Poet Taylor Steele captures the problem with appropriating Black slang.

In her poem “AAVE” (which stands for African-American Vernacular English) Taylor Steele explains why appropriation of Black slang is the worst.  African-American culture is being popularized on a daily basis and while Black people are judged and mistreated for using something they came up with ages ago, White people come off as cool and original when they use it.

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I’m finally getting around to reading through “More Than Two“ by Franklin Veaux and Eve Rickert aaand I’m so incredibly excited that this resource exists and I’m serious when I say that if you are poly, poly-inclined, poly-curious, or just plain curious. READ THIS. Put The Ethical Slut back (I mean, finish that, too) on the shelf and READ. THIS. PLEASE.

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In Respose to Being Called Insane

Marissa Louie

This list is a work in progress & is always growing. If you have any suggestions of additional links, please submit or add on.

What is a TERF?

You might be a TERF if…

TERFs aren’t really all that radical, anyway

Trans-exclusionary radical feminism: what exactly is it, and why does it hurt?

Ways in which TERFs are similar to other hate groups

Biological essentialism is harmful

It’s Time For People to Stop Using the Social Construct of “Biological Sex” to Defend Their Transmisogyny – Using debunked science as a scapegoat for transmisogyny? Don’t do that.

Sex is not a biological reality

Bilaterally Gynandromorphic Chickens, and Why I’m Not “Scientifically” Male

Intersex society of America: What is intersex?

Common misconceptions

Seven Transphobic Tropes Debunked

Scientific studies/resources

Why Male and Female are Not Enough, by Anne Fausto-Sterling

Medical historian, psychiatrist, and UCLA clinician Vernon Rosario, for example, notes that sex is “a polymorphic and multifactorial model” that must take into account dozens of genes, chromosomes and environmental factors. Even in orthodox biology, it seems, sex is no longer as simple as XX or XY.

The many non-XX-or-XY combinations of chromosomes

Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience

Another new print.

“Self-Care”

Lino-cut on reclaimed paper.

For the curious, the plants in the mortar and pestle (from left to right) are Yarrow, Rose, and Bilberry. Hanging behind (also from left to right) are Valerian Root, Colts Foot, Red Clover, Dandelion, Lavender, Meadowsweet, Gravel Root, Purple Coneflower, and Marigold.