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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 Contact: Tiffany Kang, [email protected] Council President Bas Advances Progressive Ballot Measures For a More Democratic and Resourced Oakland For All OAKLAND, CA – At Monday’s Special Meeting of the Oakland City Council, Council voted to place a set of measures on the November ballot that will: “Oaklanders want results from their government. With these ballot measures, I aim to deliver results for affordable housing, homelessness solutions, safer streets, and improved parks and rec centers,” said Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas. “We are also giving voters a chance to decide on more democratic elections and more transparent government. I look forward to engaging Oaklanders in these important ballot questions.” At the November 8, 2022 election, voters will consider the following ballot measures, which were authored by Council President Bas. 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Shall the Measure amending the Oakland Municipal Code and City Charter to establish resident public financing for candidate election campaigns, increase transparency regarding independent spending in City elections, further restrict former city officials from acting as lobbyists, and provide additional resources to the Public Ethics Commission for implementation be adopted? Shall the Measure amending the Just Cause for Eviction Ordinance to: (1) prohibit no-fault evictions of children and educators during the school year; (2) extend eviction protections to tenants in recreational vehicles (RVs), tiny homes on wheels, and newly constructed units except during the first 10 years after issuance of the certificate of occupancy; (3) remove failure to sign a new lease as grounds for eviction; and (4) make other clarifying amendments, be adopted? Shall the measure to create affordable housing and shelter for residents experiencing homelessness, repave streets, and improve public facilities, by issuing $850,000,000 in general obligation bonds, raising approximately $85,000,000 annually while bonds are outstanding at the rate of $0.071 per $100 ($71 per $100,000) of assessed value, with independent oversight, annual audits, and a current City policy to not increase tax rates currently in effect (although rates may vary based on other factors), be adopted? # # # About Council President and District 2 Councilmember Nikki Fortunato Bas Nikki Fortunato Bas is President of the Oakland City Council and represents District 2, one of the most diverse districts in the city. Since taking office in 2019, she has championed community-centered policies and budgeting. She led the passage of the strongest COVID-19 eviction moratorium in the State of California and a COVID-19 grocery worker hazard pay $5 wage bonus covering 2,000 workers in Oakland’s largest grocery stores. She created a fund for community land trusts to prevent displacement and create permanently affordable, community-owned housing, introduced a progressive corporate tax which will be on the ballot in 2022, and led a task force to reimagine public safety in Oakland. She led a budget team that passed a biennial budget which invests millions in violence prevention and alternative crisis response. She also serves on the National League of Cities’ inaugural Reimagining Public Safety Task Force. For two decades prior to being elected in 2018, Bas pushed for worker, environmental, gender and racial justice. 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One of the largest Aerial and Physical Theatre Festival’s outside London, returns to Birmingham for an impressive 12 days featuring jaw dropping athletic performances, national and international circus artists and industry masterclasses from world class teachers. Running across 12 days the 7th annual TILT FESTIVAL is produced by the city’s acclaimed RoguePlay Theatre whose skills will be featured in the forthcoming opening ceremony of Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games on 28 July. TILT FESTIVAL will take place indoors and outdoors at the West Midlands Circus and Creation Centre in Digbeth, as well as in person classes delivered online from the UK and internationally. Kim Wildborne TILT Festival Director and Producer commented: “There really is no other Festival of its kind in the Midlands and we’re extremely excited to be bringing it back for its 7th edition this year both online and in person. It’s great that we are working once again with some of the industry’s most experienced circus artists who never cease to amaze our audiences who return year on year.” Audiences to this year’s Festival can look forward to TILTED CIRCUS NIGHT (5 August) an evening of absolutely stunning live circus and physical theatre featuring the Festival’s Artistic Director and Producer Kim Wildborne and performers from all over the world. This popular night of short performances and brand-new shows also features the world renowned, highly skilled straps and acrobalance performer ‘Boldo’; aerial contortion hip hop joy of Jordi Campbell from the USA and aerial artist and actress Anna Simpson from the East Midlands who makes her TILT Festival debut. A special family day will take place on 6 August providing young children, parents and guardians with an exciting day of performances and audience participation. The family day sees Jules Verne’s classic Around The World In 80 Days given a modern twist in a colourful acrobatic adventure, sensitively introducing young audiences to environmental issues. The performance is followed by a workshop for babies, toddlers, and everyone in between! Immediately following, audiences are invited to stay for Fairy Dust Party a brand new outdoor interactive playful piece for children aged 3-10 years and their grown-ups, performed and facilitated by a diverse collective of emerging LGBTQ+ artists. The funky non-binary fairies will lead the children on an interactive playful adventure as they transform into different characters whilst using a variety of artforms, song, dance, physical theatre and spoken word before erupting into a disco party. Part of Birmingham 2022 Festival and supported by Birmingham City Council and Midland Arts Centre. TILT FESTIVAL runs from Monday 1 August – Friday 12 August 2022. For full programme details and information on how to book (those wishing to attend free events will still need to book online) please go to https://www.tiltfestival.com/

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Response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Scotland: LGBT Youth Scotland is Scotland’s national charity for young people who identify as LGBT+. They work with 13 – 25-year olds across the country and deliver the LGBT Charter programme to schools, organisations and businesses. During lockdown, LGBT Youth Scotland have supported young people through an extensive programme of digital youth work: · Youth Groups: Running at the usual group times, the youth groups have moved online using “Discord”, a digital platform that enables social interactions, activities and video calls. Youth groups still welcome new members · Live Chat: available through LGBT Youth Scotland’s website, it enables young people to chat directly with trained youth workers who are able to signpost to services that might be helpful. The live chat is available on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday 6pm to 8pm and Tuesday & Wednesday 3pm to 5pm · Text message and email support: Similar to the live chat, young people can email to get in touch or use the text message service available Monday to Friday. · Information and resources are available on the charity’s social media accounts Impact of Covid19 on LGBT+ young people A blog post collated by Policy and Engagement colleagues at LGBT Youth Scotland highlights the unique ways in which the pandemic has affected young people. “71% of LGBT people say that homophobia is a problem in their local area and 79% said that transphobia is a problem in their local area. Only 52% of LGBT young people felt included in the wider community, this is even lower for young trans people, at 35%.” · LGBT+ young people feel unable to seek solidarity and support from their families or local communities. Many face homophobia, biphobia and/or transphobia within their local environments including their family homes. LGBT+ young people struggle to maintain a connection with their support networks especially given the temporary closure of LGBT+ safe spaces. These experiences are exacerbated by trans/non-binary young people who are being deadnamed, misgendered and invalidated. · Research has shown that 1 in 4 LGBT+ people experience domestic abuse from their families or partners. The figure is much higher for people in their first relationships. 80% of trans people have experienced abusive behaviour from their partner or ex-partner which they may have to spend a lot of time with during lockdown. · Trans and non-binary healthcare has been majorly affected by the pandemic. Gender Identity Clinics are operating on reduced capacity, appointments have been cancelled and gender-affirming surgeries have been postponed. It’s expected that trans people may have to wait over 2 years for vital healthcare. This has a significant impact on trans and non-binary young people’s mental health and gender dysphoria. · LGBT+ young people are disproportionately affected by insecure housing. 24% of homeless young people are LGBT+, and 69% of homeless LGBT+ young people have experienced violence, abuse, or rejection in the family home. Lockdown is expected to lead to more unstable housing conditions, for example LGBT+ young people staying with friends or partners to avoid discrimination in family homes. Ultimately, this may increase the risk of homelessness and may affect people’s access to healthcare and medication. · Digital poverty is prominent amongst various segments of Scotland’s communities. Access to the digital world is particularly important to young LGBT+ people who are at increased risk of isolation or experiencing discrimination in their living environments. · LGBT Youth Scotland has evidence that LGBT+ people may be challenged by the police when leaving their homes due to unconscious bias. For example, LGBT+ couples are questioned as not living in the same household or questioned for their reasons for being outdoors. · LGBT+ young people already experience high rates of mental ill health, with 84% of LGBT young people and 96% of young trans people indicating that they experienced a mental health problem. Increased isolation and stress related to Covid19 will exacerbate these figures and the suspension of mental health services may leave many LGBT+ young people unsupported. Even when services resume, it is estimated that waiting times will be even longer.

Transgender Healthcare Curriculum Training Modules: Improving Ob/Gyn Care for Transgender and Non-Binary Individuals Transgender, non-binary and other gender diverse individuals often face discrimination in health care settings. Research shows that many are unable to find competent, knowledgeable and culturally-appropriate health care. To assist faculty and staff, we created modules to prepare ob/gyns and other providers to better care for transgender, non-binary and other gender diverse people. These modules were developed and produced by Daphna Stroumsa, MD, MPH, in collaboration with physicians and activists across the country and with the support of Michigan Medicine and the Council on Resident Education in Obstetrics and Gynecology (CREOG). Dr. Stroumsa is a fellow in the National Clinician Scholars Program and in the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Michigan. Thanks are owed to the following co-authors and collaborators: Zena El-Saghir; Anand J. Kalra; Gene de Haan, MD; Hadrian Kinnear; Sebastian Z. Ramos, MD; Halley P. Crissman, MD, MPH; Roopina Sangha, MD, MPH; and John F. Randolph Jr., MD.

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The hallways of math and science history are overflowing with the achievements of white men, from Sir Isaac Newton to Steve Jobs; their faces are printed into elementary school textbooks everywhere, and their achievements have been indelibly drilled into our minds, with countless awards and institutions named after them. To be brilliant is a gift, but who gets to be remembered as such involves privilege. As the recent Oscar-nominated film Hidden Figures notes, so many of the “hidden figures” of mathematics are black women, whether they helped America put the first man into space or are studying the awesome power of dark matter. While it’s incredible—and important—to see black female mathematicians being rightfully celebrated, it’s disconcerting that it took until 2017 for them to receive the national acknowledgement a blockbuster film affords. It’s especially disheartening that almost 60 years later, black women are still woefully underrepresented in the hard sciences. There are so many hidden figures around us everyday, and we should celebrate them now—not in 20 or 30 years. In light of International Women’s Day, we’ve rounded up some incredible black women changing mathematics and our world for the better. Dr. Prescod-Weinstein is an astrophysicist and self-proclaimed “axion wrangler” at the University of Washington in Seattle. While she currently studies dark matter candidates, her passions of math and space started early. “When I was 10, my mom took me to see a documentary about Stephen Hawking, Errol Morris’s A Brief History of Time,” Prescod-Weinstein told Gizmodo. “I was hooked by the time they got to black hole singularities!” In addition to investigating cosmology, Prescod-Weinstein is an outspoken advocate for black women and non-binary people in STEM, especially in the mathematical sciences. She maintains a Decolonizing Science Reading List that’s required viewing for any and all interested in social justice and science. Check out Gizmodo’s interview with Prescod-Weinstein on being a black woman in physics today, and why Hidden Figures is far more than a lesson in history. Dr. Walton, a Selma Lee Bloch Brown assistant professor in the mathematics department at Temple University, is an algebra wizard, whose hard work is truly incredible. “I’m originally from Detroit, Michigan and it was a great place to grow up,” she told Mathematically Gifted and Black. “Detroit is a blue-collar city and if there is one skill that I have learned from there it’s resourcefulness. As a child I loved mathematics—I was always counting objects, finding patterns, and logic puzzles were absolutely fun to me. And ‘Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land’.... mind blowing!” During her last two years of high school, Walton started looking up ways to become a mathematics professor. With the encouragement of some of her teachers, she forged ahead. “In general, my research lies in the area of noncommutative algebra, which involves studying algebraic structures that have noncommutative multiplication (where x times y does not necessarily equal y times x),” Walton told Gizmodo. “Examples of such structures are functions, as performing two functions back-to-back may yield different results if they are performed in a different order. (Try washing and drying your clothes in a different order!)” On February 21st, Walton was named a Sloan Foundation fellow, which awards outstanding early-career scientists. It’s highly prestigious, considering 16 recipients have gone on to win the Fields Medal in mathematics. But for Walton, math isn’t about awards. “I love mathematics because I spend most of my day trying to invent and communicate (new) truths,” she said. Dr. Talithia Williams is a statistician and professor in the department of mathematics at Harvey Mudd College. She’s also had research appointments at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the National Security Agency (NSA), and NASA. “In the 10th grade I got a job as a cashier at our local grocery store,” she told Gizmodo when asked how she first got interested in math. “It was back in the day when cash registers were more basic and I often would to do math in my head to calculate a customer’s change. I would try to beat the cash register to figure out the correct amount! I suppose this is when mental math became easier for me and it allowed me to do better in my math classes.” Williams is perhaps best known for a 2014 TED Talk about keeping track of our bodies’ own data, which has exceeded 1.2 million views. Her enlightening and entertaining talk discusses how collecting data on your body’s basic functions—e.g. sleep, menstrual cycle, heart rate—can benefit your health. “By taking ownership of your data...by taking daily measurements about yourself, you become the expert on your body,” Williams said in her TED Talk. “You become the authority.” In 2014, Dr. Williams became the first black woman to ever receive tenure at Harvey Mudd College. Turner is an assistant professor of mathematics at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California. In addition to her career as an educator, she is passionate about her research in commutative algebra. Since 2012, she has published ten academic papers on mathematics and STEM education. “I first got excited about math when I was in 4th or 5th grade except I did not know it was math I was excited about,” Eubanks-Turner told Gizmodo. “In my enrichment class my teacher allowed me to work on puzzles, in particular logic puzzles where you were given clues and had to figure out who did what. Today I know this foundation in logic is what I enjoy about the theoretical mathematics I work on.” In June 2008, Eubanks-Turner was named Project NExT Fellow by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA). The next year, the MAA honored her again by naming her a LA/MS Section Next Fellow. Then, in 2012, she received a research grant of over $2 million from the National Science Foundation. Eubanks-Turner is a member of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM), which advocates for gender equality in the field. While a general interest in STEM fields has increased over the last two decades, mathematical sciences have struggled to become more inclusive, particularly to women of color. According to the US Census, in 2011, “26 percent of STEM workers were women and 74 percent were men.” That number is even smaller for black women in STEM fields, who are still vastly outnumbered by their white, female colleagues. The brilliant women featured here are a small but salient sample of those who will pave a path toward more equality in their fields. Hopefully, it won’t take half a century for them to become the stars of their own Oscar-nominated films.

Editor’s Note: The following submission is from Phaylen Fairchild. Have an LGBTQ+ related experience or story to share? Having your article published on this site will automatically enrol you into a raffle to win a $50 Amazon Gift Card. Submit an article today via queerdeermedia.com. As Trans* people, we’ve come a long way, and although 2017 has been rife with devastating setbacks and the ire of hatred stoked against us has been demonstrably crippling, we can’t dispute or progress. Indeed, the past year has sent our spirits spiraling with frustration as we witnessed, with incomparable agony, the attempt to ban Transgender people from joining the military, or the excision of the very word “Transgender” from vital conversations in federal government agencies- and let’s not forget the ongoing bathroom debacle that plagues us, quite unnecessarily, as opponents argue that their wives and children must be protected from Transwomen as though we represent a violent threat by simply existing is Cisgender spaces. However, hope is not lost. In 2017, our community saw a boon in visibility in mainstream, which witnessed the first Transwoman actually transition from male to female before their eyes. There has been more coverage in the media regarding transgender families, even children, and support groups established to provide essential resources for confused parents and those struggling to discover their identity in an increasingly non-binary world. The fact that the word “Non-binary” has been introduced to the masses, along with 50 new gender options on Facebook has not only created awareness, but is widening the berth for gender diverse individuals globally. While it’s easy to feel consumed by the onslaught of redactions of protections and reversals of rights that pose social threats and the rates of Trans murders increased in the past year, it is fair to state with certainty that the current political climate has taken an egregious toll on multiple levels. Instances of depression, social anxiety and self induced alienation due to fear of violence have increased exponentially with each startling tweet or alt-right march protesting our inclusion in society. Sometimes, it feels futile, but we are not a segment of society that has grown accustomed complacency. We are fighters, by our very nature, because most of us have had to do it from the very start of our lives. The Trans folks who came before us, those without the new identifiers or the growing system of support or public allies lighting up social media in opposition of our oppression like candles in the dark, they survived. They survived having to lead dual lives, or live a lie entirely to appease a hostile, conservative social infrastructure. They didn’t have a day of remembrance, or a week of awareness, but instead, gathered in discreet locations under the cloak of darkness often hundreds of miles from their hometowns just to feel part of a greater community, if they were brave enough. The extent Trans people, merely 15 years ago, had to go to were incredibly tedious, just so they wouldn’t feel alone in a world that seems so small by today’s standards where everyone is just a text away. Yet, with all that progress that we’ve made in representation, there is an extension of our lives that has been left behind, even altogether ignored, and that is the Men who might love us. I’m going to speak specifically about Cigender Men here, because while many in our community have female partners or wives, Ciswomen do not suffer the consequences of a grotesquely hypermasculine society that still demonizes Men who do not conform to male expectations. Society is more liberal with women than they are men, and whereas women are often celebrated for demonstrating a more fluid sexuality, men are vilified for it, shamed even. Here is the commonly asked question: Is a man who is open to dating a Transwoman gay? Lets lay that to rest now. No. Are men confused, thinking that dating a Transwoman means they will be misidentified as gay? Yes. Are they afraid they’ll be ostracized by their peers? Yes. Are they terrified of being labeled as grotesque or humiliated like they’re wearing their fetish on their sleeve for public display? Yes. Do they think they’ll be outcast by their indoctrinated religious organizations, or does it conflict with the faith based teachings that have been hammered into their heads since they could comprehend the word “Abomination?” The answer, again, is yes. So, like the gender diverse people that came before us today, those that gathered in the furthest recesses from recognizable society, these men still do that today. That’s where they expect to meet us. Time has moved on. We have moved forward. They have not, for the most part. The questions, confusions, and desire to live with unbridled authenticity that once plagued us still holds them hostage. Thus, they repress their desires and would turn away from any opportunity presented to date a Transwoman in favor of what they perceive as traditional and acceptable to the masses. They get married, have two children, a white house in the suburbs and wait until everyone is fast asleep before sitting in the ambient glow of some seedy Transgender porn website on their computer screen, and then hate themselves for being aroused. They feel as though they’ve betrayed those who expect them to be normal. Ask any transwoman about dating and the stories are startling similar; They’re usually solicited by a man with an anonymous profile on a dating website or phone app. He won’t tell you anything about himself, but asks for an encyclopedia of photos or videos of you. He uses words like “Friends with Benefits,” “Discreet” or “No strings attached.” If he discloses, he is often married or in a committed relationship. He won’t give his telephone number but instead proposes communicating via other anonymous app or third party service that protects, and then erases his identity. If he wants to meet you, it isn’t for a date. There are no flowers; No quaint dinner or a walk on a beach, but instead a solicitation for a sexual encounter. Almost always they’re looking for an “experience,” like sex with a Trans* person is a cool theme pak ride they’ve always wanted to try out but never had the nerve. Even being in the company of a Trans* person has them incredibly nervous or riddled with anxiety, looking over their shoulder to see if anyone is gawking with quiet judgment. This is what society has done to them, and as a consequence, this is what our typical experience is with them. We are reduced to being their forbidden fruit. They have been conditioned to dehumanize us as we fight daily for our presence in greater society to be normalized rather than sensationalized. Other Transwomen who have dating experience will tell you that even their successful engagements with Men usually ends in emotional tragedy, with him eventually choosing a non-trans woman who presents a more appropriate visage to onlookers and loved ones. It makes life easier. It’s the path of least resistance. No questions asked, none to answer. These men have witnessed the attacks launched on us for years. The slurs tossed around recklessly that refer to us as people or our anatomy. They don’t want to join us on the receiving end, where we’re called everything from harbingers of a destructive society by politicians to practitioners of bestiality by preachers behind pulpits. To them, it’s the gay battle. The war for equal rights. They’re synonymous to the otherwise ignorant Cisgender male who has never had to pick up the gauntlet and demand to be recognized as a valid human being or had their character questioned because of who they love. Who would want to have to do that, anyway? To them, we’re almost a different species entirely, from another planet, who speaks another language and their curiosity is palpable but disallowed. They are afraid that experiencing any emotion beyond the intention of secret sexual gratification or fantasy fulfilling encounter calls into question their sexuality or their coveted masculinity. The badge bestowed upon them as an assigned male will be revoked and they’ll be remanded to the ranks of a minority, like us, and declared sexually perverse while shoved onto the fringes of society like a modern exile. It compromises their comfortable, walk-thru life. Midnight meetings are easier. In my own experiences with Cisgender men, regardless of their sexuality, I’m either celebrated as a drag queen by gay men, or treated as a potential predator by straight men who are unsettled by their attraction to me. They must assert/protect their heterosexuality by telling me immediately about how straight they are and how much they love women to curtail any advances they presume I might make because I blinked twice too fast. Some having even gone into graphic detail just three minutes after meeting me for the first time about their insatiable appetite for orally pleasing a woman. I’ve learned to roll my eyes and move onward. Like so many, I’m quite familiar with the men who avoid eye contact and position their backs against a wall while strategically covering their crotch like I’m a crocodile waiting for a vulnerable moment to make them my next meal. Those who claim it all boils down to body parts are incorrect. The crux lies in the debilitating culture we’re created for men and their relationships with Transwomen. Problematic is the fact that they cannot see us as women- just women. The general awkwardness and conflict created is propagated by the swirling controversies surrounding us as a community. Their lack of desire to get involved, or worse, be accused as a co-conspirator in authenticating us, our lives, our ability to be loved and respected is a natural response. Where has this placed many Transwomen? In a position where they must feel satisfied with what I call sex-ceptance. The idea that, via sex, they have achieved some semblance of love, affection and acceptance from the men that pursue them, but deem them ineligible for an actual date or a potential long-term relationship. How do we change something so deeply embedded in our social definitions? As we’ve forged ahead asking society-at-large to assimilate and educate, how do we also remind them that we are not sexually vulgar for having relationships or, in contrast, sexless spinsters who wear flouncy sundresses and are completely content with cats? There has been such an imbalance of focus on surgery and genitals and Caitlyn Jenner when referencing transwomen that the appreciation of our person has been deprioritized. Our right to use a bathroom in North Carolina or to fight terrorism in Afghanistan, or any of the dozens of small fires we’ve had to centralize our attention on has allowed people to forget we’re more than a cause, a charity, a movement, a request for rights… but people who can love, who deserve love, who sometimes want to get married, have children, the dog and the house in the suburbs. And someone to share it with us without having to ask them to bear the social and political baggage. I believe many men look at me and see “That Transgender girl” who writes about Transgender issues and therefore I represent, not a person, but a plight; a civil circumstance rather than a girl who just writes, and who deals with a particularly relevant and current political issue. For some women it’s breast cancer awareness or the right to sovereignty over their own body, but they’re still women and I’m no different. Our cause is not the complete sum of our parts, and just as we are not defined by our genitals, we cannot allow our natural human desire interaction to be mechanized or removed by those who think that, collectively, we’re automated responses to a radicalized government or trigger words on twitter. Within our collective, we are single cells who have jobs, we’re daughters, sisters, best friends, colleagues, college students, some of us love the ballet, sushi or (In my case) sitting at home in stretch pants watching Netflix. Between that reality and the mythical ideology that has been created between Transwomen and the men who could love them lies a chasm of miscommunication, misunderstanding, and even still, the desperate need for acceptance of both us and themselves, as we are.

Photograph by Thomarya “tee” Fergus (@iamnatteetattoos) "Like a name, pronouns are a fundamental part of a person’s identity. They are a primary way that people identify each other. Using correct pronouns communicates that we see and respect a person for who they are.” - Nelson v Goodberry Restaurant Group Ltd. Dba Buono Osteria and others, 2021 BCHRT 137 at 82 On March 30, 2021, the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (the “HRTO”) held in EN v Gallagher’s Bar and Lounge, 2021 HRTO 240 (the “Gallagher Decision”) that employees who were subject to transphobic slurs, misgendering, and outing by their employer were discriminated against in their employment on the basis of gender identity, gender expression and sex. Similarly, on September 29, 2021, the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal (the “BCHRT”) held in Nelson v Goodberry Restaurant Group Ltd. Dba Buono Osteria and others, 2021 BCHRT 137 (the “Goodberry Decision”) that misgendering employees in the workplace amounts to discrimination on the basis of gender identity and expression. Both decisions are noteworthy since they directly tackle the misuse of gender pronouns in the workplace. The Gallagher Decision EN, JR and FH were employees of Gallagher’s Bar and Lounge. They each identified as genderqueer or as a non-binary trans person. The employees, who refer to themselves using they/them pronouns, requested that the restaurant and its owner/manager do the same. In their human rights applications, each employee alleged that their manager refused to use their correct pronouns and equated their request to do so to “walking on eggshells.” The employees further alleged that the manager was overheard referring to them using a transphobic slur while socializing with customers at the restaurant. When the employees raised their concerns over his use of a slur, the manager denied using it and refused to address their concerns any further. The employees quit their employment and filed human rights applications against the restaurant and the owner/manager. Neither respondent responded to the applications. Therefore, the Respondents were deemed to have accepted the allegations. The HRTO held that the restaurant’s former employees had experienced adverse treatment in the course of their employment on the basis of their gender identity, gender expression and sex, amounting to their constructive dismissal. The HRTO’s key findings, which were based on the employees’ uncontested evidence, can be summarized as follows: - Genderqueer and non-binary trans people are a historically disadvantaged group protected from discrimination under Ontario’s Human Rights Code; - The transphobic slur uttered by the owner/manager was made in a public setting to strangers/customers in the workplace, effectively outing the employees and making them fear for their safety; - The owner/manager’s failure to adequately respond to their concerns and investigate further constituted an adverse impact; - The former employees’ loss of employment was the result of feeling as if they had no choice but to leave the workplace, was another form of adverse impact; and - Misgendering or the use of incorrect pronouns was found to be adverse treatment with respect to the former employees’ employment, but the HRTO noted that no particulars were provided regarding the misgendering allegations. The HRTO awarded each employee lost wages and $10,000.00 as compensation for injury to dignity, feelings, and self-respect. While the HRTO accepted that misgendering or the use of incorrect pronouns was discriminatory in this instance, it was unable to factor this finding into its remedial awards due to lack of particulars. The Goodberry Decision The complainant in Goodberry was also a former employee of a restaurant, Buono Osteria. The restaurant was run by two of the personal respondents, namely, two co-directors who acted as the general manager and the executive chef, respectively. The third personal respondent was the bar manager at Buono Osteria. The complainant identified as a non-binary, gender fluid, transgender person and used they/them pronouns. The complainant had shared their pronouns with the general manager and had spoken with him about how important it was to them to be properly gendered. The general manager was diligent in using the right pronouns and correcting staff who used the wrong pronouns. The bar manager, however, continued to refer to the complainant using incorrect pronouns and gendered nicknames, such as “sweetie” and “honey”. After the complainant suggested at a staff meeting that patrons be greeted in gender-neutral language, the bar manager grew visibly agitated and hostile towards the complainant. Although both the executive chef and the general manager spoke to the bar manager about his behaviour, the bar manager continued to demonstrate “specific animus” towards the complainant. Following a heated dispute with the bar manager about his persistent misgendering, the complainant’s employment was terminated. When the Complainant pressed for a reason for their termination, they were told that they came on “too strong too fast,” and were too “militant”, resulting in the team feeling uncomfortable. The BCHRT held that the complainant had been discriminated against in their employment on the basis of their gender identity or expression. The BCHRT’s key findings can be summarized as follows: - Trans employees are entitled to recognition of, and respect for, their gender identity and expression, which begins with using their names and pronouns correctly. This is not an accommodation, but a basic obligation that every person holds towards people in their employment; - The persistent misgendering of the complainant despite numerous attempts to stop that conduct harmed the complainant in their employment in relation to their gender identity; - The employer failed to adequately investigate and respond to the discriminatory conduct after the bar manager refused to use the complainant’s correct pronouns as instructed. It was not fair to the complainant for the bar manager to be given “a few chances” to correct his behaviour despite the bar manager’s refusal to do so. The bar manager’s duty not to discriminate against a co-worker should have taken immediate and urgent precedence; and - The complainant's gender identity was a factor in their dismissal, which arose as a result of the complainant’s effort to address discrimination in the workplace. In dismissing the complainant, the employer had wrongly cast the complainant as the “angry instigator” and ignored the discriminatory context of the dispute. The BCHRT ordered the respondents to pay the complainant $30,000 as compensation for injury to dignity, feelings, and self-respect. The employer was also ordered to implement a pronoun policy and mandatory diversity, equity, and inclusion training. Key Takeaways from Goodberry and Gallagher While neither Ontario nor British Columbia human rights legislation specifically refers to misgendering or the incorrect use of pronouns as a form of discrimination, the HRTO and BCHRT were clear that persistent misgendering and incorrect pronoun usage can constitute adverse treatment amounting to discrimination in employment. Both the Gallagher and the Goodberry decisions send a clear message that gender identities or expressions communicated by employees must be respected. Unlike Gallagher, which was decided on the basis of uncontested (and somewhat incomplete) evidence, Goodberry was issued following a full hearing on the merits. The lack of particularity and evidence with respect to the misgendering allegations in Gallagher appears to have resulted in a more restrained award of damages. Goodberry awarded significant damages and issued an order against the employer to institute a pronoun policy and mandatory training. The HRTO, however, did not grant damages specifically because of misgendering due to lack of particulars. Future cases may provide further guidance on available monetary and non-monetary remedies for misgendering in British Columbia and Ontario, including additional insights into the extent to which a respondent's intention to misgender may or may not affect the remedies awarded in misgendering cases. Practical Tips for Organizations Notwithstanding their differences, both Gallagher and Goodberry underscore the obligation of employers and management personnel to respect employees’ gender identities and expression, which obligation includes ensuring that correct pronouns and names are used in the workplace by all employees and management personnel. In Goodberry, it is significant that the tribunal framed this obligation as a “basic right and not an accommodation.” Arguably, the tribunal is asserting that transgender and other gender non-conforming individuals should expect to have their gender identities and gender expression respected and recognized by an organization without having to ask for accommodation. This accessibility approach (which is usually discussed in the context of disability) requires an organization to be proactive and implement policies and practices that contemplate the diversity of gender identity and gender expression inherent in our society. Importantly, such an approach eliminates the need for gender nonconforming individuals to announce and explain their identities - a negative side effect of accommodation - which the tribunal in Goodberry acknowledged is a daily struggle for members of this equity-seeking group. Organizations should take the lead from the Tribunal in Goodberry and implement policy and practices that, not only seek to remove existing barriers to gender inclusivity but also address the particular needs and vulnerabilities of transgender and gender nonconforming individuals. What then should an organization’s pronoun policy address? And what best practices should it strive to entrench? If we are to learn from the mistakes made by the employers in Goodberry and Gallagher, your pronoun policy should, at the very least, speak to the following: - Regular education and training of staff and management personnel on equity, diversity, and inclusion in the context of gender identity and gender expression. In Goodberry the tribunal recognized that “for many people” using gender neutral pronouns involves unlearning “habits of a lifetime” and that fear of misgendering one’s transgender co-workers could lead to their further alienation and exclusion in the workplace. Consequently, this education and training should be included in the onboarding process as well as in long-term professional development strategies. - The use of gender neutral language in all of the organization’s policies and communications (internal and external). For example, an organization could proactively encourage and support the inclusion of personal pronouns in email signatures, staff directories and nameplates for office doors. - A complaint resolution process that is equipped to deal with complaints of misgendering, the use of transphobic slurs, and other forms of discrimination on the basis of gender expression and gender identity. First, the process must treat complaints of this type with the same urgency as complaints involving other types of misconduct. The BCHRT in Goodberry made the point that discriminatory harassment, such as intentional misgendering, can be as harmful as physical violence, and should not be treated as less serious. Second, the process should also take into consideration the lived experiences of, and vulnerabilities faced by transgender and gender nonconforming individuals because of the marginalization they continue to encounter within the broader society. After all, these are the metrics that inform the tribunal’s assessment of the adverse impact of discrimination on an individual. For example, an organization may wish to ensure that the process is trauma-informed and maximizes respect for privacy and confidentiality in relation to the individual’s transgender identity and history. Further guidance can be found in the Ontario Human Rights Commission’s “Policy on preventing discrimination because of gender identity and gender expression.” Appendix C of the policy contains a checklist of best practices, which includes practices such as gender-neutral dress codes, guidelines and individualized support for transitioning employees, gender-neutral washrooms and facilities. Disclaimer: This article provides only general information about legal issues and developments, and it is not intended to provide, nor does it provide specific legal advice. The views expressed in this article are the authors’ alone, and they are not the views of their respective employers. About the Authors (listed in no particular order) - Giovanna Di Sauro (she/her) Giovanna practices labour, employment and human rights law in Toronto with the global law firm, DLA Piper (Canada) LLP. She assists local and international clients with navigating both day-to-day and complex workplace issues. She is also a member of the SOGIC Executive. [email protected] | vCard - Tamara J. Sylvester (one/they/them) Tamara is a lawyer working in the Human Rights Services Office at Ryerson/ X University. In addition to conducting investigations into human rights and sexual violence complaints at the University, one provides education and training on the University’s human rights and sexual violence policies. One is also a member of the SOGIC Executive and the SOGIC Section Editor. Nicky Kim graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School in 2021. Prior to law school, she obtained an Honours Bachelor of Arts degree in International Development with a minor in Politics, Law, Society at McGill University. Currently, Nicky is a Student-at-Law at DLA Piper (Canada) LLP and seeks to develop her legal practice in the areas of litigation and labour and employment law. This article originally appeared on the OBA’s SOGIC Section Articles page.

Most influential women and non-binary Cambridge students 2020: Part two Because one article wasn’t enough! This year, only one woman was voted into the top 10 of The Cambridge Tab’s annual BNOC list. Many students criticised this, and rightfully so; there are so many powerful and influential female and non-binary students leading JCRs, sports teams, political societies, student papers and more. Therefore, after receiving your nominations, we have put together a collection of women and non-binary students who are shaping and building the Cambridge community today. Last week, The Cambridge Tab released part one of this series; this is part two: Bea Goddard, 3rd year Engling at Fitz “I’ve been boxing for 11 years now but mainly in women’s only classes, so I didn’t realise properly until I got to Cambridge how male-dominated the sport could be at all levels. In my first year, I became the first woman to become a coach for Cambridge University Amateur Boxing Club, one of the oldest boxing clubs in the country. With the help of the amazing women I coached and trained with, we’ve doubled the size of the women’s squad in the last two years despite our women’s Varsity being cancelled in both 2019 and 2020. “I am a vocal activist, so outside of the ring I’ve spent a lot of time making documentaries about social issues in Cambridge and beyond (The Cambridge Climate, It Takes Art, Their Story). This year I have been making a documentary tracking the successes and disappointments of our tight-knit women’s squad, that spotlights the inequalities we all experience within boxing and makes a wider comment on the way women are treated in sport and beyond (Hit Like A Girl.)” “Bea has contributed tremendously to the Cambridge University Amateur Boxing Club (CUABC.) She was the first female coach in the club 2018-19. She also coaches at Northern Powerhouse Boxing Academy when she’s at home. In 2019-20, she held the role of Vice President of CUABC and had her first bout for CUABC Town v. Gown. On top of all this, she also spent this year creating a short film featuring some of the female boxers in CUABC, exploring the adversities of women’s boxing such as the cancellation of women’s Varsity, as well as the close friendships built between squad members. I’m inspired by her work ethic during training and her passion for supporting women in boxing. The whole of the female squad is extremely grateful for what she has done for the club and we’d love for her work to be recognised.” “I never shut up about how much I love boxing, and how much my female and non-binary teammates especially have made my time at Cambridge an absolute joy. It was bittersweet to watch the men’s squad win all three of their Varsities while I was in the club (the 111th, 112th and 113th Varsities) – the same number of Varsities that the women’s squad have officially had. I won’t stop fighting for the women’s Varsity to be on an equal level as the men’s, and being nominated for this only encourages me more. Thank you so much, and I am grateful for everything that CUABC has done for me and my mental health too, so if you can please donate to Black Minds Matter to help make mental health support more accessible for everyone.” Rihab El-Hussain, 2nd year Lawyer at Downing “If there’s anything you’ll come to realise very quickly about me, it’s probably my unhealthy tendency to take on more than I can handle in any given situation! But gratefully, that’s probably the also the reason I’ve been able to try so much these past few years. “My main focus has been in2_law, a social initiative set up with my best friend to support students from underprivileged backgrounds in applying to study Law. When many of us reflect on that process for ourselves, we’ll remember a stressful few months of mock interviews, the back and forth of personal statement drafts with teachers, calling up that cousin who went to Oxford or uncle who’s a lawyer – devoted to building the intellectual and skills-based capital required to be in with a chance. “In reality, for many students in the UK, particularly those from (but in no way limited to) a state school background, that support is severely insufficient, if not unavailable. Perfectly capable, insanely intelligent students inhibited by an arbitrary resource gap that exists due to structural reasons beyond their grasp. So in2_law aims to bridge that. Using the tools and knowledge at our disposal, to provide free mentoring, personal statement and mock interview support, even something as simple as reading suggestions can go a long way. With the hope that in the coming years, those opportunities we’ve had to capitalise on in Cambridge are there for students from a whole range of backgrounds. “I’m also co-president of the recently founded CU Sudanese Society. Sudan is a country brought to the forefront due to political events in the past year, and we want to create a space for engagement. For both students of Sudanese descent, and others interested in finding out more, it is a social and academic access point. My highlight from the past year was definitely fundraising for the Little Smiles campaign who provided for the education of five young orphans in Sudan, thank you to everyone who donated! Making SudSoc work alongside some of my closest friends and inspirations at Cam has made the experience all the more enriching and I only hope that the society can grow to service anyone who needs it in future.” “Her achievements are inspiring given the obstacles she’s had to overcome as a black, female Muslim.” “I’m very humbled by everyone that voted, thank you so much, it’s only alongside amazing people that these things come about. A lot of appreciation for those who regularly deal with my rambling <3 If you’re interested in getting involved, or have thoughts, about anything above please please get in touch!” Rachel Tustin, 3rd year HSPS at Peterhouse “I was President of the Cambridge Union in Michaelmas 2019. As President, I interviewed Bill Gates, Dua Lipa, Adwoa Aboah, Edward Snowden, and Yanis Varoufakis, securing all these speakers (except Bill Gates) over the summer before the start of the academic year. As a result of this, I featured in Dua Lipa’s Instagram, which was a high point of my 2019 (Bella Hadid commented). I also confirmed Ban Ki-Moon for the term after mine and was lucky enough to have dinner with him after his speech as well. I chaired debates on topics including nationalising Eton, codifying the constitution, and the war on terror. “Over 2000 students became members in my term, and I’m very proud of having produced a term card that so many incoming students were able to get enthusiastic about – I hope you enjoyed the events! Beyond this, we also welcomed students from a number of comprehensive schools for debate workshops and created a ‘Diversity Officer’ role on the elected committee to ensure that future committees are held accountable to our aim of hosting diverse individuals speaking on the issues that impact our world today.” “She made the union a much more open and accessible place for women and NB people and marginalised groups. There are literally pictures of her on Dua Lipa’s Instagram.” “The union is in no way perfect, and I believe it still has a long way to go before its a space where everyone – regardless of background – feels genuinely welcome to speak up, both in terms of the events we host and in our committee. In my term as president, I worked hard to ensure that the Union could be as close to that space as I could make it. I still don’t feel I did enough, but I hope that those reflecting on my term will feel that we championed diverse voices and facilitated conversations that mattered to everyone – not just straight white men.” Rensa Gaunt, 5th year MMLer at Fitz “Rensa Gaunt has been an activist and campaigner for many years within the university, Cambridge and further afield. She has volunteered with countless organisations, including fundraising, casework and providing training for SOAS Detainee Support, instituting permanent food bank collections and advocating for structural reform at college, faculty and university level. She co-founded the DSC Accessibility Pledge for J/MCRs and societies, wrote the guide to Double Time (part-time study for health reasons) to raise awareness of this ‘hidden’ option, and has supported dozens if not hundreds of individual students. “She was recently elected Disabled Students’ Officer for CUSU, where she will continue to push for radical support for marginalised students, and her work has been recognised with a Vice-Chancellor’s Social Impact Award and a Commendation from CCTL in the Outstanding Student Contribution to Education Awards.” “Rensa has been fighting the university for years to improve provision for disabled students – including lots of meetings and consultations- even now during her final exams. She has been key in organising for students from low income and non-traditional backgrounds, as well as helping wider groups that tackle homelessness and support asylum seekers. She inspired me to get involved with activism for the first time and has navigated some really tricky times without giving up hope. Always approachable, and we’re glad to have her! “I am humbled and grateful to all those who I have worked with over the past few years – none of this would have been possible without countless other students getting involved with social issues at college, faculty and campaign level. Whether on disability, homelessness, seeking asylum, resisting discrimination or any other social issue, anyone is welcome to join our campaigns and societies in helping to centre the voices of the most marginalised and fight for change.” Antonia Harrison, 1st year MMLer at Clare “I was involved in activism before I got to Cambridge, and campaigned with Manchester Momentum, Anti-Fur Manchester and Manchester Pig Save, alongside undertaking ambassador work with Papyrus and Youth for Peace, which entailed organising fundraising and outreach. When I got to Cambridge, I was lucky enough to meet some incredibly inspiring activists and friends. Their commitment, compassion and conviction have made me feel continually empowered and I have been grateful to work with them on the Clare College Living Wage Campaign and the Loud and Clear campaign this year. “I also have an enormous passion for spoken word poetry. I have been mentored by Young Identity and BBC Words First and have worked on performance pieces with Manchester Art Gallery, the Manchester Climate Conference, Manchester Histories and more. It would be really amazing to have the chance to bring more of that to Cam next year, as it has strong links to activism and I feel there aren’t currently many opportunities for spoken word artists.” “She is the backbone of the Clare Living Wage Campaign, started Loud and Clear to improve awareness around sexual assault at Clare and is a news reporter for Varsity, next year’s head of Speaker Committee for Clare Politics and still works unbelievably hard on her degree. An all-round absolute legend.” “Wow, I have amazing friends. Thanks for helping me to overcome my fear of the moon, grow my bone density and pursue my dream of amateur dentistry. And thanks in particular to one incredible friend who has gone above and beyond for me – you know who you are. Also, thanks to my mum for always being my best friend, and big up single mums everywhere for being absolutely the most influential womxn.” Laura Ryan, 2nd year Neuroscience PhD at Downing “I didn’t get as involved with societies as I should have during my undergrad at Edinburgh, so I guess I’m trying to make up for that now! My PhD is lab-based (I study neurodegeneration), so time management is always an issue for me, but I juggle things the best way I can. When I got to Cambridge and realised there was no society for atheists, humanists, or people of any religion committed to secularist principles, I founded one along with a group of like-minded friends, and we’ve put on some really interesting speakers events (CUASH). I’ve also been on Downing MCR committee since I arrived in Cambridge. But by far the society that has had the biggest impact on my time here is the Liberal Association (CULA), which truly is filled with some of the kindest and most interesting people I’ve ever encountered. This year I became vice-chair which has been really rewarding, and we’ve tried to keep active over the virtual term! Recently a group of CULA members raised over £1000 for Cambridge Women’s Aid which is something I’m very proud of.” “She became vice-chair of CULA out of nowhere and ran loads of events over lockdown. Last week she raised £1200 for Cambridge women’s aid.” “I have to say I’m surprised to be nominated, and genuinely honoured to be on any list with the women and non-binary students featured in the first part of this series, who seem like really inspirational people. Getting more female and non-binary students involved with political societies (and into STEM) is very important to me, and I really hope that I can be a welcoming presence in any society that I’m part of. Thanks to everyone who nominated me!”

Out and About LGBT Picks at Summerworks (Toronto) – August 4 to 14, 2016 Summerworks independent theatre festival is back again, and this year there are even more queer-themed productions. Here’s a snapshot look at what you should be seeing. Created and Performed by Asaf Aharonson and Ruairí Donovan Presented in partnership with The Ireland Park Foundation and Tiger Dublin Fringe. From the confidential to the indecent, GHOSTS takes us on journey from the erotic to the pornographic and back again to friendship. Veiling and unveiling the potential of a complex intimacy between two lovers, this object-oriented dance explodes the queer performativity of Nature. Drawing on the work of theorist Michael Hardt, GHOSTS tries to understand how love can be the central, constitutive mode and motor of politics. Mr. Shi and his lover Text by Wong Teng Chi; Music and Musical direction by Njo Kong Kie; Directed by Johnny Tam An enigmatic real-life affair between an opera singing spy and his diplomat lover inspired Summerworks’ first-ever Chinese language production – a contemporary music theatre in Mandarin created by Macau and Toronto artists (Amsterdam Études, Infinity, knotty together, La Señorita Mundo). The emotionally rich score draws inspiration from opera, musicals and vintage pop from both East and West. Praised by the Taiwanese press as “gentle and elegant, yet possesses a determination that dares to dream”, this evocative production makes its North American premiere with an international cast. English subtitles. Written, Composed and Performed by Gabriel Dharmoo Winner of the Best International Production at the 2015 Amsterdam Fringe Festival, Imaginary Anthropologies is a solo performance about the virtuosity, versatility, and strangeness of the human voice. Interacting with a video of so-called experts, the performer invents vocal traditions woven together with imaginary folklore and experimental voice techniques. The result is an aural landscape that questions concepts of normality. A humorous exploration of post-colonialism, post-exoticism, cultural extinction, globalization, normalized racism, and cultural appropriation. Directed and Created by Shira Taylor You’ve seen the protests. Adults have a lot to say about the new sex ed curriculum, but now it’s time to let teens give us The Talk. Beginning as research by doctoral candidate Shira Taylor, SExT has evolved into an entertaining and powerful performance created by young people from Flemingdon/Thorncliffe Park about growing up in communities where sexuality is taboo in the age of sexting, cyberbullying, and rape culture. SExT will leave you reconsidering your preconceptions of young people, diversity, stereotypes, and sexuality. Who knows, you might learn a few things! This is the August Directed by Megan Piercey Monafu; Written by Hillary Rexe Edie is a YouTube star who has just gone viral. Bea is her girlfriend, and also her professor. She wants Edie to stop vlogging about her sex life and focus on more important work. But everything changes when Edie meets Sam – a multimedia artist who defies definition. Fame Prayer / EATING Performed and Created by Andrew Tay, Francois Lalumiere and Katrzyna Szugajew Elevating celebrity tabloids, pop songs, and social media actions into mystical objects, dances and rituals – Fame Prayer / EATING examines and confuses ideas of modern spirituality through the process of consumption and invites you to consider the complications that arise when consumer culture absorbs spiritual practices. A rigorously undisciplined performance created by dance artist Andrew Tay, visual and performance artist Francois Lalumiere, and photographer and performance artist Katrzyna Szugajew, Fame Prayer / EATING will be a queer space of worship, a critique of healing culture, and a transgressive and disorientating performance for the audience to engage with. queer slow dance with radical thought: The (Ir)reverence Edition Conceived by Heather Hermant How do those vital thinkers who are no longer with us live on and how do we find the ones whose names we do not know? queer slow dance with radical thought: The (Ir)reverence Edition offers one-on-one experiences to participants who sign up to “read” materials of radical thought, performed by live bodies in the form of a slow dance or other intimate encounter. For us, queerness is more than gender and sexuality. To those who shake the boat, subtly or forcefully, who make utopian worlds in the flesh, we invite you to challenge and expand this thing called queerness. Written and Performed by Anastasiya Bobovyk, Jenn Boulay, Li Chen, Mikaela Cordero, Zeynab Egbeyemi, Jamie Kasiama, Whitney Kyera, Whitney-Nicole Peterin, Fitz Switzer, and Chana Weiss The AMY Project’s latest collective creation showcases the monologues, songs, movement, and brave hearts by young womxn and gender non-binary folx. A barrier-free arts education program that builds the leadership, confidence, and unique voice of young women and non-binary youth in Toronto, The AMY Project provides performance training, connections to artistic mentors, and support towards the early growth of artistic careers. About the Author Bryen Dunn is a freelance journalist with a focus on travel, lifestyle, entertainment and hospitality. He has an extensive portfolio of celebrity interviews with musicians, actors and other public personalities. He enjoys discovering delicious eats, tasting spirited treats, and being mesmerized by musical beats.

Nondiscrimination Standards Under ACA Section 1557: Now Is the Time to ActHealth Care and Life Sciences Client Alert September 15, 2016 Health insurers and group health plan sponsors must closely review the final rule titled “Nondiscrimination in Health Programs and Activities” (“Final Rule”) implementing Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”) that was published by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) on May 18, 2016. Section 1557 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability in certain health programs and activities. To address issues of discrimination in the health programs and activities of certain “Covered Entities” (defined below), the Final Rule clarifies and codifies existing nondiscrimination requirements and sets forth new standards to implement Section 1557, particularly with respect to the prohibition of discrimination on the basis of sex. The Final Rule became effective on July 18, 2016; however, for those insurance issuers or group health plans that must alter their plan benefit designs based on the Final Rule, the effective date is the first day of the first plan or policy year on or after January 1, 2017. Regardless of the date and mechanism through which the Final Rule applies to you, now is the time to ensure that you understand the rule’s requirements and implement needed policy or operational changes. Key Implementation Elements of the Final Rule Who: A health program or activity, any part of which receives federal financial assistance, and any program or activity administered by an executive agency or an entity established under Title I of the Affordable Care Act What: An individual may not be excluded from participation in, denied the benefits of, or otherwise subjected to discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability in, certain health programs and activitiesWhen: Effective July 18, 2016, unless changes to health insurance or group health plan benefit design (including covered benefits, benefits limitations or restrictions, and cost-sharing mechanisms, such as coinsurance, copayments, and deductibles) are required—in which case, provisions will apply on the first day of the first plan year (or policy year in the individual market) beginning on or after January 1, 2017 HHS, through such agencies as the Health Resources and Services Administration (“HRSA”), the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (“SAMHSA”), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”), and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”), provides federal financial assistance via various mechanisms to health programs and activities of local governments, state governments, and the private sector. “Federal financial assistance” includes grants, loans, subsidies, contracts of insurance, and other types of assistance. Such assistance also includes premium tax credits and advance payments of premium tax credits and cost-sharing reductions for health insurance coverage purchased through the Health Insurance Marketplaces. “Covered Entities” that are subject to the non-discrimination provisions in the Final Rule include: - Entities receiving federal financial assistance through their participation in Medicare (excluding Medicare Part B) or Medicaid—for example: - short-term, rehabilitation, psychiatric, and long-term hospitals - facility-based and freestanding skilled nursing facilities/nursing facilities - home health agencies - physical therapy/speech pathology programs - end-stage renal disease dialysis centers - intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual disabilities - rural health clinics - independent practice physical therapy - comprehensive outpatient rehabilitation facilities - ambulatory surgical centers - organ procurement organizations - community mental health centers - Federally Qualified Health Centers - Hospital-based, office-based, or freestanding laboratories that receive federal financial assistance through Medicaid payments for covered laboratory tests - Community health centers receiving federal financial assistance through grant awards from HRSA - Health-related schools in the United States and other health education entities receiving federal financial assistance through grant awards to support health professional training programs that include oral health, behavioral health, medicine, geriatric, and physician’s assistant programs - State Medicaid agencies receiving federal financial assistance from CMS to operate the Medicaid Program, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (“CHIP”), and the Basic Health Program - State public health agencies receiving federal financial assistance from CDC, SAMHSA, and other HHS components - Health Insurance Marketplaces established under Title I of the ACA (including 17 State-Based Marketplaces and 34 Federally Facilitated Marketplaces) - Qualified health plan issuers receiving federal financial assistance through advance payments of premium tax credits and cost-sharing reductions (which include the health insurance issuers in the Federally Facilitated Marketplaces receiving federal financial assistance through advance payments of premium tax credits and cost-sharing reductions and issuers operating in the State-Based Marketplaces) - Physicians receiving federal financial assistance through Medicaid payments, “meaningful use” payments, and other sources The term ‘‘health program or activity’’ means “the provision or administration of health-related services, health-related insurance coverage, or other health-related coverage, and the provision of assistance to individuals in obtaining health-related services or health-related insurance coverage.” For a Covered Entity that is principally engaged in providing or administering health-related services, health-related insurance coverage, or other health-related coverage, all of its operations are considered part of the health program or activity, including the provision of an employee health benefit program or wellness program to its employees. Accordingly, if any part of a health care entity receives federal financial assistance, then all of its programs and activities are subject to the non-discrimination provisions in the Final Rule. However, the Final Rule does not apply to actions against a Covered Entity’s own employees, including actions related to hiring, firing, promotion, or terms and conditions of employment. Application of the Nondiscrimination Provisions The core objective of Section 1557 is to prohibit discrimination in “any health program or activity” on the grounds prohibited under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (race, color, or national origin), Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (sex), the Age Discrimination Act of 1975 (age), and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (disability). The Final Rule is not intended to apply a lesser standard for the protection of individuals from discrimination than the standards and regulations already applied under these laws. Further, nothing in the Final Rule is intended to be interpreted to invalidate or limit the existing rights, remedies, procedures, or legal standards available to individuals aggrieved under other federal civil rights laws or to supersede state or local laws that provide greater or equal protection against discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability. The HHS Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”), the agency responsible for enforcing Section 1557, concludes that the regulations promulgated in the Final Rule preempt state law only where the exercise of state authority directly conflicts with or prevents the application of the Final Rule. HHS did not include a blanket religious exemption in the Final Rule; however, the Final Rule includes a provision noting that, insofar as the application of any requirement under the rule would violate applicable federal statutory protections for religious freedom and conscience, such application would not be required. Further, HHS allows for sex-specific health programs or activities, but only where the Covered Entity can demonstrate an exceedingly persuasive justification (i.e., that the sex-specific program is substantially related to the achievement of an important health-related or scientific objective). HHS establishes numerous requirements for Covered Entities under the Final Rule. For example, a Covered Entity: - must take reasonable steps to provide meaningful access to each individual with limited English proficiency; - must take appropriate steps to ensure that communications with individuals with disabilities are as effective as communications with others in health programs and activities; - if covered by the 2010 Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) Standards for Accessible Design prior to July 18, 2016, must comply with those standards for new construction or alterations by July 18, 2016, and compliance with the Uniform Federal Accessibility Standards will be deemed compliance with the Final Rule only if construction or alteration was commenced before July 18, 2016, and the facility or part of the facility was not covered by standards under the ADA; - must ensure that its health programs or activities provided through electronic and information technology are accessible to individuals with disabilities, unless doing so would result in undue financial and administrative burdens or a fundamental alteration in the nature of the health programs or activities; - must provide individuals equal access to its health programs or activities without discrimination on the basis of sex and must treat individuals consistent with their gender identity; - must not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability when providing or administering health-related insurance or other health-related coverage; - will be liable for violations of the Final Rule in any employee health benefit program that it provides to its employees and/or their dependents; and - must not exclude from participation in, deny the benefits of, or otherwise discriminate against an individual or entity in, its health programs or activities on the basis of the race, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability of an individual with whom the individual or entity is known or believed to have a relationship or association. Actions That Covered Entities Must Take to Comply with the Final Rule Each entity applying for federal financial assistance, each issuer seeking certification to participate in a Health Insurance Marketplace, and each state seeking approval to operate a State-Based Marketplace is required to submit an assurance that its health programs and activities will be operated in compliance with Section 1557. Each Covered Entity that employs 15 or more persons must designate at least one employee to coordinate compliance with the requirements of the Final Rule. A Covered Entity that has already designated a responsible employee pursuant to the regulations implementing Section 504 or Title IX may use that individual to coordinate its efforts to comply with Section 1557. Further, a Covered Entity that employs 15 or more persons must adopt a grievance procedure that incorporates appropriate due process standards and allows for the prompt and equitable resolution of complaints concerning actions prohibited by Section 1557. HHS clarifies that an individual does not have to exhaust a Covered Entity’s grievance procedure prior to filing a Section 1557 complaint. Additionally, HHS clarifies that a Covered Entity that already has a grievance procedure addressing claims of disability discrimination that meets the standards established under the Section 504 regulation may use that procedure to address disability claims under Section 1557. A Covered Entity may use that procedure to address all other Section 1557 claims, provided that the Covered Entity modifies the procedure to apply to race, color, national origin, sex, and age discrimination claims. HHS provides an example of how to structure a grievance procedure in Appendix C of the Final Rule. A Covered Entity must take appropriate initial and continuing steps to notify beneficiaries, enrollees, applicants, or members of the public of individuals’ rights under Section 1557 and of Covered Entities’ nondiscrimination obligations with respect to their health programs and activities. Specifically, a Covered Entity’s notice must include the following statements and information: - The Covered Entity does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability - The Covered Entity provides appropriate auxiliary aids and services, free of charge and in a timely manner, to individuals with disabilities - The Covered Entity provides language assistance services, free of charge and in a timely manner, to individuals with limited English proficiency - How an individual can access such aids and services referenced above - The contact information for the responsible employee coordinating compliance with Section 1557 (when required) - The availability of a grievance procedure (when required), and how to file a grievance - How an individual can file a discrimination complaint with HHS This notice must be posted in significant publications and communications, in conspicuous physical locations, and on the Covered Entity’s website by October 16, 2016 (90 days from the effective date of the Final Rule). HHS provides a sample notice and non-discrimination statement in Appendix A of the Final Rule. Covered Entities may use the sample notice or they may develop their own. Covered Entities are encouraged, but not required, to post the notice in one or more of the most prevalent non-English languages frequently encountered in their geographic service areas. Further, Covered Entities may combine the required content of the notice with the content of other required notices, as long as the combined notice clearly informs individuals of their civil rights under Section 1557. However, a Covered Entity’s compliance with the notification requirements in the Final Rule does not constitute compliance with the notice requirements of other federal civil rights laws, such as Title IX and Section 504. Covered Entities must also post by October 16, 2016, taglines in at least the top 15 languages spoken by individuals with limited English proficiency in the state or states where the Covered Entity operates. HHS provides a sample tagline in Appendix B of the Final Rule. Covered Entities may develop their own taglines, and they may choose to include taglines in more than 15 languages. Further, for significant publications and significant communications that are small-sized, Covered Entities must include the non-discrimination statement (in lieu of the full notice) and taglines in at least the top two languages spoken by individuals with limited English proficiency in the relevant state or states. OCR has posted translated resources in 65 languages, including a notice of nondiscrimination, a statement of nondiscrimination, and taglines, on its website for Covered Entities to use. A recipient of federal financial assistance or State-Based Marketplace that has been found to have discriminated on any of the bases prohibited by Section 1557 will be required to take remedial action to overcome the effects of that discrimination. Further, a Covered Entity may take voluntary action in the absence of a finding of discrimination to overcome the effects of conditions that result or resulted in limited participation by persons based on race, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability. Equal Program Access on the Basis of Sex The Final Rule requires Covered Entities to provide “equal access to its health programs or activities without discrimination on the basis of sex.” The Final Rule uses the same definition for “on the basis of sex” as the proposed rule, which was released by HHS on September 8, 2015 (“Proposed Rule”). Specifically, this term “includes, but is not limited to, discrimination on the basis of pregnancy, false pregnancy, termination of pregnancy, or recovery therefrom, childbirth or related medical conditions, sex stereotyping, and gender identity.” OCR continues to rely upon the U.S. Supreme Court’s holding in Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins to support its inclusion of sex stereotyping in the definition of “on the basis of sex.” In the Final Rule, OCR clarified that sex stereotypes can be based on expectations about gender roles. Under the Final Rule, OCR will evaluate complaints alleging sex discrimination related to an individual’s sexual orientation to determine whether the complaints can be addressed under Section 1557. In explaining this decision, OCR noted that it received comments both requesting OCR to explicitly state that discrimination on the basis of sex includes discrimination based on sexual orientation and, conversely, asserting that OCR does not have such authority to include sexual orientation because no federal appellate court has interpreted Title IX or Title VII to protect a same-sex relationship. While acknowledging that no federal appellate court has concluded that federal laws prohibiting sex discrimination include a prohibition on sexual orientation discrimination, OCR noted that some recent court decisions have found that discrimination relating to an individual’s sexual orientation is prohibited because it constitutes discrimination on the basis of sex stereotyping. As such, OCR concluded that “Section 1557’s prohibition of discrimination on the basis of sex includes, at a minimum, sex discrimination related to an individual’s sexual orientation where the evidence establishes that the discrimination is based on gender stereotypes.” However, OCR did not say that discrimination on the basis of an individual’s sexual orientation alone is a form of discrimination under Section 1557. Covered Entities should pay close attention for legal developments as this area of unsettled law is ripe for litigation. Like the Proposed Rule, the Final Rule also requires Covered Entities to “treat individuals consistent with their gender identity.” OCR defines “gender identity” to mean an individual’s internal sense of gender, which may be different than the sex assigned at birth. In response to comments about potential ambiguity regarding non-binary gender identities, OCR revised the Proposed Rule’s definition of “gender identity” to include the clause “which may be male, female, neither, or a combination of male and female.” The Final Rule also clarifies that the term “gender identity” encompasses “gender expression” and “transgender status.” OCR noted that this is consistent with the position taken by some courts and federal agencies; therefore, these types of discrimination are prohibited under the Final Rule. Gender Discrimination in Health-Related Insurance and Other Health-Related Coverage The Final Rule adopts Section 92.207 of the Proposed Rule—which prohibits a Covered Entity from discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability—without substantive modification. This section also lists specific prohibited practices, including implementing a categorical coverage exclusion or limitation for all health services related to gender transition and denying or limiting coverage for a transgender individuals for any health services that are ordinarily available to individuals of one sex because the person’s sex assigned at birth is different from the one for which such health services are ordinarily available. OCR refused to provide examples of discriminatory benefit designs. Instead, OCR will analyze “whether a design feature is discriminatory on a case-by-case basis” using the “facts and circumstances of a given scenario.” OCR did acknowledge that Covered Entities have discretion in developing benefit designs and that the Final Rule “does not prevent covered entities from utilizing reasonable medical management techniques; nor does it require covered entities to cover any particular procedure or treatment.” Specifically, OCR changed Section 92.101 to provide that sex-specific health programs or activities are allowable only where the Covered Entity can demonstrate an “exceedingly persuasive justification” that the sex-specific program is “substantially related to the achievement of an important health-related or scientific objective.” Some commenters expressed concerns that Covered Entities would not be able to revise their health insurance coverages and other offerings by July 18, 2016. OCR refused to delay the implementation of the Final Rule, but to the extent the rule requires changes to health insurance benefit design, OCR did delay implementation until the first day of the first plan year beginning on or after January 1, 2017. Individuals with Limited English Proficiency and Auxiliary Aids and Services The Final Rule requires Covered Entities to provide meaningful access to individuals with limited English proficiency. In evaluating compliance with this requirement, the Final Rule requires the Director of the OCR to “evaluate, and give substantial weight to, the nature and importance of the health program or activity and the particular communication at issue to the individual with limited English proficiency.” The Final Rule further requires that the Director “take into account all other relevant factors, including whether the entity has developed and implemented an effective language access plan, appropriate to its particular circumstances.” The specific list of illustrative factors for the Director to consider that was set out in the Proposed Rule is no longer included in the Final Rule. Covered Entities may need to provide oral language assistance, written translation of documents and websites, and taglines. Language assistance services required must be provided free of charge to individuals with limited English proficiency. These services must also be accurate and timely and protect the individual’s privacy and independence. OCR noted that the definition of “timely” would depend on the circumstances of each situation. Further, OCR would consider the costs of language assistance services and the resources available to the Covered Entity—including the Covered Entity’s ability to leverage resources among its partners—in evaluating whether the requirements of the Final Rule are met. Even though the Final Rule does not list specific, mandatory methods for providing language assistance, it does contain some important prohibitions. A Covered Entity cannot require an individual to provide his or her own interpreter. The Final Rule also prohibits a Covered Entity from relying on a family member or a minor child to provide translation services, except in an emergency, unless the individual requests that the adult interpret and such assistance is appropriate under the circumstances. Additionally, a Covered Entity cannot require an individual to accept language assistance services. The Final Rule also provides technical requirements for the use of remote video interpretation services. The Final Rule requires that individuals with disabilities be provided with auxiliary aids and services, including alternative written formats, such as Braille, and sign-language interpreters. While Section 92.8 of the Final Rule contains an extensive notice required for Covered Entities, OCR modified that section to now only require Covered Entities to post a shorter nondiscrimination statement, along with a limited number of taglines, in significant communications that are small-sized. OCR is translating a sample nondiscrimination statement that Covered Entities can use. The Final Rule states that OCR will apply existing enforcement mechanisms available under Title VI, Title IX, Section 504, and the Age Discrimination Act of 1975 for purposes of Section 1557 enforcement. Further, compensatory damages for violations of Section 1557 will be available in appropriate administrative and judicial actions brought under the Final Rule. For recipients of federal financial assistance and State-Based Marketplaces, if such an entity fails to provide OCR with requested information in a timely, complete, and accurate manner, OCR may find noncompliance with Section 1557 and initiate appropriate enforcement procedures, including beginning the process for fund suspension or termination and taking other action authorized by law. Further, an individual or entity may bring a civil action to challenge a violation of Section 1557 in a U.S. district court in which the recipient or State-Based Marketplace is found or transacts business. For health programs or activities administered by HHS, including the Federally Facilitated Marketplaces, the procedural provisions applicable to Section 504 apply to complaints and compliance reviews concerning discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability for such health programs and activities. The Final Rule also allows OCR to obtain all of the relevant information needed to investigate a complaint or determine compliance in a particular health program or activity administered by HHS. Further, HHS is prohibited from retaliating against any individual for the purpose of interfering with any right or privilege under Section 1557. Considerations for Implementation of the Final Rule The intent of the Final Rule is to provide consumers and Covered Entities with a set of standards that will help them understand and comply with the requirements of Section 1557. The determination of whether a certain practice is discriminatory typically requires a nuanced analysis that is fact-dependent; therefore, it is not possible to identify all issues and circumstances that may raise compliance concerns. HHS advises that Covered Entities should keep in mind the purposes of the ACA and Section 1557—to expand access to care and coverage and eliminate barriers to access—when interpreting requirements of the Final Rule. In general, Covered Entities have been subject to preexisting requirements in federal civil rights laws related to the prohibition of race, color, national origin, age, or disability discrimination for years. The prohibition of sex discrimination, however, is new for many Covered Entities and will likely require changes in action and behavior to comply with this new prohibition. Further, Covered Entities should consider whether they will provide training to the appropriate staff and incorporate the requirements of the Final Rule into their existing non-discrimination policies and procedures. * * * This Client Alert was authored by Helaine I. Fingold, Lesley R. Yeung, and Jonathan K. Hoerner. For additional information about the issues discussed in this Client Alert, please contact one of the authors or the Epstein Becker Green attorney who regularly handles your legal matters. 81 Fed. Reg. 31,375 (May 18, 2016), available at https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2016-05-18/pdf/2016-11458.pdf. An issuer participating in a Health Insurance Marketplace is receiving federal financial assistance, but a health care provider that contracts with such an issuer does not become a recipient of federal financial assistance by virtue of the contract. Similarly, physicians who contract to provide health services to hospitals or clinics that receive federal financial assistance do not become a recipient of federal financial assistance by virtue of the contract. However, many health care providers are expected to be subject to Section 1557 due to federal financial assistance that they receive in their own right. HHS does not consider Medicare Part B payments to physicians to be federal financial assistance. The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act sunsets the “meaningful use” payment adjustments for Medicare physicians after 2018. 45 C.F.R. § 92.4 (effective July 18, 2016). See 45 C.F.R. § 92.208 (effective July 18, 2016). 42 U.S.C. 2000d et seq. 20 U.S.C. 1681 et seq. 42 U.S.C. 6101 et seq. 29 U.S.C. 794. 45 C.F.R. § 92.2 (effective July 18, 2016). 45 C.F.R. § 92.101(b)(iv) (effective July 18, 2016). See 45 C.F.R. §§ 92.201-209 (effective July 18, 2016). 45 C.F.R. § 92.5 (effective July 18, 2016). 45 C.F.R. § 92.7(a) (effective July 18, 2016). 45 C.F.R. § 92.7(b) (effective July 18, 2016). 81 Fed. Reg. at 31,473. 45 C.F.R. § 92.8(a) (effective July 18, 2016). 81 Fed. Reg. at 31,472. 45 C.F.R. § 92.8(d) (effective July 18, 2016). 81 Fed. Reg. at 31,473. OCR, Translated Resources for Covered Entities, available at http://www.hhs.gov/civil-rights/for-individuals/section-1557/translated-resources/index.html. 45 C.F.R. § 92.6(a) (effective July 18, 2016). 45 C.F.R. § 92.6(b) (effective July 18, 2016). 45 C.F.R. § 92.206 (effective July 18, 2016). See Epstein Becker Green Client Alert “HHS Releases Far-Reaching Proposed Rule to Prohibit Discrimination by ‘Covered Entities’ Pursuant to Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act” (Oct. 14, 2015), available at https://www.ebglaw.com/news/hhs-releases-far-reaching-proposed-rule-to-prohibit-discrimination-by-%E2%80%9Ccovered-entities%E2%80%9D-pursuant-to-section-1557-of-the-affordable-care-act/. 45 C.F.R. § 92.40 (effective July 18, 2016). 490 U.S. 228 (1989). 81 Fed. Reg. at 31,390. 45 C.F.R. § 92.206 (effective July 18, 2016). 81 Fed. Reg. at 31,434. 81 Fed. Reg. at 31,470. 45 C.F.R. § 92.201 (effective July 18, 2016). See 45 C.F.R. §§ 92.301-303 (effective July 18, 2016).

By Rukmini Banerjee Illustration by Diya Ullas After several years of being together, my (now ex) partner, who identified as a non-binary lesbian, dropped a bomb on me when breaking up – I was emotionally abusing her throughout the relationship. This did not come as a shocker to me because I was also in two other ethical polyam- relationships with cismen, who I was sharing a living space with, and we had to navigate too much complexity right from the beginning. I am currently in-between identities, which is both a boon and a curse, so I should say that I am, at the moment, a tired, confused cis-woman eager to understand bisexuality alongside aromanticism. How feelings, identities and mental health inform our expectations from interpersonal relationships is of great importance to our individual and community wellbeing. The grievances were of me being emotionally unavailable, the relationship having too many terms and conditions, me not giving her the space to fully belong to me and my life. Added, because of my mental health issues, she claimed she had to walk on eggshells and never truly shared with me her expectations from me. The final nail in the coffin was that she felt no romance and desire from my end, an allegation I protested vehemently. Context is important, so let me rewind. My journey with my lesbian partner began very randomly, but it became something like an electrifying all-consuming thing. She would stare at me silently, and finally, I asked her out, right before leaving the city we were both from. For me, it was a spur of the moment decision, and I will say, I’m glad I am impulsive. Right from our first date, we connected deeply; I told her about my deepest secrets and, of course, my complicated lifestyle, living with cismen and mental illness. That time, my sexual body performed differently, so the idea of “desire” was a text book one, with sex, making out, and all of that. It was young lesbian love, something that movies should be made on. And yet, the problem with queer love is that it is sold to us queer folks as a form of therapy from all the trauma we encounter for being who we are. The isolation queer folks go through since childhood, makes finding someone who went through similar rejections and pain, a love based on solidarity of experiences. When I found her love, our corporeal bodies were just the catalyst to a more intimate politics of belonging in a world where we faced marginalisation. On top of that, my traumas were ancient, severe and deep, and the love potion she poured on it was all the healing I needed. Fast-forward to the present – I am back in my hometown, living with a parent, dealing with work resignation, and deeply devoid of any structure. My childhood trauma was real, unspeakable, and made me who I am – I am still recovering, and inside me sits a person who decides what to do, sometimes without consulting me. No matter how many times I share the experience, it does not go away, it stays and like any other part of my identity, it envelopes me. I often tried to undermine the importance of trauma, mostly by not accepting and not communicating it. I failed to tell her that my deep-seated desire to reject love comes from this trauma. My partner tried reaching out to me but was often faced with a wall of silence. Was this more profound because we were both the same gender? I believe that in a queer relationship, the importance given to open communication is a lot more than heterosexual ones. While I understood the value of this refractive quality of queer relationships, I was unprepared for its magnitude. The need to communicate about everything was driving me insane, and I still cannot get the hang of it. While theoretically, I knew that communication was the key to a healthy life, my trauma encased me and prevented me from making steady emotional engagements with people; maybe it was self-preservation. I was diagnosed with depression as a teenager, which then became bipolar, then it became ADHD and finally underscoring all this was my relationship with self-harm and suicidal ideation. However, as a high functioning ill person I managed to “cope” with regular life, managed a job, basic social life etc. Sometimes, I even forgot about my illnesses…I was that good at pretending. And thus, the people who loved me were also convinced I was a neurotypical. When I love, I love like a maniac; when I leave, I let go too fast, and one day before the lockdown, I realised this and completely shut myself up. Lockdown was difficult for a lot of people, but for some people with existing mental illnesses, it was devastating. I cut myself off completely from my partner who was in a different city. She tried even harder to use technology to reach out to me. I swore myself off all interactions, and thus began the Great Depression of 2020. I was on medication, but I was never a fan of talk therapy, so never willingly participated in it. My mother calls that as a sign of my mental illness – that I refuse to take help outside of medicine. My other partners who lived with me somehow managed basic conversation with me, but were also getting worried about my mental health. After a sad rejection from a university, I began cutting myself off and on, without anyone knowing. Things got really intense right before I had to fly to my hometown for a friend’s wedding. My partner was going to be there, and I hadn’t spoken to her in months. I was scared and panicking, and thus refused to meet her entirely. I left my hometown in a complete frenzy, but there was a part of me which was sure I had ruined our relationship. A month and a half later, I returned to my hometown, with a new doctor, new medication, and the desire to begin a talk with my partner. And then, one day she let out all her anger at me, and stopped communication. I was caught off guard because, in my mind, we were doing alright, and the sudden outburst completely destabilized me. I realised, that because of my mental illnesses, I never recognised that my partner was in pain and dilemma. And for the same reasons, she felt she could never reach out to me for support in difficult times. Another significant revelation to me was that for queer folks there is no playbook to form relationships by – we have no Suhel Seth giving dating advice (thankfully). So we do what our intuition tells us to do, and I did precisely that, just did what I felt was right, which was totally wrong for her. Moreover, in multiple partner situations, if expectations are not spoken about right from the beginning then the relationship is doomed. But sometimes it is not possible to have written/oral contracts. In that case, all we can do is learn from our everyday experiences. Loving bi-, poly-, mentally ill people who are also probably aro- and ace?…I can only imagine that it is not a cake-walk. But expectations around us state that we will one day get better, and the better is also a normal – a normal queer. To that, I protest. I am not trying to get better because the version of better that you are proposing is not something I like. There is no simple solution to a mental health crisis and talking about it is sometimes painful. I say to everyone who comments on why one should get better for the sake of their caregivers, that while as an ill person I am grateful for the support structure there, because I am privileged to have it, I am also not to be guilted by it. My partner was part of my care network, so she was important to me. Losing an individual because of miscommunication harms me more than it might others. Getting involved with, and then leaving, a person who is mentally ill, might need a different set of ethics, a different set of expectations, a different prism. Love is healing, but it’s not a cure you are administering to us that we can dutifully respond to. The idea of being able to live in a world where heartbreaks and pain are minimal is my hope, but till we achieve that, I would like to remind people that some of us here need to be understood differently. Rukmini Banerjee is a researcher and poet who writes about sexuality and mental illness and is interested in the management of bodies and minds.

