#cultural groups

[bossybroads]

Latin America's First School For Transgender Kids Is Thriving

Founded by the Selenna Foundation in 2017, the Chilean school's enrollment has grown from the five students to 22.

“The school was launched in 2017 as a way to help families of trans children, who often skip classes or even fail to finish their studies as result of discrimination, said Selenna Foundation President Evelyn Silva. Classes began in April 2018 in a space loaned by a community center in the Chilean capital of Santiago. Courses include math, science, history and English, as well as workshops on art and photography.”

[mggardner]

Alleged Anti-Gay Attack Caught On Tape After Miami's Pride Parade

The victims include a same-sex couple, who say they were targeted for being gay.

Signal boost please.

[pavel-nosok]

Discord bans teen dating servers and the sharing of AI-generated CSAM

Discord has updated its policy meant to protect children and teens on its platform after reports came out that predators have been using the app to create and spread child sexual abuse materials (CSAM), as well as to groom young teens. The platform now explicitly prohibits AI-generated photorealistic CSAM. As The Washington Post recently reported, the rise in generative AI has also led to the…

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[pavel-nosok]

Snapchat Family Center shows parents their children's friends list

Snapchat Family Center shows parents their children’s friends list

Snapchat has launched a parental control portal that allows parents to keep an eye on who their young teenagers have been chatting with. The new in-app feature called Family Center shows parents their kids' friends list, as well as who they've messaged in the last seven days. Take note that parents can only see who their teens have been talking to, but they won't be able to read their chat…

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[meret118]

A story written by trans activist Coy Mathis is missing from the Russian edition of a new children’s book.

U.S. fantasy author Victoria Schwab said the publishing house Rosman last year edited an LGBT+ storyline out of the Russian edition of one of her Shades of Magic novels.

“They redacted the entire queer plot without permission,” she said on Twitter last year.

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[glrw-glit]

The Radical Empathy of Novelist Tim Murphy

The novelist drew upon his experience as a journalist and activist to create the sweeping, emotionally resonant novel "Correspondents."