Colorlines: Eight Openly Queer Rappers Worth Your Headphones -
I’m always up for learning about new music, and this is an awesome collection worth treating your ears to!
(Source: popcorn-brain, via dykesanddykery)
Petition to International Olympic Committee regarding Intersex Athletes -
We, the undersigned, support the members of the Organisation Intersex International, in their demands that:
- The International Olympic Committee (IOC) abandon its demands that female athletes with intersex variations have their variations diagnosed and treated.
- The IOC allow the above mentioned athletes, known as intersex women, to compete as females without having to undergo diagnosis or “treatment.”
- The IOC, the press, and medical practitioners refer to females with intersex variations as “intersex women,” and not “women with disorders of sex development.”
One of the most important things you could do today. Sign this petition to allow intersex athletes to freely compete in the Olympics!
(Source: fuckyeahgenderstudies, via transqueery)
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genderqueer: Coming Out as Trangender, Genderqueer, and/or Non-Binary Masterpost -
gqid:
I’ve been getting lots of questions on Genderqueer Identities in regards to coming out lately. I continue to welcome questions, but I would also like to make a masterpost of resources I tend to recommend to people - this is a work in progress. Please note, you should not feel…
This looks like an AWESOME AS ALL GET OUT resource!! :) Be sure to go suss that noise out y’all.
Fabulous dressing up realness!
(Source: photoguy22, via xyxrebellion)
Tamora Pierce's list of LGBTQ YA novels -
I respect this woman’s judgement. :) Might try to review more of these eventually. In the meantime, voila, a LIST. Reading lists are beautiful things sometimes.
(By the way, suggestions for adult books are welcomed. I just don’t know of many yet. I don’t mean for this to be just a YA blog.)
Gotta love Tamora Pierce! She also links to some awesome other posts and blogs that review YA novels that are queer! Go check it out (and start compiling your Amazon wish lists)!
(via fuckyeahlesbianliterature)
By using cisgender to to describe the gender of those who are not trans* we break down structures that posit cis individuals as ‘normal’, when neither is more ‘normal’ than the other.
Amen!!
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LGBTI history is made in Queensland, Australia. -
Last night what is estimated to have been over 2,000 members and supporters of the LGBT community took to the streets of Brisbane in protest, to defend civil unions and condemn the LNP’s de-funding of Healthy Communities. It’s now being considered the biggest LGBTI rights rally in Queensland’s history.
Over the last week, the announcement that LNP had cut funding to Queensland’s only LGBTI health service sent shock through our communities, and fuelled the anger prompted by fears of Premier Campbell Newman’s expected intention to follow through on his election promise to repeal same-sex civil unions.
It’s amazing and inspiring to see how the queer community in Queensland is fighting back against the government!! Seriously hoping that Healthy Communities is refunded, and that civil unions remain in place. Fight the good fight!
FC Yeah! needs YOU (to do a survey, aw yiss!) -
Y HALO THAR lovely followers! :) FC Yeah! has been running for a few months now, and now we’re looking for your feedback!
Our aim was to make a safe and inclusive space for people of diverse sexualities, sexes and/or genders - so have we been providing that to you guys? Are there any diverse sexualities, sexes and/or genders we haven’t been catering for? Now’s your opportunity to tell us!
If you could respond by the 13th of June, that’d be awesome! Our thanks comes to you in the form of kitten goodness:
The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to screw with society’s perceptions of gender~
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