tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1325909405084372852024-02-20T20:04:29.349-08:00Trans Forming Media (TFM)Human rights advocate & journalist Ashley Love's blog 'Trans Forming Media' is committed to media advocacy for the transsexual, transgender and intersex communities, as well as LGBTTI activism, feminism, spiritual emancipation, racial equality and following one's heart no matter what!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger142125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-132590940508437285.post-40518592387436478912018-05-31T20:59:00.001-07:002018-05-31T20:59:17.798-07:00Women In The World Summit 2018<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-132590940508437285.post-11204778917593522592018-05-31T20:58:00.000-07:002018-05-31T20:58:09.244-07:00March 2018: Fourth Annual #HerDreamDeferred Series Uplifts Harriet Tubman During Weeklong Series on Status of Black Women<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-132590940508437285.post-46016639562757381182018-05-31T20:38:00.001-07:002018-05-31T20:38:04.948-07:00#SheWillBe Celebrating Girls for Gender Equity's 15th Anniversary Gala<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-132590940508437285.post-74499055659983700702016-08-04T00:55:00.002-07:002016-08-23T16:49:09.741-07:00VIDEO: Trans Icon Donna Personna "Betrayed, Disappointed" by SF City Whitewashing Compton Cafeteria Riots <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">On July 16th, directly following the <strong>Tenderloin Museum's </strong><em>One Year Anniversary </em>celebration, I interviewed trans pioneer and artist <strong>Donna Personna</strong> (she was in SF during Compton Cafeteria Riots) about San Francisco city's unbelievable whitewashing of Compton Cafeteria Riot's legacy.
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<span style="font-size: large;">During the recent post-Trans March ceremony on June 24, 2016 the city renamed the intersection of Turk and Taylor 'Gene Compton Cafeteria Way' instead of 'Compton Cafeteria Riots Way' as Donna and others voted on, and what the community assumed it was being renamed as.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> So not only has '<em>Riots</em>' been whitewashed out, the name of an accomplice of police brutality has been snuck in. Gene Compton, the cafeteria owner who conspired with the violent law enforcement, should not be honored, the people's resistance against transphobia, homophobia and racist and sexist state violence should be.
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<span style="font-size: large;">On July 16th, directly following the <strong>Tenderloin Museum's </strong><em>One Year Anniversary </em>celebration, I interviewed trans pioneer and artist <strong>Donna Personna</strong> (she was in SF during Compton Cafeteria Riots) about San Francisco city's unbelievable whitewashing of Compton Cafeteria Riot's legacy.
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<span style="font-size: large;">During the recent post-Trans March ceremony on June 24, 2016 the city renamed the intersection of Turk and Taylor 'Gene Compton Cafeteria Way' instead of 'Compton Cafeteria Riots Way' as Donna and others voted on, and what the community assumed it was being renamed as.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So not only has '<em>Riots</em>' been whitewashed out, the name of an accomplice of police brutality has been snuck in. Gene Compton, the cafeteria owner who conspired with the violent law enforcement, should not be honored, the people's resistance against transphobia, homophobia and racist and sexist state violence should be.
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>#DropTheGene</strong> #DropTheG <strong>#DropPoliceBrutality </strong></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-132590940508437285.post-42045932746868766742015-12-12T19:12:00.000-08:002015-12-12T19:12:26.164-08:00Empire State Pride Agenda To Close Despite GENDA Bill Not Being Passed To Protect Trans* New Yorkers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">BREAKING: wtf? (Though not surprised). LGB New Yorkers get
gay marriage perks and now they want to close down ESPA? What about GENDA, the
bill to give trans* New Yorkers anti-discrimination rights - it has yet to be
passed. Yes, I was there when the Governor said a few words about trans*
rights, but he never actually said 'GENDA'. Sigh. And people wonder why
non-token trans toms have little to no faith in white Gay, Inc.
