Tag Archive for "anti-trans violence"

Posts Tagged anti-trans violence

By Verónica Bayetti Flores • 9 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Get yr LOLs: When Hitler discovers Amnesty supports decrim:

By Mychal Denzel Smith • 9 years ago

When visibility doesn’t translate into support for trans teens

The death of Blake Brockington raises this question for me: how do we turn visibility into support?

By Verónica Bayetti Flores • 9 years ago

Feministing Jamz: Transfeminine resistance

Trans women of color have been all over the media lately due to the ongoing epidemic of anti-trans violence and murders, but it’s time to change that narrative.

By Verónica Bayetti Flores • 9 years ago

For those whose bodies are dangerous

For trans women of color who are living in their truth,

For women who choose to wear hijab,

For trans women of color who are living in their truth,

For women who choose to wear hijab,

By Mychal Denzel Smith • 9 years ago

An Internet eulogy for Penny Proud

Internet eulogies are a genre of writing unto themselves. Any of us concerned about the lives of those who exist on the margins has written one, afraid the loss of life would go unreported and uncared for if left to the traditional media machines to give voice to those lost.

By Verónica Bayetti Flores • 10 years ago

Feministing Jamz video of the week: The Body Electric by Hurray for the Riff Raff

In another case of a video which should have made the best of 2014 list but came out shortly after the list was published, we have “The Body Electric” by Hurray For The Riff Raff. The video and song, which tackle racist, gendered, and transmisogynist violence — while managing to be gorgeous at the same time — shook me to my core.

In another case of a video which should have made the best of 2014 list but came out shortly after the list was published, we have “The Body Electric” by Hurray For The ...

By Maya Dusenbery • 10 years ago

On Transgender Day of Remembrance, how do we shorten the list of the dead?

Today is the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance when we memorialize those who were killed by anti-trans violence in the past year. Here is this year’s list of those we’ve lost and here is where you can find an event happening in your area.

By Jos Truitt • 10 years ago

Against Visibility

When Jared Leto won a Golden Globe and then an Oscar for playing a (caricature of a) transgender woman in Dallas Buyers Club, I witnessed so much cis mansplaining about how Leto’s performance and award show appearances were good for trans women, because we needed visibility. Lots of folks don’t know about trans people, they argued, and Leto was educating them – plus his performance wasn’t that bad, it was accurate to how trans women were (seen by these cis men) at that time. When Laverne Cox made the cover of TIME, Andrew Sullivan responded by arguing that trans people should be willing to talk about our genitals when asked because people ...

When Jared Leto won a Golden Globe and then an Oscar for playing a (caricature of a) transgender woman in Dallas Buyers Club, I witnessed so much cis mansplaining about how Leto’s performance ...