Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Penny Proud, who was fatally shot early Tuesday in New Orleans, is the fifth transgender woman of color in the United States to be killed within the past month, according to anti-violence and LGBT organizations mourning her death. A vigil for Proud on Tuesday was promoted on Twitter, where many mourned the accelerating succession of…
<span><span><span class=”message_content”>How the language police are perverting liberalism. </span></span></span> How the language police are perverting liberalism. Around 2 a.m. on December 12, four students approached the apartment of Omar Mahmood, a Muslim student at the University of Michigan, who had recently published a column in a school newspaper about his perspective as a…
REALLY?! 01.15.15 InTouch Puts Transphobia on Its Cover with Bruce Jenner Photoshop On the heels of a Golden Globe win for ‘Transparent,’ praise for the Jolie-Pitts’ support of their child going by ‘John,’ and the year Laverne Cox ruled, InTouch proved it’s nothing but out of touch. Bruce Jenner’s gender is the papal white smoke…