"handling" our affairs. It's time we as trans* New Yorkers take a
stand for ourselves and stop letting LGB Non-Profit Inc manhandle and
misrepresent our movement<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://prideagenda.org/news/2015-12-12-empire-state-pride-agenda-announces-plans-conclude-major-operations-2016">http://prideagenda.org/news/2015-12-12-empire-state-pride-agenda-announces-plans-conclude-major-operations-2016</a><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-132590940508437285.post-69703221506350420872015-11-12T06:51:00.002-08:002015-11-12T08:49:42.903-08:00LAPD’s Public Relations Dept. Seeks to Unethically Co-opt Trans Day of Remembrance <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Nov. 20th is
the annual Trans Day of Remembrance where we honor the lives of transsexual and
transgender women and men who lost their lives due to male violence,
transphobic bigotry, state violence/police brutality and/or domestic violence,
most of whom are trans women of color. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">In a
flagrant disregard for this sacred memorial, the LAPD has announced a
distasteful public relations campaign where they plan to dishonorably co-opt our
community’s annual ritual into the corrupt law enforcement establishment by
unbelievably manufacturing a “LAPD Hosts the Transgender Walk of Remembrance”
stunt to be carried out on November 19th. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Needless to say the majority of L.A. trans
leaders, anti-police brutality activists and social justice advocates are
rightfully appalled. More importantly, people who have had trans family members
and close friends tragically murdered are deeply offended or even traumatized
that for what is in essence a ‘funeral’ is being inappropriately used as a PR
gimmick by the marketing department of the LAPD – especially when the male
brutality and state violence many police officers in L.A. are guilty of is
equal to the male brutality and state violence which has cost countless Black
and Latina transsexual or transgender women their lives. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">The way the
LAPD seeks to use our dead as an opportunity to clean up their public image is
not only unethical – it is an act of violence due to the pain it’s inflicting
on so many who have lost loved ones due to both police brutality or transphobic
hate crimes.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Being an
"ally" does not mean distastefully hijacking a funeral of which
you're not invited - it means asking the community what THEY want and need and
act accordingly</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">What
actually would make sense would be if the LAPD did a march to honor all the
unarmed women and men killed by law enforcement, not only would this be a way to
show the residents of Los Angeles their compassion for the loss of human life
at the hands of police officers – it wouldn’t be infringing on an already
established ritual of mourning without the stakeholder’s (the local trans
community and the families of deceased trans women) consent.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Is it too much to ask that the LAPD not use
the loved ones we have as props in some
disingenuous political campaign?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-132590940508437285.post-34610415275794265522015-07-20T20:59:00.002-07:002015-07-21T02:25:43.267-07:00 July 20th: Today Marks Eight Years Since 23-Year Old Latina Trans Woman Victoria Arellano Was Killed While In an Immigration Detention Facility in California<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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needless death of a 23 year old Latina woman of transsexual history named Victoria
Arellano that occurred in 2007 at an immigration detention facility in San
Pedro, California following weeks of sadistic neglect, transphobic male
violence and torture. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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officers inappropriately detained her in a male facility, even while knowing the
inevitable danger this misplacement would subject Victoria (or any trans* woman)
to - such as verbal abuse, trauma caused by misgendering, physical harassment
and/or sexual assault. It became terrifyingly transparent that ICE employees felt above honoring human rights protections for inmates, and targeting Victoria or any trans* woman with trans-misogynistic violence was just business as usual.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">Shortly after arriving she had disclosed to the center of
her HIV health status and informed them of her specific prescription medicine (of
which her life span was critically dependent on). <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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denying her access (even after learning it was lifesaving treatment) and confined
her to a cold cell: …<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">alone, scared about
her now unsupported health condition, experiencing both physical and emotional agony,
stripped (yet permanently innate) of her womanhood and humanity by the violent state
that had undemocratically staged a trial, verdict and execution by two immigration her, and fears of never seeing her family and
loved ones...</i> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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the immigration [concentration] camp to behave with human decency, but instead
chose to enforce an informal ‘death sentence’ on an innocent young woman. It
didn’t matter when Victoria cried out in excruciating pain, or after she
visually shrunk in weight and energy, or even if she humbly knelt on the
concrete to pleadingly implore her captors towards compassion – absolutely nothing
would inspire those soulless henchmen to allow Victoria her cure, therefore forcibly
placing her life at the mercy of the state – which in essence then sanctioned
her unwarranted death, dare one say murder? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">Today, Thursday, Dec. 18<sup>th</sup>, Attorney General Eric Holder released a memo addressed to US attorneys and heads of department components. In this statement he affirmed that transsexual, transgender and gender non-conforming Americans are rightfully protected from sex discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-132590940508437285.post-69586555910794305822014-10-20T20:47:00.000-07:002014-10-20T20:47:05.107-07:00Facebook Suspends Two Transsexual Advocates for HRC Critical Comments Regarding Misrepresentation, Classism and Disempowerment<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">With a heavy
heart I’m involuntarily saying goodbye to my Facebook friends and family. FB
suspended me for 24 hours yesterday for standing up for New York’s transsexual
and transgender communities by making a non-offensive and journalistically
accurate comment about Human Rights Campaign’s close associate Michael
Silverman, who is a non-trans white gay male who unbelievably is the director
of NY’s largest trans-specific organization, TLDEF, although many qualified
trans New Yorkers have expressed interest in the role. I simply expressed how
the majority of the local trans* community is upset by this abuse of power of
the LGB community feeling entitled to dictate to the trans community what our
agenda should be. Alarmingly, another high profile transsexual advocate named
Nikki Araguz (widow of fallen Texan firefighter, who then challenged state’s
trans laws when they tried to deny her benefits) was also suspended last week
for simply questioning HRC’s only trans board member, Meghan Stabler, for
selling out the trans community for self-gain, access and financial perks. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I know reporting what happened will give my
detractors another invalid reason to falsely “report” me, so I could either be
suspended again, or as Facebook threatened me, I could be banned “permanently”.
