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• PART 2/3: LL Cool J’s “Around the Way Girl”

  
  feminist blogs — Authority: 164
  “Girl from around way without the L Cool J”-Nicki Minaj, “Who’s Ya Best M.C.?,” from SuckafreeAs the female protégé of a misogynistic rapper, the female version of Lil Wayne, Nicki Minaj undoubtedly conforms to certain dichotomized gendered norms. She at times operates in sync with dominant (patriarchal) ...
  3 days ago

• Weekly Political Roundup

  
  Mombian — Authority: 132
  Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen told a Senate committee he is in favor of repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell . Mullen and Defense Secretary Robert Gates said they have appointed a high-level working group to report, by the end of the year, on how the military can implement such a change if ...
  4 days ago

• Poet Kit Yan to slam Saturday’s MasQueerAde Ball — but that’s a good thing

  
  Instant Tea — Authority: 515
  Yesterday I posted video of Vidur Kapur’s stand-up as a preview for this Saturday’s festivities at Creating Change’s MasQueerAde Ball. Along with Kapur, headlining for the night will be trans slam poet Kit Yan. Yan isn’t just spoken word. His MySpace page classifies him as indie, folk rock and ...
  5 days ago

• On the internet as surrogate meeting place

  
  Tiffany B. Brown — Authority: 127
  From Saudi women revel in online lives on GlobalPost : In a country where about one-third of the population regularly goes online, the internet gives women “a place to vent out our frustrations and our dreams,“ said Reem Asaad, 37, a professor of banking and finance in the Saudi port city of Jeddah who blogs ...
  5 days ago

• US Tax Board: Transgender Surgery, Hormone Therapy Deductible as Medical Expenses

  
  Gay Marriage Watch — Authority: 490
  The U.S. Tax Court today issued a long-awaited decision in ODonnabhain v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, ruling that treatment for gender identity disorder (GID) qualifies as medical care under the Internal Revenue Code, and is therefore deductible. "This decision treats Rhiannon ODonnabhain the way she deserves ...
  6 days ago

• Gender reassignment surgery case decided

  
  ataxingmatter — Authority: 125
  Back in 2005 when the IRS released CCA 200603025 stating that gender reassignment surgery is not a deductible medical expense, I objected.  Gender identity disorder had been recognized by the medical profession, I argued, so why should the IRS rely on a Catholic Church authority who had fought against such surgery ...
  6 days ago

• US Tax Court Rules GID Expenses Deductible

  
  en|Gender — Authority: 473
  From TaxProf Blog : In a long-awaited decision, a fractured (8-5-3) Tax Court today ruled in O’Donnabhain v. Commissioner , 134 T.C. No. 4 (Feb. 2, 2010), that male-to-female gender reassignment surgery qualifies as a deductible medical expense under § 213, reversing the IRS’s position in Chief Counsel ...
  6 days ago

• Running Like A Girl: Sex-Stereotyping in the Olympics

  
  Gender & Sexuality Law Blog — Authority: 519
  As Mai Ratakonda noted in the previous post , last Wednesday the International Olympic Committee announced the recommendations of a panel of “experts” on the manner in which the Olympics should “handle” persons with “Disorders of Sexual Development.” They concluded that the IOC should approach female ...
  1 week ago

• Gay Military Porn Bust Reminds Us of Some Inconvenient Truths Regarding Homosexuality and the Military

  
  Americans For Truth — Authority: 545
  “Gay” lobby group HRC plans $2 million campaign to push radical agenda on Armed Forces “Gay rights groups were already mobilizing Thursday to make the subject [of homosexuals in the military/ending "Dont Ask/Dont Tell"] a campaign issue before congressional elections in November. The Human Rights Campaign ...
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• Gender Bender – IOC

