Purely Masturbatory

jasencomstock:

nerds

for those interested

annaham:

I think today, as I do every day, about my fellow transgender people who didn’t make it through the year, for a wide variety of reasons. The people who died because they could not access health services, ranging from trans women denied care at women’s clinics to trans men dying of conditions they weren’t screened for because of cissexist assumptions about bodies, to trans people who couldn’t meet the exacting standards for medical transition and decided they didn’t want to live anymore. I think about the people who were raped and beaten and murdered in the last year for their gender, their misgendering in the media and the decision on the part of some journalists to violate their memories by using the wrong names, employing the wrong pronouns, suggesting they deserved that happened to them.

And I think about all of the bullied trans people, not just trans youth, but trans people of all ages, who died in the last year, who came close to dying, who will die this year. I think about the tidal wave of hatred for us and the way it expresses and the fact that it is so rarely discussed. I think, too, about the bullying within the transgender community, the binarism, for example, that leads to people making assumptions about my body and causes people to think it’s perfectly appropriate to misgender me and people like me. I think about the ways to address the problems both outside and inside the trans community, to make the world a safer place for every person, of every gender (and nongender). I think about how we can possibly build a better world.

The whole thing is worth a read.

rebloged to read rest later.

shelbinatr:

opomegranate:

hipstersonfoodstamps:

snowce:

Senate Republicans voted unanimously Wednesday against a bill that would work to ensure fair pay for women, the Paycheck Fairness Act. The vote was 58-41.

Despite the Senate having majority support, Democrats couldn’t muster the 60 votes they needed to overcome a Republican filibuster.

This is such an absolute joke.  And just listen to some of their rationale:

Collins argued that the bill would place undue burden on small business, and “impose increased costs and restrictions on small businesses in an already difficult economic climate.”

Seriously?  The economy is tough so we can’t allow women to be paid what they deserve?  Fuck you.  This is the most pitiful excuse of an ideology.  I am absolutely disgusted.

If anyone out there can offer any legitimate explanation for why this kind of shit is okay, please let me know.

I do not understand.

at a loss for fucking words.

To me this is a clear message that the fight is not over, we need to keep going until true equality is reached.

That said….WTF!

about time media brought this up.

also i have a problem with the gender bias terminology….