Today is the International Day Against Homophobia. Let’s use it to fight against heterosexism, transphobia, cissexism, and all other forms of oppression.
(via transawareness)
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Don’t miss the 3rd Annual Bisexual, Fluid, Pansexual and otherwise & Queer-identified Organizing Day at this year’s Creating Change Conference in Baltimore MD USA on Thursday January 26th 2012 Come meet, network, brainstorm and strategize with other activists (and friends) from around the region, country and world.
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Op-ed: 14 Reasons That Made 2011 Great for Trans People
This has been a game-changing year for transgender rights, says Mara Keisling, executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality.
In the last half century alone, more women and girls have died as a result of gender discrimination than all the men who died in all the battles of the 20th century, and more girls were killed in any one decade than all of those who died in the genocides of last century - girls are the most marginalised and discriminated group around the world.
(via fuckyeahsexeducation)
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NERDBUTTS: Lisbeth Salander and the End of Men
article by Dave Shapiro of Nerdbutts
(TRIGGER WARNING: discussion of rape, rape culture and related topics)
I haven’t read Steig Larsson’s novel The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, nor have I seen the recently released American film adaptation. I do work at a bookstore, and I do know many people who have read the book and/or seen the Swedish films, and so I am familiar enough with the character of Lisbeth Salander and her background that I could understand fully the article “We Are All Lisbeth Salander”, written by Katie Roiphe and published by Slate a couple of days ago.
It’s a clumsy article that appeared to me at first to be trying to reconcile the state of female characters in popular media with the state of women in the real world. Real analyses of this type on sites not explicitly labelled as feminist are pretty rare, and so I was excited at the prospect of an article that connected the dots between women and their fictional counterparts. Unfortunately the article failed to really explicitly say anything except that we like “damaged” female heroines these days. Its title claims that we are all Lisbeth Salander, but its word choice and tone said something much different.
Click the link above to read the full article and comment with your opinion.
Majority Support Equality For Transgender People | glaad.org
A new poll by the Public Religion Research Institute found majority support for equality for transgender people. The poll shows that 89% “agree that transgender people deserve the same rights and protections as other Americans.”
