A group of armed extremists, including three of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy’s sons, occupied the headquarters of a national wildlife refuge in Oregon Saturday night in a standoff to protest the imprisonment of two Oregon ranchers accused of arson. “We’re planning on staying here for years, absolutely,” Ammon Bundy, one of the occupiers, who refer to themselves as “militiamen,” told the Oregonian newspaper.
The occupation came after several hundred demonstrators marched through Burns, Oregon, to protest against the pending imprisonment of father and son Harney County ranchers Dwight Hammond Jr. and Steven Hammond, who a federal court decided must return to prison after their time served for setting fires on public land to protect their property from wildfires was deemed insufficient.
Advocates from “All Lives Matter” propose that the “All” includes “Black” as well. This argument is born out of unexamined privilege and lack of awareness about systemic oppression. When we hold privilege, we are used to being represented and thus we are not used to being excluded. “Black Lives Matter” made people that hold unexamined privilege uncomfortable because they felt left out, as if it was saying that their lives didn’t matter. Bowing to the impetus to accommodate and keep comfortable people that experience discomfort when they are faced with their privilege, the “All Live Matters” language appeared. The erasure of difference, the argument of people that claim to be “colorblind,” has been identified as a type of aversive racism. Similarly, to claim that the masculine Latinos should not be changed because it is meant to include “all people of Latin American descent,” including women and non-binary people, is a reactionary argument that perpetuates sexisms and hegemonic masculinity by acritically maintaining a status quo that marginalizes those that do not hold privilege in this area.
Transparent has involved the creative contributions of trans people since its inception, but for the second season, Soloway has doubled down on her mission to employ trans people in every production department. She’s hired an unprecedented number of trans collaborators, including Silas Howard, who directs one of the episodes; a full-time writer, Our Lady J; and model, actress, and It girl Hari Nef.
Here’s to nonbinary kids who don’t feel comfortable coming out because they “aren’t trans/cis enough”
Here’s to nonbinary kids whose parents and friends tell them they’re just doing this for attention.
Here’s to nonbinary kids who soldier through constant misgendering and dysphoria.
Here’s to nonbinary kids who don’t take shit from anyone and call people out when they misgender them.
Here’s to nonbinary kids who are too polite to correct people and are very timid about their own gender.
Here’s to nonbinary kids who are completely comfortable with themselves.
Here’s to nonbinary kids who are still trying to figure it all out.
Here’s to nonbinary kids who flinch inwardly every time they get called “miss/mister” “young man/lady” or any other gendered terms in public but don’t say anything so as to not cause a scene.
Here’s to nonbinary kids who don’t reblog certain posts on tumblr because they’re strictly gendered and they don’t feel like they can relate anymore.
Here’s to nonbinary kids who don’t know they’re nonbinary yet.
Here’s to nonbinary kids who do.
Here’s to nonbinary kids. You’re amazing and wonderful and don’t ever let anyone tell you differently.
And this nonsense talk about sexual services, that’s just crazy. First of all, sex is not a service. The nature of sex is one of mutuality. And where you don’t have that mutuality, what you have is sexual abuse.
