tribtoday.com – By Adam Ferrise – reporter, Tribune Chronicle
Warren – A Paige Avenue man is facing eight years in prison after being accused of brutally beating a transsexual woman with two other men more than a week ago.
Police originally inves…
therepublic.com – By Karen Zarker – PopMatters.com
“I was a Scientologist for 12 years, which is a lot more embarrassing than saying Hi, I’m a transsexual SM dyke living with borderline personality disorder,” Kate Bornstein tells PopMatters on the r…
culture.wnyc.org – By Carolina A. Miranda
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Christer Stromholm: Les Amies de Place Blanche at the International Center of Photography In the 1950s and early 1960s, France was experiencing an ultra-conservative pendulum swing. Charles de Gaulle …
blogs.sfweekly.com – By Vanessa L. Pinto
I am a woman of Hispanic descent. My parents came here from Colombia and Cuba. Throughout my life, I never really faced discrimination as a Hispanic. I’ve faced more adversity for being female. During the 200…
news.wsu.edu – By Nella Letizia, College of Agricultural, Human and Natural Resource Sciences
Pullman, Wash. – Young people face tremendous pressure to conform to the “right” body image. But what does that mean for someone questioning his or her gen…
bionews.org.uk – By Dr Vardit Ravitsky and Professor David Heyd
Dr Vardit Ravitsky is assistant professor in the bioethics programmes at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Montreal and Professor David Heyd is Chaim Perelman professor of philosop…
huffingtonpost.com – Chuck Gomez – Playwright, former Emmy Award-winning television news journalist
It’s doubtful that teens packing the escalators of 42nd Street’s AMC Empire Theater to see Marvel’s The Avengers or The Hunger Games have ever heard …
democraticunderground.com – Segami
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Eric Fehrnstrom, a top aide and political strategist to presumptive Republican presidential candidate former Gov. Mitt Romney (MA), made headlines earlier this year with a gaffe comparing Romney …
india.blogs.nytimes.com – By Michael Edison Hayden
Human beings often seek spiritual healing out of a sense of psychological pain. In the case of India’s hijra population, a group with a tradition that spans back until at least the Kama Sutra period…
colorlines.com – by Kenyon Farrow
This week CeCe McDonald, the young black transgender woman on trial for murdering a white man who’d attacked her and a group of friends, shocked many of her supporters. Many thought she’d plead innocent to the secon…