  
  WNYMedia.net — Authority: 548
  Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press The “Gender Bender” will be a weekly focus on issues of gender expression and identity. It will mostly consists of links to articles or discussions on a gender issue. This week’s “Gender Bender:” What should the International Olympics Committee do about athletes whose  ...
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• The Dread of the Roster Roll-Call

  
  The New Gay — Authority: 492
  Photo by Hans Bruesch “Tonight I’m just too tired to pray Last night I swore I’d pray today Tomorrow I know what I’ll say There’s just no time to find the way The hourglass is spilling sand I wish that you could understand I share that wish You really do? A love like this will bleed the ...
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• Sexual “Disorder” and the Olympics

  
  Gender & Sexuality Law Blog — Authority: 519
  Mai Ratakond offers this reaction to the International Olympic Committee’s recent recommendations on how to handle athletes whose sexual identity is called into question, such as Caster Semenya.  Ratakond is a second year law student at Columbia Law School, a staff member of the Columbia Law Review and received ...
  2 weeks ago

• On Haiti, Part 3 and Post-Katrina New Orleans, Part 1

  
  Tiffany B. Brown — Authority: 127
  Regarding the U. S. Marines’ presence is Haiti, holding M-16s, no less: Here is — they had no business being there. Sure, if there’s some way where you have an army of bandits, which we haven’t seen, on any mass scale going and attacking, maybe you might bring in some guys like that. But right now, people ...
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• What Qualifies the United States to Lecture Uganda on Homosexuality?

  
  Americans For Truth — Authority: 545
  Knight exposes New York Times bias on Uganda Anti-Homosexuality law Grove City College professor Warren Throckmorton -- who is on record affirming homosexuality as "natural, normal and healthy" despite the Colleges biblical faith charter -- has joined homosexual activists in crusading against Ugandas proposed ...
  2 weeks ago

• On Westernized institutionalized sexism

  
  Tiffany B. Brown — Authority: 127
  Westerners are quick to denounce customs in, say, the Muslim world that they perceive as limiting women. But in Germany, despite its vaunted modernity, a traditional perception of motherhood lingers. The half-day school system survived feudalism, the rise and demise of Hitler’s mother cult, the women’s movement ...
  3 weeks ago

• Gender-positive campus groups for males cause controversy

  
  Asylum Australia — Authority: 147
  Filed under: Sex , Women , News Typically, when a student organization issues a manifesto proclaiming that "gender identity is largely socially constructed," that groups members dont use the bathroom with the urinals in it. Not so at Manchester University in England, where a ... Read more   Permalink ...
  3 weeks ago

• DC court rejects anti-gay marriage initiative. Again.

  
  Gayboomers — Authority: 134
  By Jennifer Vanasco, editor in chief, 365gay.comThe DC Superior Court upheld the decision of the DC Board of Elections and Ethics to reject a proposed ballot initiative that would have prohibited gay marriage in the District. The ruling can be viewed at 　http://www.dccourts.gov/dccourts/docs/2009CA008613B.pdf In ...
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• Riane Eislers Peace Speech

  
  Fannie's Room — Authority: 417
  I first saw mention of this speech on Ellen Snortlands blog . Dr. Riane Eisler, author of the classic challenge to domination-based societies, The Chalice and The Blade , recently received the Nuclear Age Peace Foundations Distinguished Peace Leadership Award. From her speech : "[I]n my research I looked for ...
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• No Gender Bias

  
  Job Searching Blog — Authority: 125
  The US government jobs site has banned discrimination based on gender identity The Obama administration has inserted language into the federal jobs website explicitly banning employment discrimination based on gender identity. The protection is expected to apply to the small transgender population — people ...
  3 weeks ago

• Finding a Place on the Femininity Scale

  
  The New Gay — Authority: 492
  Alfred Kinsey announced to the world in the late 40’s that sexual orientation could be measured on a scale, with full range rather than a black and white snapshot, providing a reason for experimentation between many a college student. For the most part, by the open-minded folks of the world, Kinsey’s scale is at ...
  3 weeks ago

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