Tag: transphobia

Quickies: Autistic Trans Man Shot by Police, Transgender Activism in Romania, LGBT Rights in India

By Jac

In Quickies

On February 8, 2016

Police Shoot Autistic Trans Man After Being Alerted to Suicide Risk – The media have been misgendering and dead naming Kayden Clarke all over the place. In a story that’s become all too common in the USA, the police respond to a person having a mental health crisis by escalating the situation and then executing the person they […]

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Quickies: David Bowie Dies, Singular They, Jaden Smith

By Jac

On January 11, 2016

Updated at 10:00 AM PST and 12:40 PM PST Singular “They” American Dialect Society’s Word of the Year – “‘We know about singular they already — we use it everyd

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Quickies: Coping With Childhood Trauma, Biphobia, Iggy Pop Photos

By Jac

On January 4, 2016

Self-Care Tips for Coping with Childhood Trauma – This article from Everyday Feminism is specifically aimed at adult children of abusive parents, but these coping strategies can be used by anyo

Sam Harris’ Epic Transphobic Fail

By Trav Mamone

In Discrimination , Transgender

On December 21, 2015

*UPDATE 12/23/15: It appears there is some confusion about whether or not I’m accusing Sam Harris of being a transphobic bigot. No, I’m not. I’ve never met the guy, so I can’t know “what’s in his heart.” All I’m saying in this article is I don’t like the way he and Douglas Murray seemed to […]

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Quickies: Asylum for LGBT Refugees, Queer Youth Homelessness, Kink and Conscent

By Jac

On December 14, 2015

Obama Administration to Prioritize Asylum for LGBT Refugees – “There are no quotas that are set aside, but the process that we have implemented does prioritize the cases of those who have bee

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Quickies: Terrorist Attack on Planned Parenthood, LGBT Refugees, New Trans Rights in Bolivia

By Jac

On November 30, 2015

Terrorist Attacks Planned Parenthood, Cites Selling of “Baby Parts” – The 57 year-old white male loner who murdered 3 people and injured 9 others at a Planned Parenthood in Colorado

Quickies: Terrorist Attacks, Trans Suicide, Religion Vs LGBT

By Jac

In Quickies

On November 16, 2015

“What Can We Do in the Face of Such Hate?” – By now you’ve all heard about the terrorist attacks that shook Paris and Beruit, and of the ongoing violence in Iraq and Syria. Our thoughts go out to all those injured, all those who lost someone special to them, and all those displaced by […]

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Quickies: Bi-Montly HIV Treatment, HERO Fallout, No Such Thing as Straight Women?

By Jac

On November 9, 2015

Bi-Monthly HIV Injection as Good as Pills – “A long-acting two-drug injection given once every eight weeks worked as well as three daily pills in suppressing HIV, the virus that causes AID

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