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I've let a number of important days go by without comment, and while I don't have that much new to say, I want to at least (however belatedly) post some relevant links.
November 20th was the International Transgender Day of Remembrance.
November 25th was the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.
December 6 was the 20th anniversary of the L'école polytechnique de Montréal massacre in which the killer gunned down women, mostly engineering students, while yelling about how he was fighting back against feminism.
ETA: But apparently I did hit one day spot-on: Today is Human Rights Day.
As long as masculinity is established at the expense of a less privileged class, we're going to keep having these kinds of days.
An antigay conservative group with high-powered U.S. political allies has used its influence to support a proposed Ugandan law that would impose the death penalty on "repeat offenders" engaging in gay sex.
Apparently Canada thinks that arson at a place frequented almost exclusively by queers isn't a hate crime.
Principals and bus driver ignored pleas for help from high school student beaten with metal pipe for being gay.
A Florida teenager was told by a McDonald's manager, "We don't hire faggots...You lied to me [by expressing a gender not consistent with your assigned sex]."
How long are people going to persist in using force (physical and/or economic) to impose gendered behavior on others in a way that violates their sense of being? What if we did as much to prevent rape as we do H1N1?
November 20th was the International Transgender Day of Remembrance.
November 25th was the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.
December 6 was the 20th anniversary of the L'école polytechnique de Montréal massacre in which the killer gunned down women, mostly engineering students, while yelling about how he was fighting back against feminism.
ETA: But apparently I did hit one day spot-on: Today is Human Rights Day.
As long as masculinity is established at the expense of a less privileged class, we're going to keep having these kinds of days.
An antigay conservative group with high-powered U.S. political allies has used its influence to support a proposed Ugandan law that would impose the death penalty on "repeat offenders" engaging in gay sex.
Apparently Canada thinks that arson at a place frequented almost exclusively by queers isn't a hate crime.
Principals and bus driver ignored pleas for help from high school student beaten with metal pipe for being gay.
A Florida teenager was told by a McDonald's manager, "We don't hire faggots...You lied to me [by expressing a gender not consistent with your assigned sex]."
How long are people going to persist in using force (physical and/or economic) to impose gendered behavior on others in a way that violates their sense of being? What if we did as much to prevent rape as we do H1N1?