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New Jersey School District Accommodates Trans Teen After Their Initial Awfulness
After insisting Rachel would have to attend school “as a boy,” Middletown Township Public Schools is now working to accommodate the middle schooler, who began transitioning this summer.
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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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Oh Hey, Kissing Girls and Lesbian Drama On “Masters Of Sex”
Don’t you hate it when your ex girlfriend Sarah Silverman shows up and destroys your sham marriage with a single palm reading?
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How Racism, Not Shonda Rhimes, Created The Angry Black Woman
“For whatever reason, Stanley assumes that these contemporary characters are living in the same post-racial world that many people prefer to pretend we’re already living in. It’s within the confines of this utopia that these characters appear to be nothing more than sexually charged Angry Black Women, instead of oppressed minorities living in a white man’s world.”
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#Fatkini Makes Waves for Body Positivity on Social Media
Curvy, plus-size, big, thick and fat people are heading to the beach and the pool and taking to social media to show off their beautiful bodies and fashionable fatkinis.
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BREAKING: Michelle Rodriguez and Cara Delevingne Confirm Relationship, Are Probs Scissoring As We Speak
Meet our new favorite couple.
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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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This Marked-Up 1998 dELiA*s Catalog Is Everything We’ll Miss About Our Fave Teen Retailer
What better way to pay homage to the demise of dELiA*s than by making me scan an entire 1998 catalog that my friend Loren wrote all over?
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In Which Mari and Mey Have Conflicted Feelings About “Transparent”
Have you seen the preview for Amazon Prime’s new trans woman-centered dramedy Transparent? We have, and we have very conflicted feelings about it.
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Protests in Murrieta and Oracle Point to the Racism of US Immigration Policies
White supremacy and racism, we know, have long and deep histories in American society. It’s not like it only occurred to Murrieta residents to be racist and xenophobic while browsing through their town’s blog.
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Senate Delay Threatens Funding for Thousands of Untested Rape Kits
Money designated for the testing of kits across the country is caught up in a Senate dispute over how to approve amendments to 2015 budget legislation.
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Two Years Later, Shooter of Texas Teenage Lesbian Couple Arrested For Murder and Sexual Assault
19-year-old Mollie Olgin and18-year-old Mary Chapa were sexually assaulted and shot in July 2012, resulting in Mollie’s death. At last, the depraved man who did it is in custody.
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SCOTUS: Religious Beliefs Trump Reproductive Health, Corporations Have First Amendment Rights
Today the Supreme Court decided that Hobby Lobby has the right to refuse to cover its employees’ birth control; this is why the ruling happened and what it means.
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Taking Over the World One Controller at a Time: The Good News About Queer Games
Like playing video games? How about the queer, genderqueer and trans people who make them? Here’s how your queer worldview is carving out more real estate in the world of gaming.
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Do Your Damn Part: Subscribe To Your Local Newspaper
“We all, collectively, need to employ the people who report on issues important to us. And whether we like it or not, whether we relate to the general populace in the area where we live or not, those things happening in our most local sectors effect our lives immensely — even more immensely, usually, than national or international issues and news stories.”
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Orphan Black’s Delphine and the Dangers of the Bisexual Femme Fatale
“For the duration of the plot so far, Delphine’s bisexuality is the premise for the moral tension that she causes, and a key to the danger that she poses to Cosima.”
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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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MTV’s New Fake Lesbian Show “Faking It” Makes Me So Confused
On April 22, MTV will be premiering a new comedy about two girls who pretend to be lesbians together in order to get popular at school. Needless to say, this has me very confused.
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Also.Also.Also: Michelle Obama and Chelsea Clinton Are Both Gunning to Be Ellen Page’s Next Lover and Other Stories We Missed This Week
Feminist stock photography, the sexiest women’s history month in, well, history, and gay marriages heard ’round the world. But don’t ask Russia. They don’t recall that all of it ever happened.