December 2011
28 posts
Turquoise Traipsing: Shark Dating: A Inspirational... →
tierracita:
By Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
call for submissions: the good (femme of colour/ Indigenous femme) date zine
As queer and/or gender-nonconforming, trans or Two Spirited femmes of color and Indigenous femmes, it’s often easy to think, remember and speak on the vast degrees of bullshit we…
Femme Jot@s should submit!
Queer and Immigrant for the Holidays →
Valeria Villalta: Transgender Latina Immigrant... →
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Queer People of Color Conference, CA: Deadline for...
If you are like me, you may have forgot until the last minute. Go here to get more info and to apply to present.
Introducing the Association for Joteria Arts,... →
Wonderful work and group of jot@s.
Mexico City shows significant progress towards the... →
projectqueer:
by Vera González
Fat, gay and proud: a new kind of Venezuelan... →
laborreguita:
Music swells, lights flash and the contestants strut on to the stage, waving and blowing kisses. All wear high heels, bikinis and wide smiles.
It is another beauty pageant in Venezuela, a self-styled “beauty superpower” which worships physical perfection and has won the two most recent Miss Universe titles. But this show in Caracas is different. Even from the back of the...
Queers of Color Manifesto →
soadatnewschool:
“Men of color have been constructed as maniacal sexual perverts, women of color as exotic sexual objects, white women as passive sexual victims, and white men as virile sexual protectors.”
Descontexto: "The queen" by Abelardo Castillo →
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Penguins on Wheels: I just found my 2010 LGBT... →
So, this year has had its ups and downs for the LGBT community across the globe, I’ve tried to summarise some of the big things that have happened~
Argentina, Iceland and Portugal all legalised same-sex marriage, making Argentina the first South American country to do so. Also, The District…
Interesting the developments in a year. Latin America makes this 2010 list.
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Undocumented and Awkward
http://youtu.be/-GgxF-cOLeQ
First dates are always awkward. We don’t really know why humans do it. Maybe it’s the romanticized versions that poems and novelists have sold us for centuries. We blame “Garden State.” Whatever the reason behind such strange act, we all do it. Straight, gay, trans, bi, I guess we’re all looking for that person that can be the perfect mix...
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Trans Latino/a Discrimination Report Released →
fangirlmarena:
The Injustice At Every Turn report broke down just how badly transpeople were discriminated against in the United States. When they took a look at the numbers for trans African-American respondents they were even more sobering. They served as a wake up call to the cis African-American community and the advocacy organizations that serve us The Task Force-NCTE survey in...
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Amores TRANSformativos
“El amor es un sentimiento que todas las personas en el mundo tratan de descubrir por lo menos una vez en su vida. La mayoría de las personas piensan en ese amor que los va a transformar, el que existe en los cuentos de hadas, en las películas, e inclusive en las telenovelas que, por costumbre, vemos a diario.
“La verdad es que el amor es bello cuando en verdad se descubre. Y como...
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