This short guide is intended for Mennonite and Brethren communities seeking education and understanding about transgender realities. This booklet will introduce important terms and concepts, statistics about what transgender people face in the current social climate in the United States and Canada, and address some of the misconceptions and dominant narratives about transgender identities and…
Transcript of a speech given at Hackney Pride 2010. “My name is Jamrat Mason and I have a vagina. I’m involved in East London Community Ac- tivism but today I’m here to speak “as a trans person” about transgender issues. The term “trans- gender” is a broad term that refers to to a massive spectrum…
“I was on the bus recently, and a guy about my age got on the bus and sat across from me. He and some others were looking out of the bus windows at some men in red dresses. We didn’t know why they were wearing dresses, but the guy across from me said, “That’s scary.”…
There is a huge problem with the way that people are taught about gender in this society. Children are indoctrinated early to believe that there are two sexes, corresponding with two genders, which are both immutable and non-voluntary and completely beyond our control. This worldview is called the gender binary, and it has no room…
In tumultuous times such as these, we see an ever-growing call for revolutionary anti-capitalist organizing around the world. But the capitalist world is one hostile to the very existence and well-being of trans and nonbi- nary people. We must organize to protect ourselves and our comrades. We seek to create through horizontal means an empowering…
Accounts of prison conditions from these contacts show the intensity of discrimination, abuse, medical neglect, and punitive isolation that our communities face on the inside. Incarcerated T/GV individuals report dismissal, intimidation, or retaliation when attempting to file grievances. In response to these injustices, formerly incarcerated T/GV Philadelphians and their allies began a conversation about ways…
“The following is a conversation among the intellectuals and activists Eric A. Stanley, Dean Spade, Andrea J. Ritchie, Joey L. Mogul, and Kay Whitlock, about queer abolitionist politics. The scholars and organizers involved wanted to mark this particular moment as a coalescence of years of organizing, struggling, and building a radically queer abolitionist politics. The…
Selected ‘Surprisingly Astute’ & ‘Hilariously Erudite’ Outcall Stories of Regrette Etcetera
Welcome to our fourth issue of Scratch! What is Scratch, you ask? Scratch is a queer youth produced zine from Project 0. Scratch is put together by Project Q’s Peer Counselors & Educator’s (PCE’s) and other youth leaders and broughl to you free of charge. Scratch was made for and designed by lesbian. gay. bisexual/pansexual,…