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CeCe McDonald on Trayvon Martin and racism in the system
Trans activist CeCe McDonald, who is serving a 41-month prison term for the stabbing death of a man after defending herself and her friends from a racist and transphobic attack, recently wrote a...
View ArticleTV news channels turn not actually controversial story into an excuse for...
I am so sick of 24-hour news networks. Their insistence that every story be framed as controversial has led to some awful coverage of California’s new law requiring public schools to respect students’...
View ArticleThe shameful, unacceptable media coverage of Chelsea Manning’s transition
When Chelsea Manning announced yesterday that she is transitioning and wants to be referred to by the name Chelsea and with female pronouns, news organizations scrambled to figure out what to do. Many...
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Weekly Feminist GIF
WHEN THE MAJORITY OF MAINSTREAM REPORTING ON CHELSEA MANNING’S ANNOUNCEMENT OF HER PREFERRED NAME AND PRONOUN USES HER BIRTH-ASSIGNED NAME AND PRONOUN. via. (My reaction could not be contained in one...
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Transmilitary: meet the soldiers the military doesn’t want you to
It’s no wonder Chelsea Manning didn’t start transitioning while serving in the army. The institution make have gotten rid of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, but it makes no bones about its exclusion of...
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More thoughts on Mister Cee, sexuality, and hip hop culture
I’m still thinking about DJ Mister Cee. He recently did a PSA in which he speaks openly (and more confidently) about his sexuality and decision to share his journey publicly. In it, he says: The...
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Video: Italian politicians smooch for LGBTQI rights
Boy-on-boy and girl-on-girl kissing in the same of LGBTQI rights is a cliche by now, something activists like to experiment with and dabble in. But it’s still hot, especially, when it’s...
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The Feministing Five: E.J. Graff
Courtesy of E.J. Graff For three decades, E.J. Graff has been writing about topics that are near and dear to our hearts here at Femininsting. Covering subjects like the social history of marriage to...
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Video: Police violence targets the transgender community
Check out this great news report about how members of the trans community experience violence at the hands of the police (the video does show violence): (The video is closed-captioned). While the...
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University official refuses to lend student a computer, says he looks “like a...
I wish this was surprising. Abdul Asquith, a senior at Florida Atlantic University, was refused use of a library laptop last Wednesday while he was trying to study. ASQUITH: She looked down at the ID,...
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The Golden Globes gave Jared Leto an award for playing a trans woman because...
Credit: Reuters/Lucy Nicholson. Via Salon Last night Jared Leto won a Best Supporting Actor (the award for ladies is Best Supporting Actress, so this was in the dude category) for playing a trans...
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I Hear Them Breathing: Trans women, prison, and the limits of tolerance
Monica Jones, who was arrested for “walking while trans and black,” speaks out for sex workers. (Image Credit: Facebook/Support Monica Jones) 2014 has been a decidedly double edged-sword of a year for...
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Five things not to do when writing about trans women of color
TW: Transmisogyny This weekend I got to see Laverne Cox speak, and it reminded me once again of how grateful I am for her, for Janet Mock, for our own Katherine Cross, for my girl Morgan Collado, and...
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Why The New Yorker’s piece on trans-exclusionary radical feminists was one-sided
Writing in the Columbia Journalism Review, our own Jos Truitt has an excellent rundown of the myriad problems with Michelle Goldberg’s recent New Yorker piece on the conflict between trans-exclusionary...
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Who on the Hill is making transphobic Wikipedia edits?
The internet can do some cool things. For example: @CongressEdits automatically posts every time someone using a Capitol Hill IP addresses changes an entry. On the 18th, the bot posted about two...
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Guest Post: Fear of a trans college
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Emma Caterine. Emma is a prison abolitionist, decriminalization advocate, socialist, and cat lover. She has written in the past for Autostraddle, RH Reality...
View ArticleMy beef with the Gender Police
I have a few issues I’d like to talk about. One of those issues being some certain sub-groups of feminists about the internet who feel as if they can use the banner of feminism to perpetuate their own...
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Video: Italian politicians smooch for LGBTQI rights
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May we have this dance? On learning and writing as a trans woman of color
I have a little ritual that I perform whenever I open a new nonfiction book. I go to the index and look up “transgender” “transsexual” and “sex change.” Often I heave a sigh of relief if I don’t find...
View ArticleThe untouchable: Reporting rape as a trans survivor
Ed. note: This post was originally published on the Community site. *Trigger warning* I am a survivor of campus rape, stalking, and an anti-trans hate attack. At this time last year, I was celebrating...
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