Check out my Grass Roots Column it's a Pussy Riot!
9/25/12
Frock, The TG Lifestyle Sept Edition Is Out! Get Frocked!
Check out my Grass Roots Column it's a Pussy Riot!
As our observant editor Katie has noted somehow 'quarterly' has snuck back onto the front cover. That's incorrect. We have been bi-monthly for some time now.
9/24/12
Call For Papers and Presentations Transecting Society Conf. @UNH
"Transecting Society is a two-day symposium dedicated to exploring controversial topics related to trans* lives in contemporary U.S. society" April 5-6, 2013 at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, N.H.
Sound like a bunch of old fogies huddled around a pot bellied stove in the sticks?
Check some of the topics then you tell me:
Trans* and Feminism (maybe touching on 'Radfem'), Trans* in Lesbian/Gay/Queer Communities, including LBG transphobia, Trans* Terminologies reclaiming the word 'tranny' (from who?), Trans* Media and Media Defamation 'ticked off tranny's with knives' and such', Trans* Blogosphere and New Media Blog wars, vblogging, And much much more!!
So it's hot, hosted at a university elevating our conversation and culture but who else is promoting this open critical dialogue? Feminist law professors of course.
So come one, come all (even radfems ) submit your paper and present for a critical look into transecting Society.
On Twitter @transsociety
On Facebook Transecting Society Conference
Homepage Transecting Society.com/
9/23/12
NYC Police Looking For W. 3rd St. McDonalds Transgender Slasher
He was captured on McDonald's video at arguably the most dangerous McDonald's In NYC at W. 3rd St. before assaulting a transwoman after declaring he was going to "fuck her up" for using the bathroom.
This 'man' after being administered a righteous knock down by the woman got up off the ground and began slashing her with a razor.
Police are requesting anyone with information about the latest attack can call 1-800-577-TIPS
Tips can also be submitted at NYPDCimeStoppers or by text at 274637 (CRIMES) then entering TIP577.
Sounds like exellant advice to me!
Read more: NYC DNA
9/21/12
Memphis Silence of the T
In 2008 our Transgender sister Duanna Johnson, while handcuffed was beaten unmercifully by Memphis police and all people heard was, silence.
The police desperately needed that silence. They knew they were incredibly wrong.
Five years later the city ordinance amendment, spurred by her beating inexplicably at the last moment was introduced without transgender protections.
And for all the world knew, transgender people were never included in the amendment. For all the world knew, transgender people don't exist in Memphis.
For all the world knew had the video of Duanna's beating not emerged inexplicably from police files, no one would have ever heard of Duanna, or her beating.
For all the world knew
.
But why would the Transgender Equality Project (TEP), the driving force behind this amendment not mention this to the media immediately following the vote? Why would the City impassioned pro equality council members make no mention of this? Why would there be no mention of this at all in mainstream media?
The TEP has personally assured me and publicly stated they are 100% in favor of trans protections but the reality is they all knew they were wrong, the silence of the T desperately needed for this victory advancing the gay agenda.
I confirmed this by contacting a writer of the most respected and oft quoted media sources covering this issue. No one wrote or spoke of this because they being progressive individuals did not want to jeopardize the chances of the amendment passing with sexual orientation by braking the silence.
Trans people were thrown under the bus and I am not so naive to believe there was no deal maker.
Like the Memphis police years before, the Memphis city council and the Tennessee Equality Project they all need the silence of the T in Memphis.
Our family in Memphis is silent, beaten and murdered.
But we will not be silent in Texas. The Dallas Transgender Advocates and Allies call on the Memphis City Council to reinstate gender identity and expression into the amendment before the 30 days elapses allocated to determine if the amendment is legal.
For Duanna, for all our sisters and brothers in Memphis who are denied jobs, ultimately forcing our family onto the streets to prostitute ourselves.
But unlike Duanna who was shot dead according to news reports while "working her customary strip", just days before filing a federal lawsuit, there will be no silence of the T in Memphis as long as the Dallas Transgender Advocates have a say.
There will be no silence of the T anywhere.
Please sign the petition Memphis Protect Trans People
Cross posted from The Dallas Transgender Advocates and Allies
The police desperately needed that silence. They knew they were incredibly wrong.
Five years later the city ordinance amendment, spurred by her beating inexplicably at the last moment was introduced without transgender protections.
And for all the world knew, transgender people were never included in the amendment. For all the world knew, transgender people don't exist in Memphis.
For all the world knew had the video of Duanna's beating not emerged inexplicably from police files, no one would have ever heard of Duanna, or her beating.
For all the world knew
. But why would the Transgender Equality Project (TEP), the driving force behind this amendment not mention this to the media immediately following the vote? Why would the City impassioned pro equality council members make no mention of this? Why would there be no mention of this at all in mainstream media?
