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Eileen Myles poems, reading poetry, topless reading parties, excerpts from An Untamed State and more.

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Chelsea Manning Faces Possible Prison Transfer In Complex Case of Transphobia

This week, Pentagon officials announced that they’re considering transferring the incarcerated Chelsea Manning from a military facility to a civilian one, ostensibly so that Manning can pursue hormone therapy. The Pentagon’s reasoning is that she can’t be given medical treatment specific to her status as a trans woman according to military policy because the military doesn’t allow trans people to serve, and so if her status were recognized Manning would need to be discharged. Manning’s attorney, David Coombs, has released a statement explaining his skepticism about this transfer and what benefit it might offer Manning.

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Sometimes someone can crack open something that feels very safe and make you unreasonably vulnerable: you will live to tell the story of this shock.

The Best Break-Up Advice You’ll Ever Get

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Sometimes I say I am laughing out loud, but it is more like I am smiling out loud (this is a thing, I swear!); however, I seriously laughed out loud over this.

Also: that one chick in the Classic Butch section is clearly in the wrong group. Vague facial expression equals Kristen Stewart Groupie, let’s be real here.

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Your Primer on TV Upfronts 2014: A Mixed Bag

A few years ago, I had no idea what upfronts were. Now the days when they’re released are amongst my favorite of the year.

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Erin Foley’s “Lady With Pockets” Comedy Review: This Is A Good Album, Listen To It

Erin Foley is no stranger to these internet parts. Back in 2009 we did an interview with her and have checked in here and there since. She’s constantly popping up on our television screens with appearances on Curb Your Enthusiasm, Go On, and Chelsea Lately. When it comes to stand-up, she’s kept her name on the tip of everyone’s tongue with various late night appearances, a spot on Premium Blend, her own Comedy Central Presents, a performance on Mash-Up, and her previous album, Lower the Bar.

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There May Be Two Sides to Every Story; That Doesn’t Mean They’re Both Important

Back in April, the Gay-Straight Alliance of Craig High School in Janesville, Wisconsin participated in the Day of Silence, and showed a video to accompany it: the viral hit “Kids React to Gay Marriage.”
In an ideal world, this wouldn’t be news, and the showing of the video itself wasn’t. But this week, the Janesville School District superintendent issued an apology to the community. The district’s policy says that in the case of “controversial or political issues,” the school is required to give a platform to “all sides” of the matter.

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Faking It Episode 104 Recap: You’re A Karmasexual

Welcome to the fourth recap of the first season of Faking It, a musical variety hour from the network that brought you Is She Really Going Out With Him? and Totally Pauly.
We open in the outdoor arena of adolescent desire commonly known as “high school” where Karma’s leaving Amy yet another voice mail regarding the fact that Amy hasn’t spoken to her in 12 hours which is longer than that time Amy’s tonsils were removed from her skull by a man with sharp instruments.

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Listen. People are going to try to tell you to play it cool with girls. I’m not about that. I say go the other way. I say play it hot.
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But be uncommon. Be different. Don’t be like other people. Be gentle. Be sweet. Be tender. Stroke her hair, the downy hair on her cheek, right at the jawline, with your pinky finger. Better yet, with a feather. Stroke the hair on her cheek with a dainty wren’s feather you found lying majestically on the moss in an old growth forest or next to a half-eaten french fry in the food court at the mall. Whisper sweet nothings to her. Whisper literally nothing. Make it all meaningless silibants: sssssss-sss-sssss-ss-s-sssssss. Right in her ear, right into her brain. Make her whole head tingle. Whisper until your tongue goes numb and then keep whispering. Don’t stop. Don’t give up. Play it hot. You got thissssssssssss.

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Protesters Take Stage at Health Conference Because NYC’s Trans Healthcare Failure is Inexcusable

#TransHealthcareNOW Protesters Take Stage at NYC Health Conference

This morning, members of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, including SRLP membership director Reina Gossett, took over the stage at the HxRefractored Conference in New York City to demand that the New York State Department of Health repeal the 1998 regulation barring transgender people from accessing healthcare through state Medicaid coverage.

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Give OUT Day: Be the Support You Want to See In the World for LGBT Organizations

Tomorrow is Give OUT Day, a national initiative to encourage donations to LGBTQ organizations. Coordinated giving efforts like this one bring visibility to individual organizations and the larger movement, and everyone from local grassroots groups to the Human Rights Campaign are participating. Last year, the first Give OUT Day raised more than $600,000 for more than 400 organizations. This year, organizers hope the day will bring in more than $1 million for organizations around the country, said Jason Franklin, the executive director of Bolder Giving, which is putting on the event.

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12 (More) Ladies Who Were Writing Sexy Lesbian Love Letters Before You Got Born

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, romantic friendships between women were everywhere. Women professed their love, platonic and erotic, for each other at length, often in letters.
In Sapphistries, Leila J. Rupp writes:
“Are these expression of physical desire? Formulaic expressions of friendship? Or sometimes one, sometimes the other, sometimes both? What might it mean that a woman would imagine traces of another’s kisses on her face when the two had never met? After all, what counts as sex?”
Though the women below might not have been together according to the way we think of being together (and imposing contemporary ideas of sexuality on them is incorrect), it’s clear from their words that their relationships were passionate and full of sex sometimes and love and longing always.

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Incarcerated Trans Teen Girl Is Still in Adult Prison Despite Being Charged With No Crimes

A 16 year-old transgender teenage girl has been locked up in an isolated mental health unit of the York Correctional Institution since April, despite not being charged with any crimes. She was recently moved to another buildingthat the Connecticut Department of Children and Families hopes will better suit her needs. However, advocates for the girl say that the new location isn’t any less isolated and still isn’t a suitable place for her. Additionally, the fact remains that Jane Doe, as she is known because she’s a minor, hasn’t been charged with any crimes, has mental health needs that aren’t being met and has been locked up in an adult prison since last month. Some documents suggest that DCF may even be misleading the press and the public as to their treatment of Doe, and wish to cover up the fact that they tried (and failed) to have Doe transferred to a men’s prison.

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