LUOF: Queering It Up

May 4, 2018

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Transethics always shares some of the most important and impacting articles. She recently has had to deal with a hacking incident that left her unable to help others for a bit there. If you can help with the financial impact of recovery, please check out the links below:

Reading List

The Media Cast Me as a Sex-Crazed She-Devil-An Identity I Still Can't Escape

How SESTA-FOSTA Affects the Modeling Industry

Advertising online keeps sex workers safe - so why is the US trying to stop it?

The lies about sex trafficking that brought down Backpage

Brett Rossi: When Will Sex Workers Get Our #MeToo Moment?

It's Still Terrifying in Many Places to Have HIV - Conchita Wurst Is Proof

I Talked to 54 Women at Coachella. They All Said They Had Been Sexually Harassed

The autistic, non-binary, queer, law student fighting for disability justice

A Civil Rights Activist Filed Thousands of Disability Complaints. Now the Education Department Is…

The Forgotten Kennedy Sibling Who Was Lobotomized So That JFK Could Succeed

'The Greatest Showman' Fails Disabled Audiences by Masking P.T. Barnum's Monstrous Past

Disabled people struggle to afford food and heating, study says

Navigating jealousy as a queer disabled man

On Being Asexual and Kinky

This Woman Says A Flight Attendant Called The Cops On Her For "Flying While Fat And Black"

A Mom Was Arrested While Trying To Visit Her Dying Son In A Hospital

3 Ways to Create Safer Space for Black Women in a Misogynoir World

Chicago's New Trauma Center

Let's Discuss How Weed Legalization Benefits White People

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One of the things I know many people are struggling with is getting people who aren’t members of the LGBTQQIA2+ community to understand how harmful the current administration is for us. Not every article below focuses on politics, but they’re all important reads right now.

How Domestic Violence Shelters Are Fighting Back Against Transphobia

Is Your Trans Allyship Half-Baked? Here Are 6 Mistakes That Trans Allies Are Still Making …

How Our Society Harms Trans People Who Are Also Autistic

Janet Mock: 'I'd never seen a young trans woman who was thriving in the world - I was looking for…

Meet Ellie Desautels, the Non-Binary Actor on NBC's Rise Hoping to Improve LGBTQ Representation

Just Some Really Great Advice For Anyone Coming Out As Nonbinary

Let's Stop Acting as if Queers Need to Look a Certain Way to be Queer

A Look at the Lives of Trans and Gender Nonconforming Older Adults

Rachel Weisz on Bringing Disobedience's Female Sexual Agency to the Big Screen

Trans performer Justin Vivian Bond: Why being trans in a cis world can be exhausting

How This Researcher Is Preserving Trans History Around the World

Hoboken Just Made Single-Stall Restrooms Gender Neutral, and It's No Big Deal

Exploring Confidence and Self-Consciousness in the Queer Community

Tender Photos of Life on the Frontline of Argentina's Trans Rights Movement

Janelle Monáe's "Dirty Computer" Is Finally Here and Even Queerer Than We Imagined

How not to be a bystander to LGBTQ harassment | CBC News

Getting chest binders to trans and non-binary people in Africa, Latin America + Central Asia …

How Queer People Can Fight Back Against Neighborhood Gentrification

How Four Latinx Lesbians Recreated Their Lives After Homophobia Had Them Wrongfully Imprisoned

The Olympics Are About To Make It A Lot Harder For Transgender Athletes To Compete

Real Queers Open Up About Sex, from Pup Play to Polyamory

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Kirsten is a genderfluid writer, sexuality educator, and chronic illness/disability activist in Wisconsin. She runs Chronic Sex which highlights how illnesses and disabilities affect ‘Quality of Life’ issues such as self-love, self-care, relationships, sexuality, and sex.

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