May 2013
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when nobody knows you, nobody cares: It is Not... →
tobitastic:
(Note: indentation of differing responses got messed up, the below constitute my original post, two responses from meliass, and my response)
idothisallthetime:
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tobitastic:
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I mean, we can all hang out in our all-genders spaces. I’ll volunteer to keep them going, my partner can bring a batch of hir awesome cupcakes. But whether we are talking...
April 2013
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March 2013
15 posts
“[D]rag queens can move freely within gay male settings as long as they abide by...”
– Vivane K. Namaste in “Tragic Misreadings: Queer Theory’s Erasure of Transgender Subjectivity” from Invisible LIves: The Erasure of Transsexual and Transgender People (via queerandpresentdanger)
GUUUUHH this is so important. love to everyone who has to leave their identity at home in order to get...
Jamaica – Transgender women call for equality →
projectqueer:
Two transgender Jamaicans, Whitney and Tiana Miller, have joined J-FLAG’s We Are Jamaicanscampaign, which seeks to encourage respect and understanding for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people. We Are Jamaicans is a participatory video campaign (http://www.youtube.com/user/equalityJA), which was launched on January 17, 2013 by J-FLAG to raise awareness about LGBT...
Watchjanetmock:
Yesterday I made my debut on the Melissa Harris-Perry Show on MSNBC - the only political show that I watch. During the segment, I discussed redefining equality, unpacking the monolith of our “community”, GLAAD’s “name change” and why we’ll need more than that from our internal and external allies:
“What I need from these people [our LGBT & Straight Allies] is to fight for access...
Odofemi: Remember that photo project I snarked... →
odofemi:
Remember that photo project I snarked about a couple of days ago? One of the models wrote to me, asking if that’s what I was talking about, and apologizing for the erasure of trans women. Here’s my response:
“Hey [trans guy],
I mean, it was partially about that, but moreso about the continued…
“When I asked Miss Major how the recession has affected transgender women and...”
– “This is What Pride Looks Like: Miss Major and the Violence, Poverty, and Incarceration of Low-Income Transgender Women”
by Jessica Stern, in the Scholar and Feminist online
(via marginalutilite)
Odofemi: I love that trans women have, in recent... →
odofemi:
I love that trans women have, in recent years, really banded together online and in print to name our specific issues and advocate for ourselves. However, I’ve noticed a very conspicuous absence of sex workers’ voices among those finding/creating representation. Little analysis is given to sex…
stick up for yourself: HEY! Support trans women... →
stickupforyourselfson:
Three projects going on right now that I want everyone to know about: (in which the author abuses dashes and semicolons)
January Rising: My friend January is an evil witch living in New York; January Rising is her fundraiser to cover transness-related medical expenses. It’s real simple. Buy…
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AfroLez®femcentric Perspectives: There Is No... →
afrolez:
Audre Lorde (Photo Credit: Dagmar Schultz) “…I cannot afford the luxury of fighting one form of oppression only. I cannot believe that freedom from intolerance is the right of only one particular group. And I cannot afford to choose between the front upon which I must battle these forces of…
The Spirit Was...: Sylvia Rivera (STAR) and Arthur... →
thespiritwas:
(the interview below discusses forced psychiatric institutionalization, gender coercion, self harm and the prison industrial complex) ISSUE SEVEN **A BULLETIN OF THE HOMOFIRE MOVEMENT** Nov, 14, 1970 CHRIS: GAY PRISONER IN BELLEVUE
(GAY FLAMES: Chris Thompson is a black male transvestite…
February 2013
3 posts
Trans women join One Billion Rising in the... →
transqueery:
Transgender women in the Philippines join day of action to end violence against women and girls
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January 2013
1 post
Odofemi: "Crazy Trans Woman" Syndrome →
odofemi:
My doctor, who is a trans woman, and I had a conversation today about the guy who raped me earlier this year. At first she was like “did you charge him?” When I explained that he’s a trans man of colour, she immediately got why I hadn’t. Not because I couldn’t bare to put a trans person,…
November 2012
4 posts
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Violence Against Trans Women Links Roundup (Oct 28...
