Inspiring Unity in Trans Culture. Unity + Visiblity = Freedom
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 […]
By Lynnea Urania Stuart Their eyes told a completely different story from what the sullen police chief demanded. He attempted to present to the world the amazing “success” of his “re-education” of Acehnese Waria (transwomen,)1 to set an example of the imagined superiority of machismo in yet another abuse of religion and human rights. […]
By Lynnea Urania Stuart People called it the “sick man of Europe” before World War I when it was still an Ottoman Empire.1 Despite revival as a constitutional republic under Kamal Atatürk, and a trend toward secular Europeanism, Turkey now has become increasingly isolated from the West, its entry into the European Union in […]
By Lynnea Urania Stuart I have a confession to make. I love Russians. Really I do. I even lived with Russians for a month in the former Soviet Union when a group of mine were speaking in public theaters and Russian schools and my time with Russian friends remains some of my fondest memories. I’ve […]
By Lynnea Urania Stuart Perhaps the most shocking thing about what’s come out of Washington is how little so many are shocked when it takes an unconscionable course. On September 29, 2017 the United States voted against Agenda Item #3 from the United Nations Human Rights Council and LGBT rights organizations have decried that […]
