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Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

In the past 18 months, 27 religious universities receiving federal funding have been allowed to discriminate against their students.

By Alyssa Peterson • 8 years ago

How anti-trans bathroom arguments exploit fear of sexual violence to push bigotry

Ed. note: This post was originally posted on the Community site.

Last week, Houston voters rejected the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO), a measure that would have provided for comprehensive nondiscrimination protections for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender, or LGBT, community along with a number of other marginalized groups.

Ed. note: This post was originally posted on the Community site.

By Katherine Cross • 8 years ago

What “I Am Cait” gets wrong about trans suicide

This past week there were a lot of dismal “I told you so”s fluttering around social media with the (entirely staged) revelation that Caitlyn Jenner holds odious views on welfare recipients, repeating the dependency myth and suggesting they have no incentive to find other income sources.

By Katherine Cross • 8 years ago

What is Truly Unspeakable: Trans Women and Double Standards

Last week I wrote with deeply cautious optimism and trepidation about where we as trans women stood in the media gaze. The following week provided much to temper even my thin rays of enthusiasm.

By Alexandra Brodsky • 9 years ago

Ky Peterson demands we again ask: who is allowed to shoot back?

Ky Peterson has already spent three years in prison, only the start of his 20 year sentence. The young black trans man shot the person he says raped him, the assault just one of a series of violent attacks he experienced in Georgia.

Ky Peterson has already spent three years in prison, only the start of his 20 year sentence. The young black trans man shot the person he says raped him, the assault just one of a series of ...

By Maya Dusenbery • 9 years ago

No, trans activism isn’t threatening the mission of women’s colleges

Last week, Monica Potts wrote a piece in The New Republic initially entitled “Trans Activism is Threatening Women’s Colleges’ Mission: Campus fights to erase references to women are indistinguishable from old-school misogyny” and then, after lots of pushback, changed to: “Why Women’s Colleges Still Matter in the Age of Transactivism.”

By Alexandra Brodsky • 9 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Trans women aren’t a threat to the mission of women’s colleges — but transphobic colleges are.

Dana and I wrote about why more guns on campus would make rape victims less safe.

Trans women aren’t a threat to the mission of women’s colleges — but transphobic colleges are.

Dana and I wrote about why more guns on campus would make rape victims less safe.

By Verónica Bayetti Flores • 9 years ago

When the marginalized are safe, we’re all safer

Ed. note: This post is cross-published from Ravishly, where it is part of a conversation series on police violence against women of color.

The last year has seen an uprising in the resistance to police violence the likes of which we haven’t seen since the murder of Amadou Diallo in 1999.

Ed. note: This post is cross-published from Ravishly, where it is part of a conversation series on police violence against women of color.

The last year has seen an uprising in the resistance to police violence the ...