The Medical Care of Gender Patients Charles Moser, PhD, MD Sutter West Bay Medical Group 45 Castro, #125 San Francisco, CA 94114 415-600-4900 [email protected] Most of what I do is general medical care, hopefully with a bit more sensitivity Gender patients have the same medical problems as everyone else You cannot discuss gender… …without insulting someone I apologize, in advance Types of Gender Patients • Transsexual • Gender Dysphoria (DSM) • Transgender • Trans Man, Trans Woman • Non-Binary • Eunuch • Null, Neutrois • Gender Fluid • Agender, Genderless • Bigender, Trigender • Gender Queer • Two-Spirit • Pre-op • Post-op • Non-op • Wants Hormones • Does Not Want Hormones • Presents Full-time • Presents Part-time • Presents Differently • Presents Androgynously The origin of Cis and Trans terms Not superimposable! Gender Does Not Imply… • Who the person has sex with • Who the person wants to have sex with • Which sexual partner the person wants to attract • Who the person loves • Who the person lusts for • Who lusts for the person • Who the person dates • Relationship(s) the person has • Relationship(s) the person wants The only things that are certain are… Death & Taxes Not your gender! Bisexual vs. Pansexual More than just genitals Electronic Health Records (EHRs) • All require a male/female designation • California just approved a gender neutral “X” • “Red Flag” Anti-Identity Theft Regulations • Legal Name vs. Patient Name • Health Insurance • Drivers License • Passport • Other government issued ID It is easy to make errors Hello Dr. Moser, After my last appointment I went to the lab on campus to get my blood work drawn. At the laboratory I was provided paperwork that had my legal name and my dead name. I legally changed my name 10+ years ago, I have changed my name and sex with the state and federal government. On the paperwork it also listed my gender as male and female. On the labels printed for my blood were both names as well. This was a humiliating experience and feels like a HIPPA violation. The phlebotomist enquired why there were 2 names. I was forced to disclose that I was transgender. This feels inappropriate for a routine blood and urine collection. I have pictures of the documents to clarify, but I cannot send them here. Do you know how I can resolve this. The only explanation that I can find is when I was with Sutter briefly a decade or so ago and somehow they are linking my records via SSN, but this feels hugely inappropriate. Creating a Sex Positive Office • Do not assume, ask • Check your forms for gender pronouns and to allow for other genders, sexualities, and relationship structures • Train the staff, Sensitize the staff, Co-opt the Staff • Apologize!! • Respect the patient not being comfortable with his/her/er body • Patients with Diverse Sexualities have been abused by the medical system, you need to show that you are different Creating a Gender Inclusive Office-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- How Should You Refer to the Patient? • Trans? - But the patient may not be transitioning. • Transgender? – Same problem. • Transgendered – seen as offensive • Transsexual – old term (like homosexual is to gay) • Non-binary? – But many are binary and many non-gender pts are NB • Chosen Gender (male or female) • “Gender patient” • Not intersex (Disorders of Sexual Development) • It is evolving…. Basics of Obtaining a Sex History • Are you married (M/F), divorced, single or partnered? • Do you have sex with anyone besides your partner? • Are you and your partner fluid bonded (do not use barriers)? • Do you know about PrEP? • Do you have sex with men, women, or both? • Do you need birth control? Basics of Obtaining a Sex History-2 • Probably do not need to ask about specific acts • Assume everyone does everything or will do everything • Any anal activity? • Identity is not behavior, but still important • Explain what you are doing or why you need know • If not sexually active, is that okay? Review of Systems for all patients Do you have any medical questions about any of the sexual activities in which you engage or want to engage? Anything else about your gender or sexual interests that would help me take better care of you? Review of Systems for Gender Patients • Any history of physical, emotional, or sexual abuse? • How old were you when you first had a sense of discomfort with your gender? • How old were you when you decided to pursue treatment? • Watch for “instant” gender patients • Any previous history of hormones? • Have you discussed your gender issues with a therapist? • Plans for children? WPATH Letter of Diagnosis Other Psychiatric Diagnoses Understanding of the Risks and Benefits Commitment vs Curiosity Sample Hormone Regimens MTF FTM Baseline CBC, CMP, lipid panel, ferritin, testo, +++ Testosterone cypionate 50 mg IM q7d. Can use testosterone gels low dose. Adjust according to level. • Baseline CBC, CMP, lipid panel, prolactin, testo, +++ • Estradiol 0.5 QD => 1 mg qd => 1 mg bid => 2 mg bid => 2mg tid • Spironolactone 100 mg bid, possible to increase to 200 mg bid SurgeriesSex Reassignment => Gender Reassignment => Gender Confirming => Gender Affirming =>Feminizing/Masculinizing Genitoplasty => Genital Reconstructive Surgeries MTF FTM Top Surgery – Chest Phalloplasty, metoidoplasty Facial Masculinization TAHBSO, vaginectomy Penile implants Testicular implants Scrotoplasty Urethroplasty • Breast Augmentation • Vaginoplasty, Labiaplasty • Facial Feminization • Hair Removal, hairline advancement • Nullification • Tracheal Shave • Orchiectomy Trans Slang • Top surgery ===============> • Bottom Surgery ===========> • Orchi ====================> • FFS or FMS (less common) ===> • Nullification ==============> • Bilateral Mastectomy • Phalloplasty/metoidoplasty or genital reconstruction • Orchidectomy • Facial feminization or masculination • Removal of genitalia and secondary sex characteristics Many clinicians forget the patient is Trans Everyone needs to know… which organs are present and which are absent Update the Surgical History! Specific Goals of Treatment MTF FTM Create a second adolescence Sex Characteristics Grow beard, body hair Voice change Change in skin texture Clitoromegaly Adjust to male sex role Adjust to increase libido • Create a second adolescence • Sex Characteristics • Grow Breasts • Remove body hair • Grow scalp hair • Change in skin texture • Adjust to female sex role • Telling partners Medical Diagnoses • Gender dysphoria F64.0 • Other specified gender dysphoria F64.8 • Other gender identity disorders F64.9 • Gender identity disorder, unspecified F64.9 • Polyglandular Dysfunction E31.9 • FTM/MTF on hormones Z79.895 • Endocrine Disorder in transsexual E34.9 • Gender identity non-binary Z78.9 • Code to identify sex reassignment status Z87.890 What is Long Term? • Years? • Age? • 40 years starting at 18 • 20 years starting at 58 • High Dose vs. Low Dose • Maintenance of changes • Indications to wean or stop Long Term Hormonal Therapy • As we age, hormone levels decrease or are absent, naturally • Long term hormonal treatment can have negative effects • As we age, we take more medications => more drug-drug interactions • As we age, kidney and liver function decreases • What used to be a good dose is not • As we age everything wears out and our reserves are lower Hormones can… • Induce enzymes to break down the exogenous hormone • Inhibit other hormones – Everything is connected • Induce other changes in metabolism • Weight gain • Unusual growth • Joint pains Cis Individuals • If you live long enough you will not produce sex hormones • Slow reduction over years • HRT is out of favor at present • Most cis individuals are okay with that, • Many trans individuals are not Concerns about Estrogen Use • DVT/PE • CVA • MI? • Breast CA? • Pancreatitis • Migraine • Fluid Retention • Hyperlipidemia • Weight gain • Elevated BP • Mood changes • Glucose intolerance • Prolactinoma • Endometrial hyperplasia if uterus is present Benefits of Estrogen Use • Decreased Vaginal or Neovaginal Atrophy • Increased Libido • Treat Hot Flashes • Prevent Osteoporosis • Possible decrease in heart disease • Decreased Alzheimer’s and/or Cognitive Decline • Decreased Depression Concerns about Testosterone Use • PE • MI • CVA • Polycythemia • Peliosishepatis • Dependency, abuse • Nausea • Edema • PCOS? • Headache • Seborrhea • Male Pattern Baldness • Libido changes • Hyperlipidemia • Gynecomastia • Liver Function Test increases • OSA • Bacterial Vaginosis Benefits of Testosterone Use • Preserved libido • Less depression? • Increased strength, vitality • Increased muscle mass? All Patients • Treat other medical problems • Health Care Maintenance – men/women • Watch for sexual dysfunction • Watch for psychiatric issues (depression, isolation, etc.) • Mammograms/Pap Smears/PCOS • When to stop hormones Controversies - MTF • Use/Need for Progesterone • Mammograms, Prostate CA • Injectable vs. Oral vs. Transdermal • When to stop hormones • HCM for men/women – • Vaccinate HPV, Hep A, Hep B, Meningitis, MMR, Discuss PrEP Controversies -FTM • Breast CA screening • Need for Hysterectomy or PAP • Detecting Ovarian CA • Need for Birth Control • HCM for men/women – • Vaccinate HPV, Hep A, Hep B, Meningitis, MMR, Discuss PrEP Normals, HCM, PrEP by Gender • PrEP – Effective after one week in men, 3 weeks in women • Cardiac Risk • Testosterone Poisoning • Averaging the risk? Pick the best? Pick the worst? My goal is for… all patients to grow old as a little old ladies/gents Safety first! And for those of you who think you can always “read” a Trans Person… Hope This Helped Further Questions to: Charles Moser, PhD, MD Sutter West Bay Medical Group 45 Castro Street, #125 San Francisco, CA 94114 415-600-4900 [email protected]

LISA and her sister LOTTA are founders of YOGASHALA STOCKHOLM 1 As a woman, a mother and a yoga practitioner, tell me what do you find the most important teaching you’ve discovered from this practice and what would you share to those who are on this path? The first things that comes up are presence, acceptance and boundaries. I feel that this practice has taught me, as a woman, to be more patiently present in my self and more loving and caring in accepting my body and soul as they are, thru all the changes and challenges that life brings. This practice is teaching me, little by little everyday, that I’m good enough – just the way I am, and it helps me to deal with anxiety. Boundaries in the form of learning to know and love myself enough to dare to say no and to follow my heart, even though some people around me might not always understand my choices. As a woman in this world it’s so easy to get lost in high expectations and all the pressure we are facing everyday. We are expected (and we quite often demand of ourselves) to be successful at work, good mothers, partners… and to find time to take care of ourselves – all at the same time. When I started this practice almost 20 years ago I quickly realized that by giving myself that time to check in with myself on the mat regularly made me a much more present and content mother to my two sons. It has also been very important for me, as a mother, to show my children that it is a good thing to dare to follow your heart and your path in life, if you find it – something that this practice has really taught me! I see so many women, coming to my Shala, struggling so hard with trying to hold the life-puzzle together everyday and to cope with so much stress and feelings of not being good enough. It’s a blessing and honor to be able to watch how this beautiful practice is such a good help for them to deal with it all. To be able to truly give to others, I think we really have to see to that we nourish ourselves first. I think a very important thing to realize is if we want to make this practice life-long we have to try to go to the mat gently, with an open mind and no expectations, one way or the other. And sometimes the best practice is to make an aware choice not to do the physical practice and be present with our children, family or friends who might need us more in that moment – to remember that the practice is so much more than asanas. 2 What is Feminism to you? How do you feel women can support each other? Feminism to me is to be supportive and show solidarity with other women. It is to continue to work towards equanimity between all humans always and everywhere. It is to continue to fight for all women’s right to their own bodies. To early educate young girls and boys that we are all equal and that we should all have the same right to exist on this planet – no matter if you are female, male, transgender, non-binary or what color of skin you have. …It is also to care about animals, nature and our environment. I have really thought a lot about what a huge responsibility it is to raise two boys to become good human beings, with good values. I have been really worried sometimes about weather I was up to the task, especially since I raised my sons more or less by myself for many years…Today they are 26 and 23 years old and they turned out to become two really responsible, loving and caring adults often helping me to become aware when I have preconceptions about something or someone! I’m not taking all the credit for this my self – they grew up with a lot of other good loving adults as role models around them as well..I´m so proud of them and so very grateful that they choose me as their mother. The love I feel for them is endless and they are my best teachers in life. What an honor it has been and still is, to follow their growth! 3 In ashtanga practice, how do you feel we can keep the community strong and supportive for one another? There is a lot of change going on in our community at the moment. Change can be hard but quite often it leads to something good that we might not be able to see or understand at first. I think it is important that we try not to judge other people, that we listen to our hearts and that we stay with this beautiful practice (if we believe in the practice and feels that it works for us). The ones of us who runs Shalas and teaches this practice, must always make sure that we create an open and safe environment for the students to practice in. It is also very important to communicate that yoga is for everyone who wants it and to always be welcoming and inclusive. 4 With this practice we are constantly challenging ourselves both mind and body. This requires a lot of self discipline, focus and consistency in our daily routine. In this moments we are opening ourselves up, we are vulnerable and processing whatever emotions that rises. What would be your advice in these situations? What did you find helpful to you? For me it has been and still is to remember to go slow , step by step, and to try to be compassionate with myself. It is a good thing when things comes up – but sometimes very difficult and painful. To dare to gently look in to that pain can help us to create the changes we need in life to feel better about ourselves and to evolve as human beings. For me it is very important, to have a good teacher with compassion, experience and knowledge who can help and guide me. I´m forever grateful for Sharathji and his wonderful teachings. 5 In this modern world we are surrounded by distractions, whether it’s the constant stream of negative news, social media and the perfectly manufactured image of how to liveness life, our appearance and body shaming. It has the power to knock us off balance. How do we nourish ourselves? How do we find acceptance? I think this is why this practice is so important – it’s the opposite to all that. It is all about the journey inside, to learn how to stay focused within for longer periods of times so that we stay away from constantly being distracted and out of balance. If we stick with this practice it will, sooner or later, gently force us to take a serious look at where we are truly at with ourselves and in our relationship to others. 6 Who are the women that inspire you, who are the women that you admire? Pippi Longstocking and the amazing woman who wrote the books about her, Astrid Lindgren and my Grandmother, who passed away quite many years ago, but have had a huge influence on me, my mother and my three sisters – all off them brave and amazingly strong women who dares to follow their hearts. 7 What are your daily rituals and routines that you feel ground you? First of all it is my practice. To meet myself with my breath on the ma everyday really helps me to connect, to feel more peaceful and to be more present. But to be perfectly honest – one of my most important daily routines is also my morning coffee! To get up early and teach my wonderful students this beautiful practice is also very grounding. And I love to be in the nature and to bake cookies and cakes! 8 What makes you feel safe and secure? To be on the mat when changes and difficult things happens in life helps me to remind me that my ”home” is always there within me. To have routines in life helps me to feel safe, and my children, my loving partner and the people around me that I love and trust. 9 Which element of nature do you feel most connected to? The forrest with all the trees and the ocean. So I guess earth and water! 10 Our energy is always shifting in our monthly practice, as female practitioners when we receive our ladies holiday, whether its a seasonal change or when we travel to different climates. How can we find a balance and a grounding when we feel these changes happen? I think it is important to respect and try to listen to the body thru all changes in life.To take rest regularly and to adjust the practice so that we can make our energy increase every time we practice, rather than to drain us. For me personally I have to take it very easy the days before Ladies holiday and to take my rest days during. When I travel I often feel the urge to get back on the mat as soon as possible to ”land” myself in the new environment but very gently.

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We’re celebrating 10 Years of Hackaday with a day-long event in Pasadena. It’s not too late to get in on the action. If you’re in the LA area on October 4th, 2014, you can attend the mini-conference in the afternoon and the party that evening. It’s free, but you must secure a ticket for yourself. A small group of hand-picked hackers will begin the day building alternative gaming controllers for use at the party that evening. The morning will be occupied by a trio of workshops focusing on robot building, lock picking, and LiPo cell charging. Things start to really pick up steam in the afternoon with a mini-conference. There are a few dozen tickets left so get yours now! As we mentioned in our last post, [Steve Collins] will talk about how early hacking led him to a career with NASA, [Quinn Dunki] will discuss Veronica the 6502 Computer, and [Jon McPhalen] will present the benefits of mult-core embedded development. To the list of speakers we can now add [ThunderSqueak]. You may remember her CO2 laser build that used a lot of hardware store parts. We’ve asked her to talk about her work on a non-binary computer. We covered the project back in June but this type of through-the-looking-glass subject fares better as a live talk with Q&A. We hope to announce one more speaker soon, and already have a few lightning talks (one on a Demoscene board and another on hardware dev that ended with a successful Kickstarter). We’ll keep you posted! Call for Art We have space for a few pieces of art for the event. We would prefer things that are interactive and ‘glowy’ or self lit as the space will be fairly dark. There are two areas that we would like to fill right now, one is a small room approximately 9′ square with an 8′ ceiling. The other is a much larger space about 24′ square with a very high ceiling. We also have a couple of walls on which we could hang things or do projections. If you have something interactive and fun that you can get to the LA area on the week leading up to October 4th please let us know. [Jim K.] asked for the printable version of the posts. Here’s a link to the .ai file. This is the work of our illustrator [Joe Kim]. He really gets us and has a bunch more artwork to be found around here. Some of our favorite is the “story” art he did in the description of the two classic t-shirts, and the original designs for the premium tees.

Liberate the World from Darkness in Illuminaria, a Mesmerizing and Strategic Resource Management Sim, coming to Steam on August 4th Guatemala-- July 29, 2022-- Selva Interactive is pleased to announce that their unique and welcoming resource management game, Illuminaria, is coming to Steam on August 4th for $14.99. In Illuminaria players will be tasked with bringing back light to a world overtaken by darkness. They’ll control a swarm of intelligent robots while mining resources, managing and defending multiple bases, going on expeditions, and fighting perilous enemies that stand in their way. “We wanted to create a game that felt more accessible than typical strategy or base-building games which can sometimes be overwhelming to the player,” said Alhvi Balcarcel, co-founder of Selva Interactive. “One key way we accomplished this is through creating clear objectives with goal-oriented gameplay, as opposed to a typical sandbox setting.” In Illuminaria the mechanics are simplified in a unique way. Building and gathering resources take only a few clicks from the user. The player controls a swarm of robots who are smart enough to decide which task to do next based on the swarm's intelligence and the player's input. The game combines several genres in the strategy spectrum, like tower defense, auto battlers, and base-building, straightforwardly and engagingly. Throughout the game, players will uncover the lore behind how darkness took over and why it’s their job to bring back light About Selva Interactive: Selva Interactive was founded in Guatemala in 2016 by Alhvi Balcárcel and Carlos Villagran. The two sought to combine their unique backgrounds into innovative ideas and gameplay. They are also co-founders of the Guatemalan Game Developers community, GameDevGT. For more information, please visit: Selvainteractive.com WINGS Interactive is a games fund that finances games by diverse teams, starting with games from teams with women and marginalized genders developers at key positions. Selection for financing is carried out by a committee of international women and non-binary game developers with a proven track record. For more information, please visit: Wingsfund.me

- Worldwide Rank #64,092,668 - Follower/Following Ratio 1.08 - Daily New Followers 0 58% Twitter Stats @58pcnt - Tracking 58% Twitter profile since July 29, 2016 A collaborative project aiming to dedicate 58% of @SmallCinemaLpl programming to FEMALE, TRANS & NON-BINARY FILMMAKERS!!! 58%, also known as @58pcnt has a reasonably significant presence on Twitter and is ranked by us in the 30% percentile for account strength. Active on Twitter since June 2016, 58% made it to having a respectable 169 Twitter followers and to being ranked 64,092,668 for number of followers among all Twitter users. Uh-oh... seems like someone has fallen asleep while on duty and is dropping in social relevance. The plot thickens when considering 58%'s follower-to-following ratio, which is 1.08. This means that this account basically has the same amount of followers as it follows other accounts. It kind of makes one wonder about tactics... From a tweeting perspective, @58pcnt is a casual user, with an average of 0 tweet(s) per day in the past 30 days. That's pretty consistent with a total of 322 since @58pcnt joined Twitter. This account is tracked by us Only July 2016. As of June 25 2018 we track 289804494 Twitter accounts, so feel free to search for other accounts you're interested in and reveal their Twitter story! @58pcnt has posted 0 tweets in the last 3 days, which translates to an average of 0 tweets per day. 58% Twitter Followers @58pcnt has 169 followers on Twitter. This account is #64,092,668 in the worldwide rank of the most popular Twitter users. 58% Following on Twitter @58pcnt is following 156 Twitter accounts. Last month this account followed 60 users. 58% Predictions & Milestones @58pcnt will hit 169 followers in the next 3 months, and 169 in one year. You are on 58%'s Twitter stats page We track these Twitter stats since July 29, 2016 . You can see how many followers 58% lost or gained and what the prediction is for tomorrow or the next 15 days, together with all kinds of other stats like rank compared to all Twitter users, tweets etc.

Morehouse College, America’s only all-male historically black college, will begin accepting women who identify as men, a move that upsets some in the LGBT community because it enforces "masculinist gender norms." Students born male but who now identify as female will not be admitted to the 152-year-old institution. “The Morehouse College Board of Trustees has approved a Gender Identity Policy that will allow individuals who self-identify as men, regardless of the sex assigned to them at birth, to be considered for admission in the nation’s only historically black school for men,” the Atlanta college, which also describes itself as America’s “largest liberal arts institution for men,” said Saturday in a release. The announcement explained that the decision was made to implement the new policy, which will begin for the Fall of 2020 class, after 15 months of community engagement with faculty, staff, students, and alumni through a task force created by the president of Morehouse College, Dr. David A. Thomas. “We found that when our admission representatives were going out, oftentimes people would ask them, ‘Does Morehouse admit transgender people?’” David A. Thomas, the president of the college told The New York Times on Sunday. Terrance Dixon, vice president for enrollment management at Morehouse, further explained the thinking behind the decision. “In a rapidly changing world that includes a better understanding of gender identity, we’re proud to expand our admissions policy to consider trans men who want to be part of an institution that has produced some of the greatest leaders in social justice, politics, business, and the arts for more than 150 years,” Dixon said in the statement released by the school. “The ratification of this policy affirms the College’s commitment to develop men with disciplined minds who will lead lives of leadership and service.” Morehouse officials further noted that to continue at the school every student must self-identify as a man. “If a student transitions from a man to a woman, that student will no longer be eligible to matriculate at Morehouse. Exemptions from this rule may be granted by a three-person committee appointed by the President after a written appeal is submitted by the student. In the event that the impacted student disagrees with the decision of the committee, the student may make a final appeal to the President of Morehouse,” the college said. Morehouse student Marquintas Oldham, 21, who identifies as “queer, non-binary” and who prefers to use the pronouns “they” and “their,” told the New York Times that the school’s new policy is erasing their existence. “Who I am on this campus, they are trying to kind of like remove me from self-identifying myself,” Oldham, who identified as male when he first started at the school, said. “They said in their policy that they are going to still use male-gendered language and that affects me. Sometimes I do dress as a feminine, non-binary person, so when I dress the way I want to dress and it’s a problem, that affects me.” Oldham, who is set to graduate in 2021, transitioned while he was enrolled. “I knew I was part of the queer community, I knew I was gay, but I got here to Morehouse and this was different for me. I decided to just live.” On Sunday, an association of LGBT Morehouse alumni called the new policy, “anti trans.” “This is an anti-trans policy to enforce conformity to masculinist gender norms under the guise of ‘trans acceptance’. Anyone who goes to Morehouse will risk being de- enrolled if they eventually identify as a trans woman / femme or bend gender anywhere on the femme spectrum,” the group said on Twitter. Rashad Raymond Moore, 29, who graduated from Morehouse in 2012, told The New York Times that keeping the college all male was a big part of the school’s history. Making the decision to include transgender men, said Moore, will change the school’s moral fiber. “It is the only black institution in the United States that is dedicated to the intellectual and moral formation of black men and to allow trans women to enroll or matriculate or graduate from Morehouse would change the moral fiber of the institution completely,” he said.

We’re here to support all activists and organizers across industries, and we focus on the leadership of Black and brown women and non-binary folks, in a way that ensures the most marginalized voices are heard. We believe our liberation is connected and that none of us are free until all of us are free. We stand in solidarity with workers and unapologetically support their leadership. We connect workers to one another because we believe shared decision-making leads to better outcomes. We are innovating new ways to provide no-strings-attached money and support to workers. We believe solidarity means standing in action and care with working people to democratize workplaces and the economy. Thousands of Google employees staged a global walkout. Workers in all US industries went on historic strikes. Numerous grassroots worker groups emerged to take on the biggest companies and institutions. Coworker.org researched financial models, organizational structures, and strategies, hoping to support workers to go further—from raising their voices, to building and using their power. A group of tech workers approached Coworker.org to create a fund to support each other, after they watched and experienced retaliation. We identified that a new 501(c)(4) organization would be the most effective way to provide groups of workers with a home to set up mutual aid funds to support non-unionized employees, contract workers, and nascent white- and blue-collar crossover organizing. Coworker Solidarity Fund (CSF) was formed and incorporated as a nonprofit, nonpartisan 501(c)(4) with the mission to increase private social welfare for working people to grow their power and participation in worker-led organizing. A Tech Worker Committee was formed to offer eligibility guidance and oversight. CSF officially launched its pilot fund in December, and started taking applications. CSF disbursed $130,000 in a first round of 50 stipends to activists and organizers in the tech labor supply chain, including software engineers, retail, warehouse and app-based workers, who used the funds to cover legal fees, pay for organizing needs and materials, develop trainings, and address barriers to participating in activism and organizing. Fast Company named CSF winner of their 2022 World Changing Ideas Awards. As Starbucks workers in hundreds of stores voted to unionize, the Starbucks Workers Fund launched to provide stipends to workers facing retaliation for their organizing efforts. Just in 2022, the Starbucks Workers Fund supported more than 60 Starbucks workers organizing across the country. Each fund – currently there are two, the Tech Worker Fund and the Starbucks Workers Fund – has a policy for when to accept applications for a new round of stipends. The Tech Worker Fund will reopen applications whenever donations cover at least five $2500 [≈ Typical household annual food spending on restaurants, 2009] stipends for workers engaged in activism and organizing in the tech sector. To contribute to that fund, donate here. The Starbucks Worker Fund plans to reopen applications whenever donations cover at least five $2500 [≈ Typical household annual food spending on restaurants, 2009] stipends for workers engaged in organizing at Starbucks, taking into consideration factors such as the ability of the worker committee and the Fund’s staff to conduct application reviews in a timely manner. To contribute to that fund, donate here. Yes, payments are considered taxable income. You will be asked to submit a W-9 and payments will be reported to the IRS. You will receive a 1099 for your tax filing purposes. Income tax requirements vary by state. We recommend that you check with a tax professional or tax preparation service for guidance on how to report your payment when filing your state and federal taxes. Unemployment benefits vary by state. Please check your state’s Unemployment Insurance Benefits (UIB) rules, or check with your local benefits office or caseworker to determine if income from the Fund will affect your current or pending unemployment benefits. Here are links to UIB Rules in CA, NY, TX, MA, and WA: No. Coworker Solidarity Fund is incorporated as a 501(c)(4) organization. Contributions to 501(c)(4) organizations are generally not deductible as charitable contributions for federal income tax purposes. For more information, please refer to the IRS guidelines on Donations to Section 501(c)(4) Organizations. Our two current funds – the Tech Worker Fund and the Starbucks Workers Fund – have different eligibility requirements. To be eligible for funding for the Tech Worker Fund, an individual* must meet all the following requirements: The Tech Worker Committee recognizes that the ‘tech sector’ isn’t easily defined. To determine whether a company operates in the tech sector, the committee will be looking at how the media generally refers to the company and its influence in the culture, whether a company presents itself as a technology company in its IPO filing or other public records, and how much influence its leaders have in the tech industry. *At this time, funding is only available for individuals and not organizations. The application should take approximately 10-20 minutes to complete and can be completed via computer, tablet, or smartphone. You can also save your application and come back to it later if you do not wish to complete it in one sitting. You will be asked four questions, each with a 50 word limit. Some of the the questions are: You may upload any files that verify your activism such as screenshots, documents, videos, social media posts, etc. The application ends with an optional demographics section. This section does not have any bearing on your application, and it will not be shared. Data from this section will only be used internally and in aggregate to improve the work of the Fund going forward. At this time, funding is only available for individuals and not organizations. However, recipients in the past have redistributed funds to other workers or donated them to other organizations upon receiving them. We trust that you will choose how to best use the funds awarded to support your activism work. Examples include, but are NOT limited to: We recommend that you DO NOT use your work email for any workplace activism or organizing activities. While the National Labor Relations Act offers certain protections, the law as currently written falls short in shielding employees from employers spying during the digital age. According to an FAQ on employee surveillance by Workplace Fairness, a comprehensive online resource for employees about their workplace rights, “employers can legally monitor almost anything an employee does at work as long as the reason for monitoring is important enough to the business. Employers may install video cameras, read postal mail and e-mail, monitor phone and computer usage, use GPS tracking, and more.” You can learn more about the use of company-owned digital tools for workplace organizing in this post. Within two weeks of submitting your application, you will be notified of your application status via email. If your application is chosen to move forward in the process, you will be asked to schedule a 30-minute phone call to discuss your application. You will receive a final decision on your application within 2 weeks of your phone interview. Applications are first reviewed by our staff who ensure that submissions meet the eligibility requirements. Eligible applications are then reviewed by members of the appropriate Worker Committee and Fund Staff who evaluate the applications based on the eligibility criteria (see above) and decision criteria (see below). Visit the Our Team page to learn more about the Fund staff and Worker Committees. The Fund will consider the following criteria (developed by the Worker Committees in partnership with the Fund’s staff and board) in deciding whether or not to recommend funding: You may choose to have your payment made electronically to a US bank account or by check. Payments are made in one lump sum. No. This is money to support you and your leadership. We won’t require you to do anything in exchange for these funds beyond what you’ve already done or plan to do in your workplace. That said, we’d love to stay connected and support your efforts to organize in your workplace and/or industry. Please contact us if you would like to explore other layers of support that we may be able to provide. We send all fund recipients an optional survey to complete 2-3 months after receiving payment. The questions in this survey will inquire about your experience with the Solidarity Fund and how the funding was useful to you. For the Tech Worker Fund, the Fund is only giving one stipend per person at this time. For the Starbucks Fund you can apply for another stipend if it has been 12 months or more since receiving your last stipend. At present, the only company-specific fund is the Starbucks Workers Fund. All donations to the Tech Worker Fund specifically support our pilot fund for workers across the tech industry. Upon completion of the pilot, our aim is to support worker-led solidarity funds from multiple companies in the tech industry. However, we will also keep an eye toward solidarity. If a worker in need from a company without a current fund applies for funding, other company funds may choose to support this worker. Coworker Solidarity Fund relies on contributions from individuals and philanthropic institutions. We also received in-kind support from Amalgamated Bank. You can make a donation to support our work here. No. While Coworker Solidarity Fund, a 501(c)(4), and Coworker.org, a 501(c)(3), share vision and values in supporting worker-activists, the organizations are autonomous, financially and legally independent, and governed by separate Boards of Directors. Each does all of its own fundraising and makes its own decisions. Yes! It’s a great privilege to support your leadership and workplace activism, and we think you’re doing incredibly important work. If you’d like to talk about our support for your organizing and activism, we suggest language like, “The Solidarity Fund has awarded me a $2500 [≈ Typical household annual food spending on restaurants, 2009] stipend to support my workplace organizing efforts at [company name].” Our sister organization, Coworker.org, can provide you with coaching and training on how to take action in the workplace. Send an email to [email protected] to get connected to an experienced organizer. If you are interested in learning more about starting a petition on Coworker.org, please click here. To learn more about staging a workplace walkout, please visit “So you want to stage a workplace walkout. Here are a few things to consider.” Be a part of a community of care and action that centers workers. Donate today to give workers the money and resources they need to organize and fight for a better economy for all. 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The Left-Handed Booksellers of London filled a void in me. Yes, I know that’s dramatic to say, but you know when you read a book and you feel like no other book can live up to it so you’re almost afraid to pick one up when you finish? That’s what I felt with this one. This was the book I was craving all year that I didn’t know I was craving. Yes, in my opinion it IS that good. We have an alternate London in the early 1980s with magic (though the general population doesn’t know about magic) and we have these booksellers that are the… well, the “in-between” of the magical world and the human world. They keep things in control, I guess you could say. Our main character, Susan, is fantastic. She’s thrown into this world knowing nothing at all and she learns to just go with it. And Merlin, the other main character, is a left-handed bookseller (there are right-handed booksellers too but you’ll have to read the book to find out more about that). He’s quirky and weird, in the best way, of course. And we also get some great non-binary vibes from him as well (though it just is and isn’t discussed, not really). I loved the characters, the setting, the world, the magic. I loved the mystery of it all and the beauty of the writing. I usually am grateful when a book is a stand alone but nope, I really wish this was not! I want more! Now, if you’ve stuck around this long and read this review, thank you. I hope that you’ll consider picking up a copy or adding it to your holiday wish list. You can grab yours here. –Candace, Vintage Books, Vancouver, WA

Go to the Students section Go to the Staff section Go to the Alumni section Go to the Study here section Go to the International section Go to the About section Go to the Research section Go to the Business and Employers section Go to the Support us section The University is committed to a range of initiatives which support gender equality and address specific issues for women’s career progression and leadership development. Women’s Higher Education Network (WHEN) - a network connecting all self-identifying women and non-binary people in higher education. Cygna - interactive networking forum for women academics. WISE Campaign - increasing the participation, contribution and success of women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) from classroom to boardroom. Gal-dem - an online and print publication committed to sharing perspectives from women and non-binary people of colour. Black Ballad - elevating the voices of black British women through content, community and commerce Working Families - the UK’s work-life balance charity, working to remove the barriers that people with caring responsibilities face in the workplace. Daphne Jackson Trust - dedicated to realising the potential of returners to research careers following a career break of two years or more taken for a family, caring or health reason. Oxford International Women’s Festival (OIWF) - local organising group for OIWF in March each year.

on the stage With his cathedral-size vocal range, confessional lyricism, sharp sense of soul, and pop ambition, South Carolina-born platinum-certified singer and songwriter Parson James transmutes trials and tribulations into inspiration. As an openly gay, bi-racial son of the South, who experienced a rocky childhood marked by racism, religion-based homophobia, addiction, and domestic abuse, James has frequently found himself drawn to trying to make sense of his past and how it has shaped his identity. Born to an African American father and Caucasian teen mom in poverty, the music of Otis Redding, Bill Withers, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley became something of a refuge throughout his childhood. Galvanized by his passion, he began pursuing a music career at 17 and has never looked back. In 2015, he teamed up with Kygo for “Stole The Show” (which James wrote) in 2015. The song went on to earn RIAA multi-platinum certification in North America and multi-platinum in 15 other countries, and clocked more than a billion combined global streams, as he joined Kygo to perform in front of hundreds of thousands around the world. Now, with a new label deal and single out titled “High Tide, Low Tide,” Parson James is ready to wear his heart on his sleeve yet again, as he embarks on this next chapter with an upcoming two-part EP. “There’s always a light at the end of the tunnel,” he says. “When you listen to me, I hope you feel a little bit better. This is what I’ve always wanted to do.” Pre-Pandemic, Ali Caldwell enjoyed the perks of being on tour with Christina Aguilera as a featured supporting vocalist during Christina Aguilera’s Vegas Residency entitled “The Xperience” and Her International Tour entitled “The X Tour”. Ali was also featured on BET Centric TV’s Black Music Month series back in February as 1 of 4 Independent Black Women in Music to watch. Ali Caldwell is well on her way to establishing herself as one of the voices of our time. You’ve seen her Wow audiences & judges on 2 Hit Television shows, The Voice on NBC (Season 11) & The Four with P.Diddy On Fox (Season 2). She Headlined six International European Tours encompassing seven countries as an independent artist and most recently, performed & killed SXSW 2022 in Austin, TX at the impressive Wisdome (WisdomeLA, a huge 360 degree 3D Immersive Sound Dome & Stage) in conjunction with Breaking Hits. Ali Caldwell now has her sights set on going back home for a much needed visit—back home to New Jersey. Ready to bring energy, the vocals, the band & her stunning presence to the New Jersey Pride Festival 2023. Get ready for the Red Queen! STOUT is the Queen of New Era Rock! She was born and raised in New Haven, CT. STOUT has been touring, sharing stages, and recording with the likes of Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon, Carlos Santana, Missy Elliot, Gwen Stefani, Usher, Lenny Krantz, John Mayer, Childish Gambino, Two Chains, John Legend, Harry Connick Jr, Alicia Keys, Cory Henry and The Funk Apostles, J.J. Hairston and Youthful Praise and more. Dreams came true as STOUT performed on legendary shows like OPRAH, MTV awards, Billboard Music Awards, Grammy's (2005, 2017), The Dave Letterman Show, Jay Leno, Ellen, Jimmy Fallon, American Music Awards, and STOUT enjoys creating experiences that leave audiences in conversations; she strives to bring you on a journey that talks about love, history, church, passion, and joy! To be at a STOUT performance is to get lost in her beauty, voice, and message. She is still blazing stages across the country with legends like Chris Dave, Robert Glasper, and more. STOUT is preparing for something new get ready for the ELEVATION! Performing as a trio, Antigone Rising always puts on a great show, and their excellent musicianship, songwriting and soaring three-part harmonies have kept them a favorite in clubs and Festivals. At North Jersey Pride on June 12th, they will reunite on stage with drummer Dena Tauriello! Founding sisters Cathy and Kristen Henderson have always had the same philosophy, play better than the boys and make sure the fans feel like part of the family. That philosophy plus writing undeniably catchy songs has allowed this self-sustained group to maintain their independence and leave an indelible mark on an industry best known for leaving girl (bands) behind. Antigone Rising continues to play a major part in LGBTQ advocacy. They are currently working on a new CD and launched Girls Rising, (www.girlsrising.org) a nonprofit organization that inspires young women to harness their potential, follow their dreams, and pursue non-traditional career paths. Liz Glazer is an award-winning standup comedian, actor, and writer. Liz won first place in the Boston Comedy Festival and Ladies of Laughter Competition, has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, among other publications, and has opened for Myq Kaplan and Maria Bamford. Liz was also a part of the Seattle International Comedy Competition and will be a part of the upcoming HBO Women in Comedy Festival. Liz began her career as most standup comedians do: as a tenured law professor. Liz attended the University of Pennsylvania, receiving her B.A. magna cum laude and M.A. in Philosophy (Liz submatriculated into the graduate division so she earned both degrees in 4 years). Liz then attended the University of Chicago Law School where she was a member of the Law Review. As an actor, Liz has appeared on ABC's “For Life” and CBS’s “Bull,” and is on the faculty at Lesly Kahn & Co., the Los Angeles acting studio. Liz is also writing a television pilot about her life, a draft of which was a semi-finalist in the Stage 32 writing competition. Liz performs regularly at comedy clubs and festivals, and she also does private events for law schools, law firms, synagogues, and major corporations. While Liz loves performing live in person, she's equally comfortable yelling into her laptop on Zoom as she did nightly during the pandemic. Britton & The Sting Recent Tony Award-winner Britton Smith uses his funk liberation band Britton & The Sting to spread the gospel of authenticity and inclusion as the bridge to radical liberation. Britton self identifies as a Black Gay Mega Pastor, set on this earth to dismantle the systems and ideas of oppression that keep us from living our most authentic lives. Let’s Get Drunk and Go to Church—the band’s anthem—speaks volumes about their mission and identity. The talented pack of musicians lead their congregation with an electric passion for funk, gospel, soul, and testimony. Their shows feel like church in all the best ways. Their last Joe’s Pub show was a sold-out, roaring experience, so get ready for some fun! Recently featured in Vanity Fair, Vogue, Fault Magazine, and The New Yorker, Britton & The Sting was also featured in Paper Magazine’s “Bops Only” 10 Songs You Need to Start Your Weekend Right'' list, as well as a featured 2020 NPR Tiny Desk Submission Top Pick. Harmonica Sunbeam, the Queen of Comedy, has been delighting audiences throughout the U.S. and abroad for over 27 years. Her live appearances have gained her a cult following of all ages, races and backgrounds. A member of the Screen Actors Guild, her film credits include “Honey,” with Jessica Alba, “Uptown Girls,” with Brittany Murphy and the Oliver Stone drama, “World Trade Center.” She has also worked alongside noted musical artists such as Beyonce, Mary J. Blige, Jennifer Holiday, and Katy Perry. Miss Sunbeam’s latest project is showcasing her unique ability to uplift, encourage and engage children. As a host of DragQueen Story Hour, she reads to kids of all ages at libraries, bookstores, festivals and other events. DragQueen Story Hour encourages children to relate to both gender neutrality and non-conformity, while promoting positive LGTBQ role models. Ryan Cassata (he/him), signed to Kill Rock Stars, is an award-winning singer-songwriter, actor, performer, published writer, LGBTQ+ activist, and transgender motivational speaker. His work has been featured on/in GRAMMY.com, Rolling Stone, Billboard, The New York Times, Buzzfeed, AltPress, American Songwriter, and The NY Daily News. With over 650 performances nationwide and internationally and seven original and critically-acclaimed musical albums, Ryan is proud to be recognized as the first openly-trans performer at the Vans Warped Tour, in addition to featured performances at Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Green Show, Global Pride, and SXSW in Austin, Texas. LOGO’s New Now Next included Ryan on the “9 Trans Musicians You Need To Get Into” list and Billboard has referred to Ryan as a “true force in the industry,” honoring him as one of the esteemed "11 Transgender & Non-Binary Musicians You Need to Know." The Bees Knees The Bee's Knees from Bayonne High School was founded in 2018 under the direction of Samantha Herskowitz. The group is composed of current Bayonne High School students in grades 10-12, many of which are involved in multiple music programs at the school, including the Award Winning Bayonne High School Marching Band & Drama Society. This past year, The Bee’s Knees competed for the second time in the International Championship of High School A Cappella. They placed 1st at the Mid-Atlantic Region Quarterfinal and advanced to the Semifinal Round, where they came in 2nd. At both events, members Aiden Carr won the award for Outstanding Vocal Percussion & Doris Gonzalez won the Outstanding Soloist award for her performance in Leave My Body. The Bee's Knees perform at community events, clinics, a Cappella invitationals, and concerts and are so excited to be making their debut at this year's North Jersey Pride! ...and your fabulous host, Scott Nevins! Scott Nevins is best known for being one of the breakout stars and original cast members of Bravo TV’s series “The People’s Couch,” and truTV’s hit show “truTV Presents: World’s Dumbest…”. Scott has appeared on national TV on NBC, FOX, Bravo, CNN International, HLN, truTV, The Style Network, Fuse TV and LOGO and has hosted several red carpet events for TV Land. He received high praise for his work as the cohost of “The Ann Walker Show with Scott Nevins” (UBN Radio), as a fill-in host on Sirius Satellite Radio and KNews Radio, and most recently as a political contributor for NewNowNext.com. Scott has has a special place in his heart for the North Jersey Pride Festival—which is why he has returned year after year to be our emcee—we love you, Scott!

Currently in development. 'Less Alone, More Alive!' A 60 minute semi-autobiographical solo show about love, death and Borderline Personality Disorder. Set in the style of a children’s party crossed with a fucked-up cabaret with specially written songs, specially drawn cartoons and a whole host of characters. To find out more, please click below or feel free to get in touch. It’s always great to meet future collaborators and co-conspirators. Against a backdrop of the ‘Troubles’ in Northern Ireland and an epidemic of mental illness, Suzy and the voices in her head ‘Big Red’ and ‘Little Red’ explore love, loneliness and the nature of human connection. This explosive show is for anyone who wants to LIVE and THRIVE rather than survive. For anyone who has had to change, who has felt the need to speak out. For anyone who yearns to dance like nobody’s watching. ‘Insanity – a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.’ R. D. LAING "...and I run. I run from myself, to myself, for myself" Less Alone, More Alive! Humans need hope. Now more than ever. We crave connection. Inspired by my experiences living with BPD, I’ve got a big heart and a big desire to tell the truth about what it feels like to get sick and get sane. BPD is rarely in the media. By writing a character whose life is lived through this lens and then subsequent remission, I want to show that this IS possible. The epidemic of mental illness as a result of Covid has begun to bite. In sharing this story honestly it will enable others with similar backgrounds to identify and those with different backgrounds to empathise. This show is an example of story as an ‘empathy making machine’ (Joey Soloway 2016). The impact of the ‘Troubles’ on mental health in Northern Ireland is not often discussed. This conflict continues to affect generations. The stability of the region is at risk due to Brexit. We cannot return to violence. AMIE BURNS - WALKER Amie is an actor turned director (credits include RSC, BBC). Her performance background led her on to becoming one of the creators of the UK’s longest running immersive theatre show ‘The Great Gatsby’. Amie has been part of Immersive Gatsby's creative team for the past 5 years, directing the West End Transfer and Korean Production. Amie previously directed ‘Dr Strangelove’ for Secret Cinema and was also a co -founder of The Immersive Ensemble, who are renowned for creating the groundbreaking show 'The Drop Off'. JESSICA McVAY & EMILY CAREWE - 45NORTH 45North is an award-winning production company. They champion, develop and produce work by female-identifying and non-binary artists. Led by artists from a variety of performing and producing backgrounds, they are committed to supporting emerging creatives who are beginning and expanding their practices. MOVEMENT DIRECTOR / CHOREOGRAPHER Nancy is a Movement Director, Choreographer, Theatre Maker and Teacher with an expansive skill set and a commitment to finding new and potent forms of physical expression. She is an Associate Artist at the Mercury Theatre, where she is currently developing a piece of Dance Theatre entitled Dear NeverLand - inspired by J.M Barrie's Peter Pan. She has worked on a mix of musicals (Our House- Queens Hornchurch, I Capture the Castle – Watford palace/ Bolton Octagon), plays and films MUSICAL DIRECTOR / CO-COMPOSER Tristan has performed, composed, designed sound and musically directed material for film, theatre, major events and television for two decades. This includes over fifteen productions for Hull Truck Theatre, multiple productions for the Edinburgh Festival including ‘An Audience with...’ staring Alistair McGowan 2015 and over a decade of productions for The National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. He was a musical director on the Beijing and London Olympic Games. Film work includes ‘To All the Girls I’ve Loved Before’ for Channel 4 Films, ‘When Romeo Met Juliet’ for the BBC and Anna Karenina for Working Title Films. 2018 | Bryony Kimmings Lab | Initial Idea 2019 | The Pleasance (AIAWTC event) | 15 Minute Scratch 2019 | Haley McGee Solo Show lab | 15 Minute Scratch 2019 | Solo Fest 2020 (Katzspace) | 15 Minute Scratch 2021 RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT We are thrilled to be running an R and D in 2021. Over a period of 4 weeks we will experiment with new forms which support the development of this piece - the use of music, song and movement as part of live storytelling and performance. There will be a sharing at the end of this period for potential programmers, partners and an invited audience of our peers within the mental health, recovery and Northern Irish/ Irish diaspora communities. Feedback gathered will aid the next steps of our journey. "An excitingly honest depiction of the power of human connection told with exquisite language, stunning songs and daring vulnerability." Haley McGee - Solo Show Specialist (Ex Boyfriend Yardsale @ CPT, Doctor Who BBC) MUSIC & DESIGN Music and movement form a vital part of the expression of this story. We are beginning exploring working with live illustration and drawing as part of the story. Here are some images and collages that we have created on this journey. The music will be rough in feel, with sounds created by me. As an enthusiastic non professional music maker, this will have its own aesthetic which will add to the vibe of the show. At the end of our R and D period we will have a sharing for an invited audience of industry, mental health professionals, fellow BPD survivors and the Irish/ N.Irish Diaspora (reached through The London Irish Centre). We have connected with local mental health services to assist in the development of a platform talk which will accompany the completed show. With the involvement of mental health experts, we will ensure audiences are safeguarded. The purpose of the platform is to promote awareness of BPD (as a little spoken of condition). There will also be a series of workshops to promote connection and creativity, empowering participants to connect and collaborate with each other as a vehicle for wellbeing. The London Irish Centre Tinderbox Theatre Company Lemn Sissay MBE Ruth Willow Mariner Dr Emma Janes Benn Keaveney of Mind Rory Bolton of NHS Foundation Trust Graeae and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation.

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As individuals and as a couple, Emily and Naomi had both love and issues in abundance — but their love was always most important. Over the course of 10 seasons, viewers saw them squabble, adopt children, and shamelessly express total unconditional love. Especially in the context of a family-oriented comedy, Mitch and Cam helped normalize gay relationships on TV — especially since the show premiered infour years before the Defense of Marriage Act was overturned. Not only does Asia Kate Dillion portray one of the most powerful and visible non-binary characters of all time — the cunning, financially savvy Taylor Mason on Showtime's "Billions" — they're also the first non-binary actor with a starring role on American TV. Non-binary people are multi-dimensional human beings. But in a world where the Vice President of the United States actively supports homophobic policiesan openly gay and influential politician — even on TV — feels like a relief. As a Latina teen, Elena Alvarez's coming out on Netflix's "One Day at a Time" was a rare and important story to tell — especially given how sensitively the show handled the fallout of her father's negative reaction. The show presents Yorkie and Kelly's mutual attraction as natural, almost incidental, and even weaves in a poignant plot that celebrates same-sex marriage. As Mo Johnson noted for Bustit's a "refreshingly hopeful" story that resists the trope of fetishizing two women in love. The protagonist's best friend, Moira, is known as a hero amongst the Handmaids. She maintained her strength, conviction, and even her humor in the face of crushing, seemingly insurmountable odds. Like Moira, Emily was criminalized for being a lesbian and enslaved as a Handmaid. Unlike Moira, Emily was forced to say goodbye to her wife and son at the Canadian border and stay behind. Emily is a symbol of resistance and endurance on the show. 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While this seems like a tragic story, Lily's is actually one of self-acceptance and unconventional optimism. Since she died at just 12 years old, Lily will never have to go through puberty and has found freedom in her new life as a zombie. HBO's "Game of Thrones" was hardly known for progressive depictions of sex or gender. But the characters from Dorne represented a refreshing fluidity and openness, which existed in short supply in Westeros. Jezebel's C. Pinkham called him " the most important male bisexual character in TV history. The so-called Red Viper and his longtime partner, Ellaria Sand, treated the ideas of gender preference and sexual monogamy as laughably absurd. They confronted prejudice head-on, completely free from guilt or shame. As Pinkham points out, it's worth noting that Oberyn's sexuality is never defined in the books. The showrunners made an active decision to make this heroic, fan-favorite character explicitly bisexual — and, by extension, to validate bisexuality on the most culturally relevant show of our time. Any of the six lesbian and bisexual women who starred on "The L Word" could be included in this list. When it premiered on Showtime init was arguably the most refreshing and unapologetic depiction of queer women on TVever. Educated, strong willed, cultured, independent, fiercely loyal, and wealthy. In many ways she was a total inspiration, and someone not only to look up to, but aspire to be. Tasha served in Iraq before the US military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy was overturned. Thusly, her superior officer ordered her to keep quiet about her sexual orientation. There's someone who tries to undermine my position because he found out I was gay, so he was actually gunning for my job. 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Ness Nite is from the future. At least, that’s what their artist bio suggests. Based in Minneapolis, the 24-year-old non-binary artist makes dreamy, glitchy, buzzing pop music with twinges of hip-hop and alternative sensibilities. Ness deals in surreal soundscapes. Imagine their canvas spread out across a studio floor, and imagine them throwing buckets of pastel paint all over the room. Then, imagine them throwing themselves into the blots of paint, submerging themselves and filling the canvas all at once. The Ness Nite experience is a wholly tactile and engulfing one. “Unusual” is the self-produced first taste from Ness’ upcoming project Killing Chiron, the follow-up to their 2018 debut Dream Girl. In a statement that came with the advance listen, Ness describes the single, released via POW Recordings, as “about victims of gender-based violence taking justice with our own hands.” In an era where we are centering our queer communities during America’s uprisings, “Unusual” slots into the canon of the moment, with ballooning synths that prove themselves timeless. Ness Nite calls me up on a balmy July morning to discuss their new single, America’s uprisings, the Minneapolis art scene, and their best advice for well-meaning white folx.

Director | Global Butterflies - Irish/Welsh State School Educated (Secondary Modern) - Self-funded CPE/LPC I started my career in the 80’s within the defence industry as an avionics software engineer, later moving into HR within the same sector. During the 90’s, I followed my brother (Corporate City Partner) and sister (Judge) in to law and successfully completed my law society exams, it was during this time that I was diagnosed with Gender Dysphoria. As a result, instead of obtaining a training contract, something that was impossible as a visible trans women back then, I joined The College of Law and later transitioned my gender expression from male to female. I left my Production Director role at the University of Law to set up and run Global Butterflies, a consultancy providing advice to law firms on how to be trans & non-binary inclusive. I have spoken all over the UK and also in the USA, Canada (and Hong Kong 2020) to audiences on trans & non-binary rights. I am Vice Chair of the Law Society’s LGBT Lawyers Division committee representing trans & non-binary solicitors and am a Trustee for GiveOut.

Category Archives: Trans life I really enjoyed our discussion! We talk about why I left academic philosophy and a bunch of trans stuff. Be sure to subscribe to her podcast, Always Another Way, on iTunes, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. And leave a review for her podcast if you enjoyed our discussion. A Day in Gender Did that customer just “sir” me? When he said “Thanks man” would he have said that to a cis female or was that just for me? Did that person just say “dude” to me in a gender neutral way or not? Is my co-worker going to use the right pronoun for me at the end of this sentence? Is there any hesitation in their usage of “she” pronouns for me or is it natural, automatic? Did that customer just include me in their reference to “ladies?” *internal leap of joy* Pronouns are the primary fuel of the gender machine. The gender machine is the whole apparatus of gender, the constant way in which life on Earth is filtered through the lens of whether you are a man, a woman, or something else. The gender machine is omnipresent, though if you aren’t paying attention it can seem like it doesn’t exist at all. The gender machine is brutal and impersonal: you are subject to it regardless of whether you want to be or not. The gender machine is deeply metaphorical: it provides the foundation for our entire understanding of culture, pop culture, songs, movies, etc. Before I transitioned, I only had a passing familiarity with the gender machine. I knew it existed, of course, and was obviously a product of it and regulated by it, but I didn’t really know it. I never paid much attention with occasional exceptions: being read as a male with long hair and ear piercings was sometimes interesting. Getting punished by my parents as a young child for wearing women’s clothes certainly made me aware of the gender machine and the rules of what boys are “supposed” to be like. My relationships with women exposed me to the gender machine a little bit. Being a husband made me self-conscious of my role within the gender system. I had read a bit of gender theory here and there but didn’t really understand the gender machine on a super personal level. I was like the proverbial fish who lives and breathes water but doesn’t has a concept of water because it surrounds them 24/7. But nothing prepared me for what it’s like to be a wrinkle in the gender machine, a nail that sticks out, an anomaly, a person who was first assigned male, raised male, and regulated as male but who eventually pushed back and bucked the system, who self-consciously rejected their position in the gender machine and chose another path, the path towards womanhood. But violations of gendered social norms are highly regulated by misgendering, transphobia, and enforcement of gender conformity. If you don’t look and sound “like a woman” then the mahine will refuse to play along and you will get hurt. You will get “sirred”. You will get nasty stares as you walk out of the bathroom. You will be harassed, threatened, or maybe even violently assaulted or killed. The gender machine will attempt to chew you up and spit you out. You will be called “freak” and seen as less than human. You will be called slurs. You will be slandered as a pervert. Your sanity will be called into question. The gender machine has it especially out for nonpassing trans women and non-binary trans femmes due to the way masculinity and femininity is strongly regulated for those who are assigned male at birth. Any hint of a assigned-male person dabbling in femininity is brutally regulated so much so that trans women repress their desires for decades, or even repress them forever. Does my adam’s apple stick out too much at this angle? I worry about this as I stand at the counter and adjust how I’m standing so the customer won’t see it right away. I maximally “prime” them with my available feminine cues, minimize the cues I want to hide, and slightly adjust the way I’m standing and holding my head to hide my adam’s apple. But I know they’ll eventually see it. They always do. That or my voice will reveal my history of being exposed to testosterone. What will they think of me? Not how will they treat me. Most people are nice. But how will they internally think of me? “Oh, there’s one of those ugly trannies. Freak.” Or worse. My paranoia about this runs deep. It affects my relationships with people I don’t know extremely well. Many TERFs these days are hardcore TERFs but keep their opinions to themselves. That’s almost worse. The fake smile. The deference with the pronouns, but secretly thinking “You’re a man.” “Hi, what can I get started for you today?”, I speak over the intercom in a strained voice, desperately doing all I can to avoid the inevitable “Sir”. Often I don’t get it. But sometimes I do. I wonder if I would get misgendered more if we lived in a time when the gender machine regulated gendered communication and encouraged “sirs” and “ma’ams” at all times. Nowadays, thank God, people more lax on the honorifics. I personally try to never use them unless absolutely necessary. What’s the point? They do practically no good and often cause much harm to trans and GNC people. My voice is the Ur-factor in how I am perceived within the gender machine. It determines everything. Unfortunately, I know my voice is not perfect and still gets read as male to those unsuspecting strangers who might expect something else out of my mouth based on my appearance or dress. I wake up super early for work to placate the gender machine with makeup. I know many cis women across the world are pressured by social norms to wear makeup to work in order to be seen as “professioanal”, “hygienic”, or even “competent”, but I am pressured into waking up extra early to shower, shave, and put on makeup in order to maximize my available gender cues, minimize the negative ones, and ultimately reduce my chance of getting misgendered, avoiding dysphoria as much as possible. With my voice and my adam’s apple and my masculine features, makeup is a defense mechanism for me, a way to reinforce the gender cues I give off. But what I’d give to have the option to just wear a bare face but still be so effortlessly feminine that no one in their right mind would question my status in the gender machine. Whether I eventually get misgendered or not depends on many factors, mainly to what extent these people are self-conscious regulators in the gender machine aka transphobic assholes. But it’s also ignorance. And not paying attention. But still. Regardless, the most common thing that happens is that people don’t gender me at all. I get greeted as female all the time but rarely depart as an acknowledged female. When others around me get pronouns, I often get none. Which isn’t too bad I guess. Could be worse. My coworkers, or “partners” as we call them at Starbucks, are my literal life blood. Their acceptance of me as a woman and their automatic usage of “she” pronouns are my primary coping mechanism for dysphoria and misgendering at work. The small little genderings that happen through the day literally sustain me. It means so little to them, yet so much to me. Life as a non-passing trans woman for me means constant vigilance. Professional pronoun detector should be written on my business card. Constant awareness of all things gender defines my worldview. When I am hanging out with cis males, I can’t help but notice their masculinity and define myself as apart from them, down to tiny little mannerisms like the small inflection they put on the end of a word, or how much space they are taking up. When I am around cis females, I can’t help but compare myself to them and get self-conscious about every little feminine detail that comes so naturally to them. Even hanging out with butch lesbians does little to make me feel better because even they are so dripping with womanhood that I can’t help but feel “less”. Such is life as a non-passing, late transitioning trans woman. The gender machine is fueled by pronouns, and regulated by conformity. It is all around us. Even in today’s post-modern liberal society of increasing LGBTQIA diversity awareness, the gender machine is working harder than ever to regulate gender. It might seem like we are now living in a laissez faire world when it comes to gender, but don’t let surface trends fool you: The growing acceptance of trans and GNC people in society has done absolutely nothing to placate the gender machine. It is still hungry – it still needs to feed. It simply finds a new tactic, a new way of regulatation, new rules, regulations, associations, connotations, expectations, etc. Gender is still all pervasive, as any trans or observant person will tell you. Some gender theorists like to talk about a future, hypothetical society where the gender machine is no more. But that’s a thought experiment only. A fantasy. A utopia that will never come to be. All we can do is force the gender machine to evolve in small, hopefully progressive directions. But despite the gender machine’s dominance and finality being out of our control, we can as individuals take self-conscious steps towards understanding our place within the gender machine and working to make sure everyone feels safe as they can be within the machine. Respecting pronouns and reducing the usage of honerifics is a huge part of this and definitely something cis allies can do. Good luck. Content warning: this post contains mentions of trans porn, trans slurs, and descriptions of transphobic violence. Porn featuring pre-op/non-op trans women (aka “tranny porn”)* has always been popular among straight men and continues to be widely popular. I specifically mention the terms “pre-op/non-op” because that’s the only kind of trans woman that seems to be popular with straight men. Everyone knows, if you wanna be a trans porn star, you better keep your dick. *”tranny” is our word. Just because I say it does not give a cis person the right to use it as well. The fetishization of women with penises is at the very heart of why trans porn is so popular. But why? Why are straight men (and there are female trans chasers too) so obsessed with trans women who have penises? How could it be that many straight men would not date, love, or marry a trans woman but he will jerk off to her on the internet? If you want to see the fetishization of trans women happen in real time it’s easy, just go to craiglist’s “m4t” section and read and weep. Straight men will fuck us, but not love us. All they care about is that we are “passable”, not that we are strong, determined, beautiful women. They don’t really see us as females, they see us as a third sex. We are never simply women, or even trans women, but rather trannies, tgirls, gurls, tgirls, transsexuals, TS, TS gurls, shemales, ladyboys, chicks with dicks,etc. TERFs third-sex us as well, calling us male-to-trans, MtTs. What’s the one glaring difference between cis porn and trans porn? The genitals are different. That’s all it is. But why do straight men consume so much porn featuring women with not-commonly-seen genitals? I hesitate to wager a speculative hypothesis: novelty and taboo are dominant factors. For straight men used to having sex with cis women and watching porn of cis women, trans women represent something they see as “exotic”. Trans women make up roughly 1% of the population. Many Americans don’t personally know any trans people. Perhaps they have heard of Caitlyn Jenner. But you bet they’re watching trans porn. Our rarity makes us anomalies to the cis world, strange creatures who are Othered so strongly that we become a separate metaphysical category: the tgirl. When you combine the novelty factor with the social stigma against trans bodies it creates a taboo whereby trans porn becomes “dirty”, “naughty”, or otherwise scandalous. This why straight male celebrities who get “caught” dating tran women often end up in media scandals and their masculinity is challenged. It’s why so many straight men might hook up with trans women but not bring them to thanksgiving dinner. The taboo nature of trans people, and especially trans women, fuels the fetishization against trans women. When straight men consume too much cis porn they become bored and the taboo nature of trans porn leads to it’s long-time, overwhelming popularity among straight cis men. Why does this matter? Why am I talking about this? Because let me give you a scenario, a scenario that is drawn from real life. A straight cis male is horny, watching trans porn. He gets so horny that he wants to find a trans sex worker to fulfill his fantasy. He goes on craigslist and finds someone. He has sex with her, cums, and then has a sudden feeling of disgust (stemming from the taboo), feels his heterosexuality and manhood are threatened because he just slept with a non-cis woman and possibly got off on her having a dick. He gets enraged and defensive, “panics”, and then brutally murders the trans woman for having the audacity to be herself. I am not making up this scenario at all. It is straight up pulled from real life, often involving trans women of color. Sadly, this so-called “panic defense” is admissible in court as an excuse for murder in most states. This is why the fetishization of trans women is so dangerous. It fuels violence against trans women by men who have been so poisoned by the stigma in society against trans people, especially trans women, that they want to fuck us or be fucked by us yet are so disgusted by us that they will kill us afterwards. Or maybe they will skip the sex and just kill us for being who we are. Or beat the shit out of us until we are an inch from death. It happens. all the time. all across the world. So next time you internally Other a trans woman, remember, your attitude of fetishization and objectification of her body is indirectly fueling the exploitation of trans bodies and the brutal violence against those bodies. Your fetish is dripping with blood. But don’t get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with being attracted to trans bodies. I get it, trust me: trans people are beautiful and our bodies are special and wonderful as well. The problem is not finding trans women attractive. It’s the automatic mental operation of putting us into the metaphysical category of an Other, an automatic third sex option ticked off, why it’s so common for straight men to only call us gurls because they want to highlight how we are so different from cis girls, a whole other creature: a tranny. mtf. tgurl. There is nothing wrong with third sex/gender, or thinking that you are third sex/gender. I actually prefer to think of myself as third gender. It’s what I feel most comfortable with. But I would never say that all other trans people are third gender, because many feel they are firmly within the gender binary and I respect that. It’s the way in which we are thrown into the third sex/gender category without our explicit consent. It’s the way our bodies are seen as exotic and other worldly, like a living breathing sex doll with “unique features”. This widespread attitude is dangerous and fuels much of the transphobic violence against trans women. If we are going to put an end to transphobic violence and the dangerous fetishization of trans bodies, we need to, as a society, become more accepting of trans people, especially trans women, as normal members of society, not deviants or perverts. We need to end the Jerry Springer-esque “freak show” phenomenon that fuels the stigma against us. We need to end medical gatekeeping. We need to stop the myth that trans women who like women are autogynephilic predators and the falsehood that trans women who like men are just hyper-gay. We need for more people to get to know us on a personal level, to see that we are people like everyone else, with hopes, fears, and a desire to be safe, loved, and respected. But most of all, we need cis people, especially cis straight males, to do their own work of educating themselves about the dangers of cis normativity, cis sexism, and toxic masculinity. My gf Jacqueline and I share our feelings about the recent Ru Paul controversy and how it relates to the broader phenomenon of trans people, drag, and LGBTQ+ history. I’ve been dating another trans girl for a little over 5 months now. It was practically love at first sight. We first met last summer at a local support group for trans feminine people – I was immediately fascinated by her but I was in a relationship at the time. After that ended, I was single again and we happened to hang out together with some friends one night after the trans support group got together for our usual Wednesday meetings. We ended up staying up to like 4am talking and connecting – I could feel serious chemistry between us. After she went home, I messaged her on FB saying that I felt like kissing her when we were saying goodbye but I chickened out at the last minute. To my surprise, she echoed similar sentiments. We set up a date for the next night. We went to some little cash-only hipster bar next to a place called Steve’s Hotdogs. We were feeling each other totally. I was intoxicated by her presence. I don’t even remember what we talked about that night but I knew right away this was something special. She came home with me and spent the night. It was amazing. After I drove her home the next day we immediately made plans to hang out again later in the day. And the pattern repeated the next day. On the third night we were lying in bed after crazy good sex and whispering sweet nothings to each other. I could feel myself falling in love. It was intense. I knew she was feeling the same thing – I could see it in her eyes and in the way she was talking to me. She said “There’s something I want to tell you but I’m afraid of saying it…” I knew instantly what she wanted to say but I beat her to it: “I love you” I say. She returns the sentiment, saying “I love you” back. This was unusual for me. Usually it takes weeks or months for me to be capable of saying those three words and sincerely meaning it but with her it was like some supernatural force came over me causing me to fall deeply in love. I didn’t want her to go home, ever – at the time she was living at her parents place. Sensing that she wasn’t comfortable with her living situation at home I impulsively asked her if she wanted to Uhaul it with me, to move in right away in classic lesbian fashion. She said yes. She couldn’t wait to move out. It was an admittedly crazy proposal. We barely knew each other. It was irrational, impulsive, rash, short-sighted, etc. But it worked. Five months later and I couldn’t be happier. The risk paid off. Big time. Turns out we are very compatible domestic partners. I’m convinced that part of our success is the fact that we are both trans girls. When we first met she was actually boy crazy. Wasn’t even on her mind to consider the possibility that the love of her life would be another trans girl. But now that we’ve both experienced trans4trans love we wouldn’t have it any other way. It’s amazing to be with someone who knows exactly what your own dysphoria feels like. To be with someone who you don’t have to feel weird about being so excited when someone gendered you correctly at the supermarket. Someone with whom you can share the small joys of transition and know that they understand perfectly what you mean. Someone who understands your identity in all its complexity because they’ve gone through the same evolution. With her I can share my doubts about my own identity without worrying she will take me any less seriously as a woman. With her I can discuss my own internalized transmisognyny without risking her reinforcing my own internal shit. With her I can discuss my fears and hope and dreams relating to my transition without worrying that she will not understand me. With her I can obsesses about the smallest details of transitioning without worrying that I am being “obsessive” about gender. When I get misgendered I know she will empathize fully. With her I can be fully myself and at ease. If I don’t feel like sitting down to pee I can do so without my feeling I need to prove anything to her about my womanhood. In my past relationships I felt like I had to be more guarded about being maximally feminine. Now, I don’t have to feel self-conscious about my voice not being as feminine as my cis partner’s. I don’t have to worry about constantly effecting a higher pitch. I don’t have to feel self-conscious about the femininity of my body next to hers. I don’t need to “pass” better for her. She gets it on a deep molecular level. Cis people will never truly get it. But don’t get me wrong, it’s not always black or white in terms of either being 100% cis or not. Gender is messy, fuzzy, and sometimes people can struggle with their gender and question their identity while still maintaining their connection with their assigned gender. These questioning cis people might have a little insight into what it’s like to have gender dysphoria but most cis people don’t struggle with their gender at all. For them the reality and firmness of their gender is simply an undeniable fact that they have totally accepted and internalized, as real as gravity and reinforced by 100% of their experiences growing up. I call the cis people who have never struggled with their gender “basic cis”. It’s the type of cis-ness that fuels the gender binary and cis supremacy. Basic cis people will never come close to understanding what it’s like to have gender dysphoria. They just can’t imagine what it’d be like to look in the mirror and not just be dissatisfied with your appearance but perceive the wrong gender. It’s an eerie phenomenon, like looking in a funhouse mirror, except the distorted mirror doesn’t just stretched your physical proportions to be grotesque but rather shifts them such that you look like the “opposite” sex. A typical funhouse mirror is like anorexia: being thin but perceiving yourself to be fat or vice versa. But gender dysphoria is more complicated than a simple shift in physical dimensions: it’s a shift in our fundamental metaphysical status as gendered beings. Gender dysphoria is like a snapchat filter on steroids applied to all the hundreds of little features that physically separate the sexes. It’s very difficult for basic cis people to understand this because they are so basic. t4t usually refers to the craigslist section where trans people and crossdressers try to hook up with each other. But for me, “t4t” represents the queering of romance, an escape from cis-supremacy and the shackles of cis-heteropatriarchy. The way our bodies interact during sex defies easy categorization. Our bodies are not binary and neither is our love. t4t represents a departure from the limitations placed upon us by the old trans gatekeepers, who used to think that the only “successful” transition for a trans woman would involve her getting married to a cis straight man. Anything else was considered deviant and mentally disturbed, a sign of maladjustment to a woman’s place in society. But fuck that noise. t4t is beautiful. Trans lesbians are beautiful. Trans gays are beautiful. Trans guys with trans girls is beautiful. Trans girls with enbies is beauitful. Trans guys with enbies is beautiful. Enbies with enbies is beautiful. Trans love is a way of showing the cis world that we don’t need them to define our worth. When I reflect on my early days of transition I often cringe so hard it feels traumatic. The way I would act, my thought processes, the outfits I would wear…It was embarrassing. I had no idea what I was doing. Imagine spending your whole life learning how to act one as one gender and then switching all of a sudden. It’s maddening the thousands of small things that I had to learn and unlearn in the process of transition so as to adjust to my new social reality. Luckily I didn’t have to adjust to wild changes in mood as I started HRT – I remain to this day very stable in my mood. But the learning process was overwhelming at times. Imposter syndrome was in full swing. One of the primary mechanisms of gendered behavior learning is attention: who do we pay attention to when we are consciously and unconsciously asking ourselves “How should I act?” Do we watch the men or the women? The boys or the girls? Who are the “role models” we look to in times of uncertainty? Having spent my life socialized as male I always looked to the masculine people in my life to imitate their behavior. I was fairly good at this and eventually it became internalized, though I was never super macho. The decision to transition changed all that. The focus of my attention shifted away from men. What was internalized for cis women after decades of practice seemed 100% natural to them. I had a lot of catching up to do. It’s painful to reflect on my memories of the early days of transition where I didn’t pass very well and still retained much of my old habits and thought processes. It took months and months to eventually find some sense of myself as a trans woman that was natural and intuitive. Nearly two years lately I am still learning to be myself. Nothing feels as awkward as it once did. I have developed my own sense of style and feel at home in my new body. I like being me. In reality there’s not a whole lot separating the genders. The performative aspects can be learned in no time if you’re a quick study. The part that took longer for me was to internalize the outer performance as part of my personal identity, to truly accept myself as a woman. For many reasons I still don’t quite fully identity as a “woman”, whatever that is supposed to mean. I don’t have a strong sense of sexual identity and my gender identity is nebulous at best. I just feel like myself, a consciousness staring out behind my eyes, beholding the world. By now I play the part well enough. As I write this I think about how TERFs would twist my words to argue that “Look! This trans woman admits her femininity is a fabricated artificiality of conscious design!” But my response would be that this is true of everyone not just me. Although the unconscious does the bulk of learning, consciousness is still involved in very important types of learning and I believe some of the learning is about gender and gender roles. While one might argue that certain innate neural dispositions are genetic much of human development is learned. The human brain is a fantastically powerful learning machine and it stands to reason that much of our gendered behavior is learned as well and that our consciousness works to direct some part of the learning process. The thing that makes my learning process different is that it’s done late in adulthood where my consciousness and brain are already fully developed. In some ways this gives me an advantage and in some ways it is a disadvantage. The advantage is that I can largely skip much of the “awkward teen years” of experimentation and get that done in months, not years. As an adult my learning process is sped up because it’s being aided by my full sense of consciousness. The disadvantage is that the “natural” route of learning everything in childhood seems to make it more intuitive because the learning process is so ingrained. Also, children learn about gender more unconsciously whereas I have the advantage of an adult education. TERFs like to think that the first, say, 10-20 years of our life is our learning destiny, that if we are raised male and socialized as male then we’ll always have those “male-like” tendencies that arose from that learning process. But I think this is a dim picture of the powerful capacity of the human brain to change itself. Learning chess changes the brain in deep ways so surely learning a whole new gender role also changes the brain in deep ways, as does changing the primary sex hormone that your brain runs on. The combination of HRT and gender role change works to reshape the basic way the brain looks at the world. When I reflect on who I used to be, it seems like a strange dream. I barely recognize myself in certain ways. In other ways I am the same person, with a “new look”. So what is it? New person or not? Has enough of me changed to warrant saying I am a “whole new person”? Philosophers are of no help in giving a decisive answer: it’ll depend on who you talk to. Some might say I am the same biological entity as I was since birth and that grounds my identity so my personhood has never changed. The more “brain-based” theorists might tell me that transition brings about enough significant psychological changes to warrant personhood change. Some trans people insist that in transition they didn’t change their genders, they changed their bodies to align with the gender they’ve been since birth. But for me, I don’t think I really had a well-defined sense of gender at birth. It had to be shaped into existence by the regulations of society on how boys and girls are “supposed” to act. Don’t get me wrong: I am not talking about “men are from mars and women are from venus” type nonsense. I think there are probably more ways in which men and women are alike than they are different. But there are very different power structures at play in the oppression of women and how women are socialized. To downplay the differences and emphasize similarities is not to deny that there are many stark differences between how men and women act. Man-splaining, man-terrupting, taking up space, etc., are all examples. As someone who has been in the trenches of a gender transition for the past two years and is hyper-vigilant to gendered differences, I can attest to the numerous differences. But many of the differences are differences that stem from different learning experiences not differences in innate “male or female energy” or any bio-social essentialist nonsense that rad fems like to talk about. I don’t believe childhood experience is destiny. The brain can keep on changing for the rest of our lives, sometimes in profound ways. Trans people are testament to that. Biology isn’t destiny and experience isn’t destiny. Nothing is destiny. We all contain within ourselves the capacity to change greatly. There’s been a lot of dribble spewed lately about how trans women aren’t “real” women because our childhood experiences were different and we likely received different learning histories growing up. But the thing is gender happens to be one of those metaphysical categories that is amenable to metamorphosis. And surprisingly, so is sex. The combination of HRT and social transition is remarkably powerful at changing people to their cores. It certainly changed me, for the better I might add.

President Joe Biden displayed transgender flags at the White House on Wednesday in the celebration of the Transgender Day of Visibility, says a White House official. White House Director of Political Strategy and Outreach Emmy Ruiz announced Biden would fly the flag at the White House. “On #TransDayOfVisibility, @POTUS issued a proclamation: “Today, we honor and celebrate the achievements and resiliency of transgender individuals and communities,” said Ruiz. “[transgender] flags will be on display at the WH. Imagine being a trans kid and feeling seen by the highest office in the land. And not just seen, but loved and cared for.” “Transgender Day of Visibility recognizes the generations of struggle, activism, and courage that have brought our country closer to full equality for transgender and gender non-binary people in the United States and around the world,”said Biden in a statement. “This hard-fought progress is also shaping an increasingly accepting world in which peers at school, teammates and coaches on the playing field, colleagues at work, and allies in every corner of society are standing in support and solidarity with the transgender community,” continued Biden. “The crisis of violence against transgender women, especially transgender women of color, is a stain on our Nation’s conscience,” said Biden. “Vice President Harris and I affirm that transgender Americans make our Nation more prosperous, vibrant, and strong,” concluded Biden. “I urge my fellow Americans to join us in uplifting the worth and dignity of every transgender person.”

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Schools in Australia have declared war on “binary.” Radical professors and politicians really hate the idea of “binary” because it is taught in the word of God. Binary is the concept that there are only two sexes – male and female. And the proponents of the new sexual revolution have declared an all-out assault against the evils of believing that we are either male or female. A new training module in Australia will provide guidance for teachers to help them adopt a non-binary approach to education. The Herald Sun reported the following lunacy from the so called elites in academia: “Australian schools should adopt a non-binary approach to gender in a bid to support and educate “genderfluid” and “genderqueer” students, a new guide for teachers says. Even schools without students who identify as non-binary should “shift focus away from binary gender segregation because it is useful for all students”, said leading gender expert Professor Damien Riggs, of Flinders University.” Binary gender segregation? They are indoctrinating the public that binary is evil. Binary stands for segregation. Binary is hateful. But if you are “non-binary,” you are good and useful. So if binary is bad then what is good? Notice how the article continues: “The ‘Supporting Non-Binary Young People in Schools’ guide, which is available as an online module, defines non-binary genders as those which exist ‘outside of the binary of male or female,’ such as genderfluid, genderqueer, demigender, polygender, envy and neutrois. It is used by teachers nationally and internatinoally and is widely promoted to teachers via scial media, seminars and conferences.” Polygender and neutrois? These sexual anarchists are doing a wonderful job at destroying civilization. Their agenda is to tear down everything that makes us great as a society – marriage, family, morals, biology and reality. These sacred institutions are all being erased by radical, sexual militants. Notice what they are also recommending for today’s students: “This may include flying ‘genderqueer flags’, including non-binary examples in teaching and becoming non-binary advocates for students in relation to their parents and carers … teachers should avoid dividing children on the basis of gender and let students use their preferred pronouns, which may include ze, hou and thon. Even the currently accepted “they/them” pronoun may not be favoured by non-binary students, the guide says. Rather, teachers should “check in with people about their pronouns, and do this in a sensitive and confidential way.” This global effort to reclassify gender has crossed into a territory of hysteria never seen before. All logic has gone out the window – along with the longstanding, basic definitions of gender, morals and absolutes. If we follow these loony imaginations they will lead us to utter moral depravity, starvation and death. When you reject binary, you reject food. All plant-based food comes from one male plant and one female plant. Or did you not know that plants also have sexual parts? Are they not teaching how pollination works anymore? So if you are against binary because it is hateful and discriminatory then you should not be eating any plant-based foods. Cows, pigs and chicken also operate on the binary system. Then we have the evil puppies, the diabolical kittens, the hateful birdies and the intolerant fishies who also believe in binary. Whose going to teach them about the evils of binary because that is what our pets are? If you reject binary you should have nothing to do with all the prejudice and negativity displayed by those not-so-cute binary puppies. If you reject binary you should not be using computers, webpages, social media, email, cell phones, tablets, cable, satellites, digital media (music, movies, pictures, video games, ebooks) or anything that uses digital information. Why? Because the digital world uses a binary numerical system (0 and 1) to store information and to process applications. Or do they not teach that in school anymore? If binary is evil and so hateful then the “non-binary” camp should not be using Facebook, Youtube, Google or any type of digital media. In fact, you are alive today ONLY because of binary. There is no other way to reproduce life without it. Think about that, and let that sink in. Binary is good, healthy and holy – just the way God designed it to be – one male and one female (Matthew 19:4-6).

