Kim Gordon: ‘Rock Memoirs Are The New Record’
Sonic Youth front-woman Kim Gordon’s new memoir, Girl in a Band, confronts the way the musician’s gender often played a too-prominent role in how her work was discussed. In an…
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Drop the needle: Designer’s embroidery captures travels in fabric form
Rather than do what most of us would haveresign ourselves to fact that this was one moment our Instagram followers would just have to miss out onshe whipped out some…
Texas Lawmaker Wants To Make It A Crime For Transgender Individuals To Use The Restroom That Matches Their Gender Identity
A Texas state lawmaker has introduced a bill that would make it a criminal offense for a transgender person to use a bathroom according to their gender identity. – H/T…
How Women Reacted To The 2015 Oscars
Our Oscars drinking game involved taking a sip of wine every time a woman or person of color won in a gender neutral award category. Unfortunately, we ended the night…
Program Instills Leadership In Teenage Girls In Myanmar, Where Their Opinions Are Often Unheard
An organization is inspiring girls to dream big and challenge traditional gender roles. In Myanmar, the Girl Determined organization holds weekly after-school peer groups to empower girls ages 12-17. The…
Military Approves Hormone Treatment For Chelsea Manning
Defense Department officials say hormone treatment for gender reassignment has been approved for Chelsea Manning, the former intelligence analyst convicted of espionage for sending classified documents to the WikiLeaks website….
Triple killing may not be a hate crime
The victims, two young women and a young man, were Muslim. The women wore distinctive hijabs. Many now wonder, including the families of the slain, if Hicks should also be…
Chelsea Manning To Join The Guardian U.S. As Contributing Opinion Writer
The Guardian U.S. has hired Chelsea Manning as a contributing opinion writer covering war, gender and freedom of information, Katharine Viner, the publication’s editor-in-chief, announced Tuesday via Twitter. –
Schoolgirls Are Facing More Threats, U.N. Reports
Attacks against girls attending school or seeking access to education appear to be increasing around the world despite legal protections of gender equality, the United Nations said in a report…
How Using ‘They’ As A Singular Pronoun Can Change The World
Hopefully, by now you know that calling people the pronouns they want to be called is a basic and necessary way to demonstrate respect for their identities. This includes learning…
50 Percent Of Millennials Believe Gender Is A Spectrum, Fusion’s Massive Millennial Poll Finds
Fusion’s Massive Millennial Poll shed some interesting light into how “millennials” view gender. – You can read more about Fusion’s Massive Millennial Poll here.
11 Myths About Transgender People
a segment of the population that’s widely marginalized and misunderstood. The recent speculation by media outlets about whether Bruce Jenner, the patriarch of the Kardashian family and former Olympian, is…
The Bruce Jenner Story Goes From Gossip to News
For the last few years, there have been rumors and anonymously sourced tabloid items suggesting that Bruce Jenner, the former Olympic champion and somewhat comically befuddled patriarchal figure on “Keeping…
A University Recognizes a Third Gender: Neutral
Rocko Gieselman looked like any other undergraduate at the University of Vermont but perhaps a little prettier, with pale freckles dancing across porcelain skin and bright blue eyes amplifying a…
Fabrications: Meet Queer Fashion Designer David Siferd Of GODDESS
This is the sixth installment in a miniseries that elevates the work of up-and-coming queer individuals working in the fashion world. Check back at HuffPost Gay Voices regularly to learn…
Obama Just Quietly Sent His Chief Of Staff To Count Homeless People In San Francisco
It’s not every day a top-ranking White House official gets hands-on in a local operation — especially with very few cameras around. But last Thursday evening, Denis McDonough did just…
Expanded federal ban on profiling doesn’t apply at borders, airport screening
The new guidelines replace ones in place since 2003, which prohibit profiling based on race and ethnicity, but also include broad exemptions for national security investigations. The Justice Department will…
‘Female Husbands’ In The 19th Century
Questions of gender identity are nothing new. Way before Transparent and Chaz Bono and countless other popular culture stepping stones to where we are now regarding gender identity, there were…
Does Your Member Of Congress Have Policies Protecting LGBT Staffers From Discrimination?
WASHINGTON — It’s still legal for members of Congress to fire their employees based on their sexual orientation or gender identity. That’s because there is no federal law protecting lesbian,…
Swedish Swimming Pool Opens Gender Neutral Changing Room
A public swimming pool outside the Swedish capital is reopening this weekend after building a third changing room, for people with a “neutral gender identity.” The city of Sundbyberg, a…
21 Struggles Faced By A Dad Raising A Daughter In A Sexist World
You think handling another human’s warm excrement is bad? Wait until you discover that society has a rigidly pre-defined set of gender norms it’s just waiting to try and force…
‘Should All Bathrooms Be Gender Neutral?’ Asks Laci Green Of MTV’s ‘Braless’
Should all bathrooms be gender neutral? – Check out the video above or head here to read more about the necessity of gender-neutral bathrooms.
Prada and Armani Reassert the Power of Consistency
MILAN — One of the commonest sights outside fashion shows, in whatever city they’re held, is hordes of shutterbugs racing to snap pictures of what is loosely described as “street…
Mittens The Intersex Cat To Get Gender Assignment
Mittens the cat has both male and female genitalia. The Canadian kitty, who lives with its owner in Heart’s Desire, Newfoundland, will need surgery to cure its bowel and urinary…
How to talk to kids about racism
Fink stopped. “I’m Asian,” she told the child, “and when you do that, it hurts my feelings.” The student snapped to attention. “Oh! I’m sorry!” she told her teacher, and…
Thailand’s new constitution could soon recognize third gender
“People should have [that] freedom to change sex and they should be equally protected by the Constitution and the law and treated fairly.” Third gender means that an individual does…
The transgender life: What to know, say and understand
Leelah explained that she always felt like a girl and wanted her parents to accept that. They did not, mother Carla Alcorn told CNN, for religious reasons. Though she loved…