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Let’s Talk About Names: Flavia
Trigger Warning: mass state violence, racism, anti-immigrant violence, suicide. N.B.: Dates in this post are written in day/month/year format. Flavia Dzodan is a South American writer and media maker...
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Let’s Talk About Names: Andrea
Andrea Plaid is the associate editor of the award-winning race-and-pop-culture blog Racialicious. She is also part of The Feminist Wire’s editorial collective and an associate producer of renowned web...
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Let’s Talk About Names: Natalie
Natalie Reed is a Canadian trans-feminist activist, reocvering addict, and survivor of rape and sexual abuse. She’s written for Skepchick, founded Queereka, wrote for Freethought Blog, and is now...
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Let’s Talk About Names: Minna
Minna Hong is a freelance editor/copywriter by night, and political blogger/fiction writer by later night. She blogs about race issues, women’s issues, queer issues, and whatever else is on her mind...
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Let’s Talk About Names: Robyn
Content notes: transphobia, transmisogyny, transition process, family ostracization. Robyn is a parent, educator and writer living in New England. Her writing tends to focus on issues of gender, food...
View ArticleThe perils of funny feminism
I wrote for BlogHer about The Onion’s racist and misogynist joke about Rihanna and Chris Brown, and how some white feminists have defended The Onion (AGAIN!) against black women critics. I had some...
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The cult of the Greater Cause
Trigger warning: child sexual abuse in Christian communities; clergy child abuse and cover-up. Photo Credit: kevin dooley, cc In working on an update on the lawsuit against Sovereign Grace Ministries,...
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FYI: “Black” isn’t synonymous with “African American”
Photo Credit: MastaBaba creative commons A couple nights ago I made an offhand comment on Twitter about the conflation of “Black” with “African American” – the two aren’t synonymous – in response to a...
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10 thoughts…on mental illness, abuse, and survivors
Image credit: meophamman, CC license. Content note/Trigger warning: Discussion of racist and misogynist abuse and violence, intimate partner violence, abuse culture in women’s/feminist spaces, mental...
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At PRA: Are evangelicals at a crossroads on trans issues?
Content note: Religious transphobia, cissexism, misgendering, mental health ableism. Photo Credit: Ben McLeod creative commons. My first post for Political Research Associates (PRA), where I’ve been...
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