This longtime pair—Bryan is a copywriter and Murphy is an art director—have led McCann New York as co-chief creative officers since 2012. In 2019, they took advertising to a wholly different realm by putting some of the world’s biggest brands into the middle of the public conversation. For brands as big as Mastercard, Verizon and Microsoft, Bryan and Murphy tackled subjects as important as transgender and non-binary acceptance, supporting first responders and connecting people with limited mobility. They positioned these companies at the forefront of social issues and raked in earned media valued well into the tens of millions of dollars. McCann’s "True Name" work for Mastercard extended the credit issuer’s 10 years of sponsoring Pride Week to an enduring commitment to LGBTQIA+. The True Name card features the names transgender and nonbinary people have chosen rather than the names on their birth certificates. McCann renamed the already iconic corner of Christoper and Gay streets Acceptance Street. Under the Gay Street sign, the agency installed nine others, such as Lesbian, Bisexual and Transsexual streets, in rainbow colors. Acceptance Street became a tourist and media stop. McCann estimated a 19:1 earned-to-paid ratio and spurred other banks to consider doing the same. The McCann pair took Verizon’s longtime message of reliability to the Super Bowl with a heart-warming campaign, "The Team That Wouldn’t Be Here." This third, Super Bowl team was made up of NFL players and a coach who literally survived tragedy in their lives thanks to reliably made calls to emergency services. These stories appeared in installments and were gathered into a broadcast program. They also went viral, capturing more than 244 million impressions. A Super Bowl spot told LA Chargers coach Anthony Lynn’s rescue story and made USA Today’s top-five spots of the game. Bryan and Murphy helped others understand how something as routine as connecting over an Xbox game was a social contact lost to kids with limited mobility. Microsoft’s Xbox Adaptive Controller was the first device designed to allow people with limited mobility to play video games. Instead of detailing the technical wizardry, Bryan and Murphy emphasized the vital social connections adaptive technology gives kids, letting them participate like any other on the Xbox platform. Once again, Bryan and Murphy kicked off a news cycle, from morning shows to tech blogs, bringing awareness to the controller and the cause to the tune of $35 million in earned media. There’s more, including Bryan and Murphy’s involvement with the March for Our LIves campaign to end school shootings. They had a young girl show chastened adults what to do in case of a live shooter, as she’d been taught during the lockdown drills that are sadly part of the school day. Prior to 2019, the two helped stage the face off between Fearless Girl and Wall Street’s Charging Bull statues for State Street Global Advisors. These co-creative chiefs, who got their start at JWT and went on to DDB have perfected the craft of advertising at McCann Worldwide. They’ve taken ads beyond "and now a word from our sponsor" to the stories themselves.

"Anti-sexism" redirects here. It is not to be confused with appeared in print in Caroline Bird 's speech "On Being Born Female", published in November 1968, in Vital Speeches of the Day (p. 6). It was compared to racism and defined as judging people by their gender when gender is irrelevant. Sexism was identified as a means to keep the powers that be in power. Sheldon Vanauken is sometimes credited to have defined "sexism" in his pamphlet "Freedom for Movement Girls – Now". Sexism is discrimination, prejudice, or stereotyping on the basis of gender. Sexism is most often expressed toward girls and women. It has been characterized as the "hatred of women" and "entrenched prejudice against women." Certain forms of sexism are illegal in some countries; in others, it may be legally sanctioned. In various ancient societies, especially the , women held many equal positions with men. Women in Ancient Egypt and women of the Anglo-Saxon era were also commonly afforded equal status. Evidence, however, is lacking to support the idea that many pre-agricultural societies afforded women a higher status than women today. After the adoption of agriculture and sedentary cultures, the concept that one gender was inferior to the other was established; most often this was imposed upon women and girls. Examples of sexism in the ancient world include written laws preventing women from participating in the political process. Women in ancient Rome could not vote or hold political office Sexism may have been the impetus that fueled the witch trials between the 15th and 18th centuries. In early modern Europe and in the European colonies in North America claims were made that witches were a threat to Christendom of that period played a role in the persecution of these women. , the book which played a major role in the witch hunts and trials, the authors argue that women are more likely to practice witchcraft than men, and write that: - All wickedness is but little to the wickedness of a woman ... What else is woman but a foe to friendship, an inescapable punishment, a necessary evil, a natural temptation, a desirable calamity, a domestic danger, a delectable detriment, an evil of nature, painted with fair colours! Witchcraft remains illegal in several countries, including , where it is punishable by death . In 2011 a woman was beheaded in that country for 'witchcraft and sorcery'. Murders of women after being accused of witchcraft remain common in some parts of the world; for example, in Tanzania , about 500 elderly women are murdered each year following such accusations. Until the 20th century, U.S. and observed the system of coverture , where "by marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law; that is the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage". U.S. women were not legally defined as "persons" until 1875 (Minor v. Happersett , 88 U.S. 162). A similar legal doctrine, named marital power , existed under Roman Dutch law (and is still partially in force in present day Swaziland In 1957, James Everett, then Minister for Justice in Ireland, stated that: "The progress of organised society is judged by the status occupied by married women." Restrictions on married women's rights were common in Western countries until a few decades ago: for instance, French married women obtained the right to work without their husband's permission in 1965, and in West Germany women obtained this right in 1977. During the Franco era, in Spain, a married woman required her husband's consent (called permiso marital ) for employment, ownership of property and traveling away from home; the was abolished in 1975. Women in parts of the world continue to lose legal rights at marriage. For example, marriage regulations state that a wife must obey her husband and must not leave home without his permission. , the law allows husbands to legally "punish" their wives. In the Democratic Republic of Congo , the Family Code states that the husband is the head of the household; the wife owes her obedience to her husband; a wife has to live with her husband wherever he chooses to live; and wives must have their husbands' authorization to bring a case in court or to initiate other legal proceedings. Abuses and discriminatory practices against women in marriage are often rooted in financial payments such as These transactions often serve as legitimizing coercive control of the wife by her husband and in giving him authority over her; for instance Article 13 of the Code of Personal Status (Tunisia) states that "The husband shall not, in default of payment of the dower , force the woman to consummate the marriage", implying that, if the dower is paid, marital rape is permitted (in this regard, critics have questioned the alleged gains of women in Tunisia , and its image as a progressive country in the region, arguing that discrimination against women remains very strong in that country). has recognized the "independence and ability to leave an abusive husband" as crucial in stopping mistreatment of women. However, in some parts of the world, once married, women have very little chance of leaving a violent husband: obtaining a divorce is very difficult in many jurisdictions because of the need to prove fault in court; while attempting a de facto separation (moving away from the marital home) is also not possible due to laws preventing this. For instance, in Afghanistan , a wife who leaves her marital home risks being imprisoned for "running away". In addition, many former British colonies, including India , maintain the concept of restitution of conjugal rights under which a wife may be ordered by court to return to her husband; if she fails to do so she may be held in contempt of court Other problems have to do with the payment of the bride price : if the wife wants to leave, her husband may demand back the bride price that he had paid to the woman's family; and the woman's family often cannot or does not want to pay it back. Laws, regulations, and traditions related to marriage continue to discriminate against women in many parts of the world, and to contribute to the mistreatment of women, in particular in areas related to and to self-determination in regard to sexuality , the violation of the latter now being acknowledged as a violation of ; in 2012, High Commissioner for Human Rights , has stated that: - "Women are frequently treated as property, they are sold into marriage, into trafficking, into sexual slavery. Violence against women frequently takes the form of sexual violence. Victims of such violence are often accused of promiscuity and held responsible for their fate, while infertile women are rejected by husbands, families and communities. In many countries, married women may not refuse to have sexual relations with their husbands, and often have no say in whether they use contraception (...) Ensuring that women have full autonomy over their bodies is the first crucial step towards achieving substantive equality between women and men. Personal issues—such as when, how and with whom they choose to have sex, and when, how and with whom they choose to have children—are at the heart of living a life in dignity." Gender has been used, at times, as a tool of discrimination against women in the political sphere. was not achieved until 1893, when New Zealand was the first country to grant women the right to vote. Saudi Arabia was the last country to grant women the right to vote in 2011. Some Western countries allowed women the right to vote only relatively recently: Swiss women gained the right to vote in federal elections in 1971, and Appenzell Innerrhoden became the last canton to grant women the right to vote on local issues (in 1991, when it was forced to do so by the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland French women were granted the right to vote in 1944. In Greece, women obtained the right to vote in 1952. , women obtained the right to vote in 1984, through the women's suffrage referendum of 1984 While almost every woman today has the right to vote, there is still progress to be made for women in politics. Studies have shown that in several democracies including Australia, Canada and the United States, women are still represented using deep-rooted gender stereotypes in the press Multiple authors have shown that gender differences in the media are less evident today than they used to be in the 1980s, but are nonetheless still present. Certain issues (e.g., education) are likely to be linked with female candidates, while other issues (e.g., taxes) are likely to be linked with male candidates. In addition, there is more emphasis on female candidates' personal qualities, such as their appearance and their personality, as females are portrayed as emotional and dependent. Sexism in politics can also be shown in the imbalance of law making power between men and women. Lanyan Chen asserts that men hold more political power than women, serving as the gatekeepers of policy making. It is possible that this leads to women's needs not being properly represented. In this sense, the inequality of law making power also causes the gender discrimination in politics. The ratio of women to men in legislatures is used as a measure of gender equality in the UN created Gender Empowerment Measure and its newer incarnation the Gender Inequality Index Gender stereotypes are widely held beliefs about the characteristics and behavior of women and men. studies have found widely shared cultural beliefs that men are more socially valued and more competent than women in a number of activities. Dustin B. Thoman and others (2008) hypothesize that "The socio-cultural salience of ability versus other components of the gender-math stereotype may impact women pursuing math." Through the experiment comparing the math outcomes of women under two various gender-math stereotype components, which are the ability of math and the effort on math respectively, Thoman and others found that women’s math performance is more likely to be affected by the negative ability stereotype, which is influenced by sociocultural beliefs in the United States, rather than the effort component. As a result of this experiment and the sociocultural beliefs in the United States, Thoman and others concluded that individuals' academic outcomes can be affected by the gender-math stereotype component that is influenced by the sociocultural beliefs. World Values Survey , responders were asked if they thought that wage work should be restricted to only men in the case of shortage in jobs. While in Iceland the proportion that agreed was 3.6 percent, in Egypt it was 94.9 percent. Some people believe a phenomenon known as can lower women's performance on mathematics tests, creating a self-fulfilling stereotype of women having inferior quantitative skills compared to men. Stereotypes can also affect self-assessment; studies found that specific stereotypes (e.g., women have lower mathematical abilities) affect women's and men's perceptions of those abilities, and men assess their own task ability higher than women who perform at the same level. These "biased self-assessments" have far-reaching effects, because they can shape men and women's educational and career decisions. Sexism in language exists when language devalues members of a certain gender. Sexist language in many instances promotes male superiority. Sexism in language affects consciousness, perceptions of reality, encoding and transmitting cultural meanings and socialization. Researchers have pointed to the semantic rule in operation in language of the male-as-norm. This results in sexism as the male becomes the standard and those who are not male are relegated to the inferior. Sexism in language is considered a form of indirect sexism, in that it is not always overt. - The use of generic masculine terms to reference a group of mixed gender, such as "mankind", "man" (referring to humanity), "guys", or "officers and men" - The use of the singular masculine pronoun (he, his, him) as the default to refer to a person of unknown gender - Terms ending in "-man" that may be performed by those of non-male genders, such as businessman, chairman, or policeman - The ordering of words in phrases like "man and wife" - The use of unnecessary gender markers, such as "male nurse" implying that simply a "nurse" is by default assumed to be female. One of the most common calls is for . Many have called attention, however, to the fact that the English language isn't inherently sexist in its linguistic system, but rather the way it is used becomes sexist and could thus be employed. At the same time, other oppose critiques of sexism in language with explanations that language is a descriptive, rather than prescriptive, and attempts to control it can be fruitless. such as French may be seen as reinforcing sexism, in that the masculine form is the default form. The word 'mademoiselle', meaning miss was declared banished from French administrative forms in 2012 by Prime Minister François Fillon Current pressure calls for the use of the masculine plural pronoun as the default in a mixed-sex group to change. As to Spanish, Mexico's Ministry of the Interior published a guide on how to reduce the use of sexist language. speakers have also raised questions about how sexism intersects with grammar. , some writers have pointed to sexism inherent in the structure of written characters. For example, the character for man is linked to those for positive qualities like courage and effect while the character for wife is composed of a female part and a broom, considered of low worth. Gender-specific pejorative terms intimidate or harm another person because of their gender. Sexism can be expressed in language with negative gender-oriented implications, such as condescension . For example, one may refer to a female as a "girl" rather than a "woman" or a male as a "boy" rather than a man, implying that they are subordinate or not fully mature. Other examples include obscene language. Some words are offensive to transgender people, including "tranny", "she-male", or "he-she". Intentional misgendering (assigning the wrong gender to someone) and the pronoun "it" are also considered pejorative. Occupational sexism refers to practices, statements or actions, based on a person's sex , occurring in the workplace. One form of occupational sexism is In 2008, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) found that while female employment rates have expanded and gender employment and wage gaps have narrowed nearly everywhere, on average women still have 20 percent less chance to have a job and are paid 17 percent less than men. The report stated: It also found that despite the fact that almost all OECD countries, including the U.S., have established anti-discrimination laws, these laws are difficult to enforce. A 2014 study by Wendy M. Williams and Stephen J. Ceci found that female applicants are preferred 2:1 over identically qualified male applicants in academic hiring. Women who enter predominantly male work groups can experience the negative consequences of : performance pressures, social isolation, and role encapsulation. Tokenism could be used to camouflage sexism, to preserve male worker's advantage in the workplace. No link exists between the proportion of women working in an organization/company and the improvement of their working conditions. Ignoring sexist issues may exacerbate women’s occupational problems. Studies have concluded that on average women earn lower wages than men worldwide. Some economists and feminists argue that this is the result of widespread gender discrimination in the workplace. Others argue that the wage gap is a result of different choices by men and women, such as women placing more value than men on having children, and men being more likely than women to choose careers in high paying fields such as business, engineering and technology. The prevailing view among economists is that the wage gap is the result of a combination of both of these factors. found a persistent, average gender pay gap of 17.5 percent in the 27 EU member states Similarly, the OECD found that female full-time employees earned 17 percent less than their male counterparts in OECD countries in 2009. In the United States, the female-to-male earnings ratio was 0.77 in 2009; female full-time, year-round (FTYR) workers earned 77 percent as much as male FTYR workers. Women's earnings relative to men's fell from 1960 to 1980 (60.7 percent to 60.2 percent), rose rapidly from 1980 to 1990 (60.2 to 71.6 percent), leveled off from 1990 to 2000 (71.6 to 73.7 percent) and rose from 2000 to 2009 (73.7 to 77.0 percent). When the first Equal Pay Act was passed in 1963, female full-time workers earned 58.9 percent as much as male full-time workers. Research conducted in the Czech and Slovak Republics shows that, even after the governments passed anti-discrimination legislation, two thirds of the gender gap in wages remained unexplained and segregation continued to "represent a major source of the gap". The gender gap can also vary across-occupation and within occupation. In Taiwan, for example, studies show how the bulk of gender wage discrepancies occur within-occupation. In Russia, research shows that the gender wage gap is distributed unevenly across income levels, and that it mainly occurs at the lower end of income distribution. The research also found that "wage arrears and payment in-kind attenuated wage discrimination, particularly amongst the lowest paid workers, suggesting that Russian enterprise managers assigned lowest importance to equity considerations when allocating these forms of payment." The gender pay gap has been attributed to differences in personal and workplace characteristics between men and women (such as education, hours worked and occupation), innate behavioral and biological differences between men and women and discrimination in the labor market (such as gender stereotypes and customer and employer bias). Women currently take significantly more time off to raise children than men. In certain countries such as South Korea, it has also been a long-established practice to lay-off female employees upon marriage. A study by professor Linda Babcock in her book Women Don't Ask shows that men are eight times more likely to ask for a pay raise, suggesting that pay inequality may be partly a result of behavioral differences between the sexes. However, studies generally find that a portion of the gender pay gap remains unexplained after accounting for factors assumed to influence earnings; the unexplained portion of the wage gap is attributed to gender discrimination. Estimates of the discriminatory component of the gender pay gap vary. The OECD estimated that approximately 30 percent of the gender pay gap across OECD countries is due to discrimination. Australian research shows that discrimination accounts for approximately 60 percent of the wage differential between men and women. Studies examining the gender pay gap in the United States show that a large portion of the wage differential remains unexplained, after controlling for factors affecting pay. One study of college graduates found that the portion of the pay gap unexplained after all other factors are taken into account is five percent one year after graduating and twelve percent a decade after graduation. A study by the American Association of University Women (AAUW ) found that women graduates in the United States are paid less than men doing the same work and majoring in the same field. Wage discrimination is theorized as contradicting the economic concept of supply and demand , which states that if a good or service (in this case, labor) is in demand and has value it will find its price in the market. If a worker offered equal value for less pay, supply and demand would indicate a greater demand for lower-paid workers. If a business hired lower-wage workers for the same work, it would lower its costs and enjoy a . According to supply and demand, if women offered equal value demand (and wages) should rise since they offer a better price (lower wages) for their service than men do. Research at Cornell University and elsewhere indicates that mothers in the United States are less likely to be hired than equally-qualified fathers and, if hired, receive a lower salary than male applicants with children. The OECD found that "a significant impact of children on women’s pay is generally found in the United Kingdom and the United States". Fathers earn $ 7,500 more, on average, than men without children do. According to Denise Venable at the National Center for Policy Analysis , the "wage gap" in the United States is not the result of discrimination but of differences in lifestyle choices. Venable's report found that women are less likely than men to sacrifice personal happiness for increases in income or to choose full-time work. She found that among American adults working between one and thirty-five hours a week and part-time workers who have never been married, women earn more than men. Venable also found that among people aged 27 to 33 who have never had a child, women's earnings approach 98 percent of men's and "women who hold positions and have skills and experience similar to those of men face wage disparities of less than 10 percent, and many are within a couple of points". Venable concluded that women and men with equal skills and opportunities in the same positions face little or no wage discrimination: "Claims of unequal pay almost always involve comparing apples and oranges". There is considerable agreement that gender wage discrimination exists, however, when it comes to estimating its magnitude, significant discrepancies are visible. A meta-regression analysis concludes that "the estimated gender gap has been steadily declining" and that the wage rate calculation is proven to be crucial in estimating the wage gap. The analysis further notes that excluding experience and failing to correct for selection bias from analysis might also bring to incorrect conclusions. "The popular notion of glass ceiling effects implies that gender (or other) disadvantages are stronger at the top of the hierarchy than at lower levels and that these disadvantages become worse later in a person's career." In the United States, women account for 47 percent of the overall labor force, and yet they make up only 6 percent of corporate CEOs and top executives. Some researchers see the root cause of this situation in the tacit discrimination based on gender, conducted by current top executives and corporate directors (primarily male), as well as "the historic absence of women in top positions", which “may lead to hysteresis, preventing women from accessing powerful, male-dominated professional networks, or same-sex mentors”. The glass ceiling effect is noted as being especially persistent for women of color (according to a report, "women of colour perceive a 'concrete ceiling' and not simply a glass ceiling"). In the economics profession, it has been observed that women are more inclined than men to dedicate their time to teaching and service. Since continuous research work is crucial for promotion, "the cumulative effect of small, contemporaneous differences in research orientation could generate the observed significant gender difference in promotion". In the high-tech industry, research shows that, regardless of the intra-firm changes, "extra-organizational pressures will likely contribute to continued gender stratification as firms upgrade, leading to the potential masculinization of skilled high-tech work". asserts that "progress in bringing women into leadership and decision making positions around the world remains far too slow." Research by David Matsa and Amalia Miller suggests that a possible remedy to the glass ceiling could be increasing the number of women on corporate boards, which could subsequently lead to increases in the number of women working in top management positions. The same research suggests that this could also result in a "feedback cycle in which the presence of more female managers increases the qualified pool of potential female board members (for the companies they manage, as well as other companies), leading to greater female board membership and then further increases in female executives." A 2009 study found that being overweight harms women's career advancement, but presents no barrier for men. women were significantly underrepresented among company bosses, making up between 5% and 22% of female CEOs. However, the proportion of overweight male CEOs was between 45% and 61%, over-representing overweight men. On the other hand, approximately 5% of CEOs were obese among both genders. The author of the study stated that the results suggest that "the 'glass ceiling effect' on women's advancement may reflect not only general negative stereotypes about the competencies of women, but also weight bias that results in the application of stricter appearance standards to women." Transgender people also experience significant workplace discrimination and harassment. Unlike sex-based discrimination, refusing to hire (or firing) a worker for their gender identity or expression is not explicitly illegal in most U.S. states. is treating a person, usually a woman, as an object. Feminist writer and gender equality activist Joy Goh-Mah argues that by being objectified, a person is denied agency. Sexual objectification is where a person is viewed primarily in terms of sexual appeal or as a source of sexual gratification. This is sometimes regarded as a form of sexism. has identified the seven features of treating a human as an object as the following: - instrumentality: treating the object as a tool for the objectifier's purposes - denial of autonomy: treating the object as lacking in autonomy and self-determination - inertness: treating the object as lacking in agency - fungibility: treating the object as interchangeable with other objects - violability: treating the object as lacking in boundaries-integrity - ownership: treating the object as something that is owned by another (can be bought or sold); - denial of subjectivity: treating the object as something whose experiences and feelings (if any) need not be taken into account. According to objectification theory objectification can have important repercussions on women, particularly young women, as it can lead to mental disorders (depression, eating disorders, etc.). While advertising used to portray women in obviously stereotypical roles (e.g., as a housewife), women in modern advertisements are no longer solely confined to the home. However, advertising today nonetheless still stereotypes women, albeit in more subtle ways, including by sexually objectifying them. This is problematic because there appears to be a relationship between the manner in which women are portrayed in advertising and people’s ideas about the role of women in society. Research has shown that gender role stereotyping in advertising is linked to negative attitudes towards women, as well as more acceptance of sexual aggression against women and rape myth acceptance. Furthermore, gender role stereotyping in advertisements may be injurious to women, as it is linked to negative body image and the development of eating disorders. Today, some countries (for example ) have laws against sexual objectification in advertising Nudity is not banned, and nude people can be used to advertise a product if they are relevant to the product advertised. Sol Olving, head of Norway's Kreativt Forum (an association of the country's top advertising agencies) explained, "You could have a naked person advertising shower gel or a cream, but not a woman in a bikini draped across a car". Other countries continue to ban nudity (on traditional obscenity grounds), but also make explicit reference to sexual objectification, such as 's ban of that "depicts sexual humiliation or abasement, or presents a human being as an object available for sexual use". argues that pornography contributes to sexism by objectifying women and portraying them in submissive roles. MacKinnon, along with Andrea Dworkin, argues that pornography reduces women to mere tools, and is a form of sex discrimination. The scholars highlight the link between objectification and pornography by stating: "We define pornography as the graphic sexually explicit subordination of women through pictures and words that also includes (i) women are presented dehumanized as sexual objects, things, or commodities; or (ii) women are presented as sexual objects who enjoy humiliation or pain; or (iii) women are presented as sexual objects experiencing sexual pleasure in rape, incest or other sexual assault; or (iv) women are presented as sexual objects tied up, cut up or mutilated or bruised or physically hurt; or (v) women are presented in postures or positions of sexual submission, servility, or display; or (vi) women's body parts—including but not limited to vaginas, breasts, or buttocks — are exhibited such that women are reduced to those parts; or (vii) women are presented being penetrated by objects or animals; or (viii) women are presented in scenarios of degradation, humiliation, injury, torture, shown as filthy or inferior, bleeding, bruised, or hurt in a context that makes these conditions sexual." and Catharine MacKinnon suggest that certain types of pornography also contribute to violence against women by eroticizing scenes in which women are dominated, coerced, humiliated or sexually assaulted Some people opposed to pornography, including MacKinnon, charge that the production of pornography entails physical, psychological and economic of the women who perform and model in it. Opponents of pornography charge that it presents a distorted image of sexual relations and reinforces sexual myths; it shows women as continually available and willing to engage in sex at any time, with any person, on their terms, responding positively to any requests. They write: Defenders of pornography and anti-censorship activists (including ) argue that pornography does not seriously impact a mentally healthy individual, since the viewer can distinguish between fantasy and reality. They contend that both sexes are objectified in pornography (particularly sadistic or masochistic pornography, in which men are objectified and sexually used by women). is the business or practice of engaging in sexual relations in exchange for payment Sex workers are often objectified and are seen as existing only to serve clients, thus calling their sense of agency into question. There is a prevailing notion that because they sell sex professionally, prostitutes automatically consent to all sexual contact. As a result, sex workers face higher rates of violence and sexual assault. This is often dismissed, ignored and not taken seriously by authorities. In many countries, prostitution is dominated by brothels or pimps, who often claim ownership over sex workers. This sense of ownership furthers the concept that sex workers are void of agency. This is literally the case in instances of sexual slavery Various authors have argued that female prostitution is based on male sexism that condones the idea that unwanted sex with a woman is acceptable, that men's desires must be satisfied, and that women are coerced into and exist to serve men sexually. The European Women's Lobby condemned prostitution as "an intolerable form of male violence". - "Prostitution is the use of a woman's body by a man for his own satisfaction. There is no desire or satisfaction on the part of the prostitute. Prostitution is not mutual, pleasurable exchange of the use of bodies, but the unilateral use of a woman's body by a man in exchange for money." Some scholars believe that media portrayals of demographic groups can both maintain and disrupt attitudes and behaviors toward those groups.[page needed][page needed] According to Susan Douglas, "Since the early 1990s, much of the media have come to overrepresent women as having made it-completely-in the professions, as having gained sexual equality with men, and having achieved a level of financial success and comfort enjoyed primarily by Tiffany's-encrusted doyennes of Laguna Beach." These images may be harmful, particularly to women and racial and ethnic minority groups. For example, a study of African American women found they feel that media portrayals of African American women often reinforce stereotypes of this group as overly sexual and idealize images of lighter-skinned, thinner African American women (images African American women describe as objectifying). In a recent analysis of images of Haitian women in the Associated Press photo archive from 1994 to 2009, several themes emerged emphasizing the "otherness" of Haitian women and characterizing them as victims in need of rescue. In an attempt to study the effect of media consumption on males, Samantha and Bridges found an effect on body shame, though not through self-objectification as it was found in comparable studies of women. The authors conclude that the current measures of objectification were designed for women and do not measure men accurately. Another study also found a negative effect on eating attitudes and body satisfaction of consumption of beauty and fitness magazines for women and men respectively, but again with different mechanisms, namely self-objectification for women and internalization for men. argues that sexist jokes can be a form of sexual objectification, which reduce the butt of the joke to an object. They not only objectify women or men, but can also condone violence or prejudice against men or women. "Sexist humor—the denigration of women through humor—for instance, trivializes sex discrimination under the veil of benign amusement, thus precluding challenges or opposition that nonhumorous sexist communication would likely incur." A study of 73 male undergraduate students by Ford found that "sexist humor can promote the behavioral expression of prejudice against women amongst sexist men". According to the study, when sexism is presented in a humorous manner it is viewed as tolerable and socially acceptable: "Disparagement of women through humor 'freed' sexist participants from having to conform to the more general and more restrictive norms regarding discrimination against women." Gender discrimination is discrimination on the basis of actual or perceived Gender identity is "the gender-related identity, appearance, or mannerisms or other gender-related characteristics of an individual, with or without regard to the individual's designated sex at birth." Gender discrimination is theoretically different from sexism. Whereas sexism is prejudice based on biological sex, gender discrimination specifically addresses discrimination towards identity based orientations, including third gender , and other non-binary identified people. Banning discrimination on the basis of gender identity and expression has emerged as a subject of contention in the American legal system. According to a recent report by the Congressional Research Service, "although the majority of federal courts to consider the issue have concluded that discrimination on the basis of gender identity is not sex discrimination, there have been several courts that have reached the opposite conclusion..." Hurst states, "Courts often confuse sex, gender and sexual orientation, and confuse them in a way that results in denying the rights not only of gays and lesbians, but also of those who do not present themselves or act in a manner traditionally expected of their sex." Transgender discrimination is discrimination towards peoples whose gender identity differs from the social expectations of the biological sex they were born with. Forms of discrimination include but are not limited to identity documents not reflecting one's gender, sex-segregated public restrooms and other facilities, dress codes according to binary gender codes, and lack of access to and existence of appropriate health care services. In a recent adjudication, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) concluded that discrimination against a transgendered individual is sex discrimination. The National Transgender Discrimination Survey, the most extensive survey of transgender discrimination, in collaboration with the National Black Justice Coalition recently showed that Black transgender people in the United States suffer "the combination of anti-transgender bias and persistent, structural and individual racism" and that "black transgender people live in extreme poverty that is more than twice the rate for transgender people of all races (15%), four times the general Black population rate 9% and over eight times the general US population rate (4%)". In another study conducted in collaboration with the League of United Latin American Citizens, Latino/a transgender people who were non-citizens were most vulnerable to harassment, abuse and violence. Sexism takes a number of forms, and is sometimes subtle or unconscious. Although the exact rates are widely disputed, there is a large body of cross-cultural evidence that women are subjected to domestic violence significantly more often than men. In addition, there is broad consensus that women are more often subjected to severe forms of abuse and are more likely to be injured by an abusive partner. The United Nations recognizes domestic violence as a form of gender-based violence , which it describes as a violation, and the result of sexism. Domestic violence is tolerated and even legally accepted in many parts of the world. For instance, in 2010, the United Arab Emirates (UAE)'s Supreme Court ruled that a man has the right to physically discipline his wife and children if he does not leave visible marks. In 2015, Equality Now drew attention a section of the Penal Code of Northern Nigeria, titled Correction of Child, Pupil, Servant or Wife which reads: "(1) Nothing is an offence which does not amount to the infliction of grievous hurt upon any persons which is done: (...) (d) by a husband for the purpose of correcting his wife, such husband and wife being subject to any native law or custom in which such correction is recognized as lawful." are another form of domestic violence practiced in several parts of the world, and their victims are predominately women. Honor killings can occur because of refusal to enter into an arranged marriage, maintaining a relationship relatives disapprove of, extramarital sex, becoming the victim of rape, dress seen as inappropriate, or homosexuality. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime states that, "Honour crimes, including killing, are one of history’s oldest forms of gender-based violence." According to a report of the Special Rapporteur submitted to the 58th session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights concerning cultural practices in the family that reflect violence against women: Practices such as honor killings and stoning continue to be supported by mainstream politicians and other officials in some countries. In Pakistan, after the 2008 Balochistan honour killings in which five women were killed by tribesmen of the Umrani Tribe , Pakistani Federal Minister for Postal Services Israr Ullah Zehri defended the practice: "These are centuries-old traditions, and I will continue to defend them. Only those who indulge in immoral acts should be afraid." Following the 2006 case of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani (which has placed Iran under international pressure for its stoning sentences), Mohammad-Javad Larijani (a senior envoy and chief of Iran’s Human Rights Council) defended the practice of stoning; he claimed it was a "lesser punishment" than execution , because it allowed those convicted a chance at survival. are the result of the killing women who are unable to pay the high dowry price for their marriage. According to Amnesty International, "the ongoing reality of dowry-related violence is an example of what can happen when women are treated as property." involves terminating a pregnancy based upon the predicted sex of the baby. The abortion of female fetuses is most common in areas where the culture values male children over females, such as parts of the China, India, Pakistan, Korea, Taiwan, and the Caucasus One reason for this preference is that males are seen as generating more income than females. The trend has grown steadily over the previous decade, and may result in a future shortage of women. Female genital mutilation (FGM), also known as female genital cutting and female circumcision, is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as "all procedures that involve partial or total removal of the external female genitalia, or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons". WHO states that, "The procedure has no health benefits for girls and women" and "[p]rocedures can cause severe bleeding and problems urinating, and later cysts, infections, infertility as well as complications in childbirth increased risk of newborn death" and "FGM is recognized internationally as a violation of the human rights of girls and women. It reflects deep-rooted inequality between the sexes , and constitutes an extreme form of discrimination against women". The European Parliament , in its resolution against FGM, stated that "FGM clearly goes against the European founding value of equality between women and men and maintains traditional values according to which women are seen as the objects and properties of men". According to a 2013 UNICEF report, 125 million women and girls in Africa and the Middle East have experienced FGM. The highest prevalence in Africa is documented in Somalia (98 percent of women affected), Guinea (96 percent), Djibouti (93 percent), Egypt (91 percent), Eritrea (89 percent), Mali (89 percent), Sierra Leone (88 percent), Sudan (88 percent), Gambia (76 percent), Burkina Faso (76 percent), Ethiopia (74 percent), Mauritania (69 percent), Liberia (66 percent), and Guinea-Bissau (50 percent). , the most extreme form of FGM, also known as Type III, consists in the removal of the inner and outer labia and closure of the vulva, with a small hole being left for the passage of urine and menstrual blood. Subsequently, the vagina is opened after the wedding for sexual intercourse and childbirth. This procedure is practiced primary in , in Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Sudan. Research by Lisak and Roth into factors motivating perpetrators of sexual assault, including rape, against women revealed a pattern of hatred towards women and pleasure in inflicting psychological and physical trauma, rather than sexual interest. Mary Odem and Peggy Reeves Sanday posit that rape is the result not of pathology but of systems of male dominance, cultural practices and beliefs. Mary Odem, Jody Clay-Warner, and argue that sexist attitudes are propagated by a series of myths about rape and rapists. They state that in contrast to those myths, rapists often plan a rape before they choose a victim and acquaintance rape (not assault by a stranger) is the most common form of rape.:xiv Odem also asserts that these rape myths propagate sexist attitudes about men, by perpetuating the belief that men cannot control their sexuality. and Jessica Valenti contend that in the US rape is most often popularly depicted (in the media, in public discourse, in movies etc.) as stranger-rape (with a stereotypical stranger who "jumps out of the bushes"), despite the fact that most rapes do not fit this stereotype. In presenting rape in this way to the public, patriarchal society ensures that women are kept under control, at home/indoors, living their life according to traditional gender roles and expectations, dressed 'modestly'. This leads to an ideology that women are safe at home (ignoring rape by family members/partners), and to blaming of victims Sexism can promote the stigmatization of women and girls who have been raped and inhibit recovery. In many parts of the world, women who have been raped are ostracized , rejected by their families, subjected to violence, and—in extreme cases—may become victims of because they are deemed to have brought shame upon their families. There is also a strong connection between rape and , through practices such as forcing of a woman or girl who has been raped to marry her rapist, in order to restore the honor of her family; or marriage by abduction , a practice in which a man abducts the woman or girl whom he wishes to marry and rapes her, in order to force the marriage (common in The criminalization of marital rape is very recent, having occurred during the past few decades; and in many countries it is still legal. Several countries in Eastern Europe and Scandinavia made spousal rape illegal before 1970; other countries in Western Europe and the English-speaking Western World outlawed it later, mostly in the 1980s and 1990s. In some parts of the world the lack of criminalization of marital rape coupled with the practice of child marriage leads to serious forms of child sexual abuse being legitimized. The WHO wrote that: "Marriage is often used to legitimize a range of forms of sexual violence against women. The custom of marrying off young children, particularly girls, is found in many parts of the world. This practice—legal in many countries—is a form of sexual violence, since the children involved are unable to give or withhold their consent". In countries where are illegal, victims of rape can be charged under these laws (even if the victims succeed in proving their rape case, they can still be charged with a criminal offense if the court finds they were not virgins at the time of the assault—if they were unmarried). Sexism is manifested by the crime of rape targeting women civilians and soldiers, committed by soldiers, combatants or civilians during armed conflict, war or military occupation. This arises from the long tradition of women being seen as sexual booty and from the misogynistic culture of military training. Sexual violence and rape are also committed against men during war and are often under-reported. Sexism plays a significant part in the difficulty that the survivors face coping with their victimization, especially in patriarchal cultures, and in the lack of support provided to men who have been raped. United Nations Population Fund writes that "Family planning is central to gender equality and women’s empowerment". Women in many countries around the world are denied medical and informational services related to reproductive health , including access to pregnancy care, family planning, and contraception. In countries with very strict abortion laws (particularly in Latin America ) women who suffer are often investigated by the police under suspicion of having deliberately provoked the miscarriage, and are sometimes jailed, a practice which Amnesty International called a "ruthless campaign against women's rights". Doctors may be reluctant to treat pregnant women who are very ill, because they are afraid the treatment may result in fetal loss. According to Amnesty Intentional, "Discriminatory attitudes towards women and girls also means access to sex education and contraceptives are near impossible [in El Salvador]". The organization has also criticized laws and policies which require the husband's consent for a woman to use reproductive health services as being discriminatory and dangerous to women's health and life: "[F]or the woman who needs her husband’s consent to get contraception, the consequences of discrimination can be serious – even fatal". A child marriage is a marriage where one or both spouses are under 18, and disproportionally affects women. Child marriages are most common in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa , but occur in other parts of the world, too. The practice of marrying young girls is rooted in patriarchal ideologies of control of female behavior, and is also sustained by traditional practices such as and bride price Child marriage is strongly connected with the protection of female virginity UNICEF states that: - "Marrying girls under 18 years old is rooted in gender discrimination, encouraging premature and continuous child bearing and giving preference to boys' education. Child marriage is also a strategy for economic survival as families marry off their daughters at an early age to reduce their economic burden." countries the legal testimony of a woman is worth legally half of that of a man (see Status of women's testimony in Islam ). Such countries include: Algeria (in criminal cases), Bahrain (in Sharia courts), Egypt (in family courts), Iran (in most cases), Iraq (in some cases), Jordan (in Sharia courts), Kuwait (in family courts), Libya (in some cases), Morocco (in family cases), Palestine (in cases related to marriage, divorce and child custody), Qatar (in family law matters), Syria (in Sharia courts), United Arab Emirates (in some civil matters), Yemen (not allowed to testify at all in cases of adultery and retribution), and Saudi Arabia. Such laws have been criticized by Human Rights Watch and Equality Now as being discriminatory towards women. The criminal justice system in many common law countries has also been accused of discriminating against women. Provocation is, in many common law countries, a partial defense to murder , which converts what would have been murder into . It is meant to be applied when a person kills in the "heat of passion" upon being "provoked" by the behavior of the victim. This defense has been criticized as being gendered, favoring men, due to it being used disproportionately in cases of , and other domestic disputes when women are killed by their partners. As a result of the defense exhibiting a strong gender bias, and being a form of legitimization of male violence against women and minimization of the harm caused by violence against women, it has been abolished or restricted in several jurisdictions. The traditional leniently towards crimes of passion in Latin American countries has been deemed to have its origin in the view that women are property. In 2002, Widney Brown, advocacy director for Human Rights Watch, stated that, "[S]o-called crimes of passion have a similar dynamic [to honor killings] in that the women are killed by male family members and the crimes are perceived as excusable or understandable." has called for "the elimination of discriminatory provisions in the legislation, including mitigating factors for “crimes of passion”." In the United States, some studies have shown that for identical crimes, men are given harsher sentences than women. Controlling for arrest offense, criminal history and other pre-charge variables, sentences are over 60 percent heavier for men. Women are more likely to avoid charges entirely, and to avoid imprisonment if convicted. The gender disparity varies according to the nature of the case. For example, the gender gap is less pronounced in fraud cases than in drug trafficking and firearms. This disparity occurs in US federal courts, despite guidelines designed to avoid differential sentencing. The death penalty in may also suffer from gender bias. According to Shatz and Shatz, "The present study confirms what earlier studies have shown: that the death penalty is imposed on women relatively infrequently and that it is disproportionately imposed for the killing of women." There have been several reasons postulated for the gender criminal justice disparity in the United States. One of the most common is expectation that women are predominately care-givers. Other possible reasons include the "girlfriend theory" (whereby women are seen as tools of their boyfriends), the theory that female defendants are more likely to cooperate with authorities, and that women are often successful at turning their violent crime into victimhood by citing defenses such as postpartum depression or battered wife syndrome However, none of these theories account for the total disparity, and sexism has also been suggested as an underlying cause. Transgender people face widespread discrimination while incarcerated. They are generally housed according to their legal birth sex, rather than their . Studies have shown that transgender people are at an increased risk for harassment and sexual assault in this environment. They may also be denied access to medical procedures related to their reassignment. Some countries use as a form of capital punishment. According to Amnesty International , the majority of those stoned are women and women are disproportionately affected by stoning because of sexism in the legal system. Women have traditionally had limited access to higher education. In the past, when women were admitted to higher education, they were encouraged to major in less-scientific subjects; the study of English literature in American and British colleges and universities was instituted as a field considered suitable to women's "lesser intellects". Educational specialties in higher education produce and perpetuate inequality between men and women. Disparity persists particularly in computer and information science , where in the US women received only 21 percent of the undergraduate degrees, and in engineering, where women obtained only 19 percent of the degrees in 2008. Only one out of five of physics doctorates in the US are awarded to women, and only about half of those women are American. Of all the physics professors in the country, only 14 percent are women. World literacy is lower for females than for males. Data from CIA World Factbook shows that 79.7 percent of women are literate, compared to 88.6 percent of men (aged 15 and over). In some parts of the world, girls continue to be excluded from proper public or private education. In parts of Afghanistan, girls who go to school face serious violence from some local community members and religious groups. According to 2010 UN estimates, only Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen had less than 90 girls per 100 boys at school. Jayachandran and Lleras-Muney's study of Sri Lankan economic development has suggested that increases in the life expectancy for women encourages educational investment because a longer time horizon increases the value of investments that pay out over time. Educational opportunities and outcomes for women have greatly improved in the West. Since 1991, the proportion of women enrolled in college in the United States has exceeded the enrollment rate for men, and the gap has widened over time. As of 2007, women made up the majority—54 percent—of the 10.8 million college students enrolled in the United States. However, research by Diane Halpern has indicated that boys receive more attention, praise, blame and punishment in the grammar-school classroom, and "this pattern of more active teacher attention directed at male students continues at the postsecondary level". Over time, female students speak less in a classroom setting. Writer Gerry Garibaldi has argued that the educational system has become "feminized", allowing girls more of a chance at success with a more "girl-friendly" environment in the classroom; this is seen to hinder boys by punishing "masculine" behavior and diagnosing boys with behavioral disorders A recent study by the OECD in over 60 countries found that teachers give boys lower grades for the same work. The researchers attribute this to stereotypical ideas about boys and recommend teachers to be aware of this gender bias. Feminists argue that some fashion trends have been oppressive to women; they restrict women's movements, increase their vulnerability and endanger their health. The fashion industry has experienced various criticism, as their association of thin-models and beauty is seen as encouraging bulimia and anorexia nervosa within women, as well as locking female consumers into false feminine identities. The assignment of gender specific baby clothes from young ages can be seen as sexist as it can instill in children from young ages a belief in negative gender stereotypes. An example of this is the assignment in some countries of the color pink to girls and blue to boys. This fashion, however, is a recent one; at the beginning of the 20th century the trend was the opposite: blue for girls and pink for boys. In the early 1900s, The Women's Journal wrote, "That pink being a more decided and stronger colour, is more suitable for the boy, while blue, which is more delicate and dainty, is prettier for the girl." DressMaker magazine also explained, "The preferred colour to dress young boys in is pink. Blue is reserved for girls as it is considered paler, and the more dainty of the two colours, and pink is thought to be stronger (akin to red)." Today, in most countries, it is considered inappropriate for boys to wear dresses and skirts, but this, again, is a modern worldview. From the mid-16th century until the late 19th or early 20th century, young boys in the Western world and wore gowns or dresses until an age that varied between two and eight. Laws that dictate how women must dress are seen by many international human rights organizations, such as , as a form of gender discrimination. Amnesty International states that: - "Interpretations of religion, culture or tradition cannot justify imposing rules about dress on those who choose to dress differently. States should take measures to protect individuals from being coerced to dress in specific ways by family members, community or religious groups or leaders." In many places, women who do not dress in socially and legally proscribed ways are often subjected to violence (for instance by the authorities, such as the , by family members, or by the community). , or compulsory military service, has been criticized as sexist.:102 Prior to the late 20th century, only men were subjected to conscription,:255 and most countries still require only men to serve in the military. In his book The Second Sexism: Discrimination Against Men and Boys (2012), philosopher David Benatar states that "[t]he prevailing assumption is that where conscription is necessary, it is only men who should be conscripted and, similarly, that only males should be forced into combat". This, he believes, "is a sexist assumption".:102 Anthropologist Ayse Gül Altinay has commented that "given equal suffrage rights, there is no other citizenship practice that differentiates as radically between men and women as compulsory male conscription.":34 Currently, only nine countries conscript women into their armed forces: China, Eritrea, Israel, Libya, Malaysia, North Korea, Norway, Peru and Taiwan. Other countries—such as Finland —still use a system of conscription which requires military service from only men, although women are permitted to serve voluntarily. In 2014, Norway became the first country to introduce obligatory military service for women as an act of gender equality. 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From Eric Marcus: When I wrote the original 1992 edition of Making Gay History (which was then called Making History), my oral history book about the LGBTQ civil rights movement, I devoted just one paragraph to Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld’s work in the opening to the first chapter: “More than four decades before World War II, the first organization for homosexuals was founded in Germany. The goals of the Scientific Humanitarian Committee, as the organization was called, included the abolition of Germany’s anti-gay penal code, the promotion of public education about homosexuality, and the encouragement of homosexuals to take up the struggle for their rights. The rise of the Nazis put an end to the Scientific Humanitarian Committee and the homosexual rights movement in Germany.” And that was it. Not even a mention of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld himself or his sexuality institute, which he founded in 1919. Considering that the focus of my book was the gay rights movement in the United States, that’s not so surprising. But given what I’ve come to learn about Dr. Hirschfeld and his pioneering work, as well as his influence on the founding of the movement here in the U.S., I’m sorry I didn’t at least include his name! So as you can hear in this episode of Making Gay History, three decades after I first started conducting interviews for my book, Sara Burningham, Making Gay History’s executive producer, and I took a deep dive into the life of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld. That included traveling to Berlin in May 2018 for the huge celebration in honor of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Magnus Hirschfeld, interviews with Magnus Hirschfeld experts, an interview with a Canadian pack rat/citizen archivist who saved a suitcase full of long-lost Magnus Hirschfeld belongings, and a reenactment of Hirschfeld’s 1918 silent film, Different from the Others. If reenacting a silent film in a podcast sounds like an impossible task, well, Sara Burningham figured out how to do it brilliantly. As we traced the threads of history back in time, I came to discover that one of the threads of Magnus Hirschfeld’s history came back to the present day and had a direct connection to our Making Gay History family. Here’s the story. Before I left for Berlin, I found out that our photo editor, Michael Green (who also happened to be the original publicist on the Making History book back in 1992), was going to be in Berlin with his partner, Ilan Meyer, too. Ilan was heading to Berlin for a family reunion. It wasn’t until Michael and I were having lunch after our tour of the Schwules Museum and we were waiting for Ilan to join us that I discovered the reunion Ilan was attending was for Magnus Hirschfeld’s family, which had been decimated during the Holocaust and the survivors scattered across the globe. Turns out Ilan, who grew up in Israel, is a cousin of Magnus Hirschfeld. In the photo below you can see Ilan on the left, his cousin Ruth Gabrielle Cohen, who is Magnus Hirschfeld’s niece, and Michael Green on the right. They’re standing against the back of the Hirschfeld monument in the Charlottenburg neighborhood of Berlin where there had just been a wreath-laying ceremony. One of the things I love about following the threads of history is that you never know where they’ll lead you. To learn more about Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, a true hero of the LGBTQ civil rights movement, have a look at the information, links, photos, and episode transcript that follow below. On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld’s birth in May 2018, Gay City News published this overview of his life and work. To learn more about Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, check out Ralf Dose’s biography Magnus Hirschfeld: The Origins of the Gay Liberation Movement. While no recordings of Hirschfeld’s voice remain, here is a silent video snippet of Hirschfeld at work. The NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project has an entry for Magnus Hirschfeld’s trip to New York City in 1930 when he stayed at the New Yorker Hotel at the start of a three-month lecture tour of the U.S. Have a look at several photos and images related to that trip. Find out more about the Eulenburg Affair, which kept Germany spellbound from 1907 to 1909, here. Hirschfeld’s involvement as a court-appointed expert in the Eulenburg Affair drew the attention of cabaret singer Otto Reutter, whose “Das Hirschfeld-Lied” you can hear in its entirety here. Another prominent trial the episode mentions is that of Oscar Wilde—a trial that was the subject of the film The Trials of Oscar Wilde, starring Peter Finch as the playwright. You can watch the whole film here. You can also learn about the life and work of Oscar Wilde on the official Oscar Wilde website. For an account of the birth of the gay rights movement in Germany, read Alex Ross’s “Berlin Story” in the New Yorker. Learn more about the vibrant gay scene in Berlin during the Weimar years in Terry Gross’s Fresh Air interview on NPR with Robert Beachy, author of Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity. You can hear the era’s gay anthem “Das lila Lied” (“The Lavender Song”), as sung by Marek Weber, here. Go here for the lyrics and background information. Adam Smith, the Canadian man who found Li Shiu Tong’s suitcase with, among other things, Hirschfeld’s death mask, recorded the moment when Ralf Dose of the Magnus-Hirschfeld-Gesellschaft first laid eyes on the treasure at Smith’s Vancouver apartment. You can watch clips of the video here. Eric Marcus Narration: I’m Eric Marcus and this is Making Gay History. If you’ve listened to our first three seasons, you know what to expect from a Making Gay History episode: we explore LGBTQ history guided by the voices of the people who lived it. I’m afraid that’s not going to be possible this week. You see, I’d like to share with you the story of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, the founder of the world’s first gay rights movement, who, more than a century ago, put his life on the line to stand up for LGBTQ people. Hirschfeld said, “Soon the day will come when science will win victory over error, justice a victory over injustice, and human love a victory over human hatred and ignorance.” And the reason I read that quote aloud rather than just playing you archival tape is because all recordings of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld’s voice have been lost. But by following his words, and his work, we’re going to tell you his story. This past spring, I traveled to Germany. I hoped to track down some little-known pieces of LGBTQ history—at least little known to me—and to meet some of the history detectives working to reconstruct a scattered legacy. So here’s the scene. Berlin, May 2018. I’m in Charlottenburg, an upscale neighborhood in the western part of the city. I’m with a group of scholars, researchers, and relatives of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld. We’ve come together to honor the 150th anniversary of his birth. Here, in front of where Hirschfeld once lived, a monument now stands. It’s a bronze pillar, topped with Magnus Hirschfeld’s unmistakeable face—bespectacled, with a bushy moustache. More reminiscent of a favorite uncle than a dangerous radical. But make no mistake. Hirschfeld’s life and work were revolutionary. Ralf Dose, historian and director of the Magnus Hirschfeld Society, steps forward and lays a wreath at the foot of the monument. Magnus Hirschfeld was born in 1868 into a Jewish family in a town in the Prussian Empire that’s now part of Poland. He studied to become a physician and eventually moved to Berlin. When news of Oscar Wilde’s trial and imprisonment reached Germany, Hirschfeld was outraged. This was part of what inspired him to blaze a trail as a pioneering sexologist and gay rights champion. In 1897, when he was 29 years old, he founded the, uh… I’m gonna need some help with my German here… Daniel Baranowski: Wissenschaftlich-humanitäres Komitee… EM Narration: …or, as it’s known in English, the “Scientific Humanitarian Committee.” And that’s where it all began. The first gay rights movement in the world. Hirschfeld was gay, but closeted. That’s just how it was. At the time, homosexual acts between men were illegal under paragraph 175 of German law, punishable by imprisonment. Hirschfeld and his newly founded committee got to work, lobbying for paragraph 175 to be repealed. Dagmar Herzog: His aim is to decriminalize male homosexuality but also to combat anti-homosexual prejudice more generally. EM Narration: This is Dagmar Herzog, distinguished professor at the Graduate Center at the City University of New York, and best known for her work on the history of sexuality. Dagmar Herzog: So he runs a petition campaign, which gets thousands of signatures from prominent politicians, medical doctors, religious leaders. He also gives 3,000 public lectures to all manner of audiences. He starts a sexual medical journal in 1899 called “The Yearbook for Sexual Intermediaries,” which is highly respected among medical doctors. EM Narration: Establishing himself as an expert on sexuality, frequently giving evidence in court, Hirschfeld argued that homosexuality was inborn, natural, and should not be punished. Here’s Rainer Herrn, a senior lecturer specializing in the history of sexology. He’s spent the last 30 years researching the work of Magnus Hirschfeld. Rainer Herrn: He used his function as an expert widely, and he really, he was so clever in doing that, his enemies they raving mad because the courts believed Hirschfeld. EM Narration: Hirschfeld’s fame as an expert turned to notoriety when he was drawn into Germany’s biggest gay scandal. The Emperor Wilhelm II’s closest confidant was accused of having an affair with a high-ranking general, sparking a scandal with wide-reaching political implications that set the stage for the first World War. Known as the Eulenburg Affair, it sprawled over three years of courts-martial, libel trials, suicides, blackmail, and imperial intrigue. Kevin Clarke: For three years it was discussed in the German newspapers whether homosexuality is dangerous, whether it’s natural, whether it should be punished, how it affected the emperor, and so this went back and forth and back and forth… EM Narration: Dr. Kevin Clarke of Berlin’s Schwules Museum, which roughly translates to the “Fag Museum”… Kevin Clarke: And Hirschfeld was called as a witness, or as an expert, to talk about this, but because he became so famous because of those statements, one of the big cabaretiers, you know, pop singers, of the time wrote the “Hirschfeld Lied,” the “Hirschfeld Song”… The “Hirschfeld Lied,” and it’s by Otto Reutter, he’s a very famous singer in that time… “Watch out, Hirschfeld’s coming, and he will see homosexuality everywhere. So beforehand you had two dogs just walking down the road, but now, you know, when they sniff each other’s butts, they have to watch out, because when Hirschfeld comes, he’ll say, ‘Oh, they’re perverts.’” “Two men who were just, you know, supposedly regular friends, who like to hug each other, and go out together, and have fun, but now, you know, when Hirschfeld comes around the corner, they immediately start kissing their girlfriends or wives just to erase all possible evidence that they could be gay.” It’s quite a funny lyric and very typical of course for its time. EM Narration: But the times were changing. After the First World War, the liberal atmosphere of the Weimar Republic ushered in an era of relative freedom in Berlin. By 1919, Hirschfeld had met one of the loves of his life, Karl Giese, and had helped create the world’s first film dealing with homosexuality. EM Narration: I’m going to need some help with my German again. The film was… Ralf Dose: Anders als die Andern… EM Narration: … or, in English, “Different from the Others.” And I’m going to need even more help, because Different from the Others was a silent movie. So, with a little help from Dagmar Herzog, Rainer Herrn, and Ralf Dose, here’s Different from the Others. Dagmar Herzog: It’s a love story between two musicians, two violinists, a teacher and a student. EM Narration: Different from the Others is a tragic gay love story—a trope that, by the way, Hollywood’s taken a hundred years to get over. Dagmar Herzog: In fact, the movie begins with the main character reading obituaries in the newspaper, which in veiled language are indicating that these were all men accused of homosexuality who had suicided, so that is the framing narrative. EM Narration: An aspiring musician and his talented concert violinist teacher fall in love. The relationship is discovered and the couple is blackmailed. Dagmar Herzog: Which was one of the major dramas in Berlin at that time. There were many male prostitutes who made their living by blackmailing adult men who were seeking homosexual acts. EM Narration: As the blackmail pressure mounts, the young musician flees, and the older violinist is heartbroken. The blackmailer is relentless. The violinist pays him off, but the blackmailer vows to report him to the police. When the blackmailer is arrested, he accuses the violinist under paragraph 175, and they both end up in court together. Dagmar Herzog: And in the midst of it all, Hirschfeld, who is the script writer for the movie, is also one of the characters in the movie. He is the good doctor who offers wonderfully affirming comments that same-sex love is a beautiful thing. EM Narration: Hirschfeld, appearing as himself as an expert witness, pleads in court on the violinist’s behalf. The violinist is convicted but given a light sentence—just a week in prison. But the scandal has ruined him. He is shunned and his concert tour is canceled. Inconsolable, he takes his own life. The young musician hears of his former lover’s death, and is devastated. He, too, contemplates killing himself. But Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld appears again. Rainer Herrn: And then Hirschfeld says, “Don’t do it, you have another task—you have to encourage future generations so they don’t suffer the same destiny as your lover did.” EM Narration: Hirschfeld says, “What matters now is to restore honor and justice to the many thousands before us, with us, and after us. Through knowledge to justice!” Rainer Herrn: In a way, it’s tragic, maybe you can say it’s kitschy, but at the end… EM: Magnus Hirschfeld sent a message to the future. Rainer Herrn: Yes. Yes, he did. EM: And his message was not destroyed. Rainer Herrn: No. EM Narration: Hirschfeld was the expert on homosexuality—and he was a gay man. But as Ralf Dose, director of the Magnus Hirschfeld Society, says, only one of those things was a public matter. Ralf Dose: So he himself never came out in a way we would expect that, to say “I am…” And so you never find in his publications the word, “I am a homosexual.” EM: Did he just live his life, then? Ralf Dose: He led his life, he lived together with his boyfriend, everyone knew, uh, if everyone wanted to know. EM: But it wasn’t spoken. Ralf Dose: It wasn’t spoken. EM Narration: That tentative openness was a feature of gay life in Berlin at the time. While homosexuality remained illegal, dozens of gay clubs were open and thriving. In 1920, Kurt Schwabach and Mischa Spoliansky wrote “The Lavender Song,” or “Das lila Lied.” Here’s Marek Weber’s recording of it. He’s singing, “We are just different from the others who are being loved only in lockstep of morality.” The song became a gay anthem and was performed in the cabaret clubs around Berlin. Dagmar Herzog again… Dagmar Herzog: And it’s a city that sort of celebrates every possible predilection. I mean, the crucial thing about Berlin in the Weimar years is not the pervasiveness of people who are comfortable with their homosexuality and acting on it; it’s the visibility, it’s the proud visibility, and the glamor and the fun of it. And that already triggers conservative responses, even before the Nazis come to power, of two varieties: Christian-conservative, on the one hand, and right-wing thuggish Nazi, on the other. EM Narration: While the backlash built in the background, in the middle of gay Berlin—literally the middle—Hirschfeld’s institute opened its doors in 1919, on the edge of Berlin’s Central Park. Dagmar Herzog: You have to imagine this building. It’s this gorgeous villa on the northern edge of the Tiergarten Park. And the Tiergarten Park also had cruising areas for gay men, so there’s kind of a logic to that location, but it’s also just this incredibly sumptuous place. The whole complex ends up having about 50 rooms. I mean, it’s a huge thing. There’s a library with, I don’t know, by the end 20,000 volumes. There’s an archive, 35,000 photographs of every imaginable sexual predilection and possible way of being in gender expression terms. There’s an enormous amount of information about sexuality being collected there. There’s a lecture hall. There’s a question box, where people can go and put their little questions. And it turns out that he was also a huge resource for heterosexuals. In fact, the majority of the questions end up being about contraception. And he was a major advocate for premarital heterosexuality as completely morally okay. He was their, he was an advocate for a morality of consent—you know, the idea that consent is sexy was his concept already then. He was an advocate for the idea that the state should get out of the private business of the bedroom. And he defended everybody’s sexual rights. And he advocated contraception. So all those things made him a real magnet for people who were interested in having happier sex lives. EM Narration: Hirschfeld’s institute was also a magnet for visits from people such as Christopher Isherwood, W.H. Auden, and Lili Elbe, the trans woman who was immortalized in the film The Danish Girl. Dagmar Herzog: So what we would now call gender alignment or gender confirmation surgery—some of the very earliest surgeries of that kind were conducted in Hirschfeld’s institute. He didn’t do the cutting himself, or the sewing, but he had doctors there doing it, and from 1920 on. EM: But Hirschfeld’s profile and his beliefs made him a prime target. Dagmar Herzog: He is the preferred hate object for the right wing and especially then for the Nazis. He is constantly reading slander. You know, you think you’re dealing with aggression on the Internet now, but, I mean, every morning he woke up and there was nasty, crappy, disgusting, anti-semitic stuff, above all, being said against him. And, you know, 1920, he’s at a lecture in Munich, and right-wing thugs beat him up and leave him for dead on the street. He’s bleeding. And then he’s reading his obituary the next morning. And luckily he’s still alive, but then there are many right-wing venues that say, “Oh, we’re really sorry that this poisoner of the Volk hasn’t died already.” EM Narration: Despite the threats, the violence, and the slander, Hirschfeld persisted. Through the 1920s, his institute grew, and in the late 1920s Hirschfeld organized the first of several international congresses for sexual reform. The speakers were a laundry list of leaders in the nascent gay rights movements, the fight for women’s rights, and sexual science. In 1931, while Dr. Hirschfeld was on a tour of the U.S., the Hearst newspaper chain nicknamed him “the Einstein of Sex.” The Nazis set their sights on Hirschfeld early in their reign of terror. He posed a triple threat as a gay, Jewish socialist. As far back as 1920, Hitler had singled out Hirschfeld, calling him “Jewish swine.” When the Nazis swept to power in 1933, Hirschfeld’s library at the Institute for Sexual Science was their first target for book burnings. On the night of May 6, Nazi youth ransacked the institute—most of the contents of the institute were destroyed or stolen, and thousands of books were seized. Four nights later, stacks of volumes from Hirschfeld’s library went up in flames on the Opernplatz. The bust of Hirschfeld that had greeted visitors to the institute was tossed on the fire, too. But Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld wasn’t in Berlin. He was in Paris, where a few days later he watched his life’s work reduced to ashes. Ralf Dose: He writes that he saw the destruction of the institute with his own eyes on a newsreel in Paris. EM Narration: By this time, Dr. Hirschfeld had been living out of suitcases for years. He had left Germany for a world tour in 1930. Along the way, he’d met the second love of his life, Li Shiu Tong, and for a while, the three of them—Li, Karl Giese, and Dr. Hirschfeld—lived together in a grand apartment on the Avenue Charles Floquet in Paris. But Dr. Hirschfeld’s health was fading, and in 1934 he moved to the sunnier, warmer climes of Nice. The following March, Hirschfeld named his two lovers, Li Shiu Tong and Karl Giese, as his sole heirs. On May 14, 1935, Dr. Hirschfeld spent the morning with a friend and his great-nephew. It was his 67th birthday. They opened birthday letters together, then went for a walk and had lunch. Upon their return, Hirschfeld collapsed in the doorway to his apartment building. They somehow managed to carry him up the stairs to his apartment on the third floor, where he died. Dagmar Herzog again… Dagmar Herzog: It’s pretty clear that he dies of a heart attack, but you could say of a broken heart. EM Narration: It had been two years since the Nazis destroyed his institute. Daniel Baranowski: It actually took some time, um, at least 20 to 30 years after the Second World War, that people began to commemorate Magnus Hirschfeld. He was completely forgotten. EM Narration: Dr. Daniel Baranowski is from the Magnus Hirschfeld Federal Foundation, an anti-discrimination organization founded by the German government. Daniel Baranowski: The very good thing that the Magnus-Hirschfeld-Gesellschaft, the Magnus Hirschfeld Society, did is that they begin, at the end of the 1970s, to do research on him and collect materials, archival materials. Ralf Dose: When we started our work, everyone said, “Well, that will be in vain. There’s nothing left, the Nazis destroyed everything, everything was burned. There’s no one left who can tell you anything.” And, well, that turned out to be wrong. EM Narration: That’s Ralf Dose again, the director of the Magnus Hirschfeld Society. He’s devoted almost 50 years to researching Hirschfeld’s life and work. Ralf and his colleagues have worked tirelessly to find the scattered remnants of Hirschfeld’s legacy, some of which was lost forever following the suicide of Karl Giese in 1938, and the subsequent deportation and murder of his heir by the Nazis. For Ralf Dose, this detective work has included early mornings, late night Internet sessions—messages that travel through time—and the serendipity of a Canadian pack rat who stumbled upon history at the bottom of a garbage chute. That self-described pack rat is Adam Smith, of Vancouver, British Columbia. Adam Smith: I had a rather unusual job at the building I used to live in. It was my responsibility to drive a dumpster from the bottom of a parking garage out to the back of the building every week. So one day I open the door, and I walk into this small airless, windowless room with a garbage dumpster in it, and I find a collection of leather suitcases. Beautiful old leather suitcases. And then I opened up one suitcase. And amongst the other things in it was a leather box. I lifted the lid and saw something I’d never seen before, but I knew exactly what it was the moment I looked at it. The mask felt smooth and cool, um, kind of everything you might image if you let your imagination run a little wild on the notion of a death mask. I didn’t know who Hirschfeld was, I had no idea who this person was, or why these things ended up in the basement of a parking garage in Vancouver, Canada. At the time I think the feeling that was overwhelming me was just curiosity more than anything else and this kind of a sense of distant drama. And I carried this one suitcase packed full of stuff with me to Toronto when I moved there, and it went into the storage room in Toronto, and it sat there for many, many years. Ralf Dose: One drunk night, when I was doing some research on the Internet, just searching for the name of Magnus Hirschfeld, and I pushed wrong buttons, and the result was that I got a, very oldest entry was on top, so that’s not the way you use the Internet normally. Adam Smith: So I think it was, I think it was 1993 and this is before the world wide web, but I was on the Internet at that point, and there was a thing called Usenet News, which was kind of a precursor to forums. So I posted a message saying, “I’m looking for information about Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld. Can anybody tell me who he is? I have some things that may be significant about him.” Ralf Dose: Then there was a name, signed by Adam Smith. At the end of that night I found an email that might lead to this person, and I sent a question to that address. Adam Smith: So one day, and I believe it was around 2003, I got an email from somebody in Germany, quoting my original post some—what is it?—10 years previous, saying, you know, “Are you Adam Smith? Did you post this to the Internet?” I replied back. Ralf Dose: Ten minutes later, I had an answer saying, “Yes, that was me. And everything you’re looking for is still sitting in my attic. I’ll send you photographs tomorrow.” I had a very sleepless night. And, actually, the funny thing was, the next day was my birthday, and I had invited some friends from the Hirschfeld Society, so I got the big birthday present just the night before. EM Narration: Ralf Dose flies to Canada a few months later to collect the suitcase. Sitting in Adam Smith’s Toronto living room, Ralf takes several deep breaths, and with eyes as wide as a five-year-old on Christmas morning, he hesitantly flicks open the latches, and lifts the lid. Unlike a five-year-old on Christmas morning, Ralf takes his time. He carefully picks up and examines the contents of the suitcase one by one, as though he can hardly believe they’re real—papers, notebooks, letters… And a leather box. He opens it. At last, Ralf Dose comes face to face with Magnus Hirschfeld, as he holds his death mask in his hands. The suitcase was one of several that had belonged to Li Shiu Tong. In the 48 years after Hirschfeld died, Li had carried his lover’s death mask, journals, books, papers, and last testament with him from France to Switzerland, to Hong Kong, and finally to Vancouver, Canada, where Li died in 1993. Li’s family had kept some of the books and papers, but tossed the rest. That’s how Adam Smith came across them in the suitcase when he was collecting the trash. Today, the suitcase is in the Hirschfeld Society’s office in Berlin. After decades of painstaking work, some of Hirschfeld’s scattered belongings came home. And last May, his far-flung family—also decimated and scattered by the Nazis—came together in Berlin as well. That’s Vivian Kanner singing at the closing of a huge celebration I attended last May at Berlin’s House of World Cultures auditorium, which is just steps away from where Magnus Hirschfeld’s institute once stood. Hirschfeld’s relatives from Australia, the U.S., and Israel were among those singing along to this popular German birthday song on what would have been Uncle Magnus’s 150th birthday. I have to wonder what Dr. Hirschfeld would think about the current state of the movement he founded. So much of what he fought for has come to pass. But it took time. A long time. As Dagmar Herzog said to me: “Movements are made up of moments, and those moments can be spread over decades, even centuries.” Paragraph 175 wasn’t repealed until 1994, same-sex marriage only became legal in Germany in 2017. As Hirschfeld witnessed, progress is not guaranteed. The backlash can be swift and brutal. The battle for justice that Hirschfeld waged—that we are fighting now—has been fought before, and will be fought again and again. Our hard-won rights are not written in stone. But our resolve can be. Hirschfeld’s epitaph, etched into his headstone in Nice, repeats his guiding principle: “through science to justice.” Or perhaps: through radical social action, protest, organizing, and supporting communities of color, trans, and non-binary folk… to justice. Oh, and vote. That, too. Making Gay History is a team effort. Thank you to executive producer Sara Burningham and the rest of the Making Gay History crew: producer Josh Gwynn, production coordinator Inge De Taeye, social media producer Denio Lourenco, photo editor Michael Green, and our guardian angel, Jenna Weiss-Berman. A special thank-you to our Berlin-based producer, Shane Thomas McMillan, and to Adam Smith for generously sharing with us his photos of the items in the suitcase, and the video he took of Ralf opening it, and most of all, for rescuing that piece of our history from the dumpster. You can see Adam Smith’s photos and video on our website. Our theme music, and this episode’s specially commissioned Making Gay History rag were composed by Fritz Meyers. The Making Gay History podcast is a co-production of Pineapple Street Media, with assistance from the New York Public Library’s Manuscripts and Archives Division and ONE Archives at the USC Libraries. Season four of this podcast has been made possible with funding from the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Calamus Foundation, and our listeners, including a generous gift from Andra and Irwin Press. If you like what you’ve heard, tell your friends or give us a shout-out on social media. 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One New Way To Retain Diversity & Inclusion Momentum During The Coronavirus Pandemic Diversity and inclusion events across the U.S. and around the world have been canceled due to the coronavirus. Conferences that have taken months to plan, networking events that bring people and ideas together, and training and team-building opportunities–the bedrock of forward momentum–all canceled. But what if all these events could still take place from the comfort of self-isolation? Now they can. In response to the pandemic, Diversity Stars and DEI Media built an always-on, 3D immersive, collaborative event campus that fosters community engagement and togetherness. Diversity and inclusion professionals from around the world are invited to learn more.Today In: Diversity & Inclusion - The Case For Critical Thinking: The COVID-19 Pandemic And An Urgent Call To Close The Critical Thinking Gap In Education - How To Be An Ally To Transgender And Non-Binary People - Managing Your Mental Health Amidst COVID-19: A Conversation With Licensed Therapist Marline Francois-Madden “We decided to pivot our business strategy to provide a safe and engaging environment that cultivates innovation in the fields of diversity, equity and inclusion,” says Christian Monk, co-founder and chief marketing officer, Diversity Stars. “The virtual diversity campus fosters community engagement, togetherness and presence. For example, our team suites allow Chief Diversity Officers the opportunity to engage their global teams in an unprecedented manner.” The virtual diversity, equity and inclusion campus is professionally designed and offers easy navigation for any level user. Facilities include boardrooms, classrooms, team suites, a conference hall, theater and an auditorium that can accommodate up to 1,000 participants or be made smaller as needed. Facilitators can upload their presentations to be projected on the virtual screens and even have pointers they can use to highlight specific points. Facilitator controls are intuitive and easy-to-use, allowing for real-time training, question and answer sessions and break-out groups.

Yesterday the University of Otago seized thousands of copies of its own students’ association’s magazine. The editor of Critic Te Arohi, Joel MacManus, talks through the genesis of the menstruation issue – and yesterday’s extraordinary events. Two months ago, the Otago Women’s+ Club approached me about the idea to do a menstruation themed issue of Critic to tie into Period Week, an event they were organising. Their goal was to start an open discourse and encourage people to treat periods not as a taboo but as a bodily function. Seems ironic now. I initially wasn’t too keen on the idea. I wasn’t sure there would be enough quality content to justify an entire themed issue. My backup plan was to try to negotiate them down to just a cover story. As it turned out, my worries were warrantless. The news team came through with stories about a scheme to provide discounted menstrual cups to students, and proved that the University of Otago had falsely claimed that there were sanitary disposal bins available in every female cubicle on campus when that wasn’t anywhere near the truth. The features team wrote pieces disproving common period myths, investigated all the places on campus you can find free sanitary products, and wrote a guide to ‘sexing it up in shark week’. Eighteen of our readers shared their best/worst period stories. Chief Reporter Esme Hall wrote a guest editorial titled ‘Talking about periods is a very good thing,’ which kind of summed up the whole point of the issue. Some of the stories touched on the idea that trans men also get periods, and so throughout the issue we refrained from referring to periods as something that only women get, choosing to use gender-inclusive terms instead. Saskia Rushton-Green, a freelance illustrator, designed the cover with this in mind, depicting a deliberately gender-neutral person menstruating. “The image shows how people who bleed are pulling through with a smile and a thumbs up, even when they feel really gross,” she said. “I certainly never intended this piece to be degrading to women/anyone who bleeds from their vagina, in fact I hope some people find it empowering. I bleed for about a third of my life and it’s not glamorous. I’d love to live in a world where if someone bleeds through their pants a little by no fault of their own, someone tells them, nobody gives a shit, and that person goes and sorts it out, but we’re not there yet. There’s a lot of underlying judgement around it that makes bleeding more stressful than it needs to be.” We printed 4,500 copies, and on Sunday evening, the Menstruation Issue of Critic was distributed to stands around campus. On Monday, the pick up was going well. I personally went through the Central Library and restocked stands twice. It was definitely a cover that got people’s attention. It was feeling like a good week. At around 7pm I checked on a stand in a lecture theatre where the pickup is usually quite slow, but to my surprise it was totally empty. I checked three other leacture theatres, all empty. It was clear someone had come through and wiped them out. By yesterday morning it became clear that it was every single stand in every single building on campus. Someone really didn’t want the issue out there. We were missing around 2000 copies and had no idea who had taken them. It honestly felt like a kick to the guts. We’d worked our asses off making this issue and it was something I was incredibly proud of. And we had just lost half our readers, who now wouldn’t be able to get their hands on it. The staff threw a bunch of theories around – was it a religious group, an anti-trans activist, or a lone wolf trying to cover up a story? It was such a big effort that it clearly required a team of people, and presumably a vehicle to carry hundreds of copies in. We never considered the University. Firstly, they always come to us or to OUSA whenever they have an issue. And secondly, I got an email around noon Tuesday (17 hours after the copies were taken) from Vice Chancellor Harlene Hayne which said “I did want to let you know that this week’s issue of the Critic is particularly good.” I emailed Property Services, who “categorically” said it wasn’t them. They pointed me to Campus Watch, who they said might have CCTV footage. At least six stands, and probably more, were directly in the line of sight of cameras, so I went to the Campus Watch office and filled out a form. They said they would look into it. It was at this point that I posted on the Critic Facebook page that the copies had been taken, expressed how disheartened we were, and asked anyone who knew who was responsible to get in touch. Stuff, Newshub and the Otago Daily Times called me and wrote stories about the mystery of the missing issues. They all reached out to the University for comment. At 6pm the University sent out a press release in response to the requests which said that Campus Watch had been instructed to remove every issue and throw them in a skip, because the cover was “objectionable” and children might see it. Hi there. Here is the statement from the University that has not been published in full in other media regarding the removal of the magazine. pic.twitter.com/ZHDer4ggZH — University of Otago (@otago) May 22, 2018 This was the first we had been told of any problem with the issue. We found out in the same way and at the same time as the rest of the media. There was one part of the University’s statement that really pissed me off. “The University has no official view on the content of this week’s magazine. However, the University is aware that University staff members, and members of the public, have expressed an opinion that the cover of this issue was degrading to women.” I read that as a backhanded attack on our magazine and a personal insult to the integrity of our staff. The decision to do a menstruation issue was made after a suggestion by the Otago Womens+ Club, all the menstruation-related content was written by female or non-binary contributors, and the cover artwork (which was of a non-gendered person) was done by a woman. It seemed like nothing more than a shitty attempt to shift the blame after they fucked up. And they didn’t even have the integrity to put their own name to it. They were trying to attack us without officially attacking us. We have the right to print provocative covers, and we so do because they start conversations. Student media should be able to push boundaries. As one person on Twitter pointed out, this attempt at censorship turned out to be a free lesson in The Streisand Effect As of writing this, the PDF version of our magazine has been read 9000 times online. That’s about 8900 more than what we get on a typical week, and double our total print run, and there are copies on Trademe for $40 a pop. As Hermione Granger put it, “If she could have done one thing to make absolutely sure that every single person in this school will read your interview, it was banning it!” The Bulletin is The Spinoff’s acclaimed, free daily curated digest of all the most important stories from around New Zealand delivered directly to your inbox each morning. The Bulletin is The Spinoff’s acclaimed daily digest of New Zealand’s most important stories, delivered directly to your inbox each morning.

