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nube-brillante: “ sistahmamaqueen: “ projectqueer: “ Nominations are now open for this year’s Trans 100! All those on the Trans 100 and in the Breakouts come from nominations provided by the general community. Nominations are open for a specific...
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Nominations are now open for this year’s Trans 100! All those on the Trans 100 and in the Breakouts come from nominations provided by the general community. Nominations are open for a specific length of time as determined by the Trans 100 Team, via web form.

  • Nominations are anonymous.  Anyone may nominate, and they may nominate themselves.
  • Nominees must be living
  • Nominees must be currently working to improve the lives of trans people.
  • Nominees must be doing work that has daily life impact in the service to the Trans Community, with special focus on the areas of ostracism elimination, stigma reduction, poverty reduction, furthering the social and economic development of the Trans Community, and building infrastructure within the Trans Community. On the ground, in the trenches work is valued first and foremost.
  • Nominees can be working at any scale, locally, regionally, or nationally.
  • Nominees must be or identify as trans.
  • Nominees must be out as Trans people in their work.
  • We particularly encourage the addition of persons of color.
  • We particularly encourage the nominations of people who are unsung and/or unseen
  • We particularly encourage the addition of those working in areas of multiple intersections
  • We particularly encourage people from areas other than the coasts be added.
  • The key question to ask is this: what are they doing to make life better for other trans folk in their daily lives?

Nominate folks here.

sistahmamaqueen

yo, can we nominate trauma queen? janet mock? kokumo? myself?

all the other fierce and amazing TWOC we know?!

nube-brillante

Yes we can! :D :D :D To all of you. <3

autostraddle

y'all go nominate mey now ok

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16 "Hard-Core Facts" About Lesbians From 1963's "A New Look At The Lesbian"
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Conversations among their own group consist of sexual gossip, certainly in excess of what we might have designated as “good taste.”

This is, potentially, one of my favorite Autostraddle series of all time.

Here’s one of the quotes highlighted.

“Biting, a form of oral sadism, is frequent among these women, and probably accounts for the high number of turtle-necked sweaters sold to them.”

and another:

No, we do not put our Lesbians on faraway islands. Nor do we lock them away in asylums. But have you ever visited a typical Lesbian bar?

Here’s some choice quotes from the reader’s comments.

“Set one hundred women down on a deserted island and within a week, a quarter of this number will become lesbians.”

"Although to be fair if Shane [from The L Word] was one of the women on that desert island, within a week 99 of this number will become lesbians."

“And Jenny would turn most of them back.”

and:

“Picture every one of these being read in the classic Twilight Zone narrator voice.

There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man’s fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call Lesbianism.”

Check out the whole series—it’s a must-read.