Therefore I wanted to say goodbye to all of you just in case the ol’ boys club
of Gay, Inc. succeed in getting rid of what they see as the uncontrollable
“angry, uppity, tra**y” who frequently forgets her place and refuses to be a
token trans tom.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The powers that be club may take away my
Facebook account just for speaking truth, however, unlike what the ill-willed
Ursula did to Ariel the Little Mermaid, they will never succeed at taking away
my voice, nor will I voluntarily give it away just to spend time in the dark
castle.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Please save my email address so we can stay in
touch: <a href="mailto:ashley.equality@gmail.com">ashley.equality@gmail.com</a> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Along with my email, please know you can
contact me through my blog Trans Forming Media:
<a href="http://www.transformingmedia.blogspot.com/">www.transformingmedia.blogspot.com</a> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">And I am still helping with Black Trans*
Women’s Lives Matter: <a href="http://www.blacktranswomenslivesmatter.blogspot.com/">www.blacktranswomenslivesmatter.blogspot.com</a> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> I</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> am disgusted that sinister forces would
abuse the reporting process or misuse their insider relationships with Facebook
staff to censor freedom of speech and disappointed that trans women’s advocacy
could be forcibly assaulted and unjustly imprisoned. Most importantly, I’m
saddened that all the friends and co-advocates that I stay in touch with here
or have even met through Facebook could be severed from me in this platform.
It's deeply personal. As a teenager my family disowned me for being a girl,
which is why many of my activist friends are like my chosen family, they are
the only family I have, and I love them. If Facebook bans me it will be a more
lonely and hopeless world for me, and I will become more isolated from my
community and friends. Facebook may have now morphed into an advertising circus
for its corporate interests, but for many of us it’s about finding fellowship
and kinfolk to come together. It’s about family. As I write this I am becoming
very emotional because it’s very triggering to think that I could be
excommunicated from my family – again. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I truly appreciate having you all in my life
and am thankful for your friendship and support all these many years, and hope
we can stay in touch even if my enemies triumph in robbing me of the main
platform that I organize with my community on. The transsexual and intersex
communities, LGB allies and feminists have changed my life for the better. You
all give me hope.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Please say a prayer for the Facebook staff to
find it in their hearts to stop suspending, banning and censoring transsexual
and transgender people simply for speaking the truth. The thing is that the
trans* community is relatively small in number and many of us have moments of
feeling isolated and alone, which is why the Internet and social media is a
vital part of both our personal lives and advocacy campaigns, as we find
numbers, solidarity and strength online. And also pray that they reconsider the
problematic “reporting process”, as non-trans people are constantly misusing it
to silence trans people with dissenting views. Freedom of speech is a gift that
is alarmingly becoming compromised in this country. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Keep up the good work, and know that I am
always available, even if ol’ boys club succeed at banishing me. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Blessing, Besos and Big Hugs, Ashley<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-132590940508437285.post-47687820318702071782014-10-19T22:37:00.000-07:002014-10-19T22:42:44.969-07:00Beloved Washington DC Trans Advocate Ruby Corado Marries Longtime Boyfriend; DC Mayor Vincent Gray Gives Her Away<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">On Saturday,
October 18<sup>th</sup> true love united as noted DC trans advocate Ruby Corado
married her longtime boyfriend David Walker in a beautiful ceremony at the
Mayflower Renaissance Hotel in DC. She was walked down the aisle by DC
Mayor Vincent Gray, who has been a longtime supporter of the transsexual and transgender
communities.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">On Sunday
she left a message on her Facebook wall: <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Dreams Do Come True!<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My whole life, I have been told that I was not
supposed to love or be loved.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was not supposed to love myself because I
was different( Trans, indigenous, dark haired, immigrant, HIV Positive, fat,
short, you name it). I was made to believe that no one could love me back
because I was different.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yesterday, life proved everyone wrong.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love myself more than ever because I am
SOMEBODY. My husband showed the world that it is ok to love me even though I am
different.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My city's mayor Vince Gray walked me down the
aisle and showed the world once again that he stands for love. My friends and
Family showed me, that I am SOMEBODY, and they stand with me in sickness and in
health until death do us part.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Today as I lay next to my husband, I
want to tell my friends, clients, supporters, followers and the entire world
that It is ok to be different and that no matter what anyone says, YOU ARE
WORTHY OF LOVE AS MUCH AS I AM<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Never stop dreaming; never stop
believing because dreams do come true.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">A Million Thanks To Everyone Who
Shared This Special Moment in person or from a distance, I felt your love <o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Love For All, Ruby Corado-Walker</span></span></i></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-132590940508437285.post-4992421922014000972014-10-02T12:17:00.000-07:002014-10-02T14:35:14.590-07:00Out Actress Emily Rios On Why LGBT Actors Should Play LGBT Characters: "It's important. We should advocate for that because...we’re always going to respect those characters because we lived the life personally"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Last night I
was particularly excited to attend the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">National
Hispanic Foundation for the Arts Annual Gala</i> because one of my favorite
actresses, California native Emily Rios, was being honored. This summer she
came out publically as lesbian<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">With the
current controversy of Amazon’s new online TV show <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Transparent </i>capitalizing off ‘transface’, where men humiliatingly play
the roles of trans* woman characters, which further misgenders, others and dehumanizes