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Okay, so, this is kind of embarrassing, right? I just found out about some stuff that’s going to happen in June that was announced by DC Comics a whopping three days before I published the first part of the Queers in Comics series — the last piece of which I just published yesterday. So, first of all — and this is pretty big — but the Justice League has a new member who is non-binary and has taken on the mantle of the Flash. Their name is Jess Chambers. Granted, they’re part of this Future State event that’s been going on which is surely an alternate future that will somehow be erased or avoided. But it’s still a big step in representation, especially for DC Comics. Also, this Flash has already jumping across alternate timelines and such, despite only appearing four times so far, so….there’s no reason they wouldn’t become a permanent feature of DC even when this event is over. DC Comics has real big plans for this coming Pride month — next month, actually. That includes a new anthology series called DC Pride (not to be confused with DC Pride the, y’know, Pride festival in Washington D.C.) which is going to feature LGBTQ+ characters from all over the DC Comics universe. This series is also going to feature the comic book introduction of Dreamer, a transgender superhero from the CW’s Supergirl television series. Her story in DC Pride is going to be written by Nicole Maines, the actress who plays the role on TV. Aside from the new series, during Pride month DC is also going to publishing some of its books with “DC Pride” variant covers — some of which are kind meh (there’s barely a rainbow in the cover for Wonder Girl #2) but some of which I absolutely, absolutely love. (The covers for Nightwing #81 and Superman #32 are my personal favorites of what I’ve seen so far.) On top of all that, DC is also going to be launching a series called Crush & Lobo starring a daughter-father duo, of which the daughter (Crush) is a lesbian. They’ll also be publishing Suicide Squad: Bad Blood which has already been nominated for a GLAAD Media Award, as well as Poison Ivy: Thorns which is going to be a romance, and a graphic novel called I Am Not Starfire which I know nothing about except that it was part of all of this Pride month stuff that DC announced even though it’s coming out in July. Also pretty notable, DC has racked up three other GLAAD Media Award nominations in 2021 with Lois Lane, Far Sector and You Brought Me the Ocean. None of which I’ve read (yet) but good for them. Bless them, they do love getting those awards. Anyways, now that I’ve told you everything that is in it, you can read the whole announcement for yourself here. I don’t think anything they’re doing is particularly groundbreaking by itself, but this is the biggest Pride celebration I’ve ever seen a comic book publisher engage in so that’s pretty exciting. With the Comic Code Authority’s giant switch in regards to LGBTQ+ content, things changed pretty immediately in the industry — instead of being forbidden, or being considered “adult” suddenly queer issues and queer stories were an untapped wellspring of fresh plot ideas. Andy Lippincott returned to Doonesbury in 1989. While the character had appeared off and on since his introduction in 1976, this time he became a staple of the strip — appearing pretty frequently over the course of the next year. The story arc began withAndy’s friend, and one of the main characters of the strip, Joanie Caucus learning that Andy was in the hospital with AIDS. Over the next year, the comic would revisit Andy — touching on the stigma of the disease, the stigma of homosexuality, the medical community’s confusion over the disease’s unpredictability, the difficulty of getting into experimental treatments, and many other topics and issues facing AIDS patients. 900 newspapers carried Doonesbury at the time. Only three of them refused to publish this story arc, saying it was “in bad taste.” But for readers of those other 897 newspapers, all over the country, it brought the very real tragedy that so much of the LGBTQ+ community was dealing with into their homes every day. And then, finally, on May 24th, 1990, Andy Lippincott became the first comic character to die of AIDS complications. I gotta tell you, I read his whole arc in researching this article and I cried. I read it all at once, which….I don’t recommend. Give yourself a little time in between the strips, okay? But its understandable that people had an emotional reaction, and some people were galvanized to take action. Garry Trudeau received a Pulitzer Prize nomination for the story arc (well deserved, in my opinion). In Doonesbury, Andy Lippincott has a panel for the AIDS Memorial Quilt. A real panel was created by G. Scott Austen, Marceo Miranda and Juan-Carlos Castano which hangs in the NAMES Project Foundation’s offices (rather than being sewn into the actual quilt itself.) As far as I know, he is the only fictional character to have a panel in their honor. With the Code having reversed its position on gay people, Marvel decided that 1990 was the year they were going to have someone with superpowers really actually come out in the pages of their comic books! So, at the end of Captain America #368 they included a short story in which the Machinesmith revealed that he was gay! But only for male robots like Vision (which is fine because Machinesmith has put his mind in a robot body himself.) But then again, like, we saw Vision in Wandavision and I’m kind of on board with Machinesmith for that one. Except that he was evil at the time which is how they justified the events of Avengers #325, wherein Machinesmith manages to knock Vision unconscious and has his way with him. However robots do that. And later his villainous cohorts find him spooning with the unconscious android. So, just to recap, Marvel’s first super-powered truly openly gay character is an evil robot and a rapist. What were you thinking, Marvel? Marvel wasn’t the only kind of missing the mark when it came to positive LGBTQ+ representation that year. Around this time Dark Horse Comics was making waves, having steadily grown for years. In Dark Horse Presents #40, they began a story set in a dystopian future where homosexuality had taken over and heterosexuality was criminalized. It was making a really valid point, but still didn’t exactly paint gay people in the best possible light. The story was never finished. Still, there was worse happening that year. Mark Millar, in his first published work, wrote a series called Saviour for Trident Comics — the lead character was the antichrist and he was not above raping men. In particular, a priest (who he promptly also murdered.) Millar would go on to be a really significant comic book creator for both DC and Marvel, and some of his works for other companies are now successful movie franchises, like Kingsman and Kick-Ass. Rick Veitch self-published a limited series called Brat Pack, a really dark satire of mainstream comic books, sort of akin to Watchmen in some ways but like….worse. In it, the Batman analog Midnight Mink was a flamboyant gay man who sexually abuses his sidekicks. But never fear, because DC Comics would not let us down, giving an emotional moment to The Brain in Doom Patrol #34, when he confesses his love for Monsieur Mallah before his body promptly exploded. Okay, they’re villains, but it was still a heartfelt moment. In 1991, LGBTQ+ people pretty much cornered the market when it came to telling queer stories in comics. Roberta Gregory created her landmark character Bitchy Bitch for the series Naughty Bits — accompanied shortly thereafter by a lesbian character named Bitchy Butch. Robert Kirby began publishing his long-running series “Curbside” in various LGBTQ+ newspapers and magazines, and released the first issue of his antholoy Strange Looking Exile. Celebrated German cartoonist Ralf König had the first of his work — Kondom des Grauens (or, translated, The Killer Condom) — translated into English in this year and released in the United States and in Canada. Diane DiMassa published the first twenty issues of Hot Head Paisan: Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist. That series would continue running until 1998, and was described (on Wikipedia) as “rage therapy for the marginalised.” By this point, you may have noticed, Marvel Comics was clearly falling behind when it came to LGBTQ+ representation. I mean, DC has more queer characters than I can count on one hand and has even tackled gender dysphoria (twice). But they were starting to get it — in December of 1991, in The Incredible Hulk #388, dealing with Tyler Lang‘s AIDS diagnosis. Lang’s father is a mob boss, who hires the supervillain Speedfreek to kill his son’s lover, Jefferson Wolfe for infecting him. Over the course of the book, it was revealed that major recurring character Jim Wilson — a friend of the Hulk and the nephew of Sam Wilson (better known as the Falcon, who MCU fans should recognize) — was HIV positive and managing an AIDS Clinic. Tyler Lang became the first Marvel character to die of AIDS complications in that issue. (Jim Wilson would ultimately meet the same fate three years later.) DC comics spent that year fully embracing the new Code rules regarding LGBTQ+ characters by first having the former supervillain Pied Piper come out as gay in the opening pages of The Flash (vol. 2) #53 — which would win the first ever GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Comic Book the following year, despite it really having nothing at all to do with the main story of the issue. Neil Gaiman’s Sandman series — published by DC’s Vertigo Comics — went on to introduce three queer characters, including Wanda Mann, a transgender woman. They kept that trend going in 1992 putting the reformed villain Lightning Lord in a gay relationship, and implying that the heroic duo Shrinking Violet and Lightning Lass were a couple, and Justice League Quarterly #8 casually mentioned that Tasmanian Devil was gay (not the Looney Tunes one, I know you were thinking it) by having him express how accepting the team was. In Hellblazer #51, John Constantine — the lead character of the longrunning series — casually mentioned that he’d had “the odd boyfriend” — the first official reveal of his bisexuality. They also did a whole story arc to finally deal with the rumors that had been circulating for decades about their character Element Lad and his romance with Shvaughn Erin by having it turn out that Shvaughn was a transgender woman, who had transitioned with the help of a sci-fi drug called “ProFem”. With this revelation, Element Lad declared that what they’d had together was “in spite of the ProFem, not because of it.” Because alien invasion interrupted the supply of ProFem, Shvaughn was forced to de-transition but the two stayed a couple. (Until DC rebooted their entire universe and retconned virtually everything about these two characters, but that’s beside the point.) Marvel’s Northstar officially, finally came out in the page of Alpha Flight #106 in 1992! This was actually a pretty big deal, it even though everyone had already known for years. Seriously. If there was ever a superhero I would not trust to keep a secret…. Anyways, the plot, essentially, is that Northstar — in his public persona as a former Olympian — adopted a baby named Joanne, who had AIDS. This garnered a great deal of public sympathy. This made Major Mapleleaf (the Canadian version of Captain America, who was never in a comic before this and….) pretty mad because his gay son had died of AIDS and been blamed for it, because of the stigma surrounding both AIDS and gay people. So Major Maplelead attacked the hospital Joanne was in, quickly coming to blows with Northstar — venting his frustration during the fight. So, Northstar says he knows the hardships gay people face, since he is gay….and that makes Major Mapleleaf even angrier because Northstar isn’t using his fame to help gay people or act as an AIDS activist. The issue received a ton of acclaim from the LGBTQ+ community for tackling the AIDS crisis so well, dealing with HIV stigma and homophobia simultaneously, and finally getting Northstar out of the closet. They did a lot. And it just goes to show that when Marvel is trying they can do actually great LGBTQ+ representation! If you want to read the Major Mapleleaf fight sequence for yourself, I found it on Imgur here. So, while this was all happening, the sci-fi TV show Quantum Leap was having additional “episodes” published as comic books. Andy Mangels wrote the ninth of these, published early in 1993, in which the lead character Sam Beckett leapt into the body of a lesbian photographer in New York City, in June of 1969. You know where this is going right? The issue touches on almost everything happening in NYC leading up to the Stonewall Riots — police corruption, mob run gay bars, Andy Warhol, Judy Garland — and leaves off right before the police raid begins. Quantum Leap, on television, had handled queer characters before (in fact, the lesbian photographer was a character in one of the TV episodes) this issue did not shy away from getting political. You can actually read the issue online for free here. In March of 1993, Lynn Johnston’s syndicated comic strip “For Better or For Worse” — running in daily newspapers since 1979 — began a story in which long-running character Lawrence Poirier came out of the closet, becoming the first openly gay teenager and first gay person of color (as his father is Brazilian) in a syndicated newspaper comic strip. The story was inspired partially by the murder of Johnston’s friend Michael Boncoeur. Lawrence’s coming out was a four week set of strips, in which — to briefly summarize — he comes out to his friend Michael, then to his family, is rejected by everyone and then when he goes missing (after getting thrown out of his house), they all go looking for him, and in the end everyone comes around to accepting him for who he is. It’s pretty sad, until the end of the arc which is a much more upbeat ending than a lot of gay kids find with their families and friends even now. I think part of the hope was that by showing it in the strip, it might inspire some parents to come around to accepting their own kids. The publisher, Universal Press, was fully on board with the story, but when it was sent out to the various newspapers who ran the strip forty of them refused to run it. The response to the strip was overwhelming, and powerful — and much more negative than what I’ve read that Andy Lippincott’s reception was (perhaps because Doonesbury is inherently political and tends to lean to the liberal side of things?). Newspapers had to install new phone systems to handle the volume of calls, and Johnston began to be inundated with hate mail — including death threats. Nineteen papers stopped running “For Better or For Worse” altogether. Papers who were running the strip were attacked for it, and papers that refused to run it were accused of censorship. Within a couple of weeks, however, the tide changed — Johnston began receiving heartfelt letters of gratitude from the LGBTQ+ community. By the time the “coming out” story had finished, and the letters she’d received were sorted, more than 70% of the feedback Johnston received was positive. In other comic strip news, one of the four leading characters of Doonesbury, Mark Slackmeyer, also came out of the closet as a gay man in that year. Rock ‘n Roll Comics #62 included a biography of Elton John — and by this point, there is so much LGBTQ+ themed work appearing in underground comics, I can’t even cover it all or this series will go on for forever. (Some of you probably already think it’s too long!) I just have to start hitting the highlights. But the biggest news of the year — for queer people anyways — was not actually in what was published, but what was won. The Comic Creators Guild awarded Gay Comics(formerly Gay Comix) its Best Anthology Award. After years of circulation, that bit of recognition was a big deal. In comic books, Marvel gave the first-in-mainstream-comics explanation of the difference between sexuality, gender, and cross-dressing in Nomad #11, when the main character got into drag to investigate a series of murders in which the victims were all cross-dressers. Once again, Marvel goes to show that they can handle the queer stuff pretty deftly if they feel like it. At the same time, under its Vertigo brand, DC was giving the gays everything. They created a mini-series called Sebastian O, the lead in which was basically a gay James Bond (and I don’t know about you but I’m dying for the film adaptions!) In Enigma #4, the Enigma entity awakened the latent homosexuality of its host Michael Smith — it was only an eight-issue series but it was still the lead character for the series grappling with his own sexuality. And then, just to confirm they had not been playing around by John Constantine’s casual coming out, in Hellblazer #69 depicts Constantine sharing a bed (well, a mattress on the floor) with a male prostitute. In Milestone Media — which published and distributed its comic books through DC — superhero Fade was outed by a telepathic supervillain in Blood Syndicate #8 — making him the first black gay superhero by a mainstream comic book publisher, even though he never really embraced who he was. However, arguably DC’s most important queer character of the year was one we now often overlook — Coagula, who became a recurring character on Doom Patrol until about 2002. Coagula was the first transgender superhero (because Shvaughn Erin is technically not a superhero, she’s a just a regular cop), which she’d gotten her powers while working as a prostitute on the streets, after being hired by Doom Patrol’s Regis. She had first applied to join the Justice League and been rejected — something that seems to fly against previous statements by the Tasmanian Devil about how open-minded that group was. Whatever the case may be, she ended up joining the Doom Patrol and stayed with them until her death in 2002. But the most important thing about Coagula is her creator, Rachel Pollack — the first openly transgender writer to have worked for DC Comics. There have only been four others. The series Blood Syndicate would sort of reveal in their tenth issue that their shapeshifting character Masquerade was a transgender man, but they were just a few months after Coagula’s introduction. One last important queer comics moment in 1993 that I wanted to touch on was when Malibu Comics Entertainment offered us a pretty harsh critique of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy three months before the Clinton administration enacted it, in The Strangers #5, in which the character Spectral comes out to the rest of the superhero team. They’re immediately accepting. (This also made Spectral the first gay character for Malibu Comics but since they were only going to be around another year before being absorbed into Marvel and basically forgotten, that’s kind of incidental.) In 1994, a piece of anti-gay legislation appeared in the state of Washington. In order to combat it, Hands Off! Comics by Over 35 Artists Collected to Fight Discrimination and Homophobia! was published with all proceeds donated to Washington Citizens for Fairness. Advice columnist Dan Savage also took that year to dabble in comics, releasing two issues of Savage Love. The idea of gay superheroes took hold in underground comics, with Go-Go Boyby Neil Johnston and Leatherboy by Craig Maynard both being released. In Marvel’s New Warriors #48, a time-traveling Justice would discover that his father — up to this point painted as a pretty unsympathetic abusive father character — was a closeted homosexual. And while that could have been dealt with really terribly, instead it was dealt with really compassionately, with Justice starting to come to terms with who his dad is and why. It’s kind of touching, but it doesn’t come close to what Marvel was gonna do next. In The Incredible Hulk #417, Hector came out as gay and talked about how it wasn’t his choice. This set off an interesting relationship with his teammate Ulysses, who was homophobic. This would become particularly relevant later in the year when the two came to blows during The Incredible Hulk #420 — that issue revisited Jim Wilson’s AIDS in what is generally considered one of the best issues of the series. Aside from Jim’s storyline and ultimate death to AIDS complications (after being caught up in some violence at a protest over a student being expelled from school for being HIV positive), there’s a subplot wherein Betty Banner (the Hulk’s wife) tries to convince a straight white guy who’s just been diagnosed with HIV not to commit suicide — and she fails. Comic books often included letters from the fans at the end, but this issue instead had a number of comic book creators write a little bit about their own experiences with AIDS (all of which are in this really great article about the issue). The issue’s cover was used as an HIV awareness poster, so there’s a good chance you might recognize it even if you’ve never read it. If it seems like DC was slacking off that year…well, not really. In the miniseries Fighting American, in which they were pretty blatantly parodying Captain America, they had their main character pursuing a relationship with a woman named Mary who turned out to be lesbian in the last issue. Shadow Cabinet revealed two of its female superheroes, Donner and Blitzen, were together, and in Static #16, the main character’s best friend Rick Stone came out after surviving a brutal gaybashing at the hands of white supremacists. The series The Invisibles introduced Lord Fanny, a transgender shaman from Brazil. The series Deathwish began, and one of the leads of the series was Marisa Rahm a transgender woman serving on the police force. Perhaps more notable is that Deathwish was written by Maddie Blaustein — a transgender woman herself, although she hadn’t changed her name yet. (Fun fact: Maddie also voiced Meowth on the first eight seasons of Pokémon.) In 1995, the Atlanta AIDS Survival Project began including the strip “HIV + ME” by Chris Companik in their newsletter, which carried on into 2011. Kitchen Sink Press released….I mean just the most delightfully sacrilegious comic in Taboo #8, in which Jesus Christ and Lucifer have a philosophical debate that leads them to understand they have a lot in common. And then they kiss. The book was a collaborative effort between two openly gay creators P. Craig Russell and David Sexton, both of whom are fairly big in the comic industry. That year would also see even more gay superheroes — Malibu Comics, recently acquired by Marvel, wrote superhero Turbocharge coming out in Prime (vol. 1) #21, becoming the first gay teenage superhero in mass produced comics. In Gen 13 (vol. 1) #2 by Image Comics, Native American superhero Rainmaker came out as bisexual. In DC’s Black Lightning (vol 2) #5, the hero Jefferson Pierce learned that his recently killed co-worker Walter Kasko was gay. Howard Cruse, best known so far for underground work, published a historical graphic novel called Stuck Rubber Baby for DC Comics, which dealt with the intersectionality of race and sexuality during the Civil Rights Movement. DC also released Chiaroscuro: The Private Lives of Leonardo Da Vinci, a biography of Leonardo Da Vinci that left in all the juicy gay parts that usually get dropped. They also gave Maggie Sawyer her own series — despite not being a superhero herself — called Metropolis S.C.U. — which was the first time a lesbian character was the lead in a mass produced comic book series that lasted for more than one issue (for which they would be awarded the GLAAD Outstanding Comic Award). In 1996, DC, under their Vertigo Comics brand, published the autobiographical graphic novel 7 Miles a Second by David Wojnarowicz — four years after his death from AIDS. The book told his entire journey, not shying away from anything — from working as a teen prostitute, to his drug use, to his struggle with HIV — and especially his anger with the government for ignoring the epidemic. The call out of the government itself in a comic book is particularly significant. That same year, in the pages of Justice League of America #110 and #111, two different team members (Obsidian and Ice Maiden) told Nuklon about their queer sexualities. Just a couple of months later in DC’s series The Spectre (#45) in a story called “Acts of God”, the Spectre (and his alter-ego Jim Corrigan) learned to overcome his own homophobia and stand up against anti-gay violence being done in the name of religion. That story was nominated for a GLAAD Outstanding Comic Award, but lost to Neil Gaiman’s Death: The Time of Your Life — also published by DC. That miniseries follows a lesbian couple in which one is a popular musician on tour, tackling a whole lot of issues about public and private identities. The following year, the character Hero came out about his homosexuality in the pages of Superboy and the Ravers #13. Supergirl (vol. 4) #10 introduced readers to Andy Jones — an angel made up of a man and a woman…it’s very reminiscent of Cloud only without having Andy’s attraction to Supergirl have any impact whatsoever on their gender presentation at any given time, which makes a lot more sense. (That’s Linda Danvers Supergirl not Kara Zor-El Supergirl…you know what? It’s a little confusing.) And the two did eventually have a relationship, albeit fairly short lived. Andy’s recurring appearances would score Supergirl a GLAAD Award for Outstanding Comic in 1999 — the fourth time DC won that award. It seems like as soon as the Code said it was okay to do, DC was like “here’s all these queer issues we want to talk about, and a whole bunch of queer characters!” And they just went for it for most of the 90s. A big part of that can probably be credited to Neal Pozner, who was the Creative Director for DC Comics for a time and who was an HIV-positive gay man. He died from AIDS complications in 1994, and his romantic partner Phil Jiminez, who was a writer and artist for DC, began penning the miniseries Tempest shortly afterwards. It was based around Aqualad, a character Pozner had created a new costume for when he was writing Aquaman in the 80’s. At the end of the fourth issue of Tempest, which was published in 1997, Jiminez included an editorial in which he dedicated the miniseries to Pozner and publicly came out as a gay man — believed to be the first time a creator came out in the pages of a comic book. DC received over 150 supportive letters in response. Jiminez has gone on to great success since then and is arguably one of the more important comic book creators of the Modern Age. Other openly gay creators, such as Maurice Vellekoop, began getting serious recognition for their work, even outside of underground circles. Drawn & Quarterly, one of the largest and most successful comic book publishing companies in Canada, collected a decade’s worth of Vellekoop’s works and published them in a book entitled Vellevision: A Cocktail of Comics and Pictures in November of 1997. That was the same year that Disney animator Elizabeth Watasin debuted her character Magical Witch Girl Bunny in Action Girl Comics #13. Only a few years later, that character would be leading her own series called Charm School — of which nine issues have been published, and a tenth is currently on the way. Meanwhile, Andy Mangels and Michael A. Martin attempted to another franchise lagging in queer representation into the future by introducing the lesbian character Etana Kol into Star Trek: Deep Space Nine #10 — a comic book series created by Marvel Comics to tell additional adventures based on the TV series. I’m a big Trekkie myself, so let me tell you: it’s really a shame that these comic books aren’t considered canon because there wouldn’t be an actual lesbian in actual canon Star Trek for another 22 years. That’s another post I’m probably going to write at some point… In 1998, Mangels and Martin introduced a gay man named Yoshi Mishima to Star Trek in Marvel’s Star Trek: Starfleet Academy #17 — still not canon, still about 18 years before actual Star Trek would have its first actual gay man. But a good effort all the same. Other than that 1998 mostly saw our representation in underground comics like Havoc Inc. — a comedic sci-fi adventure series starring Chester Magreer and Chris Deck, a gay couple who operate a space freighter business together with their adopted daughter. The series ran for nine issues, ending in 2001. The comic strips “Troy” (by Michael Derry) and “Chelsea Boys” (by Glenn Hanson) — both of which would end up published in various gay newspapers and magazines — both launched that year as well. The following year seemed like it would be much the same — mostly queer artists telling queer stories in underground and alternative comic books. Julian Lake‘s cartoons were released in a collection called Guess Who’s ComingOut at Dinner, Samuel Delaney published an autobiographical graphic novel called Bread and Wine: An Erotic Tale of New York, Jennifer Camper put out the first strips of “Subgurlz.” And then San Diego Comic Con International happened — the first edition of Out in Comics, a guide to the work of LGBTQ+ comic creators, was released by Andy Mangels and an ashcan edition of Gay Force Quarterly appeared at the convention as well, creating quite a stir (until no finished issues were ever released. Oops.) But even that paled in comparison to what would happen in December when DC, under their WildStorm imprint (which they had just acquired), released The Authority #8, wherein it was revealed that Midnighter and Apollo — basically the Batman and Superman of that comic universe, who’d been fairly central characters in two series for the past year — were a couple. (And when I say “revealed” I really mean “confirmed for people who really can’t read between the lines” — they were naked in a bedroom together in their very first everscene, for crying out loud.) There was nothing truly “first” or groundbreaking about them — two white male superheroes being gay together. What made it important was that they were already so important. And they’d be even more important in the coming decades…. Last time, we talked about the Bronze Age of Comics and the declining influence of the Comics Code Authority. I left you off in 1984 because according to comic book historians (that’s a thing) that was the end of the Bronze Age, and 1985 is the beginning of the Modern Age of Comics. The only real difference between 1984 and 1985 that I’m aware of though is that by the end of 1984, every major comic book publisher had introduced at least one gay character (kind of). I’m not saying that we’re the defining feature of the Modern Age of Comics, but I’m also not not saying that. Eclipse continued not caring whatosoever about the Code, publishing a story called “Dance on a Razor’s Edge: A Ballet on the Death of Yukio Mishima” in Night Music #2, including an erotic dream by Mishima about Saint Sebastian (who is a Catholic saint the gay community has kind of co-opted.) The comic story also included Mishima’s seppuku, which he committed in 1970. The whole Night Music series was created by a still-closeted P. Craig Russell. Underground comics were still light years ahead of mainstream comics — in 1986, the space opera series A Distant Soil revealed that D’mer and Reiken/Seren two of its leading characters, both men, were in a non-exclusive romantic relationship with each other which became a central part of the series. The series was written by Colleen Doran, and published — at the time — by WaRP Graphics, though it was reprinted (at least once entirely from scratch) a handful of times and is currently being re-released by Image Comics. That same year, Last Gasp released Watch Out! Comix by Carl Vaughn Frick (sometimes just called “Vaughn” or “Vaughn Frick”), which was a satire about the gay community of San Francisco. Starblaze Graphics published the graphic novel Fortune’s Friends: Hell Week by Kay & Mike Reynolds, the lead character of which was gay. But, perhaps most importantly, 1986 was the year that Meatmen was launched by Leyland Publications — it was an anthology book of primarily erotic gay comics. It would run continuously until 2004, and during its run it is said that they featured “every gay male cartoonist of note who has worked since the 1970s.” This includes a lot of artists we’ve already talked a bit about — Tom of Finland, Howard Cruse, Joe Johnson, Donelan, Al Shapiro, Jeff Krell, Carl Vaughn Frick, and many many many many others. By the end of its run, there were 26 issues published. But it wasn’t all good news — as queerness became more prevalent and more accepted in comics, the enemies of the LGBTQ+ decided to try to wield the medium as a weapon. And so Homosexuality: Legitimate, Alternate Deathstyle came to be published — a “non-fiction” book claiming to be “the facts” but in actuality a whole bunch of propaganda about how evil homosexuals were. You know, the usual. This was the first comic book published at actively speak out against the LGBTQ+ community and sadly, it wouldn’t be the last. The series Watchmen, which has seen a great deal of success as a movie and now as a TV series, came out in 1986. It was still seeking Code approval, and so the only openly homosexual character was the minor character of Silhouette. There were implications (later confirmed by the creators) that the two minor characters Hooded Justice and Captain Metropolis were gay and in a relationship together. The character Rorschach, frequently assumed to be asexual, also referred to the character Ozymandias as “possibly homosexual.” Watchmen did its best to be as queer as possible, while still getting a CCA seal of approval. While not strictly queer, Megaton Comics did make a bit of a splash in their comic Megaton #4. In the story, the hero Matt Scott — trying to get work as an actor after years in a coma, discovers tabloids are saying that he is dying of AIDS. These rumors, it turns out, are flying around because he had worked on a film with Rock Hudson right before his coma. This was possibly the first time AIDS was mentioned in a mass-produced comic book. In 1986. Yeah, even Ronald Reagan got to it first. So, it’s kind of a shame Megaton Comics would fold within the next year. Ivan Velez Jr., working with the Hettrick-Martin Institute, began releasing the series Tales of the Closet in 1987, which was praised for its quality despite not being published by a LGBTQ+ youth outrach organization rather than a publishing company. It followed eight queer teens as they sort of…stumbled their way through high school, dealing with all of the things that make that period of life complicated and more complicated for an LGBTQ+ kid trying to find themselves. Unfortunately only eight issues were published and the story has never been completed (so far!) That same year, Blackthorne Publishing released Danse— which featured the first lesbian lead character in a mass-produced comic book….but it only had one issue. Eclipse wasn’t making things less gay either, even going so far as to produce a three issue miniseries called Hotspur which includes a gay barbarian named Suu of Xoo — a clear parody of Conan the Barbarian, I think. I’m mostly mentioning this because I wanted to include the panel here (on the right). It makes me laugh. Was it groundbreaking or historically important? Not really. Especially not for Eclipse. Was it full of sarcasm and sass? You bet. At about the same time as that series began, First Comics published Jon Sable, Freelance #45, wherein the title characters accompanies his gay friend Gray Adler on a yacht to Cannes – it’s a complicate storyline, but it involves closeted gay actors and people dying of AIDS. The next year in Sable #1, Gray Adler convinced Sable to help a gay man dying of AIDS return to Iran before his death. They also made on the lead characters in their series Phaze a gay man named Artemus John who had a lengthy history of gay rights activism prior to the beginning of their story. Meanwhile at Marvel Comics, the writing of Alpha Flight had been handed off to Bill Mantlo. Mantlo was also committed to Byrne’s idea of making Northstar gay, and so continued dropping those hints. In 1987, Northstar contracted a mysterious illness that — reportedly — was planned to be HIV (and they were going to kill off Northstar). The Code would not allow this, so the storyline was dropped and so then they ended up having Loki tell him that he was sick because of his magical biology, because instead of being a mutant….Northstar was actually an elf. That’s right, that made him a literal fairy. The hints about his sexuality were being dropped as subtly as cartoon pianos. (Within two years, they decided that Loki was lying, because that’s a thing he does, so Northstar is not an actual fairy anymore. Comic books can be so hard to keep up with.) Alpha Flight, around this time, also had a storyline about their character Sasquatch being killed and his soul being transferred to a woman’s body and….it sounds like an effort to recreate that Sir Tristan plotline, but like…more confusing, because Sasquatch still could transform into this like yeti-ish form….that was male. I don’t know. A for effort though. On the other hand though, Marvel also began dropping kind of heavy-handed hints that Mystique and Destiny were in a romantic thing together in Marvel Fanfare #40, which dropped in 1988. 1988 was maybe the first really big year for gays in comics. A lot happened — more than Marvel’s less than subtle hints. The big news of the year would mostly come from DC Comics, who introduced their first gay superhero Extraño (real name Gregorio de la Vega) in the issue Millienium #2. Extraño exemplified virtually every stereotype of gay men, which was an intentional effort by his creators to get the point across without using any language that would violate the Code. While it worked and Extraño’s introduction was CCA-approved, the LGBTQ+ community did not particularly love him. Neither did the Latinx community, of which he was also representative. It got worse, when his team battled a vampire called Hemo-Goblin, who infected people with HIV by scratching them. That storyline was also heavily criticized because that is not how HIV is spread and it definitely did not help the rampant stigma that made people not want to even shake hands with HIV-positive people. (I will say, I think Hemo-Goblin is a pretty clever name for a vampire supervillain though.) However, after Extraño and another of his teammates test positive for HIV after the battle, he admits he had actually contracted HIV well before their battle. How is never actually revealed, despite the fact that that particular story didn’t get Code approval anyways so they may as well have told us. (I think we’re all assuming the same thing though.) In the following issue of The New Guardians, the team attends a support group at an HIV clinic and runs into protestors outside. Honestly, it was handled pretty well minus the whole vampire part of it and the embarrassing stereotypes surrounding every part of Extraño’s character. Extraño appeared numerous times in 1988, then practically disappeared from comics altogether for quite some time. But don’t worry! DC also introduced Maggie Sawyer in that year — a bad ass police officer who would become a staple of their superhero books (and television adaptions) in the following decades. Maggie was a very popular character, and in the March 1988 issue of Superman (vol 2) #15 — under the writing of John Byrne, whom you may recall was insistent on Northstar being gay — she became the first openly lesbian character in DC comics. That issue also introduced Maggie’s daughter, making her the first homosexual parent in a mainstream comic book. DC also redeemed themselves from that Extraño mess by having Dr. Fate defend a gay rights rally in The Spectre #11, and having the Green Arrow investigate anti-gay hate crimes in Green Arrow #5. As if that all wasn’t enough to make us forgive them, they also introduced us to minor gay characters (of course without using the word — they had to consider the Code!) in Ray Monde (in Hellblazer #3) and Tony Mantegna (in Action Comics #624). Tony, by the way, was also a deaf character which is a also much-needed bit of intersectional diversity. While the comic book company Archie Comics wasn’t nearly ready to include actual queer characters, they did include a PSA in The New Archies #5 advising that the best weapon against AIDS is education, and reminded readers that AIDS could impact people from “all ages, in all walks of life.” By this point, the presence of queer characters in comic books was undeniable, unavoidable and unstoppable. Andy Mangels wrote a two piece article called “Out of the Closet and Into the Comics” which appeared in Amazing Heroes #143 and #144 in 1988. (The title was also a play on “out of the bars and into the streets” — a rallying cry of the gay rights movement.) That same summer, he moderated the first Gays in Comics panel at San Diego Comic Con. The Gays in Comics panel has occurred every year since, though the name was eventually changed to “Out in Comics.” Yes, it even occurred last year as an online panel during the COVID-19 pandemic! Andy Mangels has moderated all but four of the panels in its history. So, underground comics by 1988 are producing so much LGBTQ+ content that like…if I tried to give it all to you, this article would basically turn into just a really long list. (In fact, I’m sure I’ve already skipped over several.) So I’m just going to hit some highlights, but believe me there is plenty more. One key book was Strip AIDS USAwhich was an anthology published by Last Gasp with a lot of work by some of the biggest names in comics at the time — Garry Trudeau, Frank Miller, Will Eisner, for some examples — which was sold to raise money for the Shanti Project. Black Kiss was a twelve-issue series about a transgender prostitute named Dagmar and her lover Beverly breaking into the Vatican’s pornography vault, which (obviously) quickly became mired in controversy. Meanwhile Donna Barr began publishing The Desert Peach — a comic book series detailing the World War II adventures of Erwin “The Desert Fox” Rommel’s fictional gay brother Manfred Rommel. There were 32 issues published, and the series also spawned a novel and a musical. A collaborative effort by queer artists from the UK, the US, and Canada resulted in AARGH! (Artists Against Rampant Government Homophobia), which was released in the UK that year, in order to raise money to fight against the anti-gay legislation Clause 28. The next year the comic strip The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green by Eric Orner began to be published, which would run for 15 years. It was syndicated to a number of gay newspapers and magazines, and later a movie was made based on it. The graphic novel Homo Patrol was released, tackling issues surrounding AIDS and homophobia. Leyland continued adding to its library by releasing Castro Comics— a flip book featuring “Between the Sheets!” by Bruce Billings and “Under the Covers” by Kurt Erichsen. John Blackburn began self-publishing his gay erotic comic series Coley. Meanwhile, Eclipse Comics adapted two of Clive Barkers horror stories, “Human Remains” and “In the Hills, the Cities”, into comics for the first two issues of their new horror anthology series Tapping the Vein. Robert Triptow put together Gay Comics, a history of well, everything you’ve read about here so far — the history of gays in comics. It featured a lot of reprinted comics. Shortly afterwards, Jericho Wilson and Mark Phillips founded the first gay amateur press association (or APA) which they called Northstar after, you know, Northstar. The first such organization, and while I don’t know what inspired that name I have a sneaking suspicion it might have been a certain superhero we’ve already discussed. A matter of months later, Andy Mangels and Roger Klorese founded the second gay APA which they called The APA That Dare Not Speak Its Name (after the infamous Oscar Wilde speech). The two APAs appear to have joined forces now, at least on Facebook. With all of this attention, it was only a matter of time until the CCA had to respond. And they did, towards the end of 1989, by completely dropping all of their rules against LGBTQ+ content. Instead, they replaced them with a rule that required all social group — including homosexuals — to be portrayed in a positive light, and that derogatory references to sexual orientation could only be used for dramatic purposes. A complete 180 but a very welcome one! And things in the world of comics would change almost immediately. Things changed in mainstream comics almost immediately. DC’s Doom Patrol combined their heroes Negative Man and Negative Woman, making them a non-binary intersex character called Rebis and the creators of Wonder Woman finally confirmed what we’d all known to be true (and that even Dr. Frederic Wertham had said), that there were lesbians among the Amazons of Paradise Island. Nobody was surprised but it’s good to know all the same. With the only real institutional barriers against LGBTQ+ content lifted, creators were about to tap into a whole well of untold stories — and they were going to wholeheartedly embrace that…..which we will discuss next time! Dale Olson was born in Fargo, North Dakota on February 20, 1934. As a teenager, he lived in Portland, Oregon and he worked as a newspaper reporter. In that role, he managed to get an interview with Mae West. In 1951, Dale moved to Los Angeles. He began a side job working as the secretary for the Mattachine Society, but was forced to remain in the closet at his day job. And then, in April of 1954 Dale Olson made gay history.The series “Confidential File”, hosted by Paul Coates, aired and episode titled “Homosexuals and the Problems They Present”, with a segment called “The Sex Variant in Southern California”. Dale Olson was interviewed, introduced as an “acknowledged homosexual” going by the alias “Curtis White“. Nevertheless, he confronted a number of the negative stereotypes people of the day had of homosexuals. When asked if he would want to be “cured” of his homosexuality, if it were possible, would he do it, Curtis/Dale replied “I’m speaking only for myself, but the answer is no.” His face was blurred out, but he still admitted on the show that being there was going to cost him his job. It did. When Coates asked why he would do the interview despite the consequences, Curtis/Dale replied “I think that this way I can be a little useful to someone besides myself.” This was the first time a homosexual man ever appeared on television to defend his sexuality. It was a local television show, shown only in Los Angeles, but it represented a change for the LGBTQ+ community. Independent stations and public access television were things they too could access — and they would. The gay magazine “ONE: The Homosexual Magazine” covered the interview in an issue in 1954 — in which Dale assured readers that he had found another, higher paying job. Unfortunately, the US Post Office determined that ONE was obscene and decided it was unlawful to distribute through the mail — they destroyed most copies of the issue. (The Supreme Court would rule that ONE was not obscene and was legal to distribute through the mail, but not until four years later.) Dale became a reporter, and then a publicist for Rogers & Cowan. While there, he gained a reputation for really well done and effective Oscar campaigns for his clients — which included Shirley MacLaine Maggie Smith, Marilyn Monroe, Gene Kelly, Clint Eastwood, Laurence Olivier and Robert Duvall. He was also responsible for publicizing a few movies you *might* have heard of — Superman, Rambo, Rocky, Halloween, to name a few. He eventually became head of the firm’s film division, before he left the company in 1985 to start his own — Dale C. Olson & Associates. And it was through his work as a publicist that Dale would have another brush with gay history though this time behind the scenes. In 1985, one of his clients was Rock Hudson. The media began to speculate about Rock’s health that summer — at first, Dale lied to the public on behalf of his client. Dale constructed the initial statement that said Hudson had inoperable liver cancer on July 21 — but Dale was not convinced this was the best way to go, as he believed Hudson could use his fame to educate the public about AIDS. When Hudson finally agreed, Olson wrote a press release acknowledging that Rock Hudson had the disease. Hudson’s French publicist released the statement on July 25. This made an incalculable impact on the AIDS epidemic — putting the face of a major star on the issue. In the second half of 1985, donations to AIDS research more than doubled what had been given in all of 1984. Dale became an AIDS activist following his experience with Rock Hudson. Dale survived the AIDS Epidemic and married his long-time partner (more than 30 years!), Eugene Harbin in 2008. In July 12 of 2012, Shirley MacLaine presented Dale with the Actor Fund Medal of Honor. Not quite a month later, on August 9, 2012, Dale Olson passed away from inoperable liver cancer. (Actual inoperable liver cancer.)

Selena Reyes-Hernandez, 37, lived on the Southwest Side of Chicago in the Marquette Park neighborhood. She was an artist and used the stage name Selene Maldonado. In the early hours of May 31, 2020, an 18-year-old man shot Reyes-Hernandez to death in her home when he learned she was transgender. When she said she was transgender, he left, only to return an hour later with a handgun, detectives reported. Reyes-Hernandez had spent the day before with three friends, attending a birthday party before having drinks at a friend's home, prosecutors said. Around 5 a.m. on May 31, Reyes-Hernandez dropped a friend off at home, about 25 minutes before she met her killer. "May our memory of Selena Reyes-Hernandez show your gorgeous wide smile rather than the cruel smirk of your killer," one Twitter user shared in June 2020. "She was an artist. Her stage name was Selene Maldonado. Fly, Selena, Fly #ProtectTransWomen." The person tweeting did not know Reyes-Hernandez personally, but was in contact with some of Reyes-Hernandez's friends, she told Windy City Times. "Selena should still be here today," said Tori Cooper, Human Rights Campaign director of community engagement for the Transgender Justice Initiative, in a statement following Reyes-Hernandez's death. "Our continued failure to support and empower transgender, non-binary and gender non-conforming people is as inhumane as it is unacceptable. We need to take action now as a community and as a country that takes us towards racial justice and trans liberation." According to the Transgender Law Center, Reyes-Hernandez's family didn't want to recognize or acknowledge their trans daughter. They buried her in Mexico under her deadname. The Chicago medical examiner, police and media also deadnamed and misgendered Reyes-Hernandez in their initial reports. Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents, Pittsburgh's oldest LGBTQ+ blog, posted a remembrance of Reyes-Hernandez in June 2020. "Rest in power, Selena," the posting said. "There is progress towards justice, but we cannot change the facts of your burial. Posts like this one will say your name so your memory will live on. You deserved a long life far from this violence. I hope we learn more about your lived life. You are not erased." Windy City Times attempted to reach out to sources who knew Reyes-Hernandez personally, but they declined to comment or did not reply by the time of publication. Those who knew Selena Reyes-Hernandez and would like to speak about their memories of her should contact [email protected] . See the Trans Omnibus Project introduction for links to individual stories:

I think this is going to be a more reflective piece than my usual sort of “ride report” although I’ll still embed the Ride with GPS/Strava routes I recorded and tell you some of the logistics. But basically, if you know me personally you know this has been a long hard year full of big overhauls. And as we move into Fall, so solidly felt here in Portland as the rain turned cold and the occasionally cloudy skies to flat gray, bike trips slow or stop. This change of seasons in a way is welcome to me, as I feel like I’m really shedding some of the heavy things this Spring and Summer has had me trapped under, the heat as weighty as it is nourishing. Likewise, the dropping temperatures of Autumn have their own share of more universal, melancholy sadness, and I am not immune to that. But perhaps I can take at least some cold comfort in our collective grief rather than scream and cry alone trying to eke out any last bits of coolness of my kitchen floor, trying desperately to escape the oppressive heat before my body warms that area, smoke burning my lungs, and I have to crawl to a new, unheated spot. But anyway, enough vague kvetching, I do want to tell you at least a little of my final summer rides. The first, in August, was a sizeable women, trans, femme, and non-binary 2 day overnight on some land with a pond out past Cornelius. As it approached I became very nervous. It was through a group called Veni Vidi Velo or V3, which is a really great local group, and I highly recommend anyone even a little bike-curious check them out. I had gone on their Pedalpalooza ride in June but otherwise knew no one at all. So I was nervous about that. But I was also nervous about the route that encompassed 45 miles with more elevation than I wanted through Forest Park terrain that I wasn’t looking forward to. To be honest I almost bailed. And the reality was that it was really f***ing hard. I hadn’t really been biking much since that trip in May. This was farther than I had gone since Belgium and that had been almost entirely flat. But I was heartened when I saw my pal Leah who owns Gladys bike shop, and all the other folks, whether we had hung out at that previous ride or they were completely new, were all super friendly. It was genuine and we all struggled up that dirt road, finally collapsing into our lunches at a hot and hazy 3pm. The campers seemed about half and half queer and straight and that’s a ratio that felt like a really nice contrast to my often intensely sexual, gossip mill lions’ den I like to call “home” or “community.” The 2-3 cis-men that drove the support vehicles really were only there to prepare our meals and generally serve us. It was magical. We played with goats, ate good food, splashed in the pond and picked warm blackberries their juice bursting in our mouths and staining our hands, their smell permeating the air. I even got a free holistic (and rather existential, spiritual) chiropractic adjustment from the owner of Inner Essence Healing and Chiropractic Center, that read me and my tendencies like an open book. This mixture of therapy and bodywork kinda cracked me open and I’ve felt much freer, if also rawer, ever since. And while if you know me you might think you can read it all on my face (and I’ll tell you all the stories anyway) I tend to keep things fairly close to my chest in mixed company. But this woman brought it out of me and as soon as I have money again I’d like to go back and let her mess me up and fix me again… The real last trip of the summer was just a few weeks ago now and completely opposite in that I was all alone. It was a hot week and I knew it would truly be our last. I thought about going to Stub Stewart because I had never been there but there isn’t any water to swim in and I thought it might be my last chance for a dip. So I chose Battleground Lake, a route I had taken 3 first time cycle tourists, including my long-term partner at the time, the year before with moderate success. Huh, I guess I never wrote about that one, which is kind of funny. It was about 32 miles, which really is a little far for an intro, but I couldn’t find a good way to cut off any miles with public transport (damn you Vancouver, Washington, my hometown). But everyone had a great time for about the first 22 miles and I was so happy and proud as we scarfed down blackberry milkshakes at Burgerville. Then we got a flat. I’m not an expert at repair and we had only a patch kit, no new tubes, so it took us quite a while to get back on the road, roads that were now country highways with little shoulders and a lot of hills. It was scary and it was hard. Then we got another flat. It was late and we were tired and frustrated. So when we found out that one of the other rider’s partner was just getting off work and was almost there with the car, we shoved that bike in and continued on as a trio. Tempers flared but we made it and ended up having a truly beautiful weekend. I thought about all this as I rode alone, at first attempting to make a different lunch stop then realizing that particular suburban strip mall had no bike rack. So I went back to the Burgerville again. I was both happy and sad. I was a bit faster but really the road still dragged long in front of me. The hills loomed large and anytime I took a break some big mean barn dog would come out barking and I would have to run, still huffing and puffing. When I got to the lake it was all worth it. The late afternoon sun warmed my skin and even the first several yards into the water. I languished with only one or two other families and mellow older goth couple. The lake was mine. So too, were the primitive campgrounds, a quarter mile down a path from the parking lot on a ridge beside the lake. Two groups were in the first spots so I set mine up several sites down, blissfully alone. So you can imagine my chagrin to see that a huge group had set up in the site right next to mine, on the same side of the path, when I returned. Even that wouldn’t have been so bad but for the litany of inconsiderate behavior that followed. I didn’t expect them to turn in strictly at 10, though really they could have kept their music and voices as loud as they wanted all night without bothering anyone at one of the many more campsites down the path. Then their yappy little dog kept coming through my spot in the pitch black scaring me half to death when it barked right outside my tent. Humans also came much closer than I would have liked, shining their lamps into my tiny one person abode, which also made me nervous. When I learned the next morning when they did it again in broad daylight, bright white asses shining toward me, and I realized they were coming to my area to pee, I wasn’t sure if that made it better or worse. Once again, there were miles of forest and several pit toilets in which to relieve oneself just to their other side. As I lay in my sleeping bag at 1 am, 2, 3, 4, 5 I thought, “I’ll show them when I’m up at 6:30 making noise.” But alas, they were still up and never once, through all their shouting and terrible loud Europop, did they ever offer to share their drugs. Even so, the chilly ride home was calm and still as I wove my way through the low slung fog. There was less elevation and the streets were emptier giving me ample time to stop for coffee and a cake pop. The night had been so frustrating while it was happening, a mar on my perfect solo trek. But it hadn’t made the day before it any less nostalgic or thoughtful or beautiful, nor my morning return any less pleasant. And though this trip was a couple weeks ago now it seems to dovetail nicely with this week’s Love Lanyadoo horoscope that rang so true to me: Beginnings and endings are sometimes hard to tell apart. When you’re at the end of one day, you inevitably find yourself at the start of another. This isn’t the time to focus on the sun setting; it’s time to look towards the dawn. Take responsibility for your choices, thoughts, actions, and reactions. These are challenging times, but even within these challenges, we have great potential and opportunity. Let the things that are most upsetting to you charge the creative flow of your energy.

An upswing of women and non-binary participants in the art world has been recorded by The Countess Report who credit the change in representation to conversations stirred by their 2016 findings and ongoing commitment to highlighting the issue of inequality. Women’s participation in exhibitions has increased by 10-20%, however in the collections and exhibitions of state museums and galleries representation has decreased from 36.9% to 33.9% from 2016 to today. Women as ‘Australia Council Funded Artists’ is on the rise, and their position as curators and in senior roles remains strong, indeed, 52% of prize-winners are women – with the top ten prizes (in dollar value) being a 50/50 split. Find out who won the 2020 Wynne Prize and Sulman Prize; awarded to the best landscape painting of Australian scenery, or figure sculpture, and best subject painting, genre painting or mural project, respectively. The 2020 Wynne and Sulman Prize winners demonstrate the diverse cultureRead more APY Lands artist and Western Arrernte man Vincent Namatjira has won this year's $100,000 Archibald Prize for his portrait of champion Australian Rules footballer and community leader Adam Goodes.Read more

This page lists short details of all BSC events during 2019/20. All events were free to attend and organised by the convenors of each regional group. (Return to main Archive) CANCELLED Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America’s Largest Criminal Court Date: March 20, 2020 The School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work, with QUB ICCJ and Queen’s on Crime invited Associate Professor Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve to give a Distinguished Lecture based her award winning book. We hope this will be rescheduled at some point in the future. The British Society of Criminology Wales Branch and the Cardiff Centre for Crime, Law and Justice are pleased to host Dr Layla Skinns on 18 November 2020 from 1-2pm. Dr Skinns will discuss her ESRC-funded research on material conditions in police custody. Registration is required through Zoom (see below) The event is free to attend Abstract: In a recent Trip Advisor review of a police custody block in South Yorkshire, the reviewer gave it only half a star and complained that “it was nothing but four walls and a mattress”. This illustrates how material conditions matter to those arrested and detained by the police whilst an investigation is conducted and a decision is taken about what to do next with the case. The purpose of this paper is to examine the ‘representational’ quality of these material conditions of police custody. Whether detainees have access to natural light and are detained in facilities which appear well maintained conveys to detainees something about how they are perceived by police authorities, by the state and by wider society, meaning that if a custody facility appears well looked after it suggests to detainees that their treatment is likely to follow suit. These ideas are examined using findings from a five-year ESRC-funded mixed-methods study of ‘good’ police custody which showed that detainee experiences of different types of dignity – linked to feelings of equal worth, autonomy and public decency – were significantly informed by their experiences of the material conditions of police custody. These arguments are also grounded in prison studies research and theorisation. As a result, I also reflect in my presentation on the boundaries between police studies and prison studies, and the possibilities and limitations of greater dialogue between scholars in each field. Layla Skinns is a Reader in the Centre for Criminological Research, School of Law, University of Sheffield, having formerly worked and studied at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge and the Institute for Criminal Policy Research, King’s College London. She has a longstanding interest in police and policing, in particular in how policing agents use their authority. A key focus of her research has been on police detention, in England and Wales, but also in other parts of the Anglophone world. In this setting, she is interested in police powers and their relationship with the law, police cultures and police discretion, and furthermore, how this impacts on equality and on state-citizen relations. She is also interested in how the public – particularly detainees – perceive the police, which links her research to discussions about police legitimacy and ‘good’ policing. 1-105pm: Introduction by Dr Roxanna Dehaghani, Deputy Director of Cardiff Centre for Crime, Law and Justice and Co-convenor of the Wales branch 1.05-1.45pm: Dr Layla Skinns, ‘A room with a view? Material conditions and the ‘representational’ inside police detention’ Zoom meeting: Nov 18, 2020 01:00 PM London Register in advance for this meeting: After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Building Trust in Justice: Understanding the role of civil society in legitimising state actors in transitional societies March 25, 2020 1pm Dr Martina Feilzer, Bangor University, Main Arts, Council Chamber Cancelled – ‘Public Criminology Through Public Education’ This interdisciplinary event would have brought together academics from Criminology, Arts & Humanities, Education, and practitioners from the Criminal Justice System to share innovation in learning and teaching. The event is joint-funded by the British Society of Criminology Learning and Teaching Network and the Welsh Branch of the British Society of Criminology, and hosted by Swansea University’s School of Law. See the BSC Learning and Teaching Network page for more details. CANCELLED Conference: Ethnography and the Shifting Boundaries of Policing 23 – 24 April 2020, Bangor University Ethnography has proved to be a crucial methodology for entering and understanding the world of policing. The contemporary ‘pluralised’ policing field comprises a multiplicity of public, private and voluntary organisations, inviting new avenues for ethnographic research and debate. This two-day conference aimed to bring policing scholars and practitioners together to discuss and share insights from ethnographic fieldwork undertaken with policing actors and social control professionals across different contexts WCCSJ was holding its Eleventh Annual Conference at Gregynog Hall, nr. Newtown, Powys Co-organised by the Centre for Crime, Law and Justice Dr Lizzie Seal – University of Sussex Wed 19 February 2020, 3.30pm Emotion, race and gender in cases of partner-murder in England and Wales, 1900-39 Abstract: This talk examines eleven capital cases of men of colour sentenced to death in England and Wales for intimate murders of white British women, 1900-39. It argues that such cases enable analysis of the prevailing emotional norms of this era and the ways in which these were shaped by race, gender and class. Perceptions of intimate relationships as legitimate or illegitimate – judgments about who should feel what about whom – related to understandings of citizenship. In revealing the emotional norms at play in cases of murder, it is possible to illustrate how the criminal justice system governed through emotion. Bio: Dr Lizzie Seal is Reader in Criminology in the School of Law, Politics and Sociology at the University of Sussex. Her research is in the areas of historical and cultural criminology. She was Principal Investigator on ‘Race, Racialisation and the Death Penalty in England and Wales, 1900-65’ [Leverhulme RPG-2016-352], 2016-2018 and is currently PI on ‘Reforming British Law and Policy on the Global Death Penalty’ [British Academy IC3\100170]. Lizzie is the author of four monographs, most recently (with Maggie O’Neill, 2019) Imaginative Criminology: Of Spaces Past, Present and Future, as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters. Covert Surveillance and the Sociology of Policing: Taking the Moral Dimension Seriously February 19, 2020 6pm Dr Bethan Loftus Bangor University, Main Arts, Council Chamber Free to attend and no registration required Co-organised by the Centre for Crime, Law and Justice Dr Layla Skinns, University of Sheffield Wed 11 March 2020, 4pm A room with a view? Material conditions and the ‘representational’ inside police detention In a recent Trip Advisor review of a police custody block in South Yorkshire, the reviewer gave it only half a star and complained that “it was nothing but four walls and a mattress”. This illustrates how material conditions matter to those arrested and detained by the police whilst an investigation is conducted and a decision is taken about what to do next with the case. The purpose of this paper is to examine the ‘representational’ quality of these material conditions of police custody. Whether detainees have access to natural light and are detained in facilities which appear well maintained conveys to detainees something about how they are perceived by police authorities, by the state and by wider society, meaning that if a custody facility appears well looked after it suggests to detainees that their treatment is likely to follow suit. These ideas are examined using findings from a five-year ESRC-funded mixed-methods study of ‘good’ police custody which showed that detainee experiences of different types of dignity – linked to feelings of equal worth, autonomy and public decency – were significantly informed by their experiences of the material conditions of police custody. These arguments are also grounded in prison studies research and theorisation. As a result, I also reflect in my presentation on the boundaries between police studies and prison studies, and the possibilities and limitations of greater dialogue between scholars in each field. Bio: Layla Skinns is a Reader in the Centre for Criminological Research, School of Law, University of Sheffield, having formerly worked and studied at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge and the Institute for Criminal Policy Research, King’s College London. She has a longstanding interest in police and policing, in particular in how policing agents use their authority. A key focus of her research has been on police detention, in England and Wales, but also in other parts of the Anglophone world. In this setting, she is interested in police powers and their relationship with the law, police cultures and police discretion, and furthermore, how this impacts on equality and on state-citizen relations. She is also interested in how the public – particularly detainees – perceive the police, which links her research to discussions about police legitimacy and ‘good’ policing. Any questions please contact the regional convenor, Roxanna Fatemi-Dehaghani [email protected] FREE but please book at Eventbrite Dr Ross McGarry – University of Liverpool Wed, 6 November 2019, 1pm Visualising Liminal Military Landscapes: an Autoethnographic Study of Armed Forces Day in the United Kingdom Armed Forces Day is a civil-military event in the UK introduced into the public calendar during 2009 following recommendations made from The Report of Inquiry into National Recognition of Our Armed Forces, designed ‘to provide a focus for media-directed initiatives on defence and Service issues, and an occasion for scheduling public events involving the Forces, including Open Days and ‘freedom’ parades’ (Davies et al 2008, 7). Despite the significance of these events requiring the situating and performance of military values, personnel, equipment and activities within otherwise civic spaces, academic research and critical commentary into the implementation and development of Armed Forces Day is limited (Sangster 2017; Palmer 2017; McGarry 2019; Rech and Yarwood 2019). Influenced by autoethnographic work from critical human geography focussing on the materiality, spatiality and embodied experiences of military airshows (inter alia Rech 2015; Rech and Williams 2016; Rech 2019), and seeking to extend some insights from the seminal text ‘Military Geographies’ (Woodward 2004), the aim of this paper is to observe the development of Armed Forces Day as not only one of the most significant outcomes of the National Recognition of Our Armed Forces report, but also as a feat of socio-political engineering that transforms otherwise civic spaces into what are argued to become, “liminal military landscapes”. Any questions please contact the regional convenor, Martina Feilzer [email protected] Green Criminology in the Anthropocene In association with the BSC Green Criminology Network. 16th January 2020 – Northumbria University In the context of widespread, human-induced environmental harm criminology – as the discipline primarily concerned with questions of deviance and social control – finds itself particularly relevant. As such, this one day symposium aimed to spark debate in criminology about how best to respond to contemporary and emerging environmental crimes and harms at a time when existing responses appear ineffective. New Directions in Drug Research Thursday June 27, 2019, 12 – 4pm ADSS Policy Hub – Lipman Building Room 204, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne List of Speakers: Dr Tammy Ayres (University of Leicester) John Liddell (Public Health England) Dr Robert Maclean (Northumbria University) Dr Amy O’Donnell (Newcastle University) Professor Harry Sumnall (Liverpool John Moores University) Yorkshire and Humberside Branch January 30, 2019 ‘Seeing the light: design, architecture and detainee dignity inside police detention’ Layla Skinns, Reader in Criminology, University of Sheffield. December 7, 2020 Desistance and Rehabilitation: International Perspectives Online Conference – Hosted by the University of Derby Professor Stephen Farrell, University of Derby Agency and Structure in Processes of Desistance and Persistence Professor Marie-Pierre Villeneuve, Université de Sherbrooke Assisting Processes of Desistance in Criminal Justice System Settings Professor David Best, University of Derby Measuring pathways to change: Recovery capital to institutional justice capital Dr. Wouter Vanderplasschen, Ghent University, Department of Special Needs Education Presentation on a recovery study with offenders not deemed criminally responsible Dr. Isabelle F. Dufour, Laval University Transcendence and Desistance For more details on the conference including abstracts, presenter biographies and conference link please register via the following; The BSC Midlands Branch presents a Zoom conference: The Development of Transnational Policing Wednesday 14th October 2020 1pm Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84823162898 (Meeting ID: 848 2316 2898 Passcode: 112720) 1:10pm The origins of transnational policing: the continental activities of the Bow Street ‘Runners’, 1749-1839 David J. Cox 1:25pm Transnational policing of online sex trafficking Karlie E. Stonard (and Ana M. Fuentes Cano) 1:40pm Enhancing the accountability and transparency of transnational police cooperation within the European Union John L.M. McDaniel (and Anita Lavorgna) 1:55pm Comfort Break 2:00pm Questions and Discussion All participants will be entered into a FREE PRIZE DRAW to win a copy of the book, worth over £100! All welcome, free to attend 14th May 2019 Prisoners as Audiences of British Prison Films: An Emotive Dialogue Dr Victoria Knight, Community and Criminal Justice Division, De Montfort University (with Dr Jamie Bennett University of Oxford) This novel ethnography explored how 10 life sentence prisoners watch and respond to films that are intended to re-present the world in which they are deeply immersed. This session will focus on the emotive dialogues that followed the viewing of 5 contemporary British films. For the first time this study brings us closer to understanding prison film from an informed audience’s perspective- the prisoner. Their readings are complex and enmeshed in emotive responses to the ways in which film makers make the prison look and feel for popular consumption. Themes of violence, resistance, identity are entangled with their own readings of these films. As a result they bring renewed interpretations based on their lived experiences of deep incarceration. The context of consumption is powerful and does shape audience reception. The British films that will be discussed include Starred Up, Bronson, We Are Monster, Screwed and Everyday. 5th March 2019 “It feels bubbly”: Listening to the emotional climate in prison Kate Herrity, University of Leicester, What does sound do for how we understand order and emotion in prison? This talk was based on an aural ethnography conducted in a local men’s prison between February and August 2017, with the aim of exploring the significance of sound in prison society. Attending to sound demonstrates the significance of paying closer attention to the sensory in prison ethnography, prompting consideration of how this impacts our understanding of the emotional geography of prison, and what this teaches us about the perilous business of ‘working at’ order, with which much of prison life is concerned. What are the implications this presents for how we gauge and manage wellbeing for prisoners and prison staff, as well as how we understand the prison? 8th January 2019 The emotional dynamics of peer work in prison and probation Sarah Nixon, University of Gloucester When Women Return to Prison: Exploring the Dynamics of Female Recidivism in Jamaica Dr Dacia Leslie, University of the West Indies November 4, 2020 at 2pm via Zoom Women’s Academic Network, the British Society of Criminology & Bournemouth University’s Centre for Seldom Heard Voices are delighted to host this presentation Free to attend but please register: March 23, 2020 The British Society of Criminology’s South Coastal branch, the Women’s Academic Network, and the Centre for Seldom Heard Voices at Bournemouth University welcomed Hannah Mason-Bish to talk on her current research on disabled and non-binary people’s experiences of touching in public. Wednesday November 6, 2019 – 4pm Building 58, Room 2097 University of Southampton “There’s a recognition that we’ve got to do something different”: a socio-legal analysis of police decision-making in adult conditional cautions. Cerys Gibson (University of Nottingham) Light Refreshments Available POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE November 25, 2019 5pm in BG11 (Bournemouth House) Bournemouth University’s Women’s Academic Network, Centre for Seldom Heard Voices and the British Society of Criminology’s South Coastal branch. Criminal Justice Responses to Maternal Filicide: Judging the Failed Mother Dr Emma Milne (Plymouth University). Abstract: Women who kill their newborn children pose significant challenges to criminal justice – they have acted in a way that has led to the death of a child, and yet they often have substantial vulnerabilities that influenced their behaviour in the lead-up to the death. Analysis of court transcripts in such cases illustrates that concern of the courts lies not only in the killing of the child, but in the women’s failure to act as an “appropriate” mother and thus a suitable woman. These cases provide a lens through which to analyse the gendered assumptions that surround reproduction, including women’s sexual activity and behaviour during pregnancy. This presentation will explore the gendered experiences of these offenders and the criminal justice responses to their behaviour. This event is free for staff, students and colleagues: all are welcome but please book via the Eventbrite link so that we can ensure sufficient space and catering. Visitors are also welcome to join us at a local venue for further discussion and debate afterwards. CANCELLED May 1, 2019 Hannah Maason-Bish (University of Sussex) “Getting Gender on the Agenda: Researching Hate Crime and Getting Critical” February 20, 2019 Thomas Guiney (LSE) ‘When to release? Statecraft, legitimacy and the evolution of parole as a public policy concern’. March 6, 2019 Coretta Phillips (LSE) “Dear White Criminology: Where Has All the Racism Gone?!” March 27, 2019 Sacha Dark (University of Westminster) “Surviving through the Collective” (Brazilian Prisons) February 6, 2019 Iain Brennan (University of Hull) “The earliest opportunity: What do we know about police-led diversion following arrest?” South branch (in association with the Mannheim Centre London School of Economics) All public events at the LSE were postponed from 23 March 2020 until further notice, due to COVID, and LSE’s commitment to the safety and wellbeing of its community. Postponed until further notice ‘Critical Reflections on Evidence-Based Policing’, a Mannheim Centre Seminar March 25, 2020 The seminar was supported by the British Society of Criminology Policing Network and the British Society of Criminology Southern Branch. Participants will receive discount vouchers for N. Fielding, K. Bullock and S. Holdaway (eds.), (2020) Critical Reflections on Evidence-Based Policing, Routledge. See more here Postponed until further notice May 13, 2020 LSE (Alumni Theatre) Young Men’s Experiences of Long-Term Imprisonment Rachel Tynan (Goldsmiths) Chair: Johann Koehler (LSE) Postponed until further notice June 10 LSE (Wolfson Theatre) From King’s Cross to Soho: Innovative approaches to studying gentrification, gender, sex work and space Erin Sanders-McDonagh (University of Kent), Lucy Neville (University of Leicester) and Magali Peyrefitte (Middlesex University) Chair: Janet Foster (LSE) March 11 2020 LSE (NAB 1.07) Constraints and opportunities in transnational drug markets: A social network analysis of cocaine and heroin supply to Europe Giulia Berlusconi (University of Surrey) Chair: Mike Shiner (LSE) (TBC) February 12 2020 LSE (NAB 1.07) Living in hostile environments: Illegality assemblages and everyday experiences of ‘illegality’ Nando Sigona (University of Birmingham) Chair: Coretta Phillips (LSE) January 22, 2020 LSE (Wolfson Theatre) The Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales Paul Rock (LSE), with special guests (TBC) Chair: Tim Newburn (LSE) December 11, 2019 LSE (Alumni Theatre) Jo Phoenix (Open University). Youth, Justice and Community: An Alternative Vision for Dealing with Youth Crime Chair: Janet Foster (LSE) Nov 13, 2019 LSE (NAB 1.07) Magnus Hoernqvist (Stockholm University/Mannheim Centre Visiting Fellow) The Pleasure of Punishment Chair: Amanda Sheely (LSE) 16 October 2019 Book launch and symposium, The Politics of the Police, 5th Edition. Kings College, 8th floor of Bush House, 30 Aldwych, London, WC2B 4BG. 12 June 2019 Challenges, Innovation and Reform in the Policing of Drugs Panel with Matt Bacon (University of Sheffield), Jack Spicer (UWE Bristol) and Niamh Eastwood (Release) 29 May 2019 Contemporary Crime Control in Historical Context: From the ‘New Police’ to the ‘Transformation of Policing’? David Churchill (University of Leeds) 20 March 2019 The Prison Boundary: Between Society and Carceral Space Jennifer Turner (University of Liverpool) 20 February 2019 Hate Crime and the Legal Process Abenaa Owusu-Bempah (LSE) and Susann Wiedlitzka (University of Sussex) 16 January 2019 Reading Pictures: Art History and the Sociology of Punishment Eamonn Carrabine (University of Essex) South West Branch Research Seminar at University of Plymouth ‘Dangerous Drugs’ in the Contemporary Era 10th December, 2020 – Live event hosted on Zoom To mark the centenary of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1920, the BSC South West Branch is hosting a research seminar that will stop and reflect on the legacy of drug prohibition. - Tammy Ayres (University of Leicester) and Stuart Taylor (Liverpool John Moores University): The Legacy of the Dangerous Drugs Act: The dichotomies of the drug apartheid - Steve Wakeman (Liverpool John Moores University): Moral Economies of Heroin Addiction: Implications for ‘Progressive’ Drug Policy Reform Research Seminar at University of Plymouth December 12, 2019, 1400-1600. Babbage Building 410. Dr Alexandra Fanghanel, University of Greenwich, The Pillory and the Ban: BDSM, rape culture and sex positive imagination Dr Ben Colliver, Birmingham City University, Re-imagining Hate Crime: The Role of (In)Visibility in Hate Crime Victimisation Southern Perspectives upon Policing, Security and Social Order Seminar and roundtable June 27, 2019, University of Brighton, Falmer campus Critical scholarship from Southern and Post-Colonial criminology has posed new challenges to dominant criminological thinking about law and ‘order’, policing, security and the state. ‘Southern’ forms of policing and security, often evolving in post-colonial contexts, have frequently been more militarised and violent, deployed in often more weaponised environments characterised by profoundly racialized hierarchies and material inequality. What do these developments mean for rethinking ‘justice,’ policing and ‘security’ today? Key speakers included: Dr Viviane Cubas, Prof. Kristian Lasslett, Dr Sacha Darke, Dr Roxana Cavalcanti, Prof Phil Stenning, Prof Ben Bowling, Prof John Lea, Prof Peter Squires. Critical Directions in Green Criminology Date: April 2, 2019 Joint event with BSC Historical Criminology Conference 2019 Linking past and present in criminological research 9-10 April 2019 Prof Barry Godfrey (University of Liverpool) Dr Kate Lister (Leeds Trinity University) For full details see Historical Criminology Network Date: 30 January 2019 The Role of the Intelligent Machine in Organized Crime: An interdisciplinary research event Venue: Bristol Law School

Sources report that Jackson Wright, a white cishet financial analyst, recently received the prestigious GLAAD Ally Award for boldly adding “he/him” pronouns to his email signature. According to his colleagues, he was the first straight man at his Boston-based firm to take such a heroic step. “I noticed he’d added pronouns to his signature when he sent a company-wide email announcing he’d added pronouns to his signature,” said Felicia Tilman, a colleague of Wright’s. “He’s just so brave!” Wright cites Fast & Furious 7 star, Jason Statham, as his inspiration for the courageous update. “He said something in an interview about it I think,” said Wright. “And I was like ‘if Statham is doing it, I’m doing it.” Last year, the Ally Award was given to John Hellerstedt, a white cishet man who only took two months to correctly use they/them pronouns when referring to a non-binary coworker. Much like Hellerstedt, Wright was honored to receive it. “I just want to thank my colleagues and everyone here. As you know, this was not an easy step for me to take,” said Wright during his acceptance speech. “And sorry, what does GLAAD stand for again?”

