Lexicon Devil: An Exploration of Language Used on RuPaul’s Drag Race
by: Patrick Gill I have been an intermittent fan of RuPaul’s Drag Race since its first season. I actually have watched this season closely, with a lot of love for […]
Category Archives: Trans
First-ever Trans 100 List Spotlights Vital Voices in the Trans Community
by: Nico Lang A few weeks ago, I braved the Chicago cold to meet Jen Richards for an early afternoon brunch at Kopi, the eclectic cafe in Andersonville that bills […]
East Aurora Developing New Transgender Student Policies: Why We Must Stand With Them
by: Nico Lang On Tuesday, October 23, the school district of East Aurora decided to be on the right side of history. That day, its school board unanimously approved policies […]
All Together Now: Tammy Baldwin and The Whole Community
by: Alexandra Cavallaro I don’t know about you, but election night felt like a lesson in information management. I sat with two of my friends in their living room and […]
Why I Don’t Use CAFAB
by: Kade Heron The circles that I have recently been running in often throw around the terms CAMAB and CAFAB, translated as ‘Coercively Assigned __ At Birth.” As far as […]
Street Harassment and Being Treated Like a Lady
by: Rebecca Kling I was listening to Citizen Radio while driving down to the Chicago Fringe Festival tonight. It’s a fantastic, independently-produced, liberal news and commentary podcast, and I highly […]
Musing on the Huffington Post’s Transnormative Coverage of Lana Wachowski
by: ellie june navidson In October of this year, the Human Rights Campaign awarded Lana Wachowski with their “Visibility Award.” And as problematic as that organization, or even the name […]
Separating Church and State: How the Aurora Decision Failed Transgender Students
by: Jen Richards On October 15, 2012, the board of Aurora East District 13, a high school in the western suburbs of Chicago, unanimously voted to adopt a policy that […]
The Last Stall On the Right: An Open Letter To Roseanne Barr
by: Lindsey Dietzler Dear Roseanne, I grew up watching your television show. In fact, I have probably seen every episode of Roseanne, at least three times, no joke. Your politics […]
Don’t Paraphrase My Penis: Calling My Surgery What It Is To Me
by: Shelby Green Despite years of trying to assign meaning to it, the act of paraphrasing my penis has been a failure for society. Good. Nietzsche wrote that language assigns […]
