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You Need Help: How To Be A Trans Lesbian
Make sure to be kind and generous to yourself, give yourself plenty of time to process all of these important feelings, and don’t rush it!
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Here are Some Ways to Give Black Trans People Money
Across the country, Black TGNC people are performing serious emotional labor as organizers, healers, artists, sexual liberationists, and advocates. It’s time to give back.
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On Trans Day of Remembrance We Look Back on the Worst Year Yet and Prepare for a Terrifying Future
I don’t know how to be hopeful right now, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to stop writing or working or fighting, and I know everyone at Autostraddle stands firmly with me.
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A Day of Visibility: Luna Merbruja Loves Her Self Love
“My self love is my favorite thing about myself right now. Seeing my sometimes dry, sometimes crusty-eyed face first thing in the morning and automatically thinking, “Damn, you’re beautiful” is a joy I never thought I would experience.”
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A Day of Visibility: Devan Diaz Is a Little Less Unsure
“I’ve been waking up just as the sun rises lately, and it allows me to feel like I have a life outside of my daily commitments. This is when I can check in with myself.”
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Skydiving in Two Genders: An Essay on Trans Visibility
“I decide I’ll test the durability of a BB cream by Tarte at thousands of feet in the air, then feel ashamed at worrying so much about how I look, then feel the dread again, that all this might go completely wrong, not because I’ll fall to my death, but because I’ll be reduced to my past.”
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Amber Monroe Becomes the 12th TWOC Murdered in the US This Year, We Must #SayHerName
Monroe, a Black trans woman from Detroit was just twenty when her life was taken away from her.
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Transgender Teen Jazz Jennings is Starring in Commercials, Getting a Reality Show, on Top of the World
Not content with co-writing a book, being in Time Magazine and meeting people like Bill Clinton and Jennifer Lawrence, all by age 14, Jazz Jennings is now set to take over TV.
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“Her Story” Stars Wanna Tell Real Trans Love Stories
Talking with three of the stars of trans-created webseries Her Story about love, representation, staffing a set with trans women and so much more.
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What We’re Going to Say About Caitlyn Jenner
In just the few days since Jenner made her debut, I’ve received the same amount submissions that I received in the nearly two months before. All of these submissions are about Jenner.
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Check Out Two Trans Youth Who Are Changing the Way America Looks at Gender
Jazz, who recently published a book about her life called I Am Jazz and Zoey, who recently appeared in “Laverne Cox Presents: The T-Word” are two of the trans youth who are making things better for kids across America.
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16 Ways to Make Queer Women’s Spaces More Trans Women-Friendly
“13. All feminist concerns are transgender concerns, period.”
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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 Women of the 2015 Trans 100 Speak Up About Supporting Trans Women
The Trans 100 list is back to show us a bunch of awesome and inspirational trans women.
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On The Silencing of Trans Women of Color: A Response to Trans Glamour vs. Trans Activism
“As a white woman, you may not understand this but the simple act of getting up and being in the public eye and proclaiming your transness unapologetically is an act of revolution for every trans person of color, and in that right, they are doing the work.”
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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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Please Step Over Here: The Perils Of Traveling As A Trans Woman
Transgender people face enormous difficulties whenever they travel, from dealing with the TSA to finding a safe bathroom.
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VIDEO: Janet Mock Turns the Tables On Interviewer, Asks What It’s Like To Be Cis
Instead of answering a barrage of uncomfortable and unnecessary questions, this time Mock gets to ask the questions. And it is beautiful.
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Join Janet Mock, Me and Other Trans Women Writers in a Women’s History Month Google+ Hangout!
Join me, Janet Mock, Ryka Aoki and Toni Newman in a conversation between trans women writers for Women’s History Month.
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Want to Support the Women of the Trans 100? Here’s How.
I spoke with Janet Mock, Imogen Binnie, Fallon Fox, Bailey Jay, Geena Rocero, Angelica Ross, Sarah McBride and more women from the Trans 100 to find out how to best support the women on this list and trans women in general.