The activist ethos of the current collection of young people of color may end up being the lasting impression of their generation. In the face of rising white supremacy, young women of color have responded with activism. It was young students and queer people of color who organized to oppose and co
It leaves out a range of personal experience
My own experience opens up the terrifying possibility that more trans people than we know have taken their life or tried to. Today we mark yet another Transgender Day of Remembrance, a holiday for trans people to remember those friends of ours who’ve passed over the last year. Frequently, events fo
The Women’s Convention showed me that organizers are committed to inclusion —and that they still have a ways to go. When the Women’s March happened in January, the imagery of the pink pussy hats and the rhetoric surrounding vagina- and-uterus based definitions of womanhood were found to be a somewh
Covering trans issues as a professional means I need to maintain a certain distance. But no matter what, these issues affect me as an… I was editing an essay when the first email notification came in, but I ignored it. Then came a second, and a third in quick succession. Curious, I switched tabs to
The answer is complicated. The defining feature of feminism, for me anyway, is freedom of choice — especially when it comes to bodily autonomy. This is why we march for Planned Parenthood and fight back against restrictive…
She built a community to protect the abused. Now she’s on the side of the abusers. What happened to YouTuber Laci Green? Anyone who’s marginalized knows the dangers of online harassment — and YouTuber Laci Green, who rose to prominence by conducting online sex education content on behalf of Planned
“Hormones can’t melt biological sex”
What happens when you have to combat not only transphobia, but also ableism? Treating both autism spectrum disorders and transgender identity as a single mental disorder is harmful to each group of people — but it has a disproportionate impact on those who fit both labels/
All I ask is that you consider who gets harmed by exclusions. It’s most often the most marginalized, despite the best of intentions.
An onslaught of liberal editorials ask: what does it mean to be a “real” woman?
There are more points I disagree with in your post (opting in? I was beaten, sexually assaulted and threatened with rape as a closeted…