Today is the Transgender Day of Remembrance
The International Transgender Day of Remembrance was set aside to memorialize those who were killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice. Some of the memorial events have already happened, but there are still events coming up in some areas. Here’s a list of TDOR events. Please do feel free to link your relevant posts or [...]
...read moreMapping Bias: LGBT Resources on the South Side of Chicago
This is a guest post by Kayla Higgins
The interesting thing about maps is that they are almost never objectively accurate. Rather, they depict a space through the perspective of the Chicagoan mapmaker. And such is the case of the various maps of gay life in Chicago. They are “Gay Chicago” as seen through the eyes of a particular mapmaker or, sometimes, an entire demographic. But they cannot be said to depict “Gay Chicago” as it objectively exists.
The kids are alright.
This is a story to bookmark for those days when you’re feeling dismayed about the state of the world. This weekend saw the U.S.’s first lesbian Homecoming king and queen and possible the world’s two happiest chicks ever. On Friday Rebeca Arellano, a lesbian student at San Diego’s Patrick Henry High, was chosen as homecoming [...]
...read moreThe deficient single woman
Chally is a former Feministe staffer. She writes at Zero at the Bone. I’m really quite troubled by the centring of romantic/sexual relationships at the expense of all other ways of organising lives. Right now, I’m going to explore this in terms of single women being seen as deficient. I’ve seen so many divorced and [...]
...read moreThis just in: Bi men are real!
A new study has found something about bisexual men that may surprise some people: they exist! The study took the revolutionary step of attempting to recruit bisexual men by recruiting in online venues that actually targeted bisexual men, as opposed to previous studies which had recruited by advertising in gay-oriented publications. A lot of bisexual [...]
...read moreDirty Girl Ministries
The title of the ministry — and the tagline “Dirty Girls Come Clean” — makes it sound like this could be a pretty fun church. Sadly no! The No Stones recovery group is part of an organization called Dirty Girls Ministries that Renaud launched in 2009 after suffering from her own self-described pornography addiction. She [...]
...read moreSalon Flubs Reporting on Child Predators
This is a guest post by Kristin Rawls.
Trigger warnings for discussion of rape apologism and pedophilia. Please take these seriously. I have no personal history of either, but I had an emotional—even a visceral—response to the article that I discuss here.
I like boys. But also girls. But also boys.
I’ve been married to my husband for almost two years now. Mr. Shoshie is awesome and supportive and I love him very, very much. But sometimes I wish that we hadn’t gotten married so soon. Well, actually, I wish that we hadn’t started dating so soon. Let me back up. I’ve liked girls pretty much [...]
...read moreI’ll take any good news you got.
In the Sometimes Good News Comes in Tiny Increments But It’s Still Good News Department (aka: The Department of SGNCITIBISGN): 1) Judge blocks Kan. law stripping Planned Parenthood of fed. funding, says law unlikely to last An incredulous federal judge on Monday rejected the state’s claim that a new Kansas statute that denied Planned Parenthood [...]
...read morePregnancy: a Public Affair
Figuring out whether or not you want to have kids is the weirdest thing. I have gone through about three distinct periods: When I was a kid, and I assumed I would have kids; when I was an adolescent and young adult, and I was sure I never wanted to have kids; and now, when [...]
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Cru cut
See also: 2 Live Cru, Grand Cru, J.Cru, Late-’90s Hip-Hop Group Cru More from the world of marketing: We won’t have the Campus Crusade for Christ to kick around anymore. Don’t get excited–they’re still going to be around, loving you whilst hating your sin, helping you pray it away, and harassing students who are just [...]
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