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Here is a list of the dead being remembered this year.
The list is much longer than it was in past years not because there are more people being murdered, but because we are keeping better track of those murdered who had lived outside of the United States--especially trans women in Latin American countries. Of the one hundred sixty two trans women reported murdered last year alone, seventy-nine were in either Honduras, Venezuela, or Brazil according to the breakdown on that site.
Almost all of the trans people murdered have been trans women of color, and like years past, there are murders that have gone unreported.
Today is not a day for upper/middle-class white cis GLB people to get together and throw a mother fucking party
Last year, the Capital District Gay and Lesbian Community Council (CDGLCC) had a fucking potluck.
This year, it looks like they've gotten their shit together and worked with (or at least gave the rubberstamp and spread the word for) two trans people, Hawk R. Stone and Jaye McBride, to organize a candlelight vigil with the collaboration between themselves and In Our Own Voices (IOOV), an organization for queer and trans people of color in the capital district, as well as two other organizations, the Empire State Pride Agenda and the NY State Coalition Against Sexual Violence.
But this year, the Gay Alliance of Genesee Valley (GAGV), as i said in my previous post, is having a former drag king do a comedy act with a $15 door charge (oh but if you're a college student you can get a discount!). (Facebook page for the event)
Please stop disrespecting the dead and murdered by dancing on their graves like this.
![[info - dreamwidth.org]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) snugglebitch has a post worth reading about this year's TDoR celebration being had by the GAGV.
There is also a post about TDoR at Questioning Transphobia.
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omg my lj has a new subtitle
"Transsexualism is a first-world 'disease'"
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THE RESPONSES TO THIS WRITER'S BLOCK NEED MOAR NAVELGAZING YOU GUYS I DON'T THINK THAT THERE IS ENUFF YET GRANTED THIS QUESTION IS ASKING FOR IT BUT OMG COME ON I DON'T CARE ABOUT HOW YOU ARE AN ANTI-HOMOPHOBIA WARRIOR EXCEPT WHEN IT'S AWKWARD AND HOW THE RACIST AND ANTI-QUEER JOKES YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS TELL BETWEEN EACH OTHER AREN'T A PROBLEM BECAUSE EVERYONE ELSE JUST NEEDS A SENSE OF HUMOR FUCK
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Woman calls 911 for medical assistance because she's having a seizure, and instead of providing it, paramedics assault her, handcuff her, and send her to jail
"They drug tested me and then they provided me with an IV of seizure medication. By then, it was about 10:00 at night," Kourtney said.
In other words, she received treatment about nine hours after her arrest. And her release papers confirm her diagnosis as "seizure disorder."
Kourtney and her roommate believe the paramedics and police made some degrading assumptions about her, the neighborhood and her condition.
"They come to the hood, see a girl on the floor, and they think she's on drugs," Tiffini said.
Now, Kourtney says she's wary of calling 911 for help in the future.
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So Lambda has stated that they will take into consideration the sexual orientation and "gender identity" of the authors when deciding who to give their Literary Awards. Cue the anguished wailing of many anguished straight cis women (and a few straight cis men as well as a handful of self-hating token queers), plenty of whom are just in it for the sweet, sweet man-on-man sex scenes and heartstrings-pulling tropes that don't actually reflect the lives of queer people.
If you think that you're an "ally" to queer people--which you must think of yourself as if you're a straight cis person looking for accolades from queer people for your work w.r.t. queer people--then why would you find it necessary to take awards for queer literature from a queer organization that could--and should--be going to queer people?
If you're going to claim that you're writing a book to "give representation" or "raise awareness" or "tell their stories" or whatever for queer people, why would it bother you that the words of a person who is actually queer is getting recognition instead of your own?
The answer is because you don't really care about queer people. The straight cis people who are doing all this whining are co-opting queer identities, lives, and experiences (or rather, their often incorrect opinion of what queer people are, do, experience, or should be), and they're doing it for their own personal gratification (M/M sex scenes or otherwise), to feel good about how open-minded (or whatever they want to think of themselves as) they are, and to further their own careers--and, as we've seen, they're perfectly willing to further their own careers at the expense of the queers they love to write about so much.
There is a reason that the only people i welcome into my life, into my personal space, are (with a few notable exceptions) queer, and it is because the rest of you fucking suck.
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The idea that there is a "shared women's experience" is a sort of important premise behind radical feminism, isn't it?
The problem is, it's an incorrect and privileged misconception.
That premise is a big part of the reason that there was an attempt, albeit an unsuccessful one, by people who identified as feminists who were trans women, women of color, and/or sex workers to have a new, third wave of feminism wherein the assumption wasn't made that all women share the experiences of the upper/middle-class, cis, white women who shaped and controlled the second-wave radical feminist movement and the issues that were put on the front burners.
