This post is a bit late because a friend died the same week and her memorial service was the same day as this year’s Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) – November 20th.
TDOR is an annual event that memorializes those who died due to transgender related hatred or prejudice. This year, 143 people were murdered all [...]
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A few days ago I read an article entitled “Is Cis A Dis? And other aircastles to the storm..” by the blogger over at Femmeessay. The article was a good analysis of whether or not “cis” is an offensive term or not (I think it is important to know that the writer is cis).
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TGEU & Liminalis Press Release:
Every 3rd day the murder of a trans person is reported:
Trans Murder Monitoring Project reveals more than 200 reported murders of trans persons in the last 1 1/2 years
In April 2009 the international NGO Transgender Europe (TGEU) in cooperation with the multilingual Online-Magazine “Liminalis — A Journal for Sex/Gender Emancipation and [...]
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Like I mentioned in an earlier post, there was a wonderful panel discussion entitled “Transgender Human Rights” that was put on as part of the Stonewall 40 Week celebration in Atlanta.
The panel was moderated by BT, and included Cole Thaler the Transgender Rights Attorney of Lambda Legal, Cheryl Courtney-Evens of Transgender Individuals Living [...]
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At 7:35 am PST, the Rob, Arnie, and Dawn Show began with their public response, discussion, and apology. This two hour long segment can be listened to here. I will be responding to it in a well thought out post later.
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KRXQ Update : UC Davis Health Systems renounces association with the Rob Arnie & Dawn Show. Also, tomorrow is when the radio station will make their public announcement on their morning show. You can listen to it tomorrow morning, on their website at 7:30AM Pacific Coast Time.
First Hate Comment on My Site [...]
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This just posted on the Rob, Arnie, and Dawn show’s website.
UPDATED JUNE 7TH, 2009, 11:50AM
TO OUR LOYAL ROB, ARNIE AND DAWN FOLLOWERS,
WE HAVE FAILED YOU. AS A SHOW, AS PEOPLE, AS BROADCASTERS, WE HAVE SIMPLY FAILED ON ALMOST EVERY LEVEL.
WE PRESENTED OUR OPINIONS ON A VERY SENSITIVE SUBJECT IN A HATEFUL, CHILDISH AND CRUDE FASHION; [...]
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GLAAD has been putting pressure on the radio station KRXQ “98Rock” Sacramento and their hosts to apologize for the inflamatory transphobic, abuse-condoning comments they made in their morning radio show, “Rob, Arnie, and Dawn”. The radio station responded to the criticism from the LGBT community with subsequent shows defending their statements.
I am not surprised that [...]
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Despite all of the sheer crap that is said on morning radio stations. Very few take it this far. On May 28th, “Rob, Arnie, & Dawn in the Morning” radio talk show took radio to an entirely new low – and are directly endangering transgender children everywhere.
The hosts, Rob Williams and Arnie States, devoted the [...]
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Oh god no…
The US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced last week that beginning May 15, all passengers will be asked to enter their full name – as it appears on the government issued identification they will be traveling with – when making airline reservations. For instance, if a person’s first, middle and last [...]
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