our community, I thought I would interview Emily about the importance of LGBT
actors having the opportunity to play LGBT characters, especially since her trailblazing
character on FX’s ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Bridge’</i> is
also a lesbian Latina.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Trans Forming Media: <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“Why do you think it’s important for
LGBT actors to play LGBT roles?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Emily Rios:<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">“I think it’s important that we need
to do it </span></i><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">[openly
LGBT actors playing LGBT characters on TV and in film] <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">and the reason why we should advocate for that is because we come from
a level of respect and we’re always going to respect those characters because
we lived the life personally. <o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I would love that we won’t get
typecast in that sense and only have to play those characters forever, but as
far as us I feel like we shouldn’t stay closeted, you know, I feel we should
come out and feel comfortable playing those roles because I feel those are the
roles that are really going to set our careers forth because this is who we are
and this is what we live in a daily basis.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And really, when you come from a place with
any character when you can relate on a personal level it showcases on TV and I
feel the audience is always going to respect us more when we show respect to
the character” <o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-132590940508437285.post-49423966482244502472014-09-22T01:57:00.000-07:002014-09-22T01:58:20.528-07:00#HappyBlackWoman: The New York Times Says, “Shonda Rimes and Ashley Love are ‘Angry’ Black Women Because They Pursue Social Change”<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Last week <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The New York Times</i> called media mogul
Shonda Rimes an “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">angry black woman</i>”
and just three weeks ago <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The NY</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Times</i> also called me “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">angry</i>” and “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">aggressive</i>”, simply because I, as a journalist and advocate, asked
a question during a Q&A following Outfest's screening of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Transparent</i> (re: ‘trans face’ - where a
male actor once again plays a trans* woman character).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When Black women own their power, are
assertive and question the patriarchy they are often called "angry black
women", de-feminized (“aggressive”), demeaned and stigmatized (stigmatizing
is a new clever form of censorship, as well as vilifying dissent). <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Of course,
both journalists that mischaracterized both Shonda and I are white women, and
of a particular class. A couple of privileged white female journalists that
apparently have no clue what Black women in the United States go through (and
even more challenging, what Black and Latina trans* women go through) can
attempt to vilify us simply for sharing real life experiences, asking tough
questions and working to help other women of color, yet we will continue to
advocate for change - because our work is not about crafting sensational
articles so the NY Times can garner more hits and ad revenue, or writing
disingenuous, one-sided PR fluff pieces for an Amazon online TV show, our work
is to try to make the world a better place. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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less uncomfortable with the truth I speak, then chances are you may be a "<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">shallow, blind, fearful and classist non-Black
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">#SomeoneHadToSayIt - Today NeNe Leakes called out Queen Mean Girl Wendy Williams
for using her platform to ridicule and bully other African American women,
among other communities. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">However, because Williams raises money for GLAAD
(former anti-defamation group gone disingenuous PR company), they now call her
an "anti-bullying ambassador" (more accurately an
anti-BlackFemaleSolidarity advocate), despite Wendy bullying other women, people of color, LGBT
folks, etc, as well as previously outing gay entertainers when she was in
radio, and her many transphobic comments which include misgendering women of transsexual history and mislabeling their heterosexual boyfriends as "gay men". </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nene had enough of Wendy hating
on other Black women and called out Wendy's hypocrisy, jealousy and bullying on
her blog:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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done something to you, maybe we had a beef or I slept with your man but none of
that is true! … But what you have chosen to do is constantly speak negative of
me and lie on me!...What you need to do is stop spewing hate! When it comes to
gossip you are the lowest of the low! I know you hate...I have a clothing line
on HSN coming out in a few days... it must be hard for a black woman to support
another black woman but you should try it sometime</em>." (full quote in following link)</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-reactid=".72.1:3:1:$comment10203469658915509_10203469721237067:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:0"> </span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".72.1:3:1:$comment10203469658915509_10203469721237067:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".72.1:3:1:$comment10203469658915509_10203469721237067:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".72.1:3:1:$comment10203469658915509_10203469721237067:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$text0:0:$0:0">I hope GLAAD doesn't allow Williams and her publicist to bribe them to be their "anti-bullying ambassador" again this year: <a href="http://www.glaad.org/blog/watch-spirit-day-ambassador-wendy-williams-turns-entire-audience-purple-spiritday"><span style="font-size: small;">http://www.glaad.org/blog/watch-spirit-day-ambassador-wendy-williams-turns-entire-audience-purple-spiritday</span></a></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Nene Leakes full quote</span>: <a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/nene-leakes-attacks-wendy-williams-dissing-her-over-birkin-bag-stop-spewing-hate-1635920"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.ibtimes.com/nene</span>-leakes-attacks-wendy-williams-dissing-her-over-birkin-bag-stop-spewing-hate-1635920</a></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-132590940508437285.post-68103197724073355982014-07-20T17:08:00.000-07:002014-07-20T17:49:45.981-07:00Michelle Demishevich Becomes Turkey’s First Transsexual TV Reporter! Next Stop: She’s Running For Public Office In 2015 <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">Congrats to
