Results for: meet up
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Brandi Seals Is the 28th Trans Person Murdered in 2017
Seals’ family called the 28-year-old Houston native a beautiful and loving person.
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A Day of Visibility: Jen Richards Gets Deep and Personal About North Carolina
“I fire off a series of tweets to Governor Pat McCrory, as well as the North Carolina Values Coalition and some public supporters of the bill. The few replies I get make it clear that my arguments have zero impact. This issue will consume my consciousness for the following few days.”
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“Her Story” Delivers on the Authentic, Quality Trans Representation it Promised
“It’s precisely because Her Story is written and directed by trans women, starring trans women and featuring trans women on the crew that it’s able to be so authentic and so acutely focused on its trans characters.”
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Daily Fix: Tamara Dominguez, Trans Woman of Color, Killed in Violent Car Attack and More News Stories
Jovana Luna, a trans Latina activist, suddenly passed away, a new startup wants to help trans people find trusted doctors, a historic Baptist church agrees to not discriminate based on sexual orientation and gender identity and more news.
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Kicking Off Trans Awareness Week, the Trans Stories of the Past Year, Recapped
If you’re looking for a quick recap of some of Autostraddle’s trans coverage from the past year, look no further.
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Daily Fix: New South Wales Education Minister Nixes High School Showing of “Gayby Baby” and More News
Kids in New South Wales won’t see Gayby Baby at school for Wear It Purple Day, Donald Trump kicks Jorge Ramos out of his press conference, women vote in Saudi Arabia, Walmart no longer selling assault weapons, and more.
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DW Trantham, Courageous Trans Teen, Stands Up For Her Bathroom Rights and Finds Community Support
“We’re not freaks, we’re not perverts, we’re just people. I’m worried about my bathroom safety more than anyone else.”
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The State of Trans Women and the Seven Sisters: Mount Holyoke Opens Its Doors, Smith and The Rest Drag Heels
Most of the elite Seven Sisters colleges still use convoluted language to exclude trans women from their campuses. Mt Holyoke has bucked the trend, but the rest are still only studying the issue.
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Listening to the Living and the Dead: Ruminations on #justiceforLeelahAlcorn
This post/essay/etc will be an exploration into what justice for Leelah Alcorn might actually look like and some of what is needed to ‘fix society.’
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Maine, Virginia and Minnesota Grant New Trans Student Rights, With Room For Improvement
While it’s great that these states are granting trans students rights, Virginia and Minnesota are still putting up a lot of hurdles for potential trans athletes.
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Injustice in the Justice System: Two Lawsuits Expose Struggle for Incarcerated LGBTs
These cases could create radical shifts for the experience of incarcerated LGBT people and they raise important questions about what a justice system better equipped to incarcerate LGBT people might mean for our communities.
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The New Yorker’s Skewed History of Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminism Ignores Actual Trans Women
Michelle Goldberg’s coverage of radical feminists’ attack on trans woman is disturbingly one-sided.
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Here’s The Real Story of How Oscar Nominee Jared Leto Got Called Out for Transmisogyny At The Virtuosos Awards
It’s been reported that Jared Leto was heckled by a trans woman at the recent Virtuosos Awards for his performance in Dallas Buyers Club. This version of events fails once again to take into account the experiences of actual trans and gendernonconforming people, who were there at the event and have spoken to Autostraddle about what transpired.
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I’m A Trans Woman And I’m Not Interested In Being One of the “Good Ones”
If you present in a traditionally feminine way, you’re just being a misogynistic parody of a woman, and if you fail to present in a traditionally feminine way, well ha! There’s the proof that you’re not really a woman right there.