Two more murdered transwomen: by multiple stabbings in Puerto Rico and by stoning in Brazil: Puerto Rico experienced its 30th anti-LGBTQ homicide in the past ten years when the body of transwoman Malena Suarez was found dead in her home in Carolina with multiple stab wounds in her back. Ten of those murders have been in the last two years, according to a report by the National Coalition of...
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Violence Against Trans Women Links Roundup (Oct 26...
In Brazil, trans woman stoned to death: A 39 year old trans person was stoned to death in the city of Aracaju, Brazil. Madonna received mortal blows and was admitted to a hospital in Aracaju, the capital of the state of Sergipe, Brazil, in the early hours of Friday last week. She died four days later from severe head injuries. Maria Livia Vieira, one of Madona’s neighbor told the Brazilian portal...
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Violence Against Trans Women Links Roundup (Oct 21...
Trans Women Resume Hunger Strike: Amazon and Caterina LePre (Cat) had been hunger striking because of anti-trans discrimination that was preventing them from being able to share a cell even though male prisoners in the facility have been allowed to choose their cellmates. Both women report discriminatory treatment by a feminist case worker who lied to them and used manipulative tactics to delay...
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Violence Against Trans Women Links Roundup (Oct 15...
Jury Selection Begins for Officer Accused of Shooting Trans Women: MPD Officer Kenneth Furr is accused of opening fire on five people as he stood on the hood of their car. Furr has pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from the August 2011 incident. Authorities say he used his service weapon to fire through the windshield of a car, striking two transgender women and their male friend. (NBC4...
October 2012
25 posts
You know you're a transmisogynist when: Double... →
freedominwickedness:
There are two interlinked sets of double standards which privilege CAFAB trans people over CAMAB trans people with respect to the actual process of physical transition in the United States and most other Western nations:
First, there are the treatment protocols…
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MRNY Exposes Police Abuse of LGTBQ Communities of... →
After enjoying a night of dancing at a Jackson Heights nightclub, Carmen, a Latina transgender woman living in Queens, began making her way home.
At 3 a.m., she started walking down Roosevelt Avenue at 90th Street when a man in a black car approached her.
“He told me, ‘I can take you wherever you want’ and kept insisting ‘get in mami, don’t be afraid,’” Carmen said, in Spanish.
Since...
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Brazil - Trans Councillor receives death threat... →
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FIERCE's Call to Action Against the New York Times... →
janetmock:
Thank you, Fierce, for publishing these letters. I, too, am upset that the Times has not issued an apology for this lacking-in-context piece and/or published any of these letters from others who are angered by the piece.
fiercenyc:
On July 25, 2012, FIERCE organized a Call to Action asking supporters to submit letters to the New York Times demanding Dignity for Transwomen of Color...
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Judge tells trans person’s neighbor to pay up for... →
Among other things, the trans person’s neighbor, Wilna van Staden, would call her neighbor “it”, routinely tell people of the trans person’s gender change, circulated a petition to get the trans person evicted, and invited visitors to watch her trans neighbor over the bordering fence.
After complaints to the housing management and the police failed to curtail the neighbor’s harassment, the...
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Transgender Woman Shot in Philadelphia, Remains in... →
A transgender woman remains in critical condition this week after a shooting that claimed her mother’s life.
The incident took place Sunday night in Northern Liberties. The 41-year-old woman, whose name had not been released as of press time, was shot in the face, and her 65-year-old mother, Stephanie Freeman, was shot in the chest. Police were called to the scene, in the 700 block of North...
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Brazil - Transgender woman found murdered in the... →
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Singapore driver to face disciplinary action after... →
Singapore trans woman Leona Lo is demanding disciplinary action against bus driver who insulted her.
SINGAPORE: Singapore’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community is praising local bus company SBS transit after one of its drivers verbally harassed and abused a Singaporean trans woman recently.
SBS said in a statement that it would formally discipline him over his attacks...
