All posts tagged "transgender"
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On Censorship and Scientific Integrity in Difficult Times
By Monica J. Casper and Jonathan M. Metzl “CDC Gets List of Forbidden Words.” This was the headline of a December 15th Washington Post story...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, The Spectacle of the Transgender Child
By Harper Keenan In recent years, the Internet has spawned a variety of new short film genres, including “The Cute Animal Video,” “The Lip Sync...
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Trans Feminine Humility
By Joshua Jennifer Espinoza Even though I was assigned male at birth and raised in a home with a strict emphasis on gender roles, I, as...
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Transgender Medicine: Medicare Access to What?
By Eric Plemons After a debilitating injury at work left Shane Smith permanently disabled, he joined the ranks of more than 50 million Americans who...
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How Sex Reassignment Surgery Works in America
By Eric Plemons Fascination with Bruce Jenner’s possible transition from male to female has prompted a deluge of writing on Jenner and on the process...
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Personal Is Political: Trans Feminine Humility
While internalized misogyny tells me I need to be humble and quiet, internalized transmisogyny tells me I need to be even more humble and quiet—this...
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Op-Ed: The Signs and Boxes Tell Us So: On Sex Classification Policies
By Heath Fogg Davis Sex-classification policies that bureaucratically and physically sort us into the binary categories of male or female may seem necessary and benign. ...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Refusing to Compromise My Beliefs
By Christina Peterson As a student, I never thought I would be stuck in a place where I face the possibility of failing a class...
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Genderqueering Spaces with Sassafras
By Basil Soper The first time I met Sassafras Lowrey was in 2011 at a queer studies conference in Asheville, NC. I had the pleasure of...
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Trans Is the New Black?: On CeCe McDonald, Mister Cee, Orange Is The New Black, and Trans Women of Color
By Jasmine Salters Last week, the appearance of Orange Is the New Black actress Laverne Cox and former RuPaul’s Drag Race contestant and trans model Carmen Carrerra on...
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Discourses of Disaster and How does it feel to be alive?
I’ve been thinking a lot about representation and competition among trans folks. I’ve been testing out joy as the most vulnerable human experience. Love, I...
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3 poems by Lilith Latini
Fact of a Flat Tire’s rim against rubber against pavement. Car hunched over its warped wheel, and nothing to do but lift the thing...
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3 poems by Jordan Rice
Tresses My father rings our apple trees with his own urine, says the scent will scare off starving deer which strip his low...
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The Postconventional Ethics of Chelsea Manning
By John Stoltenberg At this moment in U.S. history, there may be no nonelected figure in the public eye whose ethics are both more respected...
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Elementary Feminisms: LoveMaps: Nurturing Digital Activism for Social Justice
A workshop was held at the University of Arizona on September 7, 2013, called “LoveMaps for Middle School: Nurturing Digital Activism for Social Justice.” This...
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3 poems by Ian Ellasante
Diana and the face of the moon another night you are . turning your face ………………….. i am already gone and...
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Willy Wilkinson and Kylar Broadus in Conversation: Measuring ourselves by our own yardstick
We met each other over a decade ago through our work on transgender issues around the country. Though we rarely get to see each other...
