Oppressed genders

Capitalism and Marxism

May Day 2024: Resist the witch-hunts!

May 1, 2024 Melinda Butterfield
On International Workers’ Day 2024, workers in the U.S. could swear that Senator Joe McCarthy and Minister Cotton Mather had returned from the dead. More than 35,000 Palestinians, including 14,000 children, have died in just […]
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Brooklyn: Community mobilizes to protect Trans Day of Visibility event

April 4, 2024 Melinda Butterfield
 Trans and queer activists and allies mobilized to defend a family Trans Day of Visibility event in Brooklyn, New York, on March 30. The event at Marsha P. Johnson State Park included arts and […]
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Leslie Feinberg showed us that transness belongs to everyone

March 31, 2024 Tourmaline
I was a preteen when the first edition of Transgender Warriors — the foundational text by the late, great Leslie Feinberg—was published in 1996. It came into the world at a pivotal time for me, providing […]
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A trans woman reflects on International Women’s Day

March 8, 2024 Melinda Butterfield
Two weeks ago, I had a gender-affirming surgery called an orchiectomy (google it if you’re curious). It’s rude and not a good idea for cisgender people to ask trans people, “Have you had x, y, […]
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Hopes of a Dying Trans Woman

February 7, 2024 Hannah Kolbeck
As I’m Dying I have so many people, from across all the eras of my life and all the communities I’ve felt so loved in, asking how can they help. By the time you read this, […]
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Which side are you on? Far-right deepens threats to trans lives, Biden stays silent

January 27, 2024 Melinda Butterfield
You can’t use a restroom in a public building, your school, or the airport without facing jail or violence. The medication you rely on to stay alive is suddenly denied you.  You fear arrest for […]
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The crisis of fascist attacks on transgender lives

June 10, 2023 Cassandra Devereaux
In 1933, a town councilor in Paris was very concerned by what he called “a moral crisis.” This crisis was the fact that those known as ‘inverts’ at the time existed and, moreover, that they […]
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U.S. imperialism and the fight for trans rights

May 3, 2023 Struggle - La Lucha
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Queer Liberation Party for LGBTQ+ Cuba trip

May 2, 2023 Struggle-La Lucha Los Angeles bureau
A fundraiser was held at the Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice in Los Angeles on April 23 to help with travel costs for activist Jordan Slack who will join an LGBTQ+ delegation sponsored by […]
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#LetHerSpeak: Rep. Zooey Zephyr and supporters defy anti-trans bigots

April 28, 2023 Melinda Butterfield
 On April 26, the far-right-dominated Montana state legislature in Helena censured the state’s first elected trans representative, Zooey Zephyr, after silencing her for several days and threatening her with expulsion.  Zephyr will not be […]