The AIGA and Design Observer have announced the results of the 50 Books/50 Covers competition for books published in 2015. The competition recognizes excellence in design of books and, separately, book covers. Here are a couple of my favorite covers: kottke.org posts about lists The most frequently stolen books Jun 08 2016 Vintage/Anchor Books recently tweeted out a photo of a Most Stolen Books shelf at a bookstore. Some of the books on the shelf include The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (one of many Murakamis), Charles Bukowski's Hollywood, and On the Road by Jack Kerouac. According to research by Candice Huber, books by Bukowski and Kerouac are indeed popular targets for theft from bookstores, along with those by Hemingway, David Sedaris, and The Great Gatsby. All of the books listed are by men, and most by "manly" men. This 2009 list from the UK is slightly different: J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books and Abbie Hoffman's Steal This Book both rank high. Libraries are a different story. According to Huber, the most frequently stolen library books are the Guinness Book of World Records, which is a favorite around our house,1 and The Bible. Thieves could use the Good Book's wisdom more than many, I guess. Art books, the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, and test prep books are also popular with the light-fingered. Judging from my personal experience hanging around garages and auto mechanics when I was a kid, Chilton's Auto Repair manuals were also lifted quite often. "Daddy, our copy is from 2014. We should get the one from this year, so we can check if any of the records have been broken."↩ The best rule-breaking films of all time Jun 08 2016 From Cinefix, a list of 10 movies (plus dozens more runners-up) that broke the rules of filmmaking most effectively by using jump cuts, nonlinear narrative, lack of plot, surrealism, and breaking the fourth wall. The 50 greatest films by black directors Jun 02 2016 Slate gathered a panel -- made up of people like film critic Dana Stevens, Selma director Ava DuVernay, and historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. -- to choose The Black Film Canon, the 50 greatest movies by black directors. We must recognize that even with the financial and systemic odds stacked against them, black filmmakers have long been creating great and riveting stories on screen. The academy's failure may have inspired a memorable hashtag, but that failure is deeply linked to the way nearly all movie fans remember cinematic history. In our never-ending conversation -- or argument -- about which films deserve to be remembered, which films are cultural touchstones, which films defined and advanced the art form, we habitually overlook stories by and about black people. Included on the list are 12 Years a Slave, Boyz n the Hood, Killer of Sheep, and Do the Right Thing. The 100 greatest American films May 24 2016 In 2015, BBC Culture polled critics around the world and came up with a list of the best 100 American films. The video above offers a visual look at the list. Hitchcock, Kubrick, and Spielberg each have several films on the list. Although many of the films were edited by women, only one was directed by a woman. 13 books recommended by Ta-Nehisi Coates May 24 2016 In a conversation last year with Nikole Hannah-Jones, Ta-Nehisi Coates recommended that readers of his acclaimed Between the World and Me check out a baker's dozen other books, including his mentor David Carr's The Night of the Gun, The Half Has Never Been Told (previously mentioned here), and James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time. I could have imagined Isabel Wilkerson's excellent The Warmth of Other Suns on this list too; it's the most eye-opening American history book I've read in years. (Paging Lin-Manuel Miranda to make a play out of this.) 10 inventions predicted by The Simpsons May 16 2016 When a show spans 27 seasons and almost 600 episodes, you're bound to hit your futuristic mark at least some of the time. Here are ten instances in which The Simpsons predicted inventions which have since come to pass, including smartwatches you can talk to, baby translators, and left-handed stores. On the occasion of the release of Radiohead's latest album, Consequence of Sound has ranked every album and every song by the band. I won't tell you the exact order, but Kid A, In Rainbows, and OK Computer are their top 3 albums (spot on...Kid A is my #1) and Airbag, The National Anthem,1 Fake Plastic Trees, and Everything In Its Right Place make the top 10 songs (mine is Everything In Its Right Place or maybe the live version of True Love Waits). My kids and I were listening to Kid A in the car last summer and when The National Anthem came on, Ollie read the display, scratched his head, and said, "this is a really weird version of the national anthem."↩ A list of nonbinary gender identities Mar 31 2016 From the nonbinary.org wiki, a list of gender identities that aren't male or female. transgender is an umbrella term for all genders that go beyond society's ideas of gender, which includes some kinds of binary gender people. Some call their gender identity simply "transgender," as a nonbinary identity itself. genderfuzz. Coined by lolzmelmel in 2014. "having multiple genders that are fuzzy and blurred together, making it impossible to identify each one individually or separate one from the rest. alternative names: blurgender (not to be confused with genderblur) cosmicgender. Coined by dragon-friker in 2014. "A gender so vast and complex that you are only able to process a small bit of it at a time. like viewing the night sky through a telescope you cannot hope to see all of it at once however you may gain more knowledge about parts of it the longer you focus on one part. may contain any number of sub genders within it that may present themselves to you. it is infinite in its possibility. name from the vast reaches of space filled with things we cannot begin to imagine." hijra. In south Asian countries including India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, the Hijra are people assigned male at birth who have a feminine gender expression. This is a very ancient tradition. Today, Hijra are legally recognized as a gender other than female or male. nocturnalgender. Coined by passengender in 2014. Any gender that feels more intense during the night, "but weak/nonexistent when it is light out." Syn. batgender, owlgender, moongender. Counterpart: flowergender. Update: Sam Escobar answers some frequently asked questions about non-binary gender. The gender binary separates those who identify as male or female, simple as that. Non-binary genders, however, don't fit neatly within these two-they can be a combination of male and female, a fluid back-and-forth, or totally outside of the binary. Cisgender people, on the other hand, are folks whose identities align with the gender they were assigned at birth. Top 10 movie plot twists of all time Mar 08 2016 There are spoilers galore in Cinefix's look at the best ever plot twists in movies, sorted into categories including It Was All a Dream, Not Dead, and Unexpectedly Bad. The top 10 opening shots in film Jan 21 2016 I like how Cinefix does these videos. They pick the ten films, but they also mention other films that take similar approaches. In this case, the picks are also more populist than usual, which I appreciate. The best rapper alive for every year since 1979 Jan 11 2016 From Complex, a listing of the best rapper alive for each year since 1979, from Grandmaster Caz to Biggie to Nicki to Drake. Christopher Wallace was only alive for 67 days in 1997, but with a talent so immense, that's all it took for him to be the most dominant rapper of the year. In the months after Biggie's March 9 death, it's almost as if his stock rose. The untimely loss of someone so young, with so much heft in the language of hip-hop, was like a call to reflection. Infatuation with his wit, wordplay, and delivery soared, and 1997, in spite of tragedy, was Biggie's biggest year. Life After Death was released just over two weeks after Biggie passed and peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. The album was an ambitious two-disc set with a tracklist comprised of every type of song imaginable. While the diverse styles and subject matter -- his daughter's college plan, kinky sex, hotel heists, a fully-sung ballad -- were an organic product of Biggie's incomparable range, the strategy of Life After Death's sequencing has become the de facto approach for rap albums in the years since. It's an incredibly influential project, before you even press play. The best book cover designs for 2015 Dec 15 2015 58 commonly misused words and phrases Dec 02 2015 From Steven Pinker's book, The Sense of Style, here are some of the most common words and phrases that trip people up. Bemused means bewildered and does not mean amused. Correct: The unnecessarily complex plot left me bemused. / The silly comedy amused me. Data is a plural count noun not, standardly speaking, a mass noun. [Note: "Data is rarely used as a plural today, just as candelabra and agenda long ago ceased to be plurals," Pinker writes. "But I still like it."] Correct: "This datum supports the theory, but many of the other data refute it." Enormity means extreme evil and does not mean enormousness. [Note: It is acceptable to use it to mean a deplorable enormousness.] Correct: The enormity of the terrorist bombing brought bystanders to tears. / The enormousness of the homework assignment required several hours of work. A deplorable enormousness! The best books of 2015 Nov 24 2015 The person I listen to the most regarding books I should be reading is Tyler Cowen...he has never once steered me wrong. So when he wrote about the best fiction of 2015, I perked up. I've been hearing many good things about Elena Ferrante's series (Cowen himself flagged her The Lost Daughter as a favorite back in 2008) but his assertion that her recent series of novels ranks as "one of the prime literary achievements of the last twenty years" puts it solidly on my holiday beach reads list. The New World by Chris Adrian & Eli Horowitz and Vendela Vida's The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty also sound particularly interesting. Update: Cowen recently shared his list of best non-fiction books of the year as well. Biographies rule the list: on Elon Musk, Henry Kissinger, Margaret Thatcher, and Genghis Khan. What a list...but I have to say that reading biographies of Thatcher or Kissinger doesn't appeal at all. Update: The NY Times weighs in with their list of 100 Notable Books of 2015. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates makes an appearance, as do the latest installments by Ferrante and Karl Ove Knausgaard. Update: The NY Times Sunday Book Review names their 10 Best Books of 2015. Coates and Ferrante feature. By my count, 7 of the 10 books are written by women. Update: From Slate, a list of the best audiobooks of 2015. The Economist's best books of the year, including SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome and Steve Silberman's NeuroTribes. For part one of their best books list, The Guardian asked writers for their favorite books of the year; Max Porter's Grief is the Thing with Feathers got multiple mentions (but is not yet out in the US). Update: Amazon's editors picked their 100 best books of the year and Lauren Groff's Fates and Furies topped the list. The top non-fiction book is Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family. Update: A design-oriented list from Michael Bierut, including The Making of Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey'. Update: Bill Gates shared his favorite books of 2015, including Randall Munroe's Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words. For The Millions Year in Reading 2015, they asked a bunch of writers for their reading recommendations. Joyce Carol Oates recommends the Didion biography The Last Love Song while Celeste Ng read The Suicide Index. The Atlantic asked their editors and writers to share The Best Book I Read This Year. This is one of several lists to include The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World by Andrea Wulf. Update: The NY Times book critics weigh in with their favorite books of the year. Moar Ferrante! Moar Coates! From the New Yorker Food Issue,1Lauren Collins examines how the World's 50 Best Restaurants list comes together. I haven't eaten at any of these sorts of restaurants in years (for a lot of reasons), and this bit gets to part of the reason why: The restaurants in the upper reaches of the list tend to fall into a certain mode. They are all the same place, Giles Coren once conjectured in the London Times, "only the face changes, like Doctor Who." Just as there is Oscar bait, there is 50 Best bait. "It's opening up in Beijing," David Chang said, imagining the archetypal 50 Best restaurant. "It's a Chinese restaurant by a guy who worked for Adrià, Redzepi, and Keller. He cooks over fire. Everything is a story of his terroir. He has his own farm and hand-dives for his own sea urchins." Hearing about 50 Best winners, and having eaten at a few of them, I started to think of them as icebreaker restaurants -- places that create moments, that give you prompts. This can be exhilarating, or it can be infantilizing. It is the dining experience as Cards Against Humanity. The 50 best non-fiction podcasts Oct 20 2015 Kevin Kelly and Mark Frauenfelder polled 1600 people to find a list of the 50 best non-fiction podcasts. The list skews nerdy, science, and tech. The top 5 is unsurprising: 1. This American Life 4. 99% Invisible 5. WTF with Marc Maron 2015 status symbols Sep 29 2015 I wasn't expecting much, but this list of status items from The Cut is pretty interesting reading. Status is often equated with money, but this list goes beyond that with picks like Japanese chalk for lecturing professors, the proper throat balm for theater people, watches for bankers1, weed for High Times editors, and the best canned tomatoes. BLDGBLOG's end-of-summer reading list Aug 25 2015 From the always excellent BLDGBLOG, a list of recommended books for your end-of-summer reading. Included on the list are a novel about drug cartels, a book about crime in the future, a history of Nazi concentration camps, and a book on rust, about which I have personally heard good things. The speed of sci-fi ships, ranked Aug 05 2015 From Back to the Future's DeLorean to Dr. Who's Tardis, here's a listing of sci-fi vehicles ranked from slowest to fastest. In the ongoing struggle of Star Wars vs. Star Trek, Wars is the clear winner in the speed category: the Millennium Falcon is thousands of times faster than the Enterprise. Also, I didn't know the Death Star was so fast! The top 10 most beautiful movies of all time Jul 23 2015 Ok, so narrowing down all of the beautifully shot movies in the world to a list of just 10 is absurd, but to their credit, the gang at Cinefix manage to mention more than 50 or 60 movies in their top 10 review. If you've only seen even a few of these, you're doing well. Manhattan, Citizen Kane, The Fall, 2001, Hero, The Tree of Life. Damn. Still, where did the lighter fluid come from? Sister is my new mother, Mother. I'm afraid I just blue myself. I'm about halfway through season two of Arrested Development again on Netflix and it might be the best show ever on television. I'm not even kidding. Update: NPR has been obsessively cataloging the show's running gags here. Holy shit, the extensive foreshadowing of Buster losing his hand! This show is amazing. (via @Nick__Vance) A guide to Don DeLillo's books Jul 03 2015 This list ranking Don DeLillo's novels into categories ranging from "Classic" to "Avoid" from 2007 excludes his two most recent novels, but if you have little exposure to the author, it's a good place to start. White Noise. DeLillo's breakthrough success, arguably still his quintessential masterpiece, and the funniest and most sustained example of his talent. Jack Gladney, professor of Hitler Studies, struggles with information overload, simulated disasters, an "airborne toxic event," the most photographed barn in America, and a drug that neutralizes the fear of death. If you're going to like DeLillo, this is the book that will make it happen. How people respond to life-changing inventions Jul 02 2015 Near the end of a piece by Morgan Housel called Innovation Isn't Dead, appears "the typical path of how people respond to life-changing inventions": 1. I've never heard of it. 2. I've heard of it but don't understand it. 3. I understand it, but I don't see how it's useful. 4. I see how it could be fun for rich people, but not me. 5. I use it, but it's just a toy. 6. It's becoming more useful for me. 7. I use it all the time. 8. I could not imagine life without it. 9. Seriously, people lived without it? That's about right. I can only recall a couple of instances where I've skipped from step 1 to step 8 or 9: when I first used the Web1 and when Jobs introduced the iPhone at MacWorld. Everything else -- Google, HD TV, Twitter, personal computers, streaming music services, wifi, laptops, Instagram, mobile phones -- went through most of the 9 phases. (via @cdixon) Not the Internet, the Web. I used the Internet before I used the Web (Usenet, FTP, and Gopher mostly) and I never got the "OMG this is going to change everything" vibe I got after using the Web for five minutes.↩ Some science book reading lists Jun 30 2015 From John Horgan, a list of 25 Terrific Science(y) Books. There are some unorthodox picks here (next to some no-brainers): Ulysses, by James Joyce, 1922. Yeah, it's a work of fiction, but as I argued a few years ago, Joyce was a more astute observer of the mind than anyone before or since. He exemplifies Noam Chomsky's dictum that we will always learn more about ourselves from literature than from science. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn, 1962. This sneaky, subversive assault on conventional notions of scientific truth and progress triggered a revolution itself within the philosophy of science. Be sure to note where Kuhn compares scientists with drug addicts. From Steven Weinberg, a list of the 13 best science books for the general reader. Solid list. But The Origin of Species is more than a little tough for the lay reader; I tried reading it a few years ago and it was a slog. I recommend The Elegant Universe and The Making of the Atomic Bomb w/o reservation. Beyond Tufte Jun 25 2015 From designer Karl Sluis, a list of nine great book about information visualization not written by Edward Tufte. Gonna keep my eye out for Stephen Few's Now You See It and David McCandless' The Visual Miscellaneum, but Herbert Bayer's World Geographic Atlas is a little too rich for my blood. From Petapixel, a list of photographic firsts, including the first photograph (1826), the first digital photograph (1957), the first photo of the Sun (1845), and the first photograph of a US President (1843). John Quincy Adams, the sixth President of the United States, was the first president to have his photograph taken. The daguerreotype was shot in 1843, a good number of years after Adams left office in 1829. The first to have his picture taken in office was James Polk, the 11th President, who was photographed in 1849. Adams was born in 1767, which got me thinking about a long-standing interest of mine: who was the earliest born person ever photographed? The Maine Historical Society believes Revolutionary War vet Conrad Heyer was the earliest born. Born in 1749, he crossed the Delaware with Washington before sitting for this portrait in 1852. But according to the Susquehanna County Historical Society, John Adams (no apparent relation to the above Adams) was born in 1745 and was photographed at some point before he died in 1849. Other contenders with unverified ages include Revolutionary War vet Baltus Stone (born somewhere between 1744 and 1754 according to various sources) and a former slave named Caesar, photographed in 1851 at the alleged age of 114, which would mean he was born around 1737. Still, that's photographs of at least two people who were born in the 1740s, at least five years before the start of the French and Indian War. As children, it's possible they could have interacted with people who lived through England's Glorious Revolution in 1688 or even the English Civil War (1642-1651). The Great Span lives on. 10 most controversial movies of all time Jun 24 2015 Brown Bunny, Cannibal Holocaust, The 120 Days of Sodom, and The Last Temptation of Christ... they are among the most controversial movies of all time. Perhaps a little NSFW. (via devour) All 15 Pixar movies ranked Jun 18 2015 Tim Grierson and Will Leitch did a pretty good job in this list of All 15 Pixar Movies, Ranked From Worst to Best. We went back-and-forth on the top two here, but we ultimately had to go with [Wall-E], the most original and ambitious of all the Pixar movies. The first half-hour, which basically tells the story of the destruction of the planet and the devolution of the human race without a single line of dialogue, is total perfection: It's almost Kubrickian in its attention to detail and perspective, though it never feels cold or ungenerous. Piece-of-shit Cars 2 is rightly parked at the bottom of the heap, Wall-E is obviously #1, and they correctly acknowledged Up as overrated. I would have rated the original Toy Story lower and Ratatouille higher, but overall: well done. Reasons people shoot other people Jun 04 2015 From Parents Against Gun Violence, a few of the reasons people shot people in May 2015. My fiancee and I had an argument, so I open-carried my gun to a park and shot four random people. The bartender put Clamato in my beer when I wanted tomato juice, so I shot him and his dog. I found suspicious calls on my boyfriend's phone, so I shot him. He was armed at the time too. Rather than let my ex-wife win custody, I shot my own daughter to death. Click through for the whole depressing list and links to news articles about each incident. Some odd things about self-driving cars Jun 01 2015 Nanny mode: vehicles that are assigned to pick up young children from school, but end up trailing them at a discreet distance because the kids prefer to walk home alone. Car surprise: when you come across your car somewhere where you didn't expect it to be and witness your vehicle engaging in unexpected activities e.g. pickup up flowers at the mall: the equivalent of catching your parent or kid smoking or shoplifting. And why is Google, an advertising company, interested in self-driving cars? Perhaps this: Trailer trashing: where dodgy looking vehicles are assigned to trail an otherwise apparent owner either as a joke or to send a message e.g. a hearse sent by a debt collection agency to scare-up payment. You'll also see this happen with more aggressive companies who send a vehicle around to their competitors to send a message, recruit their staff or to gather intelligence. Task Rabbit or San Da ha + autonomous mobility + intent. The most obvious market for this will be straight-up advertising. In 2015, you can follow brands on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. In 2023, the brands follow you! Around town! Way More than Luck May 29 2015 Here, in an anthology of some of the finest of the genre, brilliant creative minds in every sector offer their wisdom: David Foster Wallace on living a compassionate life, Debbie Millman on the importance of taking risks, Michael Lewis on the responsibility that good fortune merits -- and so many other greats. Some of this advice is grand (believe in the impossible), and some of it is granular enough to check off a life list (donate five percent of your money or your time). I've never had the desire to go to business school or get an MBA, but I found this post by Ellen Chisa about what she learned during her first year at Harvard Business School fascinating. It almost nearly sort of makes me want to think about maybe applying to business school. People often know what they're good at (it got them where they are!) Unfortunately, things won't always go well in your career. How you react and recover impacts everyone around you. One of the best things I did this year was answering these two questions honestly, for myself: What is my worst self? When does my worst self come out? My worst self: critical, impatient, stubborn, cynical, and sarcastic. It comes out when I feel like I'm not in a position to make an impact, and when I feel undervalued in a situation. It also happens if I think I'm fundamentally "right" and someone disagrees. If it goes on for too long I become incredibly apathetic and don't do anything. I have a hard time avoiding this, but I am better at catching it now. When I do catch it, I attempt to apologize to the group, move on, and catch it faster the next time. Knowing yourself wasn't really something I was taught in school, nor was it emphasized at home, so I was slow to learn my strengths and weaknesses and how to properly apply them to situations in my life. That struggle continues even today. The best 300 albums of the past 30 years May 19 2015 For the 30th anniversary of Spin, the editors compiled a list of the 300 best albums released in the past 30 years. The top 20 includes albums by Nirvana, Pixies, Bjork, Radiohead, Beastie Boys, and DJ Shadow. The #1 album is........ nevermind, you should go find out for yourself. (via @jblanton) From Reddit, dozens of people share their favorite lines from literature, from Nabokov to Milne to Dante. Here are a few of my favorites: Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh?" he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand. "I just wanted to be sure of you." -- A.A. Milne Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there -- on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. -- Carl Sagan Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. Even among men lacking all distinction he inevitably stood out as a man lacking more distinction than all the rest, and people who met him were always impressed by how unimpressive he was. -- Joseph Heller 'Happy,' I muttered, trying to pin the word down. But it is one of those words, like Love, that I have never quite understood. Most people who deal in words don't have much faith in them and I am no exception - especially the big ones like Happy and Love and Honest and Strong. They are too elusive and far too relative when you compare them to sharp, mean little words like Punk and Cheap and Phony. I feel at home with these, because they're scrawny and easy to pin, but the big ones are tough and it takes either a priest or a fool to use them with any confidence. -- Hunter S. Thompson 2015 Pulitzer Prize winners Apr 21 2015 Vox has a list of all the 2015 Pulitzer Prize winners. I am especially pleased to see Elizabeth Kolbert win the general nonfiction category for The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History...I've been reading her writing on climate change and environmental issues in the New Yorker for years now. Simple rules for healthy eating Apr 20 2015 From pediatrics professor Aaron Carroll, a list of guidelines for sensible & healthy eating. 1. Get as much of your nutrition as possible from a variety of completely unprocessed foods. These include fruits and vegetables. But they also include meat, fish, poultry and eggs that haven't been processed. In other words, try to buy food that hasn't been cooked, prepared or altered in any way. Brown rice over white rice. Whole grains over refined grains. You're far better off eating two apples than drinking the same 27 grams of sugar in an eight-ounce glass of apple juice. What's more interesting than the guidelines is the admission up front that they're not supported by rigorous science...and neither is nutrition in general. In the absence of science, "everything in moderation" seems to be the recommended course. (via @jimray) Update: Julia Belluz recently interviewed Surgeon General1 Vivek Murthy for Vox and within, Murthy shares his four basic rules for health: One is to eat healthy. I tend to avoid salt, added sugar, and processed foods whenever possible, and try to eat fresh fruits and vegetables as part of all my meals whenever possible. Second is to stay physically active. That means not just going to gym but incorporating activity into whatever I do, whether that's taking the stairs or converting sitting meetings to walking meetings whenever possible. Third is making sure I'm focusing on my emotional and mental well-being. For me, an important part of that is the meditation practice that I do every morning. It's a chance for me to center myself, a chance for me to remember who I want to be every day. The fourth thing is I remind myself to stay away from toxic substances like tobacco and drugs. What an odd antiquated governmental post, Surgeon General of the United States. The US government needs a robust advocate for the health of its citizens, but maybe not a 3-star admiral in the uniformed services you refer to as a surgeon? And while we're on the topic, sort of, why not a Filmmaker Laureate, Musician Laureate, YouTube Star Laureate, TV Showrunner Laureate, iOS App Programmer Laureate, and Blogger Laureate in addition to Poet Laureate? ↩ The 100 best films of the decade (so far) Apr 09 2015 From the AV Club, a publication by The Onion, a list of the 100 best films of the decade (so far). Good to see Her, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Tree of Life, and Upstream Color on there, among others. The 100 Best Books of the Decade So Far Apr 09 2015 From the Oyster Review, a publication by online bookseller Oyster, a list of the 100 Best Books of the Decade So Far. Good to see The Emperor of All Maladies, Cleopatra: A Life, Bring Up the Bodies, and Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore on there, among others. The 2015 names of the year Mar 25 2015 Oh my, I had forgotten about the Name of the Year site and how amazing it is. Each year, they collect the most unusual names in the world and pit them against each other in a March Madness-style bracket. Here are some of the names in the running for the 2015 Name of the Year: Dr. Electron Kebebew Lancelot Supersad Jr. Jazznique St. Junious (A reminder...these are actual names of actual people. Somehow.) Dr. Wallop Promthong Amanda Miranda Panda Some Hall of Name inductees include Tokyo Sexwale, Nimrod Weiselfish, Doby Chrotchtangle, Tanqueray Beavers, and Vanilla Dong. The 75 best-edited movies of all time Feb 09 2015 From the Motion Picture Editors Guild, a list of the 75 best-edited movies of all time. As for directors, Alfred Hitchcock is the most often cited, making the list 5 times (although not placing in the top 10), and spanning 3 decades. Right behind him are Steven Spielberg and Francis Ford Coppola, both of whom made the list 4 times. Like Hitchcock, Spielberg's pictures were released over 3 decades. Coppola's pictures, however, were all released in the 1970s - with 2 in 1974 (the only director with 2 films in a single year). All of his pictures placed in the top 22 films, with 3 of them in the top 11. At the other end of the continuum, there were 33 years between Terrence Malick's 2 films on the list. Directors Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese follow, with 3 films each making the cut. Tied with Malick for 2 pictures are Bob Fosse, William Friedkin, Akira Kurosawa, Christopher Nolan, Ridley Scott, Steven Soderbergh, Orson Welles and Bob Wise; all others received 1 mention. The top ten: 1. "Raging Bull" (Thelma Schoonmaker, 1980) 2. "Citizen Kane" (Robert Wise, 1941) 3. "Apocalypse Now" (Lisa Fruchtman, Gerald B. Greenberg, Walter Murch, 1979) 4. "All That Jazz" (Alan Heim, 1979) 5. "Bonnie And Clyde" (Dede Allen, 1967) 6. "The Godfather" (William H. Reynolds, Peter Zinner, 1972) 7. "Lawrence of Arabia" (Anne V. Coates, 1962) 8. "Jaws" (Verna Fields, 1975) 9. "JFK" (Pietro Scalia, Joe Hutshing, 1991) 10. "The French Connection" (Gerald B. Greenberg, 1971) You think of filmmaking as male dominated, but one thing I noticed about that top 10 right away: five women in the list, including three in the top five. (via hitfix) Update: Women have been well-represented in film editing in part because the job began as menial labor. For much of Hollywood history, there were virtually no filmmaking opportunities available to women other than screenwriting and acting -- with one major exception. Women have always been welcomed -- and in many quarters preferred by male directors -- as film editors, or "cutters," as they were originally known. In the early days, the job was regarded as menial labor, and it largely was. Cutters worked by hand, running film on reels with hand cranks and manually cutting and gluing together strips of it. (Moreover, they almost never received screen credit.) After the advent of the Moviola editing machine in 1924, the process became faster and easier, but was still tedious and low paying, which is why most cutters remained young, working-class women. It was around this time that the job of cutting films became less about just maintaining proper continuity and more about being creative. The Russian films of Sergei Eisenstein introduced the concept of montage -- how "colliding" separate pieces of film together could advance a storyline and manipulate viewers' emotions -- and this approach became widely discussed and imitated the world over, not least of all by some of the more enterprising female cutters in America, some of whom, like Margaret Booth, began to experiment with leftover footage on the cutting room floor and proved to be quite inventive. The 50 best films of the 2010s (so far) Feb 03 2015 100 bucket list books Jan 23 2015 Amazon has compiled a list of 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime "to create a well-read life". Lots of the usual suspects here, including Lolita, The Catcher in the Rye, and To Kill a Mockingbird. But there are also some quirkier and more recent picks like A Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Fault in Our Stars, and Unbroken. Went through and counted...I've read 29 of these. David Ehrlich's top 25 films of 2014 Jan 15 2015 David Ehrlich returns with a video montage of his 25 favorite movies of 2014. (Here's his 2013 video.) His top 5: 5. Gone Girl 3. Under The Skin 2. Inherent Vice 1. The Grand Budapest Hotel These year-end videos by Ehrlich are incredibly effective trailers for movies. Not just the individual films, but the whole idea of cinema itself. Having just watched this, I want to leave my office, head to the nearest theater and just watch movies all day. 24 pieces of life advice from Werner Herzog Jan 14 2015 Paul Cronin's book of conversations with filmmaker Werner Herzog is called Werner Herzog - A Guide for the Perplexed. On the back cover of the book, Herzog offers a list of advice for filmmakers that doubles as general purpose life advice. 1. Always take the initiative. 2. There is nothing wrong with spending a night in jail if it means getting the shot you need. 3. Send out all your dogs and one might return with prey. 4. Never wallow in your troubles; despair must be kept private and brief. 5. Learn to live with your mistakes. 6. Expand your knowledge and understanding of music and literature, old and modern. 7. That roll of unexposed celluloid you have in your hand might be the last in existence, so do something impressive with it. 8. There is never an excuse not to finish a film. 9. Carry bolt cutters everywhere. 10. Thwart institutional cowardice. 11. Ask for forgiveness, not permission. 12. Take your fate into your own hands. 13. Learn to read the inner essence of a landscape. 14. Ignite the fire within and explore unknown territory. 15. Walk straight ahead, never detour. 16. Manoeuvre and mislead, but always deliver. 17. Don't be fearful of rejection. 18. Develop your own voice. 19. Day one is the point of no return. 20. A badge of honor is to fail a film theory class. 21. Chance is the lifeblood of cinema. 22. Guerrilla tactics are best. 23. Take revenge if need be. 24. Get used to the bear behind you. I bet this is some of the stuff you learn at Herzog's Rogue Film School: The Rogue Film School is not for the faint-hearted; it is for those who have travelled on foot, who have worked as bouncers in sex clubs or as wardens in a lunatic asylum, for those who are willing to learn about lockpicking or forging shooting permits in countries not favoring their projects. In short: for those who have a sense of poetry. For those who are pilgrims. For those who can tell a story to four year old children and hold their attention. For those who have a fire burning within. For those who have a dream. Akira Kurosawa's 100 favorite movies Jan 12 2015 After he died, a book containing legendary movie director Akira Kurosawa's 100 favorite films was published. The list was made by his daughter, arranged chronologically, and limited to one film per director. His daughter describes the selection process: The principle of the choice is: one film for one director, entry of the unforgettable films about which I and my father had a lovely talk, and of some ideas on cinema that he had cherished but did not express in public. Some of Kurosawa's choices: My Neighbor Totoro for Miyazaki, The King of Comedy for Scorsese (?), Annie Hall for Woody Allen, Fitzcarraldo for Herzog, Barry Lyndon for Kubrick (??), and The Birds for Hitchcock. No Orson Welles, Coens, David Lynch, or Malick. Steven Soderbergh's 2014 media diet Jan 09 2015 Once again, Steven Soderbergh kept track of every book, TV show, movie, play, and short story he read or watched in 2014. A sampling: Girls, True Detective, Gone Girl, 2001 (3 times), Dr. Strangelove, Olive Kitteridge, My Struggle: Book One, Boardwalk Empire, and his black & white version of Raiders of the Lost Ark (twice). Here are his lists for 2013 (House of Cards, Koyaanisqatsi), 2012 (This is Spinal Tap, The Lady in the Lake), 2011 (Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Senna), 2010 (Mad Men, Where Good Ideas Come From), and 2009 (Breaking Bad, Slap Shot). (via @khoi) The top 10 film/TV title sequences of 2014 Dec 31 2014 86 viral images that are actually fake Dec 31 2014 You've probably seen many of these images pop up on FB and Twitter this year. And they are amazing! But actually totally fake! No, this isn't a solar eclipse as seen from the International Space Station. Space photo researcher @FakeAstropix keeps debunking this one, but it keeps popping up in every corner of the internet. Which is why it's earned our top spot today. It's actually a rendering from DeviantArt user A4size-ska. Beautiful, but totally fake. Does "even if it's fake it's real" apply here? (via @john_overholt) 22 animals that went extinct in 2014 Dec 29 2014 2014 was a year that humans treated each other horribly. But we continue to treat the natural world even worse. Living Alongside Wildlife has a list of 22 species of animal declared extinct in 2014, extending humanity's long streak of causing plant and animal extinctions. The last known Christmas Island Forest Skink (Emoia nativitatis) died alone in a zoo on May 31st, 2014. It is unknown why the species disappeared from its natural habitat of Christmas Island (an Australian territory) but invasive species may have played a key role. The St. Helena Giant Earwig (Labidura herculeana) is extinct. This species is notable for being fairly large (over three inches) and was found on the island of St. Helena in the southern Atlantic Ocean. Plectostoma sciaphilum was a snail that lived entirely on one Malaysian hill. A cement company wiped them all out. 14 striking findings from 2014 Dec 26 2014 The Pew Research Center shares some of the most interesting findings from the reports they published in 2014. The increasing gap in wealth between white and non-white households since the 2007 recession was the most shocking to me. Over the past 10 years, the net worth of black households has been cut in half. The Most Amazing Science Images Of 2014 Dec 22 2014 io9 collected a bunch of the most amazing science images of 2014. I posted several of these this year, including the monkey selfie, the marble harvesting video, the volcanic blast, the giant red leech eating a worm, feather vs. bowling ball in a vacuum, and beautiful chemistry. One they missed that I would have included: 4K time lapse video of the Sun. The best magazine covers of 2014 Dec 19 2014 The picks for the finest magazine covers of the year are starting to trickle out. Coverjunkie is running a reader poll to pick the most creative cover of 2014. Folio didn't pick individual covers but honored publications that consistently delivered memorable covers throughout the year; no surprise that The New York Times Magazine and Bloomberg Businessweek were at the top of the heap. See also the best book covers of 2014. The best behavioral economics of 2014 movies Dec 17 2014 Legal scholar Cass Sunstein presents his annual list of the movies that best showcased behavioral economics for 2014. Best actor: In 1986, behavioral scientists Daniel Kahneman and Dale Miller developed "norm theory," which suggests that humans engage in a lot of counterfactual thinking: We evaluate our experiences by asking about what might have happened instead. If you miss a train by two minutes, you're likely to be more upset than if you miss it by an hour, and if you finish second in some competition, you might well be less happy than if you had come in third. "Edge of Tomorrow" spends every one of its 113 minutes on norm theory. It's all about counterfactuals -- how small differences in people's actions produce big changes, at least for those privileged to relive life again (and again, and again). Tom Cruise doesn't get many awards these days, or a lot of respect, and we're a bit terrified to say this -- but imagine how terrible we'd feel if we didn't: The Top Gun wins the Becon. The best book covers of 2014 Dec 16 2014 At the NY Times, Nicholas Blechman weighs in with his picks for the best book covers of 2014. Dan Wagstaff, aka The Casual Optimist, picked 50 Covers for 2014. From Jarry Lee at Buzzfeed, 32 Of The Most Beautiful Book Covers Of 2014. Paste's Liz Shinn and Alisan Lemay present their 30 Best Book Covers of 2014. And from much earlier in the year (for some reason), Zachary Petit's 19 of the Best Book Covers of 2014 at Print. Michael Lewis' Wall Street wish list Dec 16 2014 Michael Lewis has Eight Things I Wish for Wall Street. 2. No person under the age of 35 will be allowed to work on Wall Street. Upon leaving school, young people, no matter how persuasively dimwitted, will be required to earn their living in the so-called real economy. Any job will do: fracker, street performer, chief of marketing for a medical marijuana dispensary. If and when Americans turn 35, and still wish to work in finance, they will carry with them memories of ordinary market forces, and perhaps be grateful to our society for having created an industry that is not subjected to them. At the very least, they will know that some huge number of people -- their former fellow street performers, say -- will be seriously pissed off at them if they do risky things on Wall Street to undermine the real economy. No one wants a bunch of pissed-off street performers coming after them. The best movie posters of 2014 Dec 16 2014 How to care for introverts Dec 15 2014 1. Respect their need for privacy. 2. Never embarrass them in public. 3. Let them observe first in new situations. 4. Give them time to think; don't demand instant answers. 5. Don't interrupt them. 6. Give them advance notice of expected changes in their lives. 7. Give them 15 minute warnings to finish whatever they are doing. 8. Reprimand them privately. 9. Teach them new skills privately. 10. Enable them to find one best friend who has similar interests & abilities. 11. Don't push them to make lots of friends. 12. Respect their introversion; don't try to remake them into extroverts. It's just dawned on me that when something goes wrong in my life, it's often one of the things on this list that's the culprit, especially #4 and #6. And #2 pretty much explains my middle and high school experience. Has anyone read Susan Caine's Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking? I've heard great things about it, but haven't had a chance to read yet. Thinking I should bump it to the top of my queue. Holy crap, it's only $2.99 for Kindle...BOUGHT. (via @arainert) Every episode of every Star Trek series ranked Dec 15 2014 Jordan Hoffman is a huge huge huge Star Trek fan. So great is his fandom that he is able to rank every single episode from every single Star Trek series from #695 to #1. Several TNG episodes make it into the top 10, including Yesterday's Enterprise, Darmok, and The Best of Both Worlds. The best longreads of 2014 Dec 12 2014 Longreads is sharing some of their best, favorite, and most read long-form nonfiction articles of the year. So far, they've highlighted their weekly email picks and their most read exclusives, but they will be adding more as the month goes on. Some notable pieces include Ghosts of the Tsunami, You're 16. You're a Pedophile. You Don't Want to Hurt Anyone. What Do You Do Now?, and David Foster Wallace and the Nature of Fact. Update: And here is Digg's list. Update: The New Yorker has a list of their most-read stories of 2014. 2014 Physics Breakthrough of the Year Dec 12 2014 Physics World, the magazine of the Institute of Physics, has named their 2014 Breakthrough of the Year and nine runners-up. The top spot goes to the ESA's Rosetta mission for landing on a comet. By landing the Philae probe on a distant comet, the Rosetta team has begun a new chapter in our understanding of how the solar system formed and evolved -- and ultimately how life was able to emerge on Earth. As well as looking forward to the fascinating science that will be forthcoming from Rosetta scientists, we also acknowledge the technological tour de force of chasing a comet for 10 years and then placing an advanced laboratory on its surface. The other nine achievements, which you can click through to read about, are: Quasar shines a bright light on cosmic web Neutrinos spotted from Sun's main nuclear reaction Laser fusion passes milestone Electrons' magnetic interactions isolated at long last Disorder sharpens optical-fibre images Data stored in magnetic holograms Lasers ignite 'supernovae' in the lab Quantum data are compressed for the first time Physicists sound-out acoustic tractor beam The 40 most groundbreaking albums of all time Dec 09 2014 Rolling Stone lists the 40 most groundbreaking music albums in history. Kanye West makes the list with 808s and Heartbreaks, Dr. Dre with The Chronic, Nirvana with Nevermind, and the Beatles with Rubber Soul and Sgt. Pepper's. About The Chronic: The album sold a world to white America that it had never really seen before, and packaged it with a soundtrack so funky there was no avoiding it. It was both raw, uncut underground and carefully composed pop. If Public Enemy confronted white America, The Chronic seduced it. For the first time ever, hip-hop's mainstream and America's were one. I counted only four women artists though: Mary J. Blige, Loretta Lynn, Nico, and Carole King. Best TV shows of 2014 Dec 08 2014 kottke.org favorite Matt Zoller Seitz weighs in on his top 10 best TV shows for 2014. For someone who doesn't watch a ton of TV, I have seen a surprising number of these. My friend David has been trying to tell me about Hannibal, but I haven't been listening. Maybe I should start? Olive Kitteridge was great; Frances McDormand was incredible. True Detective was pretty good and I was lukewarm on Cosmos (I have NDT issues). Mad Men continues to be great...I keep waiting for it to fall off in quality, but it hasn't happened. The Roosevelts was really interesting and like Seitz, I find myself thinking about it often. I've seen bits and pieces of John Oliver but I get enough of the "humans are awful ha ha" news on Twitter to become a regular viewer. Other shows I've watched that aren't on the list: Downton Abbey (my favorite soap), Game of Thrones (tied w/ Mad Men for my fave current show, although MM is better), Boardwalk Empire (strong finish), Sherlock (still fun, tho got a bit too self referential there), and Girls (gave up after s03e04 when it was airing but recently powered through rest of the 3rd season and is back in my good graces). The most disruptive ideas from the past 85 years Dec 04 2014 Businessweek is 85 years old and to celebrate, they've listed the 85 most disruptive ideas created during that time. They include kitty litter, Air Jordans, information theory, refrigeration, the jet engine, and the Polaroid camera. Polaroids were the first social network. You'd take a picture, and someone would say, "I want one, too," so you'd give it away and take another. People shared Polaroids the way they now share information on social media. Of course, it was more personal, because you were sharing with just one person, not the entire world. I met Andy Warhol in the '70s at the Whitney Museum and started doing projects with him because he loved my photographs. He'd never had a pal who was a photographer, so I was his guru, showing him what cameras to buy, what pictures to take. When Polaroid came out with its SX-70 model, the company sent big boxes of film and cameras to the Factory, which was at 860 Broadway (it's now a Petco). Andy loved Polaroid. Everything was "gee whiz"; it was brand-new. So immediate. I took photos of him with his new toy. The 10 greatest changes of the past 1000 years Oct 31 2014 From the emergence of markets in the 13th century to the scientific revolution of the 17th century to castles in the 11th century, this is a list of historian Ian Mortimer's 10 biggest changes of the past 1000 years. Most people think of castles as representative of conflict. However, they should be seen as bastions of peace as much as war. In 1000 there were very few castles in Europe -- and none in England. This absence of local defences meant that lands were relatively easy to conquer -- William the Conqueror's invasion of England was greatly assisted by the lack of castles here. Over the 11th century, all across Europe, lords built defensive structures to defend them and their land. It thus became much harder for kings to simply conquer their neighbours. In this way, lords tightened their grip on their estates, and their masters started to think of themselves as kings of territories, not of tribes. Political leaders were thus bound to defend their borders -- and govern everyone within those borders, not just their own people. That's a pretty enormous change by anyone's standards. The list is adapted from Mortimer's recent book, Centuries of Change. 25 awesome photos of Muhammad Ali Oct 31 2014 From the Guardian's photo editor, an annotated list of the 25 best photographs of Muhammad Ali. My favorite is by Neil Leifer: The 50 best movie adaptations of books Oct 20 2014 From Silence of the Lambs (#1) to To Kill A Mocking Bird (#9) to Blade Runner (#28), these are the 50 best book-to-movie adaptations ever, compiled by Total Film. Somehow absent is Spike Jonze's Adaptation and I guess 2001 was not technically based on a book, but whatevs. The commenters additionally lament the lack of Requiem for a Dream, Gone with the Wind, The French Connection, Rosemary's Baby, Last of the Mohicans, and The Wizard of Oz. Top 10 slo-mo movie moments Oct 14 2014 From CineFix, their top ten slow motion sequences of all time. Includes scenes from The Matrix, Hard Boiled, Reservoir Dogs, and The Shining. But no Wes Anderson!?! *burns down internet* (via @DavidGrann) 50 cultural icons and their favorite books Oct 07 2014 Flavorwire collected a list of the favorite books of 50 well-known people, including Bill Murray, Amy Poehler, Ayn Rand, and Caroline Kennedy. Here are some of the picks: Bill Murray: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. Dolly Parton: The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper. Joan Didion: Victory by Joseph Conrad. Robin Williams: The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov. Michelle Obama: Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison. Nikola Tesla: Faust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe. Five favorite maps Sep 29 2014 Top 10 essays since 1950 Sep 29 2014 How do you pick just 10 essays for a list of the best essays since 1950? You exclude any New Journalism, non-American writers, and even so, it must have been difficult. Here's Robert Atwan's full list and a few of his choices: Susan Sontag, "Notes on 'Camp'" David Foster Wallace, "Consider the Lobster" Annie Dillard, "Total Eclipse" John McPhee, "The Search for Marvin Gardens" Many of the essays are available online...ladies and gentlemen, start your Instapapers. A list of 50 books that influenced Leo Tolstoy Sep 23 2014 When Russian author Leo Tolstoy was in his 60s, he was asked to list the books which influenced him the most in his career. He responded by grouping the books into three main categories by level of impact: great, v. great, and enormous. Some of his picks: Matthew's Gospel: Sermon on the Mount - Enormous Dickens' David Copperfield - Enormous Victor Hugo. Les Misérables - Enormous Pushkin's Yevgeny Onegin - V. great George Eliot. Novels - Great The NY Times reprinted the list in 1978; here's the original listing. 1984, pop culture's best year ever Sep 18 2014 According to Rolling Stone, 1984 was the greatest year in pop music history. And they made a list of the top 100 singles from that year; here's the top 5: 5. Thriller, Michael Jackson 4. Let's Go Crazy, Prince 3. I Feel for You, Chaka Khan 2. Borderline, Madonna 1. When Doves Cry, Prince Common misconceptions Sep 05 2014 From Wikipedia, a list of common misconceptions, including a recent favorite about life expectancy in the Middle Ages: It is true that life expectancy in the Middle Ages and earlier was low; however, one should not infer that people usually died around the age of 30. In fact, the low life expectancy is an average very strongly influenced by high infant mortality, and the life expectancy of people who lived to adulthood was much higher. A 21-year-old man in medieval England, for example, could by one estimate expect to live to the age of 64. Also, Vikings didn't wear horned helmets, Romans didn't puke in vomitoriums after rich meals, the average housefly lives for 20 to 30 days, medieval Europeans didn't believe the Earth was flat, Napoleon was taller than average, the Bible's forbidden fruit was not explicitly an apple, and humans have more than 20 senses. (via @linuz90) The Perfect Recordings Sep 05 2014 New Yorker music critic Sasha Frere-Jones recently compiled a series of five playlists on Spotify of "perfect" songs: vol 1, vol 2, vol 3, vol 4, vol 5. Among the songs found on the playlists are Maps by Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Blue Moon by Elvis, Pony by Ginuwine, Transmission by Joy Division, Tennis Court by Lorde, No Scrubs by TLC, and Rock Steady by Aretha Franklin. The playlists are also available on Rdio, courtesy of my friend Matt: vol 1, vol 2, vol 3, vol 4, and vol 5. Update: And here's an Rdio playlist with all five volumes of Perfect Recordings. This will be on shuffle at my place for months to come. The weather taketh away Sep 02 2014 From Matter, a list of things to enjoy now before climate change takes them away or makes them more difficult to procure. Like Joshua trees: The Joshua trees of Joshua Tree National Park need periods of cold temperatures before they can flower. Young trees are now rare in the park. Steep projected declines in yields of maize, sorghum, and other staples portend a coming food crisis for parts of sub-Saharan Africa. But here's what will probably get everyone's attention in the developed world: Studies suggest cacao production will begin to decline in Ghana and the Ivory Coast, the source of half of the world's chocolate, by 2030. Eighty percent of tart cherries come from a single five-county area in Michigan, all of which is threatened. But as noted previously, we've got plenty of time to enjoy jellyfish: Important cold-water fish species, including cod, pollock, and Atlantic Salmon, face a growing threat of population collapse as the oceans heat up. Studies suggest a radical fix: Eat lots of jellyfish, which will thrive in our new climate. Also, The Kennedy Space Center, Havana, Coney Island, the Easter Island statues, and The Leaning Tower of Pisa will all be underwater sooner than you think. List of lists of lists Aug 26 2014 Holy informational rabbit hole, Batman! Wikipedia has a page that is a List of lists of lists. This article is a list of articles comprising a list of things that are themselves lists of things, such as the lists of lists listed below. Inception horn! Includes such lists of lists as Lists of fictional Presidents of the United States, Ranked lists of Chilean regions, Lists of black people, and Lists of nuclear disasters and radioactive incidents. (via @sampotts) Physics paradoxes Aug 21 2014 Today's brain-melter: Every Insanely Mystifying Paradox in Physics. It's all there, from the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin limit to quantum immortality to, of course, the tachyonic antitelephone. A tachyonic antitelephone is a hypothetical device in theoretical physics that could be used to send signals into one's own past. Albert Einstein in 1907 presented a thought experiment of how faster-than-light signals can lead to a paradox of causality, which was described by Einstein and Arnold Sommerfeld in 1910 as a means "to telegraph into the past". If you emerge with your brain intact, at the very least, you'll have lost a couple of hours to the list. Policing by consent Aug 18 2014 In light of the ongoing policing situation in Ferguson, Missouri in the wake of the shooting of an unarmed man by a police officer and how the response to the community protests is highlighting the militarization of US police departments since 9/11, it's instructive to look at one of the first and most successful attempts at the formation of a professional police force. The UK Parliament passed the first Metropolitan Police Act in 1829. The act was introduced by Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel, who undertook a study of crime and policing, which resulted in his belief that the keys to building an effective police force were to 1) make it professional (most prior policing had been volunteer in nature); 2) organize as a civilian force, not as a paramilitary force; and 3) make the police accountable to the public. The Metropolitan Police, whose officers were referred to as "bobbies" after Peel, was extremely successful and became the model for the modern urban police force, both in the UK and around the world, including in the United States. At the heart of the Metropolitan Police's charter were a set of rules either written by Peel or drawn up at some later date by the two founding Commissioners: The Nine Principles of Policing. They are as follows: 1. To prevent crime and disorder, as an alternative to their repression by military force and severity of legal punishment. 2. To recognise always that the power of the police to fulfil their functions and duties is dependent on public approval of their existence, actions and behaviour, and on their ability to secure and maintain public respect. 3. To recognise always that to secure and maintain the respect and approval of the public means also the securing of the willing co-operation of the public in the task of securing observance of laws. 4. To recognise always that the extent to which the co-operation of the public can be secured diminishes proportionately the necessity of the use of physical force and compulsion for achieving police objectives. 5. To seek and preserve public favour, not by pandering to public opinion, but by constantly demonstrating absolutely impartial service to law, in complete independence of policy, and without regard to the justice or injustice of the substance of individual laws, by ready offering of individual service and friendship to all members of the public without regard to their wealth or social standing, by ready exercise of courtesy and friendly good humour, and by ready offering of individual sacrifice in protecting and preserving life. 6. To use physical force only when the exercise of persuasion, advice and warning is found to be insufficient to obtain public co-operation to an extent necessary to secure observance of law or to restore order, and to use only the minimum degree of physical force which is necessary on any particular occasion for achieving a police objective. 7. To maintain at all times a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and that the public are the police, the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence. 8. To recognise always the need for strict adherence to police-executive functions, and to refrain from even seeming to usurp the powers of the judiciary of avenging individuals or the State, and of authoritatively judging guilt and punishing the guilty. 9. To recognise always that the test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder, and not the visible evidence of police action in dealing with them. As police historian Charles Reith noted in 1956, this philosophy was radical when implemented in London in the 1830s and "unique in history and throughout the world because it derived not from fear but almost exclusively from public co-operation with the police, induced by them designedly by behaviour which secures and maintains for them the approval, respect and affection of the public". Apparently, it remains radical in the United States in 2014. (thx, peter) The greatest documentaries of all time Aug 05 2014 Sight and Sound polled 340 critics and filmmakers in search of the world's best documentary films. Here are their top 50. From the list, the top five: A Man with a Movie Camera Night and Fog The Thin Blue Line Unless you went to film school or are a big film nerd, you probably haven't seen (or even heard of) the top choice, A Man with a Movie Camera. Roger Ebert reviewed the film several years ago as part of his Great Movies Collection. Born in 1896 and coming of age during the Russian Revolution, Vertov considered himself a radical artist in a decade where modernism and surrealism were gaining stature in all the arts. He began by editing official newsreels, which he assembled into montages that must have appeared rather surprising to some audiences, and then started making his own films. He would invent an entirely new style. Perhaps he did. "It stands as a stinging indictment of almost every film made between its release in 1929 and the appearance of Godard's 'Breathless' 30 years later," the critic Neil Young wrote, "and Vertov's dazzling picture seems, today, arguably the fresher of the two." Godard is said to have introduced the "jump cut," but Vertov's film is entirely jump cuts. If you're curious, the film is available on YouTube in its entirety: (via open culture) Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire Aug 04 2014 Update: From Vox, 40 Maps That Explain the Roman Empire. Two thousand years ago, on August 19, 14 AD, Caesar Augustus died. He was Rome's first emperor, having won a civil war more than 40 years earlier that transformed the dysfunctional Roman Republic into an empire. Under Augustus and his successors, the empire experienced 200 years of relative peace and prosperity. Here are 40 maps that explain the Roman Empire -- its rise and fall, its culture and economy, and how it laid the foundations of the modern world. Clickbaiting the 10 Commandments Jul 25 2014 Over at McSweeney's, David Tate imagines more engaging copy for the Ten Commandments, aka you won't believe what God said to this man... At the Beginning He Had Me Confused, But by Minute Two I Knew That I Shouldn't Have Other Gods. 37 Things in Your Bedroom That You Need to Get Rid of Right Now, Like Adulteresses. Maps don't love you like I love you Jul 18 2014 From Flowing Data, 19 Maps That Will Blow Your Mind and Change the Way You See the World. Top All-time. You Won't Believe Your Eyes. Watch. It's the maps listicle to end all maps listicles. Ten most memorable film edits Jul 11 2014 From CineFix, a collection of ten of the most iconic and memorable editing moments in cinematic history. The 50 greatest summer blockbusters Jul 07 2014 Blockbusters have become such an integral part of the way we talk about films that it's hard to believe they haven't always been with us. But while there have always been big movies-lavish productions designed to draw crowds and command repeat business-the blockbuster as we know it has a definite start date: June 20, 1975. That's when Jaws first hit screens in the middle of what was once, in the words of The Financial Times, a "low season" when the "only steady summer dollars came, in the U.S., from drive-in theaters." It's summer, after all; why go to the movies when you could be outside? Jaws changed that. Star Wars cemented that change. And now, the summer-movie season is dominated by the biggest films Hollywood has to offer. Jaws is the no-surprise #1 but Who Framed Roger Rabbit at #8? Hmm, dunno about that. And leaving Star Wars just off the top 10 is a bold move. My personal top ten would also have included Ghostbusters -- I remember vividly waiting in line in the sweltering heat outside the El Lago theater to see Ghostbusters and just being completely and utterly blown away by it -- and Terminator 2. Oh and Batman. I think I saw that movie half-a-dozen times in the theater and it was just everywhere that summer...the logo, that song by Prince, everything. (via @khoi) Scientist biography recommendations Jul 02 2014 Earlier today I asked my Twitter followers for recommendations for "really good" biographies about scientists. I gave Genius (James Gleick's bio of Richard Feynman) and Cleopatra, A Life (not about a scientist but was super interesting and well-written) as examples of what I was looking for. You can see the responses here and I've pulled out a few of the most interesting ones below: - Isaac Newton by James Gleick. Gleick wrote the aforementioned Genius and Chaos, another favorite of mine. I tried to read The Information last year after many glowing recommendations from friends but couldn't get into it. Someone suggested Never at Rest is a superior Newton bio. - The Man Who Loved Only Numbers by Paul Hoffman. I've read this biography of mathematician Paul Erdos; highly recommended. - Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel. I've never read anything by Sobel; I'll have to rectify that. - Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges. - Everything and More by David Foster Wallace. I've heard Wallace was bit handwavy with the math in this one, but I still enjoyed it. - Newton and the Counterfeiter by Thomas Levenson. Newton was a detective? - The Philosophical Breakfast Club by Laura Snyder. Four-way bio of a group of school friends (Charles Babbage, John Herschel, William Whewell, and Richard Jones) who changed the world. - The Reluctant Mr. Darwin by David Quammen. How Charles Darwin devised his theory of evolution and then sat on it for years is one of science's most fascinating stories. - T. rex and the Crater of Doom by Walter Alvarez. Not a biography of a person but of a theory: that a meteor impact 65 million years ago caused the extinction of the dinosaurs. - The Man Who Knew Infinity by Robert Kanigel. Bio of brilliant Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. - Edge of Objectivity by Charles Gillispie. A biography of modern science published in 1966, all but out of print at this point unfortunately. - Galileo at Work by Stillman Drake. - The Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes. And many more here. Thanks to everyone who suggested books. Update: Because this came up on Twitter, some biographies specifically about women in science: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Hedy's Folly, On a Farther Shore, Marie Curie: A Life, A Feeling for the Organism, Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA, Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man, and Radioactive. Eleven great books about soccer Jun 26 2014 There haven't been many good books written about soccer, but here are eleven of them worth your time. Franklin Foer's How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization looks especially interesting. A groundbreaking work -- named one of the five most influential sports books of the decade by Sports Illustrated -- How Soccer Explains the World is a unique and brilliantly illuminating look at soccer, the world's most popular sport, as a lens through which to view the pressing issues of our age, from the clash of civilizations to the global economy. Foer is one of the contributors, alongside authors Aleksandar Hemon and Karl Ove Knausgaard, to the New Republic's excellent World Cup coverage. Mixed signals vs. noise Jun 19 2014 Over the course of his 3000 columns at The Motley Fool, Morgan Housel has learned a few things: I've learned that short-term thinking is at the root of most of our problems, whether it's in business, politics, investing, or work. I've learned that debt can cause more social problems than some drugs, yet drugs are illegal and debt is tax deductible. I've learned that finance is actually very simple, but it's made to look complicated to justify fees. Unfortunately, the list is undermined almost completely by the get-rich-quick advertising on the site, including this bit at the end of the article, which I can't even tell is an ad or just a promotion: Opportunities to get wealthy from a single investment don't come around often, but they do exist, and our chief technology officer believes he's found one. In this free report, Jeremy Phillips shares the single company that he believes could transform not only your portfolio, but your entire life. To learn the identity of this stock for free and see why Jeremy is putting more than $100,000 of his own money into it, all you have to do is click here now. Short-term thinking is at the root of most of our problems, click here now. Now! 20 outdoor survival tips Jun 17 2014 From Popular Mechanics, a list of survival tips covering a variety of outdoor situations, from watching a baseball game to cutting down trees to drinking too much water during exercise. We all know that dehydration can be dangerous, leading to dizziness, seizures, and death, but drinking too much water can be just as bad. In 2002, 28-year-old runner Cynthia Lucero collapsed midway through the Boston Marathon. Rushed to a hospital, she fell into a coma and died. In the aftermath it emerged that she had drunk large amounts along the run. The excess liquid in her system induced a syndrome called exercise-associated hyponatremia (EAH), in which an imbalance in the body's sodium levels creates a dangerous swelling of the brain. The best commencement speeches ever May 19 2014 From NPR, a searchable sortable archive of the best commencement speeches, from 1774 to the present. What a resource. Two of my favorites, by David Foster Wallace and Steve Jobs, are represented. Each speech is tagged by "theme or take-home message", basically a taxonomy of commencement speech messaging. The most popular themes are: 12. Be kind 10. Make art 7. Remember history 6. Embrace failure 5. Work hard 4. Don't give up 3. Inner voice 1. Change the world Trite stuff perhaps, but delivered in the right way and by the right person, it makes people wanna run through walls. Let's go! (via @tcarmody) Best longform journalism of 2013 May 19 2014 Conor Friedersdorf has published his picks for the best journalism of 2013. This is always a great list. And you're smart enough not to pooh-pooh it just because everyone else's best of 2013 list came out in late November, right? Because the stuff on this list is evergreen? Good. 101 things to love about NYC May 12 2014 From the NY Times Magazine in June 1976, a list of 101 things to love about New York City. Some of the list is evergreen: 1. Being nostalgic about things in New York that were never so great. 11. Hating Con Edison. 25. The best water-supply system in the nation. 42. The little red lighthouse still under the great gray bridge. And other items on the list, not so much: 8. Dialing 873-0404. 24. A broken parking meter. 43. Page 1,029 of the Manhattan telephone directory under "Ng." 57. The personals in The Irish Echo. Scouting New York has an explanation of some of the items on the list. Apparently 873-0404 was the number for the Dial-A-Satellite hotline; you could call it to get information about satellites passing overhead. (via @mkonnikova) Worse than Jar Jar May 07 2014 In an item on Ain't It Cool News about the working title for Star Wars VII (The Ancient Fear!), a pair of comments list fourteen things about the Star Wars movies as bad as or worse than Jar Jar Binks: 1. Dance number added to Jedi 2. CGI Jabba added to A New Hope 3. Han/Greedo scene changed in A New Hope 4. Horrible acting in the prequels even by the good actors 5. Obi-Wan riding around on Yoshi in Revenge of the Sith 6. Anakin/Padme love story 7. Jake Lloyd 8. R2-D2 flying 9. Hayden's ghost added to end of Jedi 10. Rick McCallum 12. Virgin birth of Anakin 13. Vader as C-3POs maker and R2's buddy 14. Han/Jabba scene added in ANH Meesa agree with most of this list. The ten best sentences May 06 2014 From the editors of The American Scholar, the ten best sentences. Presumably in all of literature? Here's one of them, from James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race. 40 maps that explain the Middle East May 05 2014 From Max Fisher at Vox, 40 maps that explain the Middle East. Maps can be a powerful tool for understanding the world, particularly the Middle East, a place in many ways shaped by changing political borders and demographics. Here are 40 maps crucial for understanding the Middle East -- its history, its present, and some of the most important stories in the region today. A software canon Apr 30 2014 Paul Ford set himself the task of picking five great works of software and he came up with Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop, Pac-Man, Unix, and Emacs. I propose a different kind of software canon: Not about specific moments in time, or about a specific product, but rather about works of technology that transcend the upgrade cycle, adapting to changing rhythms and new ideas, often over decades. As with everything Paul writes, it's worth clicking through to read the rest. The new Ten Commandments Apr 20 2014 From God's Twitter account, a new set of ten commandments: 3 Say please. 8 Don't hate. 9 Cut the bullshit. The top 100 animated movies Apr 17 2014 Time Out polled more than 100 experts to find the 100 best animated movies. Here's the top 10 (minus the top pick...you'll have to click through for that): 10. Fantastic Mr. Fox 9. The Nightmare Before Christmas 8. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 7. The Iron Giant 5. The Incredibles 4. Toy Story 3. My Neighbor Totoro 2. Spirited Away I'm delighted to see Fantastic Mr Fox on the list...it's an underrated effort by Wes Anderson that will continue to grow in esteem as the years pass. No Wall-E in the top 10 though? I don't know about that. It clocks in at #36, behind Chicken Run (the least of Aardman's efforts in my mind) and Up, which is maybe my least favorite Pixar film. (via @garymross) Five word usage tips from David Foster Wallace Apr 10 2014 Farnam Street is featuring a handout given by the late David Foster Wallace to his fiction writing class in 2002. It's titled YOUR LIBERAL-ARTS $ AT WORK and covers five common usages gotchas. 2. And is a conjunction; so is so. Except in dialogue between particular kinds of characters, you never need both conjunctions. "He needed to eat, and so he bought food" is incorrect. In 95% of cases like this, what you want to do is cut the and. Best typefaces of 2013 Mar 12 2014 From Typographica, a list of their favorite typefaces from 2013. As you'll see, good type design is happening all over the globe. As evidence of that diversity, the 53 typefaces selected from 2013 were created by designers from at least 20 countries. [...] This new phase of globalization and democratization of the font market began in earnest about a decade ago, propelled by newly accessible digital tools, online commerce, and post-graduate education in type design. It is a sea change. For centuries, places like Argentina, Brazil, Croatia, Lebanon, and New Zealand were vastly underrepresented in a type design community that was dominated by western Europe and North America. (And this only goes for Latin-based type. The burgeoning production of fonts in other scripts tells another fascinating story.) We will have much more detail about these changes in an upcoming report by Ruxandra Duru on the current state of typefounding around the world. One that caught my eye is Clear Sans. Ten World War I myths Jan 22 2014 Historian Dan Snow collects and debunks ten myths about World War I. Including: 7. Tactics on the Western Front remained unchanged despite repeated failure Never have tactics and technology changed so radically in four years of fighting. It was a time of extraordinary innovation. In 1914 generals on horseback galloped across battlefields as men in cloth caps charged the enemy without the necessary covering fire. Both sides were overwhelmingly armed with rifles. Four years later, steel-helmeted combat teams dashed forward protected by a curtain of artillery shells. They were now armed with flame throwers, portable machine-guns and grenades fired from rifles. Above, planes, that in 1914 would have appeared unimaginably sophisticated, duelled in the skies, some carrying experimental wireless radio sets, reporting real-time reconnaissance. Huge artillery pieces fired with pinpoint accuracy - using only aerial photos and maths they could score a hit on the first shot. Tanks had gone from the drawing board to the battlefield in just two years, also changing war forever. Famous punctuation marks in literature Jan 21 2014 Kathryn Schulz went looking for those rare moments in literature where "punctuation pops its head up over the prose" and found five noteworthy uses. For instance, a period at the end of Primo Levi's The Periodic Table (spoilers?): "It is that which at this instant, issuing out of a labyrinthine tangle of yeses and nos, makes my hand run along a certain path on the paper, mark it with these volutes that are signs: a double snap, up and down, between two levels of energy, guides this hand of mine to impress on the paper this dot, here, this one." And Nabokov's Lolita made the list, but I expected this bit: Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. "My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three..." 80 maps that explain the world Jan 15 2014 From the Washington Post, an interesting collection of 80 maps (in two parts: one and two) that explain the world and how it works. One of my favorites is this map of actual European discoveries of land previously unknown by humans. Antarctica is all stripey on that map and I realized I didn't know who had first clapped their peepers on the only continent discovered in the last millennia, so I did some reading on the subject. From the Holy Book of Wikipedia: The first land south of the parallel 60° south latitude was discovered by the Englishman William Smith, who sighted Livingston Island on 19 February 1819. A few months later Smith returned to explore the other islands of the South Shetlands archipelago, landed on King George Island, and claimed the new territories for Britain. In the meantime, the Spanish Navy ship San Telmo sank in September 1819 when trying to cross Cape Horn. Parts of her wreckage were found months later by sealers on the north coast of Livingston Island (South Shetlands). It is unknown if some survivor managed to be the first setting foot on these Antarctic islands. The first confirmed sighting of mainland Antarctica cannot be accurately attributed to one single person. It can, however, be narrowed down to three individuals. According to various sources, three men all sighted the ice shelf or the continent within days or months of each other: von Bellingshausen, a captain in the Russian Imperial Navy; Edward Bransfield, a captain in the British navy; and Nathaniel Palmer, an American sealer out of Stonington, Connecticut. It is certain that the expedition, led by von Bellingshausen and Lazarev on the ships Vostok and Mirny, reached a point within 32 km (20 mi) from Princess Martha Coast and recorded the sight of an ice shelf at 69°21′28″S 2°14′50″W that became known as the Fimbul ice shelf. On 30 January 1820, Bransfield sighted Trinity Peninsula, the northernmost point of the Antarctic mainland, while Palmer sighted the mainland in the area south of Trinity Peninsula in November 1820. Von Bellingshausen's expedition also discovered Peter I Island and Alexander I Island, the first islands to be discovered south of the circle. Bret Victor's 2013 reading list Jan 09 2014 From Bret Victor, a reading list of meaty material from the past year. His Reading Tip #1 in the sidebar is how I'd like my ideal self to read: It's tempting to judge what you read: I agree with these statements, and I disagree with those. However, a great thinker who has spent decades on an unusual line of thought cannot induce their context into your head in a few pages. It's almost certainly the case that you don't fully understand their statements. Instead, you can say: I have now learned that there exists a worldview in which all of these statements are consistent. And if it feels worthwhile, you can make a genuine effort to understand that entire worldview. You don't have to adopt it. Just make it available to yourself, so you can make connections to it when it's needed. The best Quora answers of 2013 Dec 31 2013 Quora user Murali Krishnan sifted through Q&A site Quora for the best answers and found 270 of them. Among the topics covered are technology, gender, the meaning of life, mathematics, travel, and looks like almost everything else, including some fascinating examples of ancient technology. Looks like one of my favorites didn't make the cut: Domhnall O'Huigin's answer to What is the political situation in the Mario universe? Gift guides for millionaires Dec 16 2013 For the Oobject gift guide this year, "almost nothing is affordable". Items include a bank vault door from the 1920s ($50,000), JFK's chess set ($475,000), and a console for the Hubble Space Telescope ($75,000). It's more a nerd wish list than gift guide, the opposite of Tyler Brûlé's effort, penned from the empty upper deck (first class, naturally) of a flight to Singapore. Brûlé's earnest advice for your holiday shopping? Build a house in Australia for next year's holidaymaking: With a bit of planning and a good construction team you could surprise friends and family by commissioning Brisbane-based architects Richards & Spence to build you a little beachside compound somewhere in Queensland. This year you could roll up a set of plans to place under the tree with a promise that this time next year you'll all be wandering around in kaftans and low-slung trunks drinking fancy, fruity cocktails. A History of the Future in 100 Objects Dec 09 2013 Inspired by the A History of the World in 100 Objects project done by the BBC and the British Museum, Adrian Hon presents A History of the Future in 100 Objects, presented from the perspective of someone writing in 2082. From the introduction: Every century is extraordinary, of course. Some may be the bloodiest or the darkest; others encompass momentous social revolutions, or scientific advances, or religious and philosophical movements. The 21st century is different: it represents the first time in our history that we have truly had to question what it means to be human. It is the stories of our collective humanity that I hope to tell through the hundred objects in this book. I tell the story of how we became more connected than ever before, with objects like Babel, Silent Messaging, the Nautilus-3, and the Brain Bubble - and how we became fragmented, both physically and culturally, with the Fourth Great Awakening, and the Biomes. With the Braid Collective, the Loop, the Steward Medal, and the Rechartered Cities, we made tremendous steps forward on our long pursuit of greater equality and enlightenment -- but the Locked Simulation Interrogations, the Sudan-Shanghai Letter, the Collingwood Meteor, and the Downvoted all showed how easy it was for us to lapse back into horror and atrocity. We automated our economy with the UCS Deliverbots, the Mimic Scripts, the Negotiation Agents, and the Old Drones, destroying the entire notion of work and employment in the process; and we transformed our politics with Jorge Alvarez's Presidential Campaign, and the Constitutional Blueprints. The book is available on the Kindle. Godard's list of best American films Dec 09 2013 In the early 1960s, French director Jean-Luc Godard put together a list of the Ten Best American Sound Films. The list included: The Great Dictator (Charles Chaplin) Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock) Singin' in the Rain (Kelly-Donen) The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles) Top 25 album covers of 2013 Dec 06 2013 From Pitchfork, a list of the best album covers from 2013. My favorite is this one from Tyler, The Creator, which looks more or less like the opposite of a rap album. Jay Z's albums ranked by Jay Z Dec 05 2013 In celebration of his 44th birthday, Jay Z ranked his solo albums: Here's the annotated list: 1. Reasonable Doubt (Classic) 2. The Blueprint (Classic) 3. The Black Album (Classic) 4. Vol. 2 (Classic) 5. American Gangster (4 1/2, cohesive) 6. Magna Carta (Fuckwit, Tom Ford, Oceans, Beach, On the Run, Grail) 7. Vol. 1 (Sunshine kills this album... fuck... Streets, Where I'm from, You Must Love Me...) 8. BP3 (Sorry critics, it's good. Empire (Gave Frank a run for his money)) 9. Dynasty (Intro alone...) 10. Vol. 3 (Pimp C verse alone... oh, So Ghetto) 11. BP2 (Too many songs. Fucking Guru and Hip Hop, ha) 12. Kingdom Come (First game back, don't shoot me) List from 1898 of the 100 best novels Nov 12 2013 In 1898, an editor named Clement K. Shorter made a list of the 100 best novels (with an additional limit of one/author). 1. Don Quixote - 1604 - Miguel de Cervantes 2. The Holy War - 1682 - John Bunyan 3. Gil Blas - 1715 - Alain René le Sage 4. Robinson Crusoe - 1719 - Daniel Defoe 5. Gulliver's Travels - 1726 - Jonathan Swift 6. Roderick Random - 1748 - Tobias Smollett 7. Clarissa - 1749 - Samuel Richardson 8. Tom Jones - 1749 - Henry Fielding 9. Candide - 1756 - Françoise de Voltaire 10. Rasselas - 1759 - Samuel Johnson So much on there I've never even heard of. Compare this list with that of the best novels of the 20th century...how many of those novels and authors will readers be scratching their heads over in 2113? See also a contemporary list of the best books from before 1900. (via mr) 101 objects that made America Oct 31 2013 This month, Smithsonian magazine tells the story of America using 101 objects drawn from the 19 musuems and research centers of the Smithsonian Institution. Among the objects are the original Star Spangled Banner flag, the passenger pigeon, the polio vaccine, the pill, and Benjamin Franklin's Experiments and Observations on Electricity. A companion book, The Smithsonian's History of America in 101 Objects, is available. 50 greatest innovations since the wheel Oct 28 2013 The Atlantic asked a group of historians, scientists, and engineers to rank the 50 greatest innovations since the invention of the wheel. Here they are. 21. Nuclear fission, 1939 Gave humans new power for destruction, and creation 22. The green revolution, mid-20th century Combining technologies like synthetic fertilizers (No. 11) and scientific plant breeding (No. 38) hugely increased the world's food output. Norman Borlaug, the agricultural economist who devised this approach, has been credited with saving more than 1 billion people from starvation. 23. The sextant, 1757 It made maps out of stars. Kareem's advice for boys Oct 23 2013 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has written a list of 20 things boys can do to become men. 6. Fight your fear of the unknown. We all have a tendency to hate what we don't understand, whether it comes in the form of different food, different cultures, or different ideas. There was a Yale study in which researchers examined the brains of people as they were presented with proof that an opinion they held was wrong. MRIs showed that when those people immediately rejected the new evidence, their brains released an addictive chemical that made them feel good. In that way our own bodies are actually encouraging our ignorance and fear. Fight that impulse. Becoming a man means growing, learning, and understanding-not cowering under a blanket with a handful of comforting notions. (By the way, don't confuse physical bravery with intellectual bravery. It's easier to jump out of a plane-hopefully with a parachute-than it is to change your mind about an opinion. Acts of physical bravado will give you an initial rush, but exploring a new culture or examining a new idea will mature you and make you the kind of person others will be interested in.) How to be a man Oct 09 2013 This list of rules for the contemporary American male is both awesome and awful, seemingly written by a douchebag Dalai Lama. Some of the rules are thoughtful: Measure yourself only against your previous self. Staying angry is a waste of energy. If you believe in evolution, you should know something about how it works. And some are not: Desserts are for women. Order one and pretend you don't mind that she's eating yours. Yes, of course you have to buy her dinner. Pretty women who are unaccompanied want you to talk to them. The internet these days is chock full of must-reads, must-sees, can't-live-withouts, and lists (oh, the lists!) of things you need to do before you die. As I understand it, we are now all legally obliged to watch Breaking Bad by the end of 2013. Our prisons are already full to bursting with people who failed to watch The West Wing or The Wire when they were expressly told to. I even saw a woman prosecuted last week for not having read Gone Girl. What was she thinking? Richard Osman offers a way out of the must-see mess so that you can enjoy life again. Of 100 Greatest Novels, you can happily ignore all of them except Scoop and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. I am assuming you've already read To Kill a Mockingbird for O-level. Read Shakespeare if you want to, but you don't have to. (Though if you don't ever read him, you're not allowed to say he's rubbish. Deal?) You should probably read Great Expectations, but feel free to leave Dickens there. And I think Wuthering Heights is the only Emily Brontë novel worth reading (someone will rise to this, just you wait and see). 20 smart business notions from Jeff Bezos Sep 23 2013 The Motley Fool collected 20 snippets of business wisdom uttered by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos over the years. All businesses need to be young forever. If your customer base ages with you, you're Woolworth's. Totes agree with this, which is why I use words like "totes". (Obvs.) This is a presentation and therefore missing a bunch of key context, but Michael Dearing's The Five Cognitive Distortions of People Who Get Stuff Done is interesting reading nonetheless. The five distortions are: 1. Personal exceptionalism 2. Dichotomous thinking 3. Correct overgeneralization 4. Blank canvas thinking That last one is likely a head-scratcher to those of us without economics backgrounds; here's what Dearing has to say about it: Definition - sees creative destruction as natural, necessary, and as their vocation Benefits - fearlessness, tolerance for destruction and pain Deadly risk - heartless ambition, alienation Best special effects moments Aug 22 2013 Empire asked a group of visual effects specialists about their favorite special effect movie moments...here's what they had to say. Tim Webber (The Dark Knight, Gravity, Children of Men) picked the warehouse scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark: I love Davy Jones in Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and the T-1000 walking out of the flames in Terminator 2, but my pick is the warehouse scene at the end of Raiders Of The Lost Ark. It's just a simple matte painting, not a very complicated visual effects shot, but it was done brilliantly. A lot of the visual effects from that period look terrible now -- there are lines around things or you can see the joins on matte paintings, but that one was immaculate. I was pretty young when I watched it, but I was so impressed by the way it slowly revealed the size of the place. It's not your big, crash-bang-wallop modern visual effects shot but it has real dramatic effect. For the Journal of the American Revolution, Todd Andrlik compiled a list of the ages of the key participants in the Revolutionary War as of July 4, 1776. Many of them were surprisingly young: Marquis de Lafayette, 18 James Monroe, 18 Gilbert Stuart, 20 Aaron Burr, 20 Alexander Hamilton, 21 Betsy Ross, 24 James Madison, 25 This is kind of blowing my mind...because of the compression of history, I'd always assumed all these people were around the same age. But in thinking about it, all startups need young people...Hamilton, Lafayette, and Burr were perhaps the Gates, Jobs, and Zuckerberg of the War. Some more ages, just for reference: Thomas Jefferson, 33 John Adams, 40 Paul Revere, 41 George Washington, 44 Samuel Adams, 53 The oldest prominent participant in the Revolution, by a wide margin, was Benjamin Franklin, who was 70 years old on July 4, 1776. Franklin was a full two generations removed from the likes of Madison and Hamilton. But the oldest participant in the war was Samuel Whittemore, who fought in an early skirmish at the age of 80. I'll let Wikipedia take it from here: Whittemore was in his fields when he spotted an approaching British relief brigade under Earl Percy, sent to assist the retreat. Whittemore loaded his musket and ambushed the British from behind a nearby stone wall, killing one soldier. He then drew his dueling pistols and killed a grenadier and mortally wounded a second. By the time Whittemore had fired his third shot, a British detachment reached his position; Whittemore drew his sword and attacked. He was shot in the face, bayoneted thirteen times, and left for dead in a pool of blood. He was found alive, trying to load his musket to fight again. He was taken to Dr. Cotton Tufts of Medford, who perceived no hope for his survival. However, Whittemore lived another 18 years until dying of natural causes at the age of 98.

