23 March 2014

Gender Grammar

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As a writer who's spent many years teaching English, I found this interesting: From Planet Deafqueer  
22 March 2014

Chelsea Manning Seeks To Make It Official

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Chelsea (nee Bradley) Manning is requesting a formal name change.  On 23 April, a judge in Kansas--where she is currently incarcerated--wi...
21 March 2014

Socially Relevant Messages From A Moral Monday

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The days of graffiti "taggers" using New York City subway cars as their canvases, if you will, are long gone. However, that doe...
20 March 2014

Fred Phelps Is Dead

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This is a sort of update to an earlier post. Fred Phelps is dead . We all knew this was coming. After all, he had been in ill health a...
19 March 2014

Where Lesbians Get Off But Gay Men Are Cut Off

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Could lesbians actually benefit from misogyny? That question, on its face, might be the most preposterous you've ever heard.  But one...
18 March 2014

A Day Begins With A Setting Cloud

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Yesterday's post on Midlife Cycling ended with a pot of gold over the rainbow.  Well, sort of. Today's post begins--as my day ...
17 March 2014

Why We Have The Golden Rule

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At times like this, I understand why the Golden Rule exists. The Rev. Fred Phelps Sr., founder of the Westboro Baptist Church, is said to...
16 March 2014

Why Do We Need A Parade For Our Journeys?

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Is Brazil one of the world's most progressive countries when it comes to attitudes about gender and gay rights?  Or is it a conservativ...
15 March 2014

Add "Insincere" To "Ignorant", "Obnoxious" And "Bigoted"

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I've become my mother. All right, I'll admit, I was well on my way to becoming like her long before I started my gender transitio...
14 March 2014

Monica Jones Goes On Trial for WWT

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Some of my male students--and other young men I know--have been pulled over for a "charge" they refer to as "DWB", or D...
13 March 2014

Kitty Genovese, Fifty Years Later

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Fifty years ago today, Kitty Genovese was stabbed to death just steps away from her apartment in Kew Gardens, NY. That building is just...
12 March 2014

How People Like Him Get Away With It

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More years ago than I'll admit, I taught in an Orthodox Jewish school.  In those days, I was still living as male and it was an all-boy...
11 March 2014

Three Years After Fukushima: Women's Issues

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Three years ago today, a tsunami resulted in a catastrophic failure at the Fukushima-Daichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan. I am not surpr...
10 March 2014

LGBT People Leave The GOP. Why Should We Be Worried?

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In January, GOProud co-founder Jimmy La Salvia defected from the Republican Party.  A lot of people wondered what took him so long to figu...
09 March 2014

Gender Inequality and Food Security

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In the spirit of yesterday's post, I think this is interesting and disturbing: From Prafulla.Net  
08 March 2014

It's Not "Just A Girl Thing"

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In today's post, I will simply convey an open letter to men and boys from Dr. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka , an Under-Secretary-General of th...
07 March 2014

Fit To Compete As A Woman

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In 1976, male-to-female transsexual Renee Richards was denied entry into the US Open.  The United States Tennis Association based its ban ...
06 March 2014

The Real Reasons Why There Will Be Marriage Equality Throughout The US

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In the latest Rolling Stone , Nico Lang gives us " Five Reasons Why Gay Marriage Is Sweeping The Nation ":  1. The US Supreme...
05 March 2014

Worse Than Transphobes

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Dealing with ignorant, hateful, violent transphobes is bad enough.  But there are people among us who are even worse, I think. When I say ...
04 March 2014

Bathroom Flow Chart

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Here's something to help us in the Great Bathroom Debate: From Transgender Student Equality Resources