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Not In My Name

Yesterday, with an efficiency that would have been impressive were it not so horrific, the North Carolina GOP called a special session of the General Assembly, introduced and passed a bill gutting local anti-discrimination protections, and got the Republican governor Pat McCrory to promptly sign it into law.

By Jos Truitt • 8 years ago

My Auntie Buffalo Bill: The Unavoidable Transmisogyny of Silence of the Lambs

Last week, our friends at Bitch Media published an ill-advised article celebrating the 25th anniversary of Silence of the Lambs and praising Clarice Starling as an influential feminist hero.

By Dana Bolger • 8 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Oy, what a day.

Companies are using big data to predict when their employees will become pregnant.

Oy, what a day.

Companies are using big data to predict when their employees will become pregnant.

By Jos Truitt • 8 years ago

Arrested Development scraps Jeffrey Tambor’s transition storyline, cause awkward

I’m still celebrating Jeffrey Tambor and Eddie Redmayne losing for playing trans women at the still incredibly transmisogynistic Golden Globes last night (here’s my take on Jared Leto’s win a couple years ago). But that’s not the only recent trans news about cis men out of Hollywood.

By Katie Barnes • 8 years ago

Dear Ricky Gervais, trans women are not a joke

Ricky Gervais hosted the Golden Globes again last night, marking the 4th time he’s hosted the awards. Gervais hosting was not without controversy, given some of his less than savory jokes over the years. It wasn’t 20 seconds into his monologue, that he cracked a joke about Caitlyn Jenner’s transition, and women driving, both of which were tasteless.

By Jos Truitt • 8 years ago

On Jill Soloway, Caitlyn Jenner, and the trans representation the media wants

A number of articles critiquing comments Caitlyn Jenner has made about trans people have been published recently. An all too familiar pattern of media representation of trans women is playing out on a more high profile stage than usual:

By Jos Truitt • 8 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

As other GOP candidates try to distance themselves from Trump’s transparently fascist positions to make themselves look better in comparison, Mike Huckabee has made it clear his problem with Trump’s proposal to bar Muslims from entering the US is that it doesn’t go far enough because, “If you’re willing to strap a bomb to the belly of your child to kill Americans, then you’re willing to lie about your religion.”

By Katherine Cross • 9 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.