How have these corporations colonised our public life?
From The Guardian UK: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/08/corporations-public-life-unilever Our politicians have delegated power to global giants engineering a world of conformity and...
View ArticleVancouver transgender inclusion report excludes transsexuals, activists say
From Vancouver Straight: http://www.straight.com/news/633476/vancouver-transgender-inclusion-report-excludes-transsexuals-activists-say Trans and gender-variant inclusion working group criticized for...
View ArticleSad, Sad, Sad: Transgender women reflect on a lifetime of change
I never lived in the Tenderloin of San Francisco although I spent some 18 months or so working as a cashier at a porno theater there and co-running the NTCU. I lived in Berkeley in a hippie/radical...
View ArticleDon’t Include Me in this Imaginary Trans-Community: “We’re not duped:...
Fuck you with you antisemitic hate Israel and the Jews campaigns. Ant-Zionism is coded language for Jew Hating. The BDS Movement is Jew hating in action. The attacking people who work for Isaraeli...
View ArticleBlah, Blah, Blah: Sylvia Rivera and community identity
I was a contemporary of Sylvia Rivera. We never met. I was west coast, she was east coast. I never thought of her as some sort of great saint. I never considered myself to be part of the street...
View ArticleIf There’s a Transgender Culture, I’m Not Part of It
From Jezebel: http://roygbiv.jezebel.com/if-theres-a-transgender-culture-im-not-part-of-it-1567486036 Kat Callahan April 27, 2014 Recently the term “transgender culture” has became more and more...
View ArticleThe right’s Piketty nightmare: Coming of age in the era of Post-Exceptionalism
From Salon: http://www.salon.com/2014/04/24/the_rights_piketty_nightmare_coming_of_age_in_the_era_of_post_exceptionalism/ If conservatives want to ignore his warnings about inequality, we’re not the...
View ArticleHow Piketty’s Bombshell Book Blows Up Libertarian Fantasies
From Alternet: http://www.alternet.org/economy/how-pikettys-bombshell-book-blows-libertarian-fantasies Sorry, Ayn Rand. Your fiction has been exposed as, well, fiction. By Lynn Stuart Parramore April...
View ArticleEarth: Game Over?
From Common Dreams: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/24 We’re in the middle of a sixth mass extinction, and this will be the first one—and possibly the last—we will witness as human beings. by...
View ArticleDonald Sterling, Brendan Eich and How Homophobia Gets a Pass
From Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michelangelo-signorile/donald-sterling-brendan-eich-and-how-homophobia-gets-a-pass_b_5239389.html Michelangelo Signorile 04/30/2014 Let’s get this...
View ArticleIt Isn’t Aways About Being Trans*
This may come as a big surprise to a lot of TS/TG Folks who come out later in life and suddenly find themselves experiencing employment issues. It isn’t always about being TS or TG. When did you come...
View ArticleClimate Change Is Already Here, Says Massive Government Report
From Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/06/national-climate-assessment_n_5270541.html Kate Sheppard 05/06/2014 WASHINGTON -– Climate change is no longer a distant threat, but a real...
View ArticleAntarctic Ice Shelf On Brink Of Unstoppable Melt That Could Raise Sea Levels...
From Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/05/antarctic-ice-melt_n_5263660.html Reuters 05/05/2014 By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO, May 4 (Reuters) – Part of East...
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