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If kyriarchy had its way, this would have just been your typical “Boy meets Girl, They Marry, Boff, Have Lots of Kids, The End” kind of story. But there’s more to it! So, a closeted…
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Prominent feminist Germaine Greer came to Wellington, New Zealand as part of a week dedicated to authors and readers. At her most recent engagement, she was greeted with a hail of sparkly craft supplies delivered…
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New Zealand-based activist group The Queer Avengers staged a protest outside the offices of local paper The Dominion Post to take them to task for publishing an opinion piece earlier this week which denigrated trans…
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I like to corral people at my house and test out cosmetics on them—for fun, not profit—so I arranged to do so for the second ever Glitter Day, catered for the Southern Hemisphere summer with…
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Glitter Day has begun in New Zealand, Australia, Japan and Southeast Asia! To observe it, I’m holding a get-together tomorrow with friends, and I also put together a Treasury with items from Etsy’s Queer Team,…
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A 14-year-old Girl Scout is trying to convince people not to buy Girl Scout cookies until the GSUSA reverses its decision to allow in Bobby Montoya, a 7-year-old trans girl. If you can stand to…
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One week til Glitter Day! Here’s a story full of sparkle to start the countdown. The larva of the caddis fly (or casemaker fly) is known for constructing dense sheath-like cocoons from whatever materials it…
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So! Libra is a company that sells tampons and other feminine hygiene products in the Australasian region (they operate internationally under the name “Libresse”). They’ve rung in the New Year with a controversial new ad….
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The BBC made two lists of people who made headlines throughout 2011, one designated for men and one for women. In the women’s section, the last entry is a panda named Tian Tian, who was…
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Apologies for the linked article quality (it’s the Daily Mail, after all), but this was a nice bit of holiday news. Actor and legendary player Warren Beatty is finally coming around to accept his son…
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Wil Wheaton is very active on Twitter! I think we should all tweet him telling him Sharon had a crush on him, and see if they... » More
Wow, interesting! None of my cockerels ever crowed until after I took them to the county fair. (Yes, I was a hick, as well as a... » More
Take it from the Egg Lady, someone who raised chickens: roosters have to learn to crow from other roosters, so raising one in isolation would give... » More
Might want to change the title, “transphobic past” implies she’s recanted, which she never has. Someone smarter than me fix it, plz! » More
Also, sorry guys, Bret is by all accounts straight. Eccentric and cute, but straight. In fact that’s his wife dressed in blue (behind the... » More