BREITBART — HuffPost Deputy Opinion Editor Chloe Angyal claimed the company had succeeded in its goal to have “less than 50% white authors,” on Wednesday. “Our goals for this month were: less than 50% white authors (check!), Asian representation that matches or exceeds the US population (check!), more trans and non-binary authors (check, but I want to do better),” declared Angyal in a series of Twitter posts, Wednesday. “We also wanted to raise Latinx representation to match or exceed the US population. We didn’t achieve that goal, but we’re moving firmly in the right direction.” “Making the improvements we made took work, no doubt about it,” she continued, adding, “We all tapped our networks and made moves to expand our collective rolodex.” Though the posts received hundreds of likes, Angyal received over 3,000 replies, mostly consisting of users criticizing the company for focusing on race rather than content. […]

“First we have to really think about what’s possible. Because the resistance revolution change starts in the imagination.” – Lutze B. Segu, MSW, Doctoral Student in The Institute for Gender, Race Sexuality and Social Justice at The University of British Columbia In this episode Join Lutze Segu and Vicki Saunders to chat about Lutze’s work in the social justice space. Lutze’s different roles as an activist, social worker, organizer, and racial justice facilitator have all collided in a beautiful role she describes as a social justice doula. In her own words: “I have been able to marry my knowledge, experience, and expertise into one seamless role. As a social justice doula, I facilitate racial justice workshops, provide strategic HR consulting for organizations, and offer feminist coaching to individuals. I create space for people to tell their stories and hear the stories of others so that they can be transformed. Social justice is my civic spiritual practice.” Vicki and Lutze discuss: - Systems and language surrounding “marginalized” and “victimized” groups. - Disrupting notions of venture funding. - Designing a revolutionary new world through imagination. - The origins of intersectionality. - How information gets translated through the language we use, and how to use this language to build a bridge in our relationships. “Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.” -Audre Lorde Take action & engage with Lutze Segu. Don’t miss an episode! Subscribe to the SheEO.World Podcast. The podcast is being transcribed by Otter.ai. (there may be errors, run-on sentences and misspellings). Lutze Segu 0:00 First we have to really think about what’s possible, because the resistance revolution change starts in the imagination. Vicki Saunders 0:10 Welcome to SheEO.world, a podcast about redesigning the world. I’m your host, Vicki Saunders. In each episode, you’ll hear from SheEO Venture founders—women who are working on the World’s To-Do List. These innovative business leaders are solving some of the major challenges of our time. Please sit back and be prepared to be inspired. Good morning Lutze, how are you today? Lutze Segu 0:37 I’m really good, Vicki, how are you? Vicki Saunders 0:39 Doing well, it’s a, it’s a wild and crazy time in the world, as we know. And it’s been amazing. Kind of weird circumstances to meet you under, like the racial reckoning that’s going on. And so delighted and happy to have your voice as part of the racial justice working group and your design brain. Our community is loving this so much. And, one of the things that I wanted to follow up with you on is the use of language in a lot of things that we’re doing. And then, you know, just obviously, our actions align with language, and maybe just a bit of background. So at SheEO, from the very beginning, we’ve been working towards building new models, new mindsets, so that we can get to a different world, which requires all kinds of decolonizing ourselves, shifting our thinking, it’s obviously deep, transformative work. And I think a lot of people that step into our community, are there, “Oh, this is great, because we’re dealing with the injustice of women only receiving 2% of venture capital globally,” and then it starts to unravel. It’s like the why of that is tied into so many deeper things. And everything’s rooted in the existing structures. So there’s a lot of stuff to unpack as you actually get into it. And so from the beginning, things like, you know, women aren’t writing checks to invest. And therefore, we changed the word that we use for your participation in our community. We don’t call you an investor, we call you an Activator. And then people are like, what’s that? Like? Great, okay, we get to start fresh. New behaviors around a new word. And, and then we don’t actually call you a business in our community, we call you a Venture, because we’re agnostic about the structure you come with. So one of your friends who introduced us, Wakumi, comes into the SheEO network with a charity, as she’s creating new models and solving, you know, deep injustices. And so we fund no matter what the structure you’re in. So there’s a lot of that’s a different kind of thing, too. It’s like, what, how can you change the world with a charity? Like, you can! Watch, you know. And, and so we’ve been very aware of language. And in the last few years, we’ve really been struggling with this. People use the word diversity, they use word equity, they use the word inclusion, and then we have some funding that requires us to, identify different racial and ethnic backgrounds. And there’s so much about it that just doesn’t feel right on our team, because we’re centering whiteness, and everybody else has to check a box. And so maybe we’ll just sort of start here with—you blew my mind with something beautiful—when we last talked, around, you know, people use the word “vulnerable populations” or “marginalized communities”, and you came back and you’re like, no, no, people made vulnerable. People placed at the margins. Can you talk a little bit about that language piece? And what you witness around this in the social justice space? Lutze Segu 3:45 Yeah, so in the social justice space, the work that we’re all trying to do irrespective of your race and ethnicity in your class, if you come to social justice work, I hope the goal is that you can de-center white supremacy. And you could think about all the ways that you participate in white supremacy, you’ve colluded with white supremacy, and how white supremacy has socialized you to think about the world in a very specific way. Think about yourself, and think about difference. So I am always interested in thinking about in any situation in any context. Three things, I’m thinking: how can I disrupt white supremacy, dismantle, or divest from white supremacy. And a really big thing in regards to like you’re already doing this disruption in regards to the language that SheEO is using. And so when we think about marginalized communities, that when we’re when we hear that people are automatically you know, we’re talking about black people, Indigenous people, Afro-Indigenous people, people of color, which are the vast majority of the world globally. So how is—if the world is globally black, Indigenous, Afro-indigenous, people of color—how does that then becomes the margins? The margins of what specifically? And so what I like to think about is, as I guess, people place at the margins because someone is vying for a center, someone is trying to mass produce a center, they’ve decided that this is the center, and we’re gonna push these people to the margins. That’s number one. And also, people are made vulnerable. I think we forget that poverty, patriarchy, sexism, homophobia, transphobia—these are, these are things that are engineered and architected, that are codified and upheld by system structures, thinkings, laws, you name it. And so there’s nothing inherently vulnerable about being, or at risk about being an indigenous person, or being a black person. The problem is the society that is anti-black, anti-Indigenous, that puts these folks—makes them vulnerable. So I think it’s really important to if we’re going to disrupt power, if we’re going to train ourselves to pay attention to all the invisible power that could be in a context, we have to name and make present, what we’re being forced to not see. And what we’re being forced to not see is all the ways in which communities are being made vulnerable, being put at risk and being placed at the margins. So for me when I remix, and push the limits of that language, automatically, the person who’s listening to me is like, “Oh, you said that differently. What do you mean by that?” Exactly, I want you to really think about the fact that, like, there’s nothing inherently deficient about people, quote, unquote, who are “non-white”, even that language, right. So that language is as if to be—the default human position becomes whiteness, and everyone else has to be qualified, everyone else has to go through the Hunger Games and qualify for their humanity. And this is like, and I get what that language is trying to do. But that language is also trying to uphold white supremacy at the same time. And so I just try to reject—bell hooks teaches us that language is a place of struggle. How can we be an ethical struggle, in principle struggle around our language, to think about even how we describe people how that inadvertently maintains the cages that society puts around these communities? And so, yeah, that’s, that’s where I land. And whenever we can get—and people might think, oh, you’re, that’s being too creative, that’s being too whatever. Yeah, because what it’s asking us to do? How do we get the people who fund our ventures to think differently about how they’re thinking they’re going to solve the problem? Vicki Saunders 7:49 Exactly. Yeah. I mean, I’m still deeply in a struggle around this personally, to share. As some kind of construct that people can understand the struggle to dismantle this. So I did an off the record session last night, as a test, with Australia and New Zealand Activators, to try and showcase the rules attached to funding that exist currently, and how they keep us the same or they tried to keep us the same. And so it’s great. You’ve got a new model here, and then retrofitted into the existing structures and processes, or there’s just literally no funding partners, which many people in our organization experience because we’re multi solving everything together. Because it’s the only way to do systems transformation. You can’t just do one thing. Women. Oh it’s all women? I’m like, no, it’s women working on the World’s To-Do List, with debt, that’s it, you know, and they’re like, oh, that’s too—that’s too big. Right? It’s too much to solve. Lutze Segu 8:50 But you know, what’s interesting, Vicki, no one would tell Elon Musk that, who just partnered with NASA. A private company just partnered with NASA to get astronauts into the—like no one tells men that. No one tells white men, you’re thinking too big, you’re thinking unconventionally. No one says that. And so to me, it’s just like, whenever people are thinking about giving money to women, and femmes, and non-binary people, all of a sudden, the person giving the money, all of a sudden becomes the expert. Even though the people they’re giving the money to are the actual experts. What would it look like to radically think about funding women, femmes and gender non-conforming people the way we fund white men, which is we write them blank cheques, and we allow them to be as big, as bold, as zany, as out the box, and get people to the moon and back! Right? And get people to—so it’s just like, what possibilities if people trusted women and femmes, and non-binary people to do the same thing. And so this is where we have to push against. It’s just like, we have—first of all, we experienced the world in unique ways. Therefore we have unique ideas of how we can interrupt and how we could disrupt these notions. But no one trust us enough to just give us the money. And let us be the engineers and architects of the language, the metrics, the success stories, just add in a third. And let us just get to the World’s To-Do List. We can’t get to the World’s To-Do List if patriarchy, our power, is standing in our way, always telling, trying to mitigate like how much impact we can have. And so to me it’s just like, no one tells that to tech dude bros in Silicon Valley or anywhere. And they make good things, and a lot of those venture capitals, they flounder within one to three years. Vicki Saunders 10:55 Oh yeah, they’re just—the success rate is not there. It’s all made up. It like, performs worse than municipal bonds, on average. So there’s not even a reality attached to that. It’s just very “PR it up” and makes it sound like it’s a thing. Lutze Segu 11:11 So folks are burning through a lot of money. What would it look like to give people who are put at the margins, made vulnerable, given that kind of money, to think differently and to do differently? And I feel as if we would see a much better success rate than what we see in Silicon Valley right now. Vicki Saunders 11:31 Well, yeah, and I mean, we have an example of that. We have 68 ventures we funded who are—can’t get funded in other places—who are outperforming any of their peers, and we have a lot of data on it over the last five years. But you know, the way that we started with this was, this is like, so classic, too, okay. So these are amazing ideas, and incredible women entrepreneurs who are solving major challenges or priorities for us starts with there. But the way to get people in the door, we said, You’re not getting your money back, we literally had to disrupt that. So you get you contribute $1,100 each, we crowdfund that together, and then we loan it out, it’s paid back, huge pay rack rates, and then it’s loaned out again. So we had to literally in order to disrupt your ability to like come in to try something different. We had to have you not expect to get your money back. Because then you could actually go on a journey of trying something new without controlling because there’s no control because you’re not getting back. Breathe. Right? Like I designed it that way. Now people are like, “Wow, this is amazing. Look at the community here. Look how we’re all working together. Look how incredible she’s doing.” However, if I had done it a normal way like most other people are doing, which is like create a fund for white women or black women to fund their ventures at the same market mindset exists. And so as I see, this is the “don’t add women and stir” thing. I think that’s what most people are doing. Yeah, like adding indigenous and stir, adding women and stir. And using exactly the same metrics, the same mindset, to fund those ventures is not going to work. Lutze Segu 11:31 Vicki Saunders 11:31 But like how do you, do you—Have you seen people do a good job? You’re so articulate on this, and I’m still learning this language in a way because I’ve been part of this freaking system, struggling through it my whole life, wondering what’s wrong with me. And so part of this, how to frame all of this upfront, to someone that you want to get into relationship with as a potential funder, before you say, here’s, instead of leading with, hey, here’s what we’re doing, at SheEO, It’s like, here are the things that we can’t deal with, right? And go through your list of like, you’re centering this, we’re not that. You’re, you know, working for this kind of return. That’s not what we’re doing. And it’s almost like you have to say all the “nots” up front. And that are you still with me? Do you want to still talk? Are you done? And then don’t waste my time. Right? Like, but it’s also words, it’s not embodied? So people could nod and say yes, and then turn around and be completely different the next day. Lutze Segu 13:03 Yeah, I think what I tried to do is ask adults to really tap into their imagination. What do you think is possible? Like, ’cause right now, the world we have is someone’s imagination. A very white, very male, a very violent, a very colonial settler imagination. And what I think and, I wanted to ask, because before we can even give people new language, new orientations, new way of being, first we have to really think about like what’s possible. Because the resistance revolution change starts in the imagination. So I want to know, are you the kind of person who believes the world we have is the only world we can have? We can make some cosmetic changes, but that’s it. Or I want to know, are you the kind of person who’s like, actually, when no one’s around when you give yourself full permission, I actually do believe these things are possible. And I actually, when I’m quietly washing the dishes, or driving the car, or walking the dog, I actually have some steps about how I think this particular problem could be solved. Because I’m really passionate about it. And so what I invite people to do is like, let me into your imagination. Show me what you’ve been thinking, show me what you’re passionate about. Tell me what really, like, keeps you up at night. What, really makes you sad? And I want to hear like, do you have any ideas about how you think we can intervene on that? And then from there, I see if this person can easily go to that place, then we can do something. And if that person is a little reluctant, I want to learn what’s the reluctance about. What have you been told as an adult person around imagination? What have you been told as an adult person about freedom, liberation, what have you? How has white supremacy so arrested your imagination, that you actually think it’s dangerous to even think differently inside of your head by yourself? Because I want to, I want to know that, because so many people, because the most insidious, violent thing that white supremacy does, is rob us of our imagination. And so if we can start there, what’s possible? What do you think? What are you thinking and feeling, and then I can bring you into the material world, because everything that has ever become started in someone’s imagination. From the can opener from the Tesla, from this laptop our powerful iPhones, someone gave themselves permission to go there in their mind, and brought that into the material world, and made that possible. The same way people have come up with eugenics projects, the Holocaust, chattel slavery, that came out of people’s imagination. So I want to know, where are you in your imagination? Can you radically and boldly be with that? And can my imagination connect with your imagination? And let me give you some language on how we can start to shape this world. And so that, to me, is where I think, and I don’t think it’s hokey. I don’t think it’s the kind of thing that one can’t bring into a very serious business meeting, one can’t bring into your family, one can’t bring into the classroom. We have got to encourage adults to tap into that space of creativity, if we’re going to do things differently and be different people. Vicki Saunders 17:27 Yes, yes. So much, so. Imagination in everything in particular, like there’s almost no imagination and finance. Do it the same way over and over, you know, so when we came out 0% interest loan in this perpetual fund, people are like, what is that thing? That is not in my context, like, the economy has kind of become a religion. And we’re like, go double down. Yeah, it is. Yeah. And it’s just, you know, there’s this whole transactional piece that’s in it instead of a deepened relationship. And so I deeply love the word imagination, because this is all made up. Everything is made up. Lutze Segu 18:05 Yes, it’s totally made up. Vicki Saunders 18:08 And we seem to, certainly in North America, we’ve kind of forgotten history. And so we don’t realize that, you know, 400 years ago, there was a fork in the road. And we could have gone one way or the other, you could have had these totally different worlds. We chose one philosopher over another. And then, 200 years ago, we chose one philosophy over another. And it was just a choice in a moment, it has nothing to do with “this is the only way”. And so that’s a big thing to deconstruct, too, right. And then it becomes to this, you know, the existing system we’re in has us believe that there is obviously no other way to do this, and that we are not powerful, because we’ve been led under fear—this fear for a long time. And so it’s been amazing to me to go around the world with this model, and see people wake up to the fact that oh, my God, like we literally have everything we need. If we come together, this whole thing is over. Like we can transform anything in an instant. But we’ve been so separated, and put into such individualized philosophies. Like what’s in it for me, don’t care about my neighbor. It’s been fascinating to witness there are lots of societies around the world where there’s deep community. And the difference in how people react to each other in a community based environment versus not, I mean, it’s on display every day now. Mm hmm. We just see it. Lutze Segu 19:28 I think it’s interesting that we’re here we are living through a global pandemic, that essentially forces us to reckon with the reality like these borders, we think we have between us are not real, because what happens in one part of the world, it might travel slowly, but eventually it will reach my doorstep and I too, will have to wear a mask. I too will have to quarantine. I too—it doesn’t matter where the thing started. And so if we know that, if Capital, if there’s no borders, in capital, right, we’re in a global demand, I bought a refrigerator, a month ago, it still has not been delivered because of how COVID-19 has disrupted global change, right? I’m still waiting for my refrigerator. I still can’t have freedom of movement in a very specific kind of way, because of COVID-19. So if we know those kinds of things already, why can’t we bring that to, to our other understandings of the world? Because we know, social media shows us indeed, and she sees me, I know what’s going on in my own community. And simultaneously, I know what’s going on somewhere else. Why can’t we take that kind of thinking into other aspects of our life, these borders are not real. And if they’re not real, let’s dissolve them. And let’s get to the hard work of building with each other across the globe. Because what ails my sister elsewhere, will eventually ail me, especially as North Americans and North American women and femmes. There is a way in which we are, unbeknownst to us, not that I purposely did this, but our nation states are responsible for the suffering of, of globally of other women and femmes globally. And so if I know this in a very acute way, what do I do as a citizen in North America, sitting on this side of Turtle Island, you’re sitting on the other. How do we take seriously that responsibility? And how can we make this world better? Since borders are not even technically as real and as fixed as we think they are? So there’s a lot, there’s already a lot of room there to play and think differently. If capital is global, if our cultures can be imported and exported, what else can we do? Can our consciousness can our sister good? Can our, can our feminism, whatever the thing we need that animates us, can that too be global? Vicki Saunders 22:00 And certainly we witness yes to that. Especially with Zoom, right, and technology that we have. And so it’s not getting on a plane anymore. It’s not, we are in our community have tomorrow, Canada, the UK, and the US are on a call last night Australia, New Zealand we travel, you know, around the world to meet each other on these calls, and deepen relationships and recognize difference and similarities and how we can all help each other. And that you’re really sort of one step removed from what you need. And yeah, the border is just completely gone. Now, in a way, this is another gift of the pandemic, getting us to recognize how close. I mean, it is not hard to schedule anyone for anything anymore. Really, because we’re all at home. It’s like, No, I’ll be in—Oh, I can’t say that anymore. Right? I’m right here. You got me, no problem! Yeah, this is fascinating. Okay. Let me take a little turn first. I want to go to this word, which is so used these days, and I feel it’s—what is the root of intersectionality? And what does intersectionality mean to you? I hear it thrown around an awful lot. I think it’s absolutely critical because it’s, anyway, over to you. Intersectionality. Lutze Segu 23:16 So intersectionality is, is a gift we were given from black feminist thought. So when enslaved Africans were trafficked and stolen and brought to the Americas, we have a situation in which black women were forced to really think about, “What does it look like when race intersects with gender? And what are the sufferings, the new categories of suffering that gets created when those two intersect?” And so I okay, so obviously, I’m from the United States. I am a, for real, for real, card carrying, very proud feminists right. And I like to say, you know, I’m rooted in black feminist thought, and my black feminism is very much animated by women of color feminism and indigenous feminism. And so which means, I don’t necess—in North America, we tend to think about feminism in terms of waves. I don’t actually believe in, in the concept of feminism in waves, because it does center whiteness. Because it gives us the impression that the feminist movement in North America didn’t start until bourgeois middle class white women decided, “Oh, perhaps I’m oppressed. Perhaps I should have the vote.” And in 1492, when Christopher Columbus comes to Turtle Island, indigenous women, indigenous folks have been fighting against settler colonialism, which is a very gendered project. And then you have enslaved African, who are brought over to the New World who are having to think very critically about what does it mean? To have your body be taken over, essentially by a nation state, to being asked to breed and to uphold a dehumanizing system. Like, what does it mean to think about your body and yourself in that way and so, so I think it’s really important to start there. Because intersectionality has always existed. We have in 1840, I believe, or 1804. I’m really bad with numbers, I will like mix them up. We have Sojourner Truth, who gives a talk at Seneca Falls during a women’s movement, a women’s gathering, and she’s talking about well, ain’t I a woman? Right? Because in that moment, you have these bourgeois white women talking about all these things. And she’s like, hold up, hold up, hold up. I’m a woman. I’ve had children, I’ve been enslaved. How come these sensibilities that where we’re thinking about women and womanhood, it does not apply to people like me, who look like me, and who are in my condition. So intersectionality is something that black women have been theorizing about for the past 180 years. So it’s gone from, “Ain’t I a woman?”, it’s gone from “Double Jeopardy” that concept, intersecting oppressions. And then in the 1980s, Kimberle Crenshaw, a black legal scholar, coins the term intersectionality. Essentially, it means when we think about all the social categories: race, class, gender, ability, status, citizenship, nationalism, you name it, when they intersect with each other, for certain bodies, it creates new forms of suffering and oppression. So intersectionally asks us to think about what are the different powers at play that is making this person more vulnerable, being put at risk, right? And so, so literally, that’s it. How do systems come together and create new forms of suffering? Because again, we’re never just talking about race. We’re never just talking about gender. We’re never just talking about class. These things are not distinct by themselves. They are animated by one another. And so we have to think about how do we look at that. So again, when a white woman is thinking about, there’s a way in which white women, if that white woman is practicing hegemonic, white feminism? They’re thinking—they’re just thinking about gender. Gender, gender, gender. How is my gender being impacted in the situation? However, comma, for those of us who do not have racial privilege, we’re always thinking about, how is my race interacting with my gender expression? What’s going on with my citizenship? Is there a class dynamic here? Is there all those kinds of things? So literally, how do we pay attention and train ourselves to think about the simultaneity of these different social categories? And so I understand why some feminists say they want to, they call themselves intersectional. feminists. Feminism is not an i— is not an identity. It is an analytical tool, it is a way of looking at power. I get it like some people they want, they want to signal and virt—and want to signal that, oh, I am an anti racist feminists, I’m thinking of, my feminism honors trans people, gender non-conforming people. We don’t have to use that word in that way. There’s no such thing as an intersectional. feminist. It’s an analytical tool. How do we use this tool to analyze what’s going on? Because that tool allows us to think about who are we centering right now? And how can we make whatever programming, whatever Venture, whatever Activation, whatever thing that we’re building? Who are we centering? And what are all the things we have to take seriously, if we’re going to center these particular people, this particular identity to ensure that this program benefits them the most, because if we can, if we can center people at the most who are made mar— who are put at the margin, it makes whatever we’re building better for everyone. So design theory says, when people create something for left handed people, it ends up really being that much more better for right handed folks. Why? Because you decentered the starting point, and it made whatever you were creating better for everyone else, even those who are dominant. And so that is what intersectionality forces us to think about. It’s not an identity. It’s really important. It’s a tool that all feminists should use, but we should never forget that black feminism is what gave us that because of what black feminists have to survive under chattel slavery. And the beautiful thing about intersectionality is like once you understand the groundwork of it, we can take an international approach. It can be used, it does travel to other places. And other cultures, but we don’t, we could still be be faithful to its starting point. We don’t have to obscure in a race of black people, black women at the center to make it more internationalist. So that is something I’m really, really passionate about. Because this is the thing that—this thing already exists, has already been gifted to us by black feminist thinkers to disrupt and think about power differently. Vicki Saunders 30:29 Yeah, I mean, to me, it’s very, that’s fascinating, because I feel like, as you’re sharing that and taking us on a journey through where it’s evolved, for me, intersectionality is kind of the doorway to help us think about, like, even when I think about the World’s To-Do List, people have it all decontextualized, 17 different goals all separated, pulled out from each other, but it’s actually the power is in the relationships between things, which is the intersectionality of it. Lutze Segu 30:59 Exactly. So you’re using an intersectional lens to think about the World’s To-Do List, because you understand these 17 things impact each other. There’s no way to solve one thing and isolate this one thing. And then okay, when we’re done with this one thing, we’ll get to number two, we’ll get to number three, we get to number four. No, people who are living at these intersecting oppression, that is not how we experience oppression. In this moment, when I walk into someplace, and someone treats me wrong, I can’t like, oh it’s because I’m black, oh it’s because I’m a woman, oh maybe think I’m—they can sense that I’m queer. No, in that moment, it’s all of those things interacting together. And so if, if my if my oppression is subjugation is being experienced that way, the problem solving also has to mirror that. Vicki Saunders 31:48 Right, which is and like, deconstruct that, right. It’s just like all entangled, everything tangled. And I think this, this is just a fascinating challenge. Because we’ve—everything has gotten so complex, everything is interconnected and interdependent, nothing can be pulled out and not influence the whole. And so you know, when, when I started to, I’ve been thinking about this for 25 years, this sort of model that we’ve come up with, with SheEO, like trying all different angles and experimenting, and it’s you have to do— get capital into women’s hands, you have to like, create some kind of environment where it’s different. So we call it Radical Generosity, and you come in with a different way of being with each other. And then we look at what is the power with instead of power over and so every single person who contributes capital has one vote, it’s no expert in finance decides over some, a grandmother of a 14 year old who maybe doesn’t have the financial chops, but it’s the collective intelligence that does it. And then it’s being in the right relationship with each other. And it’s then the commitment to transform yourself, because you have no control over these Ventures, you show up and you support them on their own terms, like all these pieces, and people like oh my god, like, Can I just write a check? Like, why do you have to tell me all this stuff? It’s like, way too much. But I was kind of hoping we could just do that. Right? Underneath this model is a ton of intention and design, it’s very intersectional. And like, to literally unweave that for everybody and show all of the initial—I’ve been like, it’s just too much for people’s brains. And now I’m like, no, we have to do it. Like, it’s the only way to get where we need to go, we have to deeply—like we have to go deep into ourselves to embody all these things. Because otherwise you can participate, but if you’re not embodying it, it shows up fast. Someone’s grumpy to somebody else, someone tries to put control over someone’s—they don’t like what they’re doing. Like, you have to actually expose all of this stuff, or interrogate it, maybe to use some of your words. And, yeah, it’s interesting. Lutze Segu 33:55 Yeah we do have to, we do have to interrogate because the, the systems that got us to this place, is also complex. So if we think we’re going to intervene, patriarchy, and how patriarchy dictates how women, femmes and gender expansive people get funded or become leaders, we’re going to have to have a complex set of problem solving tools to intervene against that. And so although it looks like there’s not a lot of thought, because these power structures have been up for so long, so it just looks like you know, we don’t even see how all the hands that are upholding them. But those systems are equally as complex. And so we have to meet that complexity with our own level of complexity to if we’re going to flatten power, if we’re going to make this more circular, and if we’re going to divest from the hierarchies and treating difference as if it’s a deficiency. And so I just think what, the difference is, there’s other people making those complex white supremacist decisions for you. And what you’re inviting people to do here is just like, No, no, no, the power is in your hand. It’s like the Wizard of Oz, it’s you. There’s no wizard, you know, you had it all along, you just now have to—now that you have it, you have to think about, well what are you going to do with this power? How are you going to shape it? How are you going to be with it in a way that’s radically different the blueprint you’ve been given? And so as North Americans, because we love our easy, we love to outsource everything if possible, now, we’re asking people, no, no, no, you’re not going to outsource that there’s no app for that, you actually have to be mindful and present. And you have to ask yourself, okay, so what am I going to do different? Am I going to go right? Or am I going to go left? And so, which is a, that’s a hard orientation for we North Americans to get back into. Because you know, if it can be outsourced, we will do that. If there’s an app for that, I will pay the exorbitant amount of service fees, just so I can avoid doing that thing. Vicki Saunders 36:08 Right, totally. Oh, absolutely. And I mean, it is interesting, too, that this is seems to be really rising up during the pandemic, right? Racial reckoning, all of these things, the curtain is being pulled back, and unveiling everything. And we have time. Right. We are not over scheduled like normal, maybe some people are. But we have time to actually do that. And to show up, and to our moment of technology that allows us to connect with those who have it. That’s still a big issue in some places. And so as we are working through this, one of the challenges that we’ve been having is, so, I talked to you about this a little bit before, naming all of the identities. Like I’ve got my hands all like lined up, right? Naming all of the identities to, in order to really articulate “everyone is welcome”. Or, these groups are welcome here. So you have interesting language around this. And each time I talk to you, I feel like you’re using different words too. Because we’re evolving right? Yes. Like, each week, you’re like, Okay, I’m not gonna say that anymore. I’m changing it to this. Last week, you said “don’t say BIPOC, say, black, Indigenous, afro-indigenous, people of color.” And at the end of the sentence, you said, “This week”. And I laughed, and I thought, okay, so get your editing pen out, like you’re changing as you learn more, as you pay more attention to things, right, we’re adding to these and so this, thought you had such a great line, you’re like be specific, without homogenizing. I really love that. Lutze Segu 37:50 Yeah, it’s really important for us to be specific without homogenizing. So BIPOC, people of color, beautiful terms when we’re thinking about spaces, right. But when we’re thinking about if I’m writing a white paper, if I’m writing something specific, if I’m writing a report for someone, I think in those spaces, it’s just better to think about, well, who who does this thing that I’m talking about? What identities does it seek to center? And for me, BIPOC doesn’t quite land for me. Now for some people, they love it, it works really well. But as I’m thinking about it, especially from a North American context, there is a way sometimes we like to do is like black people over here, Indigenous people over here. And I sometimes I think BIPOC is inadvertently making making it seem like there’s a border between those two, and forgetting that there are, first of all, there are Indigenous people wherever there have been people, right and right now, we’re just talking about Indigenous folks to North America. But like, black people are indigenous to a place. There are all sorts of Indigenous people. So just even our concept of indigeneity we have to be really careful that we’re not like, when we think of indigeneity that we’re not only thinking about one kind of person, one kind of body. So that’s number one. Number two, forgetting that, especially, like I’m here in South Florida. The Seminole tribe came to be of Indigenous people partnering with black folk. And so that is how that tribe came to be. So that’s really powerful. So right there. There’s no border. There’s no fixed border between black people and Indigenous people in that way. And so for me, I think BIPOC, I see what it’s trying to do, but it misses—but what if you’re Afro Indigenous? What about those people? And so for me when I’m thinking, how do I think okay, I’m thinking about black people, Indigenous people, Afro indigenous people and people of color, for me—it’s not a sexy acronym, right? But it works. For me, because I’m not actually trying to be sexy or efficient in my language, what I’m trying to be is effective, and what I’m trying to be as clear in my language. And this is where I would say my ancestral mentor Audre Lorde, becomes really important in this way, is just like thinking about, how do we talk about difference in a way that doesn’t ask any one group to obscure themselves or make themselves smaller for our benefit, whatever that benefit is. And so, in a world of acronyms, in a world of efficiency, in the world of, we’re trying to fit everything within these characters, I am actually rejecting the impulse to cut corners. And I’m actually, Okay, let’s list the people out, let’s list their identities, comma, comma, comma, comma, comma, because that’s important. And that is how I be—and that is how I ensure that I keep myself honest, and engaged in a feminist ethic of who do I need? Who am I talking to? And again, intersectionality does ask us to be specific, when we’re talking about colonialism. We’re talking about colonialism. When we’re talking about nationalism, we’re talking about nationalism. When we’re talking about race, we’re talking about racial and class work, like, we can’t use these words as umbrella terms and switch them out when you want. Because it actually causes harm, we need to be we need to be clear about what is the harm that we’re talking to? What’s the thing that we’re trying to disrupt? Who are the people that we’re trying to center in those kinds of ways? And so for me, that’s important to my feminist ethic, like I said, like I can’t, I’m not, I don’t have no alternative acronyms to BIPOC. But what I do have is, who are we talking about? Even when we’re talking about LGBTQIA? Right, which is, I sometimes I get a little annoyed when that’s being spoken about, because if you’re talking about gay men, you’re talking about lesbians, or if you’re talking about cis-queer folks, just say that. Because there are times when we’re only talking about cis-queer folks, and people will haphazardly throw in the tea, but we’re actually not talking about the tea. We’re actually not talking about that. So if we’re fancy people with our fancy English language, fancy degrees and everything, let’s take the time to be clear. Who and what are we talking about? And so I end up this—the pandemic has been forcing me to really slow down and be like, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, Lutze. This is internet speak? What do you mean? And how do I move away from internet speak? And really be clear about, ethically, who am I talking about? What am I talking about? What’s my golden objective here? And let’s get clear, and what language do I need to use? And if there’s no fancy acronym, that’s fine. Just use the words, that we whatever? And can I bring other ideas to animate the thing that I’m trying to say, to get my reader to understand where my impulse. where my intellectual impulse is coming from? So that’s my long answer. Vicki Saunders 43:16 Great. Yeah. I mean, it’s quite fascinating, because you’re clearly, you know, deeply in the work of all of these words. This is your, your academic background, right? I mean, you really have a deep deep rooting in it. And as we were starting to talk more about women, gender-expansive, gender non-binary being welcome to apply at SheEO, like who’s welcome to apply at SheEO? And so we started to—we’ve been working on the language and what we want to say, and it’s been evolving over the last couple of years. And so we put this out to one of the countries that just had voting. And we said, cis, trans, I can’t remember exactly all of the pieces that we used, and because I’m still working om all this in my brain, and one of the one of the women wrote back and said, I don’t know what cis is, are women allowed to apply? Like in her term? And it was just, it’s one of these like, there’s, these terms are so new for so many people. And depending on where you are in the world, this is just not a conversation. Lutze Segu 44:24 Exactly. Until that as, okay, so I’m glad that you say that because I am obviously operating in a very particular kind of bubble. I’m constant—for the most part, I am talking to people who have a very social justice orientation. People in academia, whether it be a student or professors is that in a third. And so there is a way I get socialized to speak and just throw out this jargon. And even in those terms, even when I use the acronym, I know that those people are going to do the intellectual heavy work and deconstruct that. But actually, what about everyone else who’s not in that bubble? How do I get them to understand what I’m talking about? And so that is why I’m trying to move away from these things. Because ideas travel, like my ideas in a very specific way., and the reach I’m having on the internet is traveling. And I want people, yes, people can Google. But like, if you don’t have the proper structures and frameworks, Googling might create more of a mess, not making less of a mess. And so, to me, it’s like I’m thinking about how can my language be more inviting to everyone? And to be more democratized? Like you didn’t have to, you don’t have to be part of the fancy schmancy social justice in crowd to understand what I’m talking about, because what I’m talking about is way more important than the acronyms and those kinds of things. And so how do we remember that there are still so many people to invite into this way of thinking into this way of being. And if language is going to be their first reception in their welcome? We need to do a lot of work around: how clear is this language? Vicki Saunders 46:08 Yeah, yeah, I mean, and that’s a real struggle with us. We have people ages 14 to 96. Like just a total range of age, stage, experience, background. And we’re always, I mean, on our Venture applications, our big thing is, you know, only 10 questions, no pitch decks, no jargon, and no attachments. And people, and so you have speak from the heart, about what you’re doing. Lutze Segu 46:34 Oh, my goodness, that sounds so hard. Vicki Saunders 46:36 It is, it is. Well, exactly. That’s the point, right? Like literally no jargon. So someone has to understand what you’re saying no matter where they’re coming from. And that’s really tough to do. And so if you know, people go cut and paste their bio, or use, you know, my go to market strategy’s, blah, blah, blah, and people are like, what’s that? I don’t know what that means. And so you don’t get voted for. If you come in with that. And if you’re deeply understandable, and you know—how do you make money? Who are you in the world? And why are you the person to solve this problem? If you can say that in a, like a deeply moving way you get voted for. And if you’re like, la, la, la, all in your head not embodied, you’re toast. You know, and you may have the best business idea in the world, but like, hey, if you can’t communicate that it doesn’t work here. Lutze Segu 47:17 Right? Right. If you could only communicate it to your in group. What—how does that serve of the overall project? And I think sometimes for those of us who are very justice oriented, yes, our language is beautiful, and it does speak, our language is powerful. And sometimes it creates—it doesn’t create more opening for more people to want to come in and join us in this radical imagination and thinking about the world differently. Vicki Saunders 47:48 Yeah, it’s interesting, because it like, personally, I’m sitting here thinking, man, like, I better not say the wrong word. Like a little bit, right? I have a bit of that in me. And I, because there’s, there’s a lot more learning, I need to do that. Understand that the soup I’m living in, for sure. And I live in the imagination side. I can dream up new shit every single day. That’s what I do. I love coming up. And I don’t think in a traditional way, but I don’t have the words for what those things are. You know what I mean? So I’m like, Oh, Lutze’s giving me a whole new dictionary. I’m really learning different words. Like I—just this phrase, it’s like, you know, decolonization is not a metaphor, you said to me last week, and I like, deconstructed the crap out of that, trying to understand what that meant. Right. It didn’t it didn’t flow to me immediately into a, “oh, yeah, I get that”. I had to think about that. What did she mean by metaphor? And what do you mean by—you know? It’s—because it’s, it is to your point, it’s a—we’re living in different bubbles. And how do we—yeah. Lutze Segu 48:46 And so, so if we know, we live in a very interdependent world, there are not a lot of borders, borders are not real and fixed the way we think. What does it look like, that even when I’m using all of these different words, how can I, how can we set up a parameter that we can be in right relationship with each other? That even if you did use the wrong word, I would just be like, no, no, Vicki, not that word, but this word or, let’s think about it differently. Let’s do those kind of things. Like how do we change like, I guess what I’m trying to say ,we’ve all been socialized in this white supremacist world. I am a little, maybe far ahead on my journey. That doesn’t mean I’m not constantly having to deconstruct. And the reason why I, if you talk to me week to week, month to month, you might hear different shifting is because I’m taking seriously. I am in a, in a practice of self reflecting about, “Am I clear? Am I as clear as I can be right now in this moment?” Right. And so because I understand how deeply I am swimming in the waters of white supremacy, and how that’s dictated my language. However, in thinking about how I want my language to be open and clear, I also want to think about how do I invite people to ask actually ask me questions. It’s like you use this word, why? Why are you—why? You use this phrase? Like, I’ve never heard that phrase? What do you think and feel about that phrase? Not that I’m trying to create some difference or hierarchy, or like, I’m over here, you’re over here. I actually want people to do mental gymnastics when they’re talking to me, so that I leave impressions upon them, so that they’re thinking about things differently. And I do want people to be like, Lutze, girl, what are you talking about? What do you mean by that? And because, um, because we’re building, so if we’re gonna build a new world, I have—you have to ask me, your imagination—invite me into your imagination, and I’ll invite you into mine. Invite me into your lexicon, and I’ll invite you into mine and let’s see, what can we make together? Because I don’t, because that’s, that’s the hard thing about this social justice thing. Because for some of us who are a little bit more adept at this language, I’m not trying to create a distance between myself and my audience in my, in the people I want to build with. I genuinely want to build with people, and how do we all call on our courage to be like, I don’t understand that word you just used because no matter how clear I’m trying to be, I’m also like, operating from here. I don’t know what’s clear for other people. And so I hope we all can like, really call on our courage to ask people, this, your language in this moment is probably creating a border, when you’re probably trying to create a bridge. I want to people to be like, girl, let the bridge down. Like explain that a little bit more for me, because I don’t want to recreating—I don’t want to recreate these borders with, like this. Because again, I—as someone who’s getting closer to becoming “Dr. Segu”, I’m not really interested in being that pretentious and that ridiculous. Vicki Saunders 51:57 Yeah, well, and for me, like this is the underlying piece of this concept of Radical Generosity that we have at SheEO, like if you assume like when you come into our network, you’re signing on to practice that. And so if we are in relationship together, in the spirit of Radical Generosity, I feel way safer saying stuff. Yeah, you know what I mean? And so that’s, that’s the thinking underneath the philosophy that we use. And youe used the word, which is absolutely the beautiful word courage. You know, know that it’s like, if you step into that you will be deeply rewarded in a deeper relationship with Lutze. Learning more about our intersectionality and how we can together, that ripple that out to the collective communities that we’re working with and have a bigger impact. And so, you know, like, every day, I do exactly the same thing that’s why I noticed with you, the changing of words, it’s like last week, we said this, and we, our one-liner changed again, did we just change our one-liner? Saunders, what are you doing? Because I know that I’m putting it out there to see what gets impact. What comes back? Where does, where do I get a feedback loop? Oh, okay. That’s resonating. That thing isn’t, like it’s just not resonating. Which is why the change of it because it’s about the transformation. Right. And it’s about understanding. All of this is about the transformation, understanding and getting into relationship. And if people aren’t resonating, you have to shift yourself, shift your language, try and figure out what that is to unlock that deeper relationship. I mean, that for me, is everything. It’s like if we can get into deep relationship, and we can create these spaces that, you know, Radically Generous spaces I’ll use instead of state because I know that’s not a word that works for a lot of people. Then we can actually show up a little bit differently. Yes, there’s permission to actually bring out the imagination that isn’t safe to say sometimes, or bring out the question mark. I had no idea what you just said. But yeah, it requires, it requires some relationship building. This is our second call. I’m like, into you. Really, I’m really, I’m stretched in our conversations, which I really love. And it leaves me with lots of questions. And it leaves me with lots of things to explore. Lutze Segu 54:11 Well, I mean, that’s why I’m the social justice doula, right? I’m really literally trying to doula folks into new ways and being transformed. And again, whenever I can be in these conversation, it forces me to be like, ha, before I pick up this word. Is this the most clear I can be is in this moment? Because again, I’m married to my transformation and my evolution, not my ideas. Ideas come and go. And if I am a really—if I’m serious about engaging with active learning, ideas are supposed to come and go. So I don’t take it personally when an idea I had last week has outgrown itself this week. I don’t take that personally at all. So I’m okay with letting stuff go and trying on new things and practicing new ways of being. Like I’m totally okay with that. Vicki Saunders 55:03 Awesome. Okay, well on that note, to be continued. Thank you so much. This was awesome. It’s amazing—how can people find you? Lutze Segu 55:13 You can find me on LutzeSegu.com. You can find me @thesocialjusticedoula on Instagram. I am pretty much any and everywhere on the internet, you can follow my public stuff on Facebook under Lutze Segu, that’s L-U-T-Z-E S-E-G-U. I’m pretty accessible. So find me. And let’s talk and let’s learn together and let’s unearn together. Vicki Saunders 55:39 Thanks. Thank you so much, Lutze. Thank you for listening to the SheEO.world podcast. If this conversation resonated with you, please share it with a friend and subscribe on your favorite podcast player. If you’d like more information about SheEO, please visit our website at SheEO.world. That’s S-H-E-E-O dot world.

|Date||Speaker Name||Topic||Role and Institution||What is your talk about||Brief Biography||Your website - so we can publicise it||Phone number||need accom?||Travelling from/mode||Misc Notes||Presentation Formats| |Mon 28 Mar||Dr. Sarah Clement||GMOs From An Environmental Perspective||Researcher, Murdoch University (Australia)||It's clear to everyone that we have problems with our food system. Among the most critical of these is the need to feed a growing population whilst also protecting the environment. Genetically modified crops have been hailed as both a saviour and a villain in this discussion. The media has put a spotlight on the two extreme ends of this polarised debate, with agricultural corporations on one side and internet celebrities like Food Babe on the other. This talk will focus on that neglected grey area in between, including what we know about the environmental impacts and how we might translate scientific data and societal values into pragmatic public policy.||Sarah has undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Environmental Science. After discovering she was less interested in understanding "the environment" as a separate entity, independent from society, her career has focused on examining the space where social and ecological systems overlap. She has worked as a researcher examining the biophysical, social and policy dimensions of environmental problems since 2002. | Sarah was born and raised in the US, where she awkwardly grew up in a small Midwestern town as an atheist and a natural skeptic. It wasn't until she moved to Australia, however, that she discovered there was not only a term for her constant questioning, but an entire movement. She became active with the Perth Skeptics as one of its organisers. She now resides in the UK; and after her lifetime tour of the colonies, she likes to think she's returned to the motherland. |Tue 29 Mar||Prof. William Naphy||How Many Genders Are There? - Non-Binary Cultures||Professor of Early Modern History & Dean for North American Affairs||Professor Naphy's talk will examine cultures which historically and contemporaneously have more than two genders. In particular, the talk will consider how these societally constructed genders are understood within their society and the socio-cultural gender roles associated with them. The talk will suggest that these traditional non-binary understandings of gender are being eroded and changed by Western concepts of sexuality which have developed in a strictly binary understanding of gender.||Having received degrees in Latin and Historical Theology from US institutions, Professor Naphy moved to Scotland to complete his doctoral studies at the University of St Andrews in Reformation History. Subsequently, he worked at New College (Edinburgh) and the University of Manchester before taking up his post at the University of Aberdeen in 1996. He is the author of numerous works on early modern history including 'Calvin and the Consolidation of the Genevan Reformation', and 'Born to be Gay: A History of Homosexuality'. He has appeared frequently in television documentaries including 'Art and Soul' presented by Richard Holloway (Primus Emeritus, Scottish Episcopal Church) and is regularly interviewed on television, radio and print media relating to issues of sexuality and gender in history and contemporary society.||http://www.abdn.ac.uk/sdhp/people/profiles/w.g.naphy||N/A| |Wed 30 Mar||Dr. Andrew Princep||Discovering the Materials of Tomorrow using the Techniques of Today||Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Quantum Materials, Oxford University||How do we know that DNA is a double-helix? Why is diamond beautiful but graphite is boring, when they are both made of carbon? Why are there no room-temperature superconductors? These are all questions from the field of materials physics, and their answers are what drive our understanding of everything from flexible computer screens, advanced drug delivery, and how powerful the next generation of iPhone will be. | I will talk about the techniques that scientists use to look at materials on the atomic level, and how this knowledge helps us to better understand the materials we already know, so that we can dream up new materials to tackle the problems of the future. |I grew up in Western Australia where I graduated from Curtin University of Western Australia with an Honours degree in Nanotechnology in 2008, before completing my PhD in Physics at UNSW Canberra in 2012 and finally taking up my current position as a Postdoc at Oxford University. ||https://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/contacts/people/princep||PPT| |Thu 31 Mar||Ash Pryce||How To Be A Psychic Conman||Entertainer. Founder of Edinburgh Skeptics.||Roll up! Roll up! Roll up! Gather ye round the traveling caravan, as Snake Oil Salesman Ash Pryce demonstrates the miraculous curative abilities of psychic surgery, taught to your humble trickster by a wise man in the Philippines. See with wonder of the telekinetic forces at work as you learn how to move objects with your mind, psychically predict the outcome of the historic Zener Cards and read the minds of your peers. A part magic, all skeptic look at a history of supernatural charlatanism.||Ash Pryce is a performer and director based in Scotland. He has written and staged several skeptically themed shows looking at myths & legends, ghosts, psychics and mediumship as well as producing full plays ranging from Faustus to more contemporary original shows in Edinburgh. He is the founder of Edinburgh Skeptics, the newly started History in the Pub Edinburgh, and runs what is believed to be the worlds first skeptical ghost tour every Fringe. He lives just outside of Edinburgh with his four Degus, one of which holds a grudge against him.| "Ash Pryce is a naturally funny guy and won't allow his audience to be bored" "Very entertaining" - edfringereview |www.ashpryce.co.uk||@PsychicConman||Only green M&Ms please.||PPT| |Mon 4 Apr||Tracey Jolliffe||Syphilis: One night with Venus, a lifetime with Mercury||NHS Scotland| Edinburgh Skeptics Society regular |Syphilis is one of the oldest known sexually transmitted diseases, and is thought to have been imported from America to Europe in the fifteenth century. Syphilis still infects over five million people annually, and results in over 100,000 deaths. This talk will look at the history of this infection, the part it’s played in society and culture, together with it’s sometimes infamous place in history. We will, of course, look at the science too!||Following a long career as a Veterinary Nurse, I retrained as a microbiologist. Although previously I worked in a couple of government research facilities, I now work in the NHS as a Biomedical Scientist, which is nowhere near as grand as it sounds. | Outside of work, my life (and home) is filled with bats. I am an official, card carrying, slightly fanatical, bat lady. My spare room houses a bat hospital, to which I admit sick and injured bats from across Scotland. I would dearly like to live in a world where people are kind to each other, rudeness doesn’t exist, and I can wear black without it getting covered in cat hair. My hobbies include housework and washing the car, but sadly I’m usually too busy reading and baking cakes to spend much time on them. I like to go to the gym three times a week, but have missed the last 673 times. |Tue 5 Apr||Dr. Stuart Ritchie||The Biology Of Crime||Postdoctoral Fellow in Psychology, University of Edinburgh||What makes people commit crime? Are there genetic factors that predispose people to violence? What’s different about the brains (and the psychology) of murderers? And if we can use biology to predict people’s chances of committing a crime in the future, how close are we to the dystopian science-fiction of ‘Minority Report’? In this talk, Dr. Stuart Ritchie (Research Fellow in Psychology, The University of Edinburgh) will discuss the latest scientific evidence from neuroscience, genetics, physiology, and more. He’ll ask how the biology of crime interacts with social and cultural forces to produce rule-breaking, aggression, violence, and even murder||Stuart Ritchie is a postdoctoral fellow in the Psychology Department at the University of Edinburgh. He researches how intelligence changes across the lifespan, and how it relates to genetics, the brain, and education.| His research has been published in journals such as the Current Biology, Journal of Neuroscience, and Psychological Science. |Wed 6 Apr||Dr. Eric Stoddart||Big Data, Big Brother, Big Problem?||Lecturer in the School of Divinity and Associate Director, Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics, University of St Andrews.||It's easy to be alarmist about the spread of surveillance technologies into many areas of everyday life. Orwell's 'Big Brother' is a popular image but it doesn't really get us too far in taking a sober critical stance towards surveillance in its multi-faceted guises. There's a lot of value in drawing on privacy rights as a way of challenging extensive technological systems that treat us as objects from which data is scraped and on which basis we are then categorised and acted upon. However, I'm suggesting that thinking about our (in)visibility - the skill we have in managing our visibility in relation to people and institutions - gives us an additional dimension to addressing significant concerns about cultures of surveillance. Considering (in)visibility also takes us quickly into questions of social justice where surveillance is disproportionately targeted at already marginalised groups of people. This means we start thinking about the negative (and possibly positive) effects of surveillance upon the Common Good. Surveillance isn't all bad so we need a critical approach that doesn't spiral into alarmist panics. I'm going to explore what just such a response might need to look like.||I grew up in Aberdeen where I also went to university - both for undergraduate and postgraduate studies. Moving into academic positions later in life I've been at the University of St Andrews for the past ten years. Since about 2008 I've been researching surveillance and publishing largely on the ethics of this everyday phenomenon. With a colleague from Sweden I'm currently developing an international research network to focus specifically on issues of surveillance and religion.||http://ericstoddart.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/||es61andrews||I'll bring my Mac, but I will bring all necesary cables too| |Thu 7 Apr||Agnes Török||If You're Happy and You Know It - Take This Survey||Spoken word poet, poetry event organiser and happiness researcher||A warm and funny, personal and political spoken word show about searching for happiness in strange and scientific places. By critically acclaimed YouTube sensation Agnes Török, winner of the 2014 Best International Spoken Word Show Award and the 2015 Best Wellbeing Show Award at the Edinburgh Fringe (PBH). Praise for the show includes| "The audience are enraptured" - FeministFest "Wit, warmth and wisdom aplenty" - The Scotsman |Agnes Török is a spoken word performer, workshop leader, event organiser and happiness researcher. She is the winner of multiple Poetry Slams in three different countries and two different languages. Török has been featured as a TED speaker, on The Today Programme and BBC Radio Scotland. Her poem 'Worthless' about Austerity Britain went viral this summer and was translated into ten languages by volunteers from around the world. Her two acclaimed one-woman spoken word shows ‘Sorry I Don’t Speak Culture’ and ‘If You’re Happy and You Know It Take This Survey’ have been awarded the Best International Spoken Word Show Award (2014) and the Best Wellbeing Show Award (2015) at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (PBH). Her best ever gigs were in a muddy Nepalese classroom and an Edinburgh Bingo Hall.||www.agnestorok.org||@AgnesTorokPoet||Not applicable, I don't have a presentation|

By Matt Hartman DSA’s recent growth has been well celebrated. But while it is a sign of hope, it would be a mistake to assume that this path will lead to the socialist movement we want, because who is joining DSA and how they relate to the rest of the world is just as important as how many of us there are. To be clear, the “Bernie Bro” narrative painting DSA as a monolithically white and male organization is a fallacy that erases the many and longstanding contributions of socialist women and people of color. But there is a kernel of truth to it that has allowed it to take hold: exact demographics aren’t available, but it’s undeniable that DSA’s membership is whiter, richer, and more masculine than the working class we’re working for. To succeed in the long term, we must address that problem at the root by prioritizing organizing projects that create material connections between the everyday lives of DSA members and the working class more broadly. To even begin doing so, we must admit the limitations of our current growth. We can’t just point to our members who are women and people of color as counterexamples, because individual members cannot refute our demographic shortcomings anymore than the existence of rich Black individuals refutes widespread racial wealth disparities. But the problem is deeper than that as well, because even those who admit the problem too often focus on solutions that don’t actually combat the fundamental issue. For instance, one commonly proposed solution is antiracism trainings. Certainly these trainings can help give individuals a better understanding of US racial history and the nature of oppression, and in doing so could help DSA members behave in more welcoming ways. But, at core, this approach is about individuals, and as such can have no effect on the broader structural issues in our society that make it so incredibly difficult to build an interracial movement. The fact is that DSA is struggling to diversify its membership in large part (though by no means exclusively) because the society we are trying to organize is segregated. But no amount of training can overcome sociological realities. Even worse, these kinds of trainings can be expensive and time consuming, which ensures that their audience tends to be white and relatively wealthy. To be useful, then, individual-focused projects like antiracism trainings must take a backseat to other approaches that address the things lying behind DSA’s demographics—namely, the fact that the people who are joining tend to be disconnected from any broader community, and thus are people who are led to join because they identify with the group culturally. Jacobin publisher and DSA vice chair Bhaskar Sunkara explained the problem well in an interview on Jacobin Radio: Right now, a lot of the people being drawn to the Left are people being drawn from the middle classes or the declassed sons and daughters of the professional class. They’re not being drawn to the movement as workers or through the process of industrial collective action…[I]f the new socialist movement means people getting recruited in ones and twos [often from social media] and not leaving their strata, not figuring out how to relate to a broader labor movement or a broader working-class current, then we’re in trouble. DSA’s role must be to provide deeper connections between these socialist-leaning individuals. And doing so, as Sunkara noted, is a “question of rootedness and power and leverage.” As an organization, DSA must work to build the ties of trust and solidarity that don’t already exist in the world, especially those between downwardly mobile white middle class men and working class communities of color, especially their women, trans, and non-binary folks. But doing so is only possible if we think in terms of socio-economic structures and classes, not in terms of individuals and their personal knowledge. After all, that was Marx’s basic logic in assigning such importance to the proletariat: it wasn’t that they were more capable, as individuals, of building a better world; it’s that they had stronger connections to each other because they lived and worked in close physical and emotional proximity with each other, which gave them leverage over the people in power (if they could organize sufficiently to use it). Today, the right-wing attack on unions, the resegregation of public schools, suburbanization, the decline of religious attendance, and other broad socio-economic trends have complicated matters, but that only means that our challenge, as an organization, is to find a way to rebuild them. To do so, we must prioritize projects that respond to the needs of these communities within their daily lives, rather than asking them to take time out of their days to attend our meetings or support our campaigns on our terms—something that’s viable only after there’s some semblance of the solidarity we must build. One promising example is solidarity economy projects, which create cooperatively owned, democratically run businesses. These businesses should bridge the gap between DSA’s current members and the working class more broadly, creating spaces in which people can join in broad, intergender, interracial, interclass groups to work together, side-by-side, in their daily lives. Encampments like Occupy, protests, and election campaigns all have a role, but they are all inherently temporary spaces, which limits their ability to make lasting connections. Solidarity economy projects, on the other hand, can politicize everyday issues, building these connections into the fabric of life. For instance, my chapter is working to start a community land trust in Wake County, North Carolina, which would not only provide much needed affordable housing in the area, but would also create space in which our chapter can work together with a community who doesn’t already feel a connection to DSA. We hope to provide a material benefit to oppressed communities while building the trust and solidarity that provides the base for a socialist movement. Similarly, if DSA members can help workers start their own co-op businesses or provide needed services like dependent care through co-ops, we can build deeper, more permanent connections that will allow the organization to expand organically by meeting the needs of the working class. Other projects can fulfill the same function. There are unions, of course, and not just labor unions: the New York City DSA chapter is working with a tenants’ union in a gentrifying neighborhood. Similarly, DSA members in gentrifying neighborhoods might create community watch–type organizations for immigrant defense or abortion support networks. The specific projects should match whatever that community’s needs are and should be done with their input, creating the space for DSA to work with those community members on their terms. DSA’s most promising aspect is its mass appeal, which is a welcome change to the often insular world of leftist politics. But that appeal also opens us up to new dangers other socialist groups don’t face. In particular, it means our growth is more inclined to follow the flows of the capitalist system we’re working within, expanding through the cultural networks that treat politics as a kind of identity to be consumed through social media and training courses. To ensure DSA’s popular vision retains its socialist principles, we must prioritize projects that actively resist that individualized thinking, creating lasting, material connections between our members and the broader working class. Matt Hartman is a member of North Carolina Piedmont DSA. Individually signed posts do not necessarily reflect the views of DSA as an organization or its leadership. Democratic Left blog post submission guidelines can be found here.

A Polish brewery has launched the world’s first “vagina beer”. Let’s not make this a trend, please? Ever since the exposé of the Donald Trump Access Hollywood tape, in which the then-presidential candidate was heard boasting about grabbing women’s genitals, women have been exulting the power of the vagina. At countless anti-Trump demonstrations around the world, women have donned pink pussy hats and carried placards reading messages like “I’d call you a c**t, but you don’t have the depth or the warmth”. More than four decades after avant-garde artist Shigeko Kubota created her famous performance piece Vagina Painting, vagina-centric feminism is cool once more. This kind of vagina valorisation has its critics, not least people who think it excludes trans women and non-binary individuals. Personally, as a cis woman, I’ve always felt a little weirded out by the notion that my perfectly ordinary vagina is some kind of mystical portal imbued with untold feminist powers. For starters, this idea collapses in on itself as soon as you consider all the vagina-equipped women currently propping up the Trump administration, or writing vitriolic anti-women hit pieces for The Daily Mail. My vagina is a part of me, but it doesn’t define my identity as a woman or my feminism. At the same time, I understand why many cis women do want to celebrate what’s underneath their trousers. Vaginal issues are still dangerously stigmatised in mainstream society: more than a third of UK women aged 25-35 have delayed a smear test because of embarrassment, according to Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust, while a survey by gynaecological cancer research charity Eve Appeal found that 65% of women “have a problem using the words vagina or vulva”. When you think about all the things that women with vaginas can go through – from giving birth to enduring painful conditions such as vaginismus and surviving FGM – it’s not surprising that so many see their genitalia as a symbol of strength. But if you are a woman who’s partial to a ‘Pussy Power’ T-shirt or Etsy-bought vulva mug, I would ask that you steer clear of the latest trend in vagina merchandise: vagina beer. That’s right. According to multiple reports, a Polish brewery called The Order of Yoni recently started selling a lager imbued with lactic acid from women’s vaginas. The controversial beer company first gained international attention back in 2016, when it began seeking financial backing for the ‘vagina beer’ on crowdfunding platform Indiegogo. Perhaps unsurprisingly, that crowdfunding effort was unsuccessful: Wojtek Mann, The Order of Yoni’s founder, says he was only able to raise 1578 euros (£1,400) of his 150,000 euro (£133,000) target. Since then, however, The Order of Yoni has apparently received backing from a sole investor, and the beer is now on sale in Warsaw for 25 zloty (£5) a bottle. You might assume that the company is attempting to tap into the pro-vagina feminism of the last few years, but it’s so much worse than that. The marketing imagery for the beer features two models, ‘Monika’ and ‘Paulina’, posing in satin lingerie and sucking on beer bottles in a suggestive manner. The Order of Yoni isn’t trying to exploit women’s feminist leanings to make money; it’s trying to exploit straight men’s horniness to make money. Per the brewery’s website: “Imagine [the] woman of your dreams, your object of desire. Her charm, her sensuality, her passion… Try how she tastes, feel her smell, hear her voice… Now imagine her giving you a passionate massage and gently whispering anything you’d like to hear. “Now free your fantasies and imagine all of that can be closed in a bottle of beer. A golden drink brewed with her lure and grace and flavoured with wild instincts. Imagine a beer which every sip offers a rendez-vous [sic] with this hot woman of your dreams… she hugs you and kisses you gently, looking straight into your eyes… How much would you give for such a beer?” Watch: Why I wish I’d booked my cervical screening earlier If you’re thinking ‘I would give absolutely nothing for such a beer, because it is thankfully impossible to bottle a 14-year-old boy’s wet dream’, then we’re on the same page. Later on, the marketing blurb moves into the realm of the truly surreal, explaining that the brewery uses “hi-tech of microbiology [sic]” to “isolate, examine and prepare lactic acid bacteria from vagina of a unique woman”. This apparently transfers the woman’s “features, allure, grace, glamour and her instincts into beers and other products, turning them into dance with lovely goddess [sic]”. Never drunk a graceful, instinctive, glamorous beer with the alluring features of a woman before? You haven’t lived. Most of the time, it’s infuriating when drinks companies use overtly gendered marketing to sell alcohol (remember the backlash to Czech brewery Aurosa’s “Beer for Her” and BrewDog’s satirical “Pink IPA”?). In this situation, however, I’m really OK with The Order of Yoni marketing their lager directly at heterosexual men with a shaky grasp on science. There are plenty of ways for women to celebrate their vaginas. This really, really isn’t one of them. Images: Charles Deluvio / Unsplash

"Half of LGBTQ people (52 per cent) said they've experienced depression in the last year," announced a research study released today by YouGov and Stonewall, the UK's largest LGBTQ advocacy organization. The report, LGBT in Britain: Health Report, took over 5,000 polling responses from LGBTQ people across England, Scotland and Wales into consideration. This high concentration of depression in LGBTQ communities, when compared with the "one in six adults in England who faced a common mental health problem," is by far the most disturbing finding — but the research revealed even more grim truths about the effects of discrimination on LGBTQ peoples' health. Among the key findings were striking statistics on trans and non-binary peoples' mental health. Almost half of all trans people surveyed, 46 percent, have contemplated suicide in the past year and 41 percent of non-binary people reported having harmed themselves in some way. This news follows the push amongst activists to amend the Gender Recognition Act (GRA), an outdated process by which trans people in the UK can receive legal recognition, and citizen consultation by the UK government to reform the 2004 act. During the government's consultation concerning GRA reform in October 2018, Stonewall advocated greatly for amending the act, which they claim was put trans and non-binary people through a "long and demeaning process." While the government is attempting to take steps to consult LGBTQ organizations and individuals on the act, trans and non-binary people are still suffering. Another shocking result of the survey was the amount LGBTQ people who have negative perceptions about healthcare and treatment in the UK. The report states that "almost one in four LGBT people (23 per cent) have witnessed discriminatory or negative remarks against LGBTQ people by healthcare staff." Accompanying statistics reveal that one in five LGBTQ people are not out to their healthcare professionals when seeking general medical care, and more broadly, one in seven avoid treatment altogether out of fear of discrimination. Statements made by LGBTQ people and qualitative data concerning healthcare followed this information, including a revealing confession from a 19 year-old trans person named Elijah from South East. "I got sectioned after a suicide attempt," Elijah states, "and the nurse said that my mental health problems were due to allowing Satan in my soul. If I just accepted my true gender then God could forgive me." Polling revealed that Elijah is not alone, since three in five trans people expressed a lack of understanding of specific trans health issues by healthcare staff. Stonewall makes several recommendations in the conclusion of the study that they believe will help combat the above issues and improve the wellbeing of LGBTQ people in the UK in general. These recommendations include implementation of mandatory equality and diversity training for public health services staff and collection of data concerning service users' sexual orientation and gender identity in order to inform providers about issues surrounding inequalities in "experience and outcomes." LGBT in Britain: Health Report, is part of a series of reports released over the past year concerning the state of LGBT peoples' rights and experiences in the UK. Each report contains extensive recommendations for the government and for allies on how to better serve the LGBTQ community and improve the current state of affairs. You can read the full health report here.

When you think about your own funeral, what do you imagine? Gushing eulogies and handpicked music aside, it’s likely to follow one of two paths – cremation or burial. The Corpse Project wants to change that. “We listen, we research, we hope to catalyse change,” project chair Sophie Churchill told WIRED. “We focus on the body, the corpse, with intersections into the wider death debate.” The Corpse Project wants to provide the public with better information about dead, as well as the science behind decomposition, so we can “make better choices” about what happens to us after we die. To do this, they’ve conducted a set of research into the way we think about our bodies after death and how that relates to the way we identify in life. There are implications to death that extend beyond the personal – the disposal of bodies for example, which has a significant environmental impact. Demand for “natural” burials have increased in recent years, but the Corpse Project believes people need a “better understanding of the science behind environmentally-friendly funeral options” in order to make an informed choice. Cremation, for example, actually has a lower carbon impact than natural burial, despite assumptions. “Mourners' travel is a major factor,” Churchill said – there are fewer burial grounds than there are crematoria so the distance travelled is typically greater. In one analysis, which used an average distance of 40km to a field burial site and 20km to a crematorium, natural burial had “double the carbon burden of cremation”. Scattering ashes also “harms plant life rather than helping it”, Churchill continued. “Cremated ashes are mostly ground bone,” she said. “They’re rich in calcium phosphate, but this is ‘locked up’ by the cremation process and doesn’t release easily into the soil. Studies of cremated animal remains showed cremate was high in sodium, which formed a chalky, salty layer that wasn’t beneficial to plants.” What we should be doing instead, Churchill believes, is supporting innovation and good practice in the funeral industry, as well as further researching the impact the body has environmentally. “Most of us don’t know much about how the body decomposes, whether it does return to the natural cycle of the earth through burial or as ashes, and the options for its care and treatment after death,” she explained. Despite the number of deaths globally every year, experts still know relatively little about how the human body decays and decomposes, which has led to the growth of ‘body farms.’ Bodies, or ‘inmates’, are donated to human taphonomy facilities, with their decomposition studied to learn more about forensic science. They can reveal if bodies decompose differently underwater, in an air-tight box and if the body is clothed, naked or in a plastic bag. The US is pioneering the research, and there are currently six functioning facilities across the country. A site is expected to open in Sydney this year, and India is also looking to open one in the near future. Human decomposition is complex and highly susceptible to changes in ambient temperature, local climate and conditions. Officially known as autolysis, it begins several minutes after death – once the heart stops beating, cells become deprived of oxygen and their acidity increases. Enzymes digest the membranes around these cells before leaking out as the cells break down. This eventually causes body temperature to drop before rigor mortis kicks in. Each of the sites in the US provide its own ‘pattern of decomposition’. Bodies at the dry and hot Texas state facility decompose differently to those at the Fox Valley College in freezing Wisconsin, for example. All of this affects how experts estimate the time that has passed since the person died. Experts also use the ‘inmates’ to study chemical and bacterial changes in rotting bodies, and to train ‘human detection’ dogs. Europe has been reluctant to open similar sites, though there are several university-based taphonomy facilities studying decomposition of pigs as an alternative. Death and Identity Another area the Corpse Project is hoping to look at is the way a transgender identity can change the way we think about bodies after death. It has teamed up with Gendered Intelligence, a community interest group that delivers arts programmes to young transgender people, to create what they call a ‘Transfesto’. The Transfesto calls for increased trans awareness in the burial industry, so trans-friendly practices can be put into place. This can include details such as ensuring that chosen genders, pronouns or names are used during funeral services and burials, and “an exploration of ways to make end-of-life paperwork and processes more trans-inclusive, including removing unnecessary questions about gender”. Many trans, gender non-conforming and non-binary people are misgendered during their life, and research from the Corpse Project and Gendered Intelligence found many trans and non-binary people are “concerned they could be misgendered in death as relatives, officials, or funeral industry professionals might refuse to respect their wishes or be unaware of how to provide trans-inclusive services.” “In life, trans people must often fight hard to defend their gender and bring their identity and their body into alignment. We wanted to know about the issues they face with the body in death, and where changes could be made to support them at the end of life,” said Churchill. “There are many people working in the funeral industry who are deeply committed to respecting the rights and wishes of individuals and who are open to new traditions and technologies. As the way we die changes we must make sure trans voices are part of the conversation.” Morgan Potts, a member of trans health collective the Dysphoria Collective, said trans people must “constantly self-advocate in life” – and, too, in death. “For those of us with the privilege to plan for our futures instead of just our immediate survival, there is always a worry for us that our corpses will not be respected in death,” Potts said. “Living trans bodies are the site of so much violence. We want to ease the suffering of trans people in death, in the hopes that it will ease the worry of living trans people and show our society at large that trans people are deserving of respect.” The Future of Burial So what should we be doing with our bodies after death? One option is ‘dissolving’. Though the name may conjure up images of baths full of acid, dissolving the body in liquid alkaline solution – or ‘resomation’ to give it its proper name – may actually be a more environmentally-friendly way of disposing of bodies. Bodies are placed in a chamber filled with water and lye before being heated at high pressure. The body is “broken down into its chemical components” until it separates into mulchy liquid and crushed bone remains. The liquid can then be returned to the earth, either through composting in a green space or, in a potentially less romantic move, via sewers. Shallow burial, which is also gaining popularity, may also be an option, and Churchill said it may become more common in the future. Shallow burial essentially removes many of the ‘unnatural’ elements of the traditional burial process, such as embalming fluids and non-biodegradable coffins, to allow the body to more naturally decompose into the earth. A shallow grave itself also lends itself to the same kind of microbial activity that’s present in composting. “Public knowledge about the body after death is low, but there is an unmet interest in finding out more, and an openness to new technologies such as resomation or composting,” added Churchill. “We operate in a diverse society. We don’t want to push one approach more than others.” “But better options could help us all face the ends of our lives and the strangeness of death.”

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As a libertarian-leaning conservative, a practicing Catholic (and I say practicing because I'm pretty sure I'm still not getting it right), and a white cisfemale asexual, I may be too high up on the privilege totem pole to comment on gender matters. Still, I can't help but give in to temptation and share my reactions in re: the current tornado in a teacup. If Alex MacFarlane wants to use her blog posts at Tor.com to promote works of science fiction that explore gender in non-traditional ways, I -- actually don't have a problem with that. If you feel something is not getting enough attention, it's actually very constructive to attempt to generate buzz on your own. However -- the manner in which MacFarlane broaches the subject in her first column is extraordinarily off-putting for two primary reasons: 1) like many "social justice warriors," she outright refuses to countenance debate when she states that she is "not interested in discussions about the existence of these gender identities"; and 2) she does sound like she's trying to tell people what to write, especially when she declares that she "never again" wants to read sci-fi anthologies or large-cast sci-fi novels in which all the characters fit the gender binary. I don't want to speak for Larry Correia (the principal dissenter in this affair and also a very loud, boisterous man capable of speaking for himself), but I think what really bothered him was MacFarlane's militant, prescriptive tone. You do cross a line when you go from "I want to see [a certain minority] more" to "I don't want to see [the majority] and you're wrong if that's all you're writing." Due to genetics, prenatal hormones, or other as-yet-undiscovered causes, there are people who are intersex or transgender. But the reason why the male/female binary overwhelmingly dominates fiction is pretty simple: that binary covers the experiences of the vast majority of the human population! People are writing what they know. I can see why that may be difficult for some people to grasp, though, particularly if they've spent their entire lives in academia and/or among the cultural elite. In those sectors, the fetishization of gender and sexual minorities is so firmly entrenched that I really can't fault anyone sunk in such a milieu from concluding that certain things are far more common than they really are. An illustrative story: my co-author, who is currently living in New York City, recently overheard a conversation on the subway between two urban academics in which, I kid you not, one of the woman said, "I'm straight, but I feel like I should start experimenting with women." Why? Because among those of her class, being "queer" is one trendy way you can reinforce your status as a hip, transgressive special snowflake. The aforementioned fetishization, by the way, is another big reason why, I suspect, people are balking at MacFarlane's mission statement. Do people of her cast of mind see members of gender and sexual minorities as living, breathing people -- or are they merely convenient props for their overall attack on "bourgeois values"? I certainly hope the former is the case, but my experience leads me to suspect the latter. Another illustrative story: In the past week, a sadly typical text post made the rounds on Tumblr (a space dominated by feminists and other leftists of MacFarlane's ilk) in which the author stated that heterosexual men were obviously "weak and pathetic" if they couldn't control their reaction to scantily clad women given that gay women have no trouble in similar situations. In other words, said Tumblr user seemed to be of the opinion that lesbians were utterly incapable of being inappropriate. The very idea is ridiculous -- unless you honestly see "queer" individuals as abstract saints instead of concrete human beings. And you know what? I wince too when I imagine people with this worldview attempting to write stories featuring non-binary or gay protagonists. Do you honestly think they will create fully realized characters? Will they have room for an orthodox Catholic intersex pansexual who is remaining celibate in obedience to the Faith? Will they have room for a transfemale who drives pick-up trucks, hunts, and votes Republican because she's a proud capitalist? Will they have room for a lesbian monarchist? (I have a friend who is one! They do exist!) Or will they produce nothing but grey, mushy, politically correct pablum? Other people have made this point, but it bears repeating: If all you have to hang your story on is a vague desire to "smash the gender binary," your work will only appeal to people who think just like you do -- a niche market at best. You have to offer more - like, for example, a compelling plot and interesting, recognizably human characters - to reach the general public. The ticky-box approach to writing science fiction is, ultimately, a shallow affair. Race, gender, and sexual orientation do influence a person in significant ways, but they are hardly the only facets of personality. Focusing on these things to the exclusion of all else is, when you get right down to it, deeply inhuman -- and also leads to division and strife, not genuine tolerance. Think about the lurking assumption that undergirds the entire "representation" crusade: If a character doesn't look like you or have sex like you, you can't possibly sympathize with or be inspired by that character. Really? Because in my life as a science fiction fan, I have had no trouble falling in love with characters who didn't share my race, gender identity, or sexual orientation so long as they were well written. Remember, I was raised in part by Robert A. Heinlein. The juveniles he serialized in Boy's Life featured male protagonists -- but that didn't bother me one iota. As a little girl, I never once caught myself saying, "Gee, I could get into this book more if the main character were a girl like me." Kids just don't think that way -- until adults with axes to grind teach them to. TL;DR: Theoretically, I don't see anything wrong with promoting works that go beyond the gender binary -- but the overall context in which MacFarlane's post appeared and the tone she employed prompts, in my opinion, justifiable suspicion that this is yet another project to force a very narrow worldview on the science fiction community in lieu of penning strong stories with universal appeal. And yes, Larry Correia is right -- if successful, such a project will further hamper the genre's commercial prospects and alienate potential readers.

LGBT Youth Line is a Queer, Trans, Two-Spirit* youth-led organization that affirms and supports the experiences of youth (29 and under) across Ontario. We do this by: Youth of all sexual and gender identities are celebrated and supported. In all aspects of our work and throughout the organization, as we pursue our mission, we live by the values listed below. Together, they provide a picture of who we are and how we want to be: *Language: 2SLGBTQ/Queer, Trans, Two-Spirit We use 2SLGBTQ (Two-spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans, Queer) and Queer, Trans, Two-Spirit interchangeably as umbrella terms to identify the youth that we serve. We acknowledge that these terms cannot/do not encompass the rich diversity of identities that may fall under these umbrellas, including two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, genderqueer, intersex, queer, questioning, asexual, aromantic, non-binary or any other non-normative identities related to sexuality and gender.

