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Legendary Boxing Manager and Promoter Kellie Maloney Comes Out as a Trans Woman
Boxing Promoter and Manager Kellie Maloney has come out as a transgender woman, making her one of the highest profile trans people in the world of sports.
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Also.Also.Also: Inclusive Feminism, Girl Power Advertising and Other Stories We Missed This Week
We’re talking sports, feminism, kids today, and Spice World!
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Michfest Could Change Its Trans Female Exclusionary Intention Only If It Tried, Only If It Wanted To
LGBTQ rights groups are joining activists, allies and former performers in opposing Michfest’s trans-female-exclusionary intention, and if Michfest wants to attract new fans, it needs to listen up.
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Unfortunately, This Magical Anti-Rape Nail Polish Won’t Save Us
On their Facebook page, the creators of Undercover Colors say they “hope to make potential perpetrators afraid to spike a woman’s drink because there’s now a risk that they can get caught.” But what about creating cultural shifts so that people don’t become violent assailants at all?
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IFP’s “Fresh Faces” Highlights So Many Rad Female Indie Filmmakers
Despite a continued male dominance of the media industry, a number of talented women are working hard to make their mark in the arena of indie film.
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A-Camp 5.0 Recamps Part One: Started From The Bottom, Now We’re Queer
Registration for A-Camp 6.0 is around the corner, so welcome to our first of three recamps regarding what happened last year and how AMAZINGLY AWESOME IT WAS.
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Burger King’s “Proud Whopper” Isn’t Anything For Gays To Be Proud Of
Burger King wrapped a cheeseburger in a rainbow and somehow this did not make the world a better place.
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Barbie Doesn’t Earn Feminist Empowerment Badge for Becoming A Girl Scout
By creating this “For Girls” section of their site and featuring the Barbie products, the Girl Scouts have made a dramatic shift in their branding and in the language they use to describe their girls, which up until now has been pretty conscious of making the “girl” in Girl Scouts mean a lot of different things.
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Becoming Visible: On Coming Out As Bisexual
“I guess I’m still sort of coming out. I’m learning to embrace my sexuality as a primary part of my identity rather than an afterthought. It feels really good.”
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Lez Liberty Lit #52: Lazy Reading Days
Zadie Smith, superlatives, reader’s block, Samantha Irby, public domain reviews, queer book fairs and more.
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Autostraddle Insider Issue Five: November 2014
This month we visit Club Drizzy, Heather gets punched in the face by a racist stranger at the airport, we pause to admire new merch, B wants to interview her not-ex-girlfriend and WHO WILL BE THE BUTT OF OUR GENERATION?
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Five Things You Should Know about The U.S.’s Criminalization of HIV
As various states prepare to analyze their criminal laws, here’s a quick breakdown of the relationship between HIV and the law in the United States.
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Transparent Episode 107 Recap: Pink Revisions
Weed! Talent shows! More weed! A dildo!
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Faking It Episode 208 Recap: The Flavor Of The Month Is Lezberry Blast
This week on “Faking It,” Amy doesn’t win Miss Congeniality, but neither does Lauren, and neither does Karma. Neither does Liam! Or Duke or Shane or Reagan. But everybody’s hair looks GREAT.
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San-Diego Comic Con Uses Minor Policy Changes Against Sexual Harassment: It’s Super Ineffective
“This is what happens when the patriarchy dons a cape and a cowl.”
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Please Stop Saying That Trans Women Were “Born Boys”
The “born a boy” narrative is hurtful to trans women. It’s time for it to go away.
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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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Without a Safety Net: Talking Women-Owned Tech Startups with Section II’s Allie Esslinger
“Start-up culture is odd. There’s a lot that I struggle with — it’s not something particularly designed for anyone who isn’t already privileged. It’s hard to go into it without a safety net. There’s a certain element of romanticizing struggle that is hard to internalize as a woman, a queer woman, and/or a woman of color. “
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Science Will Not Save Us: Medicine, Research Ethics, and My Transgender Body
“The growing “body of evidence” emerging from biological and medical research, according to some commentators, speaks loudly and clearly: transgender people exist, science says. Of course, we already knew that… Any responsible approach to folding science into advocacy efforts should not only understand what scientific research says, but how and why it came to say what it does.”
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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.