Sorry I’ve been so MIA! (There’s been some crazy awesome stuff going on.)
Sorry it’s been so long! There’s been a ton of awesome and amazing things going on in my life.
On the writing front, I’m now a regular writer for Medium — which has resulted in a *major* boost to my writing income. (*If you’re a writer who is not writing on Medium, I don’t know what you’re doing.*)
On the *other* professional front, we’ve finally released our drag event app — @dragr — and are over the moon with the reception it’s receiving in the community.
Hope you’re all doing well and getting down to all the writing. The world needs your story, so don’t give up
Friendly reminder that all trans people experience their transness differently, so don’t invalidate yourself if you’ve had a different experience from others (and don’t invalidate others if they’ve had a different experience from you)! <3
Happy lesbian week of visibility, I think I’m finally comfortable with my complex relationship with gender and sexuality. So I’m happy to say I’m a non-binary lesbian
How one woman’s research in the 1940s changed queer life forever
This Pride month, we saw a landmark victory for LGBTQ workers’ rights in the Supreme Court, and the fifth anniversary of gay marriage!
One person we have to thank for that is UCLA’s Dr. Evelyn Hooker, who sought to change the understanding of homosexuality as a mental illness in the 1940s.
Her groundbreaking study showed gay people were not ill and in need of a cure. Her research made it all the way to the Supreme Court and helped change queer life forever.
The old expression is “if you aren’t counted, then you don’t count.” And the census, administered every 10 years, is the primary tool by which you are counted.
In 2020, for the first time ever, the U.S. census will ask directly whether adults are involved in same- or opposite-sex married or unmarried partnerships, in order to improve the accuracy of information about the true number of same-sex relationship households in the U.S. Sixteen years after gay marriage first became legal in Massachusetts, and five years after it became legal across the country, it’s a landmark achievement for those who have fought for decades to be recognized as equals.
But, according to Kerith Conron from UCLA’s Williams Institute, it needs to go further.
She estimates that the census overlooks about 80 percent of adults in the LGBTQ community.
If you are a lesbian, but not living with a partner, or if you identify as transgender, you are invisible. If you are a bi- or queer-identified person living with an opposite-sex partner, you are also invisible. If you aren’t living with a same-sex partner, you are invisible.
This creates a huge gap in our ability to understand and provide services to the LGBTQ community, with a particularly high cost for transgendered people, who suffer from a lack of good data and corresponding resources.
Their push for visibility in other surveys has made a difference, according to Conron: “Even doing an analysis of federal funding for transgender research, I’ve seen a major increase in the number of grants funded for transgender folks in the last 10 years.”
And it isn’t as though we don’t know how to ask these questions — the Williams Institute has even developed a series of best practices for doing so.
Despite the shortcomings of the current census, Conron believes that it will eventually become more and more inclusive.
“I am confident that there are many people in federal government that believe inclusive data collection is a priority and that data collection will move forward,” states Conron.
iamlpofficial: It’s true! We did it! Well she did it but I was gonna do it anyway so it’s done! ♥️. She asked I said yes and boom ! We gone get hitched …soonish!
Is Hayley Kiyoko is Lesbian Jesus then LP (Laura Pergolizzi) is the lesbian God
“Carolyn Meiller is working on her dissertation project looking at sexual pleasure for curvy, queer, women. […] Because research on curvy, queer, women is limited, and when focuses on sex mostly focuses on the negative aspects of sex, I am hoping to raise the varied experiences curvy, queer, women have with sex and sexual pleasure. I hope this data will be used to create a theory for how identity, societal messages, and other external forces influence the experiences of pleasure for curvy, queer, women. Furthermore, I hope this research will be used to further promote sexual health, justice, and fair treatment for curvy, queer, women in medical and mental health settings. Individuals who participate in interviews will receive $20 to compensate them for their time. I appreciate any help you can provide!”
English isn’t my first language, so please excuse any mistakes. I came out with my friend and I feel really good, even though it was really hard… I’m going to come out with my family but I’m not still ready. Okay, I’m still in time…HAPPY PRIDE MONTH
I recently created this blog so if you’re a book blog or know any good book blogs, especially YA ones, it would be much appreciated if you reblogged this so I could follow you or could send me some blogs to follow. Also just anyone who wants to talk about YA books and random stuff ❤️
Here is a list of Black-led LGBTQ community organizations you can donate to, compiled by pfpicardi and RaquelWillis_:
Snapco - Builds power of Black trans and queer people to force systemic divestment from the prison industrial complex and invest in community support.
Black AIDS Institute- Working to end the Black HIV epidemic through policy, advocacy, and high-quality direct HIV services.
Trans Cultural District - The world’s first-ever legally recognized trans district, which aims to stabilize and economically empower the trans community.
LGBTQ+ Freedom Fund - Posts bail for LGBTQ+ people held in jail or immigrant detention and raises awareness of the epidemic of LGBTQ overincarceration.
House of GG - Creating safe and transformative spaces for community to heal, and nurturing them into tomorrow’s leaders, focusing on trans women of color in the South.
Trans Justice Funding Project - Community-led funding initiative to support grassroots trans justice groups run by and for trans people.
The Okra Project - Collective that seeks to address the global crisis faced by Black trans people by bringing home-cooked meals and resources to the community.
Youth Breakout - Works to end the criminalization of LGBTQ youth in New Orleans to build a safer and more just community.
