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Samantha Allen, “Trump Wants to Pretend Trans People Don’t Exist. Well, We Do.”
”It’s not clear when, or if, that language will be implemented in HHS or across other agencies. But coming from an administration that has tried to remove transgender troops from the military and rolled back Obama-era restroom guidance for transgender students, the concretizing of this definition would come as no shock.”
Samantha Allen, “Social Media Giants Have a Big LGBT Problem. Can They Solve It?“
”Each individual incident has sparked outrage and generated national headlines, but taken together they paint a picture of an emerging crisis for these companies: When marginalized groups depend on your platform to build community, relying too heavily on algorithms can have unintended—and sometimes hurtful—consequences.”
Anon B, “Gender, Sexuality And Heteronormativity In My Hometown In Haryana“
”Living in a small district of Haryana can be difficult if you’re a girl, especially being closeted. It’s a nightmare!”
Emily Bartlett Hines, “This Novelists Female Heroes and Brazen Polyamory Shocked Victorian England”
”When Caroline Graves met Wilkie Collins, he was in the early stages of what would become a spectacular career. Born in 1824 to an established artistic family, he burst onto England’s literary scene with 1860’s blockbuster The Woman in White, an ambitiously plotted identity-theft thriller in which beautiful heiress Laura Fairlie is imprisoned in a lunatic asylum under the name of a woman who is her exact double.”
Liz Duck-Chong, “‘Rapid-onset gender dysphoria’ is a poisonous lie used to discredit trans people“
”If you were to understand two facts about transgender people, I’d want it to be these: 1) that we have always existed, and 2) that we have always been under attack for existing.”
Whitney Kimball, “Stacey Abrams on Track to Achieve Historic Upheaval of Voter Suppression; Trump Half-Asses a Tweet“
”When Donald Trump fires a sloppy attack tweet at a state politician, it’s usually a sign that Republicans are running another shit candidate in a solidly red state which is now at risk of a Democratic win. He did, and they are, and it is.”
Clark Mindock, “Matthew Shepard murder: 20 years on where do LGBT rights stand in America?“
”On the 20th anniversary of Shepard’s death, here is a look back at what happened, and what has happened since.”
Mary Papenfuss, “Activists Blast White House Plan To Eradicate Transgender From Gender Definition“
”The administration is reportedly planning to restrict the definition of gender as immutable for an individual’s lifetime and that would be based on genitalia at birth, according to a draft memo obtained by The New York Times. Such a definition would essentially be a government declaration that there is no such thing as “transgender.” At least 1.4 million people in the U.S. currently identify as transgender, according to the Times.”
‘“Trump Administration Trying to Define Transgender Out of Existence - Report”
”The Trump administration is attempting to strip transgender people of official recognition by creating a narrow definition of gender as being only male or female and unchangeable once determined at birth, the New York Times reported.”
“Women with disabilities have sex. So why are their sexual health needs often ignored?“
”Jocelyn Maffin remembers the first conversation about her sexual health as one that happened around her, but not with her — even though she was in the room with her doctor.”
Article Spotlight
"During much of his adult life, George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824), a poet whose actions and writings exerted significant influence on British and European culture throughout the nineteenth century, grappled with issues of class and gender. Byron's struggle was a particularly intense one because in the age in which he lived, the venerated notions of "aristocracy" and "masculinity" were not only exposed to increased public scrutiny but were fiercely contested by those attempting to bring about a profound reorientation of social attitudes."
Episode Spotlight
The hit television show American Bandstand has shaped how we understand the 1950s and early 1960s. For many, American Bandstand still evokes nostalgic images of white youth culture and sexually innocent teenage romance: a world made up of malt shops, juke joints, sock hops and drive-in movie theaters. If we look closer at how Bandstand was staged, and what was hidden from sight or hiding in plain view, we can see how the show's creators erased blackness and queerness from the show itself and from the official story of youth culture.
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RadioLab’s “In the No Part 1”
”Kaitlin Prest had a lot of things to say about the word "No." And on her podcast "The Heart," she said them in a way we couldn't shake. Today, we talk to Kaitlin, and hear her story.”
RadioLab’s “In the No Part 2”
”We dive into the gray zone of consent and wrestle with questions of culpability, generational divides, and the utility of fear in changing our culture.”