Michelle Demishevich for becoming Turkey's first transsexual female TV
reporter!</span> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></span> <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">But times
have not always been easy for Michelle. In 2012 she was a victim of male violence
and transphobia, when during her walk home she was brutally attacked and
assaulted. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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attack 50 trans women have been murdered in Turkey.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Last month justice
prevailed for Michelle’s case when her assailant was jailed, marking a
milestone victory for all transsexual people.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Although legislation
doesn’t officially discriminate against transsexual people, the community
asserts that violence, forced sexual exploitation, employment discrimination,
burial discrimination and hate crime murders still plague their community. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">This summer the world witnessed Turkey make a gigantic splash when
their LGBT Pride celebration was the largest to date in the Muslim world, inspiring
much hope and a promise for change.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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continue to make positive strides towards helping her community, she recently
announced that next year she will being running in the legislative elections!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Three
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-132590940508437285.post-3239840774872816072014-06-03T01:22:00.001-07:002014-06-03T01:37:25.178-07:00MTV / Logo's Stand Against RuPaul's Transphobic Rhetoric Triggers Even More Verbal Abuse from the Embattled Impersonator<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Thank you to
MTV / LogoTV and Viacom for publically distancing themselves from disgruntled
employee RuPaul after his recent emotional melt-down where he lashed out in
response to Logo rightfully siding with the trans community by banning trans
hate speech on their platform. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Logo
affirmed that trans people's safety, equality and basic human dignity are more
of a priority to their network than appeasing certain gay male entertainer's
unhealthy insistence on using (and capitalizing off of) misogynistic and
transphobic slurs in front of millions of impressionable viewers. Logo's
pro-trans-humanity resolution is cause for celebration and even healing between
the often conflicted LGB and T* camps, yet somehow this step forward triggered RuPaul
for he immediately lashed out in spite. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">In a May 19th podcast
interview he literally referred to all trans women who find his transphobic
jokes and double standards unacceptable as "b*tches" and continuously
used anti-trans slurs. <o:p></o:p></span>
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</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Not an olive
branch and not a 'meet in the middle' - just this immature 'sore losers'
tantrum. Very disappointing. The mother and healer in me is feeling his pain,
but, unfortunately, he appears to be consciously unaware of how misguided his
"victim artist" role is (especially when he recently criticized
actress Amanda Bynes on Twitter for using the slur f*ggot, even though she
pulled a RuPaul and said, "But I didn't mean it in a bad way". He
still didn't buy her defense of her slur usage - and guess what big man, we
don't buy your identical defense either.). </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span>
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</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">How can he
not see that just like he and many other gay men don't like non-gay men saying
the word f*ggot or other homophobic slurs, trans women and men also do not
appreciate gay men appropriating anti-trans slurs as a means to appear edgy,
funny and shocking, no matter the cost to the actual community who the slur is
hurled at. <o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Logo quickly
made it known that they disapproved with RuPaul’s podcats rant. Then on Twitter the
'reality star gone hate-slur advocate' desperately continued his push
back against Logo for holding him accountable for his defamation against
transsexual women - who he laughingly described as male clowns in dresses last
year during an episode of RuPaul's Drag Race and publically mocked their
medically necessary healthcare.<o:p></o:p></span>
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</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">S</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">trangely
enough, RuPaul has unknowingly joined the ranks of far right and ultra-phobic
group Focus on the Family who also misgender and refer to transsexual women as
"tr*nnys, she-males and cross dressers" in political campaigns and
literature aimed at dehumanizing and disempowering trans* Americans. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span>
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</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Wake up Ru,
MTV / Logo / Viacom does not need you for "light bills" as your
delusional tweet says, much like ESPN or the NBA does not need racist Clippers
owner Donald Sterling to pay their "light bills". </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span>
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</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Reality
Check: It's 2014, not 1985, and numerous companies and media outlets finally
deem transphobia just as offensive as racism, sexism and homophobia. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">So when
you judge Duck Dynasty and others for their homophobic comments honestly ask
yourself why you feel entitled to then make equally offensive comments about
others. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Your well documented hypocrisy has made clear that this so-called
debate is not really a debate at all for your very own campaign against
anti-gay slurs is no different than our fight against you using anti-trans
slurs. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Your illogical spin vanishes under the light. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span>
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</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">And yes,
Logo actually has "distanced itself" from your transphobic jokes and
abusive rants by making multiple public statements expressing that enough is
enough! Their network will not abandon doing the right thing by transsexual and
transgender Americans just because a handful of gay male entertainers feel
their celebrity status and fan base gives them special allowances to foster an
unhealthy workplace environment or create media content where the women in my
community are made targets of propaganda that misgenders and dehumanizes us.
