Tag Archives: Trans Activism
Trans allyship within GLAAD
TweetEd. note: I’m off this week. The wonderful Tobias Rodriguez is filling in for me. Tobias originally hails from Texas and now lives in New York where he works in social media at a reproductive health organization. At the GLAAD media awards last week, and again this weekend on the Melissa Harris-Perry show, GLAAD announced that they [...]
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Actually, trans people are still labeled as “disordered” in the DSM-V
TweetOn December 3, a lot of the internet, including this site, got very excited that the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V), which is used by mental health professional and folks in related fields, no longer labeled trans people as “disordered.” This would be a great win to celebrate. [...]
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Video: Janet Mock and Isis King on media representations of trans women
TweetWatch this: (The video is closed captioned). So good right? I especially love the way diversity of opinion on language is represented as both personal and political. Janet and Isis rock. Tweet
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Girl Talk: A Trans & Cis Woman Dialogue
Tweet I am ridiculously excited to announce that I’ll be participating in this year’s Girl Talk: A Trans & Cis Woman Dialogue. Here’s the info about the show: Queer cisgender women and queer transgender women are allies, friends, support systems, lovers, and partners to each other. Trans and cis women are allies to each other [...]
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Quick Hit: 100 Amazing trans* Americans you should know