There is so much harm the Internet and its new communication methods can do. For example, social media allows schoolyard bullies to anonymously follow teenagers into what could/should be a safe haven, their home. As long as you’re connected you’re also connected to your bullies. Sadly, teenagers then often see no other way out than …
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Being offensive and being kind are not mutually exclusive things. Janet Mock, slaying Piers Morgan and his sensationalist transphobic nonsense with fierce truths. (via amaditalks)
Janet Mock returned to Piers Morgan’s show to explain to him what was so offensive about the way his show framed the interview with her. Mr Morgan calls himself an ally to trans* people and their issues, but like many doesn’t really understand them. I don’t want to accuse Morgan and his production team of malice, …
janetmock: In exactly one month, my book will be on bookshelves. I’m pinching myself over this realization and this review from Barbara Smith, co-founder of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press. Already pre-ordered, top of my 2014 must read list.
Chelsea Manning
youarenotyou: clarityandchaos: I guess we can’t really do anything about the fact that she is gong is going to jail, but is there at least something one could do to get Chelsea Manning into the right jail, a women’s facility? That she gets the treatment she deserves? it looks like she doesnt want to be sent …
This post is about our health as trans people, about how we’re told daily that who we are is not “necessary,” and about how disposable we are to this government, which fails to extend healthcare coverage to all its citizens. Having access to quality, sensitive, knowledgeable healthcare without bias and stigma has been a lifelong …
Babies!
Janet Mock used more accurate language to describe the royal baby: The #RoyalBaby has been assigned and designated male at birth. — Janet Mock (@janetmock) July 22, 2013 For interested people who can read German, Nicole at kleinerdrei wrote about the question “Was wird es denn?” (“What [gender] is it going to be?), why the …
[…] I feel love has no gender, no body, no boundaries. It is we who put such limits and restrictions and rules on something so intimate and pure. Yet I know definitions and words and labels help us shape our world, and even reach back to bell hooks who posits in All About Love, “Imagine …
CLARITY AND CHAOS 