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">The choice could be yours to maturely move forward as a man who has consciously
unconditioned himself of feeling entitled to dictate to women what is or isn't
acceptable for us to be offended by and to instead evolve as an authentic ally
who sincerely listens. We all make mistakes but the good news is we all have
the chance to grow. </span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-132590940508437285.post-36404897634662328222014-06-03T00:31:00.000-07:002014-06-03T00:31:00.818-07:00Blind "Anti-bullying" Advocates Apologizing For Anti-Transsexual Slurs Is Such A Drag…A Brutal…Ongoing…Drag <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sick of
blind "anti-bullying" advocates apologizing for Drag Race being such
a drag... a brutal... ongoing drag!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Repeats: The same way a disappointedly large percentage of the gay male
community is responding to the women in my community expressing how hurling out
anti-trans slurs and systematic misgendering effects them spiritually,
emotionally and sometimes physically is amazingly similar to how men in America
treated women suffragettes who lobbied to vote. Little boys need to stop these
toddler tantrums, calm down, be gentle and listen to people's feelings. You're
better than this so affirm your community's rainbow logo and genuinely celebrate
and respect ALL the colors of the rainbow, not only a classist and sexist few. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The LGB
media has committed non-journalism by not enforcing a balanced presentation of
all sides, such as primarily only allowing gay male and drag queen opinions and
writers to influence this story. Our voices become censored because LGBT media
is really G media, once you take off the wig the truth remains. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Many token
trans toms (selected by LGB media heads) who do find themselves all of a sudden
joining the transsexual community's cause subtly or even blatantly apologize
for their gay male benefactors slighting us and/or misrepresent the origins of
this plight by censoring the feminist element out of the coverage almost
entirely. Having our LGB handlers at GLAAD transparently select and produce
trans* reality TV contestants into their mouth pieces may seem to serve us with
one hand yet cleverly (mis)speaks for us with the other. They jump on the
bandwagon, soften our grievance's urgent concerns and recite some GLAAD written
sound bite that benefits the same establishment that encourages our 2nd class
status in this LG"t" coalition. And it is a coalition at best, not
one community, but independent and diverse communities, catch it <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-132590940508437285.post-66653112708921724692014-06-02T23:11:00.000-07:002014-06-03T00:09:31.040-07:00#RuPaulNewRaymond - Is RuPaul the New Janice Raymond?: The Numerous Similarities between the King of Pro-Slur Promoters and the Exterminator of Medicare Supported Healthcare for Women Born With Transsexualism Are Too Alarming To Ignore <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Janice Raymond?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Today's
Medicare victory affirms the women and men born with transsexualism who seek
needed healthcare and alignment in their lives, and overrules the
pro-misgendering and discriminatory campaign launched by openly lesbian Janice
Raymond. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Raymond obsessively
led the propaganda fueled misinformation war on girls and women born with
transsexualism aimed at misgendering us, exterminating our medically necessary
treatment and ultimately engineering sociocide against our already established
community. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Now RuPaul
and his primarily gay male followers have similarly pushed away compassion and
support of my sisters to instead ride the sexist tidal wave of dispensing
extremely anti-transsexual slurs and saying transphobic comments on platforms
which influence millions of people to condone the 'othering' and stigmatizing
of an already oppressed minority. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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RuPaul have little in common in terms of personality, background or fashion
style, but they do have one dangerous thing in common: Both are openly gay
individuals who tricked others into thinking they were credible authority
figures to comment on issues that specifically effect females with transsexual
history and then misused their position to wage harm on our lives. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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publically have been documented in wide reaching media outlets as referring to
our women as "<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">men in dresses</i>".
