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Laverne Cox is Amazing on the Cover of Time, Time’s Story Inside Not So Much

A month after being one of the top vote-getters in Time Magazine’s online poll for their annual “Person of the Year” issue and then being subsequently left completely out of that issue, actress and transgender rights activist Laverne Coxhas leapt completely past the idea of being one person in a giant list of the year’s most important people and has secured the entire cover for herself. This…

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Asking the Question: When Public Interrogation of Trans Women’s Bodies Turns into Open Sexualized Violence

While the media has a long history of sensationalizing stories involving trans people, in the last few months a number of debates have erupted in response to mainstream media figures asking prominent trans women invasive and inappropriate questions about their bodies during interviews. While the response from those media figures to criticism over this line of questioning has varied from equivocat…

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Also.Also.Also: La Roux Challenges Women’s Colleges and Other Stories We Missed This Week

Hello happy campers! Since I’ve been at home with my family and cats instead of on the mountain with you, I figured I’d let my pal Esmeralda help write about the news this week! Here’s the news we missed while I was living vicariously through this A-Camp open thread.
To Label or Not to Label?
Talking about sexuality and gender identity is always very personal and very complex.
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Carmen Carrera, Tyra Banks Team Up With VH1 to Make Docuseries About Trans Women

Carmen Carrera, a transgender model and activist, is set to star in a brand new docuseries about a group of young trans women living in Chicago. The series, produced by Tyra Banks, will debut its eight hour-long episode run in late 2014 or early 2015. The show, called TransAmerica, will air on VH1. According to the Hollywood Reporter, “the series is described as an earnest look at a group of millennial women — who happen to be transgender — living, loving and building their careers. The series will explore how their sexuality impacts their lives.” Now, I’m pretty sure they mean “how their gender impacts their lives,” but hopefully the show will also have a diverse range of sexualities among the women.

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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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Get Excited About “So Much More,” Laura Jane Grace’s New Reality Show for AOL

AOL is partnering with a group of about 15 celebrities including Zoe Saldana, Steve Buscemi and Ellen Degeneres to create online reality shows that will debut later this year. While very little is being said about most of the shows (including Ellen’s), one is catching a lot of attention so far. That one is the show starring Against Me!’s transgender frontwoman Laura Jane Grace.
Grace came out…

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Janet Mock Turns the Tables, Asks Interviewer Alicia Menendez What it’s Like to Be Cis

Janet Mock Recently sat down with Fusion’s Alicia Menendez and totally flipped the script on how an interview with a trans woman normally goes. Instead of answering a barrage of uncomfortable and unnecessary questions, this time Mock gets to ask the questions. And it is beautiful.

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Also.Also.Also: Queer People Are Organizing in Tech and Other Stories We Missed This Week

Hello, bunnies! I think spring is the most beautiful time of year for all kinds of little animals in real life and on the internet. If that bunny could talk, it’d say “Here’s the news we missed while I was looking at pictures of bunnies reading things!”

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10 LGBT Women Kicking Ass in Politics Worldwide

Last week, I wrote about Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, the former Icelandic prime minister who was the first out LGBT person in the world to be elected a nation’s head of state. When I was writing it, I realized that Sigurðardóttir had had this whole fascinating political career I never knew about, both before and after she came out a decade ago. That made me curious how many other awesome LGBT women have come out and been successful politicians, only to go unnoticed by most people outside their home country. So I did some digging, and it turns out there are a lot of them! Here are 10 who were the first out women to hold their particular seat, and just a few of the cool things they’ve done since then.

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Monica Jones Found Guilty of “Manifesting Prostitution,” Will Be “Rescued” from Sex Work by Incarceration

Project ROSE is a program in the city of Phoenix, AZ that claims to help sex workers. In the name of rescuing them, police officers handcuff alleged sex workers and take them off the street and into a church to meet with prosecutors and Project ROSE representatives, who offer them “diversion programs.” Sex workers who aren’t interested in the diversion programs face jail time. These sex workers aren’t technically arrested, just made “contact” with; conveniently, if they’re not arrested, then they don’t need to be offered the chance to speak to a lawyer. In May of 2013, Monica Jones became one of the people arrested by Project ROSE; the charge was “manifesting prostitution” for accepting a ride home to her neighborhood from men who turned out to be undercover cops. This week, Jones was found guilty, and faces the possibility of serving time in a men’s prison as a trans woman.

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Want to Support the Women of the Trans 100? Here’s How.

The second annual Trans 100 list was announced at a live event on the night of Sunday, March 30th. This list highlights trans people who are helping to make a positive impact in the trans community and the world. Jen Richards, who cofounded the Trans 100 with Antonia D’Orsay, says that the Trans 100′s goal is “to create a counter narrative that offers a growing compendium of people, organizations and projects that simultaneously reveals the diversity of trans people and celebrates the work being done in the community.”

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So, You’re A Trans Woman Looking For A Bra

For trans women, buying bras is often a new experience, even if we’re adults. If you transition later in life, you probably won’t have much experience picking out bras and the sizing might be confusing. Since most of us didn’t have the typical girl childhood, we’re kind of jumping in feet first and blind. When you add in other factors that are unique to trans women, picking out the right bra can be an arduous task.

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It’s Sunday Funday and Laverne Cox and Honey Maid Have No Time for Haters

It’s Sunday Funday, bear cubs! That means it’s time for another roundup of good gay news. LET’S GET INTO IT.
Sweeter Than Honey (Maid)
Honey Maid thinks you’re wholesome, damn it — no matter what.
Laverne Cox Loves You
Laverne Cox is speaking up for trans high school student Andraya Williams.

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Five Things You Should Know About Women and the Minimum Wage Crisis

“Raising minimum wage is a women’s issue,” emphasized Liz Shuler during the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organization’s (AFL-CIO) briefing on Working Women and the Minimum Wage on April 3rd. Shuler, AFL-CIO secretary-treasurer, and a number of AFL-CIO representatives gathered at AFL-CIO’s headquarters in Washington D.C. to discuss how raising the minimum wage improves the condition of women workers in the U.S., especially for those who are single-mothers and/or women of color. Here are five things you should know about women and the minimum wage crisis.

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Also.Also.Also: Dolores Huerta is Fighting Street Harassment with Poetry and Other Stories We Missed This Week

Hello, beautiful butterflies! Spring has sprung and it is a lovely sight indeed! Here’s what we missed while the flowers were blooming.
On Art and Identity
+ Here are “10 Transgender Artists Who Are Changing The Landscape of Contemporary Art.” And Ivan Coyote is one of them! I have a lot of feelings about Ivan Coyote because they have produced some truly amazing art and poetry and scholarship.…

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