You started down the road of being an ally for LGBT people and now you find yourself realizing that this is hard work, that you don’t have it all figured out, and that sometimes people…
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Constant Contact, MailChimp, AWeber, iContact Review
The big players in email marketing providers are Constant Contact, MailChimp, AWeber, and iContact. I’m going to play this review American Idol style and make some cuts before we even get to the Hollywood round….
Leaving without abandoning: How to engage problematic communities?
If we are going to refuse to support our own and others’ oppression, how do we leave and cease to cooperate with anti-queer (and racist, transphobic, and other oppressive) forces without abandoning both the oppressed…
Harnessing Our Stories
Just about every LGBT conference these days has a workshop on “Telling Your Story.” As a blogger, speaker, and filmmaker, I am certainly not one to object to storytelling; it’s what I do. Still, I…
Why We March: Trans Day of Action
Today is a guest post from Micah Matthias who writes about the 6th Annual NYC Trans Day of Action for Sanctuary Collective. We will be there today, join us of if you can. This afternoon,…
A Call to Action: Transgender Day of Action 2010
Transgender people exist, they have always existed, and they are important and integral parts of our society. From gender variant characters filling central roles in the Bible; through the 1 noticeably intersex child out of…
If there is no God, God is in it
God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. – Friedrich Nietzsche I spend at least two out of every seven days believing that there is no God. That we are a profoundly…
Five Awesome Things Straight People Can Do
It’s interesting, and perhaps fitting, that while my recent 8 Things I Don’t Need to Hear From Straight People article was making its way around my friend network and the internet in general, one particular…
Eight Things I Don’t Need to Hear From Straight People
Over the years, well-intentioned folks have said a whole host of things that are not helpful and are in fact damaging. If you are a well-intentioned straight person: thank you! I really truly appreciate your…
You Have A Voice, So Do Others
It is a common desire to “be a voice for the voiceless.” Nonsense. Everyone has a voice, if we can not hear some voices, it is not because they are not speaking, but because we…