Tag: transphobia
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Monica Jones
[Content note: misogynoir, violence] I haven’t said much on Monica Jones, mostly because I don’t have anything new to say. I sure as hell hope the magnitude of the injustice isn’t up for debate. If you haven’t read this post over at Prison Culture, I encourage you to do so.
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An Open Venn Diagram to Joss Whedon
[Content note: Transphobia] On Monday afternoon, Joss Whedon responded to a fan’s tweet: [The first tweet to Joss Whedon is: Joss, any advice on writing strong female leads in a comic book?#lovebuffy, to which Whedon responds: Must value #strength but also #community & not have penny/balls] Obviously, the quickest way for me, a trans lady,…
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I Still Need to Go to the Store
[Content note: transphobia, racism, violence, guns, anti-choice rhetoric, homophobia, fat hatred] Earlier today I tweeted: The most terrifying thing about the Grantland fiasco is that sooner or later I’m going to need to go out and buy groceries. In my case (in large part because was not Essay Anne Vanderbilt and did not know her),…
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The Difficulties of Being Cis
[Content note: Transphobia, violence] Eight years ago, when I came out to my HMO, they couldn’t give me proper healthcare. They didn’t know how to deal with people like me. When I went to the co-op, they didn’t know what to do with my ID. They didn’t know how to deal with people like me.…
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What if “Dr. V” was French?
[Content note: Transphobia, outing, suicide] Imagine if a journalist wrote a tension-filled exposé that got “stranger by the second” as it uncovered a con artist. Now imagine if the final shocking twist was not that the subject had swindled an investor out of tens of thousands of dollars, or falsified her credentials. What if the…
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We Need To Talk About Self-Harm
[Content note: This post contains some major-league triggery stuff about depression and self-harm. Also, there’s transphobia. There’s always transphobia, lolsob] Yesterday I wrote a piece about why I don’t like “love your body” campaigns. When I wrote it, I made a deliberate decision to omit any of my issues with self-harm. I’ve been thinking about…
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Let’s Talk About Stonewall
[Content note: homophobia, transphobia, violence] During Monday’s inaugural address, President Obama referenced “our forebears” traveling through Seneca Falls, Selma, and Stonewall on the long road towards freedom. It was an unexpected and poignant moment for me and many of my fellow LGBTQ Americans. Cool beans. In the intervening days, the media has been awash in…
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An Open Letter to The Onion
You owe people an apology. Earlier this week you published a satirical story about Mark Wahlberg being a trans woman. The joke, as it were, is that trans people are trans. Yaaaaaaaawn. I’m a huge fucking smartass, and a longtime Onion reader. I totally get that satire involves risks. I also get that satirists miss…
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On Privacy on Cyber-Enabled Violence
[Trigger warning for rape, stalking, and other violence] You might have heard that a cisgender attendee of the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival posted pictures of trans women who attended this year’s festival, along with various personal tidbits that she was able to dig up. She also floated the idea of starting a website devoted to…