The Internet is a wild place. It also provides one of the most remarkable resources to any social movement: the capacity to integrate resources and efforts and share narrative and information rapidly. But the flora and fauna of this digital landscape can be downright unpleasant and dangerous at times. As I’m sure anyone who’s ventured [...]
My partner is a nut about sales. If it isn’t on sale, it doesn’t get purchased. So sometimes, when we run out of a breakfast staple and such, I have to remind her of that basic fact of life: “sometimes, we just have to pay full price.” And then, the phrase comes back to haunt [...]
Don’t you just love that phrase, “used to be a man?” GARRICK Jacobson was in custody at Sydney’s Surry Hills police station when he apparently discovered his girlfriend used to be a man. Within hours of being released on bail, he went to her apartment and started “belting the hell” out of her, Downing Centre [...]
Todays guest post is from Monica Helms. Monica is a long time activist and is currently the President of the Transgender American Veterans Association (TAVA) After ten years as an activist for the transgender community, I am seeing a rather dangerous trend in the mindset of many other activists in our community. I call it [...]
“Facta Non Verba”, Latin phrase translated to “Deeds Not Words” A good friend of mine, longtime national trans activist Courtney Sharp sent me something amusing she got in her Email box from the Human Rights Campaign. It was an Action Alert letter with a title at the top saying “2008, the Year To Win”: “Should [...]
By Vanessa Edwards Foster “I don’t like defining myself. I just am.” — Britney Spears Beyond dealing with my own issues this month (family crap, work insanity and a computer virus with its residual problems), it’s been a memorably weird month, this November. To begin the month, one of my NTAC-mates, TransAdvocate’s Marti Abernathey mentioned [...]
Last night I wrote a friend a rant that was full of expletives and frustration. Most of my disgruntlement was from the Wednesday’s passage in the House of Representatives of the sexual orientation only Employment Non-Discrimination Act. It was a historic day for gays and lesbians (if only symbolically), but it was a setback for [...]
