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On Demand LGBT Movies. Mallika Sherawat shouts at a journalist (INTERVIEW) Comprehensive Links « Gender Neutral Pronoun Blog. This is a list of various sites and articles relating to gender-neutral pronouns from around the web.

Comprehensive Links « Gender Neutral Pronoun Blog

If anyone knows of other relevant pages to add (especially for the “actual usage” section), feel free to drop a link in the comments section and I’ll look into it as soon as I can. Great General Resources: Gender-Neutral Pronoun FAQ: Explains what gender-neutral pronouns are and why current English words don’t cut it, and also gives a good overview of the most popular invented gender-neutral pronouns. The References page has an extensive list of resources listed, included printed works not listed here. Wikipedia’s Gender-Neutral Pronoun Page: Gives a good overview of the problems and proposed solutions to English’s lack of an obvious singular gender-neutral pronoun. The Epicene Pronouns: A Chronology of the Word That Failed: Lists scores of proposed pronouns, dated back to 1850. Queer Theory. The Pop-Up Museum of Queer History. #322 & #323 “My friend group has a case of the Creepy Dude. How do we clear that up?”

Here is Letter #322.

#322 & #323 “My friend group has a case of the Creepy Dude. How do we clear that up?”

It and the other letter are below the jump because it’s fucking creepy in there. Edited to Add: It’s frankly depressing that this post has struck a chord with so many people, but I’m grateful and honored to be able to help the letter writers and to have given voice to what so many people were feeling. Unfortunately the demands of moderating this discussion have become overwhelming this week, so as of Monday, August 13th comments are locked. We’ll pick up this discussion some other time. Thank you for all of your insightful contributions and for making this one of the best commentspaces on the Web.

We have a creeper in our social group. He’s mostly been concentrating on the other women: telling them to expose themselves, telling them their skirts weren’t flying high enough while they were dancing, hitting on them when he knows they have boyfriends. I want to punch him. Something needs to happen here, obviously, but I have no idea what. And here is Letter #323. Signed, Exceptions ads. Transgender positive ads. Feminism.

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Young Feminist Wire » About Us. Home » About Us Welcome to the Young Feminist Wire!

Young Feminist Wire » About Us

This online platform was created in March 2010 by the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID). The Wire is a space for young feminists – especially young women – working on women’s rights and gender equality around the world to connect, learn and share information. It is also a place where women’s rights advocates of all ages can learn more about young women’s activism and make connections with younger activists.

Browse the following links to learn more about AWID’s work with young feminists. About the Young Feminist Activism program Across many issues and in every part of the world, young feminists are actively involved in the struggle for women’s rights. About the Young Feminist Wire We’ve created this site in order to: This site features: Who Works on the Wire? The Wire is built and run by the Young Feminist Activism program team at AWID: Ghadeer Malek, Nadine Moawad, and Sanushka Mudaliar. Feminism 101: Read Books, Become a Better Womyn. In response to our first in a series of three Autostraddle Roundtables about feminism, several of you requested a “reading list” to introduce you to some of the basic literature grounding the feminist movement.

Feminism 101: Read Books, Become a Better Womyn

Simple enough, right? Well, we knocked our heads together and came up with about 5 billion books, which is probs the difference between bloggers and people with PhDs? : they know how to write concise, clear, focused syllabi? So here’s your list ladies. Get in your hammock, lie on your porch, hide in your emo cave and READ SOME MOTHERFUCKING BOOKS, IDIOTS! This list focuses primarily on the American feminist movement. We’ve also included some “Team Picks” from our friends and from us! Everything is listed in order of publication date. English Pages. Who Needs Feminism? Who needs feminism? Chaos Life - Lesbians101 – Intro. ChaosLife Lesbians101 – Intro.

Chaos Life - Lesbians101 – Intro

Depiction of the non binary gender spectrum. List of lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender-related films. Made-for-television films are likewise listed separately.

List of lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender-related films

There is also a list of films by year and by storyline. 0–9[edit] A[edit] B[edit] C[edit] D[edit]