Transgender Day of Remembrance
Today is the Transgender Day of Remembrance. It was first held November 20, 1999, marking the anniversary of Rita Hester’s death, an African American trans woman who was killed in her apartment. Now on...
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#EqualAccess Series Guest Post: Lessons Learned from an Inter-abled Relationship
by Topher Muller-Taylor This post is part of The Exponent’s #EqualAccess Series. Disabled voices rarely get a chance to speak for themselves, but this blog series seeks to eliminate the stigma that disabled people...
Safety pins and allyship
Like many around me and many people I know, I cried when I woke up on November 10. I had truly not anticipated the results of the US election and had blindly, optimistically, believed...
Birth/Rebirth: Becoming a LGBT Ally
January to April of 2012 was rough. My co-editor, Aimee, and I were compiling Exponent II’s LGBTQ-themed Spring issue. It was heart-breaking. These stories, more than we could publish, kept me up at night....
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