10 Ways You Can Be More Trans-Inclusive In Your Everyday Life
If you’re ready to be a trans ally, it’s time to think about how you can be more trans-inclusive in your daily life.
If you’re ready to be a trans ally, it’s time to think about how you can be more trans-inclusive in your daily life.
Our society and culture tends to focus primarily on a heterosexual, cisgender, white narrative, so it’s easy for people to forget that from the time we’re kids, LGBTQ people are painted as the “other” (and sometimes, much worse than that). …
While it is a common tendency, not everyone is allowed to advocate for their own group. Sometimes when women and minorities promote their own group, it garners criticism from others.
“I am in a gender studies class. I am still bewildered that the subject I have been fixated on, reading about, and studying obsessively since my life began is now a thing my friends want to take classes on.”
Pronouns for trans folks may feel tricky, especially for grammar geeks. Gender neutral and/or inclusive pronouns are now becoming widely recognized, not only as a way to honor and respect transgender, gender nonconfirming, and nonbinary folks, but as word of …
In this video, feminist YouTubers Franchesca “Chescaleigh” Ramsey and Laci Green break it all down – what intersectionality is, why it’s important, and what it really means in practice once you strip away all the fancy language.
The debate is fierce, bitter, and as old second wave feminism: Do trans women experience male privilege? Meaning, do trans women receive, at the expense of cis women, much-needed resources from both within and outside of feminist movements?
In short, intersectionality is a framework that must be applied to all social justice work, a frame that recognizes the multiple aspects of identity that enrich our lives and experiences and that compound and complicate oppressions and marginalizations.
Watch Laverne Cox explain the unique positionality and context behind being a Black trans woman in the United States and propose a solution for this injustice.
“For someone to tell me that…I’m not considered a woman, I feel like that’s rude not only to trans women but also to women in general.”