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Casual reminder that your white cis-gay ass wouldn’t have a “gay movement” had it not been for trans women of color.
Laverne Cox "Ain’t I A Woman? My Journey to Womanhood" Wednesday, February 26, 2004 University of Georgia, Tate Theater @ 7:00PM
Laverne Cox explores how the intersections of race, class, and gender uniquely affect the lives of trans women of color. Laverne draws from her own personal story and how issues of race, class, and gender affect how she has been able to navigate the world. From growing up in Mobile, Alabama, raised by a single mother in a Christian family, to attending college in New York City to pursue a career as an actress, to finally finding the courage to step into the womanhood she always knew at heart was her destiny, Cox tells the story of the unique challenges along her journey to womanhood, professional achievement, self-acceptance, and love.
Tickets Free for Students, $5 public,Available at the Tate Cashier Window Seating is limited - tickets required for entry
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Best of Thirteen (06x16)
House got a lot of things wrong but sometimes it got things very very right.
ALTHOUGH YOU CAN IF YOU’RE INTO THAT KINDA THING :wiggles eyebrows:
"do you understand what bisexual means?" is a pretty nice comeback.
Today is National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day.
Due to factors like the immense disparity in healthcare access between black Americans and other groups, the rate of HIV infection for African Americans is approximately eight times higher than for white Americans.
This disparity was present even at the very beginning of the AIDS pandemic, and is very likely part of the reason why the US government’s response to the burgeoning public health crisis was so slow- Ronald Reagan’s administration perceived AIDS as killing primarily three groups: black Haitian immigrants, gay men, and drug users. The racism and homophobia of those involved in delaying official acknowledgement of HIV/AIDS is, in large part, why the disease grew into a global scourge.
It is important to know your status, and everyone should get tested at least once, even if you do not believe that you are in a high-risk category. You can obtain free, fast, oral testing in almost every city; see this link for a means to search for a clinic near you.
During the Olympics, and long after they’re done, we stand with LGBT Russians http://glaad.org/russia
Struggling Alone: Women who have sex with women in Burkina Faso, Nigeria and Ghana
This report is a result of a five-month social context analysis conducted by a young, lesbian-led organization, The Queer African Youth Networking Center (QAYN) to call attentions to the lived realities of lesbians, bisexual, transgendered, queer and women who have sex with women (LBTQWSW) in three West African countries. A group of passionate and resourceful volunteers engaged in cross-country interviews and focus group discussions to uncover the challenges faced and strategies used by LBTQWSW in living their lives as same-gender loving
Downlonad PDF @ http://www.qayn-center.org/research-publications/
go download!!! available in french and english!
[image description: the cover of Struggling Alone: The Lived Realities of Women Who Have Had Sex with Women in Burkina Faso, Ghana and Nigeria. The cover shows abstract paintings, almost like ink blots, with with humanoid silhouettes visible]
The Huffington Post also messed up with regards to bisexuality not long ago when they reprinted parts of an interview with Alan Cumming under the headline, ”Alan Cumming sounds off on being bisexual despite being married to a man.” Hmm … Camille sounds off on being omnivorous despite eating a salad. Camille sounds off on liking animals despite having a cat. Camille sounds off on loving the Harry Potter series despite currently reading "The Order of the Phoenix". Being married to a man falls perfectly under the purview of things that a bisexual man might do, so why are we framing this as if Alan Cumming is doing something radical or as if bisexual men never get married or as if people in same-sex relationships are exclusively gay or lesbian?”
Camille, of GayWrites on YouTube (via jacquelynn)
We can’t keep raising generations of kids of color on the notion that there’s only room for them to be bad guys or doomed sidekicks or another generation of white kids thinking they’re closer to God because of how they look. We can’t keep promoting hetero/cis-normative sexist and racist ideas in our literature. That is the default setting. If you aren’t consciously working against it, you are working for it. Neutrality is not an option, and the luxury of thinking it is has to go.
Daniel José Older, “12 Fundamentals Of Writing ‘The Other’ (And The Self)” (via larmoyante)
The fight for bisexual visibility in the U.S. must invariably include Dr. Loraine Hutchinsâ name in blazing lights. Trailblazer that she is, she co-edited the groundbreaking anthology, Bi Any Other&
During the Macklemore & Ryan Lewis duet with Madonna to "Same Love" at the 2014 Grammys, Queen Latifah will officiate 34 weddings live
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The Controversy Around ‘Blue is the Warmest Color’: A Case Study in Bi Erasure and Public Hysteria
Blue Is the Warmest Colour is an unfortunate title for a great film… The story is deceptively simple: Adèle a high-school student, meets Emma an advanced Fine Art student with blue hair at a lesbian bar, they fall in love, have incredibly hot sex, live together, and eventually break up … In the deafening cacophony of OMG, there are naked women having sex here are some absurd and reactionary comments —-
Almost every review and headline has characterized this film as a “lesbian love story”. Emma may be lesbian. We learn that she has had relationships only with women. But the film deliberately avoids labeling Adèle’s identity.