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publically ridiculed and invalidated the need for the transsexual community's
transition-related healthcare. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Both loved
anti-trans slurs. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Both have
been promoted on non-trans media outlets as "experts” instead of the
uncompassionate and phobia-mongering brutes that they truly are. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Raymond's crimes cost lives, but it could also be measured that inciting phobia
and dehumanizing an already oppressed minority group has grave consequences if
done on a massive scale, such as media defamation. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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celebrate today's victory against the closure of Raymond's concentration camp,
let's learn from the past and strategize on how to counteract the forces who
want to normalize dehumanizing and misgendering defamation in the media. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ironically, the character Princess Elsa in the song <em>'Let It Go’, </em> (which won the Oscar for Best Song) could have easily been a trans* woman. In Disney's film ‘Frozen’ the plot starts out when Elsa is a child and her parents advise her to hide her differences because they fear others will misunderstand and shun her. She is pretty much over sheltered and treated like a handicapped person. Her parents die unexpectedly and it is just her and her baby sister. She continues to live in the shadows thinking it would be better for everyone. When she comes of age she can no longer mask her birth challenge and when society finds out they become fearful and vilify her. She runs away from her family and kingdom and retreats to a new home which is marginalized on the outskirts of society. Though she misses her family at least she is allowed to live openly as who she is. Everyone seems to have an opinion on who she is but only those who love her really know. After sometime as a recluse she decides that she is strong enough to own her truth publicly and ventures back to pursue justice. She won’t let the close-minded society alienate and banish her any longer. Her love for her sister is more powerful then what other people think about her. In the end the people of the kingdom realize that although she is different (who doesn't have something different about them?) that she is not someone to be frightened of and in fact that she has a beautiful and big heart and has a lot to offer the community. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is a heartwarming story. I confess I have listened to this song on repeat many times because it really inspires me. While many people fail to understand why so many transsexual and transgender woman are feeling slighted by the Hollywood ‘trans face’ epidemic, the ramifications of institutionalized misgendering, transphobia (in both LGB and straight circles), the mockery that is Jared Leto’s ‘Rayon’ character and why he shouldn't have won the Oscar - it’s comforting to know that the heroine Princess Elsa very much does understand and has actually lived what many of my sisters and I have and continue to go through. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My advice to the many gay, lesbian and cis-gender straight people going on and on about why transsexual and transgender women should relax, shut up and just accept the many problems raised by the Jared Leto/’Rayon’/Misgendering/Hollywood ‘trans face’ controversy is to maybe take step back and consider our feelings, our life experiences, our loss, our pain and our desire to be loved and appreciated for who we are in a world that continuously mocks, dehumanizes and vilifies us.
It’s not easy being the punch line of every joke or the punching bag of every bigot. Please exercise some compassion and actually listen. Being a true ally means listening, not arrogantly and cluelessly TELLING us our feelings are invalid. Be gentle with us. The authentic heart of the protest against Jared Leto’s transphobic public comments and the constant Hollywood ‘trans face’ is thousands of girls and women simply wanting people to acknowledge our humanity and affirm who we are. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here are the lyrics of the ‘Let It Go’ song which I and many of my trans* friends very much identify with: </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A kingdom of isolation, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">And it looks like I’m the Queen. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The wind is howling like this swirling storm inside </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Couldn’t keep it in, heaven knows I tried </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Don’t let them in, don’t let them see </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Be the good girl you always have to be </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Conceal, don’t feel, don’t let them know </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Well, now they know </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Let it go, let it go </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Can’t hold it back anymore </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Let it go, let it go </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Turn away and slam the door</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I don’t care </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">What they’re going to say </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Let the storm rage on, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The cold never bothered me anyway</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">It’s funny how some distance </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Makes everything seem small </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">And the fears that once controlled me </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Can’t get to me at all </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">It’s time to see what I can do </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">To test the limits and break through </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">No right, no wrong, no rules for me I’m free </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Let it go, let it go </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I am one with the wind and sky</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Let it go, let it go </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">You’ll never see me cry </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Here I stand </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">And here I'll stay </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Let the storm rage on </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">My power flurries through the air into the ground</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">My soul is spiraling in frozen fractals all around </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">And one thought crystallizes like an icy blast </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I’m never going back, The past is in the past </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Let it go, let it go </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">And I'll rise like the break of dawn </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Let it go, let it go </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">That perfect girl is gone </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Here I stand In the light of day </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Let the storm rage on, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The cold never bothered me anyway</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">There's nothing like a strong cup of other's Hypocrisy to
get me all riled up to write a new blog post. Last night I was studying the
statistics about the primary demographic of people who are losing their marbles
over Duck Dynasty’s patriarch Phil Robertson getting suspended by A&E. It
turns out they are the exact same mob who went off the deep end when the Dixie
Chicks voiced their opposition against the war!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">So let me get this straight: Women such as the Dixie Chicks,
in particular lead singer Natalie Maines, cannot speak openly about the killing
of innocent civilians and unjust wars overseas, but a man such as Phil
Robertson with dated ideologies can not only spit the most racist and
homophobic rants but he should be praised for those prejudiced beliefs, not
reprimanded? ------ Now that’s one hundred flights over the cuckoo’s nest if I
ever did see!<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">First of all, A&E suspending him has nothing to do with
“freedom of speech”. This is about a network having the freedom to distance
themselves from values in which they do not condone. It is also about
advertisers actually being the ones who have the freedom to place their
marketing dollars wherever they choose. Phil in fact has still retained his
right to spit mumbo jumbo – he now just has to find a new platform to in which
to do so. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">There are real consequences to inciting hate and violence.
