Dan Savage, Chill With Your Race Baiting
Dan Savage just won’t give up pimping that thoroughly discredited meme about the Prop 8 loss in Ca-lee-forn-ia. “I do know this, though: I’m done pretending that the handful of racist gay white men out there—and they’re out there, and I think they’re scum—are a bigger problem for African Americans, gay and straight, than the [...]
...read moreTo Be Human
This is a post I wrote last year on TransGriot, but the message in it is still relevant. One of the things I loved about Star Trek: The Next Generation was Lt. Commander Data. I loved the fact that Brent Spiner, the actor who played him was from Houston. The other reason I adored Data [...]
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When It Pertains To Transpeople, Do You Media Peeps Even Read The AP Stylebook?
One of the things I have griped about constantly since the founding of my blog in 2006 is the rampant use of incorrect pronouns by the media when it comes to writing news stories on transgender people. Before I get started, let me point out what the AP Stylebook, the professional journalist’s Bible, has to [...]
...read more“I’m Sorry, But We’ll Need to See Your Genitals”
Laurie and Marlene say: (Marlene Hoeber blogs regularly for Body Impolitic. This post is cross-posted to Body Impolitic.) From the Philadelphia Gay News comes this disgusting story of Kate Lynn Blatt, whose employer requested a photograph of her genitalia as a condition of continued employment. Blatt was working for Manpower, a temporary employment service. After [...]
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Body Impolitic Greets Feministe!
Laurie Toby Edison and Debbie Notkin say: We are delighted to be invited to guest blog here at Feministe. We can usually be found (along with a couple of regular guest bloggers) at Body Impolitic, where we blog about body image (interpreted as widely as possible), photography, art, and occasional other topics. We got into [...]
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