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How To Be a Selfish Woman: on emotional labor, the crying woman, & bodily agency. (Read on Trascender Magazine)

“The landmark law was hailed by LGBT rights activists, and the hope is that next gender reassignment surgery will be available. The surgery is illegal in the communist state, and trans people who want to under go it usually have to travel to Thailand to receive it.

However Tuesday’s legislation will allow those who have undergone gender reassignment surgery to register under the gender appropriate to their gender identity.

With a while to wait, the law will come into effect in the first part of 2017.

The state-controlled website VNExpress, wrote that “individuals who undergo transgender change will have the right to register [their appropriate gender]”.

It went on to say that they would then receive “personal rights in accordance with their new sex”.

The change has been welcomed by LGBT rights activists in the country.

It is seen as the next step towards legalising gender reassignment surgery.”

Queen of Creole Cuisine, advocate for African American art, inspired an actual Disney Princess . 

“Dooky Chase’s Restaurant was the first art gallery for black artists in New Orleans”

The restaurant that she and her husband’s family owns was a gathering place for people to discuss civil rights. (source linked to quote above) 

This fashionable prosthesis is everything for amputees who want to celebrate ALL of their identity

Because amputees shouldn’t have to be reduced to a single body part. And because you can do pretty incredible things with prostheses, like attach wings to prosthetic legs for skydiving.

Image: LA Johnson/NPR

Black girls are punished in school at rates that are even more disproportionate than those experienced by black boys – and they’re suspended six times more often than white girls. Scholar, author and activist Monique Morris calls this “a story untold,” and she sets out to tell it in her new book, Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls In Schools.

”In a surprise, free performance at Gallaudet College, Prince, the rock star, dazzled and thrilled about 2,500 handicapped students from the campus and the city’s public schools yesterday afternoon.

There were blind students who could not see him. There were deaf students who could only feel the vibrations of the songs that have made Prince one of the country’s most popular performers. But none of that seemed to matter.

As Prince performed, often smiling and grinning as he played, hundreds of students raised their hands with thumbs, index and baby fingers extended and the two middle ones curved inward to tell him in sign language, “I love you.”

People wearing gags gather in central Moscow on April 24, 2015 to mark the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide.