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Washington DC Taking Step To Address Trans Job Issue

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According to the DC Trans Coalition,  the city has promised to help address on of the pressing problems in the local trans community in terms of unemployment. As the Injustice At Every Turn report painfully pointed out,  Black transpeople are facing unemployment rates as high as 26% almost double the African American employment rate. The…

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Why Transgender Activism

[alert type=”info”]I published an earlier revision of this essay first on January 12, 2011 at Pam’s House Blend. I believe

Racism, Congressional Hearings, and GLBT Politics: Stop Excluding African Americans

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On November 5th, 2009,  the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee will hold hearings on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA). The hearings will take place in a city where over half of its citizens are African American. According to the Washington D.C. Transgender Needs Assessment Survey performed in 2000, only 58 percent of transgender…

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#whichlivesmatter?

Cianán is a lapsed Ph.D. chemist, writer, public speaker, trainer, activist, and assessment expert whose interests in activism are transmasculine

Am I The Only One? Online Polling, Advocacy, and The Least of Us

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