Let’s Call Sex Work What It Is: Work
From The Nation: http://www.thenation.com/article/178683/lets-call-sex-work-what-it-work# Villainizing sex workers won’t improve their lives. Basic labor rights will. Melissa Gira Grant March 5, 2014...
View ArticleAcross the left divide over sex work.
From Rabble Ca.: http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/mercedes-allen/2014/03/across-left-divide-over-sex-work By Mercedes Allen March 6, 2014 I’m putting on my op-ed hat for this. This is prefaced at my...
View ArticleThe shame of Sheila Jeffreys’ hate
From Trans Advocate: http://www.transadvocate.com/the-shame-of-sheila-jeffreys-hate_n_12766.htm By Cristan Williams March 6, 2014 Reposted with Permission University of Melbourne Trans Exclusionary...
View ArticleNew Government Report Warns of ‘Cascading System Failures’ Caused By Climate...
From Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/06/climate-change-effects_n_4914116.html Kate Sheppard 03/06/2014 WASHINGTON — From roads and bridges to power plants and gas pipelines,...
View ArticleHow Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy...
From The Intercept: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/ By Glenn Greenwald 24 Feb 2014 One of the many pressing stories that remains to be told from the Snowden archive...
View ArticleDocuments for raids on anti-war activists unsealed
From The Committee to Stop FBI Repression: http://www.stopfbi.net/2014/2/26/documents-raids-anti-war-activists-unsealed Published on Wed, 2014-02-26 21:23 Reveal McCarthyite attack on free speech,...
View ArticleWe’ve gone too far with ‘trigger warnings’
From The Guardian UK: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/05/trigger-warnings-can-be-counterproductive Universities and blogs do students no favors by pretending that every piece of...
View ArticleStraight Cis-gender Men in Dragface and Trans-women who Defend Dragface
I’ve gotten to the point where getting me to watch a non-documentary about or featuring presentations of TS/TG folks is almost as easy as convincing me to let a friend of mine who owns a Dremel Tool...
View ArticleNow we can’t eat protein. What can we eat?
From The Guardian UK: http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/mar/05/cant-eat-animal-protein-what-can-we-eat-diet-cancer-diabetes This week a new report said that a diet high in animal protein...
View ArticleThe Surprising Reason Americans Might Be Obese, Anxious and Depressed
From Alternet: http://www.alternet.org/personal-health/surprising-reason-americans-might-be-obese-anxious-and-depressed Could the answer to a number of modern ailments be in our gut? By Martha...
View ArticleJesse Ventura rips bitchy billionaires: The poor work just as hard as you do
Actually he’s wrong. The poor often work much harder than the billionaires. How often do billionaires get crippled or maimed by their work? How often do billionaires get repetitive stress injuries...
View ArticleWhy Transgender Athlete Chloie Jonsson Is Suing CrossFit Over Discrimination
From Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/07/transgender-chloie-jonsson-sues-crossfit_n_4921038.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000050 by Cavan Sieczkowski 03/07/2014 A transgender athlete...
View ArticleJared Leto and the Archaic, Destructive Stereotype
From Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dana-beyer/jared-leto-and-the-archai_b_4916193.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices Dana Beyer 03/07/2014 Jared Leto. Felicity Huffman. What do they have in...
View ArticleIn a world where upskirt shots are legal, there can’t be enough anti-creep laws
From The Guardian UK: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/07/massachusetts-court-upskit-photos-legal-anti-creepshot-laws?CMP=fb_us A Massachusetts court may not understand the 21st...
View ArticleWant a shot at a decent job? Pitch a tent, endure brutal cold and get in line
From Salon: http://www.salon.com/2014/03/07/want_a_shot_at_a_decent_job_pitch_a_tent_endure_brutal_cold_and_get_in_line/ Here’s what it’s come to: Sleeping on the sidewalk for five nights in the hopes...
View ArticleOn the Detention of Trans People
From Rabble.Ca: http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/mercedes-allen/2014/03/on-detention-trans-people By Mercedes Allen March 7, 2014 “… in a way that is not inconsistent with one’s gender identity.”...
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