Stuff I've gathered together for perusing

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Who was the first african american transwoman?


Torchwood's third season is shit


On Burlesque


Kerry Washington Interview


Women's Clinic in Canada excludes transwomen, women who happen to be addicts. Protests continue


Jackson Lee, NBJC, NAACP, Cong. Black Caucus Demand Investigation into Murder of August Provost


Murdered Seaman August Provost Laid to Rest, Racist and Homophobic Comments in News Coverage" but, the military is fucking around with the details of how he dies


Coverage of Latesisha Green's Trial this week


26 AIDS Activists Arrested in Capitol Hill Needle Exchange Protest


Black transgender woman assaulted in New York City, while crowd stands by and does nothing


Can we stop using the term ally?

Comments

[la-vie-noire.livejournal.com]

Not reading the article because not having much time, but

Can we stop using the term ally?

YES. PLEASE.

"Ally". If you aren't part of the oppressed group, I assume you have a privilege. You are really benefiting, want it or not (and oppressing in most cases).

"Ally" is someone who doesn't have anything to do with someone's else problem and just decides to help. Again, oppressed people are the focus, and privileged people are totally faceless. Like the use of passive: "women are raped", "people of color suffered discrimination", white people, men, privileged are always absent and dissolved from all responsibility.

[voz-latina.livejournal.com]

This, this, a thousand times this.

The worst "allies" also appropriate too.

[la-vie-noire.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it just gives the sense that some people are no part of the oppression system, when... uhm.