By Jos Truitt • @jostruitt • 13 years ago

What We Missed

This past Saturday was Juneteenth, which commemorates the ending of slavery in the U.S.
Survivor of abstinence only programs? Did you have to listen to a useless “sex talk” or was it skipped all together? Like this new Facebook page, We bet we can find 100,000 people who were clueless about sex growing up!
Full funding has been restored to San Francisco’s Transgender Economic Empowerment Initiative…
…While in San Diego there’s another case of alleged employment discrimination against a trans woman.
Emily Douglas tries to reconcile the study saying children of lesbians are psychologically on par with, if not better off than, kids of straight couples with one that suggested children conceived by donor insemination are headed for a lifetime of emotional pain. Turns out the second study is non-peer-reviewed and funded by a right-wing think tank.
An alarming number of queer and transgender youth are homeless and face violence when incarcerated.
In completely unsurprising news, Mike Huckabee is an ass.

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Jos Truitt is Executive Director of Development at Feministing. She joined the team in July 2009, became an Editor in August 2011, and Executive Director in September 2013. She writes about a range of topics including transgender issues, abortion access, and media representation. Jos first got involved with organizing when she led a walk out against the Iraq war at her high school, the Boston Arts Academy. She was introduced to the reproductive justice movement while at Hampshire College, where she organized the Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program’s annual reproductive justice conference. She has worked on the National Abortion Federation’s hotline, was a Field Organizer at Choice USA, and has volunteered as a Pro-Choice Clinic Escort. Jos has written for publications including The Guardian, Bilerico, RH Reality Check, Metro Weekly, and the Columbia Journalism Review. She has spoken and trained at numerous national conferences and college campuses about trans issues, reproductive justice, blogging, feminism, and grassroots organizing. Jos completed her MFA in Printmaking at the San Francisco Art Institute in Spring 2013. In her "spare time" she likes to bake and work on projects about mermaids.

Jos Truitt is an Executive Director of Feministing in charge of Development.

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