Dr. Pepper Schwartz, sexologist and Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington, made this emphatic claim in an article for CNN: “The chilling part of this film is that it’s basically the story of an adult woman poaching on a high-schooler”. Like countless critics, Dr. Schwartz reduces the film to porn that she would not recommend to teenagers … Dr. Schwartz seems unconcerned by the fact that Adèle chain-smokes but warns that Adèle’s lovemaking with a woman who is her partner is too damaging for us to watch …
Then there are those saying the sex is unreal, too clinical, filmed through a male gaze, blah, blah, blah. Why aren’t we celebrating the fact that these scenes even exist? There are three explicit sex scenes adding up to nearly 10 full minutes of nude, girl-on-girl action in an award winning film …
And finally, the ugly truth that no one wants to admit. The film beautifully explores how the sexual barometer can grow cold and change the nature of a relationship. For those who have not seen the film, minor spoiler alert for what follows. In a harrowing scene, Emma breaks up with Adèle for reasons that would be devastating to any relationship but pose a particular challenge to same-sex relationships: class difference and biphobia …
Few films have accurately captured the quotidian life of the French middle class … The more successful and profitable that Emma becomes as an artist the more she shuts down emotionally. She also begins to feel shame about Adèle’s modest ambition to become a schoolteacher … Is Emma furious that Adèle cheated on her? Or that Adèle had sex with a man? Or is Emma simply jealous that Adèle hasn’t reached emotional frigidity like she has?
The film offers no easy answers. It simply documents the devastation on Adèle and, in the end, only hints at a brighter future for her.
Click HERE to read the full article
Anil Vora is a principal partner at Indian Tiger Films, a film production company spotlighting films about LGBTQ people of color. A self-confessed geek, VORAcious in his consumption of books and films, Anil is also an actor and playwright, and teaches private classes on the history, symbolism, and appreciation of Bollywood films.
Straight passing privilege gives radfeminism the excuse to ignore that bisexuals statistically face more rape than heterosexuals and gay/lesbian groups.
Gives them the excuse to ignore that statistically bisexuals face more domestic violence than heterosexuals and gay/lesbians.
Gives them the excuse to ignore that statistically bisexuals face more suicide attempts than heterosexuals and gay/lesbians.
Gives them the excuse to ignore that statistically bisexuals face more depression than heterosexuals and gay/lesbian groups.
Gives them the excuse to ignore that statistically bisexuals are the majority of the lgbt, but our needs are never focused on as a separate group in the way that gay and lesbian needs have.
Gives them the excuse to ignore that statistically bisexuals (in the UK) face higher amounts of discrimination in the work place than heterosexuals and gay/lesbian groups.
Gives them the excuse to ignore that statistically bisexuals are less at ease with their sexuality than heterosexuals and gay/lesbians.
Gives them the excuse to ignore that statistically bisexuals are less likely to be “out the closet” with family and friends, colleagues and healthcare workers.
Gives them the excuse to ignore that statistically bisexuals have more negative experiences with healthcare workers than heterosexuals and gay/lesbians.
Gives them the excuse to ignore that statistically bisexuals are sought out to be converted to heterosexuality by therapists more than gay/lesbians.
Gives them the excuse to ignore that statistically bisexuals turn to substance and alcohol abuse more than heterosexuals and gay/lesbians.
Gives them the excuse to ignore that statistically bisexuals commit more self harm than heterosexuals and gay/lesbian groups.
Gives them the excuse to ignore that bisexuals are blamed greatly for spreading HIV/AIDS through heterosexual and gay/lesbian spaces, even by lgbt groups.
Gives them the excuse to ignore that bisexuals face greater health problems in the US than the general population.
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This is why bisexuals get angry when you say we have so much privilege that we dont need to be included in your feminism, or your activism. Straight passing privilege does not save us from as much discrimination as you once thought. Fixing homophobia and lesbophobia will cure some biphobia, but biphobia is distinct on its on and deserves recognition. When you say we are privileged because we are assumed to be straight, it is erasure of bisexuals and the issues they face. There is no privilege in erasure, there no privilege on being discriminated against by heterosexuals and gay/lesbians. I stand in solidarity for everyone lgbtquiap, but you must recognize that we have our issues too and you’re glossing over them and calling us lesbophobes for wanting recognition of these issues.
Being forced into the closet and having our "dear allies" hold the door shut while we franticly shout, and bang, and kick, to try to get out is NOT actually a “privilege”.
I'm gonna go ahead and make this really clear for everyone:
The only people who get straight privilege are heterosexuals.
If you are not heterosexual you can not access heterosexual privilege.
Being with someone of a different gender to yourself is not a straight relationship - the only straight relationships are ones that solely involve straight people.
Now can we stop using this as an excuse to be BOPQ*-exclusionary biphobic asshats?
* BOPQ = initialism shorthand for Bisexual, Queer and various other Non-monosexual Personal Identity Labels
If your sexuality has been called a phase by someone who was a zygote when you came out, you might be a bisexual.
You Might Be A Bisexual (with apologies to Jeff Foxworthy)
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is the always ladylike Advice Columnist for Boston’s own
Bisexual Resource Center
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If your reaction to the paltry amount of attention the trans* community gets from mainstream queer organizations is disgust…followed by jealousy, you might be a #bisexual.
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When people say “I used to think I was bisexual, but then …” STOP! I don’t care what your personal experience with bisexuality is, it doesn’t give you any right to erase, deny or ignore the fact bisexuality exists. I’m sorry you thought you were bisexual when you weren’t. I’m sorry a bisexual person cheated on you or broke your heart. I’m sorry you don’t understand bisexuality and you think it’s a “phase”. But I’m afraid this isn’t our problem, it’s yours. That’s right. It’s your problem. Please deal with it. With love, Bi-Positive.