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  • The Antioch Review and Transphobia Couched In Academia

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    by Kay Gabriel
    Kay Gabriel presents a critical and studious critique of The Antioch Review's "“The Sacred Androgen: The Transgender Debate."
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  • Vetch #2 Attempts to Put Poetry Before Politics
    by Zach Ozma
    Zach Ozma reviews the latest from Vetch. Their second issue finds trans poetry "arriving but have not arrived," tugged between poetry and the identity politics that have come to dominate much of trans discourse.
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  • An Interview How2Wrestling's Hunk Connoisseur Joanna Graham

    by Jetta Rae
    The How2Wrestling co-host talks about media representation, biscuits, and mansplaining.
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  • Kate Schapira's Epistles to a Sickened World

    by Kate Schapira
    "You live here with us all the time. / You are the shape of the air in our house. / You don't need me to explain yourself to you, / bitter, fragrant, leaking a little sewer gas on / your way home, who could blame you."
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  • When Your Boyfriend Tries To "Bro Out" With Your Girlfriend
    by Andre Shakti
    In this week's "I'm Poly & So Can You", Andre answers a letter from a woman whose boyfriend is being a little too aggressive towards her trans girlfriend.
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  • Talking Trans Erotica with Tobi Hill-Meyer

    by Jetta Rae
    "When every story is about how incredibly hot people have incredible sex together with incredible orgasms, it becomes flat."
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  • A Pragmatic Approach to Polyamory and Parenthood
    by Louisa Leontiades
    Polyamory also allowed me to spread emotional risk. Long time practitioners of polyamory would be appalled by this--they call it the 'training wheels' mentality and it objectifies others. They're right. It does. And I did.
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  • Listen: Some of My Best Friends Are Named Becky

    by HARLOT Staff
    An open letter to Beckys (Beckies?) everywhere from two Black femmes.
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  • Ginger Ko's Poetry Explores Race, Intimacy, Poverty

    by Ginger Ko
    "How / do I decide / whether it is / important that I / run my fingernail / down my thigh, / to watch the little / trail of white / before my brownness / fills back in?"
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  • An Indian in the Wild, or, Decolonizing The Jungle Book

    by Lace Dagger
    "Any Indian reader who fails to distance themselves from this makes of themselves another jungle spectacle, to be observed, to be entertained by, but never to be taken seriously."
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  • "Lemonade" Takes Life's Lemons And Makes A Black Girl's Song

    by Angel C. Dye
    "With a strong army and lyrical war cry in her arsenal, Beyoncé most literally sings us a black girl’s song."
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  • Recording Casual Violence and the Banality of Evil

    by Gabrielle Bellot
    "A genre of sorts has arisen around capturing the spectacle of violence on film—and doing nothing about the actual violence as a bystander."
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  • It's No Wonder: Life and Wrestling After Chyna
    by Jetta Rae
    "Joanie Laurer, aka Chyna, changed the world. Not just wrestling, but the world as as it pertained to those who had a chance to see her, to exist in a time and society that observed and reacted to her existence."
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  • The Search for a Positive Trans Role Model in Comics

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    by Tara Marie
    "Seeing a trans girl who struggled with being seen as a woman having her womanhood validated? Why’d I like that so much? I was very, very misinformed."
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  • Sara June Woods' Poetry Summons and Celebrates The Witches
    by Sara June Woods
    "The circumstances surrounding Death-Witch's death are that she was alone on a road, & a person saw what she looked like & decided to kill her. I guess that's all it takes."
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  • Why I Left My Child

    by Michon Neal
    "I'm an introvert. A writer. A thinker. And differently abled. I need a certain amount of time to myself, alone, or I begin to wear thin. And now I've committed the ultimate sin. I left my child behind."
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  • Alleluia! The Devil's Carnival is About Queer Femme Revenge

    by Dorian Dawes
    "Vindication feels good."
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  • The Valley of Cultural Relevance between Generation X and Y
    by Louisa Leontiades
    I am generation X. Unlike many other X-ers, I get to educate myself in modern day millennial culture and feminism. But that’s only because it's my work.
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  • Solidarity and Inclusive Dick Jokes: Meet Girldick Hosting

    by Rani Baker
    "Solidarity between trans women here and elsewhere is important. We're also in a big fight here for nonbinary recognition at the moment, which is obviously quite important to many of us."
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  • Do Polyamorous People Process Attachment Differently?
    by Andre Shakti
    "While there is a correlation between constant, honest communication and healthy, sustainable relationships, ​​we need to be very cautious about seeing non-monogamy as some kind of superior, enlightened state."
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  • The Spirit of the Staircase: Emotional Labor and Whorephobia

     WPh
    by Just Elise
    "I'm just…" he stalled, looking down at his hands, "having a hard time dating someone who used to be a stripper."
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  • Queer Coding vs Queer Baiting
    by Rani Baker
    "I swear to God I'll stop talking about sexy barbarians and wizards any minute now."
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  • Powerpuff Girls: New Show, Same Suckerpunching of Trans Folk

     TPh
    by Dorian Dawes
    "A knife only has to stab you once to wound."
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  • The Miracle of Intersectional Pregnancy
    by Michon Neal
    People like me. Who never wanted children. Who only took fertility drugs to ease the symptoms caused by the debilitating endometriosis, PCOS, and PMDD so that I could actually keep a job for more than a few months.
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  • On Racism and Competitiveness in Queer Spaces
    by Lace Dagger
    "When I am 'nice,' I am not listened to. I have learned to be precise, driven, and forceful in my interactions with white women to accomplish the simple feat of being heard; pleasantness is a luxury I cannot afford."
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  • How And Why To Talk With Your Children About Pubic Hair

    by Louisa Leontiades
    I have pursued the conventional path of trying out many different hairstyles, the zigzag, the strip, the heart and the balding chicken (aka. the Brazilian)
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  • When Do You Let Jealousy End A Non-Monogamous Relationship?
    by Andre Shakti
    In this installment of "I'm Poly & So Can You", Andre helps someone navigate approaching their aggressively jealous partner.
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  • An "In-Character" Wrestler Sent Fans To Harass, Misgender Me
    by Colette Arrand
    NXT Superstar Austin Aries invited men to call me slurs and compare me to Cait Jenner for two days because I said I wanted to see him take moonsaults on TV instead of Vine.
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  • Zucker's "Therapy" Mourned Almost Exclusively By Cis People
    by Casey Plett
    "You can’t convince a trans child not to be trans without hurting them."
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