S.A. transgender pioneer Christie Lee Littleton Van De Putte has died
From Q San Antonio: http://www.qsanantonio.com/christie-lee.html QSanAntonio, April 3, 2014 Christie Lee Littleton Van De Putte, a San Antonio transgender woman who in 1999 was denied the status of a...
View Article#CancelColbert and the Return of the Anti-Liberal Left
From The Nation: http://www.thenation.com/blog/179160/cancelcolbert-and-return-anti-liberal-left# Michelle Goldberg on April 2, 2014 Perhaps every political generation is fated to be appalled by the...
View ArticleParker Marie Molloy’s Transphobic and Homophobic Slurs Don’t Matter, but Our...
From Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/calpernia-addams/parker-marie-molloy_b_5077322.html Calpernia Addams 04/02/2014 A few weeks ago newcomer to transition and lesbian/trans issues...
View ArticleDear RuPaul: Tell Transphobia to ‘Sashay Away’
From Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nico-lang/an-open-letter-to-rupaul-_b_5070136.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices Nico Lang 04/01/2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-zT3YytMjA Dear...
View Article‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ To Refrain From Using ‘Transphobic Slur’ In Wake Of...
I have never watched “Drag Race” and never will. I’m a hill billy hippie old lady. The Drag Races I occasionally watch on late night TV usually involve cars and/or motorcycles. From Huffington Post:...
View ArticleThe Arbitrary Way Companies Are Labeled ‘Anti-Gay’
From The Daily Beast: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/12/the-arbitrary-way-companies-are-labeled-anti-gay.html Emily Shire 04.12.14 GM, yes. Washington Post, no? The Human Rights...
View ArticleRuPaul Blasted For Transphobia By The Advocate; Not Everyone Agrees
We don’t live in Fucking North Korea, although listening to so many of the thought police in the so called “Trans-Community” the feeling that we might is understandable. A few years back I called folks...
View ArticleOccupy was right: capitalism has failed the world
From The Guardian UK: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/apr/13/occupy-right-capitalism-failed-world-french-economist-thomas-piketty One of the slogans of the 2011 Occupy protests was ‘capitalism...
View ArticleWhat Do the Koch Brothers Really Want?
From Common Dreams: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/11-10 by Bernie Sanders Published on Friday, April 11, 2014 by Common Dreams As a result of the disastrous Citizens United Supreme Court...
View ArticleMeet the spiritual forefather of conservatives’ War on Women
Radical Feminists like Dworkin and McKennon joined Keating and the Moral Majority in this campaign. Today there is the same sort of sketchiness surrounding the anti-trafficking movement. Yet another...
View ArticleThe Trouble With Too Much T
From The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/11/opinion/the-trouble-with-too-much-t.html?ref=contributors&_r=3 By KATRINA KARKAZIS and REBECCA JORDAN-YOUNG APRIL 10, 2014 In 2009, the...
View ArticleJudges Blind To Justice
From In These Times: http://inthesetimes.com/article/16422/the_divide_judges_blind_to_justice Matt Taibbi’s new book, The Divide, illuminates the corruption in our courtrooms. BY Moe Tkacik April 3,...
View ArticleAs a Woman, a Feminist and an Atheist I Support Ayaan Hirsi Ali
To speak specifically of our problem with the Muslim world, we are meandering into a genuine clash of civilizations, and we’re deluding ourselves with euphemisms. We’re talking about Islam being a...
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