as perfect as my home country may seem, it could definitely work on a few things. (see also, racism.)
The province of Quebec also requires that trans people be sterilized.
ACTION ALERT!! Help spread the word about the vicious, cissexist attack against James Alexander and demand that his attacker be brought to justice.
- Read about James Alexander’s attack here.
(TW: cissexism, violence)
- Sign the petition I just started here.
And spread the word.
Cissexism must stop, folks.
“American Indian children forced into the boarding school system later on unintentionally imposed onto their children and their children’s children the scars of growing up without knowledge of their language and their culture, without affection and without a loving family support network. When they finally returned to their tribal communities, they did not know who they were or where they fit anymore.“
-Tim Giago, survivor of the boarding school experience
Learn more about the history and ongoing effects of boarding schools in Indigenous cultures:
American Indian Boarding Schools Haunt Many
Indian actor Yuvraaj Parasher, who starred in a film considered the country’s Brokeback Mountain, has been thrown out of his home and disowned by his family for playing a gay man on screen, reports Times of India. The film, Dunno Y … Na Jaane Kyun, features the first male same-sex kiss not played for laughs in the history of Bollywood, one of the world’s most prolific film industries, but one that has never tackled storylines revolving around gay male characters.
The newspaper reports that Parasher’s father is ready to go to court and officially cut off ties with his son.
“His mother is totally devastated,” the elder Parasher says. “We are a respected family and I’m appalled that he is playing a gay man’s role. We’re finished. All the dreams and hopes we had built around him are over. For just a film role, he has lost out on his blood ties. We don’t want to see his face ever… not even when we are dying.”
Women weren’t allowed to work at Disney in 1938
My best friend wants to work at Disney, as a musician for the soundtracks. Good thing it’s 2010 or else she wouldn’t be able to get in.
I experienced this bullshit once about five years ago.
It was my first time in an actual barbershop. I got a typically masculine haircut and expected to pay $10 for it, as was advertised on the sign outside of the store. When I saw the cash register ring it up for $15, I asked the barber why it wasn’t $10. She basically said it was because I was a “girl” or something absolutely ridiculous like that. I kept my mouth shut because I had pretty much exhausted my courage for the day by stepping foot into a barber shop in the first place.
If something like this happened to me tomorrow, not only would I get confrontational and demand the advertised price, but I would also call 311 and complain. Know your rights.
(Source: Time Out New York)
Why I don’t go to “professional” hair places anymore.
(via projectqueer)
Oh my god. He sounds like those black preachers who preach enthusiastically about the love of Jesus but instead he spreads the hatred of queers.
Also, he just threatened our lives. If this man met me, he would shoot me!
