My favorite comic artist, Ellen O’Grady, made this comic about her experience listening to my interview with Jonathan Van Ness. I’m just including a couple favorite images of it below, check out the whole thing here.
Radical in Progress made a study guide for my new book on mutual aid. Check it out!
It was such an honor to be part of this panel of Kessler Award winners, with Urvashi Vaid and Amber Hollibaugh, skillfully facilitated by Shanté Paradigm Smalls.
I had the pleasure of being part of this conversation with Madhavi Menon, Rahul Rao, and Flavia Agnes.
Just five days after being sworn in as the 46th President of the United States, Joe Biden signed an executive order overturning former President Trump’s ban on openly transgender Americans serving in the military. “All Americans who are qualified to serve in the Armed Forces of the United States should be able to serve,” it read, going on to argue that an “inclusive military strengthens our national security.”
Biden’s executive order, one of a flurry he signed during his administration’s first week, marked the fulfillment of one of his foremost policy proposals regarding the advancement of LGBTQ+ equality in America. More specifically, the order counteracted a 2017 directive by the Trump administration banning openly trans folks from the armed services — itself a reversal of the Obama administration’s 2016 order that paved the way for trans Americans to serve in the military without hiding their gender identity.
Continue reading “New Interview with Them about Why I Oppose Trans Military Inclusion Advocacy”I was lucky to get to present a webinar on Valentine’s Day with Fireweed Collective about Dismantling the Romance Myth. Here are the slides from the webinar, and I will post the video here when it is ready.
They are working on creating a video that has me, the ASL intepreter, and my slides, but for now, here is the video that includes me and the ASL interpreter.
Above is the video that includes me and my slides
P.S. I did a follow up to this session in Feb 2022. Here’s the video of that session.
On Jan 25 I gave this lecture as part of UC Berkeley Department of Gender and Women’s Studies Social Reproduction in Crisis Series. See below for the flyer that lists all the other upcoming events!
I had a fun time talking about mutual aid on JVN’s podcast! Some clips below, and/or listen to the whole episode.
Check out the whole thing! Grateful for the work of Ariel Aberg-Riger.
