what the fuck

this happened again, and I never even heard about it?

wow. what the hell is wrong with people?!

 it's been quite a long time since I posted one of these, and this one is profoundly disturbing. there's no part of this article that I can excerpt without explicitly mentioning violence, so consider yourself warned for triggers.
GREENSBURG, Pa. -- Jennifer Daugherty's mom and stepdad didn't press for details when she mentioned she had made some ( Read more... )

This is just sad.

Via TransGriot: A trans woman rapper was raped and beaten. The attack was posted about on a few hip-hop related websites, and the comment threads were, sadly but predictably, full of jokes about this. This is what Monica has to say:

Thanks to Faith and Jo Jo I was made aware of the existence of another transwoman rapper, but I wish ( Read more... )

What was that about cissexual lesbians being oppressed and therefore unable to oppress transfolk themselves, again?

Hmm, I can't hear you. I must have something in my ears mind (POSS TRIG)

Two female-to-male transgender patrons at the Dupont Circle gay bar Fab Lounge told police they were verbally harassed and assaulted by two female customers who ( Read more... )

Women aren't scary at all, no no no.

(Yes, it does look like the original source for this is the Daily Mail, which I generally trust as far as I can throw. I doubt they'd have the imagination to make this up, though.)

How's that sand around your head feel? I hear it can be comfy.

My best friend in college was a gay man. He would wrap towels around himself and call himself Queen David. I remember once we were looking at some website about sex. It mentioned that "some men can orgasm from prostate stimulation alone ( Read more... )

Hat tip to Nezua, here. Admittedly, the article comes from the UK's Daily Mail, a notoriously tabloidy/salacious source. Still, it's distressing, and not the sort of thing one can spin, so I'm not being leery of them as I usually would.

A man told today how he was shot three times in a London street for wearing a Barack Obama T-shirt.

Dube Egwuatu ( Read more... )

I felt this deserved its own post. Did some more digging and found this MySpace post, which appears to confirm that the accusations were in fact true:

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=77785818&blogID=345952938 (potentially triggering)
Friday, January 11, 2008

kayden420 leaves the adult industry
Current mood: sore

Jan ( Read more... )

Since I posted about Melissa Farley earlier today, I had a look at her blog and discovered this. It's from January, but, well... see for yourselves:

A post about a woman who'd been brutally assaulted as part of a production at kink.com in San Francisco appeared on Luke Ford's blog www. ( Read more... )

Bad news, found on the lj of ( Read more... )