Of course, the idea of "third wave feminism" was grossly misinterpreted by those in positions of power.
The attempt to move past the vilification of sex workers, the perpetuation and ignoring of racism and intersectional oppression, to allow for trans women to be part of a women's movement and to label their experiences as "women's experiences" as well--all of it was taken away and turned into yet another debate between otherwise-privileged women about "what a feminist looks like" and "what a feminist does" at the superficial level of circle-jerking over body hair, being a stay-at-home-mom, the way that having a lot of sex and doing porn (a certain kind of porn made for and by a certain class of women) and stripper pole aerobics, and (white collar) career vs. family and reclaiming the word "Bitch" and doing radikewl genderfucking through clothes and hairstyles--in other words, it became the "choice feminism" of Amanda Marcotte versus the "radical feminism" of Gloria Steinem.*
Sexism isn't the only, or the most hurtful, kind of oppression experienced by all women, sexism isn't a stand-alone oppression that works independently of other oppressions; this is something that gets lost in the discussion between otherwise-privileged women who take it upon themselves to be the voice of women everywhere when talking about sexism and patriarchy and being a woman, which is what has ultimately happened the brief third wave of feminism, which has been destroyed because of it.
So it's gone full circle, from the speaking out against the assumption of a shared, privileged experience to the appropriation, misunderstanding, and ultimately the silencing of those voices and words right back to the assumption of a shared women's experience that leaves out the same people who spoke out against that erasure in the first place.
And it's the reason why you have people who will say in one breath that they "don't believe in gender" or that "gender is ~just~ a social construct" in one breath but who say that they feel uncomfortable with the idea of peeing next to, being in the same jail cell as, being in the same rape/DV shelter as, sharing women's space with women with penises in the next breath.
* On a personal note, this is why i don't identify as a feminist at all
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Apropos this post,
"Is it just my imagination, or are all the Happy Tranny stories about trans men and four-year-old trans girls?"
"It's not just you, but there's only a small handful of the four-year-old trans girl stories."
Why do you think that is, flist?
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Anti-healthcare nut Pamela Pilger goes after a Jewish Israeli immigrant who's been in the US for twenty years shouting "Heil Hitler" because he was comparing his experiences with Israel's health care system with those in the United States
This is an extended video that continues after she starts mocking him with fake crying that makes me want to punch her. She goes on to touch him without his permission.
And that shirt she's wearing? It's this shirt:
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Rocko Bulldagger on the HRC and GLAAD responses to Bruno.
Worth reading.
"The scene they were decrying showed sex. GLAAD is supposed to be against defamation, not sexuality. Their statement describing gay life reads a lot like an order, dictating how we are to be gay in order to make the public more comfortable.
... What is the one thing GLAAD, HRC and even the NY Times do NOT want you to think about when you think about gays?
ANAL SEX. One of our culture’s worst fears is getting pleasure from the business end; it’s the very definition of dirty. Castrated queers fit more comfortably into the culture. Better to do the carpool and rush home than to make jokes about getting fucked in the ass."
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John C. Wright: Author and Professional Tool
ETA he deleted all the (nine pages and running, last i checked, of) comments and turned commenting off.
This makes it very easy for him to argue that they were, by and large, irrelevant, stupid, and meaningless without actually having to address any of the things said.
lol this in spite of him being one of those douches who whines about ~his freedom of speech~ whenever someone calls out his bigoted ass.
screencap of page one before comments deleted: http://pics.livejournal.com/krylonman/pic/00002cb7
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Cops taser grandfather and pregnant women at a baptism party, charge him with public intoxication (in his own backyard) and her with assaulting an officer (for trying to help the 55-year-old man who had just been tased and was on the ground).
Why am i not surprised?
Because they are Latino, and this happened in Manassas, VA.
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I noticed a couple of days ago that ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) voz_latina deleted her journal, and hasn't been seen in places she used to frequent since about the same time she did so.
I haven't talked to her about it at all, but it makes me sad--i could relate to voz, talk about shared experiences with her, in a lot of ways, and she and i saw eye-to-eye about a lot of things. Most things, even.
So i'm assuming that a lot of you have seen this post by Piny over at Feministe, which i'm assuming has something to do with the above.
Piny's post, just so we're clear, was insanely inappropriate. To sum it up, it is a post to Feministe, a large feminist blog frequented by a readership that is majority cis, by a cis woman with a trans history railing against ad hominem attacks by a trans woman that ends with Piny saying "[Voz] is dishonest, manipulative, petty, and ugly-minded. She’s an asshole." (what? gee no i totes can't see any hypocrisy in that. what are you even saying)
It did not belong on the main board of a large feminist blog.
