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I INVITE YOU: Let’s look at the continuing relevance of the Transgender Day of Remembrance

For what action am I known more often than anything else at observances of the International Transgender Day of Remembrance?  No, it isn’t speaking, though I have spoken at these events.  I’m more known for walking out and continuing my observance at home. It isn’t that I oppose the International Transgender Day of Remembrance (ITDOR).  […]

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Why I Protest: it isn’t about the president but about pregnant people

I want to tell you about a stupid beauty pageant. What?  We expected an article on reasons for protest.  Since when do protests have anything to do with beauty pageants?  Actually, they have more in common than you may think.  Let me explain. That beauty pageant was the last event I had ever expected a […]

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Redefinition’s Logical Consequences: where may Trump’s proposed policy lead?

“I’ll give you a choice.  Either you can jump now, or we will deport you to Zimbabwe and we will report in your deportation documents that you are a homosexual.” My Zimbabwean friend told me this was one of many incidents in the Soviet Union where students had jumped from high buildings during the time […]

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Prospective Terror in the Tropics: a new Brazilian LGBTI holocaust?

It seemed like a brief reprieve.  Many who have been following the current election cycle in Brazil watched with deep apprehension.  Jair Bolsonaro of the “Social Liberal Pary” (PSL) led the October 7, 2018 presidential election by almost 16 percentage points.  But achieving only 46% of the vote, he fell just short of the 50% […]

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Transgender Registries of Souls: the need for archives of resistance

We might have expected this: another murder of a transwoman “of color.”  That’s true for anyone who follows the continuing crescendo of hate and raises a voice against them.  It’s true for all interested journalists and columnists.  It’s so with those who organize for the International Transgender Day of Remembrance.1 Now it’s the murder of […]

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