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Laverne Cox to Receive GLAAD Stephen F. Kolzak Award, Ellen Page to Present It, Everyone to Swoon

Yup. You read that right. Beacon of magnificence Laverne Cox will be honored at the 25th Annual GLAAD Media Awards with the Stephen F. Kolzak Award, and beacon of magnificence Ellen Page will present it.
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GLAAD made the announcement this morning, noting that the Stephen F. Kolzak award
is presented to an openly lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender media professional who has made a…

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It’s Trans Day of Visibility! Here’s 15 Ways To Let Trans People Know You See Them and Care

International Trans Day of Visibility is here! This event, which happens each year on March 31st, was started by Rachel Crandall, the leader of Transgender Michigan. It exists so that we can focus on the trans people around us and the good that they do. She wanted a day that celebratedand recognized trans people who are still with us to go alongside Trans Day of Remembrance, which remembers those…

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What The Headlines Missed: Landmark Ruling In Lebanon Advances Trans* Rights Too

Earlier this year, a ruling in Lebanon advanced the cause of LGBT citizens by simultaneously addressing sexuality and gender identity. On January 28th, Judge Naji al-Dahdah terminated a case involving an unnamed, self-described trans woman accused of having a same-sex relationship with a man. The judge’s decision was made public in a report this month.
The defendant argued that she was born with…

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Join Janet Mock, Me and Other Trans Women Writers in a Women’s History Month Google+ Hangout!

Janet Mock, trans activist and author of the New York Times bestselling book Redefining Realness has gathered up a great group of trans women writers to celebrate Women’s History Month, talk about our craft, and interact with all of you this Wednesday, March 26! In on this conversation will be Toni Newman, Ryka Aoki, Janet Mock and me! It’s such a great honor for me to be included along with…

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5 Things to Know About Prison Abolition and the Prison Industrial Complex

Maybe you’ve heard, and maybe you haven’t, but I’m going to say it again because it’s still true: the criminal justice system in the United States is a fucked up institution that is every kind of -ist you can think of, and feeds off of the most marginalized bodies of our society in order for companies to maximize profits. It’s often called the prison industrial complex (PIC), a term coined by the…

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CrossFit Bans a Trans Woman From Competing With Other Women, Is Stuck In The Medical Past

Chloie Jonsson was a personal trainer and CrossFit athlete hoping to compete in the upcoming CrossFit Games. Now, she’s suing the company for $2.5 million on grounds of “discrimination, intentional infliction of emotional distress and unfair competition” because they have refused to allow her to compete against other women due to the fact that she is transgender. CrossFit has said that it will…

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Sunday Funday is Going in Every Direction with All of Google’s Money and Saskia de Brauw

Hello, big, overwhelming, bewildering, totally awesome world! It’s SUNDAY FUNDAY! Let’s get the good news rollin’, ’cause you make the rockin’ world go ’round.
Google Pulls Total Feminist Move, Includes Trans Women in Their IWD Doodle
Google went all-out with their International Women’s Day doodle, including a video montage for yesterday’s global feminist holiday that featured two prominent trans…

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This Is Because I’m A Woman: How Sexual Harassment Invaded My Life (And Some Ways to Respond To It)

feature image via stopstreetharassment.org, poster made by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
There is no way to prepare a person for how much women get hit on. Cisgender men don’t typically experience aggressive flirtation, and cisgender women seem to experience it from birth. I once had a life where I could go blocks, miles, months without a stranger standing in my way, saying,”Hey girl, where you goin’ in…

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My Own Personal Top Five Trans Roots

I came out as trans much later in life than I wish I had, and finally getting here was a long and winding journey. I remember wanting to be a girl when I was just a little kid, not even in school yet, but that was before I really had any ideas about gender and what being a boy…

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Portrait of a Community: Inside Barneys’ Groundbreaking Campaign Featuring 17 Trans* Models

It was the shoot heard ’round the world: 17 trans* models coming together for the Spring 2014 Barneys New York campaign called ”Brothers, Sisters, Sons, and Daughters.” And, for once, talking for themselves.
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The campaign, shot in New York by Bruce Weber, included models from not only various gender presentations and identities but also a diverse array of hometowns,…

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Piers Morgan Still, Like, Totally Obsessed with Janet Mock (and His Own False Victimhood)

Janet Mock once again brightened our TV screens when she appeared on The Colbert Report to promote her book, Redefining Realness, and discuss how the media should talk to trans people, as well as the importance of respecting people’s self identities. Stephen Colbert, who does have a somewhat rough past when it comes to making transmysogynistic jokes(in what he claims is satire), was making jokes…

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