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by Chiara Canaan
Stolen History
Miriam Ben-Shalom: The Lesbian SSG Who Fought ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’
Remembering Stormé – The Black Butch Lesbian Who Started The Stonewall Revolution
#ProtectJamesYounger isn’t About One Child. It’s About Jacob Lemay and So Many Others …
“A child might not like the things you think they should— and that’s not an indication of their sex, or even . . . take a deep breath . . . their sexuality.”
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Cartoon: Lesbian Coping Mechanisms. “Claire shrugged and kept knitting.”
“Claire shrugged and kept knitting.”
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#ProtectJamesYounger isn’t About One Child. It’s About Jacob Lemay and So Many Others …
“A child might not like the things you think they should— and that’s not an indication of their sex, or even . . . take a deep breath . . . their sexuality.”
NY Democrats Quietly Dismantle ‘1 Male, 1 Female’ Rule
“Decaudin successfully got the NY State Democratic Party to dismantle the ‘one male, one female’ rule… A rule which the women’s suffrage movement fought to put into place.”
Mourning the loss of Lesbian Feminist Leader Magdalen Berns
“The night Magdalen Berns died, a rare harvest moon hung over Manhattan. It felt as though the sky had somehow coordinated its timing, so it too could pay tribute to a rare force of nature.”
Day of The Girl—A Letter from Future You
Dear girl, You like super heroes, not dolls. You want to dress like the prince, not the princess. You play inventor and build things, you
The medicalization of gender non conforming children, and the vulnerability of lesbian youth.
“I was hurt knowing I couldn’t marry a woman at that time, hurt that I couldn’t have a family that looked like the only families I had seen… The idea I could ‘identify’ out of oppression, and be a straight man instead, felt liberating.” —Charlie Evans