Mercury Prize: Grime star Skepta wins music award. Olivia bee's call for radical diversity in the land of trump. On election night I stayed in a cabin in rural Montana. Watching the country get painted red, I sobbed my eyes out. And the tears were heavy. I thought about the people in my life who Donald Trump ignores or insults or threatens: those who identify as LGBTQ, those who are black, those who are Muslim, those who are Asian, those who are Latinx, those who are immigrants, those with disabilities. I thought about the people I loved. Where Is The Love? Why Aren't There More Mixed-Race Relationships On Screen? When I first saw the trailer to A United Kingdom, I felt a prickle on my skin, a gust of affiliation to this story promising to tell the triumph of an interracial relationship. I was bewitched by this film that showed a black man and a white woman in love, something of a given for me growing up in a mixed-race household but rare for my other home as a film programmer and writer - the movies. My normality was about to be in cinemas and it felt revolutionary. Love stories are the oldest in the book and there’s no sign of this going out of fashion. This year’s biggest blockbuster is a record breaking romcom - Bridget Jones’s Baby, and the greatest story ever told is still Romeo and Juliet. Even the steelier genres tend to have a sizzling romance or a heartbreak in the nooks of the story. I’ll bet you good money you know someone, or are someone, who’s dating someone not of their race. How Block Workout's Terroll Lewis went from gang member to fitness entreprene... “Come on, five more! Four! Three! Two… One?” Through the haze of pain across my skinny arms and chest, I’m only dimly aware of Terroll’s words of encouragement. Genderless fashion blurs lines on London catwalks. London (AFP) - Menswear or womenswear -- who cares? Genderless fashion is the buzzword for many of today's top designers, highlighted at London Fashion Week by a string of androgynous touches on the catwalks. From Christopher Kane's heavy, dark, asymmetric tailoring to Burberry's parade of male and female models in military overcoats and aviator jackets, masculine styling repeatedly stood out in the women's autumn/winter collections. It's not just in London where designers are experimenting with preconceptions about gender and identity. Gucci has sent men down the catwalks in pussybows and hot pink suits under new creative director Alessandro Michele while Jaden Smith, son of US actor Will Smith, was unveiled as the face of Louis Vuitton womenswear last month. Transgender models such as Andreja Pejic and Lea T are among the most sought after in the industry. Brands Are Throwing Out Gender Norms to Reflect a More Fluid World. James Charles may not seem like the typical ambassador of a beauty brand—and he's not. Meet CoverGirl's first CoverBoy. No doubt the half-century-old brand raised a few eyebrows last week when it introduced its latest model. But this was no mere stunt. Coty's CoverGirl says Charles will be an important part of growing the brand moving forward. Apple adds more gender diverse emoji in iOS 10 - Apple. Sadiq Khan issues challenge to Donald Trump after US election win. Sadiq Khan today challenged Donald Trump to heal wounds of the most divisive election campaign in American history. The Mayor said: “It’s no secret that I’m no fan of Donald Trump or the way he has conducted his campaign, but he has clearly won the US presidential election. The campaign divided America — and the world — and emotions are understandably running high. “I hope Donald Trump will now do everything in his power to unite people and bring divided communities back together. I wish him well.” Early signs indicated Mr Trump would try to build bridges with groups — including Democrats, Hispanics, blacks and women — whom he regularly insulted during the campaign. Play Video. Genderizing Makeup. By Kathryn Wolper James Charles is the new male face of CoverGirl, a first for the makeup brand. (Courtesy of Flickr) Four Gender Neutral Denim Brands Getting Into the Unisex Game. Jaden Smith, wise beyond his 18 years, claimed that fashion is about “dressing a generation.” If that’s the case, designers and retailers are doing a pretty decent job of catering to the public’s shifting perception of gender norms. Months after Zara joined the movement towards non-binary fashion, debuting its Ungendered line of jeans, sweatshirts, and tanks, a slew of denim companies are releasing their own unisex collections. Today, the German denim label Closed released a 12-piece collection called “EQL.” Boys in pink: Tapping the 'genderless' fashion market. No stranger to barrettes, bows and beauty products, Instagram icon and model Genking is a proud flag bearer for “genderless” fashion in which young men adopt unequivocally feminine styles and challenge traditional norms. Although women around the world have taken to menswear in droves — sporting trousers since the 1930s when French fashion legend Coco Chanel put her equestrian clients in pants — the sight of a man in a skirt still raises eyebrows in the West. In much of Asia, however, unisex clothing — whether in the form of a traditional shalwar kameez, sarong or kimono — boasts a long history, while popular theatrical traditions regularly feature gender bending performances. With Generation Z comes genderless fashion. So far in 2016, Urban Decay has already announced gender fluid model Ruby Rose as its new ambassador; transgender model Ben Melzer has posed on the cover of Men’s Health Magazine; while transgender model Andreja Pejic has graced the cover of Marie Claire. Fashion brands themselves are also keen to diversify: H&M, not only put Pejic on its catwalk for Paris Fashion Week, but has appointed Caitlyn Jenner as the face of H&M Sport. Where men’s and women’s collections were once kept strictly separate in the capital – displayed at the female-fashion dominated London Fashion Week and the male-centric London Collections: Men – brands like Burberry and Tom Ford are defying tradition and choosing to showcase their collections at the same shows. Campaigns are becoming more androgynous, too: It’s been a long time since anyone batted an eyelid at the suits, skirts, dresses or tunics that appear on the runway on all sorts of models. Kudos to Zara for leading the charge. Sorry Not Sorry, but Fashion Won't Be Truly Genderless Until More Men Wear Skirts. Between its tiny models, outrageous price tags and mind-boggling designs (hello, Hannibal Lecter masks), fashion isn't always the most inclusive of worlds. But recently the industry has been celebrating a shift to greater inclusivity when it comes to gender, with designers sending men and women down the runway in identical outfits and retailers ending the divide between men's and women's sections. Is the Future of Fashion Genderless? Men in womenswear and women in menswear is nothing new, but clothing has taken a turn toward a less gendered appearance of late. And it’s not just avant-garde designers—even Zara has a unisex collection called Ungendered. At the same time, however, the move toward genderless fashion has occurred as growth in menswear outpaced womenswear: a recent Fashionbi report revealed that menswear sales grew 1.9% in 2015, compared to 1.6% growth in womenswear. Freeing kids from stereotypes? Meet the mumpreneur who created a 'gender neutral' clothing range for children (which means there are no labels for boys or girls) When Maddison Noble first started making some gender neutral clothing options for her daughter Riley in her spare time, she couldn't imagine where she would be two years later. Now the Canberra mum has her own kids clothing line, called Raising Riley, and orders coming from all over the country. 'It was kind of an accident,' Ms Noble told Daily Mail Australia. Canberra mum launches gender neutral kids fashion label. Each weekend, in a lounge room in Chisholm, a mother and daughter team sit together and draw brand new designs for their gender neutral clothing line. Raising Riley is a new online fashion label launched by Canberra mum Maddison Noble and her four-year-old daughter Riley Freeman. The label offers "wardrobe staples" for kids, including t-shirts, long sleeve tees, baby onesies and bomber jackets. 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(Santiago, December 16th, 2019). - Staring from December 16th trans people will be able to… (Santiago, December 27, 2019).-Before the entry into force of the Act 21,120, which recognizes and protects the right to gender identity, the Association OTD Chile – Organizing Trans Diversities, as a transfeminist organization that promotes the human rights of trans, non-binary and intersex people, wants to communicate the following to the public opinion: - We celebrate this first legal advance in the specific recognition of trans identities by the Chilean institutions. We thank the countless sexual dissidents, activists, artists, professionals, lawyers, academics, students, political and social leaders who worked, marched, fought and even died demanding that their documents genuinely represent their gender identity and expression and, above all, the name they have chosen for themselves. However, this is a minimum step that, in no case, will solve the large list of demands of the trans, cross-dresser, non-binary, intersex, lesbian, dyke, tail, pansexual, queer population and all the letters inside and outside LGBTTTIQ+. - Regarding to the law, we have the following objections and observations about its implementation: 2.1. The administrative procedure should be the general rule and there should be neither distinctions by age or marital status, nor intervention of a court, requirement of witnesses, nor a limited number of times of name and sex change. Also, gender identity should not be restricted only to man or woman by arbitrarily suppressing the rest of gender identities, which left people of other gender without the right to recognition of their identity. 2.2. We reject that the law does not allow the change of name and registered sex in children under 14, since it is the population most exposed to suicide risk due to transodium: 56% of Chilean trans have attempted suicide and, of this group, 57% have tried before 15-year-old. (see encuesta-t.cl/resultados). 2.3. We refuse to require the authorization of the mother or father, so that children under 18 can change their name and registered sex: 97% of trans people in Chile have been questioned about their identity in their own family environment, and in 68 % of cases this comes precisely from parents. This is reflected in 30% of verbal aggressions, and in 8% of physical aggressions. The only way in which the progressive autonomy of trans children is recognized, is through an administrative procedure. 2.4. We demand that the State assign public funds for the execution of the accompaniment programs to trans children under 18. It is unacceptable and contradictory that, on the one hand, this requirement is incorporated, carefully regulating the accreditation of civil society organizations, but, on the other hand, no budget is assigned to this task. NGOs of trans people (and those of human rights in general) have limited resources, limited equipment and are overwhelmed by the high demand of citizens for public services in the area and that the State is not providing to its population. We condemn that we are subjected to the expansion of a privatization logic in dealing with children; now to trans children: we trust in organizations that have been working for the dignity of trans diversities for years, but we are familiar with the economic, collective and personal difficulties of our activism and although we could serve a limited number of families, we will not be able to give all trans children, meeting spaces with their peers in a safe environment, free from discrimination, bullying, abuse or violence. 2.5. We call to the Ministry of Health: 2.5.1. To expand the offer of support services to Primary Health Care (PHC). 2.5.2. To publish the 13 public hospitals that will grant the accompaniment programs to trans children. 2.5.3. To URGENTLY train the professionals who will execute them, including civil society in this task, just as the Civil Registry and Identification Service did in their preparation for the enforcement of the law. While we recognize the hard work of officials concerned with the dignity of our population; we distrust that this good will is present in all territories: for this reason, the intervention from the Central Administration is urgent to avoid the possible episodes of discrimination that we have to regret. 2.5.4. To update its circulars on access to hormone replacement therapies and genital modification surgeries, in order to eliminate any treatment, expression or pathological reference, which violates the principle of non-pathologization of article 5, letter A of the Gender Identity Law (Act 21.120). 2.5.5. To establish a standardized protocol at national level that clarifies and simplifies the access to them, designating Family Health Centers (CESFAM) and hospitals by geographical area of the country to which the trans population can go in an easier and closer way. 2.6. We reject that the law has established a forced divorce for married people who will change their name and registered sex. Many people make their gender transition with the support of their partners, children and families, so this procedure reproduces stereotypes that continue to obstruct equal rights for all sexual dissidence and for all genders. Once we advance in sexual-affective education for all ages, in prevention and criminalization of hate crimes and their incitement, and in the recognition of filial rights for children of lesbian mothers or other sexual dissidents; Chile must move towards equal marriage which, besides allowing it between same-sex people, simplifies divorce, facilitates adoption and enshrines equal rights between spouses, ending centuries of discrimination against women in the marital space. - In the same line, we call all sexual dissidence to install the following as priority of our movement, over other claims of a heritage nature: 3.1. A structural reform to Act 20.609 that establishes measures against discrimination, extending it against all types of violence and intolerance, which creates a state body responsible of generating, promoting, supervising and sanctioning compliance with public policies and other regulation on the subject; to simplify the complaint procedure, establish the dynamic burden of proof, increase fines and establish compensation for damages against discriminated persons. 3.2. Strengthening the prevention and criminalization of hate crimes, creating the criminal type of travesticide and transfemicide. 3.3. Ensure a non-sexist education that ends with the gender selection or other reasons, and other stereotypes, both in public and private establishments. 3.4. Mandatory sexual-affective education from the preschool age, free from discrimination and with an equity perspective of all sexualities, genders and emotions. 3.5. The approval of a “Trans Integral Law,” which establishes mechanisms for real labor inclusion, education without discrimination, explicit health guarantees, justice commissions, truth and reparation for discrimination against sexual dissidents, especially focused on recognizing all persons without distinction of age and in particular to trans adults and elderly, who have been violated and discriminated by society and that the State has not been able to stop. 3.6. The regulation of sex work from a feminist perspective, that guarantees social security rights, access to health and protects those who dedicate themselves to this occupation from abuse and violence. 3.7. The ratification of the Inter-American Convention against all forms of Discrimination and Intolerance, created at the 43rd session of the OAS General Assembly, signed by Chile on October 22, 2015, but still waiting to be sent by the President for its discussion in the National Congress. 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MEET THE PANELISTS: Amanda Lewis, panelist representing Survivor Justice Project Amanda Lewis is a social worker and community organizer with over 8 years of experience in the domestic violence, child abuse, and sexual assault fields. She believes that real, sustainable social change starts small, building upon close bonds within communities, and is best led by those most impacted. Amanda works for the Texas Association Against Sexual Assault, is a co-founder of Survivor Justice Project, and serves on the Austin Commission for Women and the Joint Inclusion Committee. Kristen Lenau, panelist representing Survivor Justice Project Kristen Lenau is a community advocate with over 10 years of experience working with populations experiencing trauma and violence. She holds a master’s in Public Health and believes that effectively responding to violence against women requires a community-driven, holistic approach. Kristen is a co-founder of the Survivor Justice Project, and works for the SAFE Alliance as the Sexual Assault Response & Resource Team Coordinator for Austin-Travis County. Prior to this move she worked as the Director of Operations for Women’s Crisis Care International, combating Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and Human Trafficking in the Arabian Gulf region. Jane Hervey, panelist representing #bbatx Jane Hervey is a creative producer, activist, entrepreneur, writer and performance artist. Originally from the Rio Grande Valley (956 por vida), Hervey moved to Austin to study at the University of Texas. After earning her Bachelor's of Science in Journalism and pursuing a career in freelance writing, Hervey began searching for resources and a space to ask professional questions. She hosted her first #bossbabesATX meet in 2015, hoping to foster community and connection between self-identified women in Austin, Texas. She now runs the nonprofit and its festival, BABES FEST, while managing her own production studio, Group Work, and maintaining a column on creative entrepreneurship and lifestyle design at Forbes. Her personal and professional life are dedicated to improving community infrastructure, retooling systems of collaboration and changing cultural economies to create equal opportunity for women and girls. Isabella Toledo, panelist representing #bbatx Isabella is a lover of all things yoga, feminism and digital-tech. Originally from Caracas, Venezuela she moved to Austin in 2013 to study at the University of Texas, graduating in 3 & 1/2 years with a BS in Public Relations and Minor in Business Foundations. Inspired by the persistence and hard work of her immigrant parents, Isabella dedicates her hustler mentality to her mom and dad. Aside from collaborating with the biggest community of babes, Isabella spends her free time furthering her yoga practice through Teacher Training, refining her skills in the tech space, and drinking a slightly chilled glass of Cabernet Sauvignon, curled up with a good book. Her daily intention is to make every interaction valuable, and hopes to leverage her opportunities to create new ones for marginalized groups in the Austin community. GRAB YOUR RSVP Tickets are $5 and available at the door. All proceeds cover event production costs, with 10% of sales benefitting The Survivor Justice Project. If this cost is prohibitive, please email [email protected] for waived entry. MEET THE PRODUCERS, PARTNERS AND VENUE: About #bossbabesATX, the producer: Through event series, showcases and personal/professional development programs, we amplify and connect women and nonbinary artists, creatives and entrepreneurs. We were named "Best Bossy Babes" of 2015 by The Austin Chronicle, Tribeza's Top 10 to Watch in 2016 and we were selected by The White House to attend the United State of Women Summit in June 2016. Learn more about our mission here. About Survivor Justice Project, the partner: Survivor Justice Project is a coalition of community leaders, advocates and survivors of sexual assault seeking system-level change in Austin and beyond. SJP seeks to promote justice, healing and long-term community change for survivors of sexual assault. About REVELRY, the venue: REVELRY celebrates community and creativity through a variety of gatherings. From events, pop-ups and markets like The Swoon Event to dinner parties and creative workshops, REVELRY's mission is to craft experiences and bring people together.

kick ass ladies club The sixth annual meeting of the Kick Ass Ladies Club (KALC) will take place on October 17th at Kings! Get ready for a night filled with kick ass women, imbibing, and inspiration. This event is open to all women, non-binary and gender nonconforming people who would like to attend. Stay tuned for a blog post about the event. Our 2018 host committee: Moderator: Erin Terry, Eyes Up Here Comedy Tia McLaurin Bethea, Community Engagement, Grow with Google Melissa Florer-Bixler, Pastor, Raleigh Mennonite Church Irene Godínez, Director of Pipeline and Leadership Development, LEAD NC/LEAD NC Institute Sara Koenig, Addiction Medicine Physician, Educator, and Consultant Emily Sexton, Founder, The Flourish Market Kelly Spaulding, Digital Marketing Strategist, PSI CRO AG Sophia Woo, Owner, Pho Nomenal Food Truck and Mofu Shoppe To learn more and get updates about the event, check out our Facebook event: Kick Ass Dinner Series Our Kick Ass Dinner series is a pot-luck style, small group networking and learning opportunity. Each gathering will feature a Kick Ass Host sharing her knowledge, expertise, and passion. These small gatherings will give you the chance to connect with our Kick Ass Hosts, other Kick Ass Ladies, and Beehive members while discussing in-depth topics of interest. Our most recent series: We just finished our last round of dinners for the year. Check out these amazing topics! If you have requests or ideas for topics, please submit a contact form and we'll add them to our list. Watch out next year for more dinners! A Judge's Perspective: How the courts can protect children and the future of our community All Eyes on Me: Comedy, self-promotion, and body positivity Social Entrepreneurship: Empowering YOU to think outside the box and solve social issues in innovative ways Alternative Transportation in Wake County Embracing "why not?" in business ownership and beyond

We are now recruiting Volunteers Citizens Advice Rushmoor is always looking to strengthen and expand our team of experienced volunteers: here is some information about what is involved. We can offer you excellent training and support when you start your volunteering journey with us. At Citizens Advice Rushmoor our volunteers deliver nearly all our public facing services. Volunteers work in teams, supported by experienced supervisors, with expert information, training and resources provided through our national systems. Volunteering can be done from home, so your training and supervision can take place remotely – but there will always be someone on hand to help. What will you do? If you volunteer with us you’ll be helping our clients with issues such as benefits, debt, housing and employment, during and post coronavirus. You will: - complete an introduction to Citizens Advice and training for your role – the programme can be condensed or extended to suit your commitments and availability - talk to clients over the phone, or use email or webchat, to explore what problems they’ve come for help with - find information about the clients’ problems and help them to understand their options - signpost and refer clients for further help - write a summary of the clients’ problems and what action you’ve taken Some examples of what you could do are: - help a client who has less money because of coronavirus - find the information online that explains how to apply for benefits and explain it to them - identify what steps a client can take to resolve their problem with a second hand car - help a client find and understand what steps they can take to deal with their rent arrears What’s in it for you? - make a real difference to people’s lives during covid19 and beyond - learn about issues such as benefits, debt, employment and housing - build on valuable skills such as communication, listening and analysing - increase your employability - help people from a range of backgrounds and communities - make a big impact supporting Citizens Advice during the pandemic and after - be a member of a committed, diverse and lively team And we’ll reimburse out of pocket expenses too. What do you need to have? You don’t need specific qualifications or skills but you’ll need to: - be friendly and approachable - be able to interact with and respect others from all kinds of backgrounds - be non-judgmental and respect views, values and cultures that are different to your own - have good listening skills - have excellent verbal and written communication skills - have good IT skills - be able to understand information and explain it to others - be willing to learn about and follow the Citizens Advice aims, principles and policies, including confidentiality and data protection - be willing to undertake training in your role For this phase of our recruitment, you’ll need to have access to the internet and your own IT equipment. How much time do you need to give? Let us know how many hours you could do per week (between Monday and Saturday) most of our information and advice giving roles take place during office hours. You’ll need to be available for at least 6 months. Our volunteers come from a range of backgrounds and we particularly welcome applications from disabled people, people with physical or mental health conditions, LGBT+ and non-binary people, and people from Black Asian Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities. Complete our online application form here. We’ll then get in touch to let you know the next steps for volunteering with us.

We need to count LGBTI communities in the next census – here's why Monday, Oct 14, 2019, 12:27 AM | Source: The Conversation By Brendan Churchill We need to count LGBTI communities in the next census – here's whyBrendan Churchill, University of Melbourne There's an old maxim: not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. But there are some things we should count, and gender and sexual diversity are among them. The Australian Bureau of Statistics has abandoned preparations to ask questions about sexual orientation and more detailed questions about gender identity during its upcoming census test later this month. This follows a consultation process in which many public submissions from researchers, advocacy and community groups and individuals strongly pushed for the bureau to include more detailed questions about gender identity and sexual orientation. The forthcoming census test will, however, ask respondents whether they identify as male, female or non-binary. This does not mean this question will eventually make it onto the questionnaire for census night in 2021. It also does not mean questions about sexual orientation or more detailed questions about gender identity will be excluded. So there is still time to consider the inclusion of questions that will better reflect Australia's diverse demography. Why including gender and sexuality matters Simply and perhaps most importantly, including questions in the census that adequately capture gender and sexual diversity is an important act of recognition of LGBTIQ people and their lives. Those who do not identify as male or female or heterosexual often feel invisible to the wider community. The 2016 census tried to be more inclusive by making changes to the way it collected information about sex. This allowed respondents to select "other", with the option of providing more detail. But in order to answer "other", respondents needed to request this option. The rationale was that there was some apprehension about how the public would respond to an "other" category. There were 1,260 people gave a valid response to this question. The ABS acknowledges this figure under-reports the actual numbers of people in Australia who do not identify as male or female. But "other" is not very inclusive and compounds feelings of invisibility. An individual submission to the Review of the 2021 Census Topics noted: I am a trans-woman and the last census effectively rendered me invisible along with the rest of my community by making a non-binary gender response difficult to enter. While the test for the 2021 census will include a response category for non-binary, which is a significant improvement on many fronts, the lack of questions or response categories that recognise respondents who are intersex, transgender or gender-queer and so on means these groups are not counted. This in turn means they remain invisible from a census perspective. This is true for sexually diverse groups as well. While Australia has come a long way with the recent legal recognition of same-sex marriage, including these questions in the census will be another step towards greater recognition of sexually diverse people. Other countries are counting these populations Other countries are moving towards including questions about gender identity and sexual orientation in their censuses. The UK, for example, has recently passed a bill allowing trans people to choose their gender in the 2021 census. Closer to home, researchers are doing their best to capture this information themselves. For example, the Scrolling Beyond Binaries project, which seeks to understand how young (aged 16-35) LGBTIQ+ people in Australia use digital social media, asked respondents about their gender identity, the gender assigned at birth, sexual orientation and their intersex status. But research such as this is limited in its ability to make population-level findings about LGBTIQ+ people because it's unable to derive a representative sample. Only the census could collect these data in a reliable way. Why the numbers count The ABS already collects some data on these populations. The 2014 General Social Survey captured some information about sexual orientation, but not about gender diversity. Some information about same-sex couples can be derived from the census using data about relationships within households. We know the proportion of same-sex couples has been growing steadily over the past 20 years. We also know around 25% of female same-sex couples and 4.5% of male same-sex couples have children. But our picture of same-sex families is incomplete because the census can only tell us about families that live together in the same household. We do not know how many gay or lesbian lone-parent households there are because the census does not collect information about sexual orientation. Moreover, not all lesbian and gay people are in relationships and, even if they were, not all of them reside in the same household. Australians who identify as lesbian or gay have higher rates of depression, anxiety and suicidal ideation than their heterosexual counterparts. Transgender and sexually diverse people fare even worse. These facts are well documented among state and federal government policies, programs and strategies, but knowing how much of the general population this affects, where these groups reside and the communities they belong to using census data will mean governments can begin to address these issues more adequately. Census night in 2021 is still a long way off. It is imperative these questions about gender and sexual diversity are included if we are to recognise LGBTIQ Australians and address the issues and challenges that affect them the most.

At the Edge of Uncertainty: 11 Discoveries Taking Science by Surprise When the Higgs boson was detected by the Large Hadron Collider in 2012, it was something of a bitter-sweet moment for many scientists. The way it provided a neat resolution to the final outstanding problem with the structure of fundamental particles was just too tidy for many. It was the last chapter of 20th-century particle physics but it did little to bring to light any new mysteries that would need solving. Science, after all, needs mysteries and surprises, as the subtitle of Michael Brooks’s latest book, At the Edge of Uncertainty, makes clear. If you feel that we have not only picked the low-hanging fruit but also shaken the tree naked, then this journey through 11 Discoveries Taking Science by Surprise will thoroughly disavow you of that notion. Starting breezily and ending profoundly, it’s a look at the current state of several major scientific disciplines – from research into consciousness and computer science to epigenetics and studies in animal culture – with Brooks (who writes a weekly column for the New Statesman) communicating difficult stuff in a typically amiable and lucid manner. He doesn’t get into hard data but rather takes the reader on quick tours through the history of a science, picking up on relevant or remarkable anecdotes along the way. One highlight is the tale of Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov, a Russian veterinarian to the tsars whose job artificially inseminating racehorses evolved in the early 20th century into an obsession with trying to breed a human/ape hybrid. This horror story was later suppressed by the Soviet Union but Brooks points out that stem-cell research necessarily requires experimenting with human/animal chimeras in the laboratory. A human embryo could accidentally form inside a mouse and, he writes, there is “the other nightmare” of “the pig – or monkey or mouse – with a human brain”. A recurring theme is the idea that scientists often push forward with research faster than they can understand its moral or political consequences, even if it is rarely out of malice. By definition scientists need to “push at the door of what is possible” and: “The reactions of the society around them are what keep them in check.” Yet there’s a metaphysical note to these 11 topics, too. We find many of these things strange or surprising because they expose how limited our perspective, as clever apes, can be. Supercomputers, for example, work in binary – but the universe doesn’t. Imaginations and learning are features of non-binary organisms (such as us) but our ability to create machines that can understand more than binary is stymied by “our picture of reality, [which] tends to be constrained by our conception of time and sits within just a few dimensions of space”. In another chapter, time is revealed to be an illusion – as proven by Buddhist monks or volunteers high on magic mushrooms, observed using magnetic resonance imaging machines. It appears that we perceive it as we do only because this is the most effective survival strategy for the world in which we find ourselves. Later, Brooks writes about quantum uncertainty and how the act of observing something on the quantum level causes it to change – but astonishingly it seems that the universe might be best understood as a computer simulation (running on God-knows-what) and that quantum uncertainty reflects our ability to “reprogramme” the world as we see it. “We become participators in the processes of the universe . . . We are in a paper-scissors-stone situation where we cannot find the logic to disentangle ourselves from the universe.” From this perspective, consciousness is the inevitable result of a computer the size of the universe running for billions of years; Carl Sagan’s observation that “We are a way for the cosmos to know itself” was more true than he ever realised. “The edge of uncertainty,” writes Brooks, “is not a static line, but a dynamic, ever-changing set of answers. What other way is there for humans to behave than to push at the boundaries of our knowledge and our existence – even if the act of pushing exposes our ignorance?” A curious result of reading At the Edge of Uncertainty is to come away with a net total of new ignorance, not new knowledge – but also a sense of excitement at the inevitable success of science to remedy it. Ian Steadman is a staff writer on science and technology at the New Statesman

As a child of the '90s, you either didn't play Tony Hawk's Pro Skater or you owned a skateboard; there was no in between. Now, in 2020, the THPS franchise is rebooting itself with a remake of the first two games, and it comes just as skate culture is having another moment in the spotlight. Skating's influence goes further than just buying video games or trying out a board though. Skate punk was the definitive soundtrack of the early '00s; the grunge clothing of the '90s flowed easily into skate fashion, and the inherent nihilism of skateboarding's stunts helped pave the way for the success of TV shows like Jackass, which itself featured many professional skaters. In the late '90s and early '00s, everything was extreme, and skating was at the forefront of the zeitgeist. However, by the late '00s, skate culture—as a staple of mainstream pop culture, if not as its own thriving subculture—was on its way out. Those '90s kids who bought skateboards had figured out it wasn't as simple as press X to ollie, and while we still bought the video games, they were no longer bringing in potential skaters. Subsequent skating games never reached the cultural heights of the original THPS mania and eventually disappeared completely. However, along with the THPS reboot, EA have revived their Skate series, and a handful of indie skating games have either released earlier this year or are scheduled for next. It feels like the long drought is finally over. These games come as skating culture is on the rise again. Young talented skaters like Leo Baker are appearing in Miley Cyrus videos, while Tyshawn Jones fronts GQ Style. Culture defining cities like London are seeing a boom in skating and skateparks, while skate fashion is back in trend. Where skate fashion once intertwined with the nihilism of early '00s punk, it now unites with mumblecore's convention defying focus of substance, blocky colors, and baggy comfort. We've even seen a Black Lives Matter protest entirely on skateboards in San Diego, combining the fiercely loyal ideals of skateboarding and grassroots protesting. Now, this cultural revival has finally hit video games. Several pros and developers spoke to us about how skating got here. The View From A Board Jenn Soto is a rapidly rising star in skating. Already in the top ten women street skaters for her age bracket, she would likely be even higher were it not for the fact she's missed the last few official contests. She's an avid gamer in her spare time, and she speaks to me about how closely linked the two cultures are. "There's a lot of passion in both," she laughs, "that's what kind of makes it go hand in hand. After a good skate sesh you get home and turn on the game system and get another session in. It's cool to see that you can have a dream to be a pro skate or pro gamer and it doesn't seem so far-fetched anymore." Gaming and skating share more similarities than you might think. Both are traditionally male dominated but have grown away from that bubble in recent years, and both revolve around a few big money events each year peppered with lots of indie passion projects. Gaming and skating both typically contain a mix of blockbuster moments built on technical ability, too. According to Soto, the games were a crucial part of the '00s scene, introducing many current pros to the joys of skating. "I feel like most skaters have definitely played the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater series," Soto says. "I used to play that game before I even had a skateboard. It was one of those games you'd run to after getting out of school." The original video games introduced a wider range of people to the sport than might have otherwise picked it up. As Lizzie Armanto explains, this has led to a much more diverse crop of skaters 20 years on. Armanto is currently ranked 9th in the world overall (1st for women) and has been skating since she was 14. In her 13 years on the scene, she's been there for the slump and subsequent revival. According to Armanto, the most substantial change in that time has been the rise in diversity. "The biggest change I've seen is the number of girls getting into and competing in skateboarding now. Ten years ago, there would be two girls at a park and now, it's common to see groups of girls at a park." Programs like Skate Like A Girl have been set up to help further this diversity, and this change is mirrored in the newer skating games too. The original Tony Hawk's Pro Skater only had one non-male and two non-white skaters: Elissa Steamer, Kareem Campbell, and Eric Koston respectively. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5, released in 2015, is where Armanto first appeared. It also featured the skaters Leticia Bufoni, Nyjah Huston, and Ishod Wair. The remake sees the original cast joined by Armanto, Bufoni, and Huston along with Aori Nishimura, Tyshawn Jones, and Leo Baker, with the latter being the first non-binary skater to feature in the series. Armanto adds that she's pleased to see this growing diversity reflected in the game, and that as skating continues along its current rise, it can welcome even more people in. "There's much more diversity today than ten years ago and hopefully will be even more ten years from now," says Armanto. "It's really cool that so many different types of pro skaters are represented in the game." Soto has seen a similar shift in her time on the board. "Diversity in skateboarding has definitely been on the come up right now," she says. "So many people are getting the opportunities that they deserve and are long overdue. It's tight to be a part of." Redefining The Genre While THPS 1+2 Remake and Skate 4 are the headliners of skate gaming's revival, in recent years there has been a plethora of skating games which showcase that this is not a simple legends reunion tour, but a full-blooded comeback. Session and Skater XL both pick up where Skate 3 left off, exploring the art of skating at a much more technical level, and Skater XL's development team explains how that meant taking a new approach from the ground up. In Skater XL, each stick controls a foot, designed to give you more complete control around the tricks you pull off. No two kickflips are the same in real life, and while other skating games rely on pre-programmed tricks, making every instance identical, Skater XL's unique design means each trick is a snowflake. The developers at Easy Day Studios talk about the importance of this idea, and how it "reflects and parallels real skateboarding." This was especially key when it came to reflecting modern skate culture, as the scene is all about "a lifestyle of culture [with] a real expressive element." While the original big skating games were very much about introducing players to the energy, moves, and big tricks of the sport, Skater XL strives to bring the culture to life, taking cues from golden era skate videos, modern era skating ingenuity, and the classic video games in equal measure. In doing so, the game has captured the hearts of skaters and has created a huge 100,000 strong Discord community of modders who create maps of their own dream spots. A map featuring Barcelona even made it into the console edition of the game that released in late July. Meanwhile, Skater XL's core maps include a redesigned version of Downtown Los Angeles, one which has been redrawn as a skater's paradise. In it, all of LA's best spots have been crammed together in a "high density reimagining of LA," including trick spots which have since been demolished, redesigned, or closed off. Other famous LA spots have been moved together, to create a skater's fever dream of endless Los Angeles lines. While the feeling throughout the general game design was "how do we capture what's fun about skateboarding?", the goal with LA specifically according to the developers was to "create a city to skate in that our audience either don't have access to, or don't have the skill level for." Skater XL definitely has the thrill of skateboarding at its core, but it's a very realistic, technically based thrill. Other indie games are taking the concept of skateboarding and using that to power much more imaginative gameplay. Tanuki Sunset and Skate Story both take the unique velocity of downhill skateboarding, wrap it up in futuristic visuals, and use it to create a linear experience. Even more interesting is the upcoming Skatebird, which is all about skateboarding birds. You might say that in skateboarding terms, Skater XL skates regular, while Skatebird has gone goofy. And yes, they do have a hawk called Tony. Megan Fox, Skatebird's lead developer, has a theory on why more experimental indie games are coming to the forefront of the skating genre right now. "It's a mixture of nostalgia waves and how indie-accessible genres trail triple-A. Triple-A studios tend to abandon genres when they've scaled up to where they can't keep making even bigger sequels that make more money, because the audience is maxed out," Fox says, "those genres then sit abandoned until smaller studios, with newer tools and better engines and all that, can then afford to make games that at least somewhat compare to those now-ancient triple-A games people remember." Fox says Skatebird takes inspiration from both Skate and THPS, avoiding the "hardcore, arcade physics" of THPS, while keeping Skate's realistic movements, though in a much less technical way. "Skatebird skews more casual-friendly," Fox says. "Especially looking back at THPS games through the lens of current gaming, they were incredibly unforgiving, and just not very friendly to new players." When speaking about the importance of grassroots skating games, the Skater XL development team talks about the dry spell skating games suffered through recently, and the real need for a resurgence as the skating community was becoming galvanised again. "Imagine if FIFA wasn't there," they say. If we assume we can also take PES out of this imagining, it paints a rather stark picture. Sports games have always been a core genre of gaming, and to not have your sport represented in the virtual world is a damning indictment of its lack of mainstream popularity. As the tides of culture ebb and flow, skating is on the rise again. It's carried skateboarding back to the big time, as evidenced by the sport debuting at the the Summer Olympic Games next year. Armanto is one of the skaters competing in the first Olympic skating events, representing Finland. "It's crazy to be going to the Olympics for skateboarding. I never thought going to the Olympics would be in the cards for me," Armanto says. "Skateboarding being recognized by the Olympics is rad because with its addition comes more opportunities such as more events, room for people to pursue skateboarding, and new skateparks being built. Also more people will see skateboarding as more than just a hobby or toy." Armanto could have competed for either for Finland or the USA, but elected to go for Finland to leave room for more high-level American skaters to qualify, ensuring skating can show off the best in the business on the world stage. Soto, meanwhile, will represent the USA. Recognition by the highest sporting body in the world highlights not only skating's new rise to prominence, but also its subtle rebranding since its last peak in the early '00s. Back then, when skating was buddies with Jackass, it was surrounded by a very dudebro mentality, and felt like it belonged to a very specific type of young man. Now, it's more welcoming, less rough around the edges, and feels more like a sport which features extreme moments, rather than an extreme sport with all the associations that brings. The THPS 1+2 Remake has even renamed the Mute grab as the Weedle grab to better pay tribute to the move's creator Chris Weedle, who was in fact deaf, not mute. This kind of sensitivity might have been mocked in the '90s and '00s, but it's now being praised for recognizing the original ableist tones. With video games set to push skating further into the limelight, it will no doubt continue to evolve in new ways as a young, fresh audience gets their first taste of the sport in 2020, in much the same way '90s kids did back in 1999. That could see it continue to influence and be influenced by pop culture, with skating's new, diverse attitude being perfect for the modern era. If the big skating franchises want to hit the heights they did back in their heyday though, they need to be willing to move with the times. While Armanto identifies the Olympics as a big step in skating's continued cultural revival, Soto thinks the real fruits of this revolution will be found on the streets. "It's cool to see more and more skaters cruising down the street. I have no doubt that it'll just keep growing and the opportunities from that will soon follow. Skaters are stylish and dope, so it'll be just fine!"

No Longer Home is a semi-autobiographical narrative point-and-click game about two non-binary people in their early twenties. Developed by Humble Grove and published by Fellow Traveler, the game tells a domestic, nostalgic, and sometimes surreal tale about couple Ao and Bo, who are grappling with responsibility and stability as they graduate from university into the unstructured world of adulthood. The story takes place as they pack up the home they have shared for the past two years. The couple feel they have failed in key ways to secure the kind of adult life that they expected: they are moving out of their London flat; they have struggled to find gainful employment. Consequently, Ao has decided to return to Japan, while Bo considers the reality that they may be unable to follow them – and moreover, they may not want to. As the story unfolds, the pair question, both together and separately, what their plans for the future will hold, and how their economic and personal circumstances will affect their ability to build the lives they want. This coming-of-age narrative is set to an utterly haunting, intoxicating score by Eli Rainsberry that reverberated through my brain as I navigated Ao and Bo’s small home, and for a long time afterward. The game can be played in an hour or two, maybe in bed, or in front of the heater, as Rainsberry’s remarkable, resonant score pulls you deeper into the story. Combined with a muted colour scheme of the low poly visuals, No Longer Home offers a gentle, narrative experience that left me wishing it had an autoplay feature that allowed me to sit back and let the dialogue wash over me, instead of fastidiously clicking through. The point of view shifts between Ao and Bo as they walk around, planning a barbecue, or discussing their future plans. Their house, where the entire game takes place, is navigable through a point-and-click system that sees minimalist, Kentucky Route Zero-esque annotations arise over objects that are interactive – a particularly charming element of this is when you click to walk, and a small plant unfurls as the character approaches. As these conversations play out, the environment around the characters reflects this transitional phase of their lives – their bedroom wall shifts back to reveal a full moon over a silhouetted house as they discuss gentrification, and earlier on, a garden shed from a past sharehouse reconstructs itself before the player’s eyes as the couple discusses former living arrangements with their friends. The sense of the transitory is embedded in the domestic environments of the game; what once felt stabl, and sturdy can now contract, expand and dissolve at a moment’s notice, replicating the dissociative anxiety that can accompany a major life change. The influence of Kentucky Route Zero permeates every aspect of the game. It even adopts its magic-realist approach to a narrative that celebrates place, but Humble Grove doesn’t wholly make the genre their own. Some of the game’s more surreal aspects, like these shifting walls and boundaries, communicate something important about the characters’ relationships to space and security. Others feel more arbitrary. When Bo encounters a shifting, fractal orb above their bed, it feels more like a genre flourish than a narrative counterweight. Ao and Bo also have explicable, concrete issues as a couple: Bo resents that Ao is messy, but finds it hard to articulate this. Ao, more outspoken than Bo, struggles with Bo’s indecisive nature, but similarly fails to address it directly. These traits are reflected in their characterful low poly designs: when left idle, Bo alleviates their poor posture with a gentle stretch, and Ao sits with a leg perennially drawn up to their chest. While there are dialogue options that allow the player to interact with the narrative, No Longer Home doesn’t shy away from its linear design: it has a story to tell you, and you are along for the ride, which it relays through dialogue that mostly feels naturalistic. However, conversations between Ao and Bo can feel self-conscious and a little posed at times: when discussing the gentrification of their London suburb, Bo laments the displacement of ‘poor people,’ a seemingly nebulous designation in their mind, and Ao is quick to point out that, as young university graduates, they number among the displacers more than the displaced. In conversations like these, the characters feel less like fully fleshed-out people, and more like mouthpieces for the values or anxieties of the developers – when conversation extends beyond their personal aims into the political realm, their dialogue could almost be interchangeable, which is compounded by a UI design that sometimes makes it hard to tell who is meant to be speaking. This conversation culminates with Bo stating they ‘wish [they] had something more to offer than vague preaching,’ and frankly, so did I. Ultimately, this lack of self-awareness might just be true to the economic and social circumstances of the characters. Bo, after four years of art school, has refused to get a part-time job, and Ao’s parents, one of whom is the advertising director of a prestigious firm, paid their university fees. The languid melancholy of their discussions of the future – which touch on identity versus expectation and artistic aspirations – is founded on the assumption that they have access to financial support through their families. It’s uncharitable to frame character flaws as a criticism of the game per se, but it was a consistent tension that felt strangely unexamined. What are we meant to conclude of these characters? Is the statement of their class position intended to exonerate them from examining this position further? Is their complete financial security meant to be a sidenote in this story about how they will navigate the future? Ultimately, the game’s relationship with money felt evasive: defensive acknowledgement, then withdrawal. Who is paying Bo and Ao’s rent? Can you really tell a story about home that isn’t about money? No Longer Home toes the line between a commercial and personal project in a way that makes it hard to critically assess. It’s a game that deals with a familiar form of melancholy with a delicate touch, but sometimes, this borders on insubstantial. The narrative, while personal, lacks substantial introspection. It’s not a damning flaw: for lovers of gentle narrative games, No Longer Home will be a balm. Personally, I wish it had gone deeper. Given that the main characters’ economic and social circumstances are regularly, explicitly discussed, I would have liked the narrative to have confronted the way these circumstances shaped their reality more directly. I can see, though, that this kind of interrogation would be out of place in a game that is dreamlike and insular by design. After all, Ao and Bo don’t even want to leave the house. Three stars ⭑⭑⭑ A copy of No Longer Home was provided for the purposes of this review.

Fashion and Diversity The fashion industry is often one to lead cultural change. The issue of diversity in the industry as it relates to race, body and gender is a hot topic and Sage Paul, Haley Elsaesser and Adrienne Wu are leaders in the industry and activism inclusivity. This episode of Fashion Talks was recorded in front of a live audience as part of the Urbani_T festival in Toronto, ON. Sage Paul is an urban Dene woman and a member of English River First Nation. Based in Toronto, Sage is an artist and innovative leader for Indigenous fashion, craft and textiles, championing family, sovereignty and resistance for balance. Sage is Founder and Artistic Director of Indigenous Fashion Week Toronto. In 2017, Sage received the Design Exchange RBC Emerging Designer Award in the fashion category, was recognized by FLARE Magazine in their #HowIMadeIt campaign celebrating 100+ talented, ambitious and driven Canadian women and was honoured by the Ontario Ministry of the Status of Women as a trailblazing woman transforming Ontario. Sage loves costume designing for film and theatre, including production as Costume Designer for her first feature film in 2018, and is currently working on two personal fashion-based projects: Giving Life and the Mint Sweater Project. Hayley graduated with honours in Fine Arts Fashion and was selected along with 11 other fashion graduates from across the country to participate in the L’Oreal Graduate Showcase at Melbourne Fashion Week. After overwhelmingly positive feedback from the media and public alike, Hayley’s brand was born. From the get-go Hayley has drawn influence from popular culture and has used elements from music, film, literature and childhood nostalgia to design all of her prints prints from scratch. Each collection has a broader inspiration, and each individual piece adds to the story of the release. Using bright colours, contrasting patterns, and visual imagery in classic, wearable silhouettes Hayley has carved out a fan base amongst young creatives and celebrities alike. Whether you are street-style obsessed, or a runway fashion maven, Hayley’s brand is inclusive, body positive, and artistic while not taking itself too seriously. The world can be a cold, uncaring place but rather than dwell on that Hayley chooses to see the beauty and positivity in the world. www.hayleyelsaesser.com Adrienne Wu (Adrienne Francis Wu Ming Bong | 胡明邦 ) born on 9 August 1990 in Burlington, Ontario, is a Canadian Fashion Designer. In 2015, Wu came out as Neutrois (Non-Binary) Transgender on their youtube channel, began going by gender-neutral pronouns and advocating with Toronto’s (SOY) Supporting Our Youth organization. Wu’s self-taught work began in 2008 with 50 dresses being posted on social media that lead to opportunities in producing fashion shows and collections across Canada. Vancouver, Ottawa, and Toronto Fashion Week offered corporate collaborations with Margaret Atwood, a show at the National Gallery, and Freed Development’s Fashion House Condos. Since transitioning, Wu has focused design through fleecer.ca a wearable technology company, @wumingbong on Youtube a transgender and non-binary advocacy platform, as well as a column on Huffington Post exploring queer theory, transgender studies, and transhumanism. Current projects include a collaboration with art critique and researcher Matthew Grimm @grimmxwu on Instagram which explores the crosses between Meta-Modernism and Post-Humanism.

If you are under 18, please make sure you have your parents’ permission before providing us with any personal details. Demi, 21, explains how buying her first sex toy allowed her to work through her own internalised misogyny in relation to pleasuring herself! Age 21, I unboxed my first sex toy in front of my partner and asked him to use it on me. It wasn’t until after my first several experiences of using a sex toy, both with and without my partner, that I realised that a part of me felt shame for pleasuring myself. When I looked into why I felt this shame, it boiled down to my internalised misogyny. I had never had an issue with masturbating, I had never been one of those girls who denied masturbating (which is a form of internalised misogyny) and I had never shied away from pleasuring myself whilst having sex with a partner. However, the moment this silicone machine was in my hand, I felt embarrassed about owning it, let alone using it! Female masturbation was not taught in my secondary school RSE, and it was also either denied or never discussed between girls I knew. On the other end of the spectrum, boys would discuss their masturbation stories with one another (and frankly anyone), they would draw penises on every worksheet or pencil case, they would show one another porn videos that they had wanked to the previous night and even talk about us girls in the language of wanting to masturbate over us. I grew up knowing more about male pleasure than my own and I think that speaks volumes for how women are conditioned to disregard their own sexual pleasure. Let’s go back to not even a month ago; there’s me, this wand and my partner sitting on my bed. I am visibly uncomfortable holding this member and my partner can see that, once I had asked for him to use it on me, he took control of the situation and in minutes, I had climaxed. I was left in a puddle of mess on my bed, ‘dick drunk’ as I call it, with my partner beside me. After I had collected myself, we discussed how it made me feel and whether I would use it again, which was a healthy conversation to have with my partner and is one of the reasons I felt so comfortable in trying the toy out in a solo session. One of the thoughts that was instilled in me by my internalised misogyny was the fear that my partner would feel replaced by this machine. Yes, we did make jokes about me replacing him with a wand, however, we only did this after having a mature conversation about how this toy was aiding the scene, specifically my pleasure and was in no means replacing him. The fact that this belief had been dismissed made solo masturbation with a toy ‘normal’ and extremely pleasurable. I no longer felt guilty for using a toy on myself and began using my toys nightly. I found the confidence and comfortability to discuss using my toys with my partner before a sexual encounter, I was the one to bring up the use of a toy and I began guiding him in how to please me. I felt, for the first time, powerful and in-control of my own orgasm. Before this, I didn’t even have the confidence to ask my partner to give me oral sex and now, here I am, guiding him. This felt like a true ‘this is my feminism’ moment. Since that first orgasm, which I will say BLEW my mind, I have become way more comfortable with sex toys and have in fact collected up to 9 now… in less than a month! I began reading more into misogyny and how as a womxn*, I have internalised beliefs about my own sex life which do not benefit me. I realised that I could be a dominant in the bedroom and that in doing so, it did not mean I was any less of a womxn. I realised that the discussion around female masturbation is so lacking in mass media, literature and society that many girls, like myself, know more about male masturbation than how to pleasure themselves. I realised that girls know more about the penis than what’s between their own legs. My world felt as if it was crumbling around me, but in the best way possible, all because I had taken control over my own orgasm and had begun to dismantle behaviours instilled in me from childhood. Did I fear posting my first selfie with a sex toy? Yes. However, I know now that masturbating with a toy is not something to be ashamed of, it is not something to hide away in your sock drawer and I think every womxn should take a selfie with her toy. As a form of rebellion to the patriarchy, buy yourself a sex toy and take control of your orgasm. *womxn is a term used by some to avoid the use of m-e-n or m-a-n in the spelling of woman, in order to be more inclusive of trans and non-binary people, as well as women of colour. Rachel, 21, shares her experience of masturbation and why taking things at her own pace was the right decision. Zoi, 21, shares her story of how body disassociation has affected her relationship with masturbation and sexual intimacy. Charlotte, 20, shares her journey of becoming comfortable with masturbation and understanding what pleasure means to her. 100% FREE & CONFIDENTIAL

Children by Choice Association Inc Our vision: That all women can freely make their own reproductive and sexual health choices. Our mission: To be the leading voice for women's reproductive choices in Queensland. Children by Choice is an independent Brisbane-based non-profit organisation, committed to providing unbiased information on all unplanned pregnancy options – abortion, adoption and parenting. We have a pro-choice and client-centred approach. We provide non-judgemental all options counselling, information and referrals for Queensland women and people with uteruses experiencing unplanned pregnancy through our Queensland-wide phoneline and in person at our Brisbane office. We also offer post abortion counselling. We provide sexuality education to young people and professional development training for health and community sector professionals. We work to advance Queenslanders' reproductive choices, and to improve access to safe and legal abortion. We are a statewide service and operate Monday-Friday from 9am-5pm. We are funded by the Queensland Department of Child Safety Youth and Women to provide our counselling and community education services. We rely heavily on our members, supporters, and volunteers to assist us in our non-funded work, and are a registered charity with the Australian Charities and Not-For-Profits Commission. Children by Choice acknowledge and honour the traditional owners of country throughout Queensland and their continued connection to land and community. As women, we believe that women need to respect traditional owners, to communicate this respect to them, and to recognise the dispossession of the land and its ongoing effects on Aboriginal peoples today. As a women's service, we acknowledge the sorrow of the mothers of the Stolen Generations and apologise for the removal of their children by white Australians. OUR KEY VALUES pro-choice and woman-centred; ethical and evidence-based; non-judgemental and unbiased; confidential and respectful; committed to social justice, diversity and equity; and dedicated to promoting self determination. Our values mean we strive to make our service a safe space which is responsive to the needs of our clients above all else. We welcome anyone here who needs our support, regardless of race, religion, level of ability, gender identity, sexuality, class, or age. We can arrange for a translator for clients whose first language is not English. Sex workers are welcome here, as are transgender, gender-queer, and non-binary Queenslanders. Rascism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, and other forms of discrimination and bullying are not tolerated at Children by Choice, and shouldn't be tolerated anywhere. Everyone is welcome here.

Of all the questions I get asked by my ~lovely~ lesbian readers, there are two I get pressed with the most. 1) How do I get over someone who is good in bed? And 2) I am falling for a straight girl… what the hell do I do? First of all, if you’re crushing on a straight girl, I’m going to give it to you straight. After all, you get what you put out there, babe. You are not special. Falling for a straight woman is a lesbian rite of passage, like blacking out at The Dinah or chopping off all of your hair at least once. You’re not the first person to experience this holy mind-f*ck. Throw a stone, and you’ll hit a lesbian who will happily tell you about the time she had an illicit affair with a straight woman. And she’ll show you the scars to prove it. Second of all, I want to let you know that I, in my core, sorely disapprove of the concept of the straight girl crush. I think you’re setting yourself up for heartbreak, and I question *why* you feel the need to chase after a woman who claims not to be into other women. A lot of the straight girl crush, I believe, stems from our ugly egos. I understand that a million different things can be true at once and that nothing in this world is black and white, especially sexuality. Sometimes, despite our better judgment, we fall for flawed people. Sometimes “straight” women aren’t really straight; they just haven’t come to terms with their own sexuality. Sometimes sexuality is fluid. Sometimes love is simply love. And sometimes you just need to go for something, even if you know you’re probably going to end up wounded. I get it. I support the art of risk-taking. But I wouldn’t be a good lesbian big sister if I didn’t properly warn you of what’s at stake here. You need to have all the information before you make the choice to take a dip in the straight girl pond. Those waters are dangerous, and it’s important to be educated before you stick your sweet little lesbian toe in that freezing cold water. So here it is. Five vitally important things you NEED to know before you end up getting caught in the riptide of straight women. 1. When someone tells you who they are, believe them. Nine out of 10 of the messages I receive from baby dykes regarding their straight girl crushes usually go something like this: “Zara, she says she is straight… but she flirts with me hardcore! The other night when we were drinking, she snuggled up in my arms! Clearly, she’s attracted to me.” When someone tells you who they are, believe them. If the words “I’m straight” flew out of her freshly glossed straight girl lips, for all you know, she’s straight. We don’t always flirt with people because we’re truly into them—you know that. Sometimes we flirt with people because we’re starved for attention or desperate for a cheap hit of validation. Sometimes what we consider being “chummy,” another person will interpret as being wildly flirtatious. I’m a person who is notorious for giving people the wrong idea. I bat my lashes and spit out sexual innuendos all the time. That’s my personality. If I’m looking at you coyly and bringing up sex constantly, welcome to the club, honey. I do that to everyone. Men, women, non-binary babes—no one is safe. The only people I don’t shamelessly flirt with, ironically, are people I’m actually attracted to. I freeze around people I think are hot, as many of us do. Whether she’s straight or not, deep inside her soul, that’s none of your business. If she’s proclaimed to be straight, respect that. It’s very possible that she enjoys the novelty of getting lesbian attention from you, but will never, ever sleep with you (let alone date you). This shit happens all the time! Don’t read too far into it. In fact, the best way to tell if she’s f*cking with you or might actually be catching feelings for you… is to pull back. Let her take the lead. Which leads me, seamlessly, into my next point. 2. The ball is in her court, not yours. I have something to confess: I find it predatory when lesbians try to pressure straight girls into being attracted to them. Flip the coin. How does it feel when a straight dude tries to pressure us into being attracted to him? We feel violated. Disgusted. Irritated. Creeped the f*ck out. Right? Just because we’re women doesn’t mean that we’re exempt from being creepy. And it is creepy to go after a girl who claims not to be interested in your gender. Bottom line. Even if she’s all over you. Respect her sexual identity, just as you desire yours to be respected. And if she can’t handle her attraction to you, despite her “heterosexuality,” let her come to you. Here’s the truth: You don’t want to be seen as the girl who coerced the straight girl into being with her, do you? It’s not fun to be that girl, trust me. And you won’t ever be seen as that girl if you let her pursue you. If she tries to kiss you one night after a plethora of cocktails, pull away and ask her: “Aren’t you straight?” And let her explain herself. Give her the freedom to come to this earth-shattering conclusion on her own that she’s attracted to a woman. It’s really important to give people a chance to figure this shit out for themselves without a thirsty lez lingering in the background to pull it out of them. If she is the love of your life, or if it’s going to turn into a “thing” down the line, this will give you a healthy foundation from which to grow. You won’t be secretly worried that she’s going to ditch you for a dude, and she will be confident in her authentic attraction toward you because she came to that conclusion by herself. 3. Ask yourself: Why? WHY?! Like I mentioned in the intro, you must make sure that your magnetic draw toward this “straight” girl isn’t rooted in ego. Before you get defensive, I need you to know that I’m not judging you. I’ve been there myself! It’s a nice confidence boost to feel like a girl was so irrepressibly attracted to you that she realized she’s bi or lez because of you. It’s exciting to be someone’s “first,” for you’re fresh and erotic to a first-time dyke since they haven’t experienced the wonders of girl on girl sex yet. Plus, a lot of gay women often tell me they’re simply more attracted to “straight women” then they are to “gay women.” (If that’s the case, then you just haven’t met enough femmes.) Make sure that you’re actually into this “straight girl” because she’s fascinating, and you connect with her on a deep, visceral level—not just because you want an ego boost or simply haven’t been exposed to the vast array of gay women that exist in this beautiful world. 4. Ensure you have made peace with your own sexuality. This is super, super, super, SUPER important. Make sure that you are 1,000 percent comfortable with your sexual identity—or get out of dodge. Fast. If you’re still harboring shame over your sexual identity, falling for a “straight” girl is going to be a giant step backward. You’re going to have to deal with her shame and her uncertainty, which can re-trigger those feelings within yourself if you’re not super strong yet. If she’s messing with your head by recklessly flirting with you, and you’re still feeling insecure about being a giant lez, then this kind of toxic game playing will majorly hurt you. Right now, you need to be around women who are confident in their gayness—women who lift you up and remind you there’s nothing to be ashamed of, only heaps to be proud of. So unless in your heart and soul you’re at peace with being queer, put a stop to this crush, immediately. Lesbian big sister’s orders. 5. Understand that no matter what: It’s going to be a ~massive~ undertaking. Let’s say she comes to you and confesses her acute attraction to you. She wants to try. She wants to date. She’s willing to see where this goes. Amazing! That’s awesome. But the trouble isn’t going to end just because she’s had a sexual awakening. That’s merely “step one” in the glorious 12 steps of coming out. You’re going to have to hold her hand as she tells her family that she’s queer; you’re going to have to help her get comfortable with public displays of lesbian affection; you’re going to have to deal with her old boyfriends getting riled up and possibly sending you hateful messages on Instagram. You’re going to have to teach her to go down on a woman (or show her my video tutorial below). This is all stuff you’ve likely already been through, and it wasn’t easy, was it? Be prepared to go through all of this again. And you can’t, I repeat, can’t resent her for grappling with these complicated, newfound feelings. It’s a big deal to admit to yourself that your sexuality isn’t as cut and dry as you’ve thought it was for your entire life. If you’re not willing to be patient and loving, then this massive undertaking isn’t for you. And that’s OK. It’s not for me, either. That being said, love is the most important thing in the entire universe, and if you feel like you love her—and you are certain that you love yourself as well—take the risk. The worst thing that happens is you get your heart broken. And sometimes heartbreak is exactly what we need when we’re getting too comfortable in our mundane lives. It cracks us wide open and lets the light inside.

“Episode 9! The Black Girl Dangerous Podcast is back in action! BGD’s Chanelle Adams and Princess Harmony host the episode with special guests Brandie (@feministfists) and Jack Qu’emi Gutierrez (@jackquemi)! This week’s episode is packed with conversations about veganism, PETA’s racism, nonbinary people, and Jaden Smith!” Read the whole transcript or listen to the Podcast, Non-Racist Veganism and Non-Binary Femmes here.

2020 Vision: All-Femme Authors for 2020. Over the years, Rose has wearied of receiving manuscript after manuscript, the protagonist almost always a male. When she protests, the writer is likely to exclaim, “But his best friend is a woman! She’s the smart one!” Yeh, and the world you’ve created is seen from the male POV. If the female side characters are so crucial, so integral to the story, why not tell the tale from their point of view? And so we shall. Stairwell already publishes books from LGBTQ writers, from male, female and we have some non-binary writers in the pipeline, but this is our first foray into focusing on the work of female and female-identifying authors for a whole year. Due to previous commitments 2020 was the first year this scheme could most easily come together. 2020 is also an anniversary year: the centennial of American women achieving suffrage. 1920 was the year that enough (not all!) US States finally ratified the 19th Amendment, allowing women the vote. The Amendment guarantees “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.” It was signed by President Teddy Roosevelt on the 19th of May, 1919. It would take 15 months to convince the final necessary state, Tennessee, to ratify the Amendment, thus surpassing the required hurdle of being approved by “the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States.” Fortunately, Alan was more readily convinced we needed a femme-only year. We have: a poetry collection co-authored by the amazing Izzy Jones, Alice Tomlinson and Becca Miles; a scary new novel (with that all-important dash of hope) on climate change, by Eliza Mood; a Young Adult novel by Yvonne Hendrie set in Scotland, where fae folk and humans interact; and the second part of The Blood Gift Trilogy by Susie Williamson. Susie’s first instalment, The Return of the Mantra, has received praise, reviews and orders from the US as well as across the UK. We have poetry from Rosemary Palmeira, and others. Plus of course, we can cheekily include Dream Catcher in this mission since the editor is the brilliant Wendy Pratt. More later! Stay tuned! Rose Drew, Alan Gillott, Declan Minskip, Emily Drew, and editorial assistant Grace Cooper Image of the 19 Amendment “This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person’s official duties under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code.”

I marathon-ed out Mindhunter over the last few days on Netflix. I couldn’t remember the damn name, and for the first few episodes, kept calling it Brainminder, which sounds like a Tupperware product for zombies. Anyway. It’s a David Fincher-produced thing – he also directed four episodes. Set in 1977, early days of FBI profiling, a couple of agents are both working active cases and going to prisons to interview notorious “sequence killers” to find out what makes them tick. The big selling point is the spot-on portrayal of Ed Kemper, which has already been discussed to death in every other article about the series. Agreed, but I won’t bore you with the story that he now narrates audio books for the blind in prison. I liked that this was set in 1977, but it doesn’t burn insane cycles saying “hey look, it’s 1977!” That was one of my criticisms of the one-and-done Scorsese-produced Vinyl, which spent way too much time and money depicting a gritty, punk, New York. Mindhunter has the old cars and the rotary phones and reel-to-reel tape recorders, but they aren’t the main character of the series. This reminded me a bit of Fincher’s work with Zodiac, which I ultimately didn’t love, but I appreciated that the focus wasn’t to make the background the character. I did like Mindhunter’s character development, which was sort of atypical. There’s the “new guy” Holden Ford, and the “old guy” Bill Tench, a common trope for crime fiction. But it’s not a “the old guy is dumb and the new guy tells him how modern life now works” or “the kid is a newbie, and the old guy lays it all out for him.” It’s very non-binary in that both of the characters have some advanced insights and key knowledge, but also have their own shortcomings. It does both of the tropes, but mixes them together in a more realistic way, with the two characters playing off of each other. There’s also the two sides of the institution, the new, groundbreaking professor, and the FBI old guard, and those are a little less nuanced, especially the FBI, but they do feed in little bits of development, especially with Wendy Carr, the psych professor. The finale — I won’t go into details, but I read from multiple people that it threw them, and it didn’t bother me. It was no Twin Peaks on the WTF scale of the finale, and it didn’t bother me. But I’m not everyone, so who knows. It will be interesting to see where the show goes in a Season 2. They were vaguely following the antics of a killer more or less modeled after Dennis Rader, the BTK Killer. They were mostly just setting it up, though. Maybe the next season will get into that more. Standard disclaimer applies to any of these VOD shows: it’s great, I watch it in two or three sittings, and then I have to wait six months or a year to get my next fix. I sometimes wish they could crank out five seasons at once, but obviously that’s not an option. (Unless I find out about it three or four years after it happens.)

The Poetry Society would like you to join them on an exciting journey through poetry, science and technology, spanning 13.8 billion years! The Poetry Society, Stemettes and 59 Productions have launched a new poetry and coding competition for young people aged 4-18 and based in the UK. The deadline for entries is 23:59 GMT on Sunday 19 December 2021. Find out more and enter online at aboutus.earth. The competition is part of a project called About Us, one of ten commissions for UNBOXED: Creativity in the UK. About Us is an epic new show for everyone who has ever looked up at the night sky and wondered about our connection to the vast universe. The show will tour the UK in spring 2022. They want young people’s voices to be at the heart of the show. The winners of the competition will have the chance to see their work featured in the live show, which will be seen by tens of thousands of people, as well as win other amazing prizes, including goodies and talent development opportunities. The theme of the competition is ‘connectivity and the universe’, and they are inviting young people to reflect on the infinite ways in which we are connected to the universe, the natural world, and one another from the Big Bang to the present day. There are two strands to the competition: young people can enter a poem, or an animation using the Scratch coding platform, or they can enter both. Poems should be no more than 20 lines long, and Scratch animations should not exceed 90 seconds. Entrants can create poems or animations about space and cosmology, cellular life, ecosystems, networks within the human body, linguistic connectivity, technology, the climate, or any other way in which life across the universe is connected. There are free poetry and coding resources for all key stages to help inspire them at aboutus.earth. Developed in collaboration with poets and scientists across the four nations of the UK, About Us is delivered by design studio and production company 59 Productions who created the breath-taking video design for the London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony; Stemettes, an organisation that brings young women and non-binary young people into careers in science, technology, engineering and maths; and The Poetry Society, one of the UK’s most dynamic arts organisation championing poetry for all ages. If you have any questions about the competition, please get in touch at [email protected]. Many creatures show amazing discernment choosing nesting sites for safety, or choosing between food sources for superior protein content, or choosing their mate for health, according to their brighter feathers and louder song. This is the Vogelkop Bowerbird – from Indonesia. He is an unremarkable male, with his plain, brown feathers. A female might disregard him entirely for his attire. But he attracts his mate by dazzling her. He builds the most remarkable bower of all – and decorates by choosing adornments by colour, and shine. He places them just so – stands back and re-adjusts, tries another arrangement and starts all over again until he is satisfied. He is an artist. It’s National Poetry Day today – the most exciting day in the poetry calendar, and I’m so proud to be a National Poetry Day ambassador, to let everyone possible in on the secrets of poetry. This is the poem I have given NPD this year on the theme of ‘CHOICE’. Sometimes we don’t have a choice – we have to get up and go to school or work to learn or earn money, we have to eat each day to stay healthy, and we need to clean our teeth every day to keep our smiles in working order. And sometimes it feels as if we don’t have any choice – perhaps we feel we need to say we like something we don’t because most people do like that thing, or we must behave in a certain way because we will be thought uncool if we don’t. This poem is about choosing to be you – are there things about yourself that you feel others might not approve of? Do you care? Do you worry about it? How does that make you feel? Here’s the poem in words instead of the shape of the nightingale: Do you read the back, and choose something that sounds exciting, soothing, or interesting? Do you look for books on a certain genre you enjoy, such as mystery, humour, adventure, detective, or horror? Do you go by the cover, and choose a book which you want to pick up, which makes you glad or excited just by the illustration or design? Do you open books at the first page and see if they grab you? There are as many ways to choose a book as there are types of book to read, and no way is incorrect. But perhaps one day you could try a different way of choosing – take a recommendation from someone, pick up the first book you see with a cover you love, even if it isn’t one you’d normally read, or try a mystery if you mainly pick romance. Here’s my poem about what you might find in a book – can you think of any books you have read that fit one of the verses? In the Heart of a Book I found myself a story with a place in me to store it I found myself a wide, new world so set off to explore it I found a scary monster plus the way to banish it I found a pool of sadness and the strength to manage it I found the dragon in my soul learned the way to tame it I found a new ambition a path to take and aim it I found a way to rest my head while my worries all unplug I found a curl of comfort where each word was a hug I found a web of wonders things I dream about at night I found a pair of magic wings and flew into the light From Being Me, Poems Abut Poems About Thoughts, Worries and Feelings, Liz Brownlee, Matt Goodfellow and Laura Mucha, May 2021 National Poetry Day is on Thursday this week – the theme is CHOICE. Today I have a poem about choosing words! How do you choose just the right word for a poem? Do you use the one you first think of? Sometimes that IS the correct word – poem lines should be easy to read and use direct language. But if you read the poem as a whole, and notice a repeat, or realise a word doesn’t express precisely what you were trying to say – or think of another word that is alliterative and makes the poem more interesting to say out loud – then it can be changed. Nursery rhymes – we all know and love them. Who didn’t grow up with ditties like Hey Diddle Diddle, Mary Mary, Quite Contrary, or Humpty Dumpty? They’re part of the furniture of the nursery of childhood. What is less well known is that many of these rhymes – some hundreds of years old – have themes and subject matter of a decidedly adult nature. One theory about Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary, for example, is that the rhyme refers to Queen Mary I of England, the “silver bells and cockle shells” referencing the instruments of torture that she used to convert recalcitrant Protestants to Catholicism. Other rhymes have somewhat dubious content – like the Old Woman who lived in a shoe, with her multitude of children who could only be dealt with by a sound smacking and sending off to bed. As a child growing up in Kolkata, India, I remember being mildly frightened by rhymes such as this, as well as bemused by the very English world they created: Dr Foster getting drenched in Gloucester, the Grand Old Duke of York marching his men up and down the hill. These rhymes are known and loved by generations of children. They form part of our collective childhood memory. But memory is a living thing, not a mausoleum. It should be added to, if we’re to have dynamic and not fossilized childhoods. Modern nursery rhymes are diverse and inclusive: Dennis Lee’s Alligator Pie, which gave Canadian children a whole body of nursery rhymes referencing their own landscape; or Jane Newberry’s gorgeously illustrated, interactive book of rhymes for young children, Big Green Crocodile, shortlisted for the 2021 CLiPPA award. For older children, fractured and re-worked nursery rhymes provide a rich source for honing critical and analytical skills, for questioning clichés and exploring history. In my poem What Are Little Girls Made Of?, for example, gender stereotypes are turned on their heads in a joyous mish-mash, encouraging children to think critically about them, and to explore their individual identity: Activities for KS3 pupils based on this poem could include: looking through newspaper and/or magazine articles and cutting out clichéd or recurring descriptions of men and women; are some adjectives considered “male” (handsome, strong) and some “female” (pretty, sweet) – what could be used instead? Or the children could create their own “fractured” nursery rhymes, replacing key words to turn stereotypes on their heads – Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater Had a wife and did mistreat her She waved a wand and winked and eye, And turned him into pumpkin pie. Older children and teenagers would enjoy more grown-up nursery rhyme parodies, such as that of This Little Piggy Went to Market in Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett (William Morrow, 2006). For a sample Year 7 lesson plan based on examining gender stereotypes in nursery rhymes and modern media, see the end of this article. It’s also fascinating to unearth the hidden significance of nursery rhymes, the historical and political roots from which they have been cut loose to float free over the years. One theory about the nursery rhyme Three Blind Mice is that, like Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary, it may refer to the martyrs, the Anglican bishops Cranmer, Ridley and Latimer, burned at the stake for their Protestant beliefs (and therefore “blind”): Three blind mice Paid a high price The Queen’s beliefs they all three spurned So at the stake she had them burned, Those three blind mice. For many years, the nursery rhyme Ring a Ring of Roses was believed to have its roots in the Great Plague, the “ring” of roses referring to the rosy rash that was one of the symptoms of the Black Death, the “pocketful of posies” the nosegay that was carried to defend against infection, “Atishoo, Atisshoo, we all fall down” referring to a final death. Although this explanation is now generally disputed by scholars, it does give the rhyme a dark relevance in the context of these pandemic days. “A nursery rhyme shapes your bones and nerves, and it shapes your mind. They are powerful, nursery rhymes, and immensely old, and not toys, even though they are for children.” So says a character in Katherine Catmull’s exploration of myth, fable and nursery rhyme, Summer and Bird (Puffin, 2012). We who read, write and teach nursery rhymes must tread carefully in the magical forest, mindful of their power. Piu DasGupta is a British/French/Indian writer based in Paris, France. Although poetry has been a lifelong passion, she turned to writing it quite recently. Her children’s poems have been published to date in magazines such as The Caterpillar, Northern Gravy, and The Dirigible Balloon. She is on Twitter as @PiuDasGupta1. ‘Blow Wind Blow’ a celebration. For librarians, teachers, parents and children – Thursday 29th July, 2021. 7pm. ‘Blow Wind Blow’ is a poetic and visual introduction to the many wonders of wind, the third in the ‘Wild Wanderers’ series for younger readers. Join poet Dom Conlon and illustrator Anastasia Izlesou for this celebration, hosted by the Manchester Children’s Book Festival and the Manchester Poetry Library at Manchester Met University. Dom and Anastasia will be in conversation with CLPE’s Charlotte Hacking and Plymouth Grove Primary teacher Sarah Thompson, to discuss how this beautiful book can have an impact in classrooms. Children also welcome; there will be a reading of the book and we will also be sharing some creative responses from Plymouth Grove pupils, who have been working with the book. And we will be laying down a summer writing/drawing challenge for children to respond from home. To join this free online event please register on Eventbrite. As part of the BBC Contains Strong Language Festival Coventry 2021, Coventry Libraries and Coventry UK City of Culture 2021 are recruiting for this exciting role: Coventry Young Poet Laureate – 13 years or older and under 18 years old on 31 August 2021. The Coventry Young Poet Laureate is an honorary post appointed by Coventry Library Service and the Coventry UK City of Culture 2021. The post will be run until 5 October 2023 at which date a new Young Poet Laureate will be appointed. Applicants must be able to work in English but having knowledge of other languages is welcomed. When applying you will be asked to upload short poems, one of which should be about Coventry and a short statement about your interest in the post and what you think you can bring to the role. The deadline for applications is Monday 19 July 2021 at 12:00 BST All children worry about all manner of things – some children more than others. They may have a store of big and little worries that they carry around, which just gets bigger if not attended to. One day a little worry added to the top may cause them to have what seems to be an out-of-proportion reaction. Talking about worries, writing them down, solving the ones that can be solved and recognising the ones that cannot, and putting them to one side can help. Here’s a little poem about worries, read by Sophia. For our Book launch, we asked a few young people to read some of the poems from Being Me, which they did beautifully. Here is The Quiet Child, by me, read by Polly, from Being Me, Poems About Thoughts Worries and Feelings, Otter Barry Books. Being Me, Poems about Thoughts, Worries and Feelings, by me, Matt Goodfellow and Laura Mucha, wonderfully Illustrated by Victoria Jane Wheeler, and published by Otter Barry Books. The launch for this book of mental health poems was last night – what a lovely event it was. Mental health problems among primary children are at an all-time high – and no wonder with all the pressures they have nowadays on top of all the thoughts, feelings and worries youngsters experience anyway. We have attempted to cover a wide range of issues, poems to reassure, poems to find yourself in, poems hoping to start thought processes that might lead to asking for help, poems to open discussions between guardians, teachers, parents and youngsters.

“You can not be safe if you’re not free, and you can not be equal if you’re not safe”. This quote from Phyll Opoku-Gyimah, Executive Director of Kaleidoscope Trust, and the host of Black Gay Blog’s “How Globalisation is Transforming the Fight for LGBT+ Rights” seminar, hit me on a very personal level. As a gay man who lives in a country where my sexuality is deemed a criminal offence, I know first-hand the impact of globalisation and what it means to not be free, safe or equal. Let’s talk about what “globalisation” means exactly and what the impact of globalisation might be for LGBTQ+ rights in today’s world. No other year in the history of human civilisation has shown how truly connected we all are than in 2020. Who would have thought that a virus from Wuhan, a city many have never heard of, would incapacitate the entire world in a matter of weeks? Millions of people stuck at home but connected via social media, zoom calls and Twitter memes. All of us apart, but linked in a way that we have never been linked before. 2020 showed us two things. It is easy for us to come together, and it is easy for us to come apart—both as a result of the impact of globalisation. This brings me back to why, in 2021, there are still so many hate crimes being perpetrated against members of the LGBTQ+ community. Why, after all, we’ve seen, human beings still find it difficult to just accept the diversity of our species. If a microscopic virus doesn’t give a fuck about if a man is gay, orange and balding, why should you? In Africa, out of 54 countries, 31 criminalize homosexuality. Many of them following the remnants of laws put into place by their colonisers. Steve Letsike said it best when she called it “colonialism’s legacy”. The irony of it all is that the people who brought this bigotry have mostly left it behind. Currently, Queen Elizabeth is in the process of banning conversion therapy in the United Kingdom. Yes, it may seem a bit overdue, but consider the fact that the Nigerian government would put you in prison for 14 years for sleeping with the man you love. You would think that the impact of globalisation would have at least pressured them to put up an air of acceptance, no? So what exactly is the way forward? How do we, as a community, create a way for us to be free, safe and equal wherever we may find ourselves? Portia C. Allen gave a few brilliant suggestions, such as getting allies to intervene where it can be proven that human rights are being violated. Though this sounds like it would be easy, all you need to do is search for “gays killed in Africa” to see hundreds, if not thousands of accounts, of LGBTQ+ members being mobbed, beaten, and murdered. With accounts as recent as April 21st 2021, Lonwabo Jack was raped and killed on his 22nd birthday. The fourth incident of a slain community member in less than a month in South Africa. So there is proof. There are stories. Overwhelming photographic and visual evidence abound. But, I believe the issue is deeper than showing or telling people about what is being done to the fellow brothers, sisters and non-binary siblings in our community. The problem stems from the fact that even in countries deemed “the first world”, men and women are still being harassed for who they are. Do you mean to tell me those countries don’t embody the actual results of the impact of globalisation either? Every month there seems to be a new story of black and Latino trans women being murdered stateside. Are you to tell me that 52 years after the Stonewall riots, they still don’t understand we’re here to stay? So, again, what is the way forward? Even amongst ourselves, there seems to be a great division. Gay men who disdain drag queens. Grindr profiles proclaiming “masc4masc”. Snide remarks about if a trans woman “passes”. And still, we demand solidarity from people outside of our corridors? How does that work? If we can find a way to stand together, I honestly know that we can find a way for the world to really see us as we are. Then we can confidently say we’re bringing about an LGBTQ+ aspect to the impact of globalisation. Education is key. Many of us need to unlearn some toxic ideas we may have formed through the years, and most importantly, prevent future generations of LGBTQ+ youth from learning them as well. The prevalence of heterosexual ideals in a homosexual relationship for one. Toxic masculinity and discrimination against feminine men for another. The last 20 years have seen a surge in what defines us as a community. When I was growing up, all I knew was that you could be gay, straight or bi. But these days, there seems to be another label popping up every minute—different colours for our flag and different letters for our umbrella name being created year-in-and-year-out. I don’t bemoan these developments. If anything, it goes to show how unique we all are, even within the rainbow world. It also demonstrates how the impact of globalisation has brought people that felt alienated together. We just need to understand that labels don’t need to be given and explanations don’t need to be made. Individuals should be accepted for who they are without having to provide a synopsis as to why they are. Secondly, our activists need protection. Not just physical, no, but like Steve Letsike of Access Chapter 2 said, “we need to care for our carers”. She pointed out that many activists die in abject poverty. After decades of giving back to the community and making impacts that enable an easier life for us all. How fair does that seem? And then we have the audacity to complain that people aren’t fighting anymore? Why would they when the fighters are treated so poorly? A solution has to be found where we can ensure those who sacrifice their lives don’t sacrifice their existence. Either through funding, donations, or even just to make sure they have a comfortable place to call home. When we can guarantee that those who are brave enough to carry the community on their backs are taken care of, then we can expect more individuals willing to come forward and join the fight. Finally, as ECADE‘s Kenita Placide pointed out, “support is out there, but don’t set expectations”. I, for one, resonate with that deeply. Years ago, when I was outed by my aunt and abandoned by my mother, I sought help from multiple organisations in an effort to be rescued from my predicament. Born in the UK, raised in the US and sent back to Nigeria without any foreign documentation, ensured that I was at the whim of my relatives. I sent emails upon emails, all with the title “Get Me Out”, thinking at least one would unfold into a Cinderella story. I didn’t consider that there are millions of gay men like me who needed to be rescued. At least, I had a roof over my head and food to eat. Excuse the sob story, but my point is, understand that any help you do receive, is more help than Lonwabo ever received. We have a long way to go, yet I’m hopeful because we have already come so far. The beauty is always in the journey, and one day, soon, it’ll all just be another chapter in the books of history. - You may also like The Taboo of Being Black and Gay in Latin America.

Here we are again in the midst of another news cycle involving a powerful man being accused of sexual assault and harassment and women sharing their own traumas in the hope that something—anything—will change the way men treat women and our bodies. If you remember, we went through this—women exposing their most sensitive memories—precisely a year ago, when a sexual predator was running for the presidency. Before that there was the Bill Cosby cycle; before that there was the Woody Allen cycle; before that there were various cycles. Naming them could go on for a while. Has this exercise not grown stale yet? It’s grown stale for me. I’m tired of talking about the men who have violated me, and tired of putting myself out there and bringing information to men who, for the most part, can’t be bothered to seek it out themselves. Most of the women I know are similarly fed up, and even if it’s taking place in one narrow corner of the word, and even it’s part of a cycle that’s gone on before and will go on again, hundreds of thousands of women talking and posting about and insisting on the reality of their own traumas is something to behold. Does it matter, though? Does it ever matter? Here’s what I find most aggravating: The men I know get to pick and choose when the subject of sexual harassment and abuse inconveniences them. They don’t want to talk about it too much, brushing it off as, “Yeah, I know it’s bad.” I’m a liberal man, I abhor sexual assault. Which, thanks! I would like, though, for the men in my life to actually sit with the conversation at hand and stop thinking about how it affects them and whether they’re on trial. I would like for them—even, perhaps especially, the good ones—to allow their worldview to be disrupted, and to think about the ways they’ve affected the women in their lives. I know men—many men; nearly all the men who talk about it—who profess to abhor and do abhor sexual assault and harassment and yet struggle to really engage with the issue because no one in their right minds wants to sully the way they see their friends or themselves. Sure, there are some bad men, a lot of bad men; we as women and we as men know that. And still, when I have tried and urged the men in my life to really take a look at how absolutely insidious this issue is and what role they may have played or be playing in it, their walls have gone up. It’s a thought they find unsafe, a perspective they don’t want to have. I’m not like that. At this point, I say, “Tough shit, dudes.” How men treat women, our autonomy, and our physical safety is the undercurrent to every woman’s existence, ramifying on everything we do, at all times. It doesn’t matter how you identify: Lesbian women get harassed by men, trans women experience harassment most of us cis women can’t even imagine, non-binary people and their experiences get erased, women of color experience harassment and violence at nearly exponentially higher rates than white women, and even the better men only become aware of it intermittently , when forced to. This is what the world is, whether you like it or not, and I don’t see it changing now—not because a self-defining sector of women are opening themselves up to be discounted and, well, further harassed, and certainly not over a hashtag. I can’t count the number of times I have been out on the street, harassed by a random man until he sees that I am with another man—any man; simply a friend—and backs off, not wanting to interfere with another man’s property. I walk free of harassment when I am out with my boyfriend. (Our walks together amount to nearly three years being routinely free of the daily hums and calls of men.) Then I go outside, go for a walk, go to the post office, alone, and there it is again. Where the fix needs to start is with this: Men—all of them, including the ones who wouldn’t necessarily feel written into this sort of instruction—need to begin to understand consent, and see it not as a binary of good and bad men, or of rape or not-rape. They need to understand coercion, and power dynamics, and how a woman feels queasy when an older, more notable man says he “forgot his wallet” in his hotel room, and hopes he was telling the truth. They need to understand the consequences of enabling friends who harm women, brushing off or excusing their behavior because of their otherwise positive qualities or because they think that they can help fix the problem through some unspecified mechanism. They need to shut down the jokes made by their asshole friends, rather than disagreeing in their own heads but pretending they didn’t hear because that would be … awkward. But they—you—don’t often do that. And so it falls to women to push back, call out, and stand up, often alone or with only the support of other women, when men harm women. It’s not just bullshit, it’s ineffective. Men who prey on women only listen to the feedback of men. It’s not as if men never know when their friends are creeps, or worse. I’ve spoken with a number of men this past week who have told me that they have reflected on their past behavior. I’ve realized that when I was bothering women, hitting on them at bars, I was just getting in the way of their good time for the sake of my need to get laid, the man says. It’s a start! But a few others have told me they have thought more about the actions of their friends—men known to be creepy or shitty to women—and how little respect they have for them. “So what are you doing about it?” I’ve asked. The response has been a chorus of stammering Um, uh, wells … It’s a set of wholly unsatisfying responses from men who want to represent themselves as, and believe themselves to be, definitely not part of the problem. If you are a man who truly didn’t know—who has now heard something on this line from a woman you are close to and who is finally opening up with her story to you about a mutual friend, or family member, or colleague—ask yourself why it took so long. Ask why it took yet another run through the cycle for her to trust you. Ask yourself why the women you know haven’t shared the massive accumulation of information they have stored on their mental hard drives by their 20s if not before with the men who are good, who know better than to treat women as objects. If you leave this issue to women, if you refuse to make your friends or yourself be better—whether by intervention or by consequence—you are part of the problem, no matter what you make of yourself. If you are closing yourself off from the information that has been out there for too long to be worth considering about gender, power, and violence, or the cyclical flows of personal anecdotes about them, you are not excused. It has been too long, too obvious, and presented too many ways for anyone to claim ignorance. If you are surprised to learn that you, personally, are not part of the solution, but part of the problem, you have closed yourself out on purpose, choosing to stay ignorant out of fear of acknowledging the world as it is for all genders, rather than just yours. This is not a problem for women to solve alone; this is not a problem women can solve alone. For too long, men have considered sexual and other gendered violence to be the problem of women. It is a problem for all of us to solve. Yet men have gone on, frowning and furrowing their brows. They are doing it now. They give it the old How horrible, I agree it is horrible and go about their days. For women, this often is our day. This is a constant. We live with the unceasing fear of what a man is capable of. We know that it’s not convenient; we know that the urge to prey on women does not discriminate by how a man presents to the world otherwise, and especially the men around him. It’s time for this to get inconvenient for men—for, perhaps, you. It’s time for them—you—to sit with this issue, not just for a day or two, but as part of your life. It’s time to assess values and priorities. Otherwise, why would (and how can) this cycle be any different? Excuse me for being a pessimist. Please let me know when I, too, should reconsider how I view the men in my life.

