Results for: orange is the new black
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Laverne Cox is Amazing on the Cover of Time, Time’s Story Inside Not So Much
Transgender activist and Orange is the New Black star Laverne Cox became the first ever openly transgender person to grace the cover of Time Magazine. However, the cover story wasn’t as perfect as the cover itself.
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Laverne Cox First-Ever Trans Emmy Nominee, Tops Queer-Inclusive List, Continues World Takeover
So many LGBT Emmy nominees, most importantly Laverne Cox!
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Seriously Though Laverne Cox is Having the Best Week of All Time
How do you top being on the cover of “Time?” Well, if you’re Laverne Cox, you star in a music video, announce a new acting role, land another magazine cover and get an Emmy nomination.
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Laverne Cox Returns to “Katie”, Shows How to Do a “Teachable Moment” Right
“A part of me thought about making this article just be a list of Laverne Cox quotes from this interview because she says that many brilliant things. Where Cox was able to turn the conversation around and get in some great talking points last time, this time she was given free reign to talk about important issues for a full half hour.”
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It’s Time For People to Stop Using the Social Construct of “Biological Sex” to Defend Their Transmisogyny
The Chicago Sun-Times recently republished a hateful and ignorant article claiming that Laverne Cox is a man due the “biological reality” of sex. Unfortunately, this essentialist, simplistic and just plain incorrect understanding of sex is often used against trans people.
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Laverne Cox to Receive GLAAD Stephen F. Kolzak Award, Ellen Page to Present It, Everyone to Swoon
They are both really good at speeches.
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Let’s Celebrate Laverne Cox’s Book Deal and Read These 6 Memoirs By Trans Women Of Color
Not content with producing a documentary, greeting CeCe McDonald outside of prison and shutting it down on daytime TV, Laverne Cox added signing a book deal to her list of accomplishments in the first half of the first month of 2014.
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Flawless Trans Women Carmen Carrera and Laverne Cox Respond Flawlessly To Katie Couric’s Invasive Questions
Carmen Carrera and Laverne Cox were guests on the daytime show “Katie” on Monday. They were asked very awkward questions about their bodies but turned it into an opportunity to talk about real issues.
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It’s Trans Day of Visibility! Here’s 15 Ways To Let Trans People Know You See Them and Care
Trans Day of Visibility is a time when we take notice of all the amazing trans people around us. Here are 15 ways you can let them know that you care about them and support them.
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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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15 Brand New Queer Lady Teevee Characters Defying Expectations This Summer
This spring/summer there are more brand-new lesbian, bisexual and otherwise-identified ladies on your television set than we ever dreamed possible.
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35 Trans Women I Had #Herocrushes On In 2013
A #herocrush isn’t romantic or sexual, it’s about people you admire. People you’d love to work with to dismantle systems of oppression. This year most of my #herocrushes happened to be trans women.
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Real-Life Sophia Bursets: Transgender Women Face a Nightmare in Men’s Prisons
“For trans* women who are locked up, getting access to medical care and safety from the guards and inmates is a serious problem. But the problem starts when they are put in prisons designed for men.”
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Also.Also.Also: When Transphobia and Whorephobia Collide and Other Stories We Missed This Week
bell hooks is still right, Hillary Clinton becomes a thing of television history, and Aubrey Plaza looks great in those glasses.
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GLAAD Awards NYC 2013: Madonna, Degrassi Lesbians, and Trans* Representation
Vanessa and Lizz went to the NYC GLAAD Media Awards 2013 and managed to become BFFs with the girls who play lesbians on Degrassi and exclusively interview Wilson Cruz, Milla Jovovich, Honey Boo Boo’s Mama June, and more important humans!