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Also.Also.Also: Mary Lambert is Writing Children’s Books About Women in STEM and Other Stories We Missed This Week
LGBT people are leaving some of America’s famously gay neighborhoods but cool projects are highlighting feminism, queer families in children’s books, and masculine of center fashion.
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LGBT Youth Also Need To Hear “I Believe You, It’s Not Your Fault”
“The all-too-real worries and fear of coming forward as a queer victim of abuse and sexual assault run the gamut. Beyond the base erroneous idea that assault can’t happen, or doesn’t happen, between queer folk, especially women, or if it does it isn’t as “bad,” there’s the fear of how coming forward will be received in regards to your orientation or gender, regardless who assaulted you.”
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Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Straight People Now Crashing LGBT Job Fairs
Although it would’ve seemed unbelievable not too long ago that a straight person would risk being mistaken for LGBTQ while on the job market, apparently some straight MBA students these days are being told by their teachers to attend LGBTQ career fairs.
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When It Comes to Campus Sexual Assault, Administrators Are Failing Their Communities
A New York Times cover story graphically depicts the sexual assault a student named Anna experienced when she was freshman at Hobart and William Smith colleges. It also details the pathetic excuse for a judiciary hearing she and countless survivors across the United States have encountered when reporting rape and sexual assault to their universities.
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Calls for ICE to #FreeMarichuy After Failing to Respond to Report of Sexual Assault
“[ICE] should not be detaining transgender women, period.”
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White Gay Dudes, Straight Black People: With Friends Like These, Who Needs A Voice?
“The need for hate crime legislation for the state that covers gender identity/expression and sexuality is, of course, paramount, but it strikes me as odd that in a case in which more factors than just sexuality or gender expression were present, that only that was touched upon, both in the coverage by major news sources and what the “hate” would be constituted as.”
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Also.Also.Also. Janet Mock is Re-Queering Documentaries and Other Stories We Missed This Week
It’s TIME to recognize super cool artists and activists, fight the wrongful imprisonment of transgender youth, and watch some neat documentaries.
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LGBTQ Students Need Representation in Textbooks — and a Whole Lot More
On the 45th anniversary of Stonewall and the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, it is worth interrogating how we learn and know our histories — and the conditions that contribute to our learning environment.
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HRC’s New Campaign in the South Wants to Change “Hearts and Minds,” Not Much Else
In a region known for being socially conservative and heavily influenced by faith communities, HRC’s Project One America seems like a much-needed advancement for LGBT rights in the region. But is the HRC prepared to help the South, an area with a long history of struggles fueled by racism from colonization to slavery to the Civil Rights Movement?
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Also.Also.Also. The Notorious RBG Wants Women and Queer People to Win Elections and Other Stories We Missed This Week
We’re still mad about Hobby Lobby, but this is still an important political moment for LGBT elected officials, students, and more.
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Also.Also.Also. A Lesbian Princess Confirmed Gay Federal Judges and Other Stories We Missed This Week
Exciting things are happening for LGBT people in the US, activists are critical of Pride, and there are tons of awesome events you should go to!
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Also.Also.Also. Prison Strikes, Striking Musical Gold, and Other Stories We Missed This Week
Fighting for rights, celebrating identities, raising money, listening to good music, and making powerful critiques–news as usual this week!
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Give OUT Day: Be the Support You Want to See In the World for LGBT Organizations
Less than five percent of LGBT people donate to LGBT organizations. Now is a good time to change that, and the need to support non-mainstream organizations has never been more clear.
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Also.Also.Also: La Roux Challenges Women’s Colleges and Other Stories We Missed This Week
My cat loves Autostraddle, an OITNB writer realizes she’s gay while working on the show, global governments are changing, the kidnapped Nigerian school girls may be found, and activists are as fierce as ever in fighting injustice.
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Monica Jones Found Guilty of “Manifesting Prostitution,” Will Be “Rescued” from Sex Work by Incarceration
“In May of 2013, Monica Jones became one of the people arrested by Project ROSE; the charge was “manifesting prostitution” for accepting a ride home to her neighborhood from men who turned out to be undercover cops. This week, Jones was found guilty, and faces the possibility of serving time in a men’s prison as a trans woman.”
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Yup It’s True, Trans and Queer Students Get Title IX Protections Too
“Title IX’s sex discrimination prohibition extends to claims of discrimination based on gender identity or failure to conform to stereotypical notions of masculinity or femininity and OCR accepts such complaints for investigation.”
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What Will It Take For 200 Missing Nigerian Girls To Be Rescued?
In what sounds like a too-horrifying-to-be-true story, 234 teenage girls were kidnapped from their school in northern Nigeria by the militant Islamist group Boko Haram two weeks ago. Nigerians are furious that the government isn’t doing enough to bring back the girls.
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Why The Anti-Street Harassment Movement Needs to Involve More Women of Color
While men of all colors perpetrate street harassment, addressing it in communities of color calls for specific intra-community solutions rather than broad condemnations of male privilege.
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Obama, Biden, Male Celebs Call for Ending Sexual Assault, Being “Part of the Solution”
The White House has released a 60-second public service announcement calling for an end to sexual assault featuring such household names and faces as Daniel Craig, Dulé Hill, Benicio del Toro, Seth Meyers, Steve Carell, and both the President and Vice President themselves. It’s a truly big deal.
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Worst May Day Ever: GOP Filibusters Bill To Raise Minimum Wage
Senate Republicans decide that raising the minimum wage would hurt people, which sounds economically inaccurate.