Post Tagged with: "anti-trans violence"

Une leçon clinique à la Salpêtrière, André Brouillet

Body Impolitic

The concept of modesty has been used worldwide to police the lives of women and teach them to be ashamed of their bodies. It also has an effect on trans and intersex people, no matter how they identify.

by × January 25, 2013 × 12 comments
Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on a "Vengeance" dive bomber, Tennessee. 1943 Feb. Photo by Alfred Palmer, public domain.

What does it mean to “unite against the war on women?”

Yesterday there were rallies to Unite against the war on women all across the U.S. to protest political attacks on women’s and reproductive rights. I attended and spoke at my local rally and gave some brief remarks on the importance of being intersectional in how we think about and take action to [...]

by × April 29, 2012 × 5 comments
Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR)

Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR)

Trigger warning: anti-trans hatred, violence. Today is the 13th annual Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR), a day set aside to remember people who have been killed due to anti-trans violence. The numbers are staggering. This year there are 221 people to be mourned, and those are just the murders that [...]

by × November 21, 2011 × Comments are Disabled