Category: Politics
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“Poetry and Prose From the Gutter to the Grave”, A look inside Sarah Jane Baker’s Borstal to Bedlam
read three poems from sarah jane baker’s essential poetry collection and an update from the free sarah jane baker campaign.
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“Not just a novel about identity or transitioning” – Nicola Dinan on her debut book Bellies
oestrogeneration chats to yren rotela and mariana sepulveda: the baddies relentlessly campaigning for trans rights in paraguay
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meet the women fighting for trans liberation in paraguay
oestrogeneration chats to yren rotela and mariana sepulveda: the baddies relentlessly campaigning for trans rights in paraguay
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advocating for autonomy: trans and sex workers rights have always gone hand in hand
historically, sex work has been an integral part of trans womanhood. today fighting for trans liberation needs to include decriminalisation of sex work.
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how sylvia rivera paved the way for trans revolution
focusing on individual acts, especially if they’re spectacles, can distract us from the more long-term, harder work that our forebears put into the liberation struggle
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what does international women’s day signify for a transfeminine person?
on 8th march 2022 i had no idea i was a girl. i was a straight cis man who—nine days earlier—had voiced for the first time that i secretly wore women’s clothes. it wasn’t an easy thing to articulate. i tried to write down what ‘crossdressing’ was to me in a note on my phone so…
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what if trans day of remembrance was a public vow to be a good traitor?
you could argue that tdor is a performance of the idea that once one’s transness is known to a trans community, your name and status will be preserved, in direct opposition to the many ways in which it is otherwise erased, and has been erased through history. this is a perfectly reasonable account of what…