too-much By Richard Eskow March 8, 2013 The spectacle of a...
View ArticleIt’s almost like the Tea Party won
From Salon: http://www.salon.com/2013/03/06/its_almost_like_the_tea_party_won/ The election was a rebuke of austerity — but the hard right is getting its way on the sequester By Steve Kornacki...
View ArticleLet Us Remember All Women on International Women’s Day
From Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/zenita-nicholson/let-us-remember-women_b_2828208.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices Zenita Nicholson 03/07/2013 Annually, International Women’s Day is...
View ArticleWhy should married women change their names? Let men change theirs
From The Guardian UK: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/mar/07/women-stop-changing-your-name-when-married Your name is your identity. The reasons women give for changing their names after...
View ArticlePolice break into homes and arrest 20 trans women in Istanbul
From Gay Star UK: http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/20-trans-women-arrested-istanbul080313 On the night before International Women’s Day, the homes of trans women was broken into by police on...
View ArticleCoy Mathis Case: School District Refuses To Enter Into Mediation With...
The Christo-Fascist bigotry and fear is so stomach turning, ugly, and hateful as to seem unreal. For fuck’s sake this is a five year old transgirl. Is the Christo-Fascist hate so great they would...
View ArticleEddie Izzard on Atheism, Transgender, and “The Invisible Bloke Upstairs”
From The Advocate: http://www.advocate.com/comedy/2013/03/08/eddie-izzard-atheism-transgender-and-invisible-bloke-upstairs Exactly who is giving Eddie Izzard an award says a lot about the...
View ArticleResource Curse: Why the Economic Boom That Fracking Promises Will Be a Bust...
From Alternet: http://www.alternet.org/hard-times-usa/resource-curse-why-economic-boom-fracking-promises-will-be-bust-most-people-hard Evidence suggests that counties where drilling occurs will be in...
View ArticleSanders, Reid, DeFazio Introduce Legislation to Strengthen Social Security
From Senator Bernie Sanders: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=3d71f1ec-9ff5-4443-9e1f-efc735f1bb38 March 7, 2013 WASHINGTON, March 7 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today introduced...
View ArticleAn Unrepresentative Democracy
From In These Times: http://inthesetimes.com/article/14690/an_unrepresentative_democracy/ America isn’t nearly as conservative as our lawmakers think. BY David Sirota March 8, 2013 Why are ideas...
View ArticleThe Paid Sick Leave Battle Widens in the States
From The Nation: http://www.thenation.com/blog/173265/paid-sick-leave-battle-widens-states# George Zornick on March 8, 2013 In recent months, more and more cities and states are requiring that...
View ArticleBishops Oppose Violence Against Women Act Because Of LGBT Provisions
From Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/07/bishops-oppose-violence-against-women-act-because-of-lgbt-provisions_n_2833675.html By Lauren Markoe 03/07/2013 (RNS) Five key Catholic...
View ArticleTransgender Law Center: 7 Tips: Responding to Transphobia Online
From Transgender Law Center: http://transgenderlawcenter.org/archives/3589 Mark Snyder, Communications Manager 1. Do not comment when you are angry or heated. Take some time to cool down and collect...
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