A series of demonstrations known as Slut Walks have or will soon be held in many major cities. They started because of a statement made in January of this year by a representative of the Toronto Police that "women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimized." While I find the original comment to be abhorrently indicative of ( Read more... )

L, G, B, and/or T people in Chicago (Thursday 2/25), NYC (Friday 2/26), and or San Francisco (Monday 3/1) can share experiences regarding housing discrimination with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

I love that enough positive queer news stories have come out recently for me to do a post with that theme (and science stories, 'cause I also have an accumulation of those). :)

Transgender New York State Workers Are Expected to Gain Bias Protection

Houston elected its first openly queer mayor in a run-off election (Though I am concerned as to ( Read more... )

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 ( Read more... )

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Trans woman murdered and another stabbed in D.C. (Last I checked) the police were avoiding the "trans" aspect of the crime victims despite the fact that the attack took place just two blocks from Transgender Health Empowerment.

Recently there's been a string of homophobic attacks in Rome. Most recently two letter bombs were thrown at a bar on ( Read more... )

This is a really great essay about gender privilege. A highlight:
There are men who will read this post and think, huffily, dismissively, that a person of color could write a post very much like this one about white people, about me. That's absolutely right. So could a lesbian, a gay man, a bisexual, an asexual. So could a trans or intersex person ( Read more... )

The "America's Got Talent" judge Piers Morgan acted like an utter bigot, but unfortunately Feministing missed what, exactly, the problem was. It wasn't homophobia or racism, it was transphobia, though he tried to deflect from his transphobia by suggesting that he's racially enlightened in that "Obama is okay now why can't those ghetto-rats all act ( Read more... )

There was a shooting tonight at Tel Aviv's GLBT center during a meeting of the teen/youth group. 10 people were injured, six seriously, and two more were killed ( Read more... )

Sixty years ago today, out of the belated recognition that black service members had put their lives on the line just like their white counterparts, the U.S. armed forces were desegregated*. ( I think that the connection to the rest of this post should be obvious, but if not, a picture speaks a thousand words. )

Last weekend I saw Torchwood Children of Earth (CoE). ( Cut for spoilers and the fact that 90% of you couldn't care less about the show; Also, sorry if it's rambly, I'm trying to sort through my thoughts. )