February 2012
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Chicago ordinance would create police transgender... →
mission-equality:
News! News! News!
BisexualityResourcePacket.pdf (application/pdf... →
mission-equality:
PDF Resource Packet, enjoy!
In memory of Rafael Morelos, age 14 →
gaywrites:
Rafael Morelos, an openly gay 14-year-old from Washington, took his life last week after relentless bullying for his sexual orientation.
“He never told me nothing,” said his mother, Malinda Morelos. “He did not tell me he was being bullied. He had a dark side inside him that he never told me his feelings anymore.
“I thought it was just him being a teenager, and I just didn’t know...
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Injustice at Every Turn: A Report of the National... →
fuckyeahgenderstudies:
This study brings to light what is both patently obvious and far too often dismissed from the human rights agenda. Transgender and gender non-conforming people face injustice at every turn: in childhood homes, in school systems that promise to shelter and educate, in harsh and exclusionary workplaces, at the grocery store, the hotel front desk, in doctors’ offices...
Poll finds Irish support for gay marriage at 73% -... →
mission-equality:
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Five-year-old may be youngest trans* person in UK... →
i’m a bit confused about the pronouning here, but if it doesn’t bother zachy then i guess it shouldn’t bother me.
(but still, doesn’t “living as a girl” imply that female pronouns are in order? this is probably just bad reporting and what they’re really trying to say is that this child is gender variant. do your research. or, parents, be less awful?)
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Judge strikes down DOMA →
gaywrites:
A California judge struck down a “key provision” of the Defense of Marriage Act tonight in a case involving a federal employee seeking benefits for her same-sex partner - the first ruling like this since the Obama administration announced it would no longer defend DOMA.
From ABC:
Karen Golinski, a lesbian woman married to her spouse under California law, brought the suit after...
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“Asexuals are very vulnerable to a certain kind of rape culture — the type where...”
– An Asexual Map for Sex Positive Feminism (via fivetail)
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Asexuality Archive →
neutrois:
AMAZING.
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BREAKING - In major U-turn, Sweden poised to end...
alloutorg:
Conservative Christian Democrats announce, “It’s time to abolish the requirement for sterilization at sex change.”
With no remaining obstacles, Sweden’s repeal sets a new precedent for the 28 remaning European countries with laws requiring forced sterilization
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN (February 18, 2012) - Today the conservative Christian Democrats - members of the governing coalition in...
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Virginia Passes Bill Banning Same-Sex Adoption |... →
mission-equality:
To think I was born here. A huge set-back for this movement.
VIRGINIA. JUST. STOP IT. FOR A SECOND.
LOOK AT YOUR LIFE. LOOK AT YOUR CHOICES.
what.
-shmodwa
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ya books you might not have heard of: starring...
i haven’t read most of these yet, so i guess they’re not recommendations and more like a heads-up to their existence. :)
the miseducation of cameron post—emily m. danforth (release: next tuesday, the 7th!)
featuring: suddenly orphaned teenager becomes best friends with the new girl in town
wildthorn—jane eagland
featuring: victorian insane asylums, anachronistic feminism, teenage...
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Three goals of being a GREAT ally. →
There are three things all allies need to aspire to:
1) Learning. This is base learning; getting the lingo, getting the philosophy behind what lingo is good and what is charged, the various terms that people in the group in question use, and whether that same lingo might be cool in one group and not cool in the other group. Get used to asking people how they would like to be referred to. Get...
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it's okay to ask.
transisnotacrime:
Many people, when new to a queer community or a gender-ambiguous situation, tend to beat around the bush and guess with gender pronouns.
The thing people don’t know is that it’s okay to ask. When you really can’t tell the gender of the person you’re referring/talking to, just ask politely, “what are your preferred pronouns?” and it really should be okay.
Some people love...
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“Because if Harry Potter taught us anything, it’s that nobody deserves to live in...”
– Harry Potter Alliance on LBGT organizations (via despite-all-of-my-struggles)
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lauripple asked: What are the differences between all of the new gender pronouns?
