trans issues
7 Books To Read During Trans Awareness Week
Trans Awareness Week has reads on reads on reads.
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Pistols or Pearls: Gender Reveal Parties Are a Sham
Gender-reveal parties reinforce a faux binary.
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“Meanwhile, Elsewhere” Unapologetically Centers Trans People In Sci-Fi
A banal world is in the realm of fantasy for trans people.
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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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