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Cis Writers: Do Your F#cking Homework Before You Write About Trans People
Tag: journalism
Visibility Matters: Why Sharing Our Stories Will Change the World
Around this time last week, I was a procrastinating graduate student, managing a small blog, with a following of wonderful friends and friends-of-friends who found my writing to be interesting. As I write to you this week, I’m a writer with a blog that has readers from over 180 countries around the world, and 2.4 [...]
Amanda Bynes, Robin Williams, and the Spectacle of Mental Illness
Internet, we need to have a talk. I’ve had a number of readers ask why I’ve neglected to write about Amanda Bynes this last year. It’s simple, really. I don’t believe that celebrities are “fair game,” and that, when they have very human and very difficult struggles, I should capitalize on those things by writing [...]
