May 2013
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“And after all these years, the trans community is still at the back of the bus....”
– Sylvia Rivera in Genderqueer: Voices from Beyond the Binary (via queeraztlan)
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delicate heresy: STREET TRANSVESTITE ACTION... →
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BOOKS, INTERVIEWS, AND ARTICLES
Stonewall - Martin Duberman
The Gay Militants: How Gay Liberation Began in America, 1969-1971 - Donn Teal
“Sylvia Rivera: A Woman Before Her Time” - Liz Highleyman (from Smash the Church, Smash the State: The Early Years of Gay Liberation)
“Marsha P. Johnson: New York City Legand” - Tommi Avicolli Mecca (from Smash the Church, Smash the...
Gay Couple Attacked Hours After Rally Against Hate... →
thematerialworld:
What the fuck is going on?! There have been TWO anti-gay attacks in Manhattan since Mark Carson was killed. And please don’t tell me the solution is more policing, because I have no interest in solving anti-gay harassment with anti-trans and anti-Black harassment.
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Venezuela's New Labour Law: The Best Mother's Day... →
brujacore:
Full-time mothers will be able to collect a pension in Venezuela. This is a huge fucking deal.
linetteherondale:
at eurovision you either wear a long dress or latex theres no inbetween
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xcedarxsmoke:
chris pureka - wrecking ball. how...
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An Open Letter to Felicia Day from Anna Anthropy-... →
mattachinereview:
TW: suicide, outing
A couple of days ago, a woman game developer attempted suicide on a live video stream following internet harassment related to an Indiegogo campaign for her game. While she lay in the hospital, Destructoid writer Allistair Pinsof, in the interest of clarifying her Indiegogo “scam,” outed her as a transgender woman on his Twitter account.
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Allison Miller's Boom Tic Boom: Live In Concert :... →
A go-to choice for jazz heavies and arena-level singer-songwriters alike, drummer Allison Miller made time to cultivate her own working band in the past few years. Fresh off the band’s second studio album, and a tour to support it, she leads her singular quartet in a New York homecoming.
Live muzaks from Allison Miller and her jazz quartet! Featuring Todd Sickafoose on bass (he has also...
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TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly →
TSQ is a new interdisciplinary academic journal that will change the way the world thinks about transgender issues.
Drs. Susan Stryker and Paisely Currah have launched a Kickstarter to raise the funds to launch a academic journal dedicated to transgender studies! This is potentially a Cool Thing/Big Deal. Donate if you can!
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Mary Lambert - Tickets - SubCulture - New York,... →
Get tickets to Mary Lambert at SubCulture, New York, NY on 05/21/13
Submitted earlier today: Mary Lambert is performing in NYC May 21 at SubCulture. If you recall, Mary Lambert is pretty great if you ignore her involvement with Macklemore’s “Same Love.” So if you’re in the area and singer-song writers and spoken word are your jam, check it out.
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It's Eurovision season!
The most wonderful time of the year!
onepunksongaday:
Limp Wrist - We Started This...
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“You mean the generation that paid three times as much for college to enter a job...”
– When comments are better than the article, Atlantic edition (“The Cheapest Generation: Why Millennials arent’ buying cars or houses, and what that means for the economy”)
Every time someone says we’re a lazy and entitled generation I’m going to show them this
They should be happy most of us...
“The food movement has been slow to recognise the fact that worker rights and...”
– Know Your Food System: Indigenous Farmworkers in California – this ain’t livin’ (via sinshine)
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Enter our Garden Zine cover contest!!
theshondes:
Hi everyone!!
We are making a little zine to go along with The Garden, including photos, lyrics, stories, and more, and we want YOU to send us cover design submissions!
The guidelines are simple, just check out the album themes below, and make a piece of art (self-defined!) for a 1/2-size zine cover (half the size of an 8.5x11” piece of paper) — collage, paint, draw, photo,...
themongooseandthesnake:
“yeah im a lesbian trapped inside a man’s body” the cishet male laughs as he highfives one of his dudebros. suddenly he gives off a look of pure terror and a piercing shriek as his skin is ripped apart, much to the horror of his crew. his skin falls to the floor and a woman is left standing where he once was. “FINALLY” she roars, kicking one of the dudebros in the dick...
xcedarxsmoke:
Mal Blum - we are never ever...
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Read this now: "Actually, Jason Collins Isn't the... →
gaywrites:
All week we’ve been talking about Jason Collins, the pro basketball player who made history when he came out as gay. He’s heralded as the first man in a major pro sport to come out, but The Atlantic points out that this isn’t true.
That title belongs to Glenn Burke, a baseball player for the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Oakland A’s from 1976 to 1979. Burke was very open with his...
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Hear Aye Nako's Fuzzy Fist-Pumper 'For the... →
ayenako:
Brooklyn foursome self-releasing debut LP on May 31
The song I wrote about my dreams where I’m a cis gay man doing nasty things with other men, especially southern ones, is featured on spin.com — Mars
These 11-Year-Olds Are Metal As Fuck
jadedpunk:
There is a metal band in Brooklyn called Unlocking The Truth that is made up of three 11-year-olds. They make every band in the nu-metal scene look like total garbage. Not that that was difficult.
These kids have some seriously dope metally riffs and breakdowns. Not sure when they have time to come up with those in between doing homework and…I don’t know, what do 11-year-olds do...
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Disney to Withdraw “Día de los Muertos” Trademark... →
sinidentidades:
Here is what the spokesperson told FronterasDesk.org:
As we have previously announced, Disney-Pixar is developing an animated feature inspired by the Mexican holiday Día de los Muertos. Disney’s trademark filing was intended to protect any potential title for our film and related activities. It has since been determined that the title of the film will change and therefore we...
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ladyfestphilly:
These songs will be released on...