Transgender brooklyn
A transgender tennis player is calling on the city’s Human Rights Commission and Parks Department to examine an amateur tennis league, alleging Brooklyn Tennis League, a division of Tennis League Network, kicked her out last week after a cisgender female opponent complained about competing against a trans player.
Cammie Woodman beat her opponent 6-2, 6-0 in what she described as a approachable match at Lincoln Terrace Park tennis courts in Crown Heights last week. The two had a “pleasant conversation after,” said Woodman.
What followed was a series of email exchanges between Woodman, her opponent and the league’s leader executive, Steven Chagnon, that culminated in the removal of Woodman and at least one of her supporters from the amateur league. Several other members left in protest.
Woodman, 25, posted many of those exchanges on her widespread Instagram account and has called on the Department of Parks and Recreation and the city Commission on Human Rights to investigate the incident and to remove Tennis League Network from city courts.
Tennis League Network is an amateur recreational league with partners all over the country, more akin to a social meet-up collective th
Transgender Awareness Week
Each year, between November 13 and 19, people and organizations around the country participate in Transgender Awareness Week, when transgender people and their allies take action to bring attention to the community by educating the public about who trans person people are, sharing stories and experiences, and improving advocacy around the issues of prejudice, discrimination, and violence that affect the transgender community.
The week ends on November 20 with Transgender Day of Remembrance, annual observance that honors the memory of the transgender people whose lives were lost in acts of anti-transgender violence that year.
This year for Genderqueer Awareness Week, GLAAD is encouraging everyone to monitor the documentary Disclosure on Netflix. The feature from director Sam Feder and executive producer Laverne Cox explores the history of trans representation in TV and film in unprecedented form, revealing how Hollywood simultaneously reflects and manufactures people's deepest anxieties about gender.
It's been said that once people see the media stereotypes, tropes, and clichéd portrayals stacked together in Disclosure, it's unfeasible to un
Transgender Marxism: an Introduction
This is an online course (Eastern Time)
In recent years, there has been unprecedented development in the visibility and sheer number of people who identify with a gender other than the one they were assigned at birth. Trans being and, with it, a whole world of transsexual culture—aesthetics, style, taste—has broken from the margins into the mainstream. This fresh generation of “gender subversives” is, at the matching time, inordinately active in left-wing politics and extreme movements, vigorously resisting the historical tendency of capitalism to subsume and revenue from the mainstreaming of emergent, especially subversive subcultures. In every sort of liberation struggle—from prison abolition to racial justice to climate and labor activism—trans voices are raised in disproportionate numbers, equipped with a distinctively Marxist vocabulary. What might account for this broad and super-charged convergence of trans experience and Marxist politics? How does a historical materialist framework shape and sharpen the demands of transsexual life? And how, in turn, might the strife for gender liberation reconfigure Marxist analysis? Are there assumptions that this couplin
Callen-Lorde Brooklyn
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