One of them is losing friends.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">I would very much like the people who rallied to boycott and
vilify the Dixie Chicks to do some serious self-evaluation about the
inconsistency of their supposed values. You can’t have it both ways. You don’t
get to pick and choose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The most vile
and misogynist comments were said about the Dixie Chicks – ironically similar
to the vulgar comments spewed by Robertson himself. It’s unbelievable that some
people are incapable of putting a mirror up to themselves and becoming aware of
their blatant and unapologetic double standards.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">If I owned a company I too would kick racist and homophobic
people to the curb. That negativity is soooo fifty years ago.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/pojL_35QlSI" width="420"></iframe><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-132590940508437285.post-65823903198521134742013-12-01T14:08:00.000-08:002013-12-01T14:27:45.351-08:00Dec. 1 - World AIDS Day - [from Black AIDS Institute] Ashley Love's '30 Under 30' Essay for BAI's '30 Years of AIDS' Commemoration Report<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">Two years
ago I was invited to take part of Black AIDS Institute’s (BAI)
30th Anniversary project where 30 individuals ("<em>young black leaders, celebrities and activists") </em>were chosen to write
essays about their advocacy work to combat AIDS. Today, Dec. 1, is World AIDS
Day and I am sharing my essay with you. Much work remains, including
eradicating the misgendering and misclassification n of transsexual women from
the “MSM” category, providing more assessable and affordable care in Africa and
ensuring more preventative measures. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">“As part of its special "30
years of AIDS" commemoration report, the Black AIDS Institute is profiling
30 young black leaders, celebrities and activists who have worked to make a
difference in the fight against black AIDS.” </span></i><span style="line-height: 115%;">(Julian Breece, Editor of ‘30 under 30’ feature)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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PDF issue: </span><a href="http://www.bcoa.org/pdfs/30%20Years%20Is%20Enuf.pdf"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">http://www.bcoa.org/pdfs/30%20Years%20Is%20Enuf.pdf</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">
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</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">From <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Black AIDS Institute’s </b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>June 2011 Issue and 30<sup>th</sup>
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</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> Due to a
lack of human rights protections from the government and understanding from families
and society, many Americans born transsexual and/or intersex, or that have a
transgender identity, find themselves in very vulnerable and dangerous
situations. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because of this alienation
some people in these communities engage in unsafe behavior as a way to cope and
survive, making them vulnerable to infection with HIV. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> I have lost two people close to me because of
this disease. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of them was a woman
who was born with a transsexual medical condition. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She wanted love so much that she trusted the
wrong man and, instead of protecting herself, took a risk that proved fatal. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> A lot of
work needs to be done to educate society about transsexual, transgender and
intersex issues. The unhealthy stigma and dehumanization of these communities
is what leads to situations where they contract the disease. Low self-esteem
caused by people’s prejudice against human diversity is what causes many in
these communities to fail to safeguard their health. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If any of my sisters are reading this, know
that your life is a beautiful gem. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cherish
yourself and your temple. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We all want
love, but we have to love ourselves first and foremost if we are to receive
authentic love from someone else. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Regardless of the misguided fear and toxic
hate in the world directed at people who are born different, don’t believe the
lies that say you are unworthy. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> You are a child of God just the way you are. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Treat yourself kindly, because you deserve it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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Advocates Giving National Equality to Transsexual & Transgender People and
a popular contributor to the Huffington Post.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></i></div>
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<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/suspect-beating-death-transgender-woman-walks-article-1.1522384">http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/suspect-beating-death-transgender-woman-walks-article-1.1522384</a><br />
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The tragedy continues against Islan Nettles, the young woman of trans experience from Harlem who was recently murdered in cold blood. This beautiful woman had such a promising future which was robbed from her from a insecure and hateful little man who is could very well get away with this murder due to a technicality. <br />
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All this on the eve of the Trans Day of Remembrance, as if God is trying to shine a light on the terrorism that plagues our sisters for all to see. Poetic Injustice. <br />
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The case is still open. This outrage on top of my saddened state due to TDOR is a lot to deal with. Why is this happening? When will justice rain down from the mighty heavens? </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-132590940508437285.post-70259493751678999472013-11-18T08:49:00.003-08:002013-11-18T08:58:58.001-08:00Governor Quinn of Illinois and Illinois’ Leading LGB“t” Organizations Decide To Sign Illinois Marriage Equality Bill Not on the 19th or 21st, but on November 20th - The Trans Day of Remembrance. Really? How Amazingly Symbolic...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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leading LGB Illinois organizations have decided to sign the Illinois Marriage Equality
Bill into law not on November 19th, not on November 21st, but on November 20th
- The Trans Day of Remembrance. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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may actually go towards the epidemic of transsexual and transgender women
of color being terrorized and slaughtered in Chicago, New York, Puerto Rico,
Washington D.C., California, Brazil and all around the world?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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