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“Bones” and its treatment of a transgender murder victim

By Emily Jane | Published: June 26, 2012
TweetAlthough a huge fan of the TV series Bones, when I first came across the episode entitled “The He in the She”, I became a little worried. The television and film industry is notorious for handling trans characters in a way that is nowhere near sensitive or courteous; in fact, many people do not even [...]
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To the Queer Kids of America: Amendment One is a Form of Bullying

By Lyla Cicero | Published: May 14, 2012
TweetOriginally appeared on RoleReboot.org. This letter is to all the queer kids, the gay, lesbian, and bi kids, to the young adults who identify as transgender, genderqueer, pansexual, and/or androgynous, to the questioning kids, to the kids who were born intersex, to the high school and college kids in North Carolina and around the country. [...]
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Why I will be buying girl scout cookies this year

By aeron | Published: January 12, 2012
TweetI woke up this morning to an article about a young 14 year old girl scout who is boycotting her girl scout routine this year to try and remove transgender girls and women from being apart of girl scouts. It really hurts me deep down to watch a young person encourage transphobia and cissexism, such [...]
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This Holiday Season: Don’t Give To The Salvation Army

By Jordan Gwendolyn Davis | Published: December 12, 2011
TweetNovember is the month of elections and the beginning of the holiday season. Now, with few exceptions, people who support LGBTIQ rights tend to go blue and those who oppose tend to go red. Blue and red happen to be the main colours of the two largest non-profit-thrift-stores-which-help-people-out, the relatively secular Goodwill and the religious [...]
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A Letter to My Sixteen-Year-Old Self

By Winter Trabex | Published: December 11, 2011
TweetAll right, get up off the couch, put down the Super Nintendo controller and listen for a second okay? Although, since this a letter, I suppose “read” would be more appropriate. You know those feelings you have of not fitting anywhere, feeling like you have to kill yourself just to find some kind of release [...]
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