Some trans women and feminine spectrum non-binary and gender-diverse folks may experience dysphoria or discomfort associated with the shape of their buttocks. While hormone therapy can change the shape of the buttocks, it can only do so much. For some folks, buttocks feminization can help reduce feelings of dysphoria or discomfort associated with body fat distribution. This procedure is remarkably similar to the Brazilian butt lift, but with specifics tailored to gender-affirming needs. To determine if you are a good candidate for buttocks feminization, schedule a consultation with Dr. Mosser. Buttocks feminization surgery is a versatile procedure with a variety of benefits: Buttocks feminization lift is a two-step process: fat harvesting from the trunk and then fat grafting to the buttocks. Once you’ve been sedated (either with general anesthesia or intravenous sedation), Dr. Mosser will use a thin tube, called a cannula, to break up and suction out unwanted fat from a donor site on your body. Donor fat can be taken from almost anywhere on your body, but most patients benefit from trunk liposuction, which feminizes body shape by contouring the waistline prior to augmenting the buttocks. Once the fat has been harvested, it is processed and purified. Dr. Mosser will then carefully re-inject the fat to produce a more rounded and convex outer buttocks. Injections are administered in a fan-like pattern and the process of redistribution may involve hundreds of small injections. To achieve natural-looking results, buttocks feminization requires both technical expertise and nuanced artistry. For this reason, it’s very important to always select a board certified plastic surgeon like Dr. Mosser for your surgery. When performed correctly, a Brazilian butt lift offers long-lasting results without the need for touch-ups or an additional round of fat injections. Generally speaking, this procedure offers less risk and more natural-looking results than other augmentation options. However, all surgical procedures have risks. During recovery, it’s possible (and likely) that you will experience temporary discomfort, swelling or bruising. More serious complications may include infection, fluid build-up (seroma), bleeding or scarring. There is a 30% chance of re-absorption. If you have questions or concerns about surgery, Dr. Mosser would be happy to discuss the procedure with you in-depth during a personal consultation.

I just found your gender identity and I think it fits me? I’m not a boy or girl. There’s something but it’s not based off of boy or girl. To me I’m just a person. Is that what it’s like? How does it differ from non binary as an identity? Thank you normally i’d respond to this with some long-winded blabbering, but i just wrote another long-winded blabber of a post and am out of wind now, so… forgive me for keeping this (relatively) brief. i think that you’ll find that many people, regardless of their gender, view themselves as “just a person” or “just themself”, so i personally don’t consider that to be something specific to maveriques. not everyone feels like their gender defines them in a way that stops them from being “just” themself, a person, and simultaneously a man, woman, agender person etc at the same time… in fact, i’d say that i’m “just” a person who’s simultaneously “just” a maverique, if that makes sense. non-binary, as a specific gender, means different things to different people, so what it means to me may not be what it means to me. for you, non-binary may very well be what maverique is to me. i have no way of knowing, honestly. but to me, non-binary as a specific gender, is vaguer and more open-ended than maverique. stressing this again, but to me personally, it feels like it’s a gender defined solely by what it’s not (ie. “not binary”) without mention of anything more distinctive than that. it’s often considered by people to be “purposefully vague”, similar to genderqueer but not politically charged. and while people have made similar comment about maverique being defined by what it’s not, i’d argue that the definition of maverique is still much narrower. for me at least, it definitely feels like a snugger fit than non-binary. i embrace non-binary as a broader identity for myself, but it will never describe me as well as maverique does… ….which is probably not of much help to you as it’s not a concrete answer to your question. sorry. perhaps others have something they’d like to add?

Block Universe is London‚Äôs leading international performance art festival and commissioning body. We bring together cutting-edge performance art at the cross-section of contemporary visual art, dance and music, held in major institutions and venues across London, and have built a reputation for launching the careers of a new generation of artists and actively contributing to the local and international performance art scene. Block Universe has worked with over 100 practitioners producing over 60 productions, including 30 new commissions, and brought 14 international premieres to London over the past 6 years. In 2019 we expanded internationally to present programmes in Italy, the UAE and Germany, and in 2020 organised a week-long digital festival. We partner with major institutions, theatres, artist-run, non-traditional and community spaces, and have created work for over 60,000 live audiences, with a reach through press of close to 950m. We are committed to being inclusive and accessible, inspiring and educating audiences by producing and presenting work by a diverse range of internationally renowned and emerging artists with strong representation of POC, LGBTQIA+, female, non-binary communities.. Our mission is to create a long-term, sustained engagement with performance art in London and beyond, pioneering a new platform, and positioning London at the forefront of the dialogue surrounding performance internationally. Block Universe was founded in 2015 by Louise O‚ÄôKelly, and the 2022 team includes Xica Aires, Head of Production, Tatjana Damm, Managing Director and L√©a Malgouyres, Programme Assistant. Our current advisory panel include Jonathan Sharples and Antoinette O’Loughlin. We would also like to acknowledge our gratitude towards founding members of the Block Universe team, without whom none of this would be possible. Thank you to Nicky van Breugel and Burcu Yuksel for their time, energy and passion. To see all the artists we have worked with and our previous partners and supporters please click here.

Gender Minorities Aotearoa is planning to purchase laser hair removal or IPL equipment, and provide free facial hair removal for takataapui, transgender, and intersex people at The Gender Centre, and beyond. [image: a woman receiving a laser facial hair removal treatment. text: Do you want free laser? We might be able to help!] Facial hair removal is one of the most urgent, safety enhancing, mental health improving, and empowering medical treatments for many trans women, intersex and non-binary people. However, laser hair removal is not publicly funded for trans people, and it can be very expensive to self fund, sometime costing $150 per session and taking 6 or 10 sessions to complete. At long last, a solution is on the horizon. We don’t have all the details yet, but we are researching everything we need to know. We are planning to relocate The Gender Centre to a new venue in Wellington soon, with it’s own clinic room, where we can provide services such as counseling sessions, laser hair removal, and with a little luck, a doctor who can prescribe HRT and make referrals to the High Cost Treatment Pool waiting list for Genital Reconstruction Surgery. Update: IPL treatment for facial hair is now available at our drop in centre in Wellington – see this page for details. What about those not living in Wellington? We would love to set up The Gender Centre in every area, complete with clinics, community drop in, legal advice, events, and all the rest, alongside our awesome fund raising op shops. We consider Wellington to be our pilot, and it’s looking like a successful model which we hope will be coming your way soon. We look pretty flash and we get a lot done, but we are grass roots and run on a tiny budget, so these things take time. It took 4 years to get a physical space in Wellington, but we hope to get to you sooner than that! We also want to be in touch with local trans community groups and individuals in different regions. We have worked alongside many of you, and we want to work together. How can I help make this happen!? One thing that helps us heaps is if you can send us an email or comment on this post on our social media, letting us know what you think! If there is a laser machine you have used, if you work at a clinic that is about to get new machines and sell the old ones, or if you know some information, please drop a link and help us decide. Your expertise is very appreciated. What about trans men and non-binary transmasculine people? We are setting up a national binder programme, to raise funds and provide binders across the country. This is in the early stages but will be launching later in 2019. We will update once plans solidify.

Time again to have a look at new electronic music that’s pumping through the ether. This time we will focus on three new tracks blending bouncing and hectic beats to space noise. Electronic composer and sound artist SØS Gunver Ryberg has teamed up with Cadie Desbiens-Desmeulesm, aka Push 1 stop, for a head-spinning visual to accompany her track, ‘Doing our best is no longer good enough’. Originally conceived as a collaboration with Strøm Festival in Copenhagen, the video sees Desbiens-Desmeulesm setting a patchwork of synthetic and organic images against SØS Gunver Ryberg’s atmospheric avant-techno. The track is taken from SØS Gunver Ryberg’s recent EP for AD 93, which the BAFTA-nominated composer describes as “the connection between destruction and creation. Creation in different shapes. Life’s complexity and finding a devotion to the Flux.” Sophia Loizou envisions six speculative sentient landscapes in Untold: A Tellurian Memorandum, an ambitious multidisciplinary project spanning a book of poetry, a 30-minute soundscape and an AV show. ‘Anima’ is the first excerpt from the project, in which Loizou re-interprets geological formations to highlight the complex, symbiotic, non-human lifeforms that make them up. “I wanted to portray an open and empathic multiform future,” she explains, “a world that celebrates the vibrant, messy and multifaceted beauty of non-human forces and forms.” As David Foster tells it, Teste was “still-born by the mid-90s”. “With the ensuing PTSD”, he continues, “I had become a shut-in working on the Amiga Computer for audio and video and completely immersed in grisly, depraved art-house cinema.” It is from the trashy fervour of Manhattan’s 42nd Street that Teste was borne, playing grotty techno in sports bars and DIY venues. All the tracks that feature on Graphic Depictions, his new album for L.I.E.S., were sourced from decaying VHS, 4-track, DAT and MD tapes from this period and are presented in all their gritty glory. The grainy visual for ‘Romans Are Dead’ reflects this period for Teste, as director and producer Sebastian Kökow draws together heavily edited B-movie footage for the evocative video. ‘Romans Are Dead’ is taken from the album Graphic Depictions, out now on L.I.E.S. Kyiv-based label Standard Deviation is launching with a new split EP from Nene H and Poly Chain. It will be released on September 25. Standard Deviation is the latest project to come from Kyiv club ∄. It’s name is a mathematical symbol meaning ‘there does not exist’, and the club itself is a safer space for non-binary and gender non-conforming people in Kyiv.

Andrew Seger discusses his new documentary WE EXIST which he made about Non-binary activist Lauren Lubin and making an LGBTQ educational tool. Interview conducted by Kara Grant. Tell us about WE EXIST. WE EXIST - Beyond the Binary is a documentary that looks at the construct of gender binary. We do this primarily through the eyes of Lauren Lubin, a nonbinary athlete and activist. We follow Lauren’s life from childhood to the present, following their journey from Division I sports, to living in the rainforest, to top surgery, to now. In addition, we include interviews with nonbinary activist and speaker Tyler Ford, LGBTQ speaker and educator Kristin Russo, surgeon Dr. Charles Garramone, and the Clinical Director of Medical Services at Callen Lorde Community Health Center, Anthony Vivasis. How did you come to this project? How did you meet Lauren? I found myself abruptly without work and was looking on craigslist for a film to edit. I needed an answer for when friends and family asked what I was doing and a documentary sounded like I had my act together. I literally met Lauren at a Starbucks in Manhattan where after talking over the project we surmised that it would take approximately 6 weeks to complete… we were off by about 5 years. What drew you to this topic? I had the fortune of growing up in a really progressive part of the Bay Area. I felt like I had a handle on the subject and a general kinship for LGBTQ issues. Of course I was wrong, and I was floored by how much I truly didn't understand about the topic. There simply isn’t enough content out in the mainstream about the gender binary. As we look more closely into ideas around privilege, toxic masculinity, and identity in general, it feels like there needs to be more information available about the construct of gender. That is what we are hoping to provide with this documentary. Were you already familiar with the issues and language used in the film? I was loosely aware of the language but we really drill down on pronouns in this film because it’s really important to understand. One of the things that I like is that we don’t chastise people for not knowing about this stuff - but it is time to learn. It was important to me that this film was approachable for everyone and in that way, we focus on building a connection with the characters before we get in to the work of educating. The hope is that by the time we get to the things that are different for the viewer, they’ve already connected to the ways in which we are all similar. By the time we’re talking about pronouns and top surgery and safety concerns, you’ve already bonded with Lauren as a child, as an athlete, and as a person, so of course you want to refer to them correctly when it comes up, of course you want them to have the same opportunities that you want for your family and friends. What was the collaborative process for creating this story in a documentary format? Did Lauren guide you through their story, and then you took the reins as creative director and producer? When I came on to this project, it was only as an editor and the top surgery portion of the film had already been shot by another team. The documentary was going to be short; a couple of interviews and that story, hence the 6 week turnaround. Over a BBQ at Lauren’s house, I heard all of their stories - of growing up in sports, of having to sacrifice that career for their psychological well being, of their love story and how it led to them living off grid in the rainforest for years and where they nearly drowned. I learned that it was this near death experience that clarified in Lauren’s mind the changes they needed to make in their identity to be happy - it was very moving. So once I got all the background to the story, I asked if I could take a crack at the script and see if I could weave some of these other elements into the documentary. A really talented team of shooters and I began producing more segments to add and a few years in, Lauren’s dad unearthed 20 years of home video he shot of Lauren; that’s when I knew we had a film. So as we added more content, I produced those segments and at some point it became a shared vision where it made sense that I be the director of the film. Having a collaborator like Lauren was key. Doing what is essentially a biopic on someone who is still in the middle of living their life is precarious. We were both too close to certain elements of the film and so it was good for me to take it away from Lauren and do a thing and then have Lauren take it away from me and give notes.You can imagine, over the years the film took on many forms. We started this before the advent of Caitlyn Jenner. Initially our challenge was to establish for people that different concepts of gender identity even existed but once a reality star dove in, it freed up a lot of space in our documentary to tell a much more personal story. How did you come to incorporate the stories of other activists in WE EXIST? Parts of Lauren’s story are universal while others are quite specific so it was important to incorporate other voices. We’re trying to throw as wide a net as possible with this film and so I wanted to give multiple opportunities for the viewer to connect with someone on screen. The idea that gender is a construct can be challenging for some people to work with - it undermines something that we’ve been fed as a truth our whole lives - so I wanted to bring in some outside voices to add their perspectives. What’s more, nonbinary representation is so underserved that it was important to show Lauren as part of a community of nonbinary people and not a story of one person. Everyone was just great. What did you learn about gender fluidity in the five year process of completing WE EXIST? I think we’ve all seen gender fluidity become a much more mainstream topic. The interesting thing about doing a documentary on gender identity that took the last 5 years to produce is that the larger conversations around identity have really changed during that time. Among conversations about privilege, visibility and gender, we realized that we were making a film about a moving target. There was a real fear that the information in the film would be outdated before we even got it out. Being aware of the fluid motion of these subjects, I made a real effort to identify what was trending versus what was timeless and try and stick to things that would weather. It was exciting to be working in a space that was in motion, but at the same time it was pretty scary thinking, “I’ve put years into producing this film. Will it even be relevant when it gets released?” Tell us about Flannel Projects. Flannel Projects is the production company I run that produced the film. It’s a boutique agency that scales with each project that comes its way and is largely staffed by friends from my fashion and music video days. These days, it operates as the in-house production company for Indistry, an OTT streaming service where I am the Creative Director. You have a wide-ranging background in creating video content for different industries, mainly the fashion industry. How did your experience, if at all, inform how you approached this project? I saw Lauren’s story as emotional and dreamlike and wanted to employ some abstract imagery in the film. There are elements of magical realism in the story itself, very fairytale in a way and I felt like we should acknowledge that in its presentation. I also had my friend Alex Ghassan, who I worked closely with for years before, as our Director of Photography and he was very gifted as a cinematographer. He was able to make moods and meaning in the moments he caught and how he framed them. This was really key, as the film had no budget to speak of so we really had to stretch what we had lying around - which was the raw talent of the crew. A lot of the abstract elements were shaved down due to budget constraints and in the interest of clarity, but having a foundation of more expressive content helped set a great baseline from which to tell this story. What do you hope students will do after watching your film? My hope is always that they will find themselves a little more open, a little more compassionate, and a lot more informed. We really made this film to captivate and educate, and spent a lot of time massaging the tone so that it is easily approached by people with no idea about the subject.At the same time, we wanted real representation for the nonbinary community. When we started this project, there was practically zero representation of nonbinary people in media. Through interviews and emails during production, it became clear that the work that we were doing was saving lives just by telling people that who they are is ok, is normal, is good.

Here’s a guest post from the very smart Lai-Tze Fan! It’s academic job season. Her advice on writing a cover letter is SO GOOD. Without further ado… Recently, I’ve offered to look over the cover letters of a few people applying to professor positions. The academic cover letter is a unique genre, and getting it right is as hard as the first time you wrote a grant proposal. It is your brief chance to show a search committee what you have to offer–including your existing/future research, your teaching methods, and that you’d be a great colleague. The cover letter is less finicky than the grant proposal (hurray, no citations!), but needs to be both cleaner and even more persuasive. We all know the precarious futures of young academics, as well as the struggles faced by those who have been on the job market for six months or six years. I don’t judge anyone for going into alt-ac or leaving academia all together; some of the smartest people in my PhD cohort chose not to finish the degree, preferring other paths that I’m sure make them happy, and I am happy for them. For those who want to stay, I’d like to offer suggestions based on my own experiences, noting that different disciplines may have fine-tuned requirements that I haven’t acknowledged here or even differing advice. As I will state at the end, I welcome additional tips that others in the community have to add. Please post them below! Some background information: I’ve been lucky and am extremely grateful to have had interviews every season and back-to-back tenure-track jobs. I am not guaranteeing anything– these are just observations I’ve made in applying to nearly thirty jobs (some research-focused and some teaching-focused), serving on search committees, and editing dozens of cover letters for others. I realize the length of the list is daunting. Think of it this way: after the job season, you’ll have written maybe half a dozen varieties of research- and teaching-focused letters. Let’s say you are an artist: maybe one letter highlights creative practice, one highlights curriculum building, one is suited for a fine arts department, one for social science, and one for the humanities. You now have templates that can be recycled and tweaked for most future job applications, but the first time is usually the hardest. A lot of these suggestions you may already know. I hope the list may be useful, but whether or not it is, please offer your own advice to other scholars giving the job market a shot. I myself focus on helping young scholars, including women and non-binary people, and especially those of colour like me. These suggestions aren’t necessarily in order, but I’ve also organized them in a way that, if you prefer, can be followed step-by-step. Note on terminology: I was trained in Canada, so some of my terminology will reflect this. Other countries and systems have their preferred terms for “tenure” (such as “substantiation”), graduate students (“postgrads”), and various levels of teaching positions (“lecturer” in Canada vs. the UK). Please keep these variations in mind for your own job-seeking needs. Throughout this document, the word “department” is used, but may also refer to specialized programs, research labs, centres, etc. to which you may be applying. BEFORE YOU START The #1 rule Do not waste the search committee’s time. Don’t give them extra work or extra pages, don’t submit something that is incomplete, and don’t mislead them with confusing information. Optional: Crack down on social media The world of academia is small. Scholars that are associated or in close contact with any departments to which you apply shouldn’t be able to see questionable photos on your Instagram or read unprofessional posts on Facebook. Please don’t think that I am suggesting that friends who are academics do not care about who you are; nor would I ever advocate for faculty members to share others’ private information (we have witnessed these breaches of privacy and everyone gets upset). What I refer to is a scholar’s conflict of interest that might put them in a professional bind; maybe they’d even like to help you out, but they may excluded from important conversations because they are a bit too close to a job candidate. Again, this is up to you! But if you are interested in limiting social media, then you could, for instance, place select people on private/acquaintance lists, have separate personal accounts, or even temporarily deactivate. If you haven’t done this yet, that’s ok: start now and limit visibility on previous posts that are questionable. What counts as sharing too much information you can decide for yourself, but as a rule of thumb, do not publicly criticize your current department and students, nor the department to which you’re applying or its faculty members. You are entitled to your own opinions, but you are also entitled to protect them. ONTO THE LETTER 2.5 pages max The cover letter should be 2.5 pages max, even with a signature at the bottom and your school logo/letterhead at the top (if you are currently affiliated with a school, then do use their logo and make it small). The signature adds a personalized touch. Do your homework Following the rule of not wasting the search committee’s time, take the time to learn what this department is about. Go online and explore their website, perhaps for 30 minutes per university. Familiarize yourself with their and the university’s research/mission statements. Do they offer their students/graduate students professionalized degrees–which means they want practical and culturally engaged work? Do they offer a more conservative or more experimental approach to their course offerings and/or graduate programs?–or is it a mix? Which faculty members do similar research to yours and in what ways do you offer something different (just figure this out, but never state in the cover letter why you are different from Professor X or Y)? What does their curriculum look like? Other questions to consider, but which you may not want to address in your cover letter: Are they interested in collectively answering a problem–such as lowering the carbon footprint or greater representation for Indigenous students, cultures, and histories? Are they Hispanic serving? Is there a high number of international students? Is their student body composed of many “first-generation students” (this means something specific in the USA compared to Canada)? The gist is: find out what they care about and what they’re dedicated to demonstrating to their current/prospective students, and make sure you explicitly state how your research, teaching, and/or service may share some of the same concerns. From what others have said, this method has never failed in making me stand out as a serious candidate in cover letters, Skype interviews, and campus interviews: learn about their goals and respect who they are; write them a letter that is unique to them; do not waste anyone’s time, including your own. Optional: Write it as a story While very few scholars have focused all of their work around a central interest, your task is to find a central interest or concern that can encompass many (not necessarily all; do not force it) of your work. The effect of the storytelling cover letter is that it can make you look focused and consistent, and the bonus is that central interests are often expressed in very simple and recognizable academic language: “I work on the representation of LGBTQ+ communities”; “I work on people’s relationship with food”; “I work on youths’ relationship with social media.” Examples would be helpful, so I’ll plug them in when I can. My own cover letters have noted my interest in many media forms, including photography, print texts, and computational media. My method of tying these together is to state that “I work on storytelling in and across media,” which allows me to include traditional and experimental modes of storytelling. Not only does this narrative justify why some of my publications are on literature and some are on smart phone apps, it also makes it easier for committees to trace my career trajectory from being a literary scholar to a media scholar. This overarching narrative allows the committee to follow an explicit argument, which many cover letters do not have. Cohesion is key here, so that everything seems to have its place. That does not mean the narrative is even accurate, but it’s the effect you’re going for. Organize for easy/fast reading It helps to organize sections so that they’re easy to skim. If you like, you can use headers such as “Background”/”Education,” “Research,” “Teaching,” and “Service” (call them whatever). What I cannot stress enough, however, is to start every section with one overarching sentence that summarizes the rest of the section. The sentence should take a structure like this (let’s say it’s the Research section): “My research focuses on [central concern] through a, b, and c,” where a, b, and c are your main qualities/interests in each area. The rest of the paragraph is up to you, as long as it covers a, b, and c–preferably in order. The rule of thumb is to imagine that your reader will only read each header and the overarching sentence. What do they need to know? When you’re editing the cover letter, see if a stranger can figure out what you work on and teach just by skimming the letter. Note: I’ve seen many cover letters that discuss educational background with research or that don’t have a service section at all. My advice here is to appeal to the department to which you’re applying: for example, if they clearly pride themselves on service or community engagement, then do not leave out a Service section! Read the job call Unless a general description has been used, a lot of what the committee wants you to speak to in detail–especially in your cover letter–is already in the job call, thus revealing exactly what you should focus on. The call will often state what position the job is trying to fill: sexuality studies? Critical race studies? If the job call includes a long list of desired expertise, the first two or three are the main foci, and the rest are perks that you can choose to mention as desired. Based on these listed expertise, mention in every section you offer (research, teaching, etc.) how you approach these area(s) with specific examples–and here, it is again beneficial to take a look at the existing curriculum. What concentrations do the department or their programs offer? What’s the difference among cover letters for research jobs, teaching jobs, and contract jobs? This is possibly the most common question. Unfortunately, research positions, teaching positions, and short-term/contract positions each require unique content. I will try to be specific, but do have a look at the job call and use your judgement to figure out what kind of requirements are asked of you; tailor the cover letter to suit. First, know the difference. A quick Google search may be enough to tell you if a university is research or teaching intensive; on Wikipedia, my institution is listed as “a public research university.” Then have a look at the website of the department/program/centre to which you’re applying and read for what their undergraduate and graduate programs offer potential students: are they intent on professionalization and internships? Do they stress being trained in critical theory? Very quickly you will figure out what kind of department you’re dealing with. That said, the job call may reflect this or may deviate slightly. For additional information, also see the item “include a summary of your teaching philosophy” below. Note: if you’re applying to an American university, you can check out their research/teaching classification according to the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education (where, for instance, PhDs are only granted by “R” or “Research”-level universities). If you are applying to a research-heavy position, the Research section of your letter should take precedence. Make sure you present a comprehensive research pipeline (academic speak for “your next books/projects”) that shows, regardless of whether you are finishing your dissertation or you’ve been on the market for five years, that you can hold your own as a serious researcher. You’re publishing in refereed journals; you’re collaborating as befits your discipline (and maybe it doesn’t); you are applying or at least planning to apply for research grants. Make yourself look like you’re full of research ideas, full of energy, full of action. For more on this, see the item below entitled “present yourself as a multi-faceted scholar, not a one-trick pony.” Note: If your dissertation or another book-length (research or creative) project is being edited or submitted for publication, say so, and also state which presses you will or intend to submit it to. If you are applying to a teaching-heavy position with some research (such as some 1- and 3-year positions, including limited-term appointments and visiting assistant professorships), the teaching section of your cover letter should use the same amount of space as the research section. It is vital that you do not present yourself as foremost a researcher, but as equally researcher and teacher, or perhaps as a research-minded teacher. Ideally, you will present yourself as someone whose research interests have shaped your exciting pedagogical methods. Here, the “write it as a story” method of cover letter writing is effective, especially in communicating an earnest account of how your research and teaching are intertwined. Make sure that your Teaching Dossier, if requested, offers concrete examples of your experiences. I know many disapprove of sharing free sample syllabi in job applications; how many you choose to share is ultimately up to you, but if you want to do it, then include syllabi for classes you’ve previously taught (if applicable) and mock syllabi that suit the needs of the department to which you’re applying. If you are applying to a teaching-only position (including full-time, part-time, and contract lectureships and limited-term appointments), your research statement may be no more than a paragraph to explain your background and maybe to offer context to your teaching interests. Simply put, unless a teaching-heavy job call notes that there are some research expectations, this position involves little to no research. Therefore, it is extremely crucial that you do not present yourself as a researcher or even as a teacher who is interested in making the jump to a more research heavy position in the future. Focus on sharing your teaching experiences, especially if you’ve ever worked as a writing instructor, a tutor, a mentor, a course designer, a translator, or if you’ve instructed in other languages, education systems, or countries. Mention any relevant pedagogical training you’ve had that may be an asset. The advice above about including sample syllabi holds; in fact, in many cases, job calls may ask for it Jobs asking for curriculum and program development If the job call notes that the successful applicant will develop a new program (graduate, undergraduate, certificate), then speak to your experiences especially in teaching and service in designing courses/capstone projects in this field, developing curriculum changes, and/or participating in meetings and committees where such changes have been made. Following the section above, it may be beneficial to include sample syllabi to show the depth or breadth of your design and development capabilities. The presentation of oneself as interdisciplinary without seeming “watered down” is a common concern for young scholars who did or are doing PhDs that are interdisciplinary, non-specific, and non-traditional. I would spend no more than two lines making an argument for this, though, as everyone is ultimately interdisciplinary: a full-time faculty member cannot be a one-trick pony who produces one major project. If successful in acquiring a tenure-track position, you would be expected to juggle research, courses, service, and student projects/theses/dissertations from a variety of fields, so interdisciplinarity means flexibility. In your cover letter (and also in potential interviews), do not apologize for your diverse background. Do try to highlight which one (or two) areas in your interdisciplinary work most strongly match the job call, proposing it as an asset that you have all this under your belt–and more! The key is to avoid looking unfocused. Instead, foreground your high aptitude in select areas. There are a few ways to present interdisciplinary research. You could briefly speak to how your expertise in X, Y, and Z areas allows you to–or, how it is even necessary to–address the current state of [your central interest/concern]. Or, structure this sentence backwards: the current state of [your central interest/concern] requires that your dissertation bring together X, Y, and Z areas. If you’d like to explicitly state the value of connecting multiple disciplines for your research, have a look at the argument you made in your dissertation literature review that brings together these various fields. The literature review might argue what the connection is, as well as how your approach is unique in bringing these together; however, the cover letter is not the place to persuade the search committee of this novelty. Instead, the cover letter should get to the gist of the results/payoff: summarize, in plain language, what the disciplinary connections bring to your research or how they advance the project. I’m certain that others have more advice about how to present oneself as an interdisciplinary scholar; please do share your thoughts if you’re comfortable. Avoid too many details What a search committee wants to glean from the cover letter is who you are as a general package, not about the contributions of every article you’ve published/submitted and the details of every class you’ve taught. If they want details, they will go to your CV, so only mention major milestones/accomplishments that contribute to an overall argument/story/focus in your cover letter. Lists are your friend. Use plain language and curriculum-esque categories that anyone on the committee, regardless of their expertise, would understand. For example, if you work on fashion in Jane Austen novels, you could say that you draw from literary studies, gender studies, and consumer culture–three areas that are general enough for you to riff off of, discussing how you’ve extended one or more of these to related or future research projects. If the application calls for a separate Research Statement, Teaching Dossier, or otherwise, then leave these sections (Research, Teaching) short and sweet in the cover letter (again, lists are your friend!), followed by “For more information, please see the attached [STATEMENT].” This means that these sections of your cover letter need to be impactful enough for the search committee to get an idea of what you do and to be eager to look at the separate attachment. If you’re working on a new book or project, give a one-liner on what it’s about or what it’s called, then let the separate statement say the rest. Note: Unless stated otherwise, Teaching Dossiers should be 20 pages, give or take a few pages. Be strategic in what you choose to include, shaping the Dossier around the job and therefore not including every teaching evaluation or sample syllabus you possess. Pick syllabi that most strongly reflect the department’s current curriculum as well as the general areas they are seeking to fill in their job call. For teaching evaluations, all you need is an average of the scores or the average score of each question. You can always say that originals (evaluations, letters of recommendation, etc., are available upon request). You’re a multi-faceted scholar, not a one-trick pony You are no longer or soon will no longer be a graduate student. Do not present your dissertation as the only research project in your cover letter; do not treat it as your magnum opus. Instead, extend the dissertation and any other side projects/publications you’ve worked on by explaining how they have led to your current and next research questions or projects. One of the biggest mistakes I see in cover letters for research-based jobs is when an applicant doesn’t list their three- and five-year research plans, which is one thing a research-based institution will ask about if you get a first-stage and campus interview. So let them know early: what is the next book or project going to be? Also mention any grants or projects you’re excited to get up and running. If you’ve picked the “write it as a story” approach, you could present your research plans as the next step in the story after the dissertation, mentioning in 1-2 sentences the way your next book/project answers questions or extends issues raised by your original interests. Everything comes tied together this way. Taking this one from Prof. Jennifer Harris at U Waterloo (thanks, Jennifer!): If you’re a scholar who focuses on a single author, “you need to work harder to prove your interests extend beyond that author. Don’t spend all your time [explaining] how innovative your approach to that author–show that this inflects your understanding more broadly.” Be clear when listing publications and accomplishments Use numbers to save room and create quick effect. You currently have: X refereed journal articles, X forthcoming, X submitted for consideration; X book chapters, X forthcoming, X submitted; and so forth. Unless it’s a book, you’ve won an award, or there’s a very important co-author, there’s no need to name most or any of the publications; that’s what your CV is for. If you’re comfortable, you can also mention that you have X institutional, association, national, and/or international grants/scholarships won, for a total of $X. Do not try to “trick” the committee with fancy numbers or misleading organization. A common way this is occurs is when scholars state in their cover letters or CVs that they have “7 publications” when they actually have 2 refereed journal articles, 3 non-refereed journal articles, and 2 book chapters. If you’ve done this by mistake, change it, as unclear organization or formatting makes it difficult for the committee to break down your contributions. And yes, it does matter: for every 1 kind committee member who takes time to look up these individual publications, 9 may toss out the application. Name dropping may be a waste of space Don’t make the letter about other scholars you’ve worked with, because the committee is potentially interested in you. Talk about you. There’s a small exception to this: if you’ve worked with a person who is very important to the field that the job call is seeking, it may be worth to quickly mention the collaboration. What I’m critiquing is name dropping to excess or mentioning names that won’t mean much to some members of a (likely interdisciplinary) committee. Don’t waste space with this. On the subject of name dropping, do not mention members of the faculty that you’d like to work with or who you are inspired by (this is more likely something to do during a campus interview if you and a faculty member are getting along, but even then, avoid being overly presumptuous). It is possible for you to engage with or collaborate with some of these people if you get the job, but until you are successful, you cannot know about internal politics in the department. I don’t mean to be unkind, but naming current faculty who interest you is actually a tip for graduate school applications; doing so in an academic cover letter might suggest that you still think of yourself as a student instead of as a potential colleague. Include a summary of your teaching philosophy Unless the job call is completely administrative, the cover letter should have a teaching section. The length of the section will vary depending on what the position is looking for, but even if a separate teaching dossier is requested, your cover letter should still state what kind of teacher you are. In plain language, include a brief summary of your teaching philosophy that is founded on your interests and experiences. For instance, following the “write it as a story” technique, I say that my research on digital devices has led me to think about the ubiquity of popular media for today’s undergraduate student; therefore, I train students to think about digital cultures and technologies both in the classroom and in their lives, aiming to extend their critical thinking to everyday situations. Back to stating what kind of teacher you are. Ideally, you are the kind of teacher who fits easily into a department’s existing curriculum (and if requested in the job call, also their future plans). It is not helpful nor your place to propose reinventing their wheel; instead, state your teaching areas/interests so that they complement the department’s offerings and concentrations. If you are applying to a department that is slightly different from or more specific than your training, shift the language into their court. For example, if you did your PhD in media studies in a social science department and are applying for a media studies position in a humanities department, words such as “communication,” “policy,” and “technology” can be replaced with “rhetoric,” “system,” and “media.” Finally, ask others to read it over It doesn’t hurt to exchange letters and get the insight of others. (: There is a comment section below. Please add your own tips and suggestions, including anything you think I’ve missed! Lai-Tze Fan is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Waterloo, conducting research in the Critical Media Lab. She is also an Associate Editor and Director of Communications of electronic book review. For more information, visit https://laitzefan.com

The Bright Sessions is a science fiction audio drama about people with supernatural abilities in therapy. The podcast was created by Lauren Shippen and premiered on November 1st, 2015. In April of 2016, Mischa Stanton joined the team as a sound producer and technical expert. The Bright Sessions has been featured on iTunes, written about in multiple publications, and has received several awards. For more, please visit our press page. The podcast would not be possible without the amazing support from our patrons. LAUREN SHIPPEN (CREATOR, WRITER, PRODUCER, VOICE OF SAM) Lauren Shippen is an actor and singer who fell so far in love with audio drama that she had to make her own. The Bright Sessions is Lauren's first writing project. She also composed the original Bright Sessions theme and created most of the foley you hear in the first 16 episodes of the show. Any other sound effects are in the public domain or provided by our wonderful audio engineer, Mischa Stanton. Lauren is also the person who runs all the The Bright Sessions social media accounts so if you tweet, tumble, or email the show, you're probably talking to her. MISCHA STANTON (AUDIO PRODUCER FROM EP. 17 ONWARDS) Mischa Stanton is, in no particular order: an award-winning sound designer, a novice punk-rocker, a recent transplant to LA, a sufferer of Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS), a psychoacoustician, a self-proclaimed expert on time travel fiction, a facet of a larger universe observing itself, a pretty decent cook, a non-binary person using They/Them pronouns, a staunch lover of the arts in whatever form they present themselves, a technology and futurology enthusiast, an advocate for the Audio Drama renaissance, a workaholic, and the co-creator and sole producer of ars PARADOXICA. ANNA LORE (GRAPHIC DESIGN, VOICE OF CHLOE) Anna Lore designed all our logos, the case files, and our t-shirts and stickers. For her full bio, click here. ELIZABETH LAIRD (PSYCHOLOGICAL CONSULTANT, VOICE OF SARAH) Elizabeth "Betsy" Laird has an MA in International Disaster Psychology from the University of Denver and is the Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Specialist for The Bright Sessions. That's a fancy way of saying Lauren Shippen is her little sister and asked Betsy how to make things sound more "therapist-y" (Lauren's words, not Betsy's). She has also provided story notes, general enthusiasm, and the voice for Dr. Bright's accommodating secretary, Sarah. Lauren would like to add that Betsy gives very good, well-informed notes that Lauren sometimes chooses to ignore - any bad therapy you hear is Lauren's. evan cUNNINGHAM (composer) Evan Cunningham is a composer and producer based in Los Angeles. He can be heard as a member of electronic duo Far Places. He also sang a cappella with Lauren in college! Check out his website for more music.

C/O Safer Spaces The Safer Spaces Project, a joint initiative by Industry and Hamilton Fringe, seeks to create safer theatre and art spaces Theatres and other art spaces are often perceived as safe spaces — spaces upheld by mutual respect, trust and kindness where folks can comfortably express themselves and feel supported. However, this view fails to completely capture the real definition of a safe space: an environment free from harassment, racism, sexism and other forms of discrimination, oppression and emotional or physical harm. In reality, the view that artistic spaces are fundamentally designed to be a safe space could not be further from the truth. The Safer Spaces Project is a research project led by two arts organizations at the forefront of change in performance and art spaces, Industry and the Hamilton Fringe. The aim of the project is to collect data on harm that exist in theatre and art culture through a survey and use the information obtained to develop an internal cultural guide on mitigating harm and setting expectations of behaviour and accountability at Industry and Hamilton Fringe. The survey launched in July 2021 and the hope is to collect 250 responses from all folks who engage with theatre and art spaces — performers, musicians, directors, producers and patrons just to name a few. A select number of survey participants will be interviewed to expand on their lived experiences. It is open to folks from any location; participants don’t need to be from Hamilton nor have an experience in an art space in Hamilton. Robin Lacambra, also the Founder of GOODBODYFEEL, a pilates, yoga and mindfulness studio in Hamilton, is the director of the Safer Spaces Project. She was brought onto the project because of her previous work in creating safer spaces and collective liberation. Her online courses such as Sharing Privilege focus on how folks can implement more inclusive and anti-oppressive daily practices and be more aware of their individual privilege. Laura Welch, the project coordinator, joined the Safer Spaces team to address and open the conversation on toxic norms of creative spaces that are too often swept under the rug. As an actress, she witnessed first-hand the abuses of power and discrimination in theatre. Outside of this project, she is the Safe Spaces Coordinator for Industry and Artistic Director of Light Echo Theatre. “This project is really near and dear to my heart because throughout my experiences of working in the professional-level theatre, there’s just been so many abuses of power, harms and a lack of care in many of the spaces and it has deeply affected the quality of my artistry and my ability to seek employment in a field I have wanted to do my whole life. This project is a way to start addressing that,” explained Welch. Everyone on the Safer Spaces Project team contributes unique perspectives and diverse, lived experiences to the conversation about issues in theatre and art spaces. Researchers on the team include Maddie Krusto, an artist, educator and community outreach coordinator at the Hamilton Fringe, and Kitoko Mai, a Black, non-binary, multidisciplinary performance, media and community artist. The project’s steering committee is composed of Karen Ancheta, a Filipina theatre storyteller and theatre performer; Adrienne Crossman, queer and non-binary curator and artist; Juan Jaramillo, a Latinx, deaf performance artist; Josh Taylor, Black dancer and owner of Defining Movement Dance studio; Talli Osborne, a performance artist born missing her arms; and Cher Obediah, an Indigenous storyteller, writer and artist. “It’s a very colourful steering committee and that’s very rare. It’s really rare to have steering committees that aren’t predominately White . . . Even though all the experiences are individual, because we have such an intersectional team, we are getting way more data from our steering committee meetings than just a boardroom of White men talking about what they think will be best,” explained Lacambra. So far, the response to the project has been affirming. Many people have shared their appreciation about the conversations the team is promoting online, through the survey and at panels. On Nov. 25, Safer Spaces Project will have a booth at the Garden Project Party for folks to complete the survey at the event and ask questions. Once 250 survey responses have been collected, the team is planning on hosting a public panel to share the findings. When the internal culture guide is complete, it will be available on the Industry and Hamilton Fringe websites for feedback and re-evaluated annually. On a broader scale, the team hopes the guide can serve as a blueprint for other arts organizations and places to cultivate a safe space in their own practices. “The hope is to create this takeaway: we did all this research, we spoke to a lot of people, we have such a diverse steering committee, so many experiences are being considered in this document we are presenting, [so] take it and run with it and make your space safer for more folks,” said Lacambra. In addition to the development of the internal cultural guide, the Safer Spaces Project facilitates discussions about oppressive and harmful practices in the entertainment and art industries through its interview series called Midday Musings. The series is conducted by the core team of Lacambra, Welch, Krusto and Mai featuring guest speakers to share their experiences and the changes they would like to see. The series re-emphasizes the importance of the Safer Spaces Project and amplifies voices of those that have gone through challenges and are surviving and thriving. In doing so, the team also hopes it will increase engagement and encourage others to take part in the survey. “[Collecting enough survey responses] has been a little tricky so far. I think partially because to actually name there’s an issue in an industry where you are so replaceable can feel really scary. We are trying to continue a conversation that has been happening underground for a while and spark something in artists to do the survey so we can get data and make change,” said Welch. In an industry in which success is heavily reliant on fame, power and influence, it can be difficult to speak up. Silence is demanded. Complaints are shut down. And the squeaky wheel doesn’t get the role. However, it is more the reason why the project requires support and action. “It’s important for all folks to recognize we are all required to intentionally contribute to creating equitable futures and just futures and liberated futures. If we aren’t intentionally contributing to such a cause, then we are unintentionally holding that reality back from manifesting. We are all required in the revolution of collective liberation,” said Lacambra. By participating in the survey, folks can enact their leadership and power to drive tangible change in fostering safer, braver theatre and art spaces. “And wouldn’t that be an amazing thing to do?” said Lacambra.

About that writers’ room, how does that factor into ethical storytelling? What is the role of a showrunner? How much do an author’s intentions and opinions matter? And is anyone on TV writing queer female characters ethically? Ethics in Storytelling Panel Dr. Elizabeth Bridges – Literature Professor & Writer – The Uncanny Valley Gretchen Ellis – Linguist, Storyteller, Critic – The Ranconteur Heather Hogan – Senior Editor Autostraddle.com Moderator Question: TV relies on a collaborative writers’ room, so what kinds of problems does that lead to? This is another one where I’d like to bring in a historical perspective because I think that obviously television is a collaborative medium. There is no such thing as the singular auteur, artiste that makes television because there has to be a writers’ room. There have to be different people contributing. Editors. Actors. You name it. There was a panel at ATX called ‘Bury Your Tropes’. I found that really disappointing. Javier Grillo-Marxuach was the only one who had anything progressive to say. Everybody but Javi on that panel stuck with this idea of the ‘singular artistic vision’. This idea of artistic integrity is rooted in the idea of the artist that we inherited from the Renaissance. That’s when the artist was the painter, the sculptor, and that’s when artists started signing their name to works. That’s when we developed this idea of the artist with a singular vision with a divine gift from God, and that’s where we get our idea of the artist. Fastforward to 2016 or 2017, and these showrunners have inherited this idea of the artist, and they see themselves as these folks with a divine gift and singular vision. They probably don’t say it like that in their minds, but that’s the cultural idea we have. I mean they do say it. I mean even Rothenberg was: “Well I thought I was going to do it differently.” You see that in writers’ rooms, especially when it’s a male showrunner, like: I thought my thing was going to be so different from the other 175 lesbian/bisexual characters that were killed. Then when you have women showrunners like Ilene Chaiken (Empire), their whole thing is ‘I’m a lesbian so I can kill whoever I want’. Still the trope. Right? Then you have Ryan Murphy who’s the combination of both of those things. ‘I’m a gay man so I can just piss on literally everybody.’ We see artists say it all the time. They say: This is my story, and I need to tell it. I need to be true to my story. I need to be true to my vision. I have a lot of very choice words I won’t say here for people who say that. Because it’s nonsense. You are crafting a story for an audience. You are making a story that people will watch. Especially with television, the point of television is to make money for the network. This isn’t just: I am an artist painting my work of art that hopefully one day will end up in a museum. They’re creating media that exists to entertain and interact with the audience. In terms of that, they’re imposing a vision and a perception of art that doesn’t fit in this medium. Film and television are not the same as a single person creating a single work of art. We cannot allow that conception to continue because it ends up with: they believe they don’t have to listen to their audience or even people in the same writers’ room. Very simple solution to this problem is to put queer people, people of color, trans people, and non-binary people in your writers’ room. You need more than one black woman in a writers’ room because black women are not a monolith. You need a variety of voices. That’s what I mean about this model of the artist. Because at the ATX panel we had Ilene Chaiken saying: It’s okay because I’m a lesbian. No it’s not. So not only do we have to have this diverse team of people working on these projects, but then there also has a be a different model for how art is created. Frankly, the one we inherited as the singular artiste is not a feminist model. So we need something that is truly collaborative. When you’re talking about something like One Day at a Time, I think we see the results of that. It’s been pretty successful. People look to the person who authored a book or the showrunner to have an opinion about their own work. Back to literary studies, there’s this concept called the ‘death of the author’. It came along in the 1960’s – 70’s by this literary critic named Roland Barthes. He talks about this idea that the opinion that an author has after releasing the work to the public is irrelevant because it’s just another opinion. What really matters is the response of the reader or the viewer because that is where the interaction takes place. That’s where this dialogue takes place. It was meant for viewers. It was meant for readers. It doesn’t matter. We can go back to JK Rowling talking about Dumbledore being gay. It’s like: That’s great. Where is it in the text? The thing that’s made that infinitely worse is Twitter because a writer can just get on immediately after and say: ‘What I meant was…’ But you’re all: ‘Hey, that’s nice, but what I saw on my television was another lesbian getting shot with a stray bullet’. On some level, I can acknowledge that you didn’t mean it the way I heard it, but this is how I heard it whether you meant it that way or not. What I want from you is to say: I am so sorry. I will do better next time. From showrunners who did that, their reaction is: Let me explain to you why you should not have felt that way. The other problem is, of the people who are watching your show, maybe half a percent are watching you on Twitter. So the cultural impact is there regardless of whether or not you apologize, because now it’s out in the wide world for people who are not part of the conversation. All they’re seeing is more dead queer characters. The cultural impact goes so far beyond fandom. That’s the impact that really matters in a broader scheme because that impacts the people who are making legislation that is coming back to affect us. To me the most remarkable thing to come out of Lexa’s death was the fact that places like Entertainment Weekly, Hollywood Reporter, and Variety started paying attention and writing about this thing and interviewing queer people and calling it out as a problem. In terms of Bury Your Gays, one of the huge successes around the movement around Lexa is there is no showrunner on earth can be like: I didn’t know Bury Your Gays existed. So if you’re doing it, you’re doing it purposefully, knowing it hurts the community, and you’re doing it knowing the backlash is coming your way. The justification for so long was: Now we have so many characters, and marriage equality is a thing, and Obama’s going to change the world, it’s not like we’re ever going to get Donald Trump as president. Now you’re doing it knowing that the political situation is as dire as it is, so you’re putting active harm into a world that’s not the same world it was even just six or eight months ago. I would like to remind everyone that all of those deaths (of queer female characters on television) were being written while marriage equality was being celebrated. Just think about that for a second. I think right now in time, a showrunner would be hard pressed to kill a character and not have it fall into the trope. I don’t know how you could do it right now. Maybe when there’s more parity, when there’s more representation, when it really is ‘any character can die’. (Jokingly) What if a straight white guy with a vision does it though? Audience Question: Have you seen a show or somewhere on TV or a movie where they did it right? I actually think that up until the last, there are some episodes where it’s better or not, but I actually think Sanvers on Supergirl is amazing. First half of the season, yes. One of the best written stories, especially about an older woman coming out. That was so well done. One Day at a Time. Orange is the New Black still deserves your support because it’s telling a lot of stories of women of color. May and Sadie both mentioned Transparent. That show, it’s complicated. You can read a lot of great criticism from trans women at autostraddle, but it’s doing some special stuff. Steven Universe is doing it the best. Hands down, Steven Universe is doing it the best right now. Question: Are any of these stories doing this across intersectionality (queer women of color, of different religions, etc)? Steven Universe and Orange is the New Black, I would say. Then One Day at a Time because it’s about a Cuban family. Question: Speaking about ethics in storytelling, what’s your take briefly on subtext? Once I had ‘text’, I could never go back. In some ways there’s not a lot of excuses now for subtext. Compare Steven Universe to Legend of Korra. Legend of Korra existed in a time when it was not acceptable to show woman loving women stories on television, so it had to be subtext otherwise they would have literally not been able to make the show that they did. Legend of Korra then, I think, actually opened the space for a show like Steven Universe. But now that Steven Universe exists, there’s no excuse to go back. It’s that step. Once you take a step that something can exist as text, there’s no excuse for subtext after that. Back to Kate G: Friggin’ brilliant, right? Check out their sites for more in depth discussions and resources on all of these things. A big thank you to ClexaCon for hosting this panel. More articles from the front lines at ClexaCon to come! Kathryn Graham is a Contributing Writer to TVWriter™. Learn more about Kate HERE

We recognize that there are often barriers for people accessing services, such as whether or not an organization provides services for trans-people or whether or not the organization is aware of the reality that someone is living with or able to address the forms of violence they are experiencing. Therefore, we strive to improve our knowledge of community resources so as to better support people in finding appropriate and useful information and referrals. Please contact us if you have questions or concerns about receiving support. AIDS Vancouver Island (AVI) “Serves the needs of people infected and affected by HIV and hepatitis C. We take evidence-based action to prevent infection, provide support, and reduce stigma” 3rd Floor- Access Health Centre – 713 Johnson St. Aids Vancouver Island (AVI) “Through direct service delivery and community partnerships, Peers provides an array of outreach and drop in harm reduction and support services alongside education and employment training for current and former sex workers, in Victoria and on Vancouver Island.” 1-744 Fairview Rd. Antidote: Multiracial & Indigenous Girls & Women’s Network “We work with youth, multiracial families, schools, community groups, service providers, policy makers and researchers to promote the visibility and needs of racialized minority and Indigenous girls and women” BC Aboriginal Network on Disability Society Their mandate is “To Promote the Betterment of Aboriginal People with Disabilities.” (250) 381-7303 or 1 (888) 815-5511 #6- 1610 Island Highway Beacon Community Services Offers family and adult counselling in the Saanich Peninsula as well as a volunteer counsellor training program. Some referrals and/or fees (sliding scale) required for counselling. 9860 Third St., Sidney Bridges for Women Society This agency delivers employment training and supportive programs to women impacted by violence or abuse 1809 Douglas St. Citizens’ Counselling Centre “Offers affordable, accessible counselling to adult residents of Greater Victoria. All counselling is offered by volunteer counsellors trained and supervised by the Centre. We have a sliding fee scale based on family income. We offer individual counselling, couples counselling, and group counselling” 941 Kings Rd. Cridge Transition House for Women “A safe place for women with or without children who are escaping violent or abuse in their homes. Abuse can be emotional, psychological or physical.” (250) 479-3963 – 24/hours a day 1307 Hillside Ave. Community Living Victoria “Supports people with intellectual disabilities together with their families, support networks and community by promoting their full citizenship.” 3861 Cedar Hill Cross Rd. Esquimalt Neighbourhood House Society Offers youth, adult, couples and family programs and services including counselling by trained volunteers. Counselling is free. 511 Constance Ave. InterCultural Association of Greater Victoria (ICA) “We provide information, support and tools to help immigrants and refugees reach their goals. 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The Law Centre “Provides advice, assistance and representation to clients who cannot afford a lawyer.” Suite 225 – 850 Burdett Ave. Legal Services Society Legal aid services including representation by a lawyer, legal advice, and legal information. “We give priority to people with low incomes, but many of our services are available to all British Columbians” 1 (888) 577-2525 Men’s Trauma Centre Crime victim support (police, legal and court) and counselling services for self-identified men and masculine identifying folks who have experienced emotional, sexual or physical trauma as a child or an adult. 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Silver Threads Service currently operates two senior activity centres … Our programs and services address the social, health, activity, intellectual, and information needs of seniors and provide essential connections” Saanich: (250) 382-3151 Victoria: (250) 388-4268 286 Hampton Rd. or 2340 Richmond Rd. Together Against Poverty Society (TAPS) “The only organization in Victoria providing free, face-to-face legal advocacy for people with income assistance, disability benefits and tenancy issues.” 828 View St. Trans Vancouver Island “A resource and information site for transgender and gender diverse people and their allies on Vancouver Island.” Urgent Short Term Assessment and Treatment (USTAT) Victoria “Provides short-term individual psychotherapy for patients in crisis, at risk or in severe distress. With this service, clients are assigned to a primary therapist who does an initial assessment and establishes treatment goals. A team of psychiatrists is available as needed for consultation and follow up.” Access to USTAT requires a referral from a primary care provider and can be faxed to Mental Health Services & Substance Use Services at (250) 381-3222. 1250 Quadra St. Vancouver Island Crisis Society “Non-profit agency whose services include 24-hour Crisis Lines, as well as Crisis Chat and Crisis Text services, through which we provide short-term nonjudgemental support, crisis intervention, information, and resources; training in schools with youth, teachers, counsellors, and parents; regional consultation and workshops regarding suicide bereavement support; and various workshops and customized training addressing suicide prevention, crisis intervention, and communication skills for individuals and agencies throughout our communities.” 24-hours Crisis Line: 1 (888) 494-3888 Crisis Text Services: (250) 800-3806 (available 6pm to 10pm PST, 7 days a week) Vancouver Island Human Rights Coalition (VIHRC) “Through advocacy, support, and human rights education, we assist people who have experienced discrimination.” Their services include helping clients to file human rights complaints with the BC Human Rights Tribunal and the Canadian Human Rights Commission. #418 – 620 View St. Victoria and Area Community Response Network (CRN) “A CRN is a diverse group of concerned community members who come together to create a coordinated community response to adult abuse, neglect and self-neglect.” Victoria Child Abuse Prevention and Counselling Centre Provides counselling and victim services for children, youth and families affected by sexual abuse and other trauma. #210-1175 Cook St. Victoria Coalition for Survivors of Torture (VCST) “Building a community support for survivors of political violence and torture. We collaborate with health professionals, social service agencies, immigrant settlement workers and the broader community to ensure that the needs of survivors of torture are recognized and met at all levels. Through our community partnerships, our goal is to support survivors overcome the legacy of oppression and live with dignity.” Victoria Cool Aid Society Offers housing, emergency shelters (including the Sandy Merriman House shelter for cis and trans women, genderfuild and non-binary people), support, and health services as well as referrals to adults experiencing marginalization in Greater Victoria. (250) 480-1408 (Sandy Merriman House) (250) 383-1977 (general enquiries) 101-749 Pandora Ave. (Victoria Cool Aid Office) Victoria Disability Resource Centre “A cross-disability, grassroots, not-for-profit organization run by and for persons with disabilities. We work closely with people who have a disability and with other community organizations to find and remove barriers that prevent full participation in life. We work closely with people who have a disability and with other community organizations to find and remove barriers that prevent full participation in life” 817A Fort St. Victoria Native Friendship Centre Their mandate is “To encourage and promote the well-being of Urban Aboriginal People, by strengthening individuals, family, and community.” Numerous programs for Aboriginal Elders, adults, youth and families, including counselling, family support services, children and youth programming, acupuncture and outreach. Aboriginal counsellors available upon request. 231 Regina Ave. Victoria Immigrant and Refugee Centre Society (VIRCS) “The centre helps immigrants, refugees, new Canadian citizens, and visible minorities settle and adapt into new lives in Greater Victoria…VIRCS provides a wide range of services to its target group, assisting them with everything from settling in Victoria to finding a job.” 1004 North Park St. The Victoria Sexual Assault Centre (VSAC) “A feminist organization committed to ending sexualized violence through healing, education, and prevention. We are dedicated to supporting women and all trans survivors of sexual assault and childhood sexual abuse, through advocacy, counselling, and empowerment.” Their services include trauma counselling services, youth prevention programming and the emergency Sexual Assault Response Team (SART). (250) 383-3232 (general enquiries) #201-3060 Cedar Hill Rd. The 24-hour Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) can be accessed via the Vancouver Island Crisis Line: 1 (800) 784-2433 Victoria Women’s Transition House Society “Collaborates, advocates and educates to address and prevent intimate partner violence and abuse of women and children through supportive shelter, housing, counselling and other community-based services.” For self-identified women. 24-hour crisis line: (250) 385-6611 (250) 592-2927 (general enquiries) #100-3060 Cedar Hill Rd. (Community Office, safe house location is private and confidential) Victoria Youth Clinic Confidential, free drop-in health care services for youth ages 12-24. “Our dedicated youth-focused integrative team which consists of doctors, nurses, counsellors, psychiatrists, outreach worker, wellness navigator, medical office assistant and director, work collaboratively to support your care.” 818 Douglas St. Victoria Youth Empowerment Society (YES) “Offers services for youth and their family caregivers throughout the Capital Region.”Services offered by YES include: youth and family counselling, community outreach, referrals, assistance with health issues, advocacy, meeting basic needs (shelter, food, clothing, hygiene etc.), emergency crisis response (including emergency/crisis shelter services), and more. 533 Yates St. “An online hub for youth to connect to programs, events, services and networks. Youth Core is managed by members of the City of Victoria Youth Council. 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- Not to be confused with F*ckgender. Genderf*ck, also known as genderpunk, is a term for a gender as well as a declared opposition to gendernormativity. It is an identity that based on a resistance against gender norms, homophobia and transphobia, and oppression and societal status. One's actual gender has nothing to do with being genderpunk. One does not have to be trans to be genderpunk. Genderf*ck originates from camp culture in the 1970s and has become widely used in drag culture to describe a distinct type of performance that relies on exploring the grotesqueness of gender as a way to resist gender. The origin of the term genderpunk is unknown. Genderpunks do not care about the gender binary and challenge the expectations of society. This does not mean that genderpunks do not respect other's gender identities. Instead, they do whatever they want with their own gender and openly and vocally do not care what society considers appropriate. Examples of genderpunk include cisgender men who like traditionally effeminate things, cis women who enjoy short hair and dressing butch, and non-binary individuals who present in "clashing" ways that challenge the expectation for individuals to fit the gender binary. As long as one agrees with the mindset, no matter how they identify, they can be a part of the genderpunk and genderf*ck movement. The first genderf*ck flag was created by Tumblr user yo-ho-sebastian on July 31, 2016. The purple flag has a pastel yellow border and a stylized pastel yellow skull symbol in the center. The colors are meant to show the different kinds of identities and expressions that go under the term, purple being a mixture of male and female, yellow being outside the binary entirely, and their juxtaposition to show those who experience multiple genders. The skull indicates the rebellious nature of the gender identity. While the other genderf*ck flag has an unknown origin, it is known that there is a version of the flag without a middle finger in the center from August 19, 2020. The first appearance of the genderpunk flag was on August 23, 2015, created by DeviantArt user Pride-Flags. Another genderpunk flag was created by FANDOM user Snailrat on April 10, 2021. The top two red stripes are meant to represent femininity, the bottom two blue stripes to represent masculinity, and the two purple stripes to represent androgyny. The black stripe in the middle represents the primarily dark color scheme of many punk subcultures, going along with the toned-down color scheme of the rest of the flag. - "Genderf*ck and its delights" by Christopher Lonc, Gay Roots: 20 Years of Gay Sunshine: An Anthology of Gay History, Sex, Politics, and Culture, edited by Winston Leyland, Gay Sunshine Press. - Scholarly article "'I'm a Cross between a Clown, a Stripper, and a Streetwalker': Drag Tipping, Sex Work, and a Queer Sociosexual Economy" by Sarah Hankins for Signs. - Conference paper “How I Became a Queer Heterosexual” delivered by Clyde Smith at the International Conference of Sexuality in the Netherlands (1997). - Scholarly article "Genderf*ck: The Law of the Dildo" by June L. Reich for Discourse. - Tumblr post announcing the (first) gender*ck flag. - A Wattpad publication with another genderf*ck flag. - DeviantArt post with the (first) genderpunk flag.

Students and parents in Magnolia Independent School District can breathe a sigh of relief that the district’s archaic, discriminatory dress code is a thing of the past. No student should ever be punished or pushed out of school because of their gender. But that is tragically what happened earlier this fall, when Magnolia ISD harshly disciplined students and pushed three students out of school entirely simply because of their gender and for wearing long hair. On Oct. 21, we sued the school district on behalf of six boys and a non-binary student who were severely punished and threatened with punishment for wearing long hair. Magnolia ISD maintained an outdated, gender-based policy that required boys, but not girls, to wear short hair. So we took the district to court and won because this type of discriminatory dress code violates the U.S. Constitution and Title IX. The federal court agreed with us in its initial ruling and swiftly ordered Magnolia ISD to let our clients return to school without being forced to cut their hair. These students were elated to return to school without being forced to conform to the district’s outdated gender stereotype that boys wear short hair. The court’s decision also reinforced what we have advised school districts against for years: dress codes that discriminate based on gender violate federal law and have no place in our society. Following our initial win in court, Magnolia ISD agreed to stop enforcing all gender-based provisions of its dress code and to let every student in the district wear long hair without being punished. And on Dec. 13, the Magnolia ISD school board voted to permanently change its dress code to be gender neutral. This means that our clients have won this lawsuit and no student in the district can ever be punished again under this discriminatory, gender-based policy. Even though this lawsuit is over, we have seen similar cases across the state where discriminatory dress codes have severely harmed Texas students based on gender, race, or religion. Black students have routinely been targeted and pushed out of school for wearing natural Black hair, including in Barbers Hill ISD and Tatum ISD, where Black boys as young as four and five years old were wrongfully expelled from school for wearing their natural Black hair. We also regularly hear from Indigenous students who face discrimination for wearing long hair reflecting their culture, heritage, and beliefs. Recently, a five-year-old student in Sharyland ISD who is both Latino and Native American was forced to spend a month in suspension because of his school district’s discriminatory hair policy and failure to respect his Indigenous heritage and beliefs. This treatment is unacceptable, illegal, and incredibly isolating and harmful to students who have done absolutely nothing wrong. Other school districts shouldn’t wait until they are sued to change their policies like Magnolia ISD, but should take proactive steps to review and update their dress codes to ensure that no student is discriminated against based on gender, race, or religion. We can all agree that every student deserves an education free from discrimination, and we won’t stop fighting until every student in Texas has the same opportunity to succeed and thrive in school.

“You dodged a bullet by staying in Lismore”, my friend Graeme commented the other day. Of course, he was referring to the growing COVID-19 problem in Sydney, and the associated lockdown. Things are obviously going much better here. There have been (to date) no cases or close contacts, and the restrictions (facemasks indoors, compulsory sign-in) are minimal. Nonetheless, people are taking things seriously, and people are wearing facemasks, even outdoors, where they’re not actually required by law. A few things have been cancelled/postponed. For example, there was going to be an Aboriginal market held today at The Quad, as part of NAIDOC Week. And last night, there was going to be a one-woman comedy show at The Civic which I had hoped to attend. There was, however, a comedy show which wasn’t canceled, which I went to on Wednesday night at the Northern Rivers Hotel. According to the MC, most of the fourteen or so people doing stand-up were preparing to participate in the Raw Comedy competition. They all had about five minutes to speak, and they were all reasonably funny, The one thing I did notice, though, were recurrent themes amongst the male comedians. A number of them referred to themselves as having small penises. A number of them also referred to their discomfort with non-binary definitions of gender and sexuality. By the time the third had come along with a routine along these lines, I’d lost interest and had gone to the bar. I was sitting in the front row, by the way, and thus became the subject/target of interaction from the host comedian. In Sydney, I would never sit in the front row (keen to avoid the interaction), but on this occasion I did. “Where are you from?”, she said. “Two places”, I replied, “South Lismore and Surry Hills”. For the rest of the show, I became known as “Mr Surry Hills”. I didn’t mind so much, it was fun. I couldn’t stay for the whole night. though, as it became pretty cold in the pub’s beer garden. Aside from that, it’s been a reasonably ordinary week of getting up, working, and hanging out with my family. The only major “drama” of the week was having to make a few alternative arrangements for my forthcoming holiday to Tasmania. Thankfully, I can still (currently) travel there, so long as I don’t leave Sydney Airport in transit. I have enough evidence that I haven’t been in Sydney anytime recently, which is good. However, the direct flight from Sydney to Hobart has now been cancelled, and has been replaced with a stop-over in Melbourne. But fingers crossed all should be okay. In the meantime, I’m enjoying being away from the lockdown in Sydney, and wishing all the best to friends back there.

Lavender: mixture of pink (female) and blue (male); White: gender neutral or agender; Dark green: inverse of lavander, meaning the third gender |Under the umbrella term||Transgender| Genderqueer, also called GenderQueer or gender queer, is an umbrella term that refers both to non-normative gender identity and gender expression. The label may also be used by individuals wishing to identify as holding queer or non-normative gender without being any more specific about the nature of their gender. As an umbrella term, Genderqueer has a similar scope to nonbinary, with many nonbinary-identifying individuals also considering themselves genderqueer. However, the terms have different historical scopes and connotations. The word genderqueer was used at least ten years before nonbinary. History[edit | edit source] Genderqueer was coined in the 1990s as 'Gender Queer,' and was for a time written as 'GenderQueer' before becoming a single word. The original meaning was literally queer gender, including anyone who felt the way they experienced or expressed gender was queer. The term carries the non-normative and anti-assimilationist connotations of the Queer Movement and applies these to gender rather than sexuality. Riki Wilchins' essay from the 2002 anthology GenderQueer describes how the original 'Gender Queers' adopted the label because the intended-to-be-inclusive umbrella term transgender had begun to be most strongly associated with transsexual, gender binary identified and medically transitioning people, pushing out those who did not fit this dominant transgender narrative. By 1999/2000, online communities such as the Sphere mailing list were using the term genderqueer as an umbrella to unite a number of nonbinary gender identities and identifications that are now thought of as under the nonbinary umbrella. Over the next decade, genderqueer developed as a standalone identity with particular (sub)cultural expectations and connotations, while the tendency to identify particular experiences under its umbrella seemed to diminish. However both uses are still visible in different online and in person communities. Difference between Genderqueer and Nonbinary[edit | edit source] Genderqueer means non-normative or queer gender while nonbinary means gender that falls outside the gender binary model. Both of these terms are extremely similar in scope, however in practice their connotations are significantly different. Genderqueer comes with the anti-assimilationist political connotations of queer, which is a reclaimed slur word with strong associations with a countercultural sexuality movement that sets itself apart from the mainstream LGBT community. (Note that the word "queer" is still actively used as a pejorative and hate speech in many regions.) As such genderqueer implies a similar counterculture, setting itself apart from mainstream transgender discourse. Most genderqueer people also consider themselves to be queer and there is a strong trend of rejecting the gender binary and normative gender roles with in the Queer Movement as a whole. By contrast, nonbinary is more politically neutral in its connotations. Nonbinary was coined as a descriptive term, originally simply 'nonbinary gender', used to describe the range of experiences that fall outside of the binary gender model. There is no countercultural anti-transgender discourse connotation, nor is there a connotation of association with the wider Queer Movement. Nonbinary is intended to simply cover the widest range of identities and experiences without intending to describe their political or cultural philosophies and affiliations. Observed differences between people who hold each identity[edit | edit source] While genderqueer and nonbinary are theoretically extremely similar in their scope as umbrella terms, in practice genderqueer slants more towards those who identify as queering gender while nonbinary tends to attract those who hold specific trans* or transgender identities that fall outside of the gender binary. Genderqueer-identified people seem to be more likely to hold binary gender identities (eg, 'Genderqueer Woman') while considering their gender expression or gender performance to be queer or non-normative, while nonbinary-identified people are more likely to consider their gender identity (or lack of gender identity) to fall outside of the binary. Genderqueer-identified people seem to be more likely to consider themselves to be queer or a member of the queer community. Nonbinary-identified people generally seem more comfortable with considering themselves transgender and more likely to use the language of gender dysphoria. The adoption of the term 'nonbinary' by parts of the genderqueer community may reflect a trend of adopting the language of the transgender rights movement in order to make use of and expand on the legal protections now afforded to transgender people in some localities. Nonbinary-identified people may be more likely to be seeking access to transgender medical care or legal recognition (aka transition). Some nonbinary people reject the term genderqueer as an umbrella term because they are offended to be associated with queer sexuality, or still see queer as an offensive slur word. Despite these trends and connotations, both terms are used by some members of each group and so may be considered as wide inclusive umbrella terms. Some genderqueer-identified people have sought 'transition', some nonbinary-identified people hold binary gender identities and consider themselves to be nonbinary by gender expression, and it is currently common for nonbinary-identified individuals to also identify as genderqueer (especially as this term predates nonbinary by at least a decade). Is Genderqueer Transgender?[edit | edit source] There is controversy within the genderqueer community over whether genderqueer people fall under the transgender umbrella. Despite the work of Leslie Feinberg in the 1990s to coin transgender as a wide and inclusive umbrella term covering all forms of transgressive gender, the term genderqueer developed out of a frustration with the association between transgender and transsexualism, gender dysphoria and the dominant transgender narrative. It is common for genderqueer-identified people to consider trans and transgender to be synonymous with transition and so to claim genderqueer as a non-transgender identity. This is especially true with people who are genderqueer by gender expression only, but also applies to some genderqueer people who are comfortable with their body and see transgender as synonymous with bodily gender dysphoria. As such, it is important when talking about genderqueer and nonbinary people to recognise that not all people who hold these identities consider themselves to fall under the transgender umbrella. Notable people[edit | edit source] Notable people who specifically describe themselves with the label "genderqueer" include: - musician JD Samson - porn actor Jiz Lee - model Rain Dove - singer, songwriter and actor Ciarán Strange See also[edit | edit source] [edit | edit source] - Wikipedia's Genderqueer article - Genderqueer Identities - Genderqueer Identities: The Non-binary vs Genderqueer Quandary - Riki Wilchin's essay on the origins of Genderqueer from the 2002 anthology GenderQueer Further reading[edit | edit source] - Nestle, Joan, Clare Howell, and Riki A. Wilchins. GenderQueer: Voices from Beyond the Sexual Binary. Los Angeles: Alyson Books, 2002. Print. - Sycamore, Mattilda B. Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity. Emeryville, CA: Seal Press, 2006. Print.

Today, LGBT Youth Scotland and Scottish Women's Aid launch a short film exploring lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people's experiences of coercive control. Coercive control is domestic abuse. As the Scottish Parliament Justice Committee considers a Bill which would expand existing domestic abuse protections to these behaviours, you may hear more discussions about coercive control. Coercive control is when a partner tries to control, humiliate, isolate and shame their partner. They try to dominate every aspect of their partners’ life and often monitor and control their victim’s behaviour, movements and social media. Perpetrators of coercive control frequently try to wear down their partners’ self-confidence and self-worth by insulting them or making them feel stupid. Those experiencing domestic abuse often feel scared, anxious, or constantly 'on guard'. The film—Coercive Control and LGBT People—will help services, and friends, family, neighbours, or colleagues of LGBT people raise awareness of LGBT people's experiences of coercive control. 'LGBT Youth Scotland is proud to work in partnership with Scottish Women's Aid, and other members of the LGBT Domestic Abuse Project reference group, to raise awareness of LGBT people's experiences of domestic abuse. We hope this film will be used widely to prompt discussion on coercive control, and increase recognition that LGBT people experiencing domestic abuse have support options available to them' (Brandi Lee Lough Dennell, Policy & Research Manager at LGBT Youth Scotland). Marsha Scott, of Scottish Women’s Aid said: “We’re thrilled to be talking about coercive control with LGBT Youth Scotland. It is so important for all women who identify as LGBT to recognise coercive control and to know that their local Women’s Aid is there for them, and it includes them. Lesbian women have always been core to the women’s aid movement and we’re clear at Scottish Women’s Aid that sexism, misogyny, homophobia and transphobia go hand in hand, and we must stand against all inequalities and injustices if we are to achieve the equal Scotland we want to live in.” If someone you know identifies as LGBT and may be experiencing domestic abuse, there is help available: Women's Aids services are open and accessible to all self-identifying women of all sexual orientations who are experiencing domestic abuse. www.scottishwomensaid.org.uk FearLess is available to anyone who does not identify as a woman, including men and non-binary people. The service accepts self-referrals and can be reached at: FearLess.Scot Scotland’s Domestic Abuse and Forced Marriage Helpline is available any time, any day on 0800 027 1234 | www.sdafmh.org.uk

Long Plain First Nation Chief & Council are excited to announce the plans for the new Long Plain First Nation Wellness & Education Centre. Construction is projected to being in the Spring of 2021, with the infrastructure work projected to begin this fall. See Site Plan and Q&A below:[rl_gallery id=”4031″] Q and A August 5, 2020 - Who, What, Where, When, Why Question: What groups and agencies are collaborating together to create the Wellness and Education Centre? Answer: The wellness and education groups and agencies include the School Board, Dakota Ojibway Child Family Services, Health Centre, Jordan’s Principle, Elder Dave Daniels, Chief and Council. Question: What is the purpose of this project? Answer: The project provides infrastructure to support a variety of wellness and education initiatives centred on land-based learning in Long Plain First Nation. Question: What kind of activities will the building support? Answer: The list of programs include, education, fitness, traditional land-based skill learning and leisure. Question: How big is the building? Answer: The Wellness and Education Centre is 8,200 sf (Phase 1) and the Activity Building is 6,100 sf (Phase 2) Question: How much will it cost? Answer: The Wellness and Education Centre Class C cost estimate is $3,100,000.00 (Phase 1) and the Activity Building is $300,000.00 (Phase 2) Question: Where will the funding come from for the capital and operating/ maintenance costs? Answer: From the cooperating agencies that are using the building, the School Board and Long Plain First Nation Administration Question: When will construction be completed? Answer: We are hoping to start construction in 2020 and complete the building by September 2021 Question: Where will it get built? Answer: Between the School and the Administration Building adjacent to the splash pad. - Site Plan Question: How was the Centre’s location chosen? Answer: The building is located adjacent to the road, to the school, to the playground, baseball diamond and track, splash pad, the new organic garden bed, the new Activity Centre and Administration Building to help integrate wellness and education activities in Long Plain First Nation. Question: What is the difference between the Wellness and Education Centre and the Activity Centre? Answer: The Wellness and Education Centre is a heated and cooled space for classrooms, meeting areas, fitness and meetings (Phase 1). The Wellness and Education Activity Building is a shelter for outdoor year around events (Phase 2). Question: Why is an organic garden part of the Centre Answer: The organic garden, greenhouse, learning kitchen (home Ec. classroom) and the ability to serve food to events in the Activity Centre are part of the proposed land-based wellness and education programs. Question: Why is Wellness and Education Centre Phase 1 and the Activity Centre Phase 2? Answer: The two buildings, although they are designed to support community activities together may be built at different times or the same time depending on the availability of funding. Question: Why is there a dotted line on the plan between the Graduation Circle and the Wellness and Education Centre ? Answer: Orienting the building toward the celebration of education on one side and the wellness of a community (Activity Centre) place on the other reinforces the message that wellness and education are part of Community life. - Wellness and Education Centre Building Question: What are the sizes of the rooms in the Wellness and Education Centre building? Answer: The primary rooms include: - Welcoming and Reception 200 sf - Elders’ Space (smudging) 400 sf - (2x) Classrooms or 1 large Meeting Space with vertical moveable wall 1,600 sf - (6x) Classroom Storage 480 sf - Administrative Office 120 sf - Industrial Arts Admin Office 120 sf - Industrial Arts Classroom 900 sf - Recreational Fitness 700 sf - Occupational Health 150 sf - (3x) Male Washrooms + (1x) Shower + Baby Change Table - (5x) Female Washrooms + (1x) Shower + Baby Change Table - Mechanical Room (Geothermal) 150 sf - Family and Non-binary Washroom 60 sf - Home Economics Room 900 sf - (2x) Home Economics Storage 200 sf - Green House 400 sf Question: Are there enough washroom? Answer: There are enough washrooms to support gatherings of up to 250 people Question: Are the windows breakable? Answer: We have designed the windows with an almost invisible metal screen over vandal resistant glazing to minimize glazing breakage due to vandalism. (This effort and cost is important in a wellness and education centre because the windows allow visual connections between indoor and outdoor land-based activities.) Question: What is the purpose of the sliding shutters over the windows? Answer: Shutters provide additional protection of windows from vandals, keep in the heat in winter particularly at night and can screen the sun’s heat in summer. Question: Can the building expand if needed? Answer: The building is designed so that in the future the Industrial Arts room, the fitness room and/or the Home Ec. room (Teaching Kitchen and Sewing Room) can be expanded. Question: Is the building energy efficient? Answer: Yes. The building is designed to exceed the Energy standards of the current Building Codes by using passive heating, Geothermal in-floor heating, and orienting the buildings to receive south light. Question: What is the building construction? Answer: The exterior walls are corrugated metal (outside) and on the interior nailed laminated timber to make the walls durable, warm and vandal resistant. - Activity Building Question: What kind of activities could happen in the Activity Centre? Answer: This is a multipurpose unheated space. The space could be used as a community gathering area, a market, a place for picnicking, as a shady place for children playing in the playground or splashpad, an indoor-outdoor track protected from wild dogs and wind, or a place for equestrian education. Question: What is the purpose of the sliding shutters over the openings? Answer: The building can be enclosed or entirely opened-up to outside activities. The shutters make the Activity Centre more enclosed or more open. Question: What is the building construction? Answer: The Activity Centre is a pole building without foundations. The walls are clad with metal siding up to 10 feet high and then a clear (vandal resistant) corrugated acrylic allows natural light into the building. The roof is also clad with metal roofing. Lighting and sound systems are integrated into the building design. - Elders’ Space Question: Why is the Elders’ space next to the front entrance? Answer: The Elders are the centre of wellness and education in the community and therefore the Elders’ room is placed at the centre of the project and at the entrance to the Wellness and Education building. Question: Why does the Elders’ space open-up into the classrooms? Answer: The two (2x) classrooms have a removeable partition between them. When the partition is lifted-up to the ceiling the classroom space can be used for inside gatherings. The Elders space may become part of the gathering space or the classroom space – or may be closed off from it with an interior shutter. Question: Can sage be burned in the Elder’s space Answer: Yes – we have included a ventilation system that would exhaust the sage smoke from the Elders’ Space so that anyone with allergies elsewhere in the building would have their needs respected. Question: What is the purpose of the multiple wood pegs on the interior walls? Answer: All the interior walls have pegs in them. This allows pictures, and ceremonial elements of wellness and education to be easily hung (temporarily or permanently) on the wood walls for art, display and ceremonial herbs and elements.

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