The TEP has personally assured me and publicly stated they are 100% in favor of trans protections but the reality is they all knew they were wrong, the silence of the T desperately needed for this victory advancing the gay agenda.
I confirmed this by contacting a writer of the most respected and oft quoted media sources covering this issue. No one wrote or spoke of this because they being progressive individuals did not want to jeopardize the chances of the amendment passing with sexual orientation by braking the silence.
Trans people were thrown under the bus and I am not so naive to believe there was no deal maker.
Like the Memphis police years before, the Memphis city council and the Tennessee Equality Project they all need the silence of the T in Memphis.
Our family in Memphis is silent, beaten and murdered.
But we will not be silent in Texas. The Dallas Transgender Advocates and Allies call on the Memphis City Council to reinstate gender identity and expression into the amendment before the 30 days elapses allocated to determine if the amendment is legal.
For Duanna, for all our sisters and brothers in Memphis who are denied jobs, ultimately forcing our family onto the streets to prostitute ourselves.
But unlike Duanna who was shot dead according to news reports while "working her customary strip", just days before filing a federal lawsuit, there will be no silence of the T in Memphis as long as the Dallas Transgender Advocates have a say.
There will be no silence of the T anywhere.
Please sign the petition Memphis Protect Trans People
Cross posted from The Dallas Transgender Advocates and Allies
9/19/12
Memphis City Council Approves Non Discrimination Amendment Sans Trans
In a surprise move the amendment that was approved last night by the Memphis city council only protects against sexual orientation omitting gender expression and identity.
According to Jonathan Cole, Vice President of the Tennessee Equality Project it was understood the proposed amendment would include transgender protections but last night when "it came downstairs" it was stripped of trans protections.
Action News 5 - Memphis, Tennessee
Cole in a telephone interview said he was surprised as everyone else at the omission but that the "Tennessee Equality Project would fight for trans protections" to be added during the 30 days allotted for the council to discover if the amendment is contrary to the discrimination ordinance already in place.
Memphis has the distinct reputation as one of the transgender murder capitols of the world.
The proposed amendment face severe opposition from the religious right spearheaded by Bellevue Baptist Church Pastor Steve Gaines who according to the The Commercial Appeal said
Please sign the petition Memphis Protect Trans people
Least we forget the catalyst to this.....
Two weeks before a lawsuit was to be filed Duanna was murdered with a shot to her face at close range.
According to Jonathan Cole, Vice President of the Tennessee Equality Project it was understood the proposed amendment would include transgender protections but last night when "it came downstairs" it was stripped of trans protections.
Action News 5 - Memphis, Tennessee
Cole in a telephone interview said he was surprised as everyone else at the omission but that the "Tennessee Equality Project would fight for trans protections" to be added during the 30 days allotted for the council to discover if the amendment is contrary to the discrimination ordinance already in place.
Memphis has the distinct reputation as one of the transgender murder capitols of the world.
The proposed amendment face severe opposition from the religious right spearheaded by Bellevue Baptist Church Pastor Steve Gaines who according to the The Commercial Appeal said
"sexual orientation should not be considered a civil rights issue."We have just 30 days in which to get transgender protections reinserted.
"Civil rights status should be reserved for areas that have already
been mentioned, such as race and gender," Gaines said. "No one can
choose their gender. No one can choose the color of their skin. The
fact is everybody has a choice with sexual activity. This is about the
furtherance of an aggressive political agenda."
Please sign the petition Memphis Protect Trans people
Least we forget the catalyst to this.....
Two weeks before a lawsuit was to be filed Duanna was murdered with a shot to her face at close range.
9/17/12
Loren Cameron at a University: What Scares Fox News and Enrages NeoCons
Yesterday fear mongering right wing pandering Fox News published a story with a rather innocuously worded headline but with a dark warning of a transsexual being paid to promote sexually explicate pictures to young minds at the The University of Minnesota-Duluth.
So who is this menace and what is his deal? To learn more we could
watch the National Geographic special about sexual identity: The Art of Loren Cameron and visit Loren Cameron's Website something neither Fox News or the right wing Campus Reform did.
There is a reason for that. Right wing religious bigoted people are scared to death of the truth.
Yes Cameron you do more than scare them you enrage them.
Worthy of mention is that for some reason Fox deemed it necessary to bring up a totally unrelated racial event the university had hosted earlier.
Shame on you Faux News.
So who is this menace and what is his deal? To learn more we could
watch the National Geographic special about sexual identity: The Art of Loren Cameron and visit Loren Cameron's Website something neither Fox News or the right wing Campus Reform did.
There is a reason for that. Right wing religious bigoted people are scared to death of the truth.
Yes Cameron you do more than scare them you enrage them.
Worthy of mention is that for some reason Fox deemed it necessary to bring up a totally unrelated racial event the university had hosted earlier.
Shame on you Faux News.
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