trans issues
Fighting TERFs, Vomiting, and Writing Bathos: Grace Lavery on Her Eccentric, Exciting Memoir
“Someone I used to live with described my writing process as watching someone vomit compulsively for hours at a time,” says Grace Lavery, author of “Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis.”
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Punching Down: Why Netflix Deserves Some of the Heat for Dave Chapelle’s Transphobic Comments
Focusing the blame only on the comedian is no longer enough.
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Of Course Cis People Are Being Weird About Elliot Page’s Body
Many cis people have a long way to go when it comes to thinking critically about talking about trans people and their bodies.
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Love Is the Message: The Final Season of “Pose” Hands Out Happily Ever Afters
We’ve cried with them and mourned for them, but the third and final season of Pose gives us reasons to smile for them.
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Trans Girls Are the Real Target of Anti-Trans Bills
Trans women and girls, along with femme trans people who were mistakenly assigned male at birth, are subject to a uniquely intensified hatred thanks to their hypervisibility.
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Let It Burn: Transgender Cooks Are Changing Kitchen Culture
Transgender women are making a home in the professional kitchen by refusing in place.
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Not Your Fetish: Trans Erotica Writers Redefine Desirability
Trans people have produced erotica long before 2017 and will continue to do so long after.
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Cis Gatekeepers Have No Place in Trans Stories
Allow trans people to tell trans stories on their own terms and through their own lens.
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The X Factor: One Letter, Multiple Identities, and a Complex Future
How the gender-neutral “x” became a contemporary paradox.
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