trans issues
Our Femininity Isn’t Artificial: Hollywood Must Stop Casting Men As Trans Women
Hollywood has a long history of excluding trans actors.
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Magdalene Vissagio Is Shaking Up the Comic Book World
The trans creator is making moves at DC and Marvel.
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Backtalk: Google Manifesto & Transphobia Is Not a Joke
This week, exemplifies the question that Frank Ocean’s t-shirt asked: “Why be racist, sexist, homophobic or transphobic when you could just be quiet?” Dahlia and Amy talk about the terribly misguided memo from a Google employee and the deplorable transphobia on the Breakfast Club. Recently,... Read more »
Backtalk: Military Trans Ban & Limits of White Imagination
This week, Dahlia and Amy dig into the latest in Trump fuckery and the controversy around an upcoming project from the Game of Thrones showrunners. Earlier this week, Trump announced via three tweets (how presidential!) that he intends to ban transgender people from serving in the military... Read more »
Methodical Killing: Losing Trans Film Characters Devalues Them IRL
Sympathetic trans deaths go back at least to 1953.
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There’s a Lot of Ways of Being Us: Jennifer Finney Boylan on Transgender Advocacy, Her Writing Career, and Caitlyn Jenner
There are now enough transgender writers that we don’t always have to talk about the experience of being trans and the cliche of transition.
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Channeling Audre: Janet Mock Opens Up About Her Memoir, Sex Work, and Being An Icon
Janet Mock is no longer offering a 101 master class on trans identity.
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Popaganda: Video Games and Identity
Video games are a huge piece of our pop culture industry. People who don’t play games maybe think that they’re a weird, dorky niche that only a few people play. But that’s exactly the opposite of true. Globally, video games are a $91 billion industry. Fifty-nine percent of people in... Read more »
Poetic Resistance Against Everyday Transphobia, Racism, Ableism: A Review of "When the Chant Comes"
Within its pages, When the Chant Comes delivers profound, often gut-wrenching meditations that explore what it means for Barrett to navigate life in the United States as a disabled, pilipinx-amerikan, transgender queer.
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Some Of Us Are Brave: A Roundtable on Feminist Icons and Responsibility
What to do about Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Lena Dunham, and, even Beysus—all of whom have made contributions to feminism, but have also said and done things contrary to feminist values? We assembled a diverse group of feminists to talk it out.
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