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Police officer suspected of killing a transgender... →
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Transgender woman dies after being dragged by car... →
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Transgender woman shot, mother killed in Northern... →
Two discarded latex gloves and a set of bloodstained marble steps marked the spot in Northern Liberties where two people were shot last night, one of them fatally. Police said they were called to the three-story home on the 700 block of North 3rd Street near Fairmount Avenue shortly before 9:15 p.m. There, they found a 65-year-old woman who had been shot in the chest, along with her...
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Trans woman murdered in the Vancouver, British... →
January Marie Lapuz (Photo: Facebook)
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — January Marie Lapuz was stabbed at her home in the New Westminster area last Saturday night and died at a hospital shortly after. No one has been arrested but someone was seen running from the area.
Lapuz was highly regarded in the trans community, volunteering her time and active involvement in a LGBT social and support...
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NYC woman wins coverage for transgender procedure →
NEW YORK — A New York City transgender woman has won insurance coverage for her sex change operation.
The Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund said Wednesday MVP Health Care agreed to cover the doctor-recommended procedure for Ida Hammer.
It had originally denied her claim on the grounds it was “cosmetic,” and therefore not covered under her policy.
The 34-year-old...
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ACLU files appeal in case of transgender woman... →
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK — The American Civil Liberties Union of Oklahoma (ACLU) has announced that it will represent a transgender woman who was denied a name change by an Oklahoma judge who told her “you can’t change what God gave you.”
The ACLU is seeking to overturn a ruling by Oklahoma County District Court Judge Bill Graves, who denied an application by Angela Ingram to change her legally...
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Trans women on second week of prison hunger strike... →
Two trans women in a San Diego prison entered their second week of hunger strike over the weekend.
Amazon and Catarina, both trans women imprisoned at that Richard J. Donovan Correctional facility, have refused food since Sept. 21 in a strike “against the unfair treatment of trans women within [the prison],” according to a release from radical trans women’s collective Gender Anarky (of which...
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Transgender woman recalls bullying in high school →
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Transgender Children; The Education of the... →
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Trans Woman Sexually Assaulted In D.C. →
The Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C. is searching for a man who sexually assaulted and robbed a transgender woman on Sunday [Sept 23]. The assault happened around 4:45 a.m., when a man approached the woman, hit her, and forced her at gunpoint behind a building on the 200 block of 51st St. Northeast, where he sexually assaulted her, according to The Washington Times.
Initial...
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Horizons Project's 'Who's That Girl' Campaign... →
DETROIT - About 50 people showed up Sept. 21 for the launch of Who’s That Girl, a media project presented by the Horizons Project and supported by the Michigan Department of Community Health’s Health Disparities Reduction Minority Health Section. The project, which includes images of four young transgender women, is a marketing effort to change media and societal perceptions of the...
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D.C. police investigate assault of transgender... →
D.C. police are looking for a man who sexually assaulted a transgender woman at gunpoint in Northeast this week.
The assault happened behind the 5000 block of East Capitol Street Northeast around 4:45 a.m. Sunday [Sept 23].
The Metropolitan Police Department released details of the assault Monday [Sept 24] night, saying that a man approached the woman as she was walking on the 200 block of...
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(tw: violence against trans women of colour) My...
biyuti:
So, I think I’ve found a great deal of the names for Trans people (in English sources at least) killed so far in 2012.
One trans teen guy who might’ve been bullied into killing himself. The only trans guy on the list (and only entry for canada).
That makes 32 trans women. Most of colour.
USA tops the list with 13 of the deaths.
Fuck.
This list depresses me.
But, please add a...
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Trans Women in San Diego Prison Stage Hunger... →
Two trans women incarcerated in the R.J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego County have been on hunger strike for over a week in an attempt to be allowed to share a cell together. Because they are trans, prison officials refuse to take them off single-cell status. Presumably, they have both been restricted to being in single cells to prevent them from having to share a cell with a man,...
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Guatemalan Transgender Woman Lives in 2 Worlds →
Activists say transgender people are particularly at risk in violent Guatemala, where two transgender women were murdered in July. The U.S. State Department mentioned such violence in its 2011 report, saying Guatemalan police had failed to investigate two earlier killings of transgender people in the country.