It did not, really, belong even in the comments section of a large feminist blog.
It's a post that more or less declares it open season on voz_latina, and that predictably and inevitably leads to racist, transmisogynistic commentary (not to mention ad hominem attacks) directed toward voz or, really, to anyone who's ever called them out.
It's a grudge post, a wanky, childish pile-on post that's more or less granting otherwise-privileged feminists all the boldness they need to start complaining about tone and the phrase "shut up and listen" from trans people and/or people of color when it comes to talking about privilege, race, ethnicity, trans-ness.
About the things that voz has said--about her calling trans men "dickless men" shortly following a huge discussion about the word "tranny" and transmisogyny from trans men, about what she said to Piny, about her saying that another trans woman looked like a "man in a dress" in the comments in one of the posts to her personal journal--i would definitely call it projected internalized transphobia and/or sexism, and sure some of those things are messed up things to say, but, you know? That's something we all do. I do it. My partner does it. The other trans people i've known over the course of our lives do it.
So, if you want to ban a trans woman from your LJ community for it, you want to ban her from your feminist forum? Then fine--i don't even think (but then, i'm not totally sure) that voz herself really protested being banned from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) transgender.
You want to make a post somewhere private whining about how you think she is an asshole? Fine. You want to make a post to complain about ad hominem attacks in general not being okay in Feministe? Go for it.
But if you think you're accomplishing something, if you think you're "fighting oppression" rather than contributing to further marginalization, by laying open the projected internalized transphobia and/or misogyny of a trans woman--projected, in Piny's case, onto someone who's not even trans--for cis people and trans men to dissect and pull apart and berate her for it, then you've got another thing coming. All you have accomplished es el silencio otra voz latina.
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Children kicked out of whites-only pool in Philadelphia for being black.
"When the minority children got in the pool all of the Caucasian children immediately exited the pool," Horace Gibson, parent of a day camp child, wrote in an email. "The pool attendants came and told the black children that they did not allow minorities in the club and needed the children to leave immediately."
from multiple sources
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omg this community D:
from the profile: This is a community for people who are anatomically and physiologically designed and function as females. That is, their current sex if female. Their self defined gender is non-important, so long as they do not mind role playing the character's implied in the community's name. Any female is welcome to join. Whether you are a trans MTF who is currently undergoing or has already completed transition, an FTM who still has not undergone sex reasigment surgery (still female)... lol it is like a parody, but not
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I do not understand, for the life of me, all this resistance from cis people to the word "cis."
Pam's House Blend is just an example, but it's not like the first or last time it's happened or anything.
So what's up with that?
ETA: AT LEAST I'M NOT CALLING YOU GUYS "MUNDANES" OKAY
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If you are a trans woman who has been excluded from health care programs designated for women, or designated for women and trans people, and you would be willing to participate in a media project regarding your experiences with it, please get in touch with voz_latina. She is creating a media piece called . Click here and here for details!
Trans Female Health Experience Media Project
We have a Ning group now, so we can get to work making it all happen! Send an email addy so I can invite you to join us.
We have a name: Trans Female Health Experience Media Project
We have a mission: To empower and give voice to all who feel that unfettered access to women's or women's and trans' healthcare would be appropriate and helpful, but are excluded by cissexism
We have a plan: To create media works showcasing trans females speaking out about our needs in utilizing gendered healthcare.
We have a goal: Make ourselves heard, and get healthcare to respond to our needs, and be accountable to our concerns.
What we still need: You, your experiences as trans female, and your energy.
It's time we spoke out about being served. Send me a PM with an email I can send you a Ning invite to, to join our group and get to work.
If anyone needs access to the old post, please PM me (voz_latina). It will be the concept-on-a-cocktail napkin we all look back at and smile when this is all done.
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Minutemen assassinate a ten-year-old girl, her father, and one other person for being Latinos who lived near the border.
One Minuteman describes the way they go about murdering people:
“It’s just like hunting,” Mr. Stonex said, describing the tracking skills the group used. “If you’re going out hunting deer, you want to scout around and get an idea what their pattern is, what trails they use.”
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it's not the first time, and won't be the last, that hospitals run by anglo white people steal newborn babies from latina mothers and give them to other anglo white people
From the article:
The [Mississippi] hospital’s social worker reported “evidence” of abuse and neglect based on the following:
* The “baby was born to an illegal [sic] immigrant;”
* The “mother had not purchased a crib, clothes, food or formula.” (Most Latina mothers breast feed their babies).
* “She does not speak English which puts baby in danger.”
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