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FCKH8 Exploits Little Girls In Order To Sell T-Shirts

Originally posted on The Belle Jar:
Trigger warning for rape Yesterday, FCKH8 released a video called F-Bombs for Feminism: Potty Mouthed Princesses Use Bad Words for Good Cause that quickly went viral, and has been shared hundreds of thousands of times on Facebook alone. This isn’t surprising – it’s a video designed to hit that marketing…

Growing Up, Growing Apart, Growing Wise: “Girl Gumshoe & Detective Dad”

Eli Effinger-Weintraub’s “Girl Gumshoe & Detective Dad” is uproariously hilarious at times, heartbreaking, and beautifully staged, acted, and directed. It’s running again Monday evening and next weekend at The People’s Center Theater in the West Bank neighborhood of Minneapolis. Directed by Immanuel Elliott, it stars one of my new friends G Zachariah White, as wellContinue reading “Growing Up, Growing Apart, Growing Wise: “Girl Gumshoe & Detective Dad””

At least they laughed at Einstein

Youngest: (does something loud and maddening again and again and again and again and again) Everyone Else: OH MY GOD STOP no really zomg wtf Youngest: no one understands my art

Today, we in Minneapolis are celebrating:

Tabled

I am very sorry to let readers know that the motion to fully include trans kids in Minnesota school athletics has been tabled until December. This is necessary to follow FEDERAL LAW. But a bunch of loud pretend Christians have managed to make enough noise to put it off. I try not to say thatContinue reading “Tabled”

Open Letter to the Minnesota State High School League

Here is an email I just sent. If you are a local who supports trans* kids in our schools, please know a concerted effort to deny these kids participation in school sports as the gender they identify is underway by the right-wing Child Protection League. If you’d like to write them but are at aContinue reading “Open Letter to the Minnesota State High School League”

Locals: We Can Do Better. Please send some emails to support trans* students athletes!

On Wednesday, the Minnesota State High School League’s board of directors will study a proposed policy that would allow transgender student-athletes the ability to participate in league-sponsored activities. This would allow a transgender athlete to participate according to gender choice, rather than the one listed on a birth certificate. A vote on whether to adoptContinue reading “Locals: We Can Do Better. Please send some emails to support trans* students athletes!”

On My Butchness: from The Toast

I found this deeply moving, and related to it so entirely, that I want to write reams and reams and reams about it. Instead, I am beyond words: The fact is that all women are targets of gender policing. We’re punished when we don’t conform to femininity, because we’ve stepped outside of our “place.” We’reContinue reading “On My Butchness: from The Toast”

Share your bi+ story!

Have a story about bisexuality you’d like to share? The Bi+ Story Project has gone live! Our stories matter. These stories and surveys will be collected for research purposes, to combat bi invisibility, and possibly for a documentary on bisexuality in the future. Please share and contribute if you’d like! http://www.bistoryproject.org/

This is what a bisexual looks like

It’s Bisexual Visibility Day! I was going to make a joke about this, like: “for the zero point one of you who doesn’t know I’m a queer,” but this is rather serious, actually. Because our culture generally assumes monogamy (and is generally correct), when we settle down with long-term partners people then assume we areContinue reading “This is what a bisexual looks like”