Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR)
Today is the 12th annual International Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR), a day set aside to memorialize and mourn people who have been murdered in the previous year because of anti-transgender...
View ArticleFred Phelps and conservative Christians: Not so different
I recently watched The Education of Shelby Knox, a documentary about a high school girl of the same name from Lubbock, Texas, raised in a very Republican and conservative Southern Baptist family....
View ArticleGood people do terrible things
Kansas apologizes for Fred Phelps [Wikimedia Commons]As I was writing the previous post, I kept wondering if I was being overly harsh in comparing mainstream conservative Christians to Fred Phelps –...
View ArticleWrite a post for AWH!/New GQ blog
Happy New Year, all! One goal I’d love to make a reality this year is to have some guest posts and perhaps some regular guest or co bloggers on AWH. If you’re interested, please drop me a line in the...
View ArticleLosing your virginity is like drinking spit, apparently
Trigger warning: rape/sexual assault. You know, sometimes I feel like I’m exaggerating the awfulness of what I was taught about sex, like it couldn’t possibly be as bad as I feel it was. After all,...
View ArticleAfroLez: “Reflecting Upon My Twenty-One Years Of Pride”
Trigger warning for rape, heterosexist/misogynist violence. NewBlackMan has a moving essay by Aishah Shahidah Simmons, aka AfroLez, on how she came to terms with her sexuality and why she’s vocal...
View ArticleGrowing up to be a woman
I’m participating in National Blog Posting Month – which means I’m aiming to post at least once a day for the month of November. Most of these will be my posts, but there’ll also be a few guest...
View ArticleAlways my son
NaBloPoMo Day 11: Just a video and article recommendation today. There’ll be a guest post on this blog tomorrow and a post by me at another blog, so I figure I get a free space to work with! Colorlines...
View ArticleLGBT Asian and Pacific Islander Stories
NaBloPoMo Day 27: I spent the time I would ordinarily be writing dealing with some unexpected snafus at home, so here’s a video :p From a series from Basic Rights Oregon highlighting LGBT families of...
View Article[AWH Classic] Good people do terrible things
Kansas apologizes for Fred Phelps [photo from Wikimedia Commons]I have a few more comments on the Doug/Jared Wilson fiasco. Perhaps needless to say, I don’t agree with the general consensus that the...
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