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Weekend Links, Vol.41: #Justice4Jane & Trans People Everywhere
Welcome to another week of feminist web surfing! In Weekend Links we gather a set of the most engaging journalism, prose, poetry, art, and Interweb images or memes we have come across. We hope with...
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Curb Cuts and Cat Calls: Street Harassment at the Intersection of Transness...
Trigger Warning: trauma, sexual assault, street harassment. Art by Rebecca Moore (oodmaudegirls.wordpress.com) No matter what I do, people are going to stare at me. On the metro, on the sidewalk, at...
View ArticleTrans*Verse: 10 Trans* Slam Poets to Know
This list is born out of a desire to meet and connect with other trans* writers and performers. As a person in the midst of not only a gender transition but a literary transition, I find myself...
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Oliver Suggests Acupuncture
by Evan Elise Oliver suggests acupuncture and later I tell him therapy must be working because he only had to suggest it once. For 25 bucks, I get to lie on a massage chair for an hour at the...
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About a Boy
I was born your average kid, 9lbs 3oz and the fattest legs you’ve ever seen. Born the only child to my parents in Staten Island, New York, I grew up in New Jersey from the age of 2. I was named after...
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Portraits and Snapshots
FOR NELL My first — my virgin surgery you might say — was a hernia repair, sewing shut a membrane that had been ripped open. In that sense the opposite of first coitus. You drove me to the hospital....
View ArticleDon’t Call It Temporary
*content notice: depression, anxiety, anti-Blackness, suicide* It’s one of those nights, where I have tons of work I “need” to do, and a panic attack is bubbling just under the surface of my skin, and...
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Weekend Links, Vol.32: Stop The Renaissance Hotel’s Labor Abuses
Welcome to another week of feminist web surfing! In Weekend Links we gather a set of the most engaging journalism, prose, poetry, art, and Interweb images or memes we have come across. We hope with...
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Who Is Chelsea Manning?
Chelsea Manning Who Is Chelsea Manning? In August 2013, Chelsea Manning came out as trans* publicly. For the three years prior to her coming out, trans* supporters had referenced private chat logs...
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Weekend Links, Vol.34: Support Bluestockings!
Welcome to another week of feminist web surfing! In Weekend Links we gather a set of the most engaging journalism, prose, poetry, art, and Interweb images or memes we have come across. We hope with...
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All Play and No Trouble: Gender in the ‘Switcheroo’ Photo Series
Remember that J.Crew ad of a woman painting her son’s toenails caused a moral panic in 2011? That this could become a controversy was a bleak reminder that a lot of people are still heavily invested in...
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In Memoriam and Solidarity: A Year in “Post-Racial America”
This article was originally published in the 3rd Issue of Bluestockings Magazine. 2013 January 8 Providence, Rhode Island The Providence Police Department raids two Cambodian households in the West...
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Behind Bars for Being Trans*: On the Carceral Consequences of Cisnormativity
No Justice For Islan Nettles Cisnormativity: the pervasive assumption that gender and biological sex are one and the same; that cisgender and cissexual identities, where gender and sex align, are more...
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This Weekend: Topside Press Comes to Providence!
Topside Press is coming to Providence as part of their summer tour featuring a fantastic line up of trans women writers and the debut of Casey Plett’s, A Safe Girl to Love. Saturday, June 7th 186...
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Sister, Cis-ter: A Sibling’s Syllabus for Trans Understanding
My sister and I sat on her bed in Baton Rouge a week and a half ago having a relationship-changing conversation. No, I wasn’t coming out to her; I did that last year. She said something that socked...
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