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Transgender Icon Jayne County Banned from Facebook for Using Transgender ‘Slur’
From Nerve: http://www.nerve.com/features/transgender-icon-jayne-county-banned-from-facebook “All over a few words.” by Kate Hakala April 17, 2014 Yesterday, transgender icon Jayne County — rock’s...
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Burning Books, One Word at a Time
From The Advocate: http://www.advocate.com/commentary/2014/04/17/op-ed-burning-books-one-word-time A new movement cracks down on 50 years of LGBT culture. By: Calpernia Addams April 17 2014 To be...
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Guest Post by Barbara Carrellas: A Plea for Help for Kate Bornstein
From Kate Bornstein: http://katebornstein.typepad.com/kate_bornsteins_blog/2014/04/guest-post-by-barbara-carrellas-a-plea-for-help-for-kate-bornstein.html Today is Friday, 18 April 2014. As of this...
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Eviscerate a trans woman if you are a trans woman
By Radha Smith April 18, 2014 Reposted with permission I’ve been reading the latest “eviscerate a trans woman if you are a trans woman” battles. Mostly at advocate . com, but also through boing boing...
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The Koch brothers are going after solar panels
The King has spoken. Is it time to over throw the oligarchs yet? From Salon: http://www.salon.com/2014/04/21/the_koch_brothers_are_going_after_solar_panels/ The Oligarch solar blowback has arrived in...
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The 1% wants to ban sleeping in cars – because it hurts their ‘quality of life’
From The Guardian UK: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/15/ban-sleeping-in-cars-homeless-silicon-valley Depriving the homeless of their last shelter is Silicon Valley at its worst –...
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Why Economist Thomas Piketty Has Scared the Pants Off the American Right
From Alternet: http://www.alternet.org/economy/why-economist-thomas-piketty-has-scared-pants-american-right If you call rigorous economic research on inequality a Communist plot, will it go away? By...
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Paul Krugman: We live in the most unequal society ever, and it’s only getting...
From Raw Story: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/17/paul-krugman-we-live-in-the-most-unequal-society-ever-and-its-only-getting-worse/ By Travis Gettys Thursday, April 17, 2014 Americans may be...
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Michael Lewis: ‘Wall Street has gone insane’
From The Guardian UK: http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/apr/16/michael-lewis-flash-boys-wall-street-insane Flash Boys, an exposé of the murky world of ‘rigged’ high-frequency trading, has sold...
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No More Petitions, They are a Waste of Time
There are things we are conditioned to do that give us the illusion of actually having done something. Signing petitions is one of those things. Has signing an on line petition from Care2 or Change.org...
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It’s the End of the World as We Know It . . . and He Feels Fine
From The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/20/magazine/its-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it-and-he-feels-fine.html?ref=magazine&_r=1 Late one night last August, on the chalk...
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The Change Within: The Obstacles We Face Are Not Just External
From The Nation: http://www.thenation.com/article/179460/change-within-obstacles-we-face-are-not-just-external# The climate crisis has such bad timing, confronting it not only requires a new economy...
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Chelsea Manning: A Statement on My Legal Name Change
From Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chelsea-manning/a-statement-on-my-legal-name-change_b_5199874.html Chelsea Manning 04/23/2014 Today is an exciting day. A judge in the state of...
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Let This Earth Day Be The Last
It’s Game Over Time. We are now in The End of the World As We Know It mode. Think those weird winters and extra hot summers, the drought in California are an aberration… Think again. People should...
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I Just love the David Barton Like Approach to Transgender History That...
Recently Calpernia Addams and Andrea James have discovered what it feels like when the myth lovers of the Transgender Borg declare you obsolete. It is sort of like a right of passage into...
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Florida City About To Make It Illegal For Homeless People To Have Possessions...
From Think Progress: http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/04/21/3428899/fort-lauderdale-criminalize-homelessness/ By Scott Keyes April 21, 2014 A backpack. Spare clothes. A notebook. Some keepsake...
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