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24 Actions You NEED to Take to Help Trans Women of Color Survive
This isn’t just exhausting. This is intergenerational trauma, oppression, and maybe even genocide. This violence is specifically targeted against black and brown women, gender non-conforming folks, and especially trans women of color.
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Sunday Funday is Celebrating and Honoring Trans Women of Color
Two AMAB celebs came out as trans this week, Peruvian trans women are saints, and a bisexual tattoo artist is designing tattoos honoring trans women. What! A! Week!!!
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Finding Hope on Trans Day of Visibility
“Trans Day of Visibility gives me hope. When I see trans people proudly being themselves in public I have hope. When I see allies retweeting links on how to support trans women I have hope. When I see brilliant selfies of trans people I have hope. When I see trans people celebrating a day that’s about us, I have hope.”
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58 Trans Women Actresses You Should Know and Also Love
Your move, Hollywood.
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Black Trans Woman Assaulted by Guard in DC Restroom, Proving Bathroom Bill Fight Is Far from Over
Mexico’s President is pushing for marriage equality, what happened at the Dem convention in Nevada, the first openly gay secretary of the US Army, and more.
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James Dawson Is Trans: Bestselling YA Author Comes Out as Trans Woman
“It was while writing This Book Is Gay that I realised I had far more in common with trans women than I did with gay men and started speaking to a gender therapist. I am now on a waiting list to receive treatment from specialist doctors and nurses.”
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Daily Fix: Mansur Ball-Bey Killed by St. Louis PD on Anniversary of Kajieme Powell’s Death and More News
Another death of a young black man at the hands of police in St Louis, the first ever openly trans White House staffer, why marriage licenses still aren’t being issued in a county in Kentucky after the Supreme Court decision, an attempt to ban LGBT-friendly children’s books in Venice, and more.
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EEOC Scores in Trans Woman’s Discrimination Lawsuit, Makes Future Brighter
A Minnesota trans woman wins her discrimination suit under Title VII, more than 10 counties in Alabama are refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses, Sarah Palin’s in the news again, there’s a hold up with Daniel Holtzclaw’s sentencing trial and more news!
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News Fix: Sandra Bland’s Death is Being Thoroughly Investigated Says Prosecutor and More News Stories
A NYPD officer is being investigated for assaulting a black queer woman, Black Lives Matter protestors take over the Netroots Nation conference, Rachel Dolezal still stands by her views of herself and more news stories!
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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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Amnesty International’s Policy Calling for Decriminalization of Sex Work is a Move in the Right Direction
Amnesty International’s Board has put together a draft policy on sex work that could lift up and protect some of the most vulnerable and marginalized folks around the world – and feminists and human rights advocates alike could learn a lot from it. The only problem is that they’re too busy speaking over the sex workers and researchers who emphatically support the proposal to really do so.
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Pay Us Some Mind: On the “Tragic” Humanity of Black Trans Women
“The queer and trans community can’t continue to strip us of our racial oppression, just like the black community can’t solely blame our deaths on our gender identities. We’re targeted for both.”
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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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10 Women Who Could Have Been The Advocate’s “Person of the Year”
A celebration of all we’ve accomplished in 2013.
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Two Trans* Women of Color Murdered Within a Week; Anti-TWOC Violence Claims Even More Lives
Islan Nettles and Domonique Newburn, two African-American trans* women, were brutally murdered within a week of each other. This is just the latest in a trend of horrific violence against trans* women of color.
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Also.Also.Also: Simmons Accepts, Praises Trans* Activist Applicant And Other Stories We Missed This Week
Gay marriage is good for kids, Beyonce is still waiting for you to bow down, and Ronald Reagan’s daughter wrote a lesbian love story.
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State of Nevada, Courts Give Trans People Some Justice
Today some people were finally held accountable for violence against trans people, and also employment protections in Nevada!
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Vogue Evolution of (America’s Best) Dance (Crew) & Ellen at the Teen Choice Awards
Vogue Evolution brings underground ballroom/house scene to MTV’s America’s Best Dance crew, Ellen & Portia are smashing at the Teen Choice Awards, Alex’s pickle is tickled and Craigslist Lovers can’t let go.
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Barbies Teach Lesbian Sex & Gay Dance Crew Vogue Evolution Kicks it Kung Fu Fighter Style
The Vatican is worried about American nuns. Learn lesbian sex positions from Barbies, more smack against President Lady Gaga, watch Vogue Evolution Kung Fu the dance floor, and Intern Lily really, really REALLY likes Lindsay Lohan.
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Obama Comes Out Against DOMA At Last and a Gay Comes Out Against “Fag Hags”: Daily Fix
The Obama administration filed court papers Monday claiming a federal marriage law discriminates against gays, even as government lawyers continued to defend it. Also, Salon does fag hags and everyone pretends to like Mad Men, many have not actually seen it.