Category: Activism

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Recently Chelsea Manning publicly confirmed what myself and many other transgender people had been saying for years, that she was in fact a trans woman. We knew her as Breanna due to the social media accounts created under that name, but we in the community know that sometimes the first name we pick isn’t the […]
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Pedophiles Are People Too

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In Activism , Discrimination
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On August 24, 2013
[TW: Pedophilia, child molestation, rape.] Sometimes, I see people on the internet who talk about pedophiles. These people talk about ‘pedophile priests,’ they mention ‘disgusting pedophiles,’ they often use the word ‘pedophile’ as a synonym for ‘child abuser’, and almost always the word comes with a very negative connotation. This is part of a greater […]

First of all I would like to point out that the point of the magneto metaphor is in fact “being nice doesn’t pay, don’t bother, smash oppressors” and has nothing to do with rea

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Queereka blogger Laurelai (and other’s) hashtag #fuckcispeople explodes on twitter with some very powerful and interesting results, but not everyone in the community is thrilled about it. For an on the ground look at the shit-show that is Egypt right now, this facebook group is incredible. A segment on the Colbert Report about how one small, […]
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