January 2012
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And the bright side of losing my wallet
it’s a great time to make my name change official!
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Re: Queer Activism on NU’s campus
I’m ready to kick up an advocacy storm. It’s about time that we see a few more queer inclusive policies pushed onto the administration’s agenda. After all, Northeastern prides itself on being home to a diverse community, let’s make it safer for everyone. Still, as a queer, trans* activist on campus, I’ve regularly felt like I’m tied up in red tape, and this is by no means consensual.
Let’s go...
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more...
– Toni Morrison, The Nobel Lecture in Literature (via pieceinthepuzzlehumanity)
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We're steadily erasing each other from our own...
I keep telling myself it is for the best.
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trans* inclusive healthcare at NU, well we need it
I had a not so great experience going to get tested yesterday. The doctor asked me if I slept with “girls or boys.” When I responded telling him that my partners were mainly female-bodied, he assumed I was talking only about women. He did acknowledge that he phrased his question using condescending language and that he should have said “women or men.”
He also seemed a...
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On Praising Tomboys and Rejecting Feminine Boys →
mindsplatter:
Teaching the lesson that things associated with females are considered weak or soft and things associated with men are considered strong, at such a young age, is a dangerous and slippery slope.
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Chevron Must Pay $18 Billion to Indigenous... →
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AmazonWatch: Yesterday, an Ecuadorian appellate court upheld a historic $18 billion award against Chevron for the company’s deliberate contamination of the Ecuadorian Amazon. The decision is the largest environmental award ever handed down and the result of an 18-year legal battle brought by some 30,000 indigenous peoples and farmers seeking a clean up of contaminated sites,...
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remove wrinkles from clothing without an iron →
real life skillz. #college student
genderqueer: Resources for FAAB, Non-Male... →
butchinthesouth:
—PLEASE REBLOG THIS—
This is a compilation of resources for female-assigned-at-birth (FAAB), non-male identified people who want top surgery. This document will include a list of surgeons who are willing to perform top surgery on genderqueer/